Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 16, 1886, Page 8

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FRIDAY, APRIL 15 MILLIONS 1N PUBLIC WORKS. The Annual Report of the Engineoring De- Department of Omaha, AVEMENTS, GRADES, SEWERS. A Million and a Half Dollars Expend- ©d Last Year and an Equal Amount Required for 1886—City Im- provement in Detail. To the honorable, the Mayor and City [ Council. Gentlemen:—I herewith sub- I mit my annual exhibit of the public works | of the city of Omaha, for the year ending April 1st, 1836. This embraces such con- tract work only that comes strictly within the engincering department. Summarized, the public work of 1885 is as follows Grading 164,752 cubic yards. Average 15 per yar Curbing and guttering. Paving ewors, 4.5.6 1in idewalks, .......... ... L Hanscom Park water service b1 9 nginecring supplics, salaries, ete 11,94 &6 Total ..... Adding {i g ving, curbing and_sew done 8 20,708 07 feet, or very 60 feet between curbs, 7 siuare yards, nine and Paved twenty feet wide, 15,26 Bquaye yards, one and tlivee-fourth miles, Togal” paved A jare yards, elevpn and one-fourth mile 608, Having thus presented an outline of the public works as carried out to date, I Wwill proceed in detail. GRADIN The grading during the past year was necessarily limited, the eity having to pay one half of the cost out of the gen- eral fund, which was oyerdrawn at the outset, and but for the funding o art of the floating debt, would not have been vailable at all. The streets graded were on the lines of main sewers at Burt and North Seventeenth s t, 1 ‘luirim: ‘such work for their protection, and also that they might be opened to travel. The Jargest part, however, of the year's grad ing expenditures were for finishing the Fndmpn! west Farnam - street from 'wenty-ninth street to the limits, contractes for the preceding year, and of o part If south Eighteenth street. The I ter work was_ done at request of the Board of Educ tion and as partly graded is in worse condition than if no work h |8 been done. To give the people on - that thoroughfare the benefit they 1 right to look for in view of the Il tax levied, the grading of this street I ought to be completed from Williams street south to Vinton strect early this season. The grading already under con- tract for 1836 and now in progress is Harney street from Fiiteenth street 1o the west line of McCormick’s addition, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eightcenth, Nineteenth, and Twenticth streets from Farnam to Howard and St. Mary’s Ave- from I'wenty-third west port street teenth to Twenty-second street. The work already let, together with that mecessary in connection with the Six- | teenth street viaduet will require about $20,000 out of the general und and should be taken into nsideration in apportioning work for he coming seazon CHANGES OF GRADE Numerous changes of grades have ' been urged and made in the past yi owing in 1 E tersections, and mor 1o sontimont favorinz moro Tadic and fills to insure botte reets less of local property inter The con- struction of the Eleventh and Sixteenth streets vinduets will call for additional changes at an early date—changes for | the latter line arc alr under consid- L eration and a report of the damages in- | cident to them has been submitted by the lrpruim- to the council. The south end of the Eleventh street viaduct ter, at a grade of fifteen feet per 10 t | course, cannot meet public requ and will necessarily have to be cut Lin a six foot grade to Mason st, and then st to Tenth DISPUT ADES, There are still two streets within ‘old townsite on which there are grad of d]sg vahdi pitol avenu “from Bixteenth to Twenticth streets, Chicago strect from teenth to Twen- ty-second strects. The pitol avenue grade under a court decision affecting “that question, is neither the Phillips no | ' Creighton ade so-called, but wl L known as the Meredith g Meredith and s did not “8pecitically establish the gr: of north and south strects, and the Phillips sys- W m did, there is a conflict between two | systoms as adopted at tho crossings of P both Chicago street and Capitol avenue 1 Both of these strects must be adjuste P I efore any permanent improvements ‘& pon them can be considered. L Where sidewalks of six or eight feet in ‘width answer the purpc of travel the lobjection to cutting down of streets can, D many cases, bo overcomo by laying wallks to the curb lines