Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 7, 1886, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. #A Orrice, NO. #14 AND 018 FAnrwAw St YORK OFFICE, ROOM 85, TRIRUNR BUILDING ASHINGTON OFFicR, NO. 513 FounTrENTH ST blfehed every morning, oxcopt Sunday. The Monday morning paper published in the TERMS BY MATL: e Year. #10.00 Threo Months Months. 5.00/0ne Month, Tnx WKLy Ber, Published Rvery Wednosday. TERMS, POSTPAID: o Year, with promium. . o Yonr, without premiiim Months, without premiu e Month, on trial veve CORRESPONDENCE: All communications relating to_news and odt- torial matters should be nddressed to the Ept- TOR OF “HE DER. DUSINTSS LETTRRS: All b siness Istters and remittances should bo ressed to Tur BER PUBLISHING COMPANY, IARA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders be niade payable to the order of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIEIORS. K. ROSEWATER. Eorron. THE DAILY BEE, Sworn Statemen of Ciroulation, State of Nebraska, | o County of Douglas. {* & N. . Feil, cashier of the Bea Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the ac- tual circulation of the Daily Bee for the weelk ending April 50th, 155, was as follows: Morning Eventn Date, Edition, Edition. Saturday, 24th... 6,500 Monday, 2th Tuesday, 27th.... Wednesday, 25h. . Thursday, 20th 11,005 Friday, S0th.. 12175 12,25 . P, P Sworn to and subscribed before e, this 1st day of May, A. D. 1885 . MON J. FISHER. Notasy Public. N. P, Feil, being st duly swora, daposes and says that he is cashior ‘of the Bee Pub- lishing l‘nmrnuy, that the actual average daily circulation’of the Daily Bee for the morith of January, 185, was 10,378 copies; for February, 1835, 10,685 copies; for March, wsflf 11,537 coples; for April, 1886, 12,100 copies. Bworn to_and subscribed before me this 5th day of May, A. D, 184, S1MON J. FISHE! Notary Publfe. Average.. Notice to Agents and Subscribers. Hereafter all orders for papers, all complaints about postal delays, and all remittances should bedirected to the Bek Publishing compnany, Omaha, Nebraska. Mpr. Fitch will still ccntinue as manager of the circulation of the Brg, west of the Missouri. ~ 'CENNYSON has ground out another ode. He Has ode too much. Tae red flag must ; It won't be safe even for an auctioncer’s flag to floatin the broezo duting these days of excitement. —— 1118 to be hoped that there will bo no further delay about the paving now that the price of ourbing has been reduced and the contracts approved. Work fot the idle means grosperity for the industrious as well. A thrifty and contented industrial population is the souna basis of national prosperity. AND still the immigrants come pouring into fertile Nebraska. Five years hence even the tolescope of the great Lick ob- servatory will fail to discover the old- time frontier. M. PowDERLY'S ringing voice is heard denouncing the murderous agitators who boast that their aim is to destroy Ameri- oan institutions by the methods of the eowurd and the assassin ‘THERE may not bo much rail splitting in progress in Nebraska as compared with the effote east, but in rail laying she 48 beating the record just now with sev- eral counties to hear from. b — Tue Apaches nave again found the ‘Uuited States troopsunder Captain Lebo, ‘who got away from Geronimo's ambush with the loss of two men, and struck at once for Arizona. Two Apaches were re- " ported killed, but Geronimo will probabl I~ bobup serenely in a few days with hi | original command unimpaired. General Miles proposes to improve on Crook's methods on Indian warfare, but there has been as {et no improvement in the " results noted . _WE must have better service in the I Omaha post oflice. If there are not clerks enough, our business men should unite in asking the postmaster general to in- @reaso the force. There should be more efficicncy on the part of those who are * employed in the office and Postmaster " Qoutant owes it to himself and the pub- Meto give tho force his active personal ‘sttention. Tho ‘failure to deliver the _ metifiontions of the board of trade meet- shows that there 1s a screw loose where. CONGRESSMAN ANDKRSON'S bill to ad- Y the railroad land grants has passed e houae of representatives by a vote of " M6t09, This important measure calls " for an Investigation and adjustment of “he lands granted to railroads by con- jess in the several states and territories. 