Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 27, 1886, Page 4

4 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, APRIL 27! 1886. THE DAILY BEE. OMATA OFFICE, NO. 014 AND 916 Farwam 67 Nrw Y ORK OrFrce, ROoM 66, TRIBUNE BUILDING WASHINGTON OFF10R, No. 513 Founteextn St. | Published every morning, excopt Sunday. The onl; &Humlll morning paper published in the TERME MY MATLY One Year. #10.00 Three Months ©0 Kix Monthi 5.000ne Month. ... 00 Tin WEEKLY Brr, Published Ryory Wednesaay, TEAMS, POSTPAID: One Year, with premium. . One Year, without premiuin Six Monithis, without premiun Ono Month, on trial, ... ) 5% CORRERPONDENCE: All communications relating to news and edi- torinl matters should be wddressed to the Eor TOROF “HE BE. BUELN sinees letters and remittancos should ho 2 THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, @ and postoffice ordors order of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING CONPAMI, PROPRIETORS E. ROSEWATER, Eprron THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Ciroulation. State of Nebraska, | County of Dotglas. { % 8 N. . Feil, cashier of the Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the ne- wial *circulation of the Daily Bee for the week ending April j! Average. Sworn to and subscribed before 24th day of April, A. D, 18 s N. P. Feil, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that b ashier ‘of the Bee Pub- lishing company daily ci month o 18%, 11,557 cop Sworn to and subscribed before me this 17th day of April, A. D, 186, SinoxN J. FISHER, Notary Public. MENT CHASE has increased the population of Omaha another 5,000. He has put the population of the city at 80,000. Mr. Chase should be engaged at once as superintendent of the census for 1890, Ir is about time for the exposition managers to map out their programme and begin work. Omaha cannot afford to depend upon spontaneous efforts of exhibitors. To insure success for next fall's exposition there must be systematic co-operation all along tha line. —— “IRRIGATION” i8 no new thiug in politics, and it has been con- fined to no party. It has how- ever, beon adopted as the fundamen- ple of a new political party in ‘alifornia who believe that irrigation is iy ore needed in the dry range than it is emong the dry throals of thirsty ward wibummers. Tae St. Louis Globe-Demoerat says that General Miles reports that the trouble y along the Mexican boundary is caused ~hy the inadequacy of the protection dmorded by our troops, who are too few number to cover the extent of terri- | tory requiring attention. Here is food for reflection for the newspapers that have so freely criticized General Crook § at long range. Geronimo, according i to yesterday's dispatches, is now en- gaged in lifting Mexican sealps and spreading terror along his trail. Should he return across the line we shall sce whether General Miles will do any better in the effort to catch this slippery cus- tomer than General Crook. The Easter issue of the Chicago Cur- rent was 8 double number filled with special articles from some of the best known writers in this country. The ta- ble of contents includes contributions from Hon. John A, Bingbers 3Yill Carie- ton, Bevii Swing, Eugene Field, Hon. L. D. Thoman, Don Piatt, Joel Benton, | George Alfred Townsend, James Whit- mb Riley, Protessor Elias Calbert, Bill [ye, E. Hough, Professor John Clark ‘ dpath, Alice King Hamilton, John [eGovern, Elwyn A. Barron, G. C. Mat- </ thews, Franc B. Wilkie, Edward J. Mec- ** ¢ Phelim, and a host of others. The Cur- € yemt certainly vresents an inviting lit- f grary foust to 1ts readers. It is a publi { ontlon deserving of most liberal support | from western people, as it is a western ¥ icul conducted with as much abil- »;‘ #8 any similar magazine in America. T C— e statement is frequently made that Prosont congress is a do-nothingbody that no preyious congress has ever 80 slow 1n the passage of bills. The elphia Record answers this com- it by saying that ‘‘the merits of a in these times are tested best by ad measures which it stifles rather by the good legislation which it ae- lishes, In this point of view the -ninth congress is doing a great to commend it to the favorable judg- ment of the country.” It is one thing to introduce a bill and another thing to pass i8I congress were to pass the thous- ands of bills that are introduced it woula overwhelm the country with legislation taxation. The difficulty is to select o the vast number of bilis introduced those that are really meritorious and w;u to the general welfare of the ki ! e— | Tme city council