Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 18, 1886, Page 8

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, JUNE 18 CULLED FROM THE CITY. A Wreok Gilmore — Other Notes. at Rail CAPTAIN MURDOCK'S DEATH. Fuall Particnlars of the Accident— Mrs. Festner Wants a Divore ~Bound for China—Police| Court Local A Wreck at Gilmore, Freight train number 50 due here Wed- desday at7:30,ran off the track at 100'clock p. m. at Gilmore and the engineer and fireman, Gentleman and Leonard saved themselves by jumping. There were on the train fourteen cars of grain, four of cattle and one of h The greater part of the grain cars were totally de- stroyed and thelr contents scattered over ground. A sumber of. the cattle bruised and two magnificent steers killed outright. The hogs were y shaken up. Several killed and the rest taken to shelter at the yards near the station. The engine ran on the ties for nearly an cighth of a mile, then scparated from the rest of the train and shot ahead jump- ing over the cattle guard and Im:llly toppling over on its sid; A hundred feet behind it lay the ears on their sides, on their heads, gtanding even on thei edges. Some were broken into kindling wood, others lay across the track, while others still foreed their way throngh the ends and sides of theif companions. Trucks wert ttered directions and other I was so wrenched as to almost ¢ repair. The track was torn into designs of all deseriptions, The train was running at the rate of twenty miles per hour, and it is not known what part of it ‘struck the cow first. The engine bears no marks of the contact, though cert: parts of the cars look as it they had met her. Wednesday at 12 o’clock men were summoned trom Papillion, Elkhorn, Gilmore, Millard and Om to the wreck. The early morn- ing train from the west had to transfer its mail and passengers. At precisely 1 o'clock the side track was finished and Manager Callaway, Superintendent Dorrance and Colonel Eddy in a special rar passed to the west, re followed by the Missouri Pa- cific train and finally by the west bound Denver, Conductor Blakeslee. It will require’ a couple of days to clear the wreck. Mr. Dorrance, superintendent of the eastern division of the Union Pacific, states to a representative of the Be the charge made inthis paper that the company is Irfin;: to economize by re- ducing the number of section hands and neglecting the road-bed is doing an in- tice to the company. The fact is, si $ir. Dorrance, that” ne company b during the last'five or six months out more mhney to put the road-bed in first-class conditicn than during equal period in the previous his the road. The company is rapidly re- placing the fifty-six-pound rails ‘with new sixty-pound stweel rails, and the track is being put into as good condition as that = of any western rond. :nger trains are making the run between Omaha and Denver in s entecn hours, while trains on the Iowa ronds are making the run between the Missouri river and Chicago, about the same distance, in twenty-two hours. company has’experienced some consid- erulhu difficulty in the Platte vall, of Columbus, owing to the pecu ture of the ground and the heavy r: and overflows. Gn the Republican Vi ley there have also been overtlows, The have been only five accidents on the Union Pacific this ye One of them is yet a mystery of thé managemont, which is-investigating the cas Another was caused by the trucks of a car breaking down, which is liuble to happen on any road, General Traflic Manager Kimball en- tertained yesterday in his office General Traffic Manager Stubbs, of the Southern Pacific road, who is on his way home from the east. Some routine matters of mutual interest to both roads were dis- cussed, and the old agreements were en- tered into for the ensuing year. HE FIRED PILLS. How an Omaha Physician Shot to Saye, “Talking about the Hoffman libel smit,” said a well-known Omaha physi- cian the other day, “I have always had a certain sympathy for horsethieves since a little occurrence which happened twenty years ago.’ *“Iell us about it,” chorused his audit- s then living in a little Missouri town,” said the man of medicine, “straggling along as best I could againsf adverse fate and the disgusting healthi- ness of the community i which my lot was cast. Horsethicving was a very common thing in that part of the conn- try, and some of the residents of the county in which I lived had formed an anti-horsethief associa- tion When a horse was stolen 1t became the duty of eyery member of the associa- tion to thoroughly arm himself, mount his steed and start in pursuit of the thief. One day one of the members of the association lost a string of three valuable horses, The identity of the thief was unknown, but fortunately a clue to the direction he had taken was given by a boy who had seen a stranger with a number of horses going west from town. Within less than balf an hour after