Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 19, 1886, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1886. THE DAILY BEE. OMATA OFFICR, NO. W4 AND 016 FARNAM St NEW Y 0K OFFICE, ROOM 86, TRIBUNE BUTLDING \WAsHINGTON OF¥Tor, No. 518 FounTERNTH ST, Publiehed every morning, excapt Sunday. The =II{ Monday morning paper published n the e. gne Yenr. . iix Months. Tox WerkLy Bee, Published Every Wednesany. THAMS, POSTPAL One Year, with premium.... 0 Y ear, without promium . Months, without premium. .. e Month, on trial. .......... CORRESPONDENCE! AN communications relating to news and edi- torial matters should be addressed to the Kbr- TOR OF “HE Ber. BUSINESS 1RTTRRS: All b siness Iotters and remittanoces should b ‘madressed to THE DEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, AA. Drafts, ehecks nnd postoffice orders 10 be minde payable to the order of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRICTORS. E. ROSEWATER. Ep1ToR. TERMA BY MATL: #10.00 Three Monthy 500 0ne Month. ... THE DAILY BE Sworn Statement of Circulation. State of Nebraska, | o County of Douglas. {* % N. P. Feil, cashier of the Bee Publishing company, docs solemnly swoear that the nc- tual circulation of the Daily Bee for the week ending May 14th, 1856, was as follows: Morning Eventng Date. Edition. Edition. Saturday. 8th.... 0, Monday, 10th. Tuesday, 11t Wednesday, 12th Thursday, 13th. Friday, 14th. 12,100 12150 Average... 12,36 N. P. FEIL. Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 15th day of May, A. D. 1585, Snoy J. Fisugr. Notary Public. N. P. Feil, Mlnf first duly sworn, deposes and says that he s cashier of the Bee Pub- lishing comrnny. that the actual average daily circulation of the Daily Bee for the morith of J. 1880, was 10,378 copies; for February, 1 0,505 coplies; for March, ) 7" copies; for April, 1856, 13,101 copies. worn to_and subseribed before me this Bth day of May, A. D, 18%, Snox J. Fisaer, Notary Public. Tue property owner in the business part of Omaha who is short-sighted enough to build a four-story building on a six-story lot will confess himself to be the worst fooled man in the city two years from now. AN excuse has been found at Washing- ton for the removal of Agent McGilli- cuddy. Those two arrant humbugs, Dr. Bland, of the Council Fire, and Red «Cloud will now have a scalp dance over the remains of the best agent in the In- dian service. Mg. EpMUNDS has listened to the dele- gation from the board of trade in advo- cacy of the Union Pacific relief bill. Much as we should be glad to see the measure pass, there is a long distance between the committee room and the en- grossing clerk. SIXTY per cent increase over last year was the record of Omaha's clearings for the week ending Saturday last. *‘Busi- mess is business,” and Omaha is getting her due proportion of the same, with her official standing set down as twelfth in the list of financial centers of the country, — SpAIN is rejoicing over the birth of a royal prince who i3 heir apparent to the throne. The pope has consented to stand as god-father to Queen Christina’s boy, and all Catholic Europe is prepar- ing to send congratulations to the queen- mother over the happy event, which cuts off the youthful nose of the princess royal. THE Long Pine Bugle blows a fearful blast. The following specimen bugle note leads to the natural inference that the mouth from which this terrific blast was blown had been drawing inspiration from a whisky jug: ‘We hear the beating of drums, see the mar- #haling of forces, hear the cannon’s roar, and see the traltors fall. Ready, aim, fire! Van Wyck was killed In the heat of the ‘Mg. GLADSTONE has determined to ap- peal to the country in case home rule 18 dofeated by a strong majority in the pre- sent commons. Her majesty, the queen, ‘hms scon fit to take a hand in the matter wnd theroyal wish that parliament should ot be dissolved on thisissue was brought ~ bythe queen’s secretary to Mr. Gladstone on Monday. Victoria has made it her business for years to snub the promier, ind Mr. Gladstone probably feels under | Wb pressing obligations to yield to her ‘annjosty’s whim especially as such obedi- #noe would be to hand over the govern- #bnt to Lord Hartington and a tory ‘oalition. So the country will be given Msh opportunity to express its approval isapproval of the ministerial policy at ithe polls. John Morley has already noti- #ed the liberal union to prepare for an- ‘other election, which is a significant hint ‘hat the government is prepared for de- feat and ready to face the issue on an ‘#ppeal to the country. It is neck or mothing with