Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 4, 1886, Page 4

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Fell, cashier of the Bee Publishing compaiy, dous solemnly swear that the ao- il circulation of the Daily Bee for the week ending May 25th, 156, was a8 follows: Saturday, 2. ; 750 Monday, 24th Friday Average....... . . P. FrIL. Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 20th day of May, A. D, 1 SisoN J. Fisurn, Notary Public. N. P. Fell, boing first duly sworn, deposos and says that lie Is cashier of the Bee Pub- lishing company, that the actual average daily circulation of the Daily Bee for the ~month of January, 183, was 10,378 coples for February, 1885,'10,503 copies;' for March, “18%, 11537 coples; for April, 1855, 12,190 ooR es, worn to_and Zuh:crlhpd before me thie 16th day of May, A. D, 18%, Sivoy J. FIsHEr, Nofary Publi THE newspaper correspondents are following the Cleveland trail. —_— Grover CLEVELAND will soon know what it is to run a grocery bill. Tie ‘“suburbs” have been put from eight to ten hours farther away from Omaha by those suburban trains. Facronries and mills cannot come to Omaha too fast to suit her thriving peo- sple. The hum of industry means the ‘hustle of permunent and substantial pros- perity. ITis stated that the photograph of Frankie Folsom has been copyrighted. It oan now be added that the original has been copyrighted also. WEe are beginning to think that the im- peachment trial of Auditor Brown, of Jowa, and De Lesseps’ Panama canal will be finished about the same time. THE postoffice department has named \three new postoffices Mikado, Yum Yum and Nanki Poo. Postmaster General Vilas is evidently badly stuck on the “Mikado.” THERE s no lack of republican papers ssupporting Senator Van Wyck’s candi- dacy. But the woods will be crowded with them before the campaign blossoms into full'bloom. NT is on foot to extend the South Omaha stock yards. It is onlya question of time when these extensions on the south will take in Kansas City as one of our suburbs, A MOVEME! SistER Rosk has left the white house for New York for a *‘long visit.” Sister ‘Rose’s importance has been much less- wened since that little eyent of Wednesduy sevening in Washington. James D. FisH, who preyed upon his Mellow men and was rewarded with a term in the penitentiary, is now praying dfor his fellow convicts. He is assistant 10 the chaplain of Auburn prison. SENATOR LOGAN, 1n his speech on Dec- woration day in New York, used several #Latin quotations. y8 suspecte Stbat he was a Latin schola It is hoped 4#hat the democratic oritics will hereafter #leave his English alone. iBeN Forsou gave away the bride at 4the white house wedding. The St. flouis Globe-Democrat cruelly suggests hbat “if somebody could contrive to give " 4hhe bridegroom away it would be a groat amelief to the democratic party.'” Wie home rule situation is like the ball St tlies from cup to cup in the thimble :w. “Now you see it and now you 't see it."” One day Gladstone is re- md ahead, another day Chamberlain ¥ d to be trinmphant. We bank our Putigment on *“the grand old man." ik correspondents nre pursuing Mr. flevoland on his honeymoon and are ssamped around Deer Park to note every mmovemont of the bridal party. The ident will be fully justified in reaf- ing his opinion that there is such a .‘hg us too much journalistic enterprise. LINE now sings the song _ @iithe shirt in Sing Sing prison, where he L gemlsundryman. If all the New York 'men who desorve Jachne's punish- are sent to Sing Sing, that institu- . J#ien will have a first class laundry force. graduation from the reformatory will have an honest trade with - which to makea fresh start. SrNaTor Dorpi’s readiness to impute - unworthy motives to the senior senator from Nobraska, in offering his amend- . ment to the former's Northern Pacific bill, bus reacted with sad effect. When a ie officer feels called upon to waste . public time in trying to prove his con- : ney, he makes the weakness of his position all the more manifest. stion of Senator Dolph on the " one side #nd Senator Van Wyck and the ? lio on the other, is not one as to oh railroad shall be benefitted or in- It concerns a subject of vital im- nce to the people, whether their oubted right to the rescrvaton of a wren of unearned lands now held by Northern Pacifio road, shall be jug- 3 away by the enactment of &8 measure ' of wery doubtful intent. Senator Van Wyok is cutitled to the thanks of the ic for his very effective exposure of schere. Robbing Both 8ides. Dishonest railroad management through unserupulous railroad wreckers is a double-edged sword. It cuts both , scoring investors