the 1oss had been discovered a band of thirty members of the association were in hot purswit of the thief, over hill, down dale and through forests. \We manage to strike tho fellow’s trail about 8 o'clock in the afternoon and followed it closely. An hulf-past 7 o'clock in the evening we ran across him in a thick clump of bushes, the horses staked about him. We closed in about him, and in less time than it takes to tell it, the horse thief was under arrest. A “‘court’’ was organized without a moment's delay, and a trial Jasting not longer than ten minutes fol- Towed. The fellow was found guilty and sentenced to di I felt sorry for the mp, tried to i cede in his behalf— was a young fel'ow with whom I had been acquainted with for some time, and whom I knew to come from highly respected parents in Illinol It was of no use. The captors insisted that he must die, and only ighed at my en- treaties. To add to my disgust I was se- dected as the one to shoot him “Say your prayers, boy,'’ said one of the men to the young fellow who had been tied to a tree, - “The poor cuss didn'v know how to xrny. and asked me to help him. I idn’t know anything but the Lord’s prayer and tried that, It went so well and seemed to relieve the poor fellow so much that 1 repeated it several times, “Just as I rose from my knees, the de- tuils of o plan whereby L ight save the man's life flashed into my mind. whispered them nto his car,and his ateful look, as hope was revived in his art, 1 shall never forget. It was grow- ng dark and the men were becoming impaticnt, so that I determined to hurry tters to a crisis. I had a double- rreled muzzle-loading shotgun, and nder pretense that the loads were not sh I fired them off. 1 reloaded them, not with shot, but with some very swall ills which I happened to have with me. was pretty closcly watched, and trem- inwardly lest "I wight be detected ut I wasn't. I measured off a goodly ce on the ground, and fired, takinz # low aim. The borse-thief fell over, ap- parently dead. The vigilantes mounted their horses and rode away, leaving me to pury the victim. In less than ten min- utes the corpse was free and making a bee line for Kansas, The dose of pills had not injured him in the least.” onns A\.'n ENDS, Leaves From a Note Book, “It is not generally known, but itisa fact, nevertheless, that General Grant never wore a Grand Army of the Repub- lic badge until he was on his way return- ing from his trip around the world. And, will you believe it, the honor of bestow- ing one uvon him belongs to an Omahan This cireumstance I recall with peculiar interest, because 1 was”a witness of the bestowal.” The speaker was apromi- nent member of the and Army of Re- publie of this city. “You well remember he continued, “that when General Grant and s y reached Cheyenne, on their way home, they were met by a dele- onof Omahi citizens nearly all of whom had been through the war, some with more, others with less distinction There were many of them members of the Grand Army of Republie, and, as night approacked the o }.1. ure of enjoying a camp-fire in the Pullman with 0 renowned a comrade as the great of the army of the republic, was one to which every Omahan was nly alive. The subject was proposed nt and with a character gracionsly assented to enter, he remarked, T have no badge.” The breast of nearly every other man around him was — decorated with the emblem of the ( A R, while that of the generai was empty. “On the spurof the moment,J. R. Man- ster, who wore the newest bad rese and remarked that it would afford him th sure and honor if the gene pt the badge which the speaker wore. ( Grant smiled one of those assenting smiles peculiar to him, and_ immed K o handed the badge in’ question to Gen. Manderson and that gentleman, with the unctious grace and dignity peeuliar to him and belitting the oceasion, presented the badge in a most entertaining speec! The gift w. epted, the eamp fire was opened, and such a camp fire as it was, rich in memory and pregnant with mem- orable deeds, none save those composing 1t may tell. Mr, Manche: s the first and perhaps th badge General only a few days before his depar his trip around the world that he joined the Grant post at Philadelpl He had not been presented with a badge and went without one until the occasion of which I have just told you.” Stray Reporter's *“The veteran actor Couldock is a very gruff and unprepossessing old man to strangers,” said Mr. C. . Hess, of the musical festival, one night Iast week, as he was ordering six foaming lagers for a small party of friends. “Drinking beer reminds me of a little incident of my ae- i him. When he was 0,70 ago, the members of the Owl club, the swell organization there, tendered him a banquet. Ever thing went well for a time, though I, who was sitting near Couldock, could see that he was not_enjoying himself as well he might. Finally, just as the beer was being passed, in