will be asked to re- er its action in rejecting the ordin- which proposes to repeal the fran- *thise of the Omaha gas company. The grounds on which this 1s urged is the new gas company will be able to us better gas for less money than old company. Now what 1s hinder the new company from doing even if the old company continues businesst Does it stand toreason that 'flnu would patronize the old com- if the new one would furnish per and better gas? Let the new gompany first show that it means . Give it the right to establish operate works and grant it the of way throngh our streets, upon conditions that will compel it to the pavements and make good mages by reason of digging up the . This is all that the council should that the gas consumers can rea- ask,and all that the new company b decency demand. There is noth- zain for the city by repealing the , although it might prove a very olub for Nathan Shelton. To up o tree it looks very much as if darkey somewhere in | different states. Labor Agitations and Their Resn ts. | ons raseality of the land swindlers. Ina The steady advance in the material [ very flippant manner it criticises the ae- prosperity of workingmen has been large- 1y due during the past fifty years to the organization of labor to secure a fair share in the profits of lnbor. The gen- eral tendenoy of wages has been upward, and in many important branches of in- dustry the rise has been significant. tistios show that rates of wages va the same occupation, and in the state, and often very considerably in the It cannot be expected that the improvement in the condition of workingmen will be uniform in all de- partments of industry and in all portions of the country. But, when all drawbacks are considered, and all allowances made, it isevident tothe patient investigator that the industrial march is onward and upward. For this many causes may be assigned, and not the least is the pro- that has been made in the organi- ion of labor, Workingmen have attached more im- portance to shorter hounrs of labor than to rates of wages in their struggle with employers. Great progress has been made in this respect gince the time when the weary working hours ran “from sun to sun’’ the year round. Forty years ago a work-day of twelve hours was the rule in most mechanical crafts. In many manufacturing loealitics the work- is more than ten hours long, but in few is it longer than twelve hours. Since the organization of labor the eight hour movement has made steady progress. It s not nceessary to dwell on the benefi- cient effects of this reform upon the physical and moral heulth of the wage- winners. With diminished hours of labor they have more opportunities for self- culture and forsocial onjoyment in the bosoms of their families. While rates of wages have advanced and hours of labor have been shortencd, the next point of interest is whether with these assured gains the purchasing power of the earnings of workingmen has increased. Statisties of trade show that since 1870 the wholesale prices of many leading articles of necessity have declined. But workingmen in many localities have not been able to take ad- vantage of the decline. Methods of re- tail trade to which working people are subjected often nullify the advantages which should flow from a decline in wholesale prices. The company-store abuse practiced in the mining and in some manufucturing regions robs the wages of labor of a large share of their purchasing power. In some in- dustrial centers rents have advanced at a rate that has overtaken the nominal gain in wages. The protective system again cripples the purchasing power of wages by mercilessly taxing many of the necessaries and comforts of workingmen and their families. But on the whole the prices of commodities have not kept pace with the steady advance in the purchasing power of the earnings of labor. The prices of some necessaries of living have fallen with improvements in labor-saving machinery, which have vastly increased the facilities of chean production. The facts in the condition of the wage earners ought to go far to dispel the alarms of the prophets of evil who assert that the rich are growing richer and the poor poorer. In spite of the cronkers of evil it cannot be disputed that three essential points have been gained in the Iabor struggle: The hours of labor have been lessened, and this tendency is still in progress; the average rates of wages in most industries have advanced, and are still advancing; and at the same time the comforts of workingmen and their familics are en- hanced by the increase