in railway se- s and mangling producers who are forced to patronize the ronds, The stock s and inflators of capital who flonted Erie in a seaof water ruined thousands of small investors. The Goulds and Dillons who injected £10,- 000,000 at one flooding into Union Pacific benefited themselves but they paralyzed the , and left it to the *‘widows and orphans” who are uow appealing for leniency at the hands of the general government. In ad- dition they made it impossible for future managements to reduce tariff charges to a point sufficient to pay inter- est on a legitimate ecapitalization with- out throwing the road into the hands of a receiver, 1t is charged that Gould is Pursuing the same tactics with regard to the Texas & Pacific, which, though nominally in tke hands of a receiver, is actually more or less under the malign influence of tho great railroad destroyer. At a meeting: of T s & Pacific stockholders recently held the banking house of Henry Clews & Co., the head of that well-known firm was clected to preside. In taking the chair he stated that the meeting was called to prevent the virtual cont of the property of the stockhoide: ) plan proposed in the interest of the Mis- souri Pacific company, Gould's bet cor poration. Mr. Clews asserted that th was no honorable reason why the Texas & ific road should have been forced into bankruptey. In his own words: The managzement heretofore has been at- tended with the suspicion of unfairness toward stockholders, as the road has been run for all it was worth, solely in the interest of the Missouri Paciic company, and its present deplorable condition 1s an evidence that the treatment It has re- ceived has been unjust to say the least. Be- fore the rond was placed in the hands of a receiver its running oxpenses were 87 per cent of the gross earnings. Since then they have been reduced to 75, and, after being put in a fairly good condition, the road can be run at 60, which would not only provide for fixed charges, but would admit of a dividend on the stock besides. This Is the estimate of those who know--who are good judges of the property. He charges further that the prime movers 1 the proposed scheme of reor- ganization are men willing and anxious to sncrifice the interests of the Texas & Pacific stockholders for the advantage of the Missouri Pacific magnate, and shows the object in view as follows: The plan is to reorganize the road through foreclosure, which makes a forfeiture of its present United States charter. A state char- ter is to be substituted therefor, which ad- mits of the road being gobbled up at a bank- rupt price by a few individuals and leased to the Missouri Pacific in perpetuity. This action Is prohibited by its present charter. Combination, consolidation and des- truction are the three watchworde of Jay Gould's railrond management. ‘Lhe first and second are performed in the assumed interest of the public and stockholders, the last is accomplished in the sole intersst of the veteran stock jobber. The result 18 the robbery of both capitalists and pro- ducing patrons of his corporations. County Koads and Bridges. Douglas county is a large county and the wealthiest in the state, but there are a dozen counties of her area which can boast of better roads, of better brilges, and of easier access to the local markets. Now, that Omaha is pushing its suburbs s0 rapidly and so far into the country, the demand for good thoroughfares from the city west and south becomes more and more pressing. Our farmors wish easy and safe access to the city and our merchants complain loudly of the dif- ficulty of traveling into the country. One hindrance to a better system of county roads is the state law making sec- tion lines the direction on which free road may be laid out without expense to the taxpayers. The effect of this pro- viso in the vicinity of Omaha is to force these important thoroughfares over hills and down hollows to tho great destruc- tion of rolling stock and disadvantage to horseflesh. A number of our county roads could be much im- proved by diverting course and shortening distances to important points which they now reach by a roundabout system of angling around section corners. Such changes would in many cases materially lessen grades by avoiding steep inclines and this would correspondingly decrease the time between Omaha and interior points. The expense involved would be slight compared with the benefits to be derived. The time has come, when the wooden bridges should be replaced by durable and permanent structures over the streams crossed and recrossed by the county roads. Some of the county bridges within a few miles of Omaha