Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 3, 1886, Page 4

4 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, MAY ¢ THE DAILY BEE. OMANA OFFICR, NO. 014 AND 018 FARNAM ST NeW YORK OFFICE, ROOM 65, TRIBUNR BUILDING WAsHINGTON OFrice, No. 518 FourTeeNTa ST, Publiehod every morning, except Sunday. The iy Nondey. morning paper published tn the te. TERMS 1Y WATTY o Yoar......... $10.00 Three Months. ix Mont . 5.00,0m6 Month, ...\ Trx Weekry Der, Pub 20 b One Year, with premium. One Yenar, without premium. . ix Months, without premium One Month, on trinl. CORRESPONDENCE: All communications relating to news and edi- torinl mattors should be addressed to the Eot- FOR OF "HE BE BUSINESS LETTERS: All bui siness Jottors and remittances should bo nadressed to Tik BEE PURLISHING COMPANY, AMA. Drafte, checkd and postoffice ordors 10 be made payable to the order of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS F. ROSEWATER. Epiron. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. State of Nebraska, |, o County of Douglas, | ™ * N. 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Fitch will still continue as manager of the circulation of the BEk, west of the Missouri. Ax Towa judge has decided that a man is in duty bound to tell his wife where he spends his evenings when he 18 away from home. An indignant protest will rise in full mounted chorus from the army of Benedicts over this judicial iuterfer- ence with the rights of manhood. ARBOR DAY was very generally ob- served throughout the cast, and may now be said to have become established as a permanent institution. Lieutenant Gov- ernor Ames, of Massachusetts, gave away trees to all who would plant them in North Easton, Massachusetts. The peo- ple of Berks county, Pennsylvama, set out 50,000 saplings. These two examples from a large number of instances show that the lesson which Nebraska was tho first to teach is being well learned throughout the union, A St. Louis professor has made the discovery that the days are growing long- ‘er, ‘‘owing to a 'slow up’ on the part of the earth in 1ts daily rotation, caused by the tides, which act as friction brakes up- on the earth’s axis.’” Newspaper men ‘whose day’s work now covers a large part of the twenty-four hours will be pleased to learn that the rate of increase in the length of the day is only two sec- onds in a hundred years. MaNy of the strongest republican journals of the ‘country commend in high terms Senator Van Wyck’s vigorous and caustic speech on the Cullom bill, which the BEe will present in a subse- quent issue in full to its readers. The railroad parrots who have clipped a fow sentences from the meagre telegraph re- ports of the speech in order to empty their vials of abuse at the senator will be afforded an opportunity to revise their judgment. AcCORDING to the Peoria Transcript Van Wyck is & national nuisance. The Peoria parrot is only echoing what it hears through its ear trumpet, from the brass-collared throats of the two-thou- sand-dollar-a-year railroad comumission ergan at Lincoln and the railroad organ ot Omaha, It is but natural that the parrot cry should be reproduced again in fiorgam that started it. Van Wyck made a nuisance of himself to that elass of patriots ever since he has been in public life. — How does Mr. Cleveland know what #s and what is not necessary for Omaha jn the way of added commercial facili- #ies? If the bill providing for the imme- diate transportation of dutiable goods was not necessary, why had not provi- sions been made through the treasury de- partment for the appointment of the officers required to carry out the custom Jaws applicable to such cases? ‘Ihe domocracy ot Nebraska have certainly mado no ob jection to the appointment of sppraisers. The fact is, and Mr. Cleve- Jand must have known it, that tho bill ~ which he vetoed was passed to compel pecognition of Omaha's need by the fweasury department. The fact of its in- uction, the earnest work on its be- by our business men and its passage My congress s suflicient evidence that it . WA necessary. fPuE old soldier element throughout the eountry, irrespective of party, is thor- oughly indignant over the speeches of L Jeff Davis, which the press has repro- duced in all their distastoful indoceney. ‘| To the minds of the loyal defenders of the union, the war meant something ~ more than a decision as to which side was the stronger party. It was not a mere test of strength; it was a life and death struggle to put down treason and $0 obtain a final judgment