4 hunl of acres of the public lands have ‘been illegally obtained by a variety of . methods, which Mr. Anderson’s measure p to expose, and to remedy by the land 80 taken hands of the reilroad Attention has from time time been directed to the repeated lures of most of the laud grant roads eowply with the terms of the grant. e terms vary in differont cases, but of the roads have obtained their ds under grants containing some of following provisions: (1) Thatif any jon of the roads is not comploted hin the time fixed, no further sales be made and the land s unsold shall rt to the United States; (2) that if the “entire road is not comploted in the time it, no further patents shall be issued and he unsold land shall revert: (8) that it he companies fail to file their assent o the terms of the act or completo roads, as provided, the measure becomes null and void and all revert to the United States; (4) that the companies make any breach in the L gonditions of the grant, congress may do y and all acts necessary to secure the dy completion of the roads. It mated that fully 20,000,000 acr of goverument land have been - illegally ne ed. Congress hus been so long “under tho control of the railroad lobby $» ha it is gratifying to note the large ma- 1 ; ‘ by which Mr. Anderson’s bill d the house. It must not be pre- from this, however, that the bill 10 become a law. It must yet run 7 of the senate, which is with railroad mwillicnaires and Mrolled by the eorporution lobby. Oornering Briock. When Omaha had 15,000 or 20,000 pop- ulation, it was well enough for the brick- makers to be also builders and contrac- tors. In those days it would have been rather risky for a firm to confine ‘them- selves to the manufacture of brick alone. The brick might have been lett on their hands as dead capital, unless they had contracts from builders for all the brick they turned out. Omaha has now reached a stage when men can with safety manu- facture brick for sale, without any risk of loss by the lack of demand. Brick making and brick laying need not go hand in hand, In fact this combina- tion has beeome a serious detriment to the growth of the city. As long as the brick- maker only proposes to turn out brick enough for the building contracts which lie has taken, it is to his interests not to sell bricks to others who might underbid him in building contracts. The effect of this is that every year we have suffered from a brick monopoly which discourages people from building small houses. Brick- makers are asking twelve dollars a thou- sand for brick whien actually cost from five to six dollars to muke, and they are willing to lay brick in the wall for about the price they ask for the brick alone. Mechanics of small means who want to take contracts on their own account can- not do so without loss aslong as they hav to pay twelve dollars for brick. This compels them ecither to work for the big contractors or leave the place altogether. In this matter we are going through the same process every year. Half a dozen he contractors who own brick yards have created a brick monopoly and put up the price until they have all the contracts they consider worth taking. For the rost, they oare little whether the men of small means are able to build or not. Many people who would othorwise build small houses give them up, and many small jobs of brick-laying are made so costly that they might as well be termed downright robbery. Tho cost of making bricks is not increased by that and even the slight increase asked by brick-moulders and laborers does not justify the exorbitant price put upon brick in the yards. The time it scems to us has come for large brick-making concerns which have no other business than brick-selling. Brick building 18 a separate trade and it is to the interest of Omaha that this sys- tem of cornering brick overy spring should cease. Sparks and Van Wyok, The great hue and ery which the anti- Van Wyck press makes about the differ- ence between Benator Van Wyck and Mi. Sparks about the seizure of timber cut by Hall & Bros. in Idaho Territory Is after all merely campaign buncombe. It does not in any way dotract from the _senator’s merit as the defender of the public domain. So far as tho right of Hall & Co. to cut timber promiscuously on the public land with the sole view of selling the lumber wherever it has a market we believe Commission- er Sparks is eminently right. This has been our position from the outset without knowing who was the owner of the timber seized by the government. We believe Scnator Van Wyck has made a mistake in at- tempting to support Hall’'s claims, and wo do not propose to mince matters in saying 80. This paper, without reference to Senator Van Wyck, believes Sparks to be an honest man, fearless in the dis- charge of his duty and earnestly desir- ous to reform the land officc and stop the raids by corporations and bogus claimants upon the - public lands. Mr. Sparks may have made mistakes in his rulings, but they were made in the interest of the public, so far as he saw that interest. His predccessors nearly always squinted in the