are badly in need of re- vair. The attention of the commission- ers is called to the unsafe condition of the bridge opposite Spring Hill addition on the main road to Millard and Ash- land. The stringers are rotting and the viles are shaky. A serious accident, one of these days, will draw the attention of Commissioner Corliss from such castles in the air as tunnelling the Elkhorn to more practical and needed improvements as making the county roads and bridges passable and safe. —— We Shall See. Now that the assessment is virtually over we shall see what the county com- missioners will do with the lists. Some of the assessors have excused themselves for nssessing property at ridiculously low figures on the ground that the county board was not in favor of a general advance in the listing of real estate, and would certainly cut down assessments if property wus marked up to a third of its val The realty value of Omaha is at least $100,000,000. Lust year the assessment aggregated about $0,000,000. There were soveral changes made in the assessors, books and in almost every instance the change was in the direction of low ing the amount as listed. It is neealess to say whose property was thus benefited. The people of Omaha are now thor- oughly aroused to the iniquitous diserim- inations in favor of a few wealthy land owners who count their unimproved city lots by the hundreds, and who influence assessors and commissioners to list their real estate at from one-tenth to one- twentieth of 1ts market value. A large proportion of our eity property s as- sessed at about one-fourth of its selling wvrice, but fully as much more escapes being taxed for more than s tithe of its market value. On & tair assessment Omaha would have an assessment of $25,000,000, on which to make the annual tax levy. The Bexr has been making some inves- tigations into the work of the assessors and it proposes to publish shortly, if ne cssary, the results. It will show who are evading their just proportion of taxa tion, and how they accomplished it. It will give names and figures and dates, in order that the citizens of Omaha may understand why this community is ham- pered in its efforts to complete needed public improvements by reason of an in- the public treasury. Tae residents of that section of the city m the neighborhood of Hanscom park are compluaining loudly of the in- adequate fire protection and water sup- ply furnished by the hydrants and mains. The prossure is scarcely enough to throw a stream over the curb and quite inade- quate to supply the ordinary wants of the households. This matter was brought up in the council before the last city eleciion but since that timesit has dropped out of sight. The right to lay mains and the contract for water supply entered into between the city of Omaha and the waterworks company presupposed the ability of that corporation to meet the wants of a grow- ing city. Such has not been the case There are hundreds of houses in Omaha to-day which a ot and cannot be ac- comodated under the present system of terworks even with the direct press- ure, which was not contemplated in the contract when drafted. A large area on the high ridge from Twenty-cighth street south and west of Farnam is either very badly supplied or entirely with- out fire protection from hydrants nd house supply from mains. This is admitted by the company, and it is also admitted, ns we understand, that under present arrangements the service cannot be bettered, The distributing reservoir is lower than a portion of the sections referred to, and the distance from the pumps is so great that pressure sufficient cannot be supplied. ‘This being the case there is only one course for the waterworks company, and that is to fur- nish a standpipe distribution for that rapidly growing portion of the city. This, it is true, would call for an increased out- lay. With that the public has nothing to do. 1tisafactthatthe city isto-day paying for a large number of hydrants which would be of no use in case of fire, owing to the lack of pressure, or in other words, to the inadequacy of the water- works system to supply a part of Omaha, which the city pays the company for fur- nishing with wate! THOSE suburban trains are not appre- ciated in the eountry, and there is a vig- orous protest all along the line against them. The mails are delivered about ten hours later than by the old system. Con- trary to expectations, these trains are of 10 benefit to the city or country, but are really a detmmment in many respeots. ‘This is & matter that should be invest gated by the board of trade at its next meeting. Some action should be taken to induce the