Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 24, 1886, Page 4

'HE OMAHA DAILY BEE. T gED ESDAY, MARCH 24, 1886, THE DATLY BEE OMATA OFFICE,NO. 914 AND gTAFARN AM ST FEw YORK OFFIce, ROOM 65, TRIBUNE BUILDING WASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. 613 FOURTEENTH ST, Published every morning, excopt Sunday. The ©only Monday morning paper published in the #tate. . TERMS TY MA £10.00 Three Months 00 Ong Month One Yenr.. Bix Months. Tnx WEEKLY Ber, Published Ryery Wednesany. TERMS, POSTPALD: One Year, with prominm One Year, without premivm Bix Months, without premium One Month, on trial £2.50 1.0 2.0 CORRESPONDENC ns relating Id be addr news and odi sed 1o tho Eoi- All communics torial matters she HOROF “ME DER. BUSINFESS LETTERS: All bu tiness ltters and remittances should be nodsessed 10 THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OdaiA. Drafts, checks and postoffice ¢ 10 be made payable to the order of the company THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS E. ROSEWATER. Eprron. m————————— ndidates for the ci council arc in ambush let them speak right out. Thereis no reason for hiding The paper is full of them. rd of trade has now sceured the loan n to complete the cham- bex of commerc The contractor should now proceed without further dehuy. Ir any more c Tie bo CANDIDATES for the council are not go- ing to wait until the 1st of May to move into wards where they want to run, Mr. Hascall has already staked out his pre-emption in the First war Tue fact that the Salt Lake Mormons are unloading their stock in the Zion mercantile co-operative store upon the Gentiles leads to the conclusion that the church wants the money to pay for its Mexican ranch Tue great railroad strike aving a se- rious effeet on the trade of St. Louis. Ac- cording to the clearing house reports the trade of the city has been damaged to the extent of $1,000,000, and the St. Louis Republican charges it up mostly to the bull-headedness of Railway Manager Hoxi Divorces have become numerous in thestate of Rhode Island asthey inIn- diana, and hence little Rhody has been given the nickname of the “‘indiana of Now Engl become tired of the notoriety thus acquired and the legis- Iature has accordingly passed a very stringent divorce law. AN attempt at artillery practice at Fort aylor, Florida, resulted in showing that the ammunition was in a fearfully bad condition. This is not very surprising, but it scoms as if the artillery supplies of the United States might be tory as to quality. The quantity small that every shell and every pound of powder ought to be looked after with- out much labor “CrAxces of Snceess for College Men in Railroading,” was the subject ot Charles Fruncis Adams’ recent lecture. A wostern college graduate wants to know whether he advised them to be- come brakemen or conductors. No, he did not! His advice was to become rail- way prosidents and managers, as those places were not intended for pructical, self-made men who have worked their way up from brakemen. G HHEE Ia o mili man 10 Maine who claims he isn't worried at all by the Knights of Labor. When asked whether they had affected his business unfavor- ably, he announced: *‘Oh, no; not at all. When they wanted to starta lodge in our town I joined it with all my over- geers, and we are running it ina very satisfactory manner for all hands.” 1t is safe to say that Mr. Hoxie has not fol- lowed the Maine employer’s example. WitkAT, corn and manufacturing are dethroning cotton as king in the south. Northern capital is developing all the important southern industrics Mills, factovies and furnaces are springing up wherever there is encouragement and hope of vroht offered. Cotton is no Tonger king, and wheat and corn are growing in many ficlds where tobacco grew before. In other words southern industry is rapidly becoming diversitied. The south is competing in northern mar- kets with products that a few years ago were not grown below the Mason and Dixon line. Tk land now after the hig Jumber companies of the west with a sharp stick. One company in California has alroady trespassed on the public do- main to the extent of 65,000,000 fect. ' Buits aro now pending againsta Montana. company, controlled by the Northern Pa- eific rmlroad company, to recover six “hundred thousand dollars value of timber fllegally cut from the public lands. The entire course of corporations and sub- serviont agents of the government in the timoer districts of the west seems to have J involved undisguised robhory