Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 14, 1886, Page 4

4 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, MAY 14, 18806 . THE DAILY BEE. OMABA OFFICE, NO. 114 AND 018 FARNAM ST Wew Y ork OFF1CE, ROON 66, TRIRUNE BUILDING WASHINGTON OFFICE, NO, 613 FourTEENTI ST. Published every morning, excopt Sunday. The Monday morning paper published in the e TERME NY MATL: #1000 Throe Months. ... L 800 Ono Month e WeEKLY BER, Published Every Wednesaay. TERME, POSTPAL 2.5 A CORRESPONDENCE: Al communications relating to news and edi- [ torinlmatters should be addressed to the Evi- TOR OF “ME BER, DUSINESS LRTTERS! Al bu siness Jotters and romittances shonld bo veased to THE DER PUBLISHING COMPANY, l".‘ém. Drafts, checks and postofiice orders 10 be made payable to the order of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPAIETORS. F. ROSEWATER. Bo1TOR. | TTIHE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. State of Nebraska, | County of Doglas. | * * N. I, Feil. cashier of the Bee Publishing eompany, does nly swear that the ac- ¢ tual circulation of the Daily Bee for the week ending May 7th, 1885, was as follows: Evening Edition. 5,670 5,725 Morning » Dat Total Saturday, 13,580 Monday, Tuesday, 4th. Wednesday, 5th. ;humlny. Gth. riday, Tth. bt 13,025 12,278 12,700 12,450 12,4¢5 N. P. Frit. Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 8th day of May, A. D. 1534, Sisoy, J. Frsuen. Notary Public. N. P. Fell, being it duly sworn, deposes and says that he is cashier of the Bee Pub- lishing company, that the actual average daily circulation’of the Daily Bee for the month of January, 188, was 10,378 coples; for February, 1886, 10,505 copis for March, 189, 11,557 copies; for April, 1836, 12,191 coelws. Sworn to_and subscribed before me this Sth day of May, A. D. 1840 8imox J. FIsHER. otary Pu Average...... OMAHA must have street signs. Every month of her growth makes the deficiency more apparent. Mg. F. L. AmEs is a man who knows how to put his money where it will do the most good. He proposes to invest half & million in Omuha real estato. A the rate that the leading tragedians all falling by the wayside, it is only a questionof time when George C. Miln will have the ficld of tragedy all to him- f. — We don’t hear much about the *‘old flag” from the democratic side of the house in Washington, but when it comes | %o “‘an appropriation’ the enthusiasm is deafening. ‘Tue directors of the Chicago board of trade have endorsed oleomargarine as a wholesome article of food. They should be compelled to eat it three times a day. might make them change their CycLoNEs, hurricanes and tornadoes Aro becoming altogerner trequent, ‘Lhey #ro no longer conlined to the west, but distribute themselves impartially all over the country. Yesterday various points in Ilinois, Indiana, Ohio and Virginia were visited by those destructive storms. ——— Mavor Borp still declines to send in the name of a building inspector and awaits his chance to trade off the nomi- nee for a successor to Marshal Cum- mings. The mayor is still working at a trade, but he has got something more than an eight hours’ job. THERE is altogether too much careless- mess in the crossing of trains across Six- teenth street. Several persons have re- cently narrowly escaped serious acci- dents at that point. If trains are crossed . over Sixteenth street during the busy L hours of the day a watchman should be . stationed there, or a trainman should be #ent ahead to warn people. Ivis a dan- gorous crossing and trains cannot be run 100 slowly or too carefully at that point. TaE most signiticant sign of returning confidence that all danger of labor trouble for the present year is over in Omaha is the fact that our local archi- foots are again crowded with orders for s and specifications of new buildings. 5 y prospective builders who had ‘abandoned all i1deas of placing their ' money in brick and mortar this yoar have n changed their minds and will let Ir contracts. Business property is in b motive demand for prompt improvement. b four story age, too, is about over uflve and six story blocks are now the r of the day. . —— UxanA has suffered in times past from L & lack of foreign camtal invested in per- msnent 1mprovements. Most of the monoy snent in the city has been made While St. Paul and Minneapolis grown to astonishing proportions igh the millions of eastern money o h has fpoured into cool Minnesota, 3 ha has paddled along until recently * a8 best she could, investing the earnings - of her own citizens with few exceptions, “#nd growing without much external | ot lus, excopt the growth of the state yand her tributary territory The change has bogun, and the effects are already Fwislble. The men who have pinned their in Omaha and watched its growth a city of 15,000 people to one of , are now reinforced by capitalists the east, who see in this community {nmre