in the purchasing power of their earnings. This is not all due to the organization of labor, but its influence 1n ameliorating the condition of workingmen is incontestable, The great army of organized labsy if true to itself, Will 2G% permit the territory that nas been gained to be lost. It will not only hold its ground, but advance to new conquests. Exposure of Land Grabbers, The New York Heraldis exposing the 1and frauds throughout the entire west, Its special correspondent is now deyoting s attention to Nebraska. So far he has written some very scathing letters from Chudron, Valentine and North Platte, showing up the mothods of land-grabbers, sharks and perjurers, and in many cases giving their names and a full account of their peculiar transactions under the loosely constructed and poorly enforced pre-emption and timber-culture laws. It all goes to confirm the previous charges of the BEE, that outrageousswindles have been perpetrated in Nebraska as well as in other sections of the west. Further- more, it goes to sustain Commissioner Sparks in the position which he has taken in regard to the public domain. The howl gagainst him has not come from honest settlers, but from the monopolists. the land grabbers, sharks and perjurers, In commenting upon its correspondent’s lotters the Herald says: Well, here are millions of acres of virgin 1and in Nebraska, When our eastern popu- lation becomes t0o0 numerous these lands should be open tothem, The government virtually gives them away in the interest of peace and the prosperity of the people, They are the richest possessions of the re- public and must be guarded as a father would guard the honor of his daughter. If a man wants them to live on he can have them; if a man steals them to speculate with he should be handled roughly and mercilessly. Our correspondent’s letters are an alarm- ing revelation of unchecked villiany, He does not deal in faney, but in facts which disgrace the government by the imphed charge of incompetency. A man enters his claim, He puts his shovel into the side of a hill until he has a “dugout” eight by ten, ‘This he calls a domicile, He swears to resi- dence. Ho is a shameless perjurer. He swears to an intention to live there. He is doubly a perjurer, Then he sells the deed toa greedy purchaser, a receiver of stolen goods, and moves off to play the same gawe elsowhere. Not once. not twice, nor yet a thousand times merely has that been done, Our national dowain is being swallowed by these rascals. ‘The president is said to have taken this matter vigorously in hand. It is worthy of his attention. Hehas shown that heis ac- quainted with the resources of the English language when he has a decided opinion to express, but we can assure him that the stronger the language with which he way call the attention of congress to this un- witigated swindlo the better pleased the people will be. Notwithstanding the charges and ex- posures made from time to time by the Bee, and now followed up by the New York Herald, there isin Nebraska one paper, the Lincoln Jowrnal, which has the brazen audacity to defend the villain- tion of tne agents of the general land office for reporting “in eome cases” in the wostern land districts entries for cun- cellation without any hearing. W ven- ture to say that 99 per cent of sueh cases have been reported upon good ground The Journal says in its issue of April 23d: Now it can readily be perceived how easy it would be for a special ofticer and a ring of friends to acquire much wealth by simply re- porting all lands bought by non-residents for cancellation. 1t would strike the average man that the best way to prevent fraud upon the government is to put the tellows who perpetrate it into the penitentiary. A fraud that will justify the cancellation of a claim will also justify terms in prison. And it has been remarked that special agents have ap- parently overlooked this patent fact. It is very singular that the circumstances which are suflicient for the reporting of fifty-four claims in the McCook district for cancella- tion are not held strong enough to base even one single indictment upon. There is a good deal of “fat” for somebody in the pres- ent system of land inspection and the hand- ling of claims alleged to have been fraudu- lently passed to title. The above charge against special agents so far as they have acted in Ne- braska is not only unjust but untrue. It isa fact that tho entries, referred to by the Journal, were, with fow exceptions, made in entirely fictitions names. . enteen men have been indicted for c in the affair during its v Two have been tried in Lincoln, the very nose of the Journal, and several others have been tried in Omaha. The Omaha papers and the Lincoln Jour- nal have all publised accounts of the trials, and of the flight of Arnold and Moore, the head conspirators, The Journal also ought to remember the proecedings against Le d, the Chicago land grabber and his associa in Brown county, accounts of which were published in the daily newspapers, The Journal cannot plead ignorance. It strikes us that it is cithe actuated by malice, or its natural pro- pensity to defend jobbery of all kinds. 