of the pub- lie domain and wasteful spoliation of for- @sts that can never be renewed. The tim- ber trespasser is boginning to fuel tho ef- fect of Land Commissioner Sparks' new departure in dealing with despeilers and underers of public property; but long mmunity induced in his mind an er- roneous beliof that the timber belonging o the people may be converted to private nse with impunity. There should be no further delay in correcting this idea by punishments severe and exemplary. A CHicAGO ¥ coper has in wented a new way of dodging the requir aments of the civil-rights law. W heney acolored man enters his restaurant he is politely seated and handed a bill of fare which informs him that for breakfast or tea he cuan have a porterhouse stea the modest siw of §3.75, the same oysters for 00, a sirloin with yooms for §2.65, pork s fried chicken with cr with mush 1sage only §3.85, m sauce, whole, alt por 85. Friod oggs cost 0 ome- $4.30, brook trout only $5.60, fre $5.75, broiled pr. 48, while buckwhoeat cakes come in at trifle of §1.10, oat-meal mush §1.25, dod pigs' feot $3.30, fried oyste B0 for half a dozen, battered toas $1.10, corned-heef hash $1.25, and liv. snd bacon $3.25, and the whole can be wushed down with tea, coffee, or milk at 80 ceuts. ‘The guest is calmly invited to for wine, iiquors, ales, and cordiuls. yet we higve notseen it stated that any ored man has ordered a meal at this -priced restaurant. | been oxpected. A Game of Bluff. We are semi-officrally informed through the Omaha Republican that Charles Fran- cis Adams has served notice on the house committee on Pacifie railroads that he de- sires the government to take charge of the Union Pacific railway. At headquar- ters in Omaha nobody, not even General ger Callaway, professcs to know anything about this so-calied tender of the road to Uncle Sam. This is perfectly natural. There was no design on the part of Mr. Adams to dispose of the road in that summary fashion. He has no intention to dispense with Mr. Calloway’s servi The offer, if made, was not designed for Omala, but for effect on congress. Mr. Adams is too well informed not to know that the surrender of his road to a co: gressional committee was absurd on its face. He knows enough to know that the proper guardiansof the government interest in the Union Pacilic railway are » president and the seeretary of the in- The; nd they alone, would be the custodians if the road did not pass through the hands of the courts m the process of adjustment between it and its ereditors. Mr. Adams’ object in offering to surrender his road 1o the committee on Pacific railroads s solely for effect on congress, and with a view of sccuring the passage of tho cighty year extension bill. In other words it is a game of bluft' skilliully played. Why should Mr. Adams go before con- gress at this time with such a proposition? Who isforcing him to such astep? Surely not the creditors of the road. The first mortgage bondholders have never shown the least anxiety abouttheirsecurity. They feel very com- fortable down in Massachusetts in cut- ting coupons with semi-annual regul The road may g bout the Thurr bill depression and competition, but it always takes o of the first mortgage bondholders, who get their six per cent whether the-road is solvent or not. The fact is that the Massachusetts syndicate which holds the first mortgage has held on with a deadly grip. Their confidence in the road has never been shaken, and they are doubtless ready to extend the first mortgage at the e of inter- The government has not crowded the road to the wall nor has there any step been taken looking toward taking con- trol of it. The government bonds do not become due for seven years and a large portion for from nine ten years. The government is no haste to talk about foreclc seven years before the maturity of its ebt. No stockholder threatens the com- though most of them are anxious for more dividends on what the company er realized above ten cents on the 3, W hence then does all this pressure come from that impels Mr. Adams to talk of throwing the road upon the hands of the government at this time. It comes from his own anxiety to put through the scheme by which congress would legalize over fifty millions of fraudulent debt, and recognize as valid millions upon millions of watered stock issued in violation of the company’s charter. By one stroke Mr. Adams proposes to unload upon the people of this section a burden which will make them serfs of his road for tiree generations to come. By legal ing the existing debts and of tht Union Pacific the people of Nebraska, Kansas, Wyoming and Colorado will be compelled for cighty years longer to pay tolls ad- justed upon & basis ot §115,000 to the mile, when $20,000 per mile is ample as is for fixed charges. 