over the vital Questions of national unity and individu- " Al freedom. The south, through its rep- “Besentative men, epted the v . diot. Prosperity and peace have resulted 0 from the overthrow of secession and alavery. It is the beight of indeceney for arch sraitor, whose neck escaped the ows by the clemency of this govern- which he sought to overthrow, to again as a martyr and seek to re- bitterness and strife. The south is _ helped by such nerformances. ‘The ooratic party which is now in power 10 votgs of the south is not benetitted. Gov. Dawes and His Man Friday. During the excitement that followed the famous robbery of the state treasury and shooting of the wooden-legged bur- glar, who was decoyed into the trap set by Governor Dawes' datectives, this paper warned the governor to beware of his private secretary, John Milton Hoff- man, as his record showed him to have disposed of a horse that did not belong to him. We expressed great surprise that the governor should retain as his con- fidential agent a person who in common parlance would have been called a hors thief. This grave charge was de- nounced by the Lincoln organ of his excellency as a malicious and outrageous libel, manufactured cut of whele cloth, About ten months later a libel suit was begun in Laneaster ccunty by John Mil- ton Hoffman against the editor of this pa- per for the modest sum of £30,000. The only plausible reason why this suit was brought at such a late day and in Lan- caster county was to put the defendant to a8 much annoyance and expense as pos. sible. It may also have been a picce of bravado with the expeetation that the suit should be dropped in due time. Gov- ernor Dawes and his man Fri- day were very much surprised when papers were served to procesd with the taking of depositions to prove the chary The owner of the horse, T. F. testified in substanco that HoMman, while acting as his agent, was furnished a horse, with saddle and bridle, and started outof Lincoln with a good suit of clothes, and $35 in money. A few days later Barnes, to his sui prise, learned that Hoffman had tried to his horse. He dispatched a party after Hofin who overtook him down in souri, ad him arrested. At the instance , Hoffman was released, and some months later, when he urned to Lincoln, he gave Barnes his note for $120 to pay for the horse, but declined to dis- close what he had done with the animal, Mr. Barnes also swears that Hoffman, be- fore giving him his note, required him to sign a paper agreeing not to prosecute criminally. Hoffman’s own story i rowed the horse and failing to get 8 remittance from Barnes after some weeks' travel converted the mare into ecash in order to re- lieve himself from his destitute con- dition. The deposition of Owen Evans, which was taken at Chadron last Thu! day, proves Hoffman to be a liar as well as a rascal. Mr. Evans testifies that Hoffman offered to sell him the horse near Firth, within half a day’s ride of Lincoln, for $45. He declined the offer, and asked the authorities at Lincoln to see whether a horse had been stolen from some party in or near that city. Evans positively identifies Hoffman and con- firms fully the deposition of Barnes. Mr. Evans was deputy sheriff of Lan county for years, and is a man whose tegrity and veracity nobody dares to question. Ho is in no way interested in behalf of the defendant, but on the contrary has always acted politically with the friends of Hoffman and Dawes. Now let Mr, Hoffman invent another flimsy story about that borrowed horse. Our charge no longer remains a malicious libel, as his defenders and backers have sought to mainwin. The unhorsed assistant adjutant general has waked up the wrong passenger this time. that he bor- Preserve the Public Domain. The fight for the preservation of our public domain from the hands of corpor- ations and sharpers should receive the eurnest support of every honest citizen. During the past two years 47,000,000 acres have passed from the books of the land office. Only 200,000,000 acres now re- main. At the same rate of decrease less than ten years would see the last quarter section wiped from the surveys. ‘‘Land for the landless” must be the rallying cry of those who have for years pro- tested against the loose laws which have enabled syndicates and grabbers to roll up mighty fortunes at the expense of the home seckers of the future. Vast tracts are to-day reserved from settlement by spec- ulators who have secured them to await the inevitable rise in values which will come from the mmprovements