railronds to returnto the old system, if that is found, upon exami- nation, to be preferable to the patrons of | the roads. If the protests which we are reeciving are any criterion, there ought to be no difliculty in convincing the rail- road managers that a mistake has been made. Tue Young Men’s Republican club of Plattsmouth, which is one of the most enthusiastic political organizations in Nebraska, will give its semi-annual ban- quet on the evening of June 10.. This promises to be one of the great political events of the year. Among those who have been invited and who are expected to be present are Senator Van Wyck, ex-Senator McDill of Towa, Licutenant Governor Snhedd, of Ashland, Hon. John M. Thurston, John Rush, Judge Dundy, of Omaha, P. W. Wilcox, of lilinois, Hon. John F. Stone, of lIowa, and many other prominent men and speakers. Just as soon as workingmen appre- ciate that sensible tariff reform means more work and equally good wages with a greater purchasing power for the dol- lar, the grip of the monopolist manufac- turers will be loosened from the throat of American industry. Obstruction to the free interchange of the products of labor and free competition in labor itself is a one-sided programme which is too incon- sistent to last forever unchallenged by thinking workingmen. TuaT sanguinary sprig of British no- bility—Lord Randolph Churchill—has a deal to say about the democracy of England. We wonder what healthful occupation this bellicose youth would be made to follow if the British democracy had control of their own country. In that event, no doubt, it is fuch noble barnacles a8 he, and not the men who follow Mr. Gladstone, that would haye to tight for their lives, Tag Heraid suggests that the proper thing to do is for the Bex to file charges with the governor against Mr, Babcock. Charges have been filed against Auditor Babcock in the columns of the Bek. Tha as far as the BEE or any other newspaper generally goes when assum- ing the role of public prosecutor, We repeat that it is now the duty of Governor Dawes to suspend Mr. Babcock and have his administration of the auditor's office officially and properly investigated. Tue discreet and indefatigable Lamont has been heard from again. This time he goes into ecstacies on the subject of the bride's petticoat. He is undoubtedly the author of this fine piece of deseriptive writing: *“T'he briae wore an enchanting wedding dress, garnished on high cor. sage, with India muslin carried in ex- quisite folds of simplicity over the petti- coat.” Jeflersonian simplicity, we sup- pose. — Mgz, BLAINE'S utterances on the Irish question, at Portland, cannot be regarded as evincing any great familiarity with his subj But when an American of such great national prominence speaks on such an occasion, it may well be said that the cause of Irish political freedom has enlisted the hearts of the American people. S ———— TuE answer given by Powderly to the charges made against him at Cleveland will not distract any from his reputation for good sense. The charges emanate from New York. - Thatalone stamps them as worthless. A mangier set of politicat heelors don’t crawl. on the top of this planct than most of the fellows who set themselves up in New York to represent the workingmen. OXE of the most sensible of the demands made by the Kniglits of Labor, in regard to land tenure, is &lmply a reproduction of Senator Van Wyek's biil, now pending in congress. It1s a proposition for the “immediate issue of raitroad land patents where the conditions have been complied with, 5o that local taxation may begin at once.” —_— “ApoNnis” Dixgy, the New York dude actor, was hooted and hissed in London when he sang his favorite song, “It's English, You Know.' 'This insult to Ameriean talent will be considered by the New York admirers of Dixey as a greater outrage than the seizure of that fishing smack Iris a pity. that the democratic sim- plicity of our attorney-general, in the matter of dress, should take so sus: piciously monarchical a form. He clings to the Prince Albert with amazing devo- tion. The ubiquitons swallow-tail often leads to distressing mistakes of personal identity. It is to be hoped th: the outcome of this interminable talk in congress on the oleomargarine bill, will *at least be the protection of the public against the sale of the product, for anything else than what it is—a combination of animal fat and cotton seed oil. eos of fate. Who hought, during the struggle at Chicago in 188, that preparations would, within two short years, be made on the same day for the funeral of John Kelly and the wedding of Grover Cleve- land. It is said in behalf of Auditor