Mr. Gladstone. Hisaggres- ‘wive wariare for home rule is worthy of ‘the vigor of a statesman of 40 premier is steering the ship of state ‘straight for the home rule port, serenely ‘eonfident of making the landing safely, 4n spite of all adverse winds and treach- ‘erous rocks. PDonce street is offering a large bonus for the location of the cable line. There no reason why Farnam street should ‘not compete. Farnam has already mil- lions invested in buildings and the prop- ‘erty west of the court house is held at high prices because it is_expeoted that businzss will go there. Now white busi- ness will not climb Dodge street hill eyen if the cablo road is laid along that street there is no doubt that the location of that road away from Farnam will carry a great deal of travel three blocks north of that street and materially dum- age the business prospects of the shoroughfare. There is another reason why the cable road should be induced to locate on Farnam, The street from Ninth to Eighteenth is paved with gran- . ite. Light buggies will not use that pave ment for pleasure rides, and those who have business on the street are bound to come whether the eable road comes there ormot. Farnam street is wide enough for four more tracks, if needed, and the amore through travel we concentrate on the street the more We concentrate busi- mess. If the owner of every 22-foot lot between Ninth street and the city limits would contribute $50 towards a bonus, no doubt that the road could be The Irish Famine. We have received a circular from rick Ford asking us to lend a voice in vor of the Irish famine fund now being raised by the Irish World to relieve the great distress in western Ireland. Mr. Ford writes: The condition of the people along the const of Galway, Mayo, and Donegal, is re- duced to absolute destitution. Whole com- munities are without food or fuel Thousands of persons are almost in a state of nudity, numbers of young girls being thus forced to keep within doors, having been obliged to pawn the scanty clothing they had to purchase something to eat to preserve life. Most Rev. Dr. McEvilly, archbishop of Tuam, Michael Davitt, and all the priests in those localities verify these terrible statements, and haye made most piteous appeals for re- lief. It is certain that those people wili die if assistance is not given promptly. 1t is, sir, with a sense of humiliation that I, orany man of spirit of the Irish race, must thus expose the wretchedness of Mother Land. I had almost registered a vow never again to beg alns for the Lrish people. The natural wealth of Ireland is great, the labor is there, and the will is ever present to marry both. Why, then, does poverty afilict that country, and hunger gnaw at the vitals of her children? 1t is almost superfiuous to ask this question of any honest and decently in- formed man. Foreign rule is the answer. The present, however, is not the time to philosopt Men and women and 1 cent little children are dying of hunger, and the first thing to do is to save them. 1 itall collections weekiy to Michael Davitt, who is on the ground, and who ap- tions the money as it may do most good. Would it be too much to ask you toan- nounce to your readers that such of them as may feel disposed to contribute to this Fam- ine Fund, you will be pleased to receive and forward to e their amounts with names, which will be duly credited. The BEE cheorfully complies with the request. It will gladly receive and for- ward all contributions for this object sent to its office and will duly credit the con- tributions with the amount of their sub- scriptions. The distress in Western Ire- land as recorded in the latest English and Irish papers is most appalling. Hundreds ies are on the verge of starvation. The destitute are being supplied with seed potatoes but must be fed and clothed for the three months which will intervenc until the crop comes in. Irish-Americans are contributing liberally fox this worthy charity, and the thousands of that nationality among the readers of the BEE will doubtless be glad of an opportunity to assist. All whose interest in Ireland has been quickened by the gallant fight which she is now making for nationality are appealed to, to come to the aid of her starving children whose poverty and dis- tress are so greatly the product of in- iquitous land laws and the oppressive coercion of centuries of misrule. Against Alien Landlords. The land commission bill passed by the house of ropresentatives last Tuesday is another step forward in the movement now in progress to reform the abuses of existing and past mismanagement of the public