1t would be far preferable for the government to wipe out its claims upon the road entirely. In that case, at least, its patrons would have some prospect of relief. There is no danger, however, that the government will take the Union Pacific off’ Mr. Adams’ hands, and he is the last man that expects congress to take him at his word. ool The Business Sit The commereial s past week has generally been reg: an improving one. Some branches of the jobbing trade have been more i under the influences of pleasant we but in manufacturing oit been no marked change. The wool trade situation presents little change. Business 1s sluggish and unsat- 1sfactory, and the general position favor buyers, but there is no quotable decline from last week’s prices. The dullness in wool is attributed to the disturbing effect of labor troubles and the failure of the goods trade to develop the buoyancy and activity expected at the outset of the sca- son. These influences, however, would be less effectual in restraining investment if the confidence of holders remained un- shaken; but as the recent lull in demand caused increased pressure to sell and some decline in prices, manufacturers are nat- urally inclined to push their policy of in- differenco as far as possible, in the hope of securing further concessions. The spring-like weather has quickencd the consumptive demand for dry goods, and the improvement in the retail trade is re- fleeted in greater activity in the eall for reassortments from jobber The distri bution is large and satisfactory at most jobbing centers, except in the southwest, where the strike on the Gould roads is rotarding trade. The volume of new business in iron and steel is moderate, but there is a very strong fecling as to prices and trade prospects. Crude iron and steel rails are especially strong and tending upward. The comparatively little lubor agitation in the iron. tradc, owing to the fact that wages are regu lated by the sliding scale of pric t week's improvement in the export demand for wheat eaused a further ad- vance of 1to 13 cents per bushel befo the efleet of the larger business ceased to be felt in the sy ilative market, but the vise in prfees cheeked the demand, and since the middle of the woek the market has steadily declined 8 to 34 eents. The cline was helped by the fine weather, whieh improved the prospeets for tl growing crop; but the principal cle ments of . wenkness were the par tinl subsidcnce of export demand and the fact that the domestic visible supply is not being reduced as rapidly ad The rate of decrease is not suflicicut {o encourage specuiative in vestment in anticipation of & permanent advance in prices. There is still a fair inquiry for export, but foreign buyers, as a rulo, seem Lo be waiting for the dopress ing intluences now at work to spend their force before presenting reguirenients that will turn the market to ther disadvan- tage. Corn prices are 1 to 1§ cents lower for the week, owing to the pressure of in- creasing supplies. Domestic stocks are 1,650,000 bushels larger tkan a week ago, and export demand, though fair, 18 not strong enough to sustain prices. Hog products have been less active and pork in Chicngo has declined 50 cents per barrel, but lard shows hittle change. A crmizes of Council Bluffs writes to the Beg saying that he has about $5,000 which he wishes to invest in railroad stock, but does not know what stock to sclect. He thinks that as the market is now down it is a good time for permanent investment, and he asks our opinion of Texas Pacific, which is quoted at about £12 per share. We advise our Council Bluffs correspondent to keep his money out of railway stoc There is alto gother too much water 1n such seeurities for any safe investment of moncy, and it will take a great many years before the water will be squeezed out of them. The persons who invested in Union Pacific stock a few years ago will probably never got their money out again. The same thing may be said of varions other rail- T stocks that are now way down, par- ticularly the Texas Pa Tue railroad strike still continues. The whole western country which ad- joins the Missouri Pacific system is suffer- ing from the enforced idieness of 10,000 men and the paralysis of business