delicate cut glass gob- the old fellow broke out, ‘G—— —— t's get out of this. When I drink béer I want to be in a_place where they have handles on the glass nd sawdust on the tloor.” " THE DI_ULES DID IT. Particulars of the Death of a Gallant Army Officer. GeneraliCrook'yesterday recived a letter from Licutenant Chas. G. Morton of the Sixth infantry, detailing the ecircum- stances of the death of Captain D. H. Murdock of that regiment, who was drowned while crossing Grand river near Moab, Utah, in a ferryboat, This oc- curred some two weeks ago, it may be remembered, while Captain Morton was en route to southern Utah, to protect the settlers from Indian incursions, The river was 800 yards wide at the pomt where the erossing was made, the current being very swift. The ferry-boat was an old oné, and as developments vroved, a v e one. Among the DASSCNZErs c over with Captain Murdock fwere threemules. When tho boat got to the middle of the stream the animals became unruly, and, mule-like, backed into the river. The ferryman turned to assist the man who was struggling with the animals, and in his absence the rear rope slipped off the spike which held it. 'l'his threw all the strain upon the which was not strong stand it. The strands began to part, and just as the rope snapped, Capt. Murdock seized one end, thinking perhaps, that he might save the boat. He was jerked vio- lently into the river, however, and before assistance could reach him, had sunk for the lust time. The body wae washed into a canon and was never recovered. THE BUILDING 8OOM. other rope, enough to Some Pertinent Pointers Thereon— New Buildings. *“There will be double’ the amount of building done in Omaba this year than in any previous year, said a well known localfarchitect to a reporter yesterday. It was feared early in the season that the strikes would cause a collapse of the building boom, butlortunately, owing to the good sense of our workmen here, such has not been the caes, There s every indication now jhat the season is to be a tremendously busy on Four of the eastern builders are anticipating trouble on the first of July, but I donot think there is any dan - gor of airikos In Omaha, o Toonl briok Supply? It will be ample for all demands that will be made this ye; You news- paper men have been booming the town so that the brick manufacturers, in an- ticipation of a great harvest, have been working night and day, Many of the yards have doubled their capacity, and several new ones have started up. The consequence will be, as I have said be- fore, that we shall have plenty of brick.’ Mendelssohn & Fisher have completed the plans for the new Paxton building, which is to be erected on the corner of Sixteenth and Farnam, The structure will not only be the largest and hand- somest in the eity, but will also come pretty near being one of the finest in the west. Work on the structure will _com- mence July 1. The plans for Frank Ramge’s fivestory building on Harney street are also nearly completed and work on the foundation will commence at once, . e He Had Been Spreeing. Mike Cochran, one of the inmates of thepoorfarm, died yeste ken to the place from the eity juil seves weeks ago. For months he one protracted sp) i 5 city, and when taken sick was a complete wreek wentally and physically. e £ Prisoners Sentenced, In the United States court yesterday Judge Duandy sentenced H. G. Barper, the Waterloo man, convicted of forging vension papers, to four months in the custody of the marshal. Barber will be ) o in the county jail. Johu Piles, a man from Prescott, Neb., fined §25 for selling liguor without a license. al ad been on Bound for China. Yesterday'd foverland passenger on the Union Pacific contained a celestial gentleman of some note. He was the Cnincse minister to Cuba and was re- turning to his native land after an ab- sence of five years. A Bek reporter found him in the state- room of one of the sleepers. He was busy looking like a neai-sighted man through a pair of {-rimmed spectacles at his railroad tickets which were enclosed in a worn-out en- velope. Th were four others of his nationali ring the small apartment with mm," each of whom maintained a rigidity of position, n fixedness of fer ture, and a demeanor betokening the wtest respect. The minister was at- 1 in & long, slate-colored silk gown, reaching to the feet, while a trave cap of the same materiai fell backward from the top of the forehead to the base of the brain_ He gave his name_as Li Hung Kwa and though oferring to speak in Chinese was much difficulty to answer the reporte questions in glish, a langnage with which the latter had, so to sa more tensive speaking acquaints He had been in Cuba for three ye nd the greater part of the other two years he had spent in travelling through the An tilles and South America. He was on hus to his home in China, and after arest of about two years wonld probably re- turn to this part of the world. From the mnni.