Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 22, 1886, Page 4

e THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, MAY 22, IS5w. s Fm OF¥RIoR, NO. w14 AND 00 FARNAM ST THE DAILY BEE. York Oxrion, Room 66, TRIBUNE BUTLDING ASmINGTON OrriUR, NO. 513 FounreesTn S Published every morning, excopt Sunday. The guiy Monday morning user pubiished T the TERMA Y MAIL: o Yonr. . £10.00 Three Months x Months. 6.000ne Month " fme WeekLy Dre, Published Every Wednesaay. TERMS, POSTPAID! e Year, with premium Year! without pren: Monthe, without premium 16 Month, on trial. CORMESPONDENCE: Al communientions relating to news and l.\dl- torial m: % should be addressed to tho Epi TOR OF -1k BEE. BUSTNESS TRTTERS: All businoss Ietters and remittancos should be padressed 1o Tk NEE PURLISHING COMPANY, IARA. Drafte, checks nnd postoffice orders 10 be niade payable to the order of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS E. ROSEWATER. ED1TOR. "~ THL DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. State of Nebraska, |, o County of Douglas. ) ™ ™ N. P. Foil, cashier of the Bee Publishing eompany, does solemnly swear thai the ac- fual circulation of the Daily Bee for the week ending May 14th, 135, was as follows: Saturday, 8th. Monday, 10t “Tuesday, 11t Average. N. P. FEIL. Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 6th day of May, A 1), 18%. S0y J. FISIER, Notary Public. N. P. Feil, hflln¥ 1 duly sworn, deposes rml says that he is cashier of the Beo Pub- ishing company, that the actual average daily circulation'of the Daily Bee for the month of January, 183, was 10,378 coples; for February, 1886, 10,505 copies; for Mareh, 1886, 11,557° copies; for April, 1856, 12,101 coglm. worn to_and subscribed before me this 5th day of May, A. D, 154, SIMON J. FIsHER, Public. HANGING is not yet played out in Ne- braska, even in the frontier counties. THE question which interests the gos- 8ins of the country is whether the death of Miss Folsom's grandfather will post- pone that expected marring ALDERMAN JAEHNE, of New York, goes to Sing Sing for nine years and ten months, Other aldermen are likely to follow suit. It will be a striped suit. TrE press of Chicago is hauling Mayor Harrison over the coals. It is a wvery lively roasting that he is getting, and the indications are that it will be) a wvery hot summer for him. Aninsane man recently attempted to exhibit himself as a statue in the capitol at Washington. He must have made Vinnie Ream's monstrosities green with envy. THE plucky agent at Ph;;lillge insist- ed on standing hisground and courted re- moval, sooner than to yield a point which he felt convinced was in the interests of peace and quiston the frontier. A CHICAGO gas company is offering to furnish tireraity and itsitizens with gas at 65 cents per thousand feet. Itis slow- 1y beginning to dawn upon people that there is n large margin of profit in gas even at §1.50 a thousand. o G BRroTHER BLAINE is silently getting in his work for the next presidential nomi- nation.. It was astill hunt that won in 1884,Ad 'the 'silent policy is bemng re- peated:for use in 1888, Politicians who have been counting on Mr. Blaine’s final retirement from the arena of active polit- feal life will find themselyes woefully mistaken before the next two years have passed into history. Whether or not the gepublican party is yearning for another eandidacy of the man from Maine is a different question, which only the next mnominating convention can decide. But unless signs fail, the friends of the de- feated nominee will briskly push his flnlml for recognition as Grover Cleve- nd’s successor. ——— Prince KRAPOTKINE regards the labor orisis in this country substantially tho geived with a broad grin by Americey, N laborers, especially by thoss whetiave | gmigrated 55 this' countey from abroad rean thio bonefits of American institu- ons. A country where every laborer 3 ?n cast his vote for laboring men for , where the ballot of & workingman 88 heavy as that of a millionaire, ¢ where property can be acquired and held . and where the majority rules, 18 | #0 far different from those where wealth, caste and tyranny rule the ,‘“ that there 18 no ground for compar- fson, especially in regard to the interests condition of the working classes. ism flourishes abroad because vio- i it revolutions alone can break down R political, social and economic bar- which law and custom have for cen- L " turies been erecting between the poor the rich. In froe America the ful ballot can accomplish more the anarchists' bomb., It is be- American workingmen know that v hold a more powerful {aul:‘,dy for r wrongs that the Mosts” and apotkines and Parsons and Fieldings 4 to exerclse muck influence in this gountry. — L Tue same point involved in Judge Brewer's Kansas docision that the state must pay damages done to brewing and distilling intevests by the operation of a mlblwry law is now raised in Rhode d, where a prohibition amendment has recently been adopted. The ball has . been sot in motion already by the intro- duction of a petition to the supreme court for the ahrogation of the amend- ment, on the ground of the payment of . registry taxes by others than actual yoters. Several brewers, too, propose to test the validity of the amendment, elaiming that, as this addition to the fundamental law ruins their business and makes their special buildings and ma- | ehinery worthless, it is virtually a viola- #ion of that portion of the constitution " of the United States which provides that rty shall not be taken without com- ation. This question will be Y itely sottled by the United States _gupreme court some three years after the reaches the overcrowded docket. 