along a great transportation route. Thousands of citizens in no way involved in the causes of the petty dispute which pre- cipitated the trouble are being injured. Business men are losing a large amonnt of money. Mills and factories are pre- paring to close for lack of fuel and ma- Wholesale hous cannot ship and retail houses cannot receive goods beeause traflic is suspended between the trade centers and distributing points. A great wrong is being done by some one and the public at large are demanding that it be promptly righted. Hoxie may insist that his i quires him to decline all offer peaceful settlement of the trouble by ar- bitration, but the patrons of his system and the public at large will not uphold him in his position. The preservation of Mr. Hoxie's ofticial dignity is not a mat- ter of national concern. That the pres ent strike should be brought to a close at onceis a pressing necessity. The rail- road ofticials have blundered along in this trouble from the start. They have shown an entire disregard of public in- t, and a reckless willingness to sac- rifice stockholders and public on the altar of their offended dignity. Th nstate- ment of a single discharged foreman will start once more the wheels of trade in the southwest. Why is it not done? Sham Assessments, a meeting held lnst week by sessors of Douglas county. It was proposed by the city assessors to make a general advance in the listing of prover- ty corresponding with the rise in the market value. The fassessors from the county precinets declared that theywould not raise their assessments on farms and outside property. In other words, these as ors declared their intention to com- mit down-right perjury. They are sworn to list property according to its value, and every material increase i should Dbe attended sponding increase in the assessment. Now every body knows that farm prop- erty in this county has increased in value during the past year, if anything more so than city property. This is par- ticularly true of lands within a radius of five to ten miles of Omaha Large tracts of land outside of the city limits are held by speculators for additions. Take for instance South Omaha, which is out- side the city limits, where the land is par- celed out into lots at the rate of from $1,500 to $2,000 an acre. What excuse is there for keeping such property on the list at $10 per acre? 1t is a shallow and false pretense to say that the county assessors are acting in the interest of the farmers. They pro- pose to rob the farmer for the benefit of land sh: and land syndicates. The real farmer who cultivates land for a liv- ing in this county would not be affected at all by a proper readjustment in ac- cordance with present values, be- by adding millions of dol- s to the list from lands with- in three to five miles of On ha the proportion of taxes would be reduced to owners of land beyond that limit. Besides that, it is right and just. Our assessments have been grossly fraud- ulent and outrageously unequal. The small property holder is taxed on fully one-fourth of the reul value of everything he owns, while the millionaires and syn- dicates have their lots ranging from $1,000 to §2,000 taxed at acre rafes, say from §25 to $100. It is an absolute ne- cessity that the city levy . shall be very materially raised this year. Last year it was raised loss than a mil- lion while the increase in value by a gen- eral rise was more than $10,000,000 leav ing out the $4,000,000 spent for solid im- provements. The blame for this peculiar state of affairs is mainly with the county commissioners. They pretend that they have not time enough to revise the lists under the law, but they have time enough to cut down assessments for cor- porations and nabobs. There are millions of dollars of prop- y lying entirely untaxed in this city which the commissioners could reach if they were so disposed. But they are not iiiterested in equalizing taxes. 