Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 24, 1886, Page 4

N THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. For 8% Montha v ¢ For Threa Montis The Ormalie Swoday sddrose, One Year ) 2] B, mi A " ting t torial ouid be sdd TOM OF BEP. KUSTNEES LETTRNSY ses lottors and romittancos § Irousod 10 & PUBLISHING COMPARY MAHA T W postofice orders 1o be made payable to the order of tho com pany, THE BEE PORLISHING E. ROSEWATER, Enrror i Al Y " OMPARY, PRO THE DAILY Sworn Statement of Circulation, State of Nebrs | County of Douglis. § Geo, B. Tzsehuck, secrolary of The T Publishing company, docs solemnly sweai that the fon of the Daily Bee for the w ¢ Dec, 17th, 1956, was as follow Suturday, Dee, 11 W o Sunday. De . slonday, Dec Tnesday, Dec, Wednesday, Dee. Friday, Dec. 1 o 4" 0% ote tne this 15th N. I’ Frit Notary Public. Geo. B, "Mzschick, being first duly oses and says Uiat he s secretary of L e Publishing company, that the actual ay erave daily eirculation of the Daily Bee for nuary, 19, was 10,578 eapies, &, 10,505 ct r March: 557 coples: ‘for April, 188, 12,100 for May, 1840, 12,45 copiess for Jine, : for Juily, 1556, 12,514 copies , 12,404 copies:for Sentomber, 3 copies; for October, 1846, 12,050 copies; for November, 185 onics, Gro. B, Tzscnveg, Sworn to and subseribed hefore me this Gl day of Noyembor, A . 1), 155, (SEAL.§ N. . Feiw, Notary Pablic e ——————— Tue railroad lobby will be in Lincoln in full force at the oponing of the legis- lature—each one armed with eredentials from headquarters and an aunual pass. Subseribed and sworn to day of Docerber, A, D., 1 ISEA L] s home from Washington to superintend his senatorial campaign in person on the ground. The senator knows the field thoroughly und hasno reason to be anxious about tie result, ALL the indications poiut to an open winter. Ruilroads and builders are tak- ing advantago of the indications by going right ahead witlh their work of starting in 1887 with a rousing boom, Tne bourd of education are adyertis- ing again for plans for school houses. What 1s the matter with the plans already adopted and from which our latest and best ward school houses have been built? JoNGRrEsS has adjourned for the holi- days. This will not interferc in the least with the uverage Washington cor- respondent. The recess makes no groater draft upon his imagination than the heat of the sion., 'E Republican scems gr about the approaching cireus.” If it can’tgeta ticket of mission 1t has the ro) of erawling under the exhibition tent to witness the 1t will be well worth sceing. Coxe 1 MeSnaANE denies pofet blank that ho eversaidor intimated that Senator Van Wyek had bevn hold- Ing buck nominations to assist humself in the senatorial canvass. Mr. Me- Shane is naturally indignant over a re- port which bo pronounces entirely with- out foundation. Every railroad attorney. in the wow sure thut Van Wyck is certain to be defeated. They were equally sur fore the eloction that the general would not seeure a corporal's guard of a fol- lowing. They were quite as certain that Church Howe wonld be eleeted by a fousing mojority. A corporation clerk's predictions aro as uncertain as the proph- ccics of the cold wave flag. Like dreams they generally go by contrari GENERAL BraG house ¢ chairman of the nmunittee on military affuirs, de nounced in unmeasured terms tho system of conviet labor at the nnlitary prison ut Leavenworth. His veport virtually con- demus the work turned out of the shoe factory as inferior, uud he belicves that the government has no right to build up o manufactory to bo run by convict labor in competition with honest workingmen. Roard gangs and conviet farms ought to give cmployment o folons who necd ex ercise, ‘There is no equitable reason why the commission of evime should not only provea tax on the community, bt un in: jury to the interests of law abiding and hard working mechanics GENERAL MCCLELLAN'S story 1s a dis appointment (o his friends and a boon to his encavics. It s petalant and g lous in tonc, apologetic where 1t is not aggressive and vindictive whore it takes the form of assauit on his contempora ries. If Genernl MeClellun had shown half the impetuosity In attackir that be manifested in assailing Stanton the war would have closed before Burn side was given the res of the army of the Potomac only (o pass them oyer into the hands of Hooker and Moade and Grant, General MeClellan's memoirs show him to have boen u soldier of over. weoning egotism, too for a great general and too pulled with self for a valuable subordinate ———— Lire day before Christmas has arvived and stores and bazaars ull over the coun- tryare crowded with purcha bent on buying the last gifts by w others enu remember the universal tival of the yoar, Awmid the bowe and fricnds, the poor should not be forgotten. Itis in wi ring to the wants of such that the Curistinas idea is perfeotly fulfillod. The message of “‘gaod will to men'' should impress itself more doeply on the hearts of the chavitable and benevolont on the anniversary of the season when tiest itsounded on earth cen turies ago. ‘There ave hundreds of God'. needy children in