8 is the average time which it takes to 1 a decision from the highest federal unless the question involved is of mportance that the bench gives it edence, to the disadvantage of othor who have been waiting for their same as it Is in Burope. This will be rg. I The Cause of Depression. In the first annual report of the nation- al labor bureau, the commissioner, Car- rol D. Wright, has shown his surpassing fitness for the office which he holds. Itis doubtful if so full and clear a summary of the Tabor trials and troubles of our day has before been made. In submit- ting his report Mr. Wright reminds Sec- retary Lamar that the object of the bu- reau’s work during its first year, as agreed upon between them, was to col- lect information relative to industrial de- pressions, their causes and character, in this and other countries, in order to get a body of facts which would enable the bureau to deal intelligently with symp- toms of disturbance that might appear hereafter. The commissioner, in the vol- ume before us, has carried out this rather ambitious vrogramme with an admir- able degree of success, Beginning with 1837, we are given a careful history of strikes, lock-outs, strifes and ‘“‘hard ti " generally, not only in this coun- ', but in Great Britain, France, Bel- gium and Germany. Mr. Wright considers these manufactur- ing nations as a group, and finds that they are at present “suffering from in- dustrial depression novel in its kind " In all there has been the usual volume of business, but without the usual profit. “Over production’’ is the foundation of the trouble,and this ove rproduction, Mr. Wright finds, prevails in all alike without regard to wide and radical ditferences existing in systems of trade and com- merce. The cause of over production, acording to the laber commissioner, liesin the ne 1y aroused ambition of nations to produce, joined to a disposition to shut their home markets to competition under a protect- ive policy. As a natural consequence they restrict the sale of their productions to the home market with the result of loading the market with the products of their labor. This in turn compels de- creased production, lowered prices for labor, and industrial depression. Mr. Wright's views will probably ex- cite a good deal of controversy, but his arguments are based on several hundred pages of carefully collected statistics which will have to be overthrown before the position of the author can be suc- cessfully assailed. The Jewel of Consistency. While the business manager of the re- publican railroad organ is in Washing- ton lobbying for the bili to enable the Union Pacific to use its credit in build- ing branch lines, the editor takes great delight in reprinting assaults on Senator Van Wyck for introducing the bill. In other words, the business manager is lobbying for the Union Pacific at the ex- pense of the Union Pacitic while the e tor is flinging dirt for the Union Pacific at the expense’of the Union Pacifie. The services of one are about as valuable as those ot the other. The influence which the manager can exert upon the committee by his eloquence will have about as much weight as the influence which the editor will exert by his back handed attacks. It is only in keeping with the couvrse of the rotten and leaky bulk which has subsisted upon sub- sidies and has been sailing without rud- der or pilot for seyeral years past. Van Wyck didn’t expect to get any thanks from that quarter when he ven- tured to carry out the wishes of a large portion of his constituents. There is about us much consistency in his treatment since he has introduced the board of trade bill as there is in the New York Tribune flings at Tipton which are approvingly reproduced in Omaha by the railroad sheet. Referring to senatorial re-elec- tions in Nebraska the New York 7'ribune says that “the people of this state seem to dislike sending their senators back to Washington a second time. They did it only once in the case of T. W. Tipton who in those days was a republican, but is now recorded as a democrat of the vin- tage of '72.” ‘“Ihe vintage of 12" was the product of the New York 7ribune, which prides itself more on being founded by Horace Greeley than upon being maintained since by Jay Gould and old father-in-law Mills. The anti Ven Wyck literary bu-* ¥ aich hgs its !:cf.fiquarwu jn the s7hate gommittee on printing, has doubt- less inspired the Tribune with malicious flings, but its reference to the ‘‘vintage of '72" is a little out of place in the paper founded by Horace Greeley. ————————— No More Foollng. There is no further excuse for Mayor Boyd in witholding any longer the ap- pointment of a building inspector. He has attenipted to trade with councilmen for votes to remove Marshal Cummings. Failing to gain his point he declines to make any nomination for building in- spector and loaves the city with no one to enforce and carry out the building or- ¢ dinance. - This thing has gone far enopLh, 1t is now the duty of the 0ouno'to take steps to carry out the wirfes of the people which the mayo»9,orsists in disregarding. If the wsJor refuses to make the present