and terracing he remaining space between the walks nd property lines, thus avoiding much [amage to private prope Thix will be Fpracticable on Capitol avenue and Chi 0 strec Davenport street, now unde ontract will be graded in this way, CURBING In the past year v rf’ little gutte! been done separately from the pa but for the provisions of the charter o curbing might be included in the ving tontracts. The price of curbs iranged from 90 conts to $1.07 per lineal the lowest price being that for orea sand stone, aud the rest the Colo- do sand stoue. Indications thi that we will get a w select from, and it is possible that ite ourbs can be sccurcd » (8 Biot far above those of the inferior stone: Bxeopting in cases of re-curbing, for BICh n° gonoral lovy s providud, il gurbing is puid for by speeial tax. This pder recent enactment, is paid for in mual instailments at 7 per cent, intevest, same as for paving. ‘Lhe curbing for ill aggregate about 60,000 : SEWERS. But very little scwer work has been one in the past year. Numerous uppli ‘gations for new districts were made, but pwing to want of funds ound ne: eroated, and | s, about three-fourths of a mile of wore laid. These have alvendy ful- their purpose, viz.: draining the wet 4 Js through whieh thoy pass. The hain branch of the North Omaha sower, foight fect in dimmcter, extended 178 fooh 1o the west line of Scventeentl 90 a8 to adwit of the opening and pading of that thoroughfare. Wu now 3 sther twenty-two miles of sew- structed in the ecity, all of which, the exception of the two pipu lines Dougias aud Hurney strects, ure doing exccllent service. Those two lines are of the Waring system, laid four years ago. They are each abeut two-thirds of a mile in fvnmh and six inches in diam- eter. They are foreed to carry about 250,000 gallons each darly, which is in ex- cess of their capacity “under ordinary flow, and hence they run under a head most of the time. 'They were designed for sewage only and calculated on that basis to run one-third full, so that when the first few hydraulic elevators were built shortly after their completion they were allowed to connect with them, as a limited discharge of that nature would assist in flushing the sewers, but hy- aulic elevators have increased use so apidly that they now tax these pipes far beyond their | capacity and cause backwater. Either the ~ larger num- ber of these svators must be cut off and connected with the storm sewer on Farnam street, or else these two lines should be taken up and replaced with Inrger pipes in which event they should also be lowered about three feet If this is not done then the lines must be divided at about Thirteenth street, the | upper ends conne vith the rnam street storm sewer. The objection to this at in the event of excessive storms, ‘k-water will carry sewage into con ceted builaings. This can in my opin- ion be oby i:m-’.'l by throttling the catch basin inlet pipes so as to reduce the quan- tity of rain water going into the sewers on such occasions to an extent within the limit of the sewer under the heaviest known rain fall and forcing the excess, an oceurrence which does not average one hour per year, to flow over the strc face. The cost of throttling these inle cannot exceed £75.00 and is an exper ment well worth trying as it will if su cessful, enable necting water pipes with the storm sew- ers to do so without r of back-water, SEWER FLUSH TANKS, The tanks at the upper cnds of the storm water and other sewers are now ail in good operati sndition. T : uiled to wor sar were made op ive by ttanehment devised by my- self, after considerable experimenting on the subject. his simply consists of a tube within a tube discharging the water into the tank and connected with the si- phons in such manner that when the water rises to the overflow line the air in the siphon is exhausted as by a steam in- jector through a connecting pipe and the complete and sudden discharge effected. Th Hustrated in detml in drawings accompanying this report. EWER GAS, The complaints of last year of sev gas, as it was called, from along y’s avenue and the South Om connecting districts have all ceased, owing to the construction of an indeper dent sewer last fall by the gas comps from their works on” Jones 3 er, and ¢ c waste ipes with the This y demonst the correctness of planations of the nuisance I hat it was re believe the policy so pursued of using no traps in out basins, but rather