‘.-m manner in which Mr. rssed himself it was evident, he was concerned, that stment of state had a tender feeling for him or was disposed to treat its offic i 188, ensy time, The other celesti in the state room e his servants, with the exception of a ght little cherub of Chinese extr: tion, who in about the six years that i had lived, had acquired considerable of American airs and manners. Mounted Sword Contest. A friend of the celebrated athlete, Dun- can C. Ross, Qwho] will arrived Omaha last ning and left the following chal- lenge at the BEE oflie yesterd “If Captain Maguire means business, let him meet me this evening (17th), 8 o'cloc the Paxton house, and 1 will put_up 0 backing Duncan C. Ross against him in a mounted sword contest Mr. Ross’ engagements prevent him from postponing the contest longer than four ., should you desire it to take place cre. The contest may ce either in public or private, as Yours truly, R The Captain Maguire, for whose bene- fit this *‘defi” is posted, is a military man connected with the army at this point. He is Lto be an pert swordsman and desirous of trying a contest with the at athlete. If the contest does come 3 ill undoubtedly be an interesting one. The sport is novel and exciting, having but recently been introduced into this country. off Will Try a Habeas Corpus. Ed. Crowell, Isq., made application to Judge §Neville yesterday to secure the release of Wm. Fielder, the accused murderer of Ruhle, on a writ of habeas corpus, The writ alleges that Fielder is unlawfully held on a warrant sworn out by Wm.Coburn charging him with being a fugitive from justice. The charge upon which he 15 sought to be held by the sherfl’ is that of defrauding a man out of $30in a trade at Warrensburg, Mo. slder’s attorney alleges that the amount isnot suflicient” to constitute a felony under the laws of Nebraska, and that consequently he can not be held under the laws here. The application wiil be argued to- N ‘Wants a Divorce from Julius, Mrs. Bertha F. Festner filed a petition in district court yesterday asking for a divorce from her husband, Julius T. Festner, to whom she was married in March, 1886. The petition alleges that ever since her marringe her husband has treated her in a cruel and inhuman man- ner, and on several occasions drove her from home into the streets, and has re- fused to contribute to her support. She. therefore asks for a divorce, and to be restored to her maiden name, Bertha F. Nagl. He Wants to Know. To the Editor of the Be 1 own prop- erty on South Thirteenth street, some 350 feet front. Mr. Dufly 15 now at work grading the street. The grade is so high as to cause the whole of my premises to become a water lot. Now, Mr, Editor, why is it that I am not allowed a voice in fhis matte bought my Lome and paid for it; I worked hard for my money. ‘k'mvl n compelled to sit quietly and see my property damaged to the extent of thousands of dollars. I am but one of a number who are similarly situated. M. Scnurr. 1, Lincoln, Neb., opened class in' every respect. The Fire Limits, To the Editor of the Bee: The follow- ing resolution was put before the city council on Tuesday evening: By Manville—Permitting 1%, erect a frame shop on Cuming street. D R R inspeetor. The ordinance on fire limits is law. Why is it that a councilman by resolu- tion can violate the law. 1t 'has been done a number of times lately. The time has come to stop it, and it is hoped that our city oflicials will do their du d. E. WiGnAN s60acres land in Thayer county, Neb, to sell or trade for merchandi Address John Linderholm, 614 8. 10th St., Omaha, Police Points, John Kelly, a man arrested for com- plicity in the highway robbery of James Mathewson, near the Slayen’s house Wed nesday, had his preliminary hearmg in police court yesterday. Thelevidence was strongly against him, and the judge held him to the district court, and in_default of bonds of $1,000 he went to jail. eral other unimportant cases of intox tion were disposed of. Opelt’s Hol March 15th, f Muldoon to Pub- Wanted—A situation us pressman, Best dress G 56, Beo ofice, The Ballard Case. The work of obtaining a jury in the Ballard case was continued in the distriet court yesterday. JAt 2 o’clogk 168jjurymen had been called and eleven men selected. A special venire of ten men was called from which to select the twelfth man, Congratulations in Order. J. P. Bay, general foreman of the Union Pacific shops in this city, was war- ried to Miss Emma Fries, of Fremont, yesterday morning at 9 o'clock. The Sioux City route line will com- mence running its Council Biufls and Spirit Lake sleeper Saturday, June 19th, running duily thereafter, leaving Council Blufls at 6:25 p. m., araiving at Hotel Orleans, Spirit Lake, at 7:40 a. m, Leav- ing Spirit Lake daily at 7 p. m., arnving at Council Blufls at 9:85a. m, ‘The sleop. ing car fare each way per double