of actual settlers around them. It is important that congress should act promptly in making much needed changes in the laws. The pre-emption and timber-culture laws have outlived their usetulness. For all purposes of actual settlement the home- stead law will be ample. The coun- try will benefit by the repeal of statutes which offer a premium upon fraud and chicanery, and which have been the bulwarks behind which ringsters and jobbers have made their successful assaults upon the nation’s landed possessions. The howls against reform in the land laws do not come from the honest settler. They originate from men and syndicates who are using the government's bounty to alienate land which should be distributed among farmers and actual settlers whoso honest toil and industry have built up the fortunes of the west. The speculators and land sharps have done more to hamper the de- velopment of Nebraska than they have to advance its progress. Northwestern Nebraska. After a trip filled with surprises and pleasurable incidents in the northwest- ern part of the state, the editor of the cturns to Omaha fully prepared to rm the scarcely creditable stories of llous development of this fa- Three years have made astounding changes. They have pushed the line of frontier two hun- dred miles further west. They have peo- pled amillion acres of land with a thrifty and industrious population. Farms, vil- lages and cites have sprung up in a region which a fow months ago was occupied only by cowboys and settled by ranchm The iron rails of a great system have been extended aeross sand hills and up fortile valleys until the whole section from the Elkhorn w the head of the White river is now brought within s day’s j ourney from the Missouri. The frontier has gona. Its place has been taken by well built and substantial settlement ; with schools, churches aud academies. Fifty miles from its farthest limits stands a city of 2,000 population, where nine months ago was an uninhabited prairie. No section of Nebraska has been so for- tunate in one particular. The government owned the land. There has been no land grant to bar settlement and to fence cut immigration A liberal advertising ou the part of a railroad which asked uo bonds for extending its materially in attracting the wonderful tide of immigration which for two years has flowed almost without ebb up the Elkhorn valley. Northwestern Nebras- ka has a great present but it has a still groater future. A rich and well watered soil, a farming population made up largely of well-to-do settlers from older states, a salubrious climate and an im- perial domain of territory furnish foun- dations upon which it is building the structure of wealth and prosperity. Our Crop Reports. The crop reports which the BEE pub- lishes in its present issue present a care- fully collected series of pictures of the progress of the work of Nebraska a lowa farmers at the end of the first month of spring. They have been gathered in every instance by our special correspondents in the various localities, and may be depended upon as a reliable basis for estimating the condition and prospeets of agriculture in this section for the coming season Forty countics m Nebraska report greatly increased acroage in corn and a decrease in the amotnt of small grains planted. In a number of counties flax has been planted in place of wheat as an experiment, which has proved successful m various parts of the state. mand for flax sced for oil and oil purposes has always been greater than the supply, and there are sound reasons under the stimulus of aha mill the crop will soon be- come one of the most remuncrative of Nebraska products ains have everywhere terfered somewhat with seeding and planting, but the amount of ground broken and planted is greater than at the corres- ponding period of lust year. The eastern part of the st naturaily leads the counties farther west in the forwardness of preparations for planting, but several of the fronti ounties report large as of small grain sown and the ground for corn dropping. One of the ures of the will be increased acreage of corn tin the section west of Kearney where the experiment of Iast season showed that lands which had for ye been given over to thecattle barons m: excellent f arms. Viaduct and Cable Road. The propositions of the managers of the cable road to secure a right of way over the Eleventh street viaduct are fair and equitable. If accepted they would neces- sitate a widening of the viaduct from twenty to thirty or forty feet. This would