of building their base slanting mto the sewer inlet pipe, and thus di charging to the sewer all mud while i solution and earrying it to the river while in such a stafe to be a good on This is practicable ty like ours with grades of from six inches upward per 100 feet, and saves the cost of a gang of men and wagons to periodically clean the basins as done in othe not only thoroughly ventilat s but avoids stagnant water deposits in basins atstreet corners between rainy in- tervals. FOR 1886, The rapid growth of the city rende the need of sewers in all sections of the city imperative, yet we cannot accomm date distriets without haying main sewer outlets for their connection. To meet the demand at this date would require not less than 250,000 additional exps ture for the completion of the mains We are restricted to $100,000 per Y henee all that can be dono the coming year is to go as far as $100,000 (now asked for and I think will be cheer- fully voted) will carry us. This will be “about as follows: "An extension of Jones street sewer to the river; an exten- sion_of the branch south on Fourteenth and Hickory streets; an_extension as far as practicable westward beyond the nail works, and the construction of a short branch up Seventh street. This being limited to $50,000 will have to be deter- mined after plans and estimates are fully completed. In North Omaha the extension of the north and south branches will have to be determined in th me manner, The connection of the north branch to the river will become a sanitary necessity in another year and of itself” will reguire §15,000 or more for completion tWith the construction of the mains alr y re- f to within our scope for this ye it will be practicable to build aistrict sewers to the extent of about $100,000— making the total probable sewerage ex- penditure for this year about $200,000. PAVEMENT The pavements thus far laid have proved qui atisfactory, considering the enormous amount of eutting through them for sewer, gas, water and other purposes. The sheet asphalt pavements, where stone gutters are not laid and mud and moisture accumulates, develops sott spots and will require oceasional repair: Along the line of the Sixteenth street railroad track where the experiment was tried to omit the stone blocks it has proved unsuccessful, and the pls the toothed stone connecting blocks the strect by the Barber pany should be required before the five year period of maintenance expires. The specifications of this year call for a two foot grani v und stone toothing along street v Wy trac all shect asphalt paved street d upon a bed of six inches of American cement concrete. The experiment of a reduced concrete base of four inch depth w of Amel Mathematically, in strength to the d o practieally it will be the means I reduction in future of the cost of not only sheet fisphalt paving, but AP L ST T T base. The payement v con- sted for, for the yi sive of int i bout $350,000; this from all i ions 1 beine ed by about 100,000 wmore during the season, BOULEVAR Last summer at the instance of the council extensive surveys and detail estimates were made of a boulevard co! ring two sc wte routes 10 and 8 miles ngth, with one line 14 milesin length with short maximum grades of six feet hundred, in fact 4-55 of the lines with grades of less than 8 feet per 100 feot. If these boulevards are intended to become facts, then the combined action ty and county authorities should aken at an early day, otherwise the right-of-way now easily secuved, will be » matter of great dificulty, YIADUCT The need of some safe drive from North to South Om has resulted in the de- velopment of viaduct plans on_Eleventh nd teenth streets over the Union Pacitic and B, & M. tracks. The Eleventh street viaduct is to be of iron trestle work and trussos aggregating 1,800 feet in length with approaches, and at con- tract price of about §85,000. The work is to be completed on or before Septem- ber Ist. ‘Tlie grades of Eleventh, Muson and other stroets must be changed to mect the changed conditions of travel, The Sixteeuth street visduct will, owing to limited funds, be built of wood. It embraces a series of fifty foot spans and several U6 and one 130 foot span over the railrouds, will be 87 feet wbove llie road- q | es who desire con- way at its highest point, and have a total length of 1500 feet extending from the south side of Leavenworth street to the south side of Pierce streot. This