building ordinance operative the council should repeal the old ordi- nance and pass a new one which will make the building inspector an assistant of the city engineer or of some other department already oreated. The position would then become an employment and not an avpointment. If the mayor vetoes such an ordinance it should be promptly passed over his veto, The city is growing so rapidly that tho need of an inspector grows steadily more pressing. We are erecting the most dangerous fire traps within the fire limits and laying the foundation for a great conflagration which® may destroy some of the best and most costly build- ings in the city sooner or later. The mayor's ae tions are not in the direction of the material interest of the city. He is either trying very hard to build up u political machine, or has a personal grudge ugainst the marshal, which the council is not disposed to gratify. The longer he waits with the appointment the more applicants he gots, and the more disgust he will create when he does make his pick. We waut, of course, a compe- tent building inspector, who will give hi entire time to the serviece, and there is plenty of such material available. Erm——— THE hair-brained lunatics in Omaha, who howl down all river unprovements on grounds of pretended economy should take o walk along Omaha'’s river tront and then compare the defenceless condi- tion with. the substantiul rip-rap work which protécts Kunsas City from the en- croachmeut of the Missouri. They would also do well to collect a few facts show- ing how the trade of that commercial center has been assisted by the barge line which national improvement of the water way has rendered possible between St. Louis and that point. If the many which has been wasted in spasmodic im- provements between Sioux City and Oma- ha had been added to that spent between Omaha and Kansas City, the river would now be in a fair way to afford an open waterway to the gulf, and there would be fewer doubters of the propriety of river appropriations for this section of the west. The trouble has been that the sums granted have been in driblets. Tho work done one year has been so small and so poorly protected that it has been badly damaged or enterely lost before another appropriation has permitted re- sumption of rip-rapping. Tur fact that the Indians on the Yankton reservation have established an rbor day and planted 1,000 fo trees, 1s the Chicago T%mes to suggest that the best thing in this line would be an annual Indian day to be celebrated by the planting of a thousand Indians, par- ticalarly those of the Geronimo class But to plant such Indians as Geronimo they must first be eaught, which, up to date, seems a very diflicult thing to do. le: Other Lands Than Ou The week has passed oft at Westmin- ster and Gladstone still hoids the helm Home rule even in the present parlia- ment is not yet beaten. The threat of the dissolution of parliament has had a won- derful effect in breaking up the ranks of the opposition, and the government polled a goo 1 majority on Tuesday in its motion to prolong the debate on the issue which the tory and whig coalition is attempt- ing to stifle. The premier 1s stronger in his position to-day than he wa a week ago. He is fighting ono of his old time fights, fer- tile in surpoises and earried for- ward with all thevigor of desperation. His record shows that Mr. Gladstone'’s most startling victories have been won when all h ends believed his cause to be irretrievably lost. Mr. Gladstone evidently has no intention of giving up his home rule bill except after a decisive defeat in the house of commons. He hs still the same advantage that he has had 9 allalongin the inability of the opposition in or out of the liberal party to agrco upon a counter-plan. The conserousness of this advantage is what gives credibility to the story that Lord Hartington and Mr. Chamberlain are trying to ma- ture a scheme for giving Irelaud some measure of local self-govern- ment, while retaining the Irish members at Westminster and saving the imperial control at all points. It will be a difti- cult task to prepare such a scheme upon which even the liberal opposition can be united, leaving out of view the irrccon- cilable tories and the Parnellites, though one or the other of these bodies must be won in order to pass a bill, and thongh no bill, even if it passed parliament, could be worked for a day in Ireland if the Parncllites strenuously opposed it. While an immediate appeal to the coun- try is much the most likely outcome of the situation, it is much less improbable that Mr. Gladstone’s bill will be passed than that any rival scheme will succeed in the house of commons. * **% European capitalists are commenting unfavorably at the condition ot French finances. France began the year with a debt of six millions of dollars and 1t has been increased since that time. No country in ancient or modern times was ever burdened with such a debt. It is twice as large as the debt of the United States at the close of the civil war. Itis one-tourth larger than the debt of England over was. The enormous debts of Engand and the United States were contracted to meet the expenses of But as soon as peace was securced they com- menced to reduce the amount of their in- debtedness. But the debt of France has been steadily increasing since the con- clusion of the war with Germany. The approprintions