lands. The bili constitutes a com- mission of three persons to ascertain and settle claims 1 Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, held under the Spanish or Mexican grants and treaties. But, per- haps, the most valuable feature of the measure was that introduced by Mr. Me- Adoo, of New Jersey, providing that ‘no alien or person who is not a citizen of the United States shall acquire titie to lands under this commission unless his title to the same shall be clearly provided for under some one of the treaties herein re- ferred to.” Mr, McAdoo made a second speech in support of this, saying among other things. Ithink the time has come when, in all future legislation of congress, the principle contained in this amendment should be en- grafted on the statute book. Both political parties in their national conventlons have declared againstalien ownership of lands. We are confronted by the fact that nearly 80,000,000 million acres of land are owned by persons who are not citizens of the United States, with millions upon millions of for- eign capital besides invested in cattlo now grazing on the public domain, and fenced in to prevent American citizens from settling on these lands. ‘The question whether foreign landlords and corporations shall be permitted to acquire large landed interests in this country is rapidly becoming a vital issue. Towa has already made her protest heard on the subject and other states where the evil of non-resident and alien proprietor- ship is most felt will certainly follow swt, The public lands committee are preparing a bill absolutely prohibiting alien ownership of lands and the queston will be fully dis- cussed in congress when the measure is introduced. Millions of acres of the pub- lic domain have already passed out of the hands of the government into those of English landed proprietors who collect rents through local agents and spend the income abroad. Sooner or later mea- sures will have to be enacted limiting the extent of tracts under one ownership, whether individuals or corporations. Every social and economic interest de- mands the distribution of agricultural lands among the greatest number of pro- prietors. Landed monopoly is the most odious of all monopolies, As a system, iv cannot be permitted to take root and flourish in American soil. Where 1s the Commission? We have heard and talked a great deal of the railroad commission of Nebraska. We have been told that the commission has traveled up and down the state to in- spect the ronds and has passed upon some very intricate cases of extortion and unjust discrimination, It has becn given out to the public that it has caused 17 cents to be refunded to be re- funded to one shipper and that at an- other time it has compelled a road to put in a wind mill at one of the side stations, But upon further inquiry we find that these reports are not true. To the best of our ability we have been unable to learn that the com- mission has done anything more than to sign some report prepared hy its high salavied clerks. By the law creating this many headed body, the commission is made up of the attorney general, secretary of state and auditor of public accounts. The law allows this commission to appoint three olerks at §2,000 a year and incidentaly. These clerks have been masquerading as a commission and imposing upon the people by protending to have some authority to remedy railrvoad abuses when in fact they have no more authority personally to meddle with the affairs of railrouds than three tramps. The law doesn't recognize them as railroad regulators and their pretenses s oom- wissioners are, if anything, & greater sham than the law ereating the commis- sion. Itis true the railroad managers have given these clerks the use of direc- tors’ cars and dined and wined them on their junketing trips. But in lawand in fact they are nothing more than three clerks hired to collect statistics for the commissioners. Now where have the com- missioners been all this time? Why have they kept themselves in seclusion? Do they imagine that the peopls will hold the clerks, whom they can hire and dis- charge at pleasure, responsible for squan- dering their money and making a huge farce of railroad regulation? Isn't it about time for the commissioners to materialize and let thewr three clerks take a back seat in the cars in which they travel? Itis bad enough for the people of Nebraska to be cursed and taxed with a commission when they voted it down by an overwhelming majority. But to bo imposed on by a set of chumps whom the commissioncrs have employed as clerksis rubbing it in a little