Babeock that he is only following a precedent. hat is no excuse for his course. Follow- ing a bad precedent has got better men than Mr. Babeock into serious trouble. TrE fact that Herr Most goes to the penitentiary for one year and is sen- tenced to pay a fine of $500 shows that talk is not always cheap. Dr. MILLER says that_he wants “noth- ing whatever of political office or station, appointive, eleotive or otherwise,” Sour grapes. KINGS AND QUEENS. Queen Christina’s baby son will not en- deavor to wulk Spanish for a few months yet. Queen Victoria willjsend Clristina’s baby a silver mug with “drink liearty” on the rim. Y. R S ‘The shah of Persiahias dately become en- ormously rich, principally by unscrupulous commercial transactions, * The prince of Walés phys his cigar bills out of his duchy of s,‘urhwull. The dewm'd total is oaly $39,000—a mere drop. The princess of Wales is now so very deaf that she cannot even hear when H. R. H. praises Mrs. Langtry’s las new bonnet. Queen Victoria has ordéred the royal box put in preparation for occppancy during the forthcoming operatic season in London. The princess Bargash, Sald Medtid, sister of the sultan: of Zunzibar, i now visiting Paris and exciting much adwmiration for her superb horsemanslitp, Queen Victoria has frowned upon the cus- tom of wearing stuffed birds as ornaments; but she has sald nothing about the wearing of tne wings and tails. A bird without a tail would be in very much the same position as a ship without a sail, Queen Victoria was sixty-seven years old on the 24th of May, and on the 20th of June will enter upon the fiftieth year of her reign. Never a great character in any sense, she has vet 80 borne the honors and met the obliga- gations of her high office as to command uni- versal respect. Her long career has not been free from occasional blunders and weak- nesses, but taken all in all it is undeniably creditable, and history will find cause in some particulars to render it a degree of praise that cannot fairly be accorded to that of any other of all the women who have sat on thrones In Europe. —_— Marrying on a Good Salary. New York Sun, “Fifty thousand a year, Dan, is not a bad income to get married on?” *“No,” said Dan, “but you can't tell how long it is going to last.” ] A Stab at General Howard. Chicago Tomes, General O. 0. Howard has an article in one of the magazines on what he knows about the freedmen during the war. But anarticle telling what the freedmen know about Gen- eral Howard since the war would doubtless be more interesting, ‘What an Ambitious Editor Would Do. Geneaeo (IUL) News, If we had a pen as big as a Kewanée girl's foot, Penney’s slough for an ink-stand and a township for a page, we should write across that page “Boil it Down!” and send a copy of It to every newspaper correspondent, preacher and school graduate in Henry county. 0 Is this Mr, Morgan, of Kearney? Kansas City Times, A Nebraska postmaster having been charged with peing “roaring drunk,” ad- mitted the Impeachment on two specifica- tions, One wasthe time of Grover Cleve- land’s election, tho other was when the republican postmaster was furned out and he was put in. While thie Times finds little excuse for a “roaring drunk,” it believes that if ever man timed his ‘drunks well that Nebraska postmaster was the man, e Great Minds Hun Together, Chicago Times, June 1, While Ella Wheeler Wilcox was horseback- riding the other day, the animal took ftright andran away. The poet of the passions stuck to hex seat, loweyer, And after an_ex- citing mile or two cawe out winner. The nag that tries to throw klla: evidently over- Iooks the equestrian experlente she has ob- tained astride the fiery’ and untamed Pegasus. —t ] Omaha Republiean. Juae 3. When Ella Wheeler Wileox vas out riding on horseback the other day {he horse ran away with her, but shé stuck to him and eventually came out us she had started—on top. ‘The horse which will indulge hopes of throwing anyone who has ridden Pegasus so long and with such success as Mrs. Wilcox, is deficlent in its wental structare, o oL A Few Years Aiter Brooklyn Eajle. "The wisest statesmen that franed a bill, And the bravest soldiers thatarried a gun, And the bestcommanders wers not born till A few years after the war wai done, ‘They censure, condemn, and pick out flaws, With hindsight keen and judgment rare; And it gives the startled lemlel_l ause To think what they'd done ifthey'd been there. We can't help wondering If it was rignt, L And just what providence dl?u rgr. To send the bunglers to win thy fight Aud save the generals till aftér the war, e War, . try n a BTATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Fromont