is de- signed to cost about £30,000 and is now being advertised. These viaducts are to have a roadway of 20 teet with sidewalks of 6 feet on h side. Under the charter, provisions must be made in preparing the next levy for a general assessment to a viaducw fund covering 1-5 of the costand damages, of each of tl ducts, This will require about $35,000 in addition to the usual levy. HIANSCOM PARK. In the year 1 A. J. Hanscom and James Megeath dedicated to the city of Omaha the grounds now known as Hanscom park. Of this Mr. Hanscom ve 50-100 acres and Mr. Megeath 22 88-100 acres, and in addition to this these gentlemen dedicated for street pur- poses a strip thirty feet wide around the entire ground ‘?\n- conditions of this ion were that the grounds should alwa bear the name of ‘“Hanscom Park™ and that they should be improved by the expenditure of £25,000, as follows 000 for the y 3 $4,000 pe r ing 1 ,000 per’ year during 18777 the final expenditure in 1878 the grounas were to be kept in perpetual repair These conditions were all earried out The ground when dedicated y ssible and was covered with dense brash and mostly serub tim- bor. By thoroughly trimming and clean- ng out'the undergrowth and weeds, the planting of bluegrass, cutting out road- wavs, pathways, ot the grounds have yme quite” attractiye, and are now so gely used as a resort during the sum- mer season tl y should be improved and beautified on & more liberal seale as been done in the past five years. t fall, under direction of the city council, a line of four-inch water pipe laid from Twenty-ninth, formerly k avenue, to the line of hitching posts within Hanscom Park, which was then connected with pipes heretofor aid around the p: house and to the tank at the northwest end of the grounds. other improvement has been made. For the purpose, however, of properly de- signing future improvements, such as Dbridges, lakes or ponds, ete., within the ark, I have begun an accurate topo- phical survey of the grounds, taki eleyation of the corners of every fift square of the entire « These suty and an aceurate contour map of the grounds, will be finished within about . We will then be ready to curtely design all future work upon these grounds and make estimates without fur- ther deluy. CITY ADDITIONS, The phenomenal growth of the city in the past few years fins led to the sub-div- ision of property within and outside the ety limits so rapidly that it is difficult to keop pace with thom. At the present time th ¢ over 800 additions upon record. Many of these h n d the approval of the counci streets have been recognized cither ! blishing grades upon them, or by 'nl:u ng the lots and blocks upon the tax ists and exempting the streets, The ex- clusion by the city and county in this manuer of the strcets from the tax list is \n':lcliv:lll n acceptance of them public property There is still a large amount of unsub- divided real estate within the city that can be regulated. A practice largely en- tered into by partics o the law ing to additions is to sell by meets and bounds with the resc enough ground in cach case for These rented to the county appr: \d exempted from the tax list, county as well as the city authorities should adopt some regulations to protect the public from such imposition. No tract of land whethe so-called street, alley or reserve not actually aceepted by the " city or county should be exempted from as And if it w publicly known that a street in an unexcepted ad. dition ean be publicly sold for taxes the same as other property, there would be few purchasers in unaccepted additions. 1 believe that no law mukes it compul- sory for the public to accept any dona- tion, and if that be true, as it seems rea- sonuble, why should not the county au- thoritics act the same as city authorities in relation to additions or :\Ifnmlunts out- side of the city limits and_ thereby save the ¢ vhen 1ts boundai exten ded, the embarrassment of complicated and irregular streets totally out of h mony with the streets within our present limsts, NAMING OF The indiseriminate practice of naming ts within additions to compliment nds of the owner or to flatter individ- \ls for some past or expected favor | led to such complication as tate the renaming of streets outside of the old townsite under a system that can be casily earried out in all future subdi visions. The ordinan mbodying thi work may require amendments to cov small defects in minor