1t is upon that kind of provender that it has fed and fattened for A Boom 1n Sight. The new Union Pacific management is alive to the importance of giving to Omaha the local improvements that are demanded by the growth of the city. The enlargement of the headquarters build- ing, the construction of a new bridge, the rection of a union depot and a new froight house, and other improvements— planned for this year—are nece: ted by increased local business, but at the same time the people appreciate the fact that the management has concluded to respond to business demands, not only in regard to Omaha, but to the state. An effort is to be made to build at least six hundred miles of branch lines in Nebraska this year. This however, depends upon the contin- gency of raising the necessary funds, but in all probability this ean and will be done, through a plan that is now rapidly maturing. These branch lines will all be ssist in build- ing up her trade and increasing her com- mereial importance. Taking all these things into consideration it begins tolook as if Omaha were really going to have a boom. We have grown to be a city of abont 75,000 people without a boom. Now that we have a solid foundation, we say ““let her boom.” The Raid on Sparks. The railroad land grabbers have joined with the thousands of fraudulent entry swindlers to drag Commissioner Sparks down from the seat where he is doing his best to honestly and faithfully ad- minister the business of the land office, Masking thomsal=z2 5ehind the assumed ‘ndignation of “the honest settler” they arefilling the columns of the press with calummy and abuse of the commissioner. They have exaggerated the effect of some of the honest mistakes which Mr, Sparks has made and call loudly for his removal because he has not proved infallible in all his dis- cussions on technical points of the law. x-Gov. Crawford of Kansas, now comes to the front in defense of Mr. Sparks and in a forcible letter addressed to Mr. Cleveland calls upon the president to support the land commissioner in his endeavors to bring the land grant roads to justice. He warns the president that every land perjurer, claim jumper and fraudulent entry man “‘will join the land grant crowd in their howl for the official scalp of Commissioner Sparks’ and assures him that the campaign against the administration of the land oflice is engmeered and directed from railrg headquarters. Mr. Sparks is an hon and a fearless officer. His admin tion of the land has been the first in years which has gone to the bottom of the frauds with which that department of the government is honeycombed. In carrying out his policy the commissioner may have made some mistakes of judg- ment, but he has saved hun- dreds of thousands of dollars to the government and inau- gurated & reform of his department which will permanently change its meth- ods. The disposition to make too much of Mr. Lamar’s reversals of the commi: sioner’s orders is not a healthy one. The orders reversed were intended to protect the public domain, however much they operated to the inconvenience of settlers. ‘They have done much good in the detec tion of frauduient entries. Commissioner Sparks may not always haye acted in striet conformity with technical provis- ions of the law, but he has honestly and courageously endeavored to save the pub- lic domain, and for this he deserves the pullic thanks. THE senate one day last week passed 525 bills in three hours, or nearly three bills a minute. Of these 426 were pen- sion bills, involving about §1,000,000. The rest of the bills also “tapped the treasury.”’ They all went through like greased lightning, as the dispatehes say, and nobody, except the clerks, really knew what was passed. Perhaps when some of the senators come to look over the record they will find that they have recklossly voted away the public money in many cascs. In the expenditure of the people’s money the public servants cannot be too careful or go too slow. Mgx. SHELTON has returned from Chi- cago, and we understand that he pro poses to resurrect the defeated ordinance that takes away the franchise of the old gus company, with a view of giving Mr, Shelton’s compauy an opportunity to die- tate terms of sutrender, consolidation or 8 “whackup.” This gcheme promises well, provided it ohn |be carried out. There are not milliohs i it, but a cool hundred thousand or two might be made without risking a _dollar, Mr. Shelton has a very long head. Ex-Goversor Furxas, of Nebraska, has accepted the vice-presidency for the Far West for the Amoriean Exhibition to be held in London nextiyear. No botter selection could have been made as Gov- ernor Furnas' experience as Nebraska's commissioner at the New Orleans World’s exposition admirably qualifies him for the place, and besides he is an enthusiast in this Kind of work. Itissafe to say that under his direction the pro- ducts of the west will be well repro- sented. TueFarnam street cross-walk contract- ors have laid crossings at Ninth street and have taken o rest. What they are waiting for we cannot imagine. Pe the Union Pacific has gone on a st and raised the price of Colorado sand- stone on Woodworth. T managers of the Exposition build- ing have no further comploint to make abont the attendance at their entertain- ments. The only thing that Omaha in- sists upon hercafter is that no timid ung prima donnas should be engaged. Tne reduction of the Chicago T'ribune to three cents a copy has compelled the Inter-Ocean to follow su The 7vmes will probably fall into line next. Such great newspapers at such a price are the cheapest things in the world. Wiy can't the Odd F ange the calendar and put their anniversary into May instead of April? They would then have less rain and more sunshine. Sexator VAN Wyck will not reach Nebr: ore the end of this week. He may be expected in Omalia about the 3d or 4th ot May. 3EN. Crook has not yet reached the headquarters of the department of the Platte. Has Geronimo taken him in? ToE city of Omaha wants cheap gas. Mr. Nathan Shelton has a big supply on hand at very low figur OMARA paving contractors have fright- ened Chicago with & grand bluft. SENATORS AND CONGRESSMEN Congressmen Lawler and Wade of Chieago are known as the “toughest and the tender- est.’” e Senator Morrill, of Vermont, is 70 years old. Hehas spent thirty-two years in con- gre Harper's Weckly conpidefs Senator Vance's speechon administrative reform the funniest effort of the session. Senator Warner Miller 15 working for the support ot the Union league, which did so much towards electing Senator Evarts, Senator Hoar wants to educate all Indian children to some useful pursult and grant the Indians full citigenship and land in severalty. L v. Alger, of Michigzan, Informs a report- or that Senator Jones'yetions in Detroit have convinced many people that his mind 1s unbalanced. Although Senator Ingalls is charged with scepticism in religious mutters, it is observed that he had all his chilaren baptised in the Episcoval church. Senators Edmunds and Moar publish a card tothe effect that they have never de- nounced the G. A. R. or objected to the statute giving preference to soldiers. Senator Hale has been to Maine, looking after his fences, The Grand A= en gro opposing bz Gandidate for goyernor, and i Vreaten to dofeat Hale's re-eloction to the senate, According to the Galveston News John H. Reagan Is about the biggest man in the pop- ular branch of congress at present. In fact, Reagan would be a big man In the so-called uppet house. Representative Boutelle, of Maine, is the republican Adonis in congress, but his charms are laid in the shade by Stahenecker, of New York, not to mention Mahoney— both democrats. Congressman Gibson’s grentost delight is to saunter down Pennsylvania avenueand gaze longingly and lovingly upon his own photograph, which adorns the window of an artist’s studio, ‘The Nashville Union says of Senator Whitthorne that he is a democrat of the old school, but he is a man of progressive ideas and is well known to the people of the state as a usetul and eflicient member of the lower house of congress. where he served for sev- eral terms. e The Democratic Kickers, Boston Advertiser, Itis only when 1ts president does some- thing right and honorable that the democratic party protests. e Our New City Council, Humphrey Independent. Omaha’s new city council seems to be com- posed of peaceable and even tempered citi- zens, much to the distress of the active and alert reporters of her enterprising daily papers, b SR A Hint to Gould. Ghicago Herald, Jay Gould