doubtless make & very convenient road- way across the t Should the co un- cil decide upon this change, the process of appraising damages and procuring the consent of the railroads would have to be gone over again, On the other hand, the prico to be paid for the enlarged roadway would be entirely at the option of the contractor. The city has entered into a contract with the Morse Bridge company for a viaduct of certain dimensions and under plans that form}part of the con- tract. Any change from these leaves the contractor tree to charge wl he pleases, un a new coutract with him is entered into. In this case the con- tractor has all the advantages of dictat- ing his own terms. Now it strikes' us that the council at this stage is in position to re its steps and undo the foolish and short sighted work of the preceding council. The location ot the viaduct on Eleventh street was a grave blunder. The Union ific did not want it there then, and does not want it there now, unless the city will consent to close Tenth strect. The closing of that street will cause five times as much damage to the property owners on Tenth streat as the obstruction ofa thirty or forty-foot viaduct. The decroase in the value of property and consequent decrease in taxes would justify the city in paying the appraised ‘damages for Tenth street. Would it not be a stroke of policy for the council to accept the $20,000 which the cable road is willing to pay for a right of v and use that money to pay the da ages to Tenth street property owners? There is no doubt that the railroads will ascheerfully pay their three-fifths for a thirty-foot Tenth- street viaduct as they would for the twenty-foot Eleventh street vinduct. The city would, of course, have to pay, in addition to the expense con- templatod for the Eleventh’ street viadu its one-fifth of the increased cost. That would be a mere triflo compared with the advantage gained in the increased value of Tenth-strect property, and the adv: tage gained by making the union depot more accessible. The only loss incurred would be the damages already paid to property owners on Eleventh streot. That is hardly worth considering, in view of the magnitude of the undertak- ing and the large interests involved. Another and porhaps a little more costly way out of the difliculty would be to leave the Eleventh street viaduct just as it is for the use of South Omaha resi- dents and build anbther viaduct for the cable and street railway with foot passen- ger roadways attatched on Tenth strect. Such a viaduet could be provided with double tracks for the cars and still not exceed twenty feet in width, Sooner or later a viaduct will have to be built across Tenth street unless the street is closed entirely, which we do not belieye would be advisable. Tue BEE presents to-day to its readers a series of carefully prepared and inter- esting articles upon the eight honr move- ment, presenting the arguments on both sides of a timely and momentous ques- tion, The crusade for a reduction in the hours of labor is now general throughout the country and there is every reason to believe that it will prove successful, Whether in all cases the hours demanded will be secured on a basis of two hours ter pay is not so sure, but sooner or this must be the inevitable It is within the power of ed labor to fix the hours they are willing to work. 1t has done so in times past. ‘There is no reason why it cannot doso in times to come. But unless the wcreased officiency of labor-saving ma- chinery more than keeps pace with the increased cost ot production which re- duced hours will bring, workingmen must not exaggerate the pecuniary ben- efits which shorter hours will afford them. Less time for work will give more time for leisure. Fewer honds of labor, if production is maintained, will give ém- ployment to the unemployed. But in- creased cost for labor weaus,if experience teackes what theory preaches, increassd prices on the arti !‘ul produced. 