details, which, owing to the incomplete maps at this date, were almost unavoidable, “The aim of the ordinance is to extend all our wt and west streets under the old name and where such are north and south of the old townsite to give the name of the rgest portion of the street to the several ponding practically with north and south” strects in a similar manner up to third street, the center lineof the old streets being the basis for the numbers of the new, and then beginning with ers and Jeflerson ts, which t of Twenty-third street and on a section line as Twenty-fourth street, each mile or seetion is subdivided into twelve equal parts, and each of such di- vision line is the base for an additional number; this makes the eity limits Thirty- sixth street, and the numbers of these subdivisions correspond exactly with a jority of the streets in North Omahs h therefore require no change. there were numerous additions with long and short blocks in which numbered frequently conflicted with those of streets opposite, it was d best to name all streets coming or nearly so between these base thus a street be- tween Twenty-ninth street and Thirtieth street proper ‘would be med Twenty- ninth avenue, the avenue always follow- ing the :ot of the same number, This will facilitate the numbering of houses and obviate present complications in tha respeet STRE TENSIONS, Grounds for a large number of streets and alleys have been condemned, ap- praised iand payment has either made or tendercd by the city trc the past year and in'my opinion whereyer streets are manifestl) ) i economy to open them before improve ments render such attempts too costly. A reform is however needed in the sy tem of records in such ¢ As hercto- fore done no final ordinances were pass- ed deelaring the opening in view of pay tender of payment of the ap- valug, and hence as can be seen review of Chase's compiled ordinan- cos, & large number of streets are record- ed as condemned and opened for publ use, that were never paid for and in faot have no existence Lo elear the records | of il complications both us to_grades and Yuhl'c grounds all such ordinances should be rcpealed or omitted in the next compilation of ordinances, and the pas- sage of final ordinunces after the appro al‘and payment of per als of grounds :ul' public use sho e strictly adbered 0. ENGINF ING EXPENSES ‘The cost of maintaining the engineer- ing department was greater last year in proportion to the amount of pubfic work carried out than any previous year, 'viz, about & little less than 5 per cent of the cost of work doue, This is in strong con- | range of territory, th trast with the ratio of he two years previous when it was lesd than two per cent, and yet more actual work was per- formed by the department than any previous year. A thoreugh system of records in the office was started and partly perfected—surveys and levels of new streets, alleys in all soetions of the city _and ' additions wore made to establish grades; outline boulevards, secure data and verfect plans for ducts and sewers for the coming year and no small amount of time was taken up in preparing data for suits in court to nssist the city attorneyin making his defense, s this a large amount constantly taken up in answering public calls for information and preparing and recording sewer and other permits for licensed drai yor: and*recording the returns so as to avoid confusion in the exceution of the worl preparing special tax lovies and ordi- nances for contemplated changes of grade or condemnation of grounds, clos ing of grounds, changes of curb’ lines and an endless amount of other routine work not ordinarily anticipated by those unacquainted with the work of the en- gincering department. WORK FOR 1886, The work for the coming r, althongh already largoly designed, Ja so oxtensive m e cter and covers such a large the foree of the department will necessarily have to be rged within two months for the bal ance of the season, as all the work will require ying | out and super- vision within a working period of less than six months. The work will be about follows: ading (one-half being city’s share).