is entitled to credit for his gen- erosity in sending $500 fo_the man who was slightly wounded in Arkausas while attempt- ing to defend his property. If he would pay all his men in the same liberal way he would have fewer strikes. —————— Propagated by the'Machine, Humphrey Independent, Chureh Howe I3 being boomed for congress- man in the First dl»v;m.;dmwr turn_him out to pasture with Vaifntile of the Third, Being ooth of the same political sex there is no danger of either becowming pregnant with an official boom that the producing classes will foster and protect with any degree of pride and enthusiasm. *It'S a bastard senti- ment propagated by the machine, — fobby. per Press. Jay Gould' St Paul Pion ay that arbitration Jay Gould sald yestel bad “always beena hobby with him” A | many Lobbies have been charged on ould, but he has not generally been credited with this one. 1tis the most com- mendable hobby which can get possession of & man, und in the case of Mr. Gould, its im- minence gives great promise for future peace. s He Hasthe Approbation of the People. Blair Republican, Senator Van Wyck, by bis fearless course, by his accomplishments for the laboving, pro- ducing class, has gained their strong appro- bation, and if the masses couid vote unpreju- diced would be re-clected as sure as the sun rises on election day, but regardless of this popular sentiment & combination of sehiem- ing politicians bave inaugurated an early, most unjustitiable - cawpaign of slander | attention agai him-—<hoping to turn the tide of pop- ular opinion against hhin by polsoning the minds of the voters! —— Garland Heard From. Eugene Field in Ohicago News, I'm wearied to death with this scandal elec- rie, These mossipy lies that my enemies prate: Ipine for the scenery, subdued and symme- ric, That richly abounds in my Arkansaw state. The bold mountaineer stalks the coon and the possom. The crappies disport in the sulphuret rill, Tho fennel and sage brush and dogberry m dest seclusion of Hominy hilll May torments environ this garrulous Roge Wi vilely conspires to sednce and betray- And a plague on those mouthing congres- sional codgers Who are trying to smirch my fair record today! As 1 sitme alone in the gloaming and pondet On the scouring effect of adversity’s pill, curse the ambition that led me to wander Away from the quiet of Hominy hill. “Lhe ominous voice of & public, that's calling Me daily and hourly to rise and explain, Is somewhat more vivid and imuch more ap- palling ‘Than the sapsucker’s note or the jaybird's refrain. S0, oh, for the haunt of the fever and ague, Wiiere the moonshine broods covertly over the still Where neither reform nor your conscience will plague you— The sweet sequestr: WAN ion of Hominy hill! 3D TO DIE. John Rasner, Having Lost Wife and Property, Attemps Suicide. John Kasner is the name of a man lying now at St. Joseph's hospital in a rather precarious condition, He tried to commit suicide Sund: by cutting his throat, and came very n ul. Still, itis thought tl gular vein is not severed. s they have devcloped sinco the affair occur who is a laborer, li cently at the corner of Scventeenth and Doreas streets, has been living an unhappy life of it with his wife. About six wee 20 his wife succeeded in getting a divorce from him, together with a deeree which gave her the geeater part of the property and the custody of the children. Since that time, Kasner has been ing very down-hearted. He left his home and wen to visit_relatives in Pennsylvania, roturning a fow days ago. OSund: appeared at his home and his divorced wife noticed that he acted and talked strangely, as though he were intending to commiit suicide. . She elephoned for police to come to the house, anticipating trouble. Oflicers Matza and Hoye at once posted to the place, but_ before they 1 on the scene Kasner had cut his throat. The officers found him lying on the floor in a pool of blood. Wirth and Durham were summoned an dressed the wound, Kasner was de- termined to dic, and uttered the most violent protestations against any attempt being made to save his life. His strug- gles were terrific. atly, by the com- Dined efforts of four men he was bound hand and foot to the bed. In this way he was kept sufliciently still to allow the doctors to operate upon him. His wifo heartlessly refused to aid in any way and, furthermore, declined to allow the sick man to remain in the house until he could safely be removed to better quar- ters. The patrol wagon was consequent- ly called and the unfortunate man re- moved to St. Joseph's hospital. As above stated, it