other direction, and had private interests to subserve or those of railroads, land grabbers and large syndicates, Senator Van Wyek is not infallible. He s just as likely to be imposed upon or to blunder us other men who mean to do right. In this case the senator has been oyerzealous in the in- terest of a friend. The senator al- ways has becn true to his friends, even those, for instance, who are utterly useless to him and cannot in any way ad- vance his interests politically or otherwise. As between Senator Van Wyck and Com- missioner Sparks in the matter of the timber depredations we side with Mr, Sparks. While Senator Van Wyck claims that Hall has boen actiug under permission of a previous assistant secre. tary of the interior, we say that the per- mission never should have been given because it was against the law as defined by rulings that expressly provide that timber shall not be out and transported for sale from ona territory to another. It is manifestly against public poliey to allow parties to make merchandise indiscriminately out of the public timber. This affects alike friend and foe. Mr. Sparks has been on the righttrack from the beginning, and ison the right road now. While the senator is firmly of the opinion that an injustice has been done Hall, we trust he will not press the claim. Dr. Miller and the Herald. We cheerfully respond to the request made by Dr. George L. Miller to correct any wrong impression in regard to his alleged intention of giving np his citizen- ship in Omaba and the control of the Omaha Herald. The doctor takes the public into his confidence by giving an outline of his tuture in a letter, from which the following is an extract: 1 came into active life in Omaha nearly thirty-two years ago, I am going out of it by the same door. Owmaha will always be my permanent residence and home so long as | shall live, Neither Mr, Richardson or my- self has any plan or puipose to sell or sur- render their control of the Herald. # % & # ldointend to so arrange my aflairs as to secure early and certain relief from the cares and labors, t0o severe at times even for a robast man of 21 years. It is true that I intend to be absent from Omaha in New Yorkand elsewhere several months in the year, While I realize asclearly as others do that Nebraska, Omaha, and the Hecrald long ago outgrew any need of my personal services as an editor, it is only proper that I should say that, so iar as I now know or believe, [shall retuin wy ownership aud control of this property and paper. GrorGe L. M1 3 It is hardly necessary for us to say that this paper has given no currency to the revort that Dr. Miller proposed to aban- don Omaha and Nebrasks with which he has been prominently ideutitied for move THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1886 than a quarter of a century. It is equally unnecessary for us to retract anything wo have said in regard to the doctor or his partner, Mr. Richardson giving up the control of the Herald. There is no need of theirmaking such a sacrifice, nor is such a valuable property as the Her- ald likely to be thrown at auetion into the open market, That Dr. Miller has for years needed rest and recuperation from exhausting editorial labors is woll known and it can surprise nobody to learn that he intends to take things more ensy in the future He is financially in a condition to do so, and with a competent stafl’ which the Herald now has, his periodie absences from Omaha will not be seriously felt. Whiskey and Dynamite. The main trouble in all these labor riots is whiskey. If liquor could be kept away from workingmen when they are on a strike, there would be very little danger to life and property. The anarchists and communists who want to destroy prop erty for the sake of building up a new system aro not numerous anywhere. Sober workingmen would spurn their counsels and refuse to follow them in any attempt to create disturbance. On the contrary if the saloons and gin mills were closed in eyery city where there ar labor troubles the sober, moderate counsels of conservative, honest laboring men would prevail. They would reason with their omployers and adjust their differcnces without resort to violence. Mayor Har- rison is largely to blame, in our opinion, for the fatal effocts of the Chicago riot. He has now issued a proclamation against thea ssembling of crowds in the streets and public meetings of agitators, Had he issued his proclamation at the outset to close all the saloons until the trouble was over, we doubt whether theve would have been any bloodshed. Even now, as a matter of safety, the saloons in Chicago, and in all other cities large numbers of workingmen walked out of factories and mills is re- quired ns a matter of safety. L