too hard. Trade and Trafl < The quicting down of labor troubles throughout the west during the week has been followed by a general recovery from the depression of the past month. Th et i8 seen in the bank clearings which show a heavy increase. Omaha takes her position as twelfth in the list of citics, with an increase of more than 60 per cent over those of the corresponding week of last year. In the east the trade situation has not materially improved. The distribution of merchandise has been chiefly in small lots proportioned to actual wants, and the requirements of wholesale dealers and jobbers are natur- maller, now that the spring season so far advanced. The actual obstrue- tion to trade and industrial operations by strikes and lockouts has been serious than in recent weeks, but is sti an important kinderance to the free flow of business in many departments, and the moral effect of the agitation contin- ues to discourage new ventures or any tendency to an expansion of activity in legitimate trade or speculation. Business ailures in the United States and Canada numbered 176 last weck, as against 192 the week preceding. The wool trade is in a sluggish, unset- tled condition, but the sales have been increased a little by price concessions which some holders have made in order to unload betore the new clip comes on the market. Shearing has been delayed in some sections by unfavorable weather, and where a clip is off and ready for sule operations have been yery moderate, as growers’ »ws of value are above a parity with prices in the seaboard mar- kets. ribution of dry goods h been collectively fair, but made up chiefly of small lots for necessary re-nssortment. There have been no important changes m values either in cotton or woolen goods. Wheat prices declined £4 and 3 cents per bushel at the close of the week under genoral vressure to sell, influenced by the near approach of harvest and the prospect that a large surplus will be car- ried o from the last crop. There was a fair business for export, but it has been insuflicient to check the downward tendency of values: Crop conditions continue excellent. The aver- age condition of winter wheat has ad- vanced from 92} a month ago to 95, and, so far as can be judged at this early date, the outlook for spring wheat is favorable for a yield of about 150,000.000 bushels, which will swell the total wheat outturn for the year to about 450,000,000 bushels, as against 857,000,000 bushels in 1835 and 512,000,000 bushels in 1884. The corn market has been com- paratively well supported, and is a shade stronger than last week. The firmness is due mainly to the fact that receipts are not grading up to the contract standard, and parties who had sold futures against the expected arrivals of No. 2 corn have either settled their outstanding engage- ments or face the unpleasant alternative of covering their sales in a market com- paratively bare of the grades wanted. McGillicuddy's Removal. Agent V. T. McGillicuddy has been suspended from the charge of Pine Ridge agency and will shortly be replaced by a suceessor who is more in harmony with theidens of the interior department, It is gratifying to the friends of the best agent in the service to learn that the cause of the doctor's removal is his re- fusal to submit to the change of chief clerks at the agency. Dr. McGillicuddy took the stand that as he alone was held responsible for results at Pine Ridge he must be allowed to choose his chief subordinate. He firmly declined to yield the point and his suspension naturally followed. The pe- culiar circumstances in the case of the agent &t Pine Ridge ought to have pre- vented the secretary from pushing his demand. The chiof clerk at that agency had been for years the trusted friend and advisor of the agent. It was he who or- ganized and controlled largely the Sioux police and whose administration of the police force has made it the best dritled and most eflicient of any located atagen- cies throughout the country. Chief Clerk Brown was a veteram sergeant in the regular army when Dr. McGillicuddy called him to his assistance at Pine Ridge and he has proved an invaluable acquisition to the government in his dual capacity as clerk and superintendent of the Indian police. There will be general regret through- out Nebraska and Dakota over MeGilli- cuddy's departure. Since his arrival at Pine Ridge agency he has quelled every sign of disorder among the Ogaliala Sioux and Cheyeunes, fought off the gang of dishonest traders and contr: tors, and maintained his position a, the host of enemies which his honest and efticient management