1f the s would notify the country that they propose to make a raise they would soon bring them There wa the a; hv gone to time. The plans for the Sixteenth streot via duct having been accepted by the rail- roud companies who are to pay two-fifths of the cost of its construction, nothing now remains but the advertisement for bids before the contract will be let. The assurance of this long needed improve- ment is good news to the people across the tracks. Two viaduets will before wiuter join South Omaha to the business part of the city and open new thorough- faves to the country beyond. The cost of the structures will be trifling compared to the adyantages which Omaha will de rive from thewr construction. The rise in J 1 estate would more than ducts while all the city will benefit from the more rapid transit which they will promote Wantep—A clue to the Chicago & Rock Island express robbers. Apply to the Chicago detectiyes. The Gas Company Surrenders. This paper has taken'the ground from the outset that the \gas company should be made to obey the onlinance reducing the price of gas from §2.50 to $1.7 per thousand feet We have urged all along that the conn- cil should compel . obedience to the law by making it a misdemeanor to present a gas bill based on any rate greater than $1.75, the price fixed by the amended ordinance. The managers of {lic company now an- nounce that they will make the reduction. This wiil be hailed with satisfaction by all gas consumers in the city. It is grati- fying to know that the company will no longer resist a_reasonable regulation of its prices on the part of the mayor and council. By complying with the ¢ nance the company has removed every plausible pretext for the forfeiture of its franchise. We have maintained all along that such a step could only be justified in the most extreme case, after every effort to compel ob- servance of the law has failed. There is no doubt that the city has the right to forfeit the franchise of the gas company just asit has the right to forfeit the franchise of the waterworks comps But the city has no money to buy the g works with and no right to raise it by bonds, If it could do so it would not be advisable, because it would be the source of great corruption. What the city wants is good gas at fair rates. If the existing company will fur- nish such gas ut the price which the council deems fair there is no excuse for forcing a forfeiture of its fran- chise. 1f another gas company ha been organized which pro- poses to supply cheaper gas no harm can come fr giving it the right to do so. If the rival gas company which has just been organized will erect works 1l give us che zas the old company will have to come down. On the other hand if the pressure to forfeit the franchise is simply a scheme to bleed the old company or to compel it to divide profits with the new, the eiti- zens of Omaha will have no sympathy for it. By the way, what has become of the hydrophobia boom? Have the dogs stopped biting people, or have they b come convinced that Pasteur’s innoculy tion discovery made the occupation of the mad dog a harmless recreation? SENATORS AND CONGRESSM Senator Ingalls’ chief weapon is sare: Congressmen are getting to speak of s “inuocuous desuetude.” atty Reed” is what the pages of the house call the big congressman from Maine. Senator Pugh, of Alabama, takes most do- light in the study of canstitutional questions. Senator Call, of Florida, ‘declares that sen- ator Jones, his colleagtte, i§ mad s a March hare. Representative Breckinridge, of Kentucky, is not yet forty-nine years old, but Lis heavy hairand beard are snowy white—a family infirmity. Senator Van Wyck, of Nebraska, is the terror of jobbers. e is rarely seen without his eye-glasses. Senator Edmunds is_said to be the most interesting figure in the senate. He looks likea patrfareh of the olden time, Sonatos Van Wyale Las basn aiven tho somewhat doubtful titlo of “Crazy Horse” by some of the Washington reporters. Congressman Hewitt s suffering more than ever from_insomania. He should care- fully read the Congressional Record, Senator Sawyer, at the age of seventeen, purchased from his father for $100 the free- dom then generally given young men of twenty-one. It takes the greater part of the time of two clerks, one a stenographer, to answer Goneral Logan’s letters, which come from all parts of the country. Senators Harrison and Logan receiye more letters than any other members of the senate, probably because they are particular to an- swer all that come. Senator Jones of Florida certainly seems to be wasting his thne, It1s said he has only twice succeeded in seeing the girl he is af- ter. He should try his hand at legislation a while, Senator Allison, of Towa, is depicted as onoof the happy looking senators. 