for the jresent roare greater than ever before and ih excess of those of any country in the world. The financial prospects of France arc very poor. There is scarcoly any i population. The wine and silk industri are declining, while the grain and meat producers declare that they must have protection in order to live. *'% The familiar saying, “Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown,” was never o * vividly illustrated and verified a§ #; {0 case of the Russian ezar. Tf‘;m,,_,ml and spiritual master of '301%.004) of people, he may well env=Tho poorest and mean- est of hiz »hjeots. Sleeping or waking, at 1o%e or abroad, at no time ar no ‘place can he feel safe a single mowent. He is ever at the merey of a relentless foe who may strike at any moment; & foe defying destruction, and from whom absolute protection is impossible. Go where be will, do what bhe may, ke is haunted by the spectre of his father's fate; a father, too, who was far more pop- ular than be himself is. Such a life is hardly worth living, and the pun ishment which the nihilists huve devised for Atexander I1L is as ingenious ast is terrible. It is the sword of Damocles re- vived 1n modern times. Just now the helpless vietim 1s lingering in Lividia, prevented, it is said, from fulfilling en- gagements elsowhere by fear of assassina- tion on the journey. But this terrorism will not accomplish its object. The Ro- manofls are a brave race, and the present czar is as brave as the bravest of them. What nihilism demands he will never give, and bomb, bullet and dagger may | do their worst. Mecanwhile what a | tragedy it is that is beng played in Rus | sia¥ * The Greek frontler question sl re- mains unscttled awaiting the decision of the newly formed conservative cabinet. There has been no elash of arms yet, and the little kingdom evidently recognizes 1ts helplessness of engaging in a conflict against united Europe, and is now play- ing the card of delay in order to win time for pressing her demand for terri- tory afresh upon the powers. * e Ulster’s justification for secession from the remainder of Ireland, should home rule be granted, is based on the assump. tion that the provinee is overwhelmingly Protestant. ‘The latest census shows that the populution of Ulster was 1,404,587, of which 531,021 was Protestant and 663,566 Catholie. - The Protestaut majority in Ulster, therefore, 1 only 187,45 in apop- ulation of nearly a 'million and s half. More than this, only four of the nine counties of the proviuce have & Protest- ant majority, the flrcfimdurmce of ro- ligious sentiment in the prevailing five counties being Catholio. As a matter of fact, only four coutities out of the thirty- two in Ireland desire td secede, * *"e The driving out of the Poles from Prus- &ia under the direction of Bismarck has begun. The so-called “‘Gernianization’’ of the Polish provinces is to be accom- plished by the simple but efficacious plan of buyingup the lands of the Polish land- lords and expelling the Polish peasantry. The land is purchased by the govern- ment, about 500,000,000 having been ap- propriated for the purpose. When the Polish landlord will not agree upon a price he is offered a certain number of years' rental and is thrust out of the country. Without choice or recourse on his part he ceases to be a land owner or oven an inhabitant of Prussin.’ The fate of the poasantry is even severer. With no accumulated surplus to fall back upon in many cases they must go to another land and among strangers to seek bread. * «*x The causes of the gres 1 in the prica of silver recently are not all known. Th drov in India council bills of exchange is one of them, but this alone seems hardly adequate to account for a fall of two and a quarter pence per ounce of silver bull- ivn since January 1. The London quota- tion now is forty-four and three-quarters pence per ounce, and the New York quo- tation ninety-seven and three-quarters cents. These are the lowest points ever touched. P Mr. Foster, the Canadian minister of marine and fisheries, has given notice t he will introduce into the Dominion parliament a bill to amend the act re. speeting fishing by fore Canadian waters. This is nan act of hostility to us. is one of tre But the ies, which cannou be interpreted by parliamenc. STREAKS OF LUC Edwin Booth has earned 800,000 in twenty weeks' work this season. 3 John B. Drake, of the Grand Pacific; Chi- cago, is said to be worth $3,000,000. Gov, Long, of Massachusetts, is shortly to marry the prettiest girl in Higham, Mary Anderson is disappointed because she did not realize more than $100,000 out of her American tour. Agnes Folsom, cousin of the president’s bethrothed, has made an immense hit in the new comic opera “Ermini Col. Folsom, Frankie's! grandpapa, is a dear old man, and hejcan write his name upon a piece of paver:representing $400,000, D. T. Patterson, recently appointed post- master atasmall town n Tennessee, w tormerly United States #enator from tha state. AL Edward C. Knight, of Philadelnhia, started trade on $2 a week. He is § millior but was happier when he drew hi bring cares. George Hesserich, & batber at Memphis, ‘T'enn., has by the death of an uncle in Bra- zil, just fallen heir to an estate valued at £5,000,000, ¢ John Dubofs, the dyfag! lumber king of Pennsylvania, recently deeded to his nephew his estate of $8,000,000, the consideration being onedollar, his object being