of agency affairs brought down npon him. Under his vigorous if arbitrary rule, the Sioux have been kept at peace, factionalism has been mado harmless, schools have been built and filled with children, and many of the Indians have become largely self-sup- porting. Dr. MeGillicuddy falls a vietim to a new-fangled system of pretended re- forms which he cannot approve because in his case he knows its application would be injurious to the interests of the government —_— SoME of the members of the police are fizzing svound and kicking over the traces about the ordinance to uniform the police. It is high time that there should be a thorough reorgaaization of Omaha police on & business basis. The system bere is chiefly remarkable for the lack of system. The pelice are se- lected largely on the grounds of per- gonal favoritism, withgut regard to phy- sical or mental gualifioations, and are placed on the sajde fevel, with few In- ducements for harll Work or prospects of preferment, Every applicant fora po- sition on the police force should be made to pass a physical examination. No man who is over thirty-live years of age and who is not sound in n should be accepted. enforce the law ought cert physieally able to command respect and obedience. The ' mate of pay should also be gfaded. A probation of six months on a salary of $50 with subsequent advances to $60 and $70, if the officer is found intelligent and faithful, would do much to increase the efficiency of the force. As matters now are, a position on the police is a soft job held until the ofticer commits some out- rageous breach of the regulations and is quite independent of any qualifications of the incumbent. The ordinance uni- forming the police is a step in the right direction. It will compel neatness in tho first place and will assist in commanding respect for the men inside of the blouses. Having re- formed the uniform, the council should next take steps to regulate the wearers of the blue and buttons, Rev. Mg, BrrLer denounces Omaha reporters because, as he they did not report his meetings correct- ly. " Mr. Bitler cannot charge the partinl failure of his revival upon the reporter: who gave him more space than he d sorved. One of the reporters for the BEE, by the way, was an enthusiastic participant in the al, and did not in any way need the prayers of Mr. Bitler. That reporter can make as good a prayer or preach as good a sermon as Mr. Bitler any day in the weck. The fact is t the revival meetings were very correctly reported, except as to the number in at- tendance, which was greatly exaggerated in order to help the enterprise along, and this was done with the knowledge of some of the primemovers. That wa about the only incorrect reporting that was done. the A w1ssiNG merchant of Claremont, N.F has been heard from by a letter date from London, England, in which he ex- plains that seven weeks ago he found himself aboard an English steamer, 120 miles from New York, with his buggage and $5,000 in money, all safe, but he had no recollection of leaving New York or how he got on the steamer. Claremont whisk, hust be even worse than the average in prohibitien states. Mg. CLEVELAND /has, vetoed the bill making Springfield, Mass., a port of entry. Omaha passeéd through the same experience a few wz&,k.« 4go. TuAT cablo line ought pever to be per- mtted to switch off of Farnam street. —e SENATORS AND! CONGRESSMEN. Senator Mitchell, of) Pennyslvania, is rap- idly recovering his henlth, ! Senator Allison, of Iowa, greater part of his \\'c:‘]fih. ¥ Senator Palmer, of Michigan, accumulated his fortune in the tobacco trade. Senator Pike has gone to New Hampshire, and will probably not return this sessior. Congressman Moffat says the republicans will carry Michizan this year by 5,000 major- ity. It is said that Congressman Reed, of Maine, has the largest feet of any man In the house. Senator Ingalls of Kansas burns the mid- night oil far into the swall hours, butitisa great man’s weakness, Senator Joseph E. Brown, of Georgia, is hard at work on a book showing the material and social progress of the south since the war. Representative Anderson, of Kansas, is the only ordained clergyman in congress, and it shocks him sometimes beyond ieas- ure. Congressman Mitehell, of Connecticut, re- signs because ho has enough of congress, and prefers looking after his own private busi- ness. Senator Edmunds appeared in Washington o few days ago wearing a straw hat. ana an hour later the town looked like a harvest field. Congressman Reed of Maine, who had a republican faction opposed to him at the last election, thinks he has clear sailing ahead this thne, Senator John L. Mitchell of Pennsylvania is slowly but steadily improving, but will not attempt to return to duty at Washington this session. 