great of the trans-Missouri ptry. REBELLION in Ulster 18 now said to be one of the certanties in case the home ‘rule bill is pushed to the second reading. The argument that the Orangemen will k out into open riot is actually being fnst Mr. Gladstone’s me the queen 1s besieged with petitions the same effoct. Side by side comes news of perfect tranquility in all portions of Ireland, of empty dock- iand of idle criminal judges. The bug- of a vebellion in Ulster is not likely turn the premior and his supporters the path which they have marked or thewselves and for Ircland. Eng- has beun dealing with vebellion in nd so long thatshe can apply the remedies, if necessary, to the Or- mon which she Las to the people of rh ‘The fanatical and ram- anotio winority of Ulster who wrv _preaching the gospel of hate, and of 0old steel and bullets, will be Mily suppressed if ocomsion requires: i v The Interstate Commerce Bill. Tae Cullom bill for the regulation of interstate commerco has passed the sen- ato with only four dissenting votes. While considerably amended since it came from the committee, the measure retains all the essential features of the first draft. It provides for a board of commissioners to hear complaints, make suggestions, and, where advisable, to ap- peal to the federal courts to enforce their decisions. [t prohibits discrimination and extortions, calis for publicity in rates, and forbids secret debates and fa- voritism to spcstal shivpers. The long and short haul clause as finally incorporated in the bill loft the application and enforcement to the judgment of the commission. The Cullom bill is not such a measure as will satisfy the requirements of rail- way patrons throughont the country, but it is chiefly intoresting as an advanco towards a solution of the problem, and as a result of the anti-monopoly agitation of ten years standing. It is the first measure for the regulation of interstate commerce which has passed the senate, and its passage has placed the upper house of congress, so largely controlled by corporation influences, on record as favoring national regulation of railways, and o reform in the abuses under which the pro- dncers of the ecountry now suffer atthe hands of corporate monopolies The reformers who a few years ago wi denounced as communists and cranks for urging congressional enactments to re- strict the discriminations and extortions of common carriers have at last been en- dorsed in the halls of congress by the very men who formerly denounced them as enemies to society. There is awmple food for reflection in this single fact The vital crror in the Cullom bill is the commissioner system upon which it is Dbased; the application of the principle on which 1t is founded. Regulation by commission will not prove effective in removing the abuses of rail- waymanagement. A commission of five will prove easily handled by the men who boast that it is not a difficult matter to control a legisiature of half that many hundred members. The wide discretion granted the commissioners in the en- forcement of the law and the clasti visions of the measure itself mw value of the law as a vemedinl meas- ure entirely dependent upon the honesty and backbone of the commission. Mr. Reagan's bill which passed the house came much nearer, in our opinion, to filling the requirements of what an interstate commerce bill should be. The question of national railway regu- lation will now go into conference com- mittee for discussion with few chances for such an agreement as will receive the endorsement of both houses during the present session. Much has been gained, however, in the passage by both the sen- ate and the house of bills dealing with the subject. The shame of American rail- way management has received a thorough ventilation. The protests of the people of all classes in every section of the country against the abuses which are the natural outgrowth of jobbery and robbery on the part of rallroad wreckers hav been heard and heeded. Anti-monopoly stands no longer as the crazy cry of cranky grangers, but as the slogan of a majority of railroad fin!rons throughout the entire land, which cannot be sufely disregarded, The UComing June Festival. The musical festival which is to open in a few weeks in tho Exposition building in this city promises to be by far the grandest musical entertainment of the class ever given in this section of the west The soloists are selected from the best available talent in the country, the orchestra has been recruited from both Chicago and Omaha, and the chorus is large, well-trained and will doubtless prove all that the recent rehearsals promise. The programme comprises among its numbers some of the best productions of the best masters, and no pains will be spared to render it acceptable to the most criti- cal audience. As for the building, its acoustic properties have been well tried and found