droves of drunken men, whether they laborers or belong to any other cl are likely to bring about riots and com- mit ontrages upon property. If at any time there should be any serious trouble in Omaha we should feel it the duty of the mayor to close all the saloons and keep them closed until the trouble is over. Dynamite is dangerous, but whisky and dynamite together make a terrible com- bination. REvORTS from throughout the state show that the acreage corn will bo groat- ly increased in Nebraska this year, es- pecially in the central and southorn por- tions. Corn is the surest and the safest crop for Nebraska farmers. Our soil and climate are specially suited for its culti- vation. But, for all this, itis a question whether wisdom does not dictate a great- er diversity in the products of our farms than has been the case during the past five years. The mere that the corn crop is so certain and prolific ensurcs a heavy production and consequent low prices. Where farmers are tar removed from the markets the cost of transpor tion consurhes a large part ot the profits. If our farmers could be brought to see that corn on the hoof is more profitable than corn on the ear they would soon notice the difference in their annual bal- ance sheets. Stock feeding 1n the corn country would revolutionize many sections of our state. With portions of the farms turned into pasture and hay lands, the corn fields would soon become largely independent of railroad facilitics, and freight pools and combinations. The establishment of canning factories in several counties opens up a new ave- nue for profit from truck farming. The richest farmers of the east are the vege- table growers of New Jersey and Long 1sland. A few acres, carefully and in- dustriously tilled in vegetables for which there is a steady market, would bring in handsomer returns than five times their number in corn. With the growth of large cities and towns the hay crop will become more and more mportant. The demand for first c.uss timothy hay is now greater than the supply. Our farmers in the eastern part of the state will doubtless find it to their advantage to turn their attention in the direction of the hay field and tame grasses grown on well fertilized ground. In a large portion of the northwestern part of tho state where the elevation is high and the climate closely correspond- ing to that of the Black Hills, oats will sooner or later be one of the staple crops. The oat crop of the Cheyenne river, and of the farms along the foot hills of the Black Hills, scarcely fifty miles north of Dawes county, is famous throughout the west. There is no reason why equally good crops should not be raised in north- western Nebraska. SociALisM and anarchism ‘have been nursed in Chicago for seven years. The red flag bas waved unchallonged all that time; the incendiaries have had their Sunday parades:; their pienics, and their meetings unmolested. Chicago has been the headquarters and hot-bed of red- handed communism, and it was eminent- ly proper that Chicago should ba given a dose of anarchy and dynamite in order to bring that city to a realization of the fact that she was simply nursing a vol- cano. While many are suffering in con- sequence of the murderous warfare of the anarchists, the result cannot be other- wise than salutary, not only upon Chi- cago, but upon the whole country. The days of the red flag in the United States are virtually ended. The veople every- where now realize the danger of permit- ting incendiaries to enjoy the freedom that is accorded to peaceable and honest men. The communistic assassing will never again be permitted in any city in this country to go unchecked as they have in Chicago for ye: Ar first it was a wild western congress- man who was credited with having won $50,000 at poker during the past winte at the national capital. Now it has been narrowed down to a Nebraska congress- wman, This causes the Nebraska City News to remark that it is glad to learn that one of our representatives is good for something. Whoever the lucky gen- tleman is, he is evidently lookiug out for a big campaign fund for next fall. —— OyAHA claims to be a metropolitan city, but she hasn't a street sign in sight. ‘This is a defeet which is not only anuoy- ing to strangers but also to residonts. 