2 Congressman Loutitt of Callfornia olaims to have been born in a stable, which explains verhaps why his nays are so very distinctly heard in the house. ‘The Philadelphia Press says: Congressmen Glover and O'Ivelll of Missourl have quar- reled, and never speak as they pass by, The spectacle of these great men boycotting each other is vividly picturesque. i e (TR Yes, But Don't Forget It nnati Commercial Gazelte, ‘The Chicago bomb-throwing settles one thing In this country, There Isto be no more red-flag business. — I8 This a Free Country? St. Louis Republican. Herr Most says he thought this was a free country until he was arrested for free speech, ‘There are numbers of ,this kind who have yet to be taught Just hoav tree this country is. inberited the A Loud Mouth and a Craven Heart. Chicago ' Tings. In the presence of dangér Parsons cow- ardly shrunk out of sight and Most crawled uuder the bed. Of suph yaluable stuff are the expounders of the dynamite doctrine made. A loud mouth is generally the oracle of a craven heart, (i Dont o it. Baltunore Herald, Put no tax on immigration. The glory of Auwerica Is that she bas always been the retuge of the poor andoppressed. Let it so continue to be. The repitle of sociallsm may now and then be heard in-the land, but its fangs are already pulied and its hisscan do us no harm, RSN s Not Too Severe. St. Paul Pioneer Press. The interior department timber-felling reg- ulations are not too severe. They are per- fecily intelligible to the simplest wind, and should be rigidly enforeed. The one defici- ency of the order is that there is no provis- fon made for planting trees to replace those cut down, R i The Future Metropolis of the West. Lineoln Journal. It sometimes happens that the shearer re- turneth home shorn. An assoeiation of eastern capitalists went into Kansas and bought a lot of land right in the center of the state. They lald off a town and called it Kanopolis, They advertised it far and wide and whooped up things, to the eniivenment of local businessand the replenishment of the coffers of divers newspapers. A great froe excursion and fres luuch were announced on the day of the grand sale of lots. The fature metropolls of the west lay smiling and basking in the rays of the May sun. The crowd came and enjoyed the excursion and the lunch, and didn’t buy a lot. One lot was kuocked off to the capper that started it. - An Object Lesson in the Museum, Buston Herald. In the National Musenm at Washington there is a pipe that belonged to John Brown, and the rifle taken from Jeff Davis when he was captured, They are labeled “the begin- ning and the end of the wai A good many people need some such objeet lesson this to teach them that the war has really ended. i Altogether Too Easy. St, Paul Pioneer Press. To let Herr Most off on £1,000 bail i3 tanta- mount togiving him encoragement to go ahead with his pistol boom, and club pro- gramme. Most is at least as hard a case as any oneof the boodle aldermen, and their bail was fixed at $15,000 to $20,000. 1t would be well to treat such men as Most at least as severely as a boodle alderman, i Isthe President to Marry Mrs. Folsom? Boston Journal. WasimNarox, D, G, May9.—A gentlo- man who is on very intimate relotions with the president, and who ought to know the facts if any one does, says that it is true that the president is to be married, but not to Miss Folsom, that the bride-elect is Mrs. Fol- som,the mother of Miss Folsom,a widow of 443 and that the president is very much ainusod at the eurrent reports, andespecially at the cullibility of the Folsom family In_ the coun- try. e — A Western Boy" Chicago N “ Twish I lived away down east where codiish salt the sea, the folks have pumpkin ple and . apple sass for tea. Us boys' who's livin® here out west don't get more'n half a show— We don't have nothing clse to do but jest to sort o' grow. Lam feed their boys on pork and s three times a the place th out its shiny spokes, And where the folks: mostly women folks. ay call the Hub gives o tather says—is IRRITORY. ottings, Wayne real estate is higher than the town, Holdredge farmers are harvesting po- tato bugs. The talon-ted Dakota City Eagle is ten ars old. The West Point paper mill is now run- nmng day and night and 1t will take all summer to catch up with orders. Burglars tapped the safe in the B. & M. office at Juniata Saturday night and scooped in $70 in havd cash and other valuables. Residents aflirm that the petrified re: s of snakes recently discovered near Chadron were confined in the boots of tenderfoot correspondents. Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Brown, of Hast- ings, have bean presented with ' hand some China bedroom set by the G. A, R. post and relief corps of that ecity. A Bostonian threatens to scour Platts- mouth with a soap factory. 'The Journal intimates that the institution is needed asit “‘would pay a handsome profit.” The Fremont water works are rapidly approaching completion. The contrac- tor expects to start the machinery next wll't)kt and make an informal test of the planf 4y es broke into the office of Super- intendent Hall, of the Elkhorn Valley road, in Fremont, Saturday night, and sceured boodle to the amount of two postage stamps. Five hundred Sioux citizens excurted to Covington last Sunday and disposed of seyeral dozen kegs of beer and other It was a full-fledged protest against Sunday closing. Harding’s Dairyman is the title of the latest addition to the weekly press of the state. Asits name indicates it is devoted 10 dairy interests, and is published by Harding Brothers at Wisner. Clarence Barboe, the kidnapped Nickel Plate acrobat, who appealed to the police of Fremont for protection, has been sent home to his parents in Savannah, Ga. Sheriff Curran accompanied him. The highest postoflice in_the country and probably in the world is in_Sioux county, this state. The Chadron Demo- crat says: ‘‘The Bordeaux postoffice has been removed to the switch about seven miles above the watertank.” Reuben Stover, of Fairfield, has a curi- osity ina dwarf colt that woighs only thirty-three pounds and measures twenty- five inches in height when standing. The sire and dam are both good-sized horses. MacDonagh, of the O'Neill Tribune, threatens to run on his shape for the next legislature, Mac’s understandings would cover and crush a multitude of rivals, while his lung power is sumply unlimited. West Point's water works have just been fimshed, but the final test has not beon made. It is the stand. pip eystem, with a reservoir holding 8,000 barrols plled in three hours by two pumps. There is about 18,000 feet of pipe. Hum Wan Tan, with a halo of leprosy lmulmnzlmg his brow, swallowed a lib- eral dose of opium at Chadron- and fled to the spirit land. H}E remains were tenderly planted with sufficient grub to feed a [ ve corpse for a month, The latest strike is reported from Be- atrice. A lot of tramps in charge of an officer to serve out sentences under charges of vagrancy, refused to work on the streets unless paid for the work. At last accounts they were still striking. During a recent thunder storm light- ning struck the stables of Peter Ryan, near [nmun, and burned them to”the ground, together with the contents, con+ sisting of fourteen head of cattle, tools, grain, hay, ete. The loss was about $1,000. A promiscuous tough named Bill Ellis, is in jail in Kansas City for killin his wife. Last ycar Ellis was arreste in Otoe county for attempting to outrage the daughter of a widow near’ Dolta. He succeeding in quashing procecdings by marrying the mother, moved to Kansas City e AtAn bt Frank Hazlett, one of Cherry county's “best young men,” eloped with the wife 1bor and went with civilization westward, When the forsal husband reached Valentine and convinced himself that he was again ‘‘free,” he telegraphed his sympathies to Frank and permitted his joy to overflow in soothing bowls. “Confound my eternal timbers,” shouted the editor of the Fremont Herald; “every time I attempt to point a moral or adorn the caudal attachment of a ‘tin horn,’ the infernal pencil must break off short. What infected scoundrel took my knife?” And the mercury instantly climbed out of the sanctum. The Plattsmouth Journal ruthlessly cut off from the fountain of pictorial demwocracy in Omaha. No ver- dant “‘tin _horn’ "will be permitted to slake his whistle at the source of all that is great and good in Nebraska unless he burns incense at the ducal throne. ‘The Journal will at once proceed to car hole for itself in the pulihcul boneyard. Henry Fric ing near the shops in caught in the act of gasping for breath suspended from a rafter in his house, Monday. He was cut down in time to prevent a funeral. Fricke is so con structed that work in any shape or form makes him weary, and how he secu sufficiont cnergy to put the rope aroutd has been Plattsmouth, was his neck and jump off will ever remain & nuystery. Little Bertie Hymer, of Holdred, A narrow escape from death one day weok. Ho was kicked squarely in the fuce by a horse, his face being badly