is riuiu-, possible he may re- cover. The divorce from his wife and the loss of his property are undoubtedly the direct causes for the man’sattempted self-destruction. THE U. P. HEADQUARTERS, A Fifth Story and Mansard Roof to be Added to the Building. The addition to the Union Pacific head- quarters building makes that structure 132 feet long, with a width of 100 feet. It was at first determined to make the uiding only (o0 iorie Lt S gur. ‘> wne visit of Presidont Adams and Mr. Ames it was decided to go on and add another story to the entire structure, to- gether with a mansard roof. The plans have been drawn and approved and the work will proceed at one This will make the headqua building five stories and high basement. The plans provide for a lunch room on the fifth story for the accommodation of the employes. This will proye a great convenience and a gr ving to the employes, who no doubt will appreciate this and other contemplated improve- ments. There will also be rooms pre vided for the lady employes. Lhe build- ing, when finished, which will be within the next sixty days, will not only be one of the largest and handsomest structures in tho city, but_the most complete and convenient railway headquarters in the country. ‘I'ne Union Pacific management has in contemplation several other important local improvements,which will be carried out in the near future—in all probability this season. Among these improyements 18 a new depot and a new freight house, both of which are greatly needed. NOTES AND PERSONALS. Quite a washout is reported at Nicho 1s just east of North Platte, on the Union 'l’ucxh‘c. Several freight trains have been delayed on account of this, though the passengers trains have not been thrown far off of schedule time. The new rates to all points in Califor- nia, which wentinto effect yesterday, will doubtless cause a speedy falling "off in the number of excursionists bound for the Pacific slope. Ever since the rates commenced to go upward the traflic has gradually become lighter. By the end of next week itis thought, it will have reached its normal volum The report that the schedule time of trains running on the Union Pacific be- tween Denver and Omaha is to be shortened six hours is stamped at headquarters as nidiculously false. The officia ¢ that no such thing is even thought of. John H. McAlvin, C. E., of the Union Pacitic land department, left last even- ing for a trip to Boston A Thirteenth Street Burglary, Burglars visited the hardware store of C. W. Sleeper on Thirteen street below Howard, and adjoining the Treitschke building on Sunday night. They eflectod an entrance by breaking one of the rear windows and unloosening the sash fastening. The thieves confined their to the show case which con- tamed the cuttlery goods. About thirty boxes of pocket knives were taken, the empty boxes being left in & pfle in the alloy. The stolen property was valued at about $100. Mr. Sleeper is just open- ing his store, having removed from Corydon, Iowa. Oreditable Home Work. 1 hereby acknowledge the recelpt of six hundred and forty-tive dollars ($645.00) from the Home Fire Insurance company, ot Omaha, Neb., being 1w full payment of my loss by fire to my corn crib, grain and farming utensils which burned on the night of April 22, 1880. The adjuster of the company on me within a day and a half'afterthe fire and promptly sefiled and paid my loss to my entire sutisfaction and in: full of my claim Tueopork WARRICK. BrAmg, Neb., April 24, 1856, An Alleged Breach of Contract. H. C. Motoalf has commenced an action in the district court to seoure damages against J. H. Erch for an alleged breach of contract. The plaintif°'s petition al- loges that in Ootober, 1845, Mr. Erch placed a business lot, situated on Six- teenth street, and oocupied as a grocery store, in the hands of Clarke & Co, f(‘n , for sale, the price desired being x 0,175. In Noyember of the same year Mr. Metealf }ulrohl.wd the lot at a stipu- Jated price of $11,000, paying £50 ot the time to close the contract. The plaintiff alleges that he has been ready at all times to pay for the said property, but that the owner, the dofendant, has persistently refused to accept the payment or farnish adeed in accordance with the original contract. Mr. Metealt alloges that the property named is now worth $1,000 more than it was at the time the contract was made, and he considers himself maged in that amount. He therefore s judgment for $1,000, with intere: from November 1, 1885, and costs of suit. Pioked a Pln, A. 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