1If it oosts 20 per cent morb to construct a building under reduced hours, the rent must be raisod to makp returns on the investment equal to what they would be if the cost were 20 per dent less. Uf boots, shoes and elothing cost 20 per cent more to produce, consumers’ will certainly be called upon to pay the advance. Compe- tition among manufaclurers may re- duce the advance to some oxtent, but ad- vance there must be. “The thousands of orkingmen among the Be readers in the wost will read with' interest the arti- cles on this grave impending industrial change. FErpINAND WARD is said to be getting fat and healthy in Sing Sing. So are most of his victims outside of the pen- itentiary. Fred Grant has invested £20,000 in bull pups. Ulysses has dropped into a half a mitlion by the death of his father-in-law, and the bonanza memoirs have put Mrs. Grant quite beyond the reach of financial symy Tue “triumphal tour” of Jeff Davis through the south has openced the picnic season a little carlier than usual in that section of the count Mr. Davis furnishing zood campaign ammunition for the republican party and loyal peo- ple gencrally in the next presidential campaign. T sworn statement of the BEE's cir- culation for the past week, at the head of this column, is particularly interesting to advertisers, who are desirons of put- ting their money where it will do the most good, and where they will get their money's worth With a union depot on Sixteenth and Nicholas street and another on Tenth, Omaha will be well provided with depot facilities. It has always been feast or famine with this thriving burg, but the of famine seem to have taken their final departu: Tue visiting Nebiaska statesmen in Washington are said to be loaded for Bear. Mr. Pritchett, having cracked a bottle with Grover, ought to have first whack at the political plum pudding. is still “‘in hot pursuit” likely to remam so ostive Apache is like the Irishman’s flea; you put your finger on him and he isn’t there. LD has been giving some ad- vice to working men. That is about the only thing that he has ever given them. ronimo, and for some time. WE are still wating tor our esteemed contemporaries tos publish circulation statements, sworn or ot‘hfi‘r\\' Trr motto of the, flay scems to be “Strike till your: last: armed foe per- spires.”” — POLITICAL POINTS. Southern republicans largely favor Blaine asa presidential candidate. The colored voters (in Georgia are moving to elect some of their owh race to the next legislature. B3 4 There is an effort t6 make the Blair educa- tion blll an issue in the Alabama campaign for state ofticers. Gen. Chas. Hamlin, son of Hannibal Ham- lin. evinces an carnest intention to become governor of Maine, . Ex-Gov. Foster says every Ohio man with an ounce of brains and a thimbleful of blood in him is for Blaine. The Oregon Prohibition convention was as outspoken against Chinese immigration as against the liquor traflic. Wm. Walter Phelps’ belief that Blaine’s nomination is inevitable, has been-coufirmed by his recent visit to Maine. Republican statesmen who are making cholce of their summer trips are warned by the New York Graphic that Gail Hamilton is at Bar Harbor to stay, There is some talk in Vermont of downing the republican machine and nominating ex- Collector Wells, of Burlington, as republican candidate for governor. Ex-Judge Harding, of Luzerne county,Pa,, is a prominent democratic candidate for governor. He was formerly a republican, but two years ago went over to the democ- racy. Democratic candidates for the guberna- toriat nomination in Texas are occupying considerable space in the newspapers now- days, stating their positions on questions of the day. ‘The New York Tribune is in favor of sub- mitting a prohibition amendment to a vote of the people of the state. ‘The impression seems to be that it would be overwhelmingly defeated. —_——— ‘Would be Supported. Chicago Herald. A boycott which would be vigorously sup- ported by public opinion would be that by employers of all men who march in this country under the red flag. S L Van Wyck Will Do It. Springfeld Monitor. ‘The farmers in a number of counties are forming Van Wyck clubs. Let Sarpy county do the same thing and have a man represent them in congress who Wwill look after their interests, —_— Not a Tool. Tecumseh Journal, Tho Omaha Republican is having a hard task in attempting to convince the public that Senator Van Wyck is ademagogue, Fact is, old Van is nof a ool for the Republi- can, as other senators: have been, hence its hostility, - Worth ThinKing of, Chicago News. If Jay Gould is really 0 much pleased over the strike on his road—if -the road has really doue so much wmore business than usual be- cause of the strike—it h’ almost a wonder that he doesn't offer the | strikers extra pay for the job. i ———— ‘Where They Will Do the Most Good. Wall Stéect News, Rumors are thick about Wall street to the effect that the six nignthis’ calls upon Union Pacific at 50 have been freely distributed in s where they will do the most good in ington, and that the anticipatious of favorable legislation