to keep the estate intact, James H. Goodsell, the former president of the National Associated press, was verdiet of $250,000 against the Western Union telegraph company in New York the other day, It was for damages resulting from the destruction of his business by the Western Union. Alexander Wilson recently dug up an iron box containing $150,000, near Havre de Grace, Maryland. It was a portion of the fortune of John Stump, a relative, who dur- ing the war of 1512 buried his money. Itwas found by means of a diagram which Wilson discovered among a lot of old papers. The wealthiest preacher man in Chicago Is the Rev. Dr. Ryder. He is not preaching for a living now,however,as he is worth §250,000, partof it in Wabash rcal estate, but most of it in street car stock, He made all of Yis money out of his sacred profession and is ac- eredited by the brokersywith, the possession 98% great head for £oanciering, Mrs, Williain Shearer, an old lady of At- lanta, has received notice from England that one of her uncles who resides in N land had died and left a Yortune of 450,000 to be divided between three legatees, of which she was one. The others are & sister In Englapd and another in Australia. Thow, will be about $150,000 each, Alfred I'Onh‘; & )'.-uvr:r purchaser of un- claimed exXp7.qy and freight consignments, TEES5HY bought three boxes each about two feet square, solidly constructed and very heavy. The purchase was made at a venture, but on opening the boxes each was found to contain a_brick of solid gold worth about $12,000. The amount paid for tho three was $6.40, Richard Arnold. the deceased head of the firm of Arnold, Constable & Co,, New York, was worth at the time of his death not less ‘than $5,000,000. kis will provides for bis fam- ily and gives to his servants the following; John Kidnell, the coachman, 1s given $2,000; Margaret McCloskey aud Elizabeth MeClos- key, domestics, each $300a year and Mary Ann McCloskey $500 annually during their Iifetime. Luck is what counts in the western mines., A gentleman rejoieing in the honored name of John Quincy Adaws has been prospect~ ing for two seasons in Wew Mexico without success, The other day he discovered that his haversack was on fire, ‘his prospector’s glass having focused the sun’s rays upon it. ‘There were about a dozen pounds of powder in his haversack and Adaws threw it from him and ran, It fell into a crevice and a large mass of rock wag blown up. Adawms returned mournfully to gatlier up what might be left of his effects and his eager eye caught the “color.” He investigated carefully and found himself in possession ot an exceeding- 1y rich vein of ore, which the explosion had brought to view, He sold & third interest in his find for 816,000 and will make biz money out of the remainder. t Looking After His Patrons. New York World. P.T. Barnum has diseharged two of his efr- cus men for profanity during the perform- ance, Mr. Barnum pever permits his per- formers to usurp the prerogatives of his pa- trons. e o Good Advice. Ostukosh Times. There is one sentence in Powderly’s letter to the Knights of Labor that they will do well to keep in mind, and that 15 “to keep a jealous eye upon the doingsof the labor men who never labor.” —— Musn't Be Turned into a Lunatic Asylum. Louisville Courier-Journal. A contemporary says that “it can never be the national policy to reverse the grand and nable sentiment which proclaims the Ameri- cau républic to be the Lowe of the oppressed of all nations, the asylum to which all can fly from tyranny and wrong.” This “asylam” 15 all woll enough as long a8 we ean koep it from becoming a rather dangerous lunatio asylum. It is beginning to assume that char- acter entirely too rapidly for the comfort of other people, — Too Much. Philadelphia Record, 1t is rather too mnch to ask the people of this country to go to war with Canada in vindieation of the policy of taxing their sup- plies of food in order that the Gloucester owners of fishing sloops may grow rich at their expense. e — Mixed in Its Zoology. PittsturgDispatch. In an enthusiastic Mississippl organ Jeff Davis is described as “the lion of the lost cause.” This looks like a slight mistake in zoologieal classification. The lion is not the member of the menagerie who is in the habit of disturbing grave-yards. S i, ‘‘Honest Words to Honest Men." Chicago Horald. The oleomargarine lobby at Washington has issued a pamphlet for circulation to con- gress entitled, “Honest Words to llonest Men.” Oleomargarine makers are honest enough about anything except in the name they give their product. They call It butter, sell it as butter and get butter prices for it. 1ara Bel Kaneas City Times. Since “Clara Belle’s” death it is noticed that her contributions to the press are even more gamey than before. “Clara Belle” was not too proper in this life, and in her spirit life she is positively shocking. If there are packing houses in the spirit land “Clara’ mustbe renting an oflfice in the vicinity. S A Disgraceful Outfit, Omaha Republican. The Republican heartily coneurs with the BrE in pronouncing the outfit for the con- veyance of nails between the trains und the postoftice in this city the most disreputable and disgraceful outfit in the country. There isnot a 10-cent side show traveling through tha poore: untry towns, exhibiting two- headed cal fat women andsnakes undera ragged and w her-beaten canvas, that has not