1t is high time that the city council should take steps to have proper signs placed at every lnmmrtmn"& the city, either upon lamp posts or in some conspicuous place. SeNaTOR VAN ok and the board of trade found no difficuMy in agreeing on a bill for the relief of the Union Pacifie, which, 1f passed, will protect all the in- terests involved—those of the govern- ment as well as of the peopl ————— GexNEraL HowaRp finds San Francisco the most delightful city in the country and its people the most hospitable, The general must have kissed the blarney stone on one of his numerous trips abroad, —_— Tug tariff & reported as practically dead. Itis no more so than the party which has been vainly attempting for months to unite on a policy of tariff re- form. Tmprisonment for debt has been abolished in New York state. A baby born in New York during a terrible storm has been ealled Cyclonia. Based on the names in the last city dire tory, 8t. Louis claims a population of 420, 000, The marshals in Southern Hlinols towns have procured blood hounds to hunt down burglars, Daniel Arnold, of Macon, Ga., hid $700 in a hole near his house. The flood came and he is now offering $600 for the hole. Mark Twain told a recent visitor thathe could print single copies of General Grant's book for 35 cents each. The selling price is $3.50, Preaching does not keen men poor In Eng- land. The Kev. Arthur Gray-lowe recently left §20,000,000 to the poor—that is to say, to two sons. A Montreal merchant has been fined for exposing in_his show-windows two stat- uettes of “Night” and “Morning” after Michael Angolo. The agrieultural department is sending out large quantities of the eges of the silkworms, n that the leaf of the osage orange makes us good silk as the mul- berry. The big gun recently cast at Boston has been taken from the cooling pit and is re norted perfect. When finished it will be thirty feet in length and afty-four inches in diameter, John Dubois of Clearfield, Pa.. is consid- eratlon of £1, has just deeded property amounting to eight or ten millions to his nephew, John E. Dubois, aged twenty-fiv The uncle is a bachelor, and cuts off his brothers, sisters and otiier heirs to insure the carrying on of his affalrs in single ownership as he humself has conducted them. THE FIELD DUSTRY. Troy carpenter: hour day and 50 cents pey hour. In St. Louis quite 4 number of industries have adopted the eight ox nine hour day. Cincinnati is spen@ing “$4,000,000 in repav- ing her streets, mostly With granite pave- ment. i Maminoth pipe and.foupdry works are to be erected at Chattangoga, Tenn.,, whizh will give employment to §00 nien. A separate federation, similar to the Knights of Labor and wotking in harmony with it, is to be established i Great Britain. A gas and oil company has been orgunized in Pittsburg to develap,a belt of nearly 14,000 acres of gas and ofl land in Alleghany and Washington count Western: Pennsyl- vania. Notwithstanding the depressing effect of Iabor agitation upon the industries. the New England boot and shoe manufacturers have manufactured and shipped 3,500,000 more pairs of shoes so far this year than last year. Even if times are hard_people will riot go barefooted. Last week 55,000 boxes of boots and shoes were sent from Boston to the west and south. Have {gained the elght Lo How Trade is Hurt. Philadelphia Record. Trade is hurt more by the apprehension of mischief than by the actual extent of it. e Omaha Has Some on the List. Chicago Herald. It Is passing strange that no relative of Miss Folsom has been discovered in Chicago. Aspirants for federal office are catching on very generally iu other towns, —~— Fully Accounted kor. Chicago Herald, A New York gentleman who has visited Washington says it scemed like a section of Manhattan Istand or Albany or Buffalo, so many of the faces on the streets and behind the desks and counters were familiar to him. Perhaps this may account to the wild west- ern mind for the seeming slowness in mak- ing changes. They've Come to Stay. New York Sun, These unions among workingmen have come to stay. Every employer must take them into account and it is folly to attempt to combat the feeling which leads to their for- mation. Rightly treated, too, such fraterni- ties will be of advantage to both labor and cap- ital, for they increase the self respect of the men, stimulate their pride in ecalling, teach them to discivline themselves and encourage harwony and tidelity. ot Yankee DoodleShould be Resurrected Springfleld (Mass.) Union. Isn’t it about time to have a little renals- sance of Yankee Doodle in this country? What with socialism, nihilism, anarchism, boycottism, strikelsm, ete., It seems as if the great original Idea of “uife, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” was getting snowed under, *“Mind your own business” was one of the maxims for which this Yankee nation fought and bled a century ago, and the wis- dom of it is not worn but ‘yet by any means, i The Red Flag, F. O, Bennett in Chiteago News. What nation and what governient, “This erinison tatter all besprent With human skulls and flame and gore, Circling and fiauntisg evermore— What people does it represgnt? blem of treason and