expected from there are largely based upon the influence which these tokens of faith in the future will bave upon the legislative mind. B Utterly and Totally Useless, Schuyler Herald. The salaries aud expenses of Nebraska's railroad commissicu eost the tax-payeis of this state about $10,000 per year, ‘What do they get in return? Absolutely nothing. The most ardent republican supporter of this worthless and useless couunis- sion cannot point out a siugle * in- stance where they have done an act that was of any practical good to the people of the state. The commission is utterly and totally worthless and should, and we believe will be doue away with. NORTHWESTERN NEBRASKA., The Wonderfal Development of the Country ~The Inrush of Immigrants. A VISIT TOTHECITY OF CHADRON Marvelons Growth, Substantial Char- acter, Resources, and Drilliant Prospects—Vigorous Push of the Northwostern Road. A Trip to Chadron. Crapron, Neb,, April 80.-[Editorial Correspondence of the BEk.]--My trip from Omaha to Chadron has been full of surprises. Three years ago, when I first visited the Elkhorn valiey on a tour of pleasure, combined with politics, Norfolk —where the Elkhorn Valley road forks in- to two branches—was a little village, and Creighton, the terminus of the northern branch, was a mere hamlet, Beyond Nor- folk was tho frontier scttlement, with O'Neill City as the farthest out- post of Nebraska civilization. My journcy in 1883 led me to Knox county and the Niobrara region. The section on the main line of the Elk- horn Vatley railroad, above Nortolk, un 1o this time remained for me unexplored territory. Before starting from Omana 1 had made up my mind that the trip to Chadron would be a good deat like the old stage travel in the eurly d braska. On my first trip up the valley the trains were “*mixéd,’ being composed mostly of stock cars, with a combination mail, baggage and passenger car attach- ment. ‘Po my surprise the west-hound train coming into Blair was made up of elegant and commodious passenger conches, built by the Puilman company at Pullman, Illinois, and a Wagner sleep- ing car brought up the re In every respect this train was equal to any regu- gor train i the country. The six conches were crowded with passen- gers, a large portion of whom were bound for Northwest Nebraska and the E i When I ed the sleep- copductor the price of berth to Chadron, 1 was sgain surprised when he demanded only $3. The distance from Blair to Chadron is nearly as great as from Blair to Chicago, and I naturally expeeted that the rates west of the Missouri river would be much higher. is the case on other trans-M i roads. The Fremont, ° ouri_Valley road itself, nce from the Missourt adron, is smooth, well and efliciently manned. 1 tation buildings are ncat and sub- stantial, and the well kept eating houses he moderate charge of filty cents first-class meal, for which elsewhere in the west seventy-tive cents is usually exacted. to river asted INFLUX OF IMMIGRANTS ion is simply warvelous. The ain on which I travi fm( was said to be a light one, and the census I took west of Norfolk showed 160 full grown p gers, 25 children, and 34 ba to 'grow up with the country. If the growth-of these ants keeps pace with that of the coun northwest Ne- 0 say that the Elkhorn valley is the Larden spot of Nebraska is to repeat only what has been sai evory traveler who wed its fertile sotl and beauti- pe. This applies to the country between Kremont and Atkinson — Be- yond Long Pine I had no opportunity to ow the surroundings, since the train runs during the night from that point to Chadron. Upon arriving at CHADRON on Wednesday morning I registered at the Danielson house, where I met cigint or nine commercial travele) representing the heavy wholesale job bers of Omaha. Some of them had been to the Black Hills, and des the boom at Rapid City as simply wonderful. Cornerlotsin {u})i(l City had reached the fabulous price of $5,000 to $7,000, with an ugwar«l tendency. As td Chadron I can only say that it eclipsed my expectations in every partic- ular. [had had an idea that it'was one of those mushroom frontier towns that thrive only by dance houses, gambling shops, and a mixed traflic in whisk) shooters, and cowboy supplies. was Julesburg of old, and the half dozen other “magic cities”’ that have bloomed and withered in their day, But Chadron is the most substantial little city in the new northwest. Nine months ago the first lot was placed on sale here by the railrond company. At lust fall 600 votes were poiled, and to-day