to satisfy all the requirements of such an occusion. The directors of the coming entertain- ments have spared neither trouble nor expense to make the June festival a suc- cess, and their efforts shouid be crowned with a large measure of popular appro- val. A large number of visitors will be attracted to Omaha from the surround- ing country by the concerts and they should be most liberally patronized by our own people. As the opening festival of a series, which it is hoped to give an- nually in Omaha, it is highly important that the coming concerts should attract the attention and the patronage which they will so well deserve. A Lesson from the Tornado, The Kansas City papers are filled with the details of the disastrous tornado which played such riotous havoc with life and property in that community a few days ago. There were the usual accom- pamments of the leaden sky, whirling clouds and a furious wind, but the storm was in no respect so far as can be learned different in 1ts phenomena from those which preceded it in Minnesota a few weeks ago. Its study has added nothing to the knowledge of the laws governing eyclones. but it seems to have given a great deal of information to the people of Kansas City about the laws governing imperfectly constructed buildings. The city press boldly charges that had the school house and factory in which so many liyes were lost been properly built, not a human life would have been sacrificed. The Journal concludes a bitter editorial on the subject as follows: We have seen these things year after year, and hardly a meeting of the councll is held but there 1s some one asking the exeeption from the ordinary vrecautions of the city or- dinances, We, at this writing, are entirely unadvised as to any of the particulars about the buildings in which life bas been sacrificed but it will be shown In every case that the cause lles in the negiect of well known rules of safety in architecture. The school build- ing, we believe, was once condemned, but patehed up, and we know the court house was both a dishonest plece of work, archi- tecturally, and a worse job morally, on the part of the county authorities, As to the others we await confidently the verdies of examination. ‘That houses all round them stood attests the facts—for the storm was not & tornado but a gale, blowing trom one direc- tion in straight lines. So that the matter stands out so plain and patent to all, that we would be recreant to duty did we not call things by their right nawes—crimes against ;m Itves of (nnocent men, women and ehil- ron, And we might as well take this occasion to warn our people agalnst another practice that may some day turn into erime also, the wicked recklessness with which wooden buildings are allowed to be erected, involving some day conflagration that may take off the profit of all the booms that are aided by such eriminal carlessness, The lasson is as applicable to Omaha as it 1s to the citizens of Kansas City. Year after year buildings are put upin this city which a puff of wind would be al- most sufficient to distodge from their foundations, Cupidity on the part of owners and dishonesty on the part of contractors are imperilling the lives of human beings and inviting disastor in case of tempest. We have a building law ready to be enforced, but no inspec tor to enforce it. The desire on.tho part of the mayor to pay off polit- icol debts and wreak political revenge is placing the city at a foarful risk for fu- ture discovery and payment, The dan- ger of poorly constructed buildings seems to have been the great lesson taught by the Kansas City tornado. Other citics will do well to lay it to heart. Powerful Arguments, The editor of the Herald commends “powerful argument” which Mr. les Francis Adams made on behalf of the Union Pacitic before the congros- ional committee of railroads last winter. rticularly struck with the force Adams' plea on behalf of 6,800 stockholder for legislation of M bona fide prompt and tinal, which will put the rond beyond danger of becoming the prey of wreckers, thus affording mutual protection to the stockholders and the government as the chief creditor of the road.” As the editor of the Herald was for years the unswerving defender of and apologist for the “wreckers” who ank o magnificent property into the mire of prospective bankruptey and then unloaded on 6,800 bona fide stockholders their paper certificates, he is fully authorized to speak with fecling on the subject. For all that, Mr. Adams makes a “powerful argument” when he oxposes as he does in his annual report the gross mismanagement tp which his road has been subjected during the past ten years, a mismanagement which, orig- inating in the private offices of the stock- jobbing president and directors, was car- ried into every detail of the operating department, with the result of depreciat- ing the road bed and