Omaha to whom Chy was will be a meaningless nume unless others better supplied with comforts and luxuries unlock their stores and open their pursos to essist i shodding a little eantious up eagor claims of | appropriation Those River Improvements, A lively hornet's nest was stirred up in the senato Iast Friday when Senator Van Wyek introdueed a resolution of inquiry demanding why tho Missouri river mission had expended all last yoar's propriation at Kaneas City and St. Joseph | instead of at the points epecified fn the | bill, fneluding Omaha, Srownsville and Nebraska noral Van Wyek called n fact that the river and harbor w previons had been de sonato because of its refusal the nt expended for showed | com P ted in the specifically mention which fands should be river improvement, Ho ne had made & fight in person for the principle that the expenditure of the money €hould not be left to the disere to ponts | tion of the commission, and had carried The senator was confirmed in Senator Ingails, who neral Van Wyck in his indig: nant protest against the action of the commission who, against the remon strance of Mr., Broateh, the Omaha mem ber, had appropriated §225,000 of tho ntire $300,000 to Kansas City and the mainder to St. Josoph Senator Van Wyek® wans - straight to the was passed af an debate v now 03 secretary of war for whatover tion he may sce fit to give, It under: stood that Mr ott beld that the Missonri river commission like the Mis viver commission had fall dis or the expenditure of the funds committed to their care. to hold « differont view clearly brought out in the his point his statement by joined tion 1t intercsting to tho point ippi n Congress scems The point was s that in a previons cor n Wyck and Plumb, of Kansus, \led the and harbor bill heeause the committeo on commerce dechned to specify the lo ions in Kansas and where money 1d and the this point was yielded by the committoe to save the bill. Inthe face of this the gentlemen on the com mission fatly disregarded the action of congress and bunclied the appropriations at two points of the river to the exclusion 1 the rest. The question involved isav tant one. A large number of appropria- tions through special and general bills are annnally made by congress, which cover a number of cases which they spo- citically name, while leaving tho bulk sum to be apportioned among military posts, harbors andinlets at the discretion of the exceutive department which con- trols them. 1f the secretary has the right to disreggard a number of the points named to benefit a few of the others there can be no objeet in making the bill any more specific than alump appropriation to be expended at the discrotion of the execn tive. An exception has been made in favor of the Mississippi river commission which has not been extended to any other. General Van Wyck's rosolution is now being considered by the war de- partment and the answer will be awaited with interest, river Nebraska be expended, last o rress ¥ impor- The only safe course for the city conn- cil to pursue in furthering publ provements, espeeially such as involye special taxes and a bonded indebtedness, is to keep rigidly within the law. The interests of the city must be ramount to those of any contractor or firm of con- tractors, however influential or power- ful. The charter defimtely provides for the expenditure of the levies and as defin- itely prohibits the incurring of any in- debtedness beyond what there ave funds to mect. The council has no right to exceed the bounds and the may no to approve contracts which are passed in violation of the cliarter restriction: With referenco to the about which so much anx the most cautious course will be the wisest, No contract stould be entered into by the council for which the moncy for the city’s sharve is not now in the troxsury. To do otherwise would be to enst a doubt on the validity of bounds afterwards issued to cover the cost of paving intersections ard on the legality of specinl taxes to meet the expensc of improving the lot frontage. Omaha's credit is now as good as that of any city inthe west. It stands ligh because no question Las been raised about the legal- ity of the methods by which lher indebt- cdness has been incarre We lhave moved ahead in public improvements sometimes slowly but always surely. W cannot now afford to ehange our course. A Profitless Iuquiry. The United States senate, imm edintely before adjourning on Wednesday for the holiday recess, adopted the resolution of Mr. Dawes instructing the commuttec on tinance *“to inquire into and report what specific reductions can be mads in cus. toms duties and internal taxes that will roduce taxes to tho necossary and econ- omical expenses of the government with- out impairing the prosperity of howe in. dustries or the compensation of howe labor.”" The finance committee is com- posed of six republicans and five demo- erats. 