sells more thorough-bred horses than any town in the state. E. Nicholson, of Vailton township, Red Willow county, was killed by lightning last Friday. He was passing a wire fence with'a spade on hig shonlder. The fence was struck first. His clothing was torn from his body and was on fire when his body was found, ten minutes after the stroke. The crop of river victims is im-rn-:uin[.i daily. Rodger, the seventeen-year-old son of Enos Talmagoe, of Butler county, was drowned 1n the Blue river last week mlptml to swim _the nver but grot entangled in the ng both under water. The pony escaped. Lightning enacted a_frightful tragedy a few miles north of Shelby last weck. August Johnson and Joseph Dixon were driving along the country road during a storm. Johnson had just remarked to his companion to dr slower when a bolt tore a hole through his hat, killing him instantly, knocked Dixon out of the wagon, killed the team and set th wagon'on lire. When Dixon r consciousness the wagon was ne sumed and Johnson's body burned to o The Cheyenne Leader sa. State Cattle company are ]m-})nrnlinnfl to start 10,000 h tle from their Nebraska ranges to the northw [t is probable that they may cross the Missouri, but they may stop in the Big Horn country. Mr. John Snod- grass,the company’ ager, was in the city yesterday purchashing a 1 ber of saddle horses for lfie driye. much farming going on in the Nebraska country for the good of the herds." Last Friduy night eight residents of Rushville went to the cabin of Henry Wallace, aged sixty-four years, dragged him out of bed, blindfoldéd him and Ted him two and a half miles from his cabin, then severely choked him, put a gun to his head and in other threatening ways tried to force him to leave the countr once. Wallace was contesting the claim of Ira Chapin, and for this reason be- came the object of the assault. Wallace's neighbors came to his rescue, and the perpetrators of the outrage, who are known, will be prosecnted. Towa Ite The saloons of Burlington are locked up with injunctions. All the contracts for the $125,000 court house to be built at Davenport have been let to outside parties. The East Des Moines high school will graduate twenty-five young ladies and only two of the opposite sex. Clarinda is happy over the announce- ment that the Burlington road will build a large and convenient depot at that place. At Cresco, Monday morning, a fly wheel in a mill bursted and one of the fragments fatally injured Grant Barker, ason of K. C. Barker, of that place. The twenty-first annual convention of the State Sunday school association will be held at Oskaloosa, June 8,9 and 10, Every Sunday school i Iowa is entitled Lo a delegate. At Des Moines three riderless, iron rey horses, bearing the names of Cirant, McClellan and Hancock, and beautifully decorated with white flowers, was a fea- ture of the decoration day procession. August Werner, a German cabinet- maker at lmogene, after devoting twumg years' study to the subject, hus perfectes a flying machine, which he fecls confi- dent will work a revolution in the present methods of navigation. Last Sunday a slick looking raseal landed in the village of Montpelier, at- téiided Sunday school, and in a few hours made himself “'solid.” During the night he entered Jeft' Chandliss’ store and car- ried off a shotgun, a dozen woolen shir several boxes of cigars and other “'su dries.” On a picce of Wrapping paper on the counter the thief wrote: “‘I'm a pilgrim and o stranger; I can tarry but awhile.” Dakota, The fifty-barrel roller mill to be built at DeSmet this summer will be the first one in Kingsbury county. Hard coal, said to be nearly equal to that of Pennsylvania, has been found near Canning, Hughes county. The average weight of mail matter daily rceived at Rapid City at present is about 800 pounds. The average sent out is about 200 pounds. John Little-John, an Indian living near Cherry creek, recently committed suicide. When his wife learned of it she plunged a knife into her heart, and went to join her lord in the happy hunting groun While digging a well on the Winnipeg regervation, . H. Owens, at the depth o thirty-one feet, found a stone kettle, on which was inscribed, in Arabic numerals, +1326. How it came there is a mystery. A Sturgis man tor beating his wife on the head with the butt of n revolver was fined $30 and sent to juil for Lhir({ days. At the trial a witness testified that the wife's head looked like ‘‘a piece of liver that had been chewed by a pup.’ Wyoming. The Black Hills oil company now ow: nearly 6,000 acres of land in the territory. Tracklaying on the Northwestern ox- tension is going on at the rate of two wiles a day. The new St. Mark’s church to be arected in Cheyenne will be 160x70, of stone and brick, and will cost $20,000, It is regarded as quite probable that $75,000 will be secured during this seasion of congress to finish Fort D. A, Russell. The contract for the crection of tho university building at Laramie will be let July 1. Ten stone cottages of six rooms each will be erccted adjacént to the uni- versity park. Cheyenne boasts of her remarkably low death rate and ascribes it to the yaluable services of her winds, which have the happy l:uzuhf' of blowing away consump- tives and malaria, Atthe western extremity of Rawhide Buttes lies the famous Muskrat canyon, which contains the richest copper mines 10 the world. Ore crops oat all over the country, and there are whole hills which coutain 90 per cent pure copper, Mr. E. H. Kimball, ar. Iowa veteral has turned loose on “The Rowdy West in the neighborhood of Fort Fetterman, and proposes to do i) the coun- racy style for a fair living. The Rowdy West, the first number of which was issued last is a lively paper. not only in its editorial and 1 runents, but in its pictorial representation of a progres- sive people, Au expressive feature of the head’ is the scores of mammoth business s, broad guage streets and churches terman of the near future— while just outside of town a pair of frisky whites are stretching out their dukes for the poll bangs of a dozen ce- lestinls. Railroads radiate in a dozen di- rections and & quaking steamer painfully plows the sand dunes of the shallow Platte. Just beyond the neighboring buttes cowboys are caressing & bunch of steers on a railroad t , while a smile o1 expeotd damag leans on the owner's check, Away in the misty dis- tance locomotives ale engaged in the cheerful work of tossing lrlr htened In- diuns over mountain tops, while graders are shoveling stiffs and savagery into a common Il The pieture s & refresh- ing study ot border life, and deserves a nspicious place on the picadillies of the “eftute cast.”” Utah. ; The Silver Reef mines shipped during April, %33,439 in bullion. The bauks of Salt Lake rcport toe re- coipt for the week ending May 20, in. clusive, of $45,700.62 in bullion, and £09,265.44 in ore, a total of §114,006.06, The output of the Ontario for the past week was 20,988 44 ounces of builion, and two lots of ore of the total value of $14,080.13 were sold; a total value of about $15,000. The shipments of the metals from Salt Lake for the week ending Saturday, May 20, was 25 cars bullion, 609,053 1bs; 12 cars iron slag, 824,950 Ibs; § cars ore, 205,680 1bs; 4 cars sulphur, 125,000 1bs; total cars, 1,204,683 |bs Montay recent fire in Livingston destr 000 worth of property A anite Mountain mill is turning out about £100,000 net a month. A Butte faro bank suspended a few nights ago after losing $6, 000. The mammoth tooth of a pioncer, with a grinding surface eighteen inches square, was found near Helena thirty five feet below the surface The new smelter at the Butte City re- duction works, with a capaeity of treat- ing 100 tons of ore per day, started up Monday night for its first regular run. Nine contracts for surveying Montana's public lanc ve just béen let by the survoyor al, amounting in all to tl, 0. Eight of the contractors are Montanians It seems probable that the placer mines 10 the various parts of the territory will have a short season this year on account of the searcity of water, the snow fall in the mountains last winter having been unusually light. The Peerless Jennie mining compan; is the name of a company just orgamzed at Helena to purchase and operate the Vaughan mines on Red Mountain, which have produced so_much rich in the past_ten years. The ecapital stock is 1,000,000, ene The Pacific Coast. The San Francisco police are drilling th rifles. Thore are twenty-five papers publishod in Arizona. In Yolo county this year the estimated acreage in whet is 340,000 acres, and the yield 120,00) tons; in barley 65,600 acres and 24,000 tons. s ccitement in the neigh- borhood of Susanyille, in the Honev Lake country, Nevada, over the new gold workings south of thattown. Both placer and quartz mining is being prosecuted with encouraging success. Steps are uow belng tuken looking toward the celebration at Monterey, on Jul{’luuxl, of the fortieth anniversary of the taking possession of the lvrrilur{ of California by the United States and the hoisting of the American flag by Com- modore Sloat. The Sharon vs Sharon case i in the San Francisco courts. Sharon is mouldering in the dust, and Sarah Althea is now Mrs Terry, but neither life nor death appears to have any_effect on