equipment, alienat- ing patronage and bulding up the inter- ests of rival lines in competitive ter- ritory. So far as the stockholders of the road are concerned, the people of the country are not overflowing with sympathy for Jay Gould’s dupes. The sentiment in favor of placing the Union Pacific road upon its feet is simply a matter of self- interest. The people of Omaha and of Nebraska who have been the “prey of the wreckers are willing to assist in enab- ling the road to give them a better serv- ice by any means which will not weaken the government’s lien upon the property or enable new jobbers to distort the na- tional bounty in the future as they have in the past to their own personal benefit. The policy of the people towards the Union Pacific has not changed. If Mr. Adams is to be belicved, the policy of the Union Pacitic towards the people has been reversed. This after all is the most “powerful argument” which Mr. Adams and s company can offer towards secur- ing the aid and a ance of which his road now stands in o much need. ‘Where the Trouble Lies. The county assessors have held a meet- ing and agreed to raise the valuation of property from b to 25 per cent *‘where it will bear a raise.” This is a step in the right direction, but not a very high one. ‘What we need is not so much a general raise in valuation as an equalization of values on a basis which will place the property of the rich on the same level as that of the poor. As a rule the little cottages and houses of Omaha have been assessed high enough. The men who have shirked taxes most have been the heaviest property owners whose hun- dreds of unimproved lots have been listed at figures varying from one-tenth to one- twentieth of the prices at which they are now on sale in the open market. To raise such valuation merely 25 per cent would be a trifling remedy. For instance, scores of lots across the tracks were listed last year at less than $160 per lot which to-day are offered for sale at from $1,500 to $2,500. To add $40 to the valuation of these lots, making them taxable at $200 on the next tax list, will not ill the bill, The actual market value of real estate in Omaha,cannot fall much shortof $100,- 000,000. Last year the valuation of Douglas county was less than $10,000,000. These figures speak for thomselves. They show why every ycar Omaha is financially em- barrassed and unable to comply with the loud demands for public improvements which must be made from the general fund. If the assessors in the wards where tho evil of unequal assessments has been greatest will do their duty re- gardless of any resolution fixing the lim- its within which valuations are to be raised, they will receive the warm thanks of the community. m——— Tue Omaha & Northern scheme will still materialize, even if Jefferson square and that quarter of a nnllion bonus failed to bud and sprout after their sleep under the winter snows. TuE latest spring fashion in tornadoes calls for a sweeping train and widely gored sides. The State armory of Troy, New York, has been sold to the Kuignts of Labor for $13,000, Efforts are being made in about twenty cities and towns by the Knights of Labor to build halls, A co-operative association of lady dress- makers has just been organized in Manches- ter, England. ‘The union printers of Pittsburg have pre- sented their scale of prices to the newspaper proprietors, calling for 45 cents per 1000 ems for night work and 40 cents for day work. A cutlery company of Connacticut the other day received the largest order in history for 9000 pieces of Brittania ware, of which 2000 pieces were for table castors. ‘Ihere are at present eighty-seven cotton wills in Mexico, with 8,755 looms and 247,750 spindles, and ten woolen wills, with 80 looms and 9,304 spiudies, The total output of both kinds of wmills 1s a little under $5,000,- 000 per Annum, Manufacturers in and near Loulsville, Ky., are greatly excited over the evidence of uat- ural gas within easy reach. Test wells are being put down there, and also in western Indiana and southefn Michigan. In Norfolk the printets last week adopted aresolution prohibfting the use of “plate matter,” which has hitherto been used In daily papers, unless psigd for as regular com- position. The demand was acceded to, but several proprietors réduced the size of their papers. The New Jersey bill in favor of labor arbi- tration has been passed. It provides for a commission of five porsons to sit as a court and hear both sides i Iabor disputes and de- cide finally in every casé, except where rail- road interests are concerned. ‘T'wo of the commissioners will he appointed by the e ployers, two by employes, who shalf be stal raifroad Inspectors, and these four shall name a fifth, Continual _ disagreaments aye arisin, among the Cohoes and other hosiery matill- tacturers and their \workmen over wages, shop rules, dinner hours, or something