£120,000 Paving.. Civeniy 130,000 wers * 200,000 Curbs e 60,000 Viodue ¢ ; 1,000 Total < 5 30,000 This estimate mav scem larze, but I be- liove the expenditures are more lianle to exceed one million dollars than fall be- low the figures of the summary Thanking the mayor and yonr honor: ble body for the uniform courtesy « support extended me in the past v well as all the members of ment for their faithfal assistance and di charge of duty, I am, ‘ery Respeetfully, ANDREW ROSEWATER, City Engineer. g For Oruelty to Animals, Geo. English and Christ Went two hunt- ers who eame fromCalhoun to Omaha with a load of game and fish, were arrested by Oflicer Crawford yesterday tor eruelty to animals, One of them had a sharp prod with which he was urging on a small mule and a horse attached to a wagon. Both animals were badly lacerated and hardly able to walk. T blood flowed from their wounds marking the various thoroughfares the route over which the noor anir had been driven by their brutal master. Went was fined $10 and costs. She Runs Away From Home. Benjamin I'. Norris has filed a petition in the distriet court asking for a divoree from his wife Flora. Norris keeps a con- feetionery store in Omaha to which a res- taurant is attached. His wife who aids him in conducting his business applied for a_divorce from him some time ago but almost immediately withdrew the p tion for som son best known to he self. In addition to_asking the court to annul the marriage, No i junction to prev sincss, 1o o sents herself from home for 1l days at a_ time and refuses to explain the cause of her absence Perished in the Snowstorr. From a gentleman who has y 't v turned from weste T poter learned yesterday that James Ryn who has friends in Omaha, perished dur- ing the lasv snowstorm in Keith county Ryner left his home in Iliinois about a month ago and took ‘up a claim in that connty. During the snow: e started to go to a mneighbor’s house, a short distance away. was missed, and o al his whe Two w rds, when the snow had melted around, he was found dead, seven from his hou; He must have been ¢onfused by the blinding snow. storm and wandered around until, wnd worn, he 1. down and froze to h. Hew taken back to his home in Illinois, where the funeral took place Sunday last, Gone to the Asylum, The ecommissioners of insanity held an nination into the mental condition of Mike Farrell Wednesday afternoon and ordered him sent to the Lincoln asylum. Farrell was formerly one of the best engincers on the Union Pacific, but about amonth ago he began to act in a strange manner and was relieved from duty, He afterwards became violent, and it was with great difliculty that he was arrested and taken to the county jail puty- sherifl” Phillips and J O'Connell, intimate friend of ¥ to Lincoln yesterday “How to Make a Speeeh” isthe subject of a lecture by Rev. J Detwiler " to- night in tl P corner of Charles and Saunders streets, Want a Location, Messrs, Allen and Stevens, of the Mo- line plow works, are in the city to find a loeation for a branch factory in Omg So far they have been unable to do so, on account of the high prices estate men ask for their property, President Meyer id this morning that unless theke gentlomen were trented better or found” some encouragement to locato here, they would probably locate in the Blufts, where ever inducement has been held out to them, The acquisition of such a factory as the Moline plow works—one of the lurgest establishments of the kind in the world—would be a great thing for Omaha, aund this opportu- nity should not be thrown away. GRAND LODGE, Knights of Honor in Session—Oflicers Elected. grand Lodge finished its labors ~day, and the visiting members have all gone home. very pl nt ses- i and much work was done. rted in 1873 and up 1880, there had been paid to the widows and orphans ofideecased mem- bers over $12,000,000, of $2000 in each benefit, The representative to the Supreme Lodge that meets in May at Providence R. L, has been instructed to favor a div- 1sion of the N aska being in the Fifth Divi Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Colorado, Dakota, Montana and Wyoming, a total of seven districts, There would be about 12,000 members in the district, The total membership in the United States is ai 30,000, he first lodge wus_formed in Omaha by T. G. May in December, 1877. the Gra 2z 1878. This was the seventh session. It will meet two years from now at enwood, Nebraska. The following are the officers elected for the term ending 1n April, 1888 John N. Edwards, past grand dictator, Seward; Charles J. Menter, grand dicta tor, Omubu; F. Sonnenschein, grand viee dictator, West Pomt; F. G. Ramsburgh, finnd assistant dictator, Clarke; T. G agrane, grand reporter, Owaba; Thom- as