a better outiit of vehicles and horsetlesh. Our mail wagons look as if they had done duty on the ains before the Pacific road was built, and ever since. They are rusty dirty and weather-beaten, and are a positivo reproach to our finely-paved streets, tine buildings and beautitul city. The propelling —weakness—is no better. Little rats of mules, broken-down, spavined and half- starved horses complete the meanest outtit that ever served a great and rich country. Contrasted with the fine vehicles and sleek, spirited and well-caparisoned horses that serve in other cities, they bring a blush to the cheek of every citizen as they pass. A Study of the Cyclone. C. E. Goodwin, The cyclone is a beast of prey, 1t roams the western plains, 1t lives on_people, grain and hay, And swallows raiiroad trains. Upon the earth it is a power, And it never stops to rest; 1ts guit is ninety miles an hour Whene'er it does its best. Its homeis in the sunny south— "T'is there it’s reared and fed: It scoops its victuals in its mouth And travels ou its head. The lightning flashes from its eyes, While loud its voice doth roar; Its body reachies to the skies, Tts course is marked with gore. Now, where these mighty things exist Wlhich man cannot control, The fellow that would not be missed Must crawl down in some hole. ey ANOTHER NEW TOWN. Crawford, Dawes County, Into Prominence. Crawrorp, Neb., May 19.—[Corres- pondence of the BEE.]—The astounding rapidity with which the “‘wild west” is being changed to civilization is beyond the comprehension of any man. Imagina- tion may have full play, but realization is still without its reach. It is not the purpose now, to write up those places and things that are already made familiar to the country, although half has not been told. + The new town to be bullt on ths main line of the F. E, & M. V. Taiiroad, just on the east side of the United States military tesbryation of Fort Robinson, is already begun by two dry goods stores, one hard- ware store, two restaurants, one blacke smith shop, two saloons, one lawyer and one surveyor and locating agent, and many others are on the road, although the town has not been surveyed or jiat- tod; but the track layers got ficre on the 14th inst, (Fridgy:> %nd Tayed the side travic which 5 now covered with cars. The site of Crawford is in section 8, township 31, range 52 west of the the Gt principal meridian and on the rigbt bank of the mshhfii n&:fklmg W hite river. A more beautifs picturesque location is not to be found elsewhere in the broad state of Nebraska. The giant sugar-loaf buttes, that form a back-ground for Fort Robinson on the north, are but two miles away and a thousand feet high, fringed with pine, retlect in the morning sun a manificence that is superlatively awe- inspirmgflin its grandeur. They are so near as to appear tebe in your door-yard, and yet so far off that their roughnes is blended by their interlacing, which makes them seem more like a maguificent paint- ing than a reality of nature's handiwork. Five miles south” the evergreen hills re- lieve the vision by their symmetry and beauty; and, bending northward, like the walls of a great ampitheatre, when,reach- ing a point just five miles cast, the;' erm- inate in the tragic Crow Butte, 736 feet high, one which stands out so boldl thatit may be seen forty miles away, an: from whoso summit tho Black Hijls of Dakota are plainly discernable. To the northeast, at an opening angle of one hundred degrees, the grand und futile valley of W hite River impresses the idea of illimitable NS0, Crawford receives its name from the late Captain Crawford, who belonged to the third cavalry of this post, and who was killed recently on the borders of Mexico, “Who country is now oarpeted by nature, but the all-subduing plowshare is transforming the home of the ranchman into ilized homes for the on-com- ing millions. The All-wise Architect has here been most lavish of His bounty and His skill. The tests, so far, indicate a productive s0il, o moderate, healthful clime, und an intelligent, industrious and benevolent cluss of people. The lands along the valley are mostly taken, but back on the highlunds the soil is richer and nearer timber. ‘There is plenty of dead timber for wood and posts }or years to come. There is no under- brush and the g s abundant. Water is obtained by digging. Besides the labor of building, a house would cost but a few dollurs. Last winter the cattle lived on the range. B.F. Tuomas. Coming e Just One, Wall Street News: “I suppose yon learned a great deal while yon were out t,’ remarked a Boston man to a Boston youth whe had just arrived home after a trip of six weeks. “No, sir. I ouly lecarned oue new thing.”" “i4oad, why noty? *‘Because. after I learned how a mine was salted, I hadn’t any woney left for further tuition.” THE JUMBO OF THE STATE. Tho Mammoth Proportions of Oheyenne Connty Piotared in Plain Print. Reminiscences of Julesburg's Bloody Days — Wonderful Goological Formations and Other Products. SmNey, Neb,, May 18.—[Correspond- ence of the Ber.]