of ‘pate, banuer of an outlawed state, Each fold a lighted toreli'conceals, Euch waye & glittering pike reveals, Each with its lurking, coward mate. Baptized in riot, blooa and fire, A faggot saved for freedom’s pyre; Companion of the gurb of shame, Without a howme, withont a nanié— Base bastard of an uRknown sire! What deed of valor has it wrought? What Liero hosts have checred and fouglit, Keeping it ever in their sight, And died for prineiple and right, And biessed liberty, blood-boughit? No emblom ean inspire so well A sortie of the hosts of hell! Where malice lurks and treason plots And foreign lepers bare their spots— There floats this ghastly sentinel, Haul down the flaunting alien rag— Foul insult to our starry i When they go waving side by side Where is the freeman’s vaunted pride? Haul down the 1ed, spew ouf the gag! Tl The Railroad Lobby. Philadelphta Record. A térritonial delegate in eongress has no vote, but he hias the privilege of free speech. Delegate Voorhees, of Wyoming Territory, bas made use of his privilege (o some pur- pose In ealling attention to the presence of formidable lobby of ex-members of con- gress, who are industriously and impudently pushing the interests of the Northern Pacifie railroad on the floor of the house, In the senate there is no need of such a lobhy, as the railrond corporations are amply repre- sented in its membership. e STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. Work has begun on a $6,000 school at Edgar. The Fairmont creamery ehurns out 800 pounds of butter daily, Fillmore county has 5,182 children of school age, an increase of 414 in a year, The B. & M. company is completing a large depot at Fajrmont. The branch road to Goneva will be finished in ten Dan Farrell, the noted sherift of Mills county, Towa, captnred a horsethief at Dunbar, Tuesday, after an exciting chase through Otoe county. . The residents of Loup City are mak- ing great }vropl\r:\”mwlo cclobrate the advent of the railroad next week. A grand barbecue and ox roast, specches lfuul other edibles comprise the bill of aro, The blasting of an obstruction_in the river near Nebiaska City, Sunday, startled the residents for milcs on both sides of the ri , and a number of tele- grams were received inquiring as to tho cause of the earthquake. Papillion is pleased with the work of Judge Wakeley at the present term of court. According to the Times, ‘‘busi- ness proceeded with the utmost dispatch consistent with due administration of justice.”’ Andershoot, the horse thief, was sent up for two yes B. F. Allen, of Murion, Cass county, sted the eflicacy of an alleged *‘mad- stone” for a dog bite, but it would not stick. This stone is the property of C. I helby, it is 24 inches long, 3 and about § of an inch thick, of a dark green color, when laid in the sun 1t reflects all the colors of the rainbow. It was brought from France twenty-nine ye g0 “There at deal of speculation,” says the Papillion Times, “among the farmers on this side of the Platte, over the fact that the surveyors have been setting out grading sticks, and_ report that it is a branch road from the Missouri Puacitic to the stone quarries at South Bend. If the company build & road that far, and they already own the most of the rigit of way, they will no doubt in a short_til push on to Lincoln. This would give them the shortest line from Omaha to Lincoln.” nehes wide Towa Items. There are 788 old soldiers in Boone nda has decided to invest $10,000 in a waterworks plant. Scott county distributed $030 worth of food, fuel and clothing among its poor last month. Sioux City had a mad-dog ch: Mon- day. The frothing brute bit several dogs and horses, but distanced the human race. An enterprising farmer has started a mushroom patch near Eastport, opposite City. Hofinds n ready'and prof- rket for his “‘fruit.” The internal revenue collections in the state for April amounted to $208,159.88. Pronibition does not appear to afiect Uncle Sam’s business in the least. Tomash, a Muscatine farmer, run in for vending bootleg budge without a license. He was bound over to appear at the June term of the United States court at Keokuk. . Tomash is well fixed, has a 1,500-acre farm, and why he sl]) uld violate the revenue laws is not cle: A.meeting of the executive committeo of the First Iowa Cavalry association was held at Cedar Rapids, April 15,1886, 1t was decided to hold the triennial reunion of the association at Cedar Rapids, Sep- tember 21, 92 and 23, 1886. Ex-members of the regiment are invited. A circular, giving full information as to railroa rates and hotels and programme, will be mailed to members about August 20. Dakota. One man in Douglas county last week set out 20,150 trees. Two years ago there was but one lic school