the case. Judge Terry, tho plaintiff’s hus- band, is a man of furious temper, one who has “killed his man,” and the fact that the defense has filed fifty atfidavits reflecting on his wife's character, strengthens_the beliof that there will be some shooting before the case is con- cluded. ———— The Faithless Land Grant Senators. Chicago Tribune. Senator Van Wyck's amendment to the sneaking Dolph bill at first proposed to forfeit all the Northern Pacific land grant “‘except as to all lands granted for that portion of the rond which was completed before July 4, 1879.” In other words, Mr. Van Wyck simply proposed to hold the road down to the exact terms of its agreement with the government. There was not a railroad senator present who dared to question the proposition advanced on the floor of the scnate that simply as a matter of law the failure of the Northern Pacific to construct the road in the time fixed put the entire grant in suspense, and that “the land is to-day in the same condition as though the grant had never been made. Yet after a few minutes’ debate on Senator Van Wyck's proposition 1t became cl that there was no chance of its adoption and the Nebraska senator thereupon amended it 80 that the forfeiture would apply only to lands not earned at the time of the enactment of the pending bill. Under this liperal proposition the road would have its grant extended seven years and could secure land for every mile it had covnstructed up to the present year. Yot this concession, 80 generous to the rail- road and so mild in asserting the rights of tho government, wus Oppos all the republican senators ex Munderson, Teller and Van if it had not been for the opposi the senators named the amendment would have been tabled. The Kansas, Towa, Minn 1, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and one of the Illinois senators were unable to oppose even to stopping the unlawful soizure of public lands by the Northern Pacific atthe pros- ent time, and would no support a meas- ure so liberal that it allowed the railroad xuvuuiyl-'.u‘s‘ grace and lands for ever: foot of the line built up to the year 1886. 'The so-called forfeiture bill, inthe form desired by all the republican senators save four, proposes to present as a free gift to the Northern Pacific lands estimated at over 27,000,000 acres and in value cqual to $100,000,000. The original grant was forty miles in width in "the states and eighty in the territories, from Lake Su- perior to Puget Sound, and_the valuo of the lands offered was at least that of the cost of building to the road. Yet western republican senators are not willing to say that this prodigal waste of public lands shall stop with the present year, Seven yoars’ grace for the railrond is not enough, and 1n the opinion of the west- ern republican senators it is not yet time to stop the looting of the pub- lie lomain, They insist now on takin frcm the people and giving to the Northern Pacilic millions' worth more of land not earned even under a seven ycars' extension of tho original grant. Votes like this when cast in the common councils of Chicago and New York suggest boodle and bribery, and they eannot be registered in the sen ate of the United States with impuntiy. ‘The nearly unanimous vote of the repub- lican senators on the Van Wyck amend- et was againat law, against equity, and against the emphatio pledges of the republican party. The Van Wyck amend- ment is not strangled yet, and the land grant senators who wi sape & reck for their betrayal of republ polic o hereafter as representatives of rather than as the retained ad: uttorneys of the Northern Pacitic, . B In Favor of Van Wyck, Ponca Advocate, With fow exceptions tho press of Ne- braska aure unanimous for Van Wyck's T :tion as senator, By all fair minded men Mr. Van Wyek is justly termed the “people’s friend,”” and whii¢ his encm continue to point him ont as a “‘cran of the most virulent type, we are proud to say that as yet his crankism hus re- sulted in a lasting be to the entire state, and to the discomfiture of all mo- nopoly cormorants, Then let us see to it that at the ballot box Dixon county is not backward in showing her apprecia- tion of the man who has always boen foremost in his advoeacy of the interests of the farmers in particular. —— Ten students of Heildelber Lifiin, Onio, were arrested for hazing a “Soph.’’ The affair caused #@ sensation collcge at STRICTLY PURE T CONTAINS NO OPIUM IN ANY FORM IN THREE SIZE BOTTLES, PRINE 25 CENTS. 50 PENTS, AND $1 PERBOTTLE @R CEN! RNTTLES At ni 1 for the @ cammodation of Al wha Ancire & &O0 and low nrinad Gouch. 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