-—-Daniel Webster once said, in describing the wonderful extont of country covered by the possessions of the United States, *‘that hardly does the rosy tints of sunset on the Pacific coast fade into the gloom of night till the At- lantic coast is bathed in the silver light of the new-born day.”” This can hardly be said of Cheyenne county, yet one need not strain at a gnat or swallow a camel to make it comparatively true. Cheyenne county contains 204 townships and 20 jor fractions of townships. It is 10 times larger than Douglas county, 14 timoes larger than Cass county or 20 times larger than Sarpy county; it is larger than all the counties in Nebraska border- ing along the Missouri river combined and Saunders, Lancaster, Gage, York and Hamilton countics thrown in; and yet it is but an infant; to-day there is not W township in the county’ but the wild cayote plays upon and the festive ante- lope roams at leisure o'er. There are val- leys on the North Platte river larger than the county of Douglas and level as Omaha asphalt pavement that are comparatively unsettled yet, There are eaus of table Tand larger than any three counties east of the one hundredth meridian, with svlendid soil aud plenty of timber near, where the white sailed crafts of the set- tler have hardly dotted yet. THERE 18 MORE WATER, more timber, more tillable land and less sand in the Soil of Cheyenne county th iy other county north of the Platte ri r andwestof theone hundredth meridian, Up and down the line of the U. P. rail- road at overy train station where ono o there was nothing but Texas on men and water tanks, there are now rapidly building up the future Chicagoes, Omahas and Lincolns. Sidney, the count, at and largest town in the county sitnated on the Lodge Pole cek, 116 miles west of North Platte, is the first division west of that y on the Union Pacitic railroad, it is a y, thriving little city of about 1,200 inhabitants. c FORT SIDNEY. is located here; 1t is a beautiful spot inside the city limits and is the place where Senator Manderson wants to ex- pend $50,000 in impruvin6 the surround- ings and conditions of Uncle Sam’s 300 bold and brave lpmtucturs, who draw hard tack and sleep between govern- ment blankets. Itis also settled upon as the location for one of the two additional land oftice districts which congress re- cently passed, and President Cloyeland did not veto. With aland office and $50,000 of government appropriations during the next year Sidney must and will boom. In latitute the central enne county lies nearly Omaha; in altitude it ayer: feet above the sea level or Tess that one- fifth the neight of Pike's Peak, or about 8 times the elevation of Omaha. In agri- culture every known product raised mn the castern portion of the state, grows ripens and matures with a wonderful incrense in size, quality and quantity. Mr. Robert Cheyne in town 19, K: 48, on the north side of the North Platte river, rai; ast year a piece of sod corn that yielded him 35 bushels to the acre of as hard and well matured yellow Dent corn as any eastern county in this state can produce. This corn was raised without any irrigation whatever, and in spite of the early frosts throughout the state last year, fully matured, and the same gentle- man is this year using for seed the same corn he #aised on the sod last year, WHAT COUNTY IN THE EAST raised seed corn on their first sod? This crop of Mr. Cheyne's nly settles the mooted question as to whether corn will mature in Cheyenne county. Oats, wheat and tame grasses alldo wonderfully well. With jtsimmense tracts of tillable ground and their won- derfu] produl;llvil) cks Cheyenne county B;i:mlius G s0oon be the banner county of hé state. At the state fair noxt fall Cheyenne county will be scen and recognized, not as the home of the coyote, the Texas steer, and the cowboy, but the Eden of the tasscling corn, the billowing wheat, the waving oats and the Irish lemon. In historic legends some of the scenes and incidents of its early border life would rival the tales of Walter Scott. On jts east boundury,in the corper of Colorado, on the south “bank of the Platte rivey, once stood THE FATED CIT¥ #% GLD JULESBURG, named wan old Frenchman by the neie of Jules Benaxi, whom Mark Twain afterward made famous as the man whom the desparado Slade tied to a poat and murdered between drinks and whose oars he always carried in his vest pockot. In 1865 the main supply depot of Ben Holliday's stage Jine was located here and at this time thore had grown up around this station a yillage of lort}r or fifty persons, while two miles west of the town Capt. O'Brien, now of Cheyenne City,was located with s company of lowa soldlers in a little sod fort. About 11 o'clock one day, sometime during the ortion of Chey- due west of i,'es about 4,000 ¢ ever year" _month of February, a few Sioux Indians made thelr appearance on the table-land to the south. Capt. O'Brien sent out a detachment of lwuntf soldiers to scout around and drive the Indians back, These men were decoyed back into the ravine by a few of those cunning maneuvers of those celebrated oux chiefs, White Antelope and Pawnee Killer, till finally, like the fated Custer, the were caught in the fatal trap and all massacred, but not till many an Indian warrior had paid the runnlly of their vie. tory. While the soldiors and Indians were fighting many of the inhabitants at Julesburg flew to the sod fort for protec- tion. Those who went were fortunate, for those who remained but a few miun- utes WRERE MASSACBED TO A MAN for hardly had the lust shots died away on the blufth till 1,000 Sioux warriors were murdering the inhabitants and burning the beautiful little town of Julesburg, with the immense buildings and lavge supplies of the stage company. After entirely