in Edmunds county; now are thirty-six. ‘Lhe recent prairie fire in Sanborn county is reported to have destroyed many thousands of dollars worth of prop- erty. An immense amount of sceding has been done in Potter county, and the prospects for a good crop are most en- couraging. The Huron council has tesian well controversy by g Swan a contract for a wu{l 1,0 stdeep for $4,000. It also repealed a strect raii- way franchise awarded to Frank L. Shel- don, of Lincoln, Neb., a few weeks since. ub- hero ttied the ar- ing B. W. Wyoming. Sixty miners are employed in the Sil- ver Crown district. "Tho oity marghal of Ghoyanne collected $7,000 in finos during April. Delegate Carey writes from Washing. ton that i is soarcely possiblo. that. wool will be placed on the fro list. #Twenty thousand brook trout have been Jantod 1n Sand oreck, and 15,000 in Hurtle creck and Tripple luke. The assessed valuation of real and sonal property in Cheyenne 15 $2,625,61, The actual valueis ne millions, The eapital commissioners are holding a series of meetings ‘]un now to con- sider the plans submitted to them by the various architects. 'The idea of the board is to erect a building which, while completo in itself, can hercafter be en- larged by eastern and western wings, and the plans boing considered are drawn in reference to this id; per- 21 Montana. The Lexington company shipped $21,- 648 bullion last woek. Workmen on the court house shaft at Helena struck pay gravel. The police of Helena have pulled all the opium dens in town. During Friday and Saturduy last $35,- 370 in bullion were shipped from Butte The Moulton company last week ship- ped twelve burs of bulliou valued at 18, 753, The Granite Mountain company ship- ped §63,600 bullion in the first half of | April. Three hundred head of euttle have been killed during the past winter by Piegan Indians on the Teton and Marais range. ‘The wife of William Boyle, of Cold Springs, wus burned to death last week. Her dress caught fire from a stove, and before help could reach her, the unfor: tunate woman was burned almost beyond recognition, Tne Pacific Coast. A bed ot alum has beca 1ound nea Longfellow incline of thi¢ Color road, Arizona. Several new copper und antimony mines have been J covered in Muson Valley, Nevada, and are reported rich. A fire in the Bancroft building in Suan isco, Saturday, destroyed half a million dollars worth of property and caused the death of four men. The practical educational work of the Nevada state university commenced Thursday. Twenty-three young ladics and thirfeen young gentlemen were en- | rolled The beautiful yellow flower known as Californis poppy, which grows so pro- fusely on the hills near Napa, contains & large percentage of ovium. It is said that the Chinese steep them and make & slecp producing draught. A consignment of opinm passed through the custom house to a white firm in San Francisco Monday, upon which the duty alone was §00, The amount in weight was over 9,000 pounds. A telegram signed h{ thirty-six dairy firms in the state has been sent to the California representativas at Washington, urging them to do their utmost to aid the passage of the bill which was reported to the house levying a heavy tax on all imi- tations of dairy prod - - S1X MONTHS ABOVE EARTH. The Prosperous Career of the Now Town of Howard City. Howarp Crry, Howard Co,, May 4— [Correspondence of the Bek.]—During the fall of 1885, as the new road, O. R. V. R, Railway branch of the Union Pacific was being built, great excitement prevatlod, until at last it was known to all, that there was to be a town some twenty odd miles from St. Paul. The first train that headed toward the new town site,reached its destination, November 15th. Then, there was only one building under head- Is, and workmen were soon seen erecting buildings here and there. Since then one huil\li"{l after another has loomed up, until to-day we can count forty-fi constructed buildings. Itis a ng industrious town, not one of your wayside towns w somotimes see, with dry goods, grocery store, drug store and post ofhice com- bined; but independent well to do s of general mor- tores, & hardwars store, meat market, three good fir: \SS western hotels, u fine depot building, with lumber yards, grain buyers an stock dealers doing good business. The mill, the most importint features of tho town I must not omit. Itisas fine a flour- ing 'n town can bo: the is of the best and will soon be in running order. The town has a bank, also a good school, although the school building is a short distanco from town; but soon a school house to be erected which will be a credit to the town, and one tizens may well be prond of. Socioty?