the popu- lation is estimated from 1,500 to 2,000. The location is decidedl, i i jhe dark-fringed hills of Pine Ridge background, and several buttes standing out like pyramids in the western horizon, The streets are broad, Inid out at right angles, with good plank sidewalks and crossings, sawed out of pitch pine, ob- tained within easy reach of the town. This home-made lumber sells at $16 a thousand, and afiords a cheap matorial for, bulaings in town and on ranch. The stores of Chadron are as largo and woll 1 as those of some of the largest Nearly every line of trade is represented. Hardware, furni- ture, provisions and mining supplies are anliculnrly prominent. Whatever Cha- dron may have been during the months the road had its terminus here, it is now as peaceable and orderly a place as any in Nebraska. They have a regular city government, with mayor, council, mar- shal and other oflicials, and even boast a board of trade, which looks to the build- ing up of the ‘material interests of the town. In my brief intercourse with the business men of Chadron I found them to be as wide awake, energetic and enter- prising as those of any community. The two. newspapers of Chadron are very oreditable publications, and it is largely through their efforts that the town has n 5o extensively advertised, hat Chadron is to be one of the prineipal cities in Nebraska Iam fully convinced, ‘he Elkhorn Valley railroad has made 1t a division headquarters, and the yards Tt b fhn laieaat an the whale line. The station house and railroad hotel are only surpussed by those of Omaha and Lincoln. In view of the fact that Chad- ron is the junction of the branch to the Black Hills, nd the main line west to Fort Fetterman and beyond, its i as a_ railroad center cannot timated, My rambles in the viginity convince me that there is a gr 1 of wealth in the geological fori: z hills and buttes, t day be devel: There are vast deposits of ¢ lieve can be made valuable i for fire-brick, pott ing, &c. There is also an inexhanstible supply of gypsum, which in itself would be a source of wealth if developed prop- erly. As to climate, there is noth- i more to be desired. With an elevation of 3,000 feet above the sea level, and ar aburdance of good water there is very little use for doetors. Incidentally 1 learn that the which are from Buffalo Gap, the present terminus forty-five miles west, promise to bucome the great sanitary resort of the north. They are pronounced by those wiio ure alificd to judgo us eqaal in every re- t to the Hot Springs of Arkansas. This will bring a great many tour- ists and anvalids “to this section, con and Ind|rc¢'lg must o mild up of other in- tribute to the g torests. RACING TO THE MOUNTAINS, At the Chadron depot I met W. D, Kelley, who was the oldest conductor of the Union Pacific, and is now in charge of this end of the Elkhorn road. Heis weather-beaten like an old miner, and has all can do in super: vising the vast quantity of material which is shipped from here. Hundreds of acres of ties, rails, fish- plates, spikes, and other supplies, piled on both sides of the track at Chadron, show that the Northwestern ra 4 managers are bound to push through the Black Hills_and across the plans of Wyoming. Thery re 1,000 teams and 1,800 men at work between Buffalo Gap and Fort Fetterman and between Buffalo Gap and Rapid city. S, he 4 — A Dog Trainer's Talk. Washington ¢ Those who attend- ed the performances of Thatcher, Prim- rose had West's minstrels last weck wero struck with the remarkable acting of the tronpe of dogs and a goat attached to this show. [0 a Star reporter, who called upon Prof. Burton to ascertain the manner of training and his aning at gentleman said: have been in the business twenty vears, and at the present time own and xhibit twenty-two dogs and httle_ goat Jennie. Two vears last June I lost in New York oity a ve luable troupe of dogs thut were poisoned by some person, evidently in the s show, who threw pe nee into the yard in which the dogs played. In ten minutes from the time [ released them from their eages they were all dead, lying in different parts of the yard. It was o heavy blow to me went on the prefossor, “*but in six months time 1 had started again with another troupe of dogs, and to-day 1 have the largest and best dog circus in the country.” “Does it not require a great deal of pa- tience and judgment in training them?” ked the reporter. “Yos, it does,” said the professor; “for instance, it took me four months to teach my big clown dog to walk on his fore