b\fl’lll, $1.50. Transit ticket rate, Council Bluffs to Spirit Luke, $9.00, - The first postmaster of Rapid Ciry, D. T., was commissioned April 1, 1877." The office then paid §50 per year. The pres- ent income is $1,900 per year with a de cided upward tendency, ~ It claims to be the champion gommunity for honesty in Dakota. Goods of any value can be left on the street unguarded over night, and 1 no oue will even wink at thew, THE “ TERRIBLE™ COWBOY. A Wyoming EditonSays a Good Word in His Behalf The Rowdy West, Fort Fetterman, Wyoming: If there is aelass of people in this country that hasbeon misrepresented and maligned and slandered and abused, publicly and privately, through the col- umns of the press mnd almost from the pulpit, it is the class known as western “cowboys.” It lias ‘been a favorite amusement of peoplein the stat nd especially those who never saw a “‘cow puncher,” and who weuldn't know the difference between a “‘cowbe and the president of the Unitea States, to deride and hold them up to the gaze of the pub lic as desperadoes and outlaws among whdm Jesse Jumes and Captain Kidd would be respectable in comparison During the past six months the write hercof has been thrown much in the soci- ety of the so-called “‘cowh of Wyo- ming, Dakota and western Nebrask and has had ample opportunity to 1 their habits, aracter and disposition, and we_ to be no more than our Jjournalistic duty to not only disabuse the mind of the public relative to this sub- jeet, but to refute these slanders and o fend the “cowboy.” who are in fact the gentlemen of the country, against the unwarranted attacks of eastern dudes who don't know a cow from rtus, What is a “'cowboys He is simply herder, or man engaged in herding and carig for stock. In the cast a man en- zed in t occupation is called a erder,” and he is considered a very respectable person who is following a laudable and honorable calling or liveli hood, but when he crosses the Missouri is eastern friends brand him as o and hold him up to public ight of an outlaw bristling all over with bowie knives and revol who rides abont the country and int towns shooting down men wiihout me and frightenimg women and children out of their senses. That is all the difference between a western “‘cowboy’”’ and an castern “herder” or “shepherd,” one 18 engaged west and the other east of the Missouti ri The “‘cowboy’’ is no recent invention. If we read the writings of Mos the historian, correctly there were “cow- boys'in the land of Canann long before the “rowdy west” was discovered. We think that Abram and Lot had ranches ther nd that there was a strife be- tween the herdmen of Abram’s eattle and Lot's That is the way reported it for the daily press in y day, but should such a' thing oc- in Wyoming to-d wper dudes w ine_pica head lin “Terrible L gaze in the the eastern uld out with »s something like mong the cow- A Cowpunchers —and Bullwhackers get in a racket and shoot each other so full of holes that their hides won’t hold st Abe and Lot arbitrate, and the latter gets up and dusts for the plains of Jord where there is plenty of buffalo grass.” 'Ihat is about the way the morning paper wouid dish it up now. Even old il W a ranchman, and Doeg, and Edo- mite from Indiana, was foreman and had a tof cowhoys i charge. Amos was i cowboy in Syria, ar.d Moses him, self was at the round-up in Egzypr. Joel* the cowboy, got sad and had the jimjams beeause the grass Uricd up on his Zion r' nd s a ‘‘eattle king” in So it will be seen that the pro- m of cowboy has been an honor- able one from away back. But seriously, no people have been more unjustly misrepresented than the western ’* or herdsmen. Some four weeks « hen the writer of this was in the st, he was told of a le that a gentleman there had j from his son who was t cling in the west, and who stopped in Chadron, Neb., a day or two, in whieh he stated that the night before about fifty cowboys rode into Chadron, captured the town, made night hideous, terrorized the inhabitants, rode into saloons and other public places, and shot indiscriminately, and, in caused lawlessness and supreme. A few day: e happened to be in Chadron and, of course, inquired about 1t. The people had never heard of 1t before. It was a pure fabrication on the part of the young man who wrote the letter. What his object was we don’t know, but we presume he wanted to himself out a hero to the extent of having been west and witnessed one of the terrible cowboy raids that he had so often read about. That is the way a! such stories originate. Such fellows ought to be put to soak under the bed. They have just sense enough to be a detri- ment to the country, and not enough to be good citizens. ‘We have been in Chadron several times and never saw a more quiet and orderly town. We have scen hundreds of cow boys there but never yet saw one commit an act of impropriety. We have been with them in towns, in