Frahen, grand treasure remont; H. W. Carpenter, grand ch; n, Syracuse; H. M. Wright, grand gu 5. H. Landis, grand guardian, W4 Chidester, grand sentinel, Western: Dr., J. R. Conkling, state medical examiner, Omaha, Grand trustees—F Simmong, Sew ard Wait, Syracuse and Thomas Fal coner, Omalh: Replresenatives to the suprome lodge— T. G. Magrane, Omaha; C. W. Phillips, Nebraska City. Alternate revresentation to the supreme lodge—W. H. White, Freemont, E. K. Long, Omahs Committee_on laws—W. C. Henry, Fremont; C. W, Phillips, Nebraska City; W. H. White, Fremont. Committee on finance--H. N. Carpen- ter, Syracusc: J, B, Bruner, Omaha; k. 0. Landis, Milford. Wanted to exchango for stock of Hard e and general merchandise, 560 acres of fine Thayer county (Neb.)land; five lots in Genoa (Neb.); good store building (best corner); good dwelling (best loca tion) in Essex (Towa); also cighty acres one-half mile from town of Essex (lowa), seeded in blue grass — For further par ticulars, address John Linderholm, Cen- tral City, Nebraska. ick Dead-1 G, 0. Hastings is o kmght of the green cloth, who w wrested the other day being a suspicious character. He wi ordered to leave town atonce, but faiiing trdo so, i ested by the po- lice. Yesterday he pre d bailand was released. dignant, and den jury” trial. which ho ms will vindicate him. Mr. H. is val ly known as “Dick Dead-Eye. Publi Short Horn cattle at Lin- coln, Nob., April 14, 185, Fifteen cows and heifers and twenty bulls, For cata- logues apply to_ Col. I\ M. Woods, Lin- coln, Neb., or Williams & Lacy, Lacona, = Bidding on Sewers, The board of public works wore occupicd yesterday in opening the bids for the new sewers to be built during the present season. The bids for the sewers in six district and vary largety in amount. The chairman stated yesterday that the bic v in such form that no tabulated statement could be given until to-day. The officers at headquarters are grad- ually getting used to the new order of wtment without a head. ably conducting matters, al for General do so until a rked tion when he passed through Sidney. He will be met at Ogden by General Me- Cook, who expects to come down from Fort Douglas for that purpose Colonel Henry is now in City. Rev, E. B. Graham, pastor of the United Presbyterian_ cliureh in this ety, ased the Midland, a denomi- weekly published in St. Louis, I remove it to this pl He ill assume formal charge as editor-m- Salt Lake MOST PERFECT MADE Prepared with special regard to healir. 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Long expericuce iu treat- Tz onses by letter cnables us to {reat tany cases ont kecing them, i 'IRCULAR on Deformiti 1, Curvatures of . kin, Blo 1 of Medical and Surgical Appliances, man. ctured and for enle, The only reliable Medical Institute making Private, Spacial 32 Nervous Disease: ALL CONTAGIOUS A X SEASES, from whintever fully treated, We can remove Syphilitic poisos from the eystem withont mercur Now restorative treatment for loss of vital power, NICATIONS CONFIDENTIAL: tus or kend name and post-oflice address—plainly written—enclose stamp, and we wil send vou, In pluta wrapher, o, FR!VATE CIRCULAR TO MEMN UFON PRIYATH, STECIAL AND NERYOJS DIEBASES, SEMINAL WEAKNESS, BFEZMATORRNGEA INPOTEN: ¥, BYPHiLIS, GONORKHG:A, G tF, AND ALL DISEARES OF TIN v Onaaxs, of send history of your ca an opinion Persons unable to yls, homes, by corresponde; ments kent Ly mail or ¢ ED FROM OBSERVATION, ts or sender, One personsl iuterview pre- d if conve Fifty rooms for the accom. ation of . Board and attendauce asonable prices. Address all Lecters (o Omaha Medical and Surgical Institute. Car. 13th St and Canitol Ave.. OMAHA, NiiB. ted at fhelr 8 and Instru- ESTABLISHED 1870, Lincoln $team Dye Works W. D. ROBERTSON, Prop'r. Oflice No. 1105 0 St., Works 8. B. Cor. F. & 6th. Neb. Gents' Clotbiog Cleaned und Ko A gua The Company isloer and applications from | A local Advisory g may b formed, by the death of m-mbers and as to T United States. e tions in tnis countr, ficid of the healty West with its active, gentlemanly ageats."