destroying the town they next be gan a fight against the fort. Io this tight, after & stubborn and hotly contested bat- tle, they were forced to rotire badly worsted. In this fight the Sioux Indians had their tirst experience in bomb shells Capt. O'Brien dropped s few six pound shells amongst them. The Indians sce ing the little iron balls laying around, gathered about them with wondering eu- Tiosity. No Iudian ever looked for the second shell, but many dusky widows mourned over the fate of their too cu rious husbands. Such is a few of the his toric fucts connected with the name and history of Julesburg, which the Union Pucific people thing wields a more magic wand than the more poetic name of Den ver Junction. In GEOLOGICAL FORMATIONS, Cheyenne county eontains a few of the most eurious and wonderful rocks in Amecrica. Court house rock, situated on the North Platte river ten miles southeast from Camp: Clark, is squure rock setting back in dowme ou top, covering an areu of about ten acres and is 208 feet from base to dome. Itstands out on the pra tirely alone, six milus from any ulherl May2dot similar formation. Tt is composed of caleerions magnesia sand formation and from all sides resembles very much Douglas county’s new court house. It is one of the freaks and wonders of nature. It is an oxtremely deceitful rock, tor each one mile you think it off, it is ten miles farther still, and many a festive young tenderfoor has walked to the next station and get into camp rather late too, in order to seeit. The old Mormon trail passed along the north side of this rock, and its smooth walls of soft white stone almost as many Mormon names tes as Brigham Young's old g book. Twenty miles above this on the south side of the North Platte tands what iscalled the Chimney This is composed of the same ma- that court house rock is. This rock. terial chimney sets upon a funnel shaped rock about fifty feet high and covering about one-hali acre at its base. It is A PERFECT ROUND COLUMN of rock about sixteen feet in diamoter, and is now about 100 feet high, carryin; its size to the top. There is an old legend in this country that many years ago a young licutenant in the army was out with & party of soldiers, and” that one evening just to try his nou for prac. tice he shot fifty feet off from the top of the rock. Be this as it may, gs the rock now stands it is the most wonderful pro- duction of nature in the entire state of Nebraska. Twenty miles above this rock is what is known as Scott's bluffs. This isa spur of perpendicular sand stone cliffs about 500 fect high, joining up to the water's edge on the south side of the Platto river, and is noted far and near as the home of the mountain sheep, an an- imal essentially American in its origin and mountainous in its habits; many of these animals still reside, and make their homes in these blu Such is but a few of nature's wonders in Cheyeune county Along the south side of the North Platte river the brakes and bluffs are full of a fine quality of pine and cedar timber, and in these bluffs many a beautiful stream of cold, clear water starts on its journey to the sea In my next 1 will deal with the pro- ductions of Cheycnne county, treating on the amount of farming, horse and cattle raising being carried on, and its past and probable future success Josepn H, FAIRFIELD, b A Nevada Senator's Luck. Senator Jones in San Francisco Post: “I've always belioved in Providence since one day, years ago, when I was sheriff over in Shasta county. It was a roaster of a day and I was returning on_horse- k from a hunt for some sluice rob- be I was slowly following a faint mountain trail, and the sun was just bak- ing mo and the horse was in a lather. I came under the shade of a big rock and thought it would be pleasant to get oft’ and have a smoke. [ sat down on a cool bowlder, cut a pipeful from my plug, filled my pipe, aund felt for a match Well, Joe, there wasn't_a match any where in my pockets. Isearched and searched, but there was no match. 11 you, Joe, I felt worse over that disap- pointing than I've done sinco when the market has gone back on me and hit mo for a hundred thousand at a clip. But while I sat there on that bowlder wrapped in gloom, what d'ye squmm my eye sud. denly fell on? A match, by heaven, ly- ing on the trail not six feet away from me! I used it—though I was a little afraid to touch it at first—and had my smoke. So you needn't to worry how this political fight is going to cono out A man for whom Providence will go to the trouble of providing a match for a smoke in the wi of the Sierra Nevadas, where man's foot searcely ever treads, isn’t likely to get left when it comes to & commonnlace little thing like being elected to the United States senate. Ever since that time,”’ concluded the Com- stocker. “I've never refused a dollar to, a parson, and have g ally done my ost, a quiet, unobtrusive way, to make myself solid with the have to pull on Providence.' —— Keep Quiet And take Chamberlain Colie, Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy. It cures pain in the stomach almost instantly, geta 25 t bottle, take nothing else. You will need nothing else to cure the worst case of Diarrham, Cholera Morbus or bowel Jmoplu who tng, scaly, and phnply hus 1y - Which have appliod & gre troatmont wihout miccess, and wi formed | ! of Mills, & complaint. 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