cities, on the ranges, in their camps, and at their re- cent round-up, and we have yet to find the first one who was not a gentleman in every respect, and who would not treat you as such as long us you did him. They are mannerly, open-hearted, generous to a fault, and will allow no man to outdo them in acts of courtesy, and liberality. They will not insult_a lady, no matter whal her station in life may be, or allow others to do so in their presence. No knight of old was ¢ more brave or Irous. Of course there are ocea- ad men among them; ns every- else, but they are being rapidly weeded out, Stockmen will not emplo, disreputable characters if they know i The men who are now the ding me of this ter ry, who fill the responsible public affairs have nearly all been cowboys at some time, and owe their success 1 life to their ex- perience on {he ranges. Who are the cowboys? The; cipaily young men who took H. Greele, advice ‘and went west to grow up with the country. As the chief industry i stock-raising they naturally seck employ- ment on the ranges. That is all there is of the cowboy busmess. 1f the dudes and snobs and fops and fools who are pictur- ing them out as roughs and outlaws would come out here and stay a year among them they could take some valua- bie and profitable lessons in manhood and gentlemanliness from the Wyoming “‘cowboys.” More lluml\vanl_vlhuusxmh eastern people will during the next year visit this section for the first time, and we ask them to examine the matter closely and then reportif our statements are not absolutely true, ag— PROPHETIC LYING. nn»wsf four whe re prin- General Prentiss’ -Wild Prophecies at a Banquet (Thirty Years Ago Realized, Chicago News: *“lad you ever sit down and reflect on the progress that has been made in this country during the age of a mant” It -was the renowned General Prenuss returning from Ohio, where he had delivered a Decoration day address, who asked the question. He then went on to say: It was some time in the '50s that I attended a jollification meeting at Jefler- son City, Mo. The meeting was for the purpose of celebrating the eompletion of a railroad, and of course wine bottles had to be cracked and speeches made. If the speeches had been made first and the bottles cracked aff vards I would probably not have been called on to speak, but as it was the gentleman who was to speak for the city of Quiney was too full of wine to have any ‘wit, and I was requested to speak in his stead. 1 saw that the company was too far gone to listen to much serionsness, so I began a series of the most extravagant proph- ecie entlemen,’ said 1, “there are tho. preisent who will live to see 50,000 inhab- tants flourishing on the banksof the Missouri.’ ‘Make it 100,000 while you're about it," eried one man, “Yes,' said another, ‘yon might as well be killed for a sheep as'a lamb.” ‘' “T'he child has already been born,' 1 continued, ‘who will step into & palace on wheels on Monday mornicg in New York and go to bed “the next Saturday night in San Francisco.’ “That'sa pretty stiff yarn, I thank you,’ yelled a man at the otlier end of the table, and he proposed to drink to the health of the man who could tell so big a story without cracking a smile. The health was drunk and I went on. “The day 1s coming_when some one will stand in Jefferson City and talk into the very ear of his friend in Liverpool.’ <My God,' alf-tipsy man at my right, ‘w s you'd make if you'd turn ttention to it!"” SAYen 1 , without noticing him, ‘and the boy now lives in Missouri who will one day get up from his dinner table and say: “Wife, where are my wings? 1 want to jump up to Chicago this after- noon. 'l be back for supper. “At this a perfeet howl went np; the dishes were swept from the table and 1 In-.u'mn-d the most artistic yarner in - the an Bat now,"” econtinued the general, isn't it strange that, although 1 selected the most extravagant prophecies I could imagine, all excepting that relating to the wings have practically come true al ready,and Tam not prepared to say that, y as Lam, Ishall not live to sée men innge the air with wings and chasing birds in their loftiest fiigh Personal Paragraphs. is in Messmor the city Coionel Rapids, Mich west, Mrs. Charles B. Western started for the east last night over the Milwaukee, to be gone three months Colonel Chambers, & weil-known west- ern army oflicer, is visiting his brother, Lieutenant Chambers, of Fort Omaha., W. D. Hill, ot Beatrice, state agent of the Pennsylvania Fire and North™ Ameri- can insurance company, is at the P ton. Mrs M. Davis and two daughters rived Tuesd from Staunton, Va., to spend their ion with Mrs. F. M. Phillips. Architect Mendelssohn for Chicago to seeure g contracts for the First building. I'. B. Blackburn. of the passenger de partment of the Union Pacitie, has gone to attend the college commencement of the York (Neb.) college. @. C. Hobbie and wife returned yester- day