lac- erated. This is the third time death has reached for him. Once he fell head first into a cistern fifteen feet deep, and at another time he took a dose of deadly acid. The little fellow is not yet 3 yoars old, but'is again toddling around examin- ing l‘his world of casualties and lini- ments. lowa items, The Corning oreamery handles the pro- duct of 2,300 cows. The Farmers' alliance at build a grain elevator. A large number of farmers in the vicinity of Aurclia have gone into the raising of sweet potatoes, The fourth artesian well at Belle Plaine was struck on Thursday at a depth of 230 feot. It raises water 85 fect abuve the surface. A 5-vear-old daughter of Henry Fifer, of Nevada, was seriously burnced about the shoulders and face on Wednesduy by her apron taking fire from a stove. William Mahafty, who died recently near Red Oak, came to Montgomer) county fifteen years ago with a team and 700, He left an estate valued at $40,000. The papers say 8 young man in Craw- ford county has ented & corn husker, which husks tweive acres a day, and that he has refused an offer of $50,000 for the patent. When the wind storm struck Milton Van Buren county, last Sunday,a tuneral was in progress at one of the churches. The people beeame frightened and hur- ried to th homes, leaving the corpse alone in the church. A few old houses blown down was the extent of the dam- age. Last week, a divoree fr Aurelia will offerson, a man secured wife, and on the same day » woman sccured a similar_decroe m her husband.. The next day tho n were married. The man had pos- sessed four wives and presented his bride with six children as his proportion of the flock. The News says that the citizens of Marcus are giving an hour h day to practice,” and are getting so that an dive into a cyclone retreat with all the ease and gr hown by » profes- sional acrobat. Johnnie Archer, a youthful plowboy living near Algona, startled the neigh- borhood as we sherift by tefe- phing the latter that the Melerke de: in the vicinity and had The sherifl and “two depu- ties were promptly on hand, and a num- ber of armed men stood ready to exter- minate the ruftians at the bidding of the officers. When everything was rcmi{ for a raid, the boy confessed that he had been rouding the oxplolis of the Jumos boys, and wanted to see how it worked. The sheriff explained with his boot and the crowd dispersed. For some time past the superintendent of the union stock yards in Sioux City has been missing lambs from among the large flock of sheep l“m.lfv shipped in. Saturday it was discovered that a lot of the young children in_that part of the city had been kidnapping the *kids” and carrying them home for pets, some fami- s securing several in this way. The children talked of the matter at school, and told the more timid ones that the company didn’t care anything about the lambs, and all that was necessary was to catch them. This advice had been fol- lowed until about 100 young sheep came up missing. Warrants were issued and sev- enteen youngsters were rounded up by the ofli aturday, and the parents of the paid war prices for their ‘‘pet shot at him. lambs.” ' Dakota. A creamery is being built at Hurley to use the cream of 1,500 cows. The Rapid City Tin Mining company llnal been organized with $1,00),600 cap- ital. mSix Indians have formed a transporta- tion company and are carrying freight betweon Buffalo Gap and Rapid City. Several horses afflicted with glanders have been discovered in Buffalo, near Sioux Falls. They have been ordered shot. A large number of cowboys are in Pierre awaiting the arrival of 1,200 head of cattle for the King range on the Belle Fourche. The yearly imports and exports of Dell Rapids are about 2,600 carloads. Fully 1,000 carloads of paving blocks have been shipped from that place during the year just ended. EIS. W. Kidder, of Vermillion, has an in- cubator which'is hatching out chickens at tho rato of ifty per day. 11 lius now nearly 2,000 chickens, and expects o have " fully 6,000 before the close of the season. Colorado. One thousand shade trees from Ne- braska have just been set out at Fort Morgan. i Frank Stiles of Nebraska has arrived in Salida with $25,000 to invest 1n a cattle rauch and oattle. The Brighton creamery, in operation three years, now produces 8,000 vounds ke, & worthless fellow resid- | | of butter per week. The people of Silver Cliff are jubilant just now. They have paid off $110,000 of bonds and are going to oelebrate with a bon(d) fire. Several families from North Bend, Ne- braska, have located in Sterling. 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