of that sort The Knights of Labor are en- deavoring to start two large co-operative hosiery mills. The cotton and spinstor mills are general- ly busy north and south, and In many places wages have been voluntarily advanc- od. At Columbns, Ga., 2,000 employes were advanced 10 per cent. At Athens, Ga., all the mills are oversold. Idle mills at Woon- socket, . L., will start up this week. The 15,000 female eloak operatives of Ber- lin, Germany, huve struck fora 33 per cent advance. Apron sewers are paid 0 to 75 cents per week ; neck-wear sewers are paid 80 cents per week for twelve hours work; jersey sewers, 8L.60: glove-makers, $1.20, working t hours. There has been a large influx of Amerlcan buyers of late. The Amalgamated soclety of carpenters and oiners of England Iast coxpended among ts unemployed members $300,000. Since 1860 its total disbursements for support reached nearly $5,000,000, while less than $375 was spent on strikes. Tho |m-u\b(‘rshlll has in- creased In five vears from 17,000 to 26,000, 16 number out of work w 1,000 members. This year of work is 180 for every the number out 1,000, Th aller industries in the middle states are receiving strength through the expans of manufacturing capacity in the larger tablishinents, and quite & number of con- corns have started up this year, mainly by foremen or workmen heretofore engaged in the larger works. The cheapening cost of machinery and motive power is stimulating this sort of enterprise. The ear works throughout the country seem to be exceptionally busy, and several railway managers are about placing ' addi- tional orders, In Huntington one shop has orders for 1,800 cars. In Youngstown a car shop has an_order for 750 cars and was obliged to refuse an order Sumilar i some other oem to be that keep the hout the year, - ‘Why Congress Doesn't Strike. St. Louis Republican. The only reagon congress doesn’t strike is because it is always allowed to fix its own hours ot labor and pay. e — The North May Repent. Chicago Times. Jeff Davis declares that he shall never re- pent. But if he keeps on i the present strain the north 1s likely to_repent—repent that it didn’t hang him. e . Shut Out the Anarchist Conspirators. Chicag) Tribine. Ts it not time to muizzle thoso already here and to place a guard afour eastorn national door forbidding any, more of the scum to Iand on our shores? It wg can stop a China- man from coming herg can we not prevent 1 7y a communist from landin, Uloveland. Dana's Opl Cleyeland Lehder. es A, Dana testified under oath tn the ectric investigation that President abad democrat.” This will be grateful news to a large majority of the dem- ocratic party. They feared that he was not a democrat at all, or that be was a - good demo- crat. e The ldeal Mail Bag, Portland Eastern Argus. ‘The ideal mail bag should be hoth fire-proof and water-proof, but as we are not dwellers in Utopla, perhaps ideal perfection is too much to expect, buta water-proof package is entirely within the limits of the practical, and such packages are constantly used in every day course of commercial affairs. ——— He Paia Twice. Conkers Statesman. *Did I pay for that wine we had last night, landlord?” asked Crimsonbeak, coming down one morning with his head tied up in a towel. “Why, you ought to know, Mr. Crimson- beak,” replied a bystander, jokingly, “Well, said Crimsonbeak, “1 consulted my pocket- book,and it seemed to say that I did; but when I consulted my head, Icame to the conclusion that [ was paying for it this morning.” e ‘What Righ License Does, Clevetand Plaindealer. High license has been effective in Missourl in reducing the number of drnking places and in decreasing the drinking habit, The taxon drinking places ranges from $550 to $1,000 per year. In Llinois high liconse has had a similar effect, the tax in that state be- ing $300 to $1,000, Besides lessening the evil at both ends the license system brings into the state treasury a larger revenue, 1t is be- lieved this system has been productive of more real good than the prohibition laws of Kansas and Iowa in lessening drunkenness and in relieving the distress caused by this evil. s A Song of May. Burdette sn Brooklyn Eagle, Come, Pepita, Ihyllis, Griselda, Jeannette, Evangeline, Helolse, Fifine, Susette, Rebecea, Nan, Margaret, Bertha, Babette, Or whatever your name is; Come, got on your mackintosh, poneh, um- rell, Clogs, n\'efi;hoes. pattens, *‘gums,” muffiers as well, And hey for the green woods! 