from their trip to Washington, New York, Utic: t other places, where the have been visiting for the past six week Mr. E. M. Bruce, late assistant to Dr. Drown, principal of the chemeal depar ment of the Massachusetts institute, of Boston, has accepted a position in the chemical department of the Union Pa cifie rail rriving here last Satu day evening.. Mr. Bruce is a thoroughly practical man, having served an appren- ticeship of three years in the same de partment of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy road at Aurora, il \C: last nignt nd iron National bank Ren) Fstate Transfers. The following transfers were June 16 with the county clerk, reported for the BEE by Ames' Estate Agene: Sabra A Perrigo and husband to_Sylvester Cunningham w % of lot3 blk 151, Omala, 5,500, o P Bemis to Amanda E Montane, lot 1, blkc H Lowes 1st add, Omali, w d—S1 Augustus Kountze and wife and others to Axel Jacob Smith, lot 11, blk 5 Plainview, Douglas Co, . Augustus and wife and others to Axel_Jacob Smith, lot 10, bk 5 Plainview, Douglas Co., w d—8400. James S Brisoin_and wife to Charles T or, lots Tand 2, blk 20, Omalia, W d— filed and Real 500, Tionora Murphy and wife to John L King, sigof n i{of s wifof nwY, sec:H, 16, 13, Douglas, Co., w d—32,000. Sium'] 5 Rogers and wife to Sarah Jane Roberts, lot 5, blk 7 Improvement Associa- tion add, Omaha, w d—s400. Splitand_wife to Samuel and Isi inger, n 1 of s w 14, sec 17, 15, 1 s Co., w d—§3,600 s Jetter und wife to Peter A Weleh, blk 1 Jetter's add, South John I Redick and wife fto Chas T Page, feet on 11th s 000, Algernon S Paddock and wife to Louis Croner, ‘Il“, Highland Place, zernon S ock and wife to George n, lots 30, 31, and_33 blk 6, Jerome Park, Douglas Co., w d—83,000, Wm L McCague (single) to Charles D ‘Woodworth, lot 2, blk 205, Omaha, w d— $1,800, Helen Walker and husband to Harriet S Wilson, s 25 of lot 2, blk 6, Parker's add, Omaha, w d—81, Nahum P Feil (sincle) to Samuel Freed- man, lot 11, blk 9, Jerome Park, Douglas Co., w d $1,5800, 0 P Tukey and wife and others to J lot 6, blk 9, S E Roger’s add, Omaha, Anna Foos (single) to Jerry A Linahan, lot 4.blk 3 Leavenworth Terrace add, Omaha, W d—8750. Eunice D Pattee to Mary A Fried, lot 6, blk 34T, Omahg, q.¢ 1 Samuel D Mercer and wife to Elizabeth M Taylor, lot blk 15, Walnut Hill, Douglas Co’, w d—§7 G Hansbrough to Robert M Taylor, vt of lot 14, blk 24, Walnut Hill, Douglas 50 feet of ot lot 2, blk 1 ’ 2nd add, Omaha, w d. X, ander S Porter and wife_to Elisha Atkins and others trustees, lot 5, blk 179, W d—88.000. J son W Bed! to Belle W Gue, lot n 150 fe ord and wife and others 2, bIk 2 Kirkwood add, Omaha, w d—S50, Johin' W Buckley (single) to Larmon P Pruyn, lot 4, Pruyn’s sub-division of lot 25 Millard and Caidwell’s add, Omaha, w d— B2,500, The Poor n Population, Superintendent Pierce, says that there are now about sixty mates in the poor house, OF these about one-third are in- sane peop POWDER Absolutely Pure. This powder never varies. A marvel of puri ty, strength and wholesomeness. More econ omical thau the ordinary hinds, and cannot be sold in competition with' the multitude of low | test, hort weight, slum or phosphate powde: #old only in euns,’ RovaL BAKING Powpes Co., l 405 Wallt. 5" New York, M. BURKE & SONS, LIVE STOCK COMMISSION MERCHANTS, @RO. BURKR, Manager, UNION STOCK YARDS, OMAHA, NEB. Merchants’ and Farme Yo _Columbns Omaha National B 3 Will pay customers” draft with bill of lading attached for two-thirds Platte, Neb. Property of every description for A complet county in Nebraska Maps of the Cit of charge upon Stato to nk. Ban Omaha. Neb, ' Bank, David City, Neb.: Columbus, Neb.; Meio Kearney National ald’s Bank, North alue of stock. C. E MAYNE, LEADING REAL ESTATE DEALER, S, W. COR. 15th AND FARNAM, OMAMA. ation, Chicago, Miwaukee & St Pau RAILN AT, The Short Line and Bezst Route From Omah DA i Minneapolis. Codue Rapids, Dubuauo, Ttock lsiand, Fr Elgin, Beloit, Avd it othor | Lu Crosse, orthonst and Southeast. Ticket office nt 1401 Farnam st Hotel and ai Usion Paci e Doy Pullman Slecpers and oy finest 1l are run on the man lines of the ST, PAUL RATLWAY in tl CHICAGO, MILWAUL wnd_every afte: courteons emp! R MILLED, E. ek H. CAwry 0t Agent. Gro. B H ger und Tic B & i paid t 1 the c et Arent WOODBRIDGE BRO'S, 0 pussenger CAFFORD, Assistant General Passen- State Agents FOR THE DeckerBro's Pranos Omaha, Neb. HAMBURG - AMERICAN Packet Company. A DIRECT LINE FOR Eneland, France & Germany. The steamships of this wi built of iron, in waf I kno ht comy i i vs and Seturdays' for Plv- mouth, (LONDON),Chorboug,(PARIS and HAM- BURG, ia. passeng and First Hamburg on Hay Lon Railrond tickets from Plymouth to Bristol, diff, London, England, FIRE §25. Bend for * or to any plice RICH General Pus 61 Broadway, New Yor) Sulle Sts. Chicugo, LIl in the South of teornge from Europe only azette.” ARD & CO., nger Agents, Washington und La ale m all parts of the city. sot of Abst or county, or polics et (in Paxton Dining Cars n line are taking Notice to Contrac JEALED proposais for the bui ) Tiouse and jail in 8:ndance, tors. Iding of & court ‘rook county, Yryomiug Tortitory, und tor furnishing the ma: teriul for the construction of roccived by the commissiones up to 12 o'clock noon on Tuesd D. 1888, at whic od in public. 