feet, and it is more diflicult to teach a dog to waltz. It is very easy to teach them clown tricks, and a great many feats originate while playing, such as leaping and jumping. *Do” they” show readly and wiilingly e sposition to act asked the report- 9] “Yes, they do, and they know the time to n minute when théy are wanted on the stage, and wait anxiously for that moment. You must treat them with kindness, “‘continued the professor. ‘I at my dogs well and feed them twi ay with a o yknow no othe loye me in their own The tramer of dogs related how three of his small femalo dogs were in one cage at the National Theater, and, in moving the cage, it was pluced against the wall; divectly behind the cage was a water tap. Some oneaccidentally turned the tap on, and the hov water rushed in where the Jittle dogs were. At this time Prof. Morton was at the hotel, and when he arrived at the theater the three dogs were waiting for him on_the outside. Upon examination he found that they had cscaped from death by scalding by cating a Lolu through an inch and a " half board. The little goat, Jennie, the professor d, is very intelligent and apt, and grees very nicely with the dogs. ' The ining of & dog should begin when the animalls about 10 months old. Prof, Burton said he had had great success with dogs 3 years old. rity. , and e An Amusing Court Incident. Columbus (Neb.) Journal: A little incident just at the close of the last long term of the district court is rather too ono of those 1 able thing: when the and whic re calculal cobwebs from the minds of lis! b The cases of Mess) Jowdery & Fuller, apnl mission to the bar, been disposed of and B. R. had taken the attorney’s ‘“‘onth of offict 50 to speak, when it came M turn to stand'up. In very dignified tones, Judge Post began to administer the oath'in the following language: “You do solemuly swoar that you will support the con- stitution of the United States of Am the constitution of the State of Nebr and that you renounce all allegiance —just at this ll“’i“" the room full of law- yers couldn’t hold in any longer, and the judge,seeing that he had got sido-tracked into the nuturalization realms of the court, jomed very heartily in the laugh, which continued quite too long for the equanimity of the incipient lawyer, who blushed like & young maiden at” her first ball. The judge fi rathered himself togother, apolog| ing that he had not intende: loyalty into question, and administe: the outh in due form, and with as mucl solemmity as tl i 8t allow. The incic scene in Judge Wakely's court, a short time after he went upon the bench. It s well known, of course, that the judge e W uxmuimn#z [y uralization e, ha the appl continuing his investigati sir- ing to know of the witness, whether the applicant a loyal man. “‘Ob, yes, judge,” said the witness, he is a good ropublican.”” “Well,” “remarked the judgo, in bis slow, deliberate way, presume that if he is all right otherwise, that fact ought not._prevent his becom: ing a citizen of the U'nit-d States.” Bogus Butter S, Paud Pioneer Press. The house committee on agriculture Has reported a bill to head off the expansion of the bogus butter business, which, if actual- 1zed, will properly knock the fraud higher than akite. Congress shovld pass the bill; for, if counterfeit coin and paper money ara put’ under the ban, by parity of reasoning this filthy prodact of offai piles should like- wise beconsigned to public reprobation, —— To Make Room fur Democratic Place- Hunters. St, Loww Globe-Democrat, The discharge of 150 employes from the seed departinent of the agriculiural bureau does not indicate a duminution in the num Der of packages to e distributed to a trustiul and seed-sowing public, but does disclose a pressure waich the commissioner 1s no lon- gerable to withstand. Every congressman of the democratic persuasion has friends- whose qualifications extend no further than an ability to il casury desk or v the i h congressman iy al- lowed 6,500 of these packages, the number of ewployes 15 considerable and ' the places aro regarded esirable. Llence the wholesale discharge, and the pr the seed-rovi pay-roll from democratic, lists, . -~ The Banana Man. Chiicao Nevs, gon a dago goes shouting along: Bou .+ bonanoees, bonin From dayl il dinner B sings v SO1E “Lonanoes, bonanoes, honanocs,” DAL L feel 0wy Beait Eshotld groatly rejoice 1f he happened some worning to part with i3 voice, 80 that_never azaiu he could “choice 3 Bonanocs, bonunoes, bonanoes. 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