1 might as well tell ‘A-Maying the game is! We'll twine our May garlands beneath th = green tree; we'll muku:ho Swamp ring with our inno- cent glee; We'll wade round our May-pole, light-heart- ed and free, Where naught but delight is! o Then homeward we'll dance when the tw light Is come, 1 With diphtheria,croup énd‘pneumonia dumn; With pthisis, lumbago And Theumatiz zum, and peritonitis, -~ STATE AND TERRITORY, — Nebraska Jottings. Ponca is in the vortex of a liquor draught. All saioong are closed. The question of, division is again agitating the people of Holt county, The young lads of Creighton have or- ganized a ““‘morals and manners soclety.” The Fillmora Re m[vliuA‘n asserts that “Dr. Clark crawled into 3r. Shumway's mouth and kicked alk the teeth out," The canning factory at! York is going up in great shape. he Tin machinery is in place and canmakers will begin opéra. tions next week. A Bohemian named Hullenbeck was run over by u train near Schuyler Sunday, night and literally cut to pieces. He was drunk at the tim¢ and walking on the track. OMiss Helen Morehead, of Albion, is a genius with & pen. She has written 2,000 words on a postal card, and stowed away the Lord’s prayer ona line dvawn around a ten cent piece. The writing 18 suid to be perfectly legibie. Adam Pfule, the husky parent of seven irls and four boys, last week camped on fim suburbs of O'Neill City, after a weary ull with oxen and mules from northern Blkatm He will pre-empt & section or two of Holt county and modify his name. Lightning demolished the barn of Mr Wadsworth, in Hall county, Bunday, and killed horses. Loss, $1,000. Two horses and a barn belonging'to Albert Section, in S8aunders county, were struck by lightning the same dni. The barn was burned and the horses killed. F. M. Coover, of Hastings, has come out from under a cloud of unsavory R0S- sip with an aflidavit, solemnly proolaim- ing that he never declared his love; no, never. He had the misfortune to stay in the store in which he works, with two others after dark. They amused them- selves serubbing the floor. About 10 o'clock Coover found himself alone, standing guard with a loaded mop-han- dle at the open side door. A woman ap- peared, breathless and in great fear. o took herin—to a back room and told her to rest herself, and the chivalrie blood of a long race of Coovers surged through his vains as he regplved to shield her from harm. Shortly afier, he peered around tha corner, and, seeing no rascal- ly ruffian to brain with the mop, he whispered to the woman that she could safely dopart. He never touched her, not even with his hand, His mind con- tinued free from care, and a ‘jo{n\u whistle smoto the air as he plodded homeward. But a sneaking policeman crossed his path and menka requested an ux}flmnuinn. Coover unbosomed himself, and emphasized his story with $15, which passed into the pocket of the cop. The woman was also taken in, and the next. day Coover plead guilty to the charge of lewdness and promptly paid the fine on condition that the subjoct be dropped right there and hushed. And Coover swears that he is “an innocent and abused man.” lowa Items. The Baptists of Dayenport will build a $20,000 church in the resident portion of the city. The Grace Episcopal church at Cedar Rapids will be enlarged and will be made into cruciform _s| The improve- ments will cost §20, Loafers are not In‘rmilln-d to congre- gato at the Marshalltown postoflice. The city marshal has been instructed by the mayor to r¢ riot act to all who lin- ger in that loeality. Aftor the first of July next no school teacher in Towa can get a certificate who has not passed an examination in_physi- ology and hygiene, with special referonce to the effect of alcoholic liquors, stimu- lants and narcotics upon the human system. Arrangements are being made at Du- buque for n game of base ball for the benefit of Tom Sullivan, the catcher of the Dubuqgues of 1879- 80. Tom suffered the loss of both his hands last winter and the benefit for him will, no doubt, be a large one. _It appears that Burlington's experi- ence with prohibition has not been of the most isfactory nature. The council has passed an_ordinance licensing the saloons. It ia fixed at $50 per month in advance, The petition for the ordinance was signed by over 900 business men and property owners. In Iowa 955 women own and direct tarms, cighteen manage farms, five own greenhouses, nine manage market gar- dens, thirteen serve as county school d th superintendents, thirty-seven ~manage high institutions of learning, 125 are physicians, five attorneys-at-law, ten ministers, three dentists, 110 professional nurses, and one is a civil engineer. The Keokuk constitution tells of a fish which was_caught in the river opposite that city, Friduy afternoon. and which, upon being opened, was found to contain a large silver watch and a valuable gold chain. The watch is an Elgin one, and was sold by a Keokuk je r last fall. The fish, & sturgeon, was caught by Henry Lifer, a professional fisherman. While returning from a largely at- tended funeral in Creston, Monday, a horse driven by two ladies became fright- ened and started torun. A gentleman standing near grabbed the lines and was dragged between the wheels and buggy for o distance of four rods. ‘Che buggy was turned over and