8 and speeifications for sui be secn at the oifice ol the count after Muy 201h, 1885, Bic be'wezompanied by as 1w gudrantee of good faith. y punty commi t t any orull bi o o Bids must be dire $540, or an approved bond for me will ho suid county July Gth, A. time the proposals will ' be d building may ty clerk on and certifled cheek © amount, roserve the right ¢d g Jobn 8. County Clerk, Sundance, Wyoiu Hurper, and " dorsed *Proposals for Building Court Houso snddall? R y order of the Bow y order of the Be Wy 1of . HARPER, ¢ Bundanc 1ty Commissine Jounty ¢ May 1ith, 1845, THENT Of P ALL Chronic & Surgical Disease:s. DR. MoM Sixieen years We have ‘the facilities, nccessful treatment of e or correspond with us. ing cases by letter enabl ifically without scein WRITE Braces, Club Cilrvatur DisEas or Wou Piles, T Catarrh, Bronchiis, Inhalation, E yoin Epilopwy, Kidicy, Eye, Ear, all surgieal operations. Batter aalers, Braces, all kinds of Medic ufactured aud for & Long e Fect, und Surgical App an NAMY . Proprietor, ospital uud Trivite Iractice appuratus and remed form of dis treatment, s to Lreat wany case th ¥OR CIRCULAR on Dcformitics and of the Spine, ra, Cancers, cctricity, ¥ kin, Blood aud , Trusses, and ‘man The only reliable Medical Institute Private, Spacial ATIONS CONFID) d consult us or ee plainly written will send you, \n|nl.m|nld ) PRIVATE CIRCULAR SEarval WEAKNESS, SEBZMATOR R orie, NG AL DIEANES ¢ URINARY ORGANS, OF tend an opinion TO MEWN FECIAL AND NERVOOW DsHASES KA INPOTEN VARICOCELE, 0¥’ THE GENITO story of your cuse fur Fersous unable o visit us may be treated at their homes, by coirexpondence. M ments sent by mail or cxpress SEC ED FROM OBSERVATIO. e sender, One aient. Fifty ierite. o Address all Le reasonable prices. soms for th d and attendance uf icines and Tnstru UKELY PACK tters Lo Omaha Medical and Surgical Institute. Car- 13th St and Capitol Ave.. OMAHA. NB. TIMKEN SPRING OVER 400,000 Faslest Ridiug Vebielo bttt e Sia fo L driyes o Maguintu VEHICLES. IN USE, Lands tor salo in 13 of Titles of Dounglas Connty kept, any other information desired furnished i MAN WHO 18 UNACQIAINTED WITH THE OFOGRAPHY OF THIS TAY WILL SEE Ry EXAMINKIG THIS NAD THAT THE ULINGO (8 o E St.Lou ! = 03K ISLAND & PACIFIC RAILWAY {ral porition and dlore relation to arantest Ita patrons that sonse of pereorial Y Ao T Kol ThorouEnly tai i o Which gov ainn O Transfors at all conn pots, and the U IS Passoni The Famous Alb I the direct and favorite in't Lty erte i ¢ i nd St pan otnflod I fo . 2 in’ the United States wnd ng o foe M il aada; oF by ads E. ST, JOHN. Pros't & Gen'l Me'r, Gen'l TKL & 1Y CHICAGO. Raitway Time Table OMAHA, The following is the time parture of the los 0. arrive a of 14th and We M., C. B, &Q. and K. C. St J. & C. B, from tho B.'& M. depot: allothiors from the Union Paciflo dene oPoLy BRIDGE TRAINS. Bridio tratns w il lowv, 35 —8:00 -8 :40- rival and de- dyrd ting e fopotat 0: 25— p. m. Leave transtor fo P. CONNECTING LINF i und departure of trains from the cpot at Council Blurs: ARRIVE, 10, r0CK ISLAND & PACIE | CHICAGO & NOW A CHICAGO, MILWAUKE® & ST. PAUL. AN D915 A M M 1 7200 P M EANSAS CITY, ST. JOE & COUNCIL BLUFFS. W UNIO! - Pacitic ~Denver STW AL PACIFIC, pross apress B& M. «Muil and Night E: SOUTHW ARD. C. 81 P, Biliiv Sioux Ci WA KD, | CoHo& Q. 6:00 |....Vin Plattsinon b... Ajtrains duily: I, daily excopt Sunda, cept Sutardayi D, Daily exc part. NOT [OCK YARD TRAINS O =-0:50— 0 p. i iviugro ] N e Ten TR WAY. SEIORT LIMNDE Omaha, Council Bluffs And Chicago The only rosd to take for Dos halltown, Codar Rapids, Clinton Wy , Utah igton sina Gl not possible by 1daho nii it uny ous poiaits of supo- ty enjoyed by the patrons of this roud bo- twoen Omiahi #0d Chicugo, ure its two t day of DAY COACHES which urc the fi Burann art and ingenuity can create. PING CARS, " whicn are mod Tts PARLOR DRAWING Among & comfort oo, ROOM urpissod by wny, wnd s wide- ly ceiebrat PALATIAL DINING CARS, the qual of which eaniot be found elsewhore. ‘AL Council Blutfs the train: the Union fio Ry, conneet in Union Depot with those of the Chicigo & No western R, In g0 the trains of th ko closo conit with tho U For ul.‘ulllulmnn Tnd n nati, N Falls, Butralo, i s, Toronta .\Iny’n oul. York, Phi ais | tima Ton and wll points i Lae eust, wsk | ¥ ST A | 11 you wish th, modations. Aliticket | sgents sell tickets via this line l‘tHl,’l;Illl'l. . R 8 HAIR, | “Gencrs Mano Gon. Pass. Ageit CHICAGO. OW W, A Guick E CTTor Lo e N g blo 1ol BOOk! St M oo, Ak i, 0L BUAVALOL R,