1t was of him, when a representative, that another member, who was witty when drunk, re- marked: “I'd give a great deal to be as wise as Allison looks, Senator Fryo has received letter from a prominent member of the Canadian parlia- ment asking that the Dominion be included in the bill for the congress of nations, It states that should the English government refuse consent, then Canada would cut loose from Great Britain. Ll They Never Would be Missed. “Oh, Is It right to boycott? Once asked a knight of leather, Yes. boyeott every mother's son Who talks about the weather, Boycott the man wlo re Of antiquarian flavol Whose wit had perished at the flood, Whose salt has lost its savor. Boycott the man who boasts und brags In swaggering bravad Boveott the whistling fiend who toots ‘The tunes in the Mikado. Boycott and kil the English dude, Hoycott the talking barber, ‘The midnight cats that serenade Beneath the trellised arbo Boyeott the quacks who vegétate Upon the world’s afiliction, Boyeott the black incarnate fraud Who won't pay his subscription, £ A Pattern for Sam, Pittshurg Commencial, James Parton, a number of years ago, lik- ened Pittsburg to *hel) with the lid off.” Sam Jones will have to stimulaty his inventive powers to beat that. sm. ozen te ails puns ol Studying the Everglade Syjtem, Chicago News. Those two fugitive New 'York aldermen who were recently found in Florida probably went down there to stiidy the methods of a state that is wore than half swamped, ol Exbausted His Ammunition. St. Paul Plonder Press, Commissioner Black has' discovered that partisan campaign twadile 15 a very diflicult material to twist Into positive evidenc against a public man, He has made a very lame presentation of his allege € agalust Commissioner Dudley, and he seems to haye exausted his amwunition. - Trained in a Hard School, Boston Herald, One of the lobbyists of the legislature teal fully deciares that the toughest kind of men lie hias to meet in his efforts to manipulate that body is an old-fashioned orthodox dea- con. e savs the deacous are the only men who are more skillful in lobbying than the lobby itse iug to Conquer. ew York Jouraal, The noble Knights who are now battling for the right in the southwest have conducted thewselves with digaity, While they stand Sto lance at rest ready to battle for their just rights they will reserve rather than unmask their strength. Backed by the moral influ- ence of the engineers and firemen they are bound in the end to win, *“Their cause it is Just, — A Righteons Policy. Philadelphia Record, Gladstone’s policy of buying out tho Irish Iandlords is a rigteous one, as the original seizure of Irish lands was unrighteous. atesmanship of this high quality might have cut short our civil war by the purchase of southern slaves. Such a purchase would have saved thousands of valuable lives and the expenditure of many millions of dollars. A Vein of Ossian in Nebraska. Chicago Tribune. From the breezy far west comes occasion- allya curt statement of facts which is so weirdly vigorous that it reads like an extract from the poems of Osslan. What could be moroe striking than the announcement that “Montrose, Neb,, has three newspapers, two Antiety shows, twenty saloons, two hotels, one Jail, and plans for a chureh,” - STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings, Nebraska corn sells in San Francisco for $1.00 per cental. A cold water wave is bowels of central Nebraska. ve thousand homestead entr been filed m the Neligh land. oflice. The honors of the Venice of Nebraska ;u'o divided between Norfolk and Colum- bus, Portions of one of the Platte bridges are seattered over a corn ficld near Val- ley station. Ben Fimple, the thief who made away vith Al Worth's horse, in Plattsmouth, was captured with the nag at Unadilla. The Blair school census shasys an in- e of 106 youngsters over I year, total of 1,08 persons of school age. The body of George Hoge, who disitp- peared from Kearney last November, was found near the highway north of town last week Alodge of the A 0. U. W. ws tuted at Rushville on the 18th grand lodge will be organized not n April 10. M A. McManigal, of Blair, will try locumb process on the saloons of th town for liquoring her husband. She wants $3,000 Cedar Rapids, Boone count advance of the season with the milk of 400 cows being pledged for it. Colonel George Webster Makepeace, an lowa crook, was captured while rusti cating at Columbus. He will renew his acquaintance with his wives and outraged law at Dunlap, Towa. The Columbus Democr: nds, John G. Higgins retiring to the nd Island land office. D. Frank Davis is the new director of bourbon sentiment in Platte county. Chris Neidig, of Madison, writes to the BiE denying the story recently published to the effect that he ‘had salted a coal mine near Ewing and sold the adjacent land fora large sum of money. Mr., Neidig says he never owned or sold a claim ywhere outside of Madison county. Three toughsin Nebr a colored widow named Ma right, and eame out of the mel best, e pincky woman’s Kin: ght- encd out as the ruflians broke in the door, and, armed with a coffee pot and poker, she 'fought them into the street. Tho police were conveniently absent, and the toughs eseaped with battered hide. The boomer of a rival town struck Long Pine in a tender spot recentl, ished so suddenly that his 0 ached. He sailed into “The mers’ Delight,’ called for diluted acti, and declarad in bragnna tonas that measl; y highway.”" 