—Daily Erpress, March nd expe It is hereby cerf of this state, utho your firs M. BURKE & SONS, LIVE STOCK C! Neb, ; Ol Wil pay customon Rockford, Ask for onr goods and see that the bear our trade mark. Western Mutual Benevolent Association BEATRICE, NEBRASKA, THE LEADING ASSOCIATION CASH CAPITAL, PAID UP IN FULL, GROSS ASSETS, DECEMBER 31st, 1885 A certiticate of memborship in this Associs Men and women, between the ages of 17 and 65 years, who are in good health, become members here is no changing from ono class to another, and assessments do not inercase with advancing age. The Company h ditional security to t rd in the West; its business is confined to the healthy West, ns residing in malarial districts ace not few assessments, and a consequont exemption from any oncrous liabit v, eomposed of not loss th his certiticate nee company in this or any hirate experi lation or speculation. The failure 083 is eonfined to the endowment for old age, and the payment of the 1 orphans after death The policy is more liboral, and the plan more socure, than any company in the United Statos, 3 Co-operative Insaranee Companies e plan was thought of, and the same companies exist to- nearly one million members, When mana o ntee every pPromis, 000 provided for as a Re any other company make: The Strength of This Association Consists of ENDOWMENT PLAN, NON-FORFEITING POLICY, PAID-UP POLICY, A DEPOSITORY TO PROTECT THE RESERVE FUND, CAPITAL STOCK. The cost of life protection in tmis company is less than any company in the The company isgood and payments prompt. is now entering its third year, and has a large membership, sonstantly iner maturity GUARANTEE FUND, RESERVE FUND, GRADED RATES, SELECTED RISKS, TONTINE SYSTEM, LIFE PLAN, sing. OFFICE AUDITOR OF l’\l'lHA[(' ACCOU itness my hand and the above wiitten. H. A. BABCOCK, Auditor Public Accounts. Bank, the company, on to'Hon. J. H. Mill All communications should be addressed to OLIVER C SABIIN, Secretary and General Manager, BEATRICE, NEERASEKA. OTIs HAYNES, Agent at Omaha. WEST. $100,000.00¢ 150,826.80 OF THE ion furnishes bonefit at the lows anteo fund of $100.030 paid up in cash, which is an ad- at farnishod by any company in the United St 1t has a Resorve fand which provides for a non-forfeiting policy and a paid-up cepted, which n five leading citizens of ho may act as advisory counsel in the setilement of cla plicants to membership. any time upon nent of all delinquent dues and wlmission of 0 may reanst dence of good health, by the pay other eduntry has evor faled by reason of n each instanee has b used by peen- e safo guards introduced render both impossible in this sted in England 200 years bofore the stock judiciously,” they cannot break, we maked with §100,000 this being in addition to the $100,- rve Fund whichis a more liberal proyision and offer than of endowment the member reeeives his interest in tho Reserve Fund in addition to the amount due on the poliey. ies become non-forfeiting after the thivd year to the extent of the mem- ber's interest in the Reserve Fund AGENTS WANTED in states west of the Mississi " n most favor; The Western Matual a rs' and Mechanies ot protection. ‘e regard the Western Mutual as one of the ve ce, at no very di f town and cit ppi river and north of Kans ttes by writing to the company. consolidated the membnrshin'of the * and “Lincoln Mutual,” o not supplicd in all of the Good reliable canvassers . Nebraska Mutug 1d with its own members in- insurance associ nt day, it covering the entire LiNcoLN, Feb:y fied that the Western Mutual Benevolent Association , in the State of Nebraska, has complic ized to transaet the business of i with the insarance law insurance m- this st scal of said of said ofiice, the day and I Omaha, Nebraska. rd, Omahi, Neb, SIXCORD SOFT FINISH —— Full Assortment for sale to the Trade by -— VINYARD & SCHNEIDER OM.AEIA., - TEIE CEEEAFPEST PLACE IN OMATIA TOBUY FURNITURE, BABY GARRIAGES,Etc Is.aT EWEY & STONES’ | @neof the Best anl Luryest Stoc’es én the U.S. to Select from. No Stairs to Climb. Elegant Passenger Elevat IWEER.ASIZA. DOsIEY DECAY. ‘aulck cures. Trial paske Sace. “Add: LOUISIANA, MO, OMMISSION MERCHANTS, RO, BURKE, Manager, UNION STOCK YARDS, OMAHA, NEB. rehants’ and | unbns State Bank, Column! ational Bank, Oial; draft with bill of L Best Goods in the Market| rromRSMms FORSALE ON APRIL 1st, We will apen our Horse and Mule Market Cor, Howard and 14ih Sts,) Omaha, Heb, With several car loads of good stock, DRAFT and DRIVING arncy National ners' Ban 4 ald's Bank, No: . Neb, ling attached for two-thirds value of stock. full us-orlment of & PALMER. DR. IMPEY, 18Cce FARITANM ST, Practice limited to Diseases of th EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT, Glasses fitted for all forms of defective Vision, Artificial Eyes Inserted,