the horse broke loose and ran. The ladies were badly bruised and cut, and dragged on the ground. One is seriously injured. Dakota. Rapid City's water works system is about completed. Some Kentucky horsemen have located in Faulk county to open breeding farms of fine horses. Tha Eldorado Mining company has beon organized at Deadwood with $2,500,- 000 capital. ‘The property is located near the Red Cloud. New sottlers are pouring into the Hills ata very lively rate, so much so that there is danger of the old settlers becom- ing covered up or lost in the crowd. The Homestake union has paid to 1its shareholders $3,319,000 in ninety-three monthly dividends. It stands at the head of the productive mines of Am A wind cave near Hot Springs, in Fall River county, has been explored for 700 feet, and the end is not yet. A current of air is continually passing through it with suflicient force to blow one’s hat off —hence its name. Montana. The Drum Lummon last month pro- duced $146,107 bullion. The stock 13 now quoted at £8 118 It cost $8,560.74 to keep Meagher county’s poor last year, and the poor fund still contains over $6,000. Montana wool growers say the losses during the winter were very trifling, and that the outlook is very promising. Some ore from the Hidden Treasure mine that assayed $1,500 per ton was brought in from Virginia creek recently. ‘The Shenon mining properties in the Bannack-Marysville district have lately been soldto San Krancisco parties for $125,000. The stockmen of Yellowstone, Bull Mountain and Muscleshell sny the win- ter's losses were merely nominal, and that the calf crop promises to exceed that of any previous year, The bulhion product of the Granite Mountain company for the period enaing March 381, this year, amounted to $361,300 —an average of over $120,000 a month, 'he shipments for the first thirteen days in April were $63,500. Miles City has a free reading room, and the cowboys of Yellowstone county are consequently happy. When time comes for closing at nightthe boys allow nobody to blow out the lights; they just shoot them out. The Pacific Coast, ‘T'here are over 275 different varieties of birds found in Washington territory. The ground where the Bancroft build- ing stood on Market street, San Fran- cisco, can be bought for §800,000—§4,000 a foot front, The railroad works in Sacramento are moving more briskly than for a long time. Between eleven and twelve hun- dred men are employed. There is a curiosity at the pen at Santa Fe in the shape of a colored man who stands six feet s1x inches high and weighs only 140 pounds. When he walks his kneos wonble in and out as if they were ointed stilts. The Catholic cathedral to be built at Sacramento this year will cost $150,000 and the bishop’s residence $30,000. “T'he chureh will be 90x200 and will be built of brick and granite In Washington territory there are 26,- 000 ghildren attending the publie schocls. There are twenty-four = colleges and academies, with 1,416 students, and 232 chureh organizations. The. special deliver{ system in San Franeisco hus ot worked "very suveess- fully, the sale of stamps having decreased from W.w‘}ur the first month to $243.20 for the last of the seven months that the system has beeu in operation. . AWAY DOWN IN DIXIE LAND. The Editor of the Bee Becomes an Arkan- sas Traveler, IN SEARCH OF A WITNESS. Incidentally He Describes the Coun- try and People Along he Route. Litrie Rock, Ark., May 10.—[Editorial Correspondence of the Bek.]—""This way for Little Rock, Hot Springs, Texarkana and Galveston!” shouted the sleeping- car porter on the Tron & ok b the St. Lonis union depot last night. “Show your ticket, please. This is your car, the ‘Alamo;’ the rear car, the ‘La- drone,’ goes through to Galveston.” These names were in thomselves suggest- ive of Toxas rangers and Mexican ban- dits. The occupants of the sleepers were, for the most part, decidedly southern in manners and dr The blue-blooded dude with kid gaiters and kid gloves, the portly and pompous ‘“‘Jedge,” in dress suit and silk tile, and the red-nosed “Majah™ with the fierce moustache and Louis Napolcan goatee, aro each TYPICAL REPRESENTATIVES of this land of chival Upon entering the wash room of the “‘Alamo” this morning 1 found the air perfumed with the aroma of distilled corn juice. Southern sociability had tinctured the ice water with rock and rye and made the Arkansaw travoler feel at home once more. At the railroad breakfast station the prevailing politeness and hospitality of ‘‘DIXIE LAND'' afforded food fc tion. On tho northern and western roads passengers rush into the dining station at a devil- take-the-hindmost pu Everybody helps himself to what may be in reach and cares not a fig how his neighbor fares or whether he gets anything at all to eat or drinks Here Iy passenger acts as if seated at a family dinner. “‘Can I help you to a picce of chicken?” *Will you have some of these ber asks another, as the menl proceeds. 