'l'h{ cold, yawning nozzle of u horse-pistol in the fiands of the town marshal c boaster’s nose, and his knees be tatoo on the floor as he plead for minutes to leave town. He was booted to the corporation limits and has not been seen or heard of sinco. The argument was pointed eftectively at both ends. The announcement made a few days ago_that the ‘‘Long Talk” telephone would invade Nebraska created a commo- tion in certain circles in Fremont. A spe- cial convocation of the Young Ladies’ Protective association was immediatery held to consider the subject in all its bear- i Chewing gum was Yidugiflw i 27 of oy po aded the Yobbies of the castle, Thg confabulation was strictly socret, even the keyholes were stuffed with “apron strings, and naught but plaudits could be heard through the ven- tilator. It is confidently asserted by the envious male mashers of the town that lushing the has changed alted I, Friday cond 'sh 45 . the association propose to “hook on” to the bachelors’ hall of H. ings, but the sur- mise smacks of jealous; and short bair. lowa Items, Rock Rapids is negotiating for a woolen factory. The hog cholera wiped out $150,000. Muscatine’s new opera seating capacity of 1,200. Walker Neal, of Ainsworth, aged 80, is the father of a nine pound boy babe. The ill against adulterated butter has already passed one house of the legisla- ture, Forty young men in Tipton have been arrested for gambling and bound over to the district court. M. J. Haddix, engincer of the wator works at Burlington, had his arm caught in the machinery and horribly mangled. There are 431 licensed tooth %(-r)u'rn‘ in the state. The profession is a holey call- ing, and truly “fills the long-felt want.’" The coroner of Linn county has fat- tened on fees and sat on cadavers for twenty six years without losing his grip for a single day. L. Kellogg, of Dunlap, is the posse of two pieces of continental money w were issued November 19, 1775, picce represents a value of $6. Dubuque's losses by fire for the year ending March 1, 1856, was $2,105, 'l'?. re were forty-two alarms. The fire depurt- ment cost the city §14,241.51. Mrs. Kate Hogan, of Lettsvllle, recently received a telegram from Dublin up)m.s T hor of the doath of & wuncle, from whom she inherits something like §70,000. Mrs. N. J. Burk, of Grundy Center, has just completed a' worsted quilt which contains 11,207 sepurate pieces. Some time ago shé finishcd a calico quilt con- taining 7,703 pieces. The wife of Geg d in Greeno county house has a Fouster, of Breda, forged her father's name to a note for cashed in, and started westward The woman is only 15, and so fresh that George Fouster o tap the old man for a grub stuke Dakota. a is flicting severe loss on the tarmers in Union county A public school building to cost not less ,000 will be built at Redficld this an colony located near Hanson county, intend to build or this year and ship their grain January 1 172 earloads of stock and produce ha n shipped from Elk Point. Over 150 carloads of corn aud twenty carloads of baled hay are now on hand and ready for shipment. The trial of Timothy Coleman in Dead.- wood last week, developed sensational testimony. Coleman i chargod with at tempting to kill William: Tillson. Von Bodungen, an eugineer and surveyor of Rockford, swore that Tillson was a high- wayman and murderer, and that he was one of the gang that killed Johnnie -“I:\ughtvr driver of the Cheyenne coach, in 1877, The holdup took place near Gold Run, in March of that yes nghtor was instantly killed, and Walt ller, one of nm_IJA sengors, was wounded in the arm. Tillson denies the charge, and has had Van Bodungen arrested for perju Wyoming. The employes on the new d.vyuq sito at Cheyenne havo struck for higher wages, They were getting $1.40 per day and struck for $2. A preliminary meoting of business men was held in Cheyenne Friday, for the pur- pose