—Kvery one knows the failings of & new town; but consider the age of this one, not yet six months old, but it has a good Sunday school and all seem interested and anxious to attend. Drop all business matters; lay all en- terprises away for a moment and notice the situation” of Howard. It is about half way between St. Paul and Loup City, just the right distance for a thriv- ing town, TItissituated a short distance from Middle Loup river, just far enough thy, glowing appearance, e who stand on the rise of 1 wn to turn and with admiring eyes view the scene once more. The 1 on which the town is situated is_sufficiently high not to allow low, dense fogs which arise from the river to settlo thereon, thus causing un- healthiness. Beautiful residence lots can be obtjined just north of the business rt of town, which overlooks the whole ite and the flowing river beyond. Who would want a prettier or more pic- turesque or healthy for a western home? The land for miles in all diree- tions is taken and under cultivation, thus affording and supplying the town's de- mands. A ferry-boat is in good running order just south ot the town, so the peo: ple from the south side of the Loup are scen on the streets. It is hoped soon to ave a bridge reross the stream. Still the work continues. ‘Teams and are at k on the south side of the Mid- dle Loup, following the new line through th Platte. ‘Thus the town, afford- g overy possible advantage for im- provement. A. 8. e — . Big Profits of th® Stars. Mr. Edwin Booth only fails to stand at the head of the list of ilnurimm money- making actors this season for the reason that he would not act more than twenty weeks of the season. His average re- ceipts during those twenty weoks were $700 a night, or & total of over $90,000. Next year he is paid $150,000 for 200 nights, but he will have to work a_great deal harder, for Mr. Lawrence Barrett intends to get all there is out of it. Next to Mr. Booth in the proportion made, but first in tho actual nmount, comes Mary Anderson, She will not see | less than $100,000 as her profits of the present tour. ~ Her terms are 30 per cent of the gross receipts. The best week she played to was 15,000 in Philadelphia, which would give her very nearly $5,000 for aer share, but of course this was ex- ceptional. The business has averaged probably about $10,000 a week, and the season Insts about’ thirty-two. wecks. Strange to say, Miss Anderson is disap- pointed at this result. She expects more, for when she first came, it will be re- membered, seats wore put at§3.50 apiece, but very wisely and y dropped to $1 50, which'she has been playing to all through the country. Mr. flerson, who is one ot the rs, also cut his season quite short this year. He acted for about sixteen weeks, and there was no single weck of that time that ho did not make over $2,000 for his own share. Lotta has not boen doing 28 well this year us in the pust. The Fublic insist up- ng ber to be older than she is, and ereis a material docrense in receipts compared with what used to be her record. Sho works away as hard asever, though, and is ns nnxious for the excite: ment of the stuge. This really nccounts for her continui lg this hard life when she has a fortunc in her own hands already of fully §75,000. Mr.” Barrett will not make much monoy this year. The defection of Louis Jnmes and Marin Wainwright gave him a bwl blow from which he has not re- covered, and it is very likely he will end his n only a trifle better off than at its heginning. Maggie Mitchell is stili piling up the dueats, She has had some phenomenal business at certain pla i of the most popular public. This in spite of started a good many years before Lotta. She is a tough little 'woman, who looks almost as well to-day as ten Jeaws ngo Fannie Davenport has had o good season of The fact of engaging Man- ta0l has aided nor very largely. It is a poor weck when Miss Davenport's pro- its are not $1,500, and very often they go as high us $2.500 Sulvini wi 500) take away from the coun- try about $40,000. It is rockened by one of his intimates tlmt out of the $10,000 han 1,200 will stick here. - a now pest for western farm- ghtin the shape of a yellow worm h develops into a black 1y about the cighth of an inch in length. 1t is very thrifty in some parts of the Willamette Valley, Or . The insect is known to entomologists as the “wheat isosoma.” It has appeared in Kentucky, Hlinois and Missouri. There 15 only one breed a year. Mr. I. B. Noxon, Cashicr of First Na- tional Bank, of 8ing Sing, N. Y., suffered greatly frow Costiveness and Dyspepsia, due to overwork and want of reg oxercise, Aflter wasting mueh time money in seeking a remedy, he began taking the old relisble Brandeth's Pills, two every uight for three weeks. 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