1 now realizo for the tirst time why the natives of Arkansas have been described as half horse and half alligator. In all my born days have never passed throngh h a swampy country. I almost felt like exclaiming with the Towa prohibition poet, ‘‘‘Water, water every- where, but not a drop to drink.” For nearly 200 miles the Iron Moun- tain road 508 through a continuous water-logged forest, with on- ly here and there a patch of dry ground cleared of timber and un occasional agm- let or village raised above the swamps to break the monotony. 'The towns along the road are, judging by their weather- Dbeaten appearance, not of recent growth. Here and there the ancient Arkans: cabin, with its tottering chimney leaning against an outside w;.lf, looks exactly like the cabins in those pictures of the Ar! saw Traveler, only the fiddler in the coon- skin cap and the brood of barcfooted children are missing to make the picture perfectly natural, ARKANSAS VILLAG are not very picturesque. are nearly all of the same pattern, much like those in the new ern [owa and northwestern 'he “postoflice’ and the sa- loon and hall are usually the most conspicuous. At McAlmont station I noticed the following signs on a one- story frame shop. Railroad | Oflice of Justice | Post- Oftice. of the Peace. oflice. The occupant of this building must wield a powerful influence in those parts. He probably runs all the democratic con- ventions, has a monopoly on all the “fecs” which justice levies on the law- less natives, and gets his demijohns dead- headed over the railroad. The only live town this side of Little ck is B S he stores NEWPORT, at the crossing of the White river. Sub- stantial brick Dblocks and warehouses, ty residences, and a general bustle along the streets indicate that this is one of the live towns of Arkansas. Four or five steamboats moored on the river bank wore centers of visible activity. Tho river is said to be navigable all the year round, and at this time _was in splendid boating condition. The boats chiefly carry down to the Mississippi the surplus cotton, tobacco and corn of the White river valley, and bring up provisions, merchandise and muchinery for the towns located on its banks THE VALLEY OF THE WHITE RIVER is said to be very fertile, producing heavy crops of cotton and winter wheat, In the wooded belt through which the Iron Mountain road passes vast quanti- ties of hard wood—white oak, ush, hickory, and sweet gum—are annually harvested for homo use and export. There is also hard pine enough to supply lumber for all Arkansas for years to come. If the people of Iowa and Ne- braska could oxchange somo of their prairie land for these great timber_tracts there would be cheaper fuel in the west and easier farming down here. As we approached Little Rock the sur- face of the country, which for hundreds of miles had been level and swampy, be- came more broken and hilly. Farms be- came more numerous and better culti- vated. The six rail fence, which adorns all the region this side of St. Louis, was here and there supplanted by straight board or picket fences. The red clay s0il, which is peculiarly southern, gives vluce here and there to a dark loam on a sandy base. Presently the train emerges into tho picturesque ARKANSAW VALLEY, with its brick-colored river winding in tortuous coils, very much like the clas- sic Elkhorn. On the rocky embank ment, embowered in a nd clus- ter of tall pines, Little Rock looms up to the traveler twenty minutes before the train halts at the sta- tion for dinner. My destination, in search of another man John Milton Hoffman during that memorable reached, and [ proceeded had met horseback tramp, was at once up E R who on town to locate my witne: b Before After. Estelline (Dak.) Bell: Editorial f Dakota paper (three months before tion): “We hear that Bill Smith wants to 2o to the legislature next winter. We were expecting this—there isn’t much that Bill doesn't want. Cannot the peo- ple of this country o better than send such & rencgade e-seekor a8 this man Smith ater: “‘Hon, William R, 2l bis formally an a candidate for the i peopl know, Smith has had 1 Bx perienee in the Tows legislature, des holding many offices of trust and honor. With out a shadow of a doubt he is the man for us. By the way, his mommoth double column ad will be noticed on our STRICTLY PURE. _ IT CONTAINS NO OPTUM IN ANY FORM Ly DAl “id DHLS - IN THREE SIZE BOTTLES. PRIOE 25 CENTS, 50 CENTS, AND $1 PER BOTTLE 25CENI BOTTLES are put up for the & commoration o2 all who desire & go0 andlow priced Couzh, ColdandCroupRemedy THOSE DESIRING A EMEDY FOR CONSTMPTiON L fourth page this week. Read it apd | profit therehy il rify Your Blood, Among spring preparations, do you neglect that which is most important to all—your owu body. 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