of considering the organization of a board of trade T'he assessed valuation of Wyoming live stock is, in round numbers, £16,000,000; of railroad property, £5,000,000; and ‘all other property, 8,000,000, The Wyoming capitol commissioners have organized by eleeting Erasmus Na- rle cha 1 and C. N. Pottor s ary. t was decided to advertise for proposals for sites. There is a great deal of r: Cheyenne and throughout about the two proposed railroads, the Cheyenne & Northern and the Wyo ming Central. The people are about” to vote on the question of “issuing bonds in aid of the Northern road. The Central company is said to b d by the Chi- cngo & Northwestern Color man wants to put $8,000 nto a creamery at Boulder, provided the town will give him a bonus of $1,000, A colony of Grand Army people from Minneapolis, Minn., ¢ arranged to loeate in the La_Garita county, fourteen miles from Del Norte. A quarry of marble has heen di ed by n man naned Zimmerman, upper Poudre conntry thin ten of the Union Pacific railroad. The Colorado Cattle Growers® associa- tion has 4 members who own over 1,200,000 head of eattle and 50,000 horses, which represent a valuation of $50,000,000. Fort Morgan lot owners have ordered 1,000 box elder, maple and ash trees from the Crete, Nebraska, nurses to he planted along the town streets this pring. S"Akron, the new agricultural Jtown on the Burlington, is just beginning to boom The town ‘1s_being quite” exten vertised in the east. The Piond locatel ' Uncie Sam’s domain Thur: week. Troad talk in the territory An Tow. wer- in the miles oA Why They Lost so Many An old-time steamboatman says in the St. Louis Globe-Democerat: In the good old steamboat e the war, wi used sometimes to lose twenty or twenty- five emigrants at a t We used to bring a great many Ge: ns up from New Orleans in the They couldn’t speak English, and apparently couldn't understand. I remember once we had about a hundred on board on the p, and every day w'd see a commo- ong thein, hear them shouting ming and pointing to the river ting that some one had gone fover We didn’t pay much attention to the mat ter at first, a8 we thought they were com- mitting suicide. One day I saw a great big German, weighing fully 200 pound, walk to the boat’s edge with a bucket at tacked to a long rope. I ran up and crabbed him and showed him how to throw the bucket to cateh the w to throw it ahead and let i ame down the stream, and then dr up. He took the bucket,itossed it straight out from him, and it sc v struck the ter when he was jerked overboard after nd was drowned, That showed us the ret of the many drownings we had had. ery time serman threw a bucket he pitched it 2t out, and the enrrent catehng it dragged him after it. We put a watcli on the foreign passengers after it R Mrs. Hancock's F Gen. W 3 Hartford '] 1 correction of the Statement in the dispatehes of that pan which decla that Mrs. Hancocl i y financial circumstances. anklin aftirms that Mrs. Hancock would be virtually penniless except for the fund which her friends have been collecting for her, and he furaished for duplication a letter received from a member of Gen. Hancock’s staft, who was thoroughl, vised as to his financ "The wr “Gen, Hancock garrisd but one policy of 9,000 on his life, and, even including this, the balance of tho ‘gencral’s cstatc is on the debt side. Mrs. Hancock owns half an interest in some St. Louis prop- erty, but which has greatly depreciated in value, and which, besides, is heavily involved. No income has been derived from this source for a number of past; and if she sold it under its presence incumbrance butlittle would be realized Mrs, Hancock is very grateful for the kind and generous efforts of her friends, and deeply touched by the many testi- monials of respeet and reverence for her husband’s memory."} AL A Fatal Lawsuit, 2 Cedar county, Iowa, has a lawsuit which scems to”be fatal'to luwyers, The smt_originally aroso on a disputed ac- count of $6, bt which now involves costs to the amount of $150. A lawyor by the name of Coats brought tho suit'and died; it was defended by Lawyer Tngham, who died; Coats was snceecded by Lawyer STRICTLY PURE IT CONTAINS NO OPTUM IN ANY FORNM IN THREE SIZE BOTTLES, PRICE 25 CENTS, 50 CENTS, AND $1 PER BOTTLE €2 5SEN | BOTTLES are put um for the & commodation of all who desiro a goo and low priced Couch, ColdandCroupRemedy VSR DESIRING A REMEDY FOR CONSUMPTION ANY LUNG DISEASE, Should secure tho large §1 bottlos. 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