'I'he former are Morrill, Sherman, Jones of Novada, Aliison, Aldrich, and Miller of New York. The democrats are Voorhees, Beck, McPherson, Havrie and Vance, Mr. Morrill, the chairinan of the committee, is alvendy on record at this session with the opinion, proclaimed in a resolution presented by him and adve ated ina set speeeh, that legislation at present regarding the tanfl is not ex- pedient. Senator Skerman is also on record in favor of abandoning the duty on sugar, in whole or in part, and the tax on tobiacco, and against any interferen with the tavifl ¢ pL a8 10 sug: e fur more indicated a strong desire to leave the whole respousibility of propo ing legislation for tax reduction with the dewoerats. Jones has not wlicated bis present views, but he is prob ably uot favorable to any extensive re vision of the tariff. The other republican members of the computtee are under stood to be in line with Sherman, though Aldrich has indicated that | not vorable to a revision would reduce or entirely cut off dut many directions. He seems to most moderate amoug the remublica who have expressed themselyes at 1t present session. Threeof the democratic members of the committee, Voorhees, Beck and Vance, will favor & thorough revision of the tarifl in order to reduce revenue, while McPherson and Harris will probably tike a conservative stand, ing cont ty isexpressed, en- that in the us ies THE OMAHA DAILY what reasor able expectation can be of any profitable fesnlt from the inquiry th are instracted to make! Itis a foregone 1sion that the most and tho best will do is to return a majority re with which the mujority in the will v, recommending re- ductions of duty and taxes in the direc tion al 1y Mr who ungnestionably knows the con the port, timent The o and will of his colieagues on th inquiry will result in nc bring the quest solution than it It has the appearauce, being nothing more than politi cal maneuver, intended to emphs sizce to the country the responsibility of the democratic house for the required legislation. It liolds out no real promise that the relief desired and needed by the conntry will be afforded at the present session of co If this congress can v comm advan n n at no nea at m gress nothing but it a foot over, it would it alone u! do trifle with this question, makin, ball for factions to fight certainly be better to let gether, and endeavor to agree upon soime method of disposing of the surplus of the next twelve months that will an t at the unncoessary uader the pro vailing 1 ssald that o large numbor of republicans in congress be lieve in taking Lold of the matter in spit of tho fact that they are in the minority, and thus showing to the country that if griven the power they will meet the le such leg LMoy leomed linve dovbt advantage of the ith that it will tonly no oue on of the hou wd ability to lead such a movement, but itwould be coun- ter to the evidont policy of the repubii- cans to leave the matter of proposing leg. islation on this subject wholly with tho democrats. 1t is possible, but not likely, that that policy will be abandoned at the present session Calling the Banks to Account, A few days ago Mrv, Townshend, of ois, introduced in the house a resolu- tion requesting the secrotary of the tressury to ascertain whether any national banking association located in the city of New York has during the pri ent monti loaned its surplus money or deposits to brokers, or other persons op- ting in stocks and bonds, withou® se- curity, and merely upon the receipt of in- terest on the same, for the purpose of enabling the speculator to lock up and prevent the use of the money in busimess transactions, and thereby produce a scarcity of money and groatly increaso the rates of interest on 1 And also whether during the same period any of said banks, for the purposc aforesaid, Knowingly permitted the total liability of any person, corporation or firm to exceed the amount limited by statute in said cases, This very proper inquiry was prompted by the developments regarding the con- dition of the New York buuks in connee tion with the movements of the stoek market last week. 1t was very evident that the banks had gone beyond s pradent and safe limit in assisting the speeulators and brokers, and there is good reason (o believe that some of them overreachea the law. The fact that the banks w m the aggregate within four million dol- lars of thei riegal reserve was in itself suspicious ecircumstance, s showing unusual and hazardous extension of credits, but the fact of the money market becoming extremely close within a few days, with apparently no rccourse in the hands of the bunks for relief except in the severe contraction of loans and the advance of interest rates to ahnormal figures, furnished the substantial ground of doubt whether the banks had com- plicd strietly with the law, and had not permitted the speculators to lock up money, paying only the interest for the privilege. Such a course on the purt ot the New York banks has not been common, but 1t has oceurred more fre- quently than was in the interest the legitimate business of the country. This last monetary pinch was felt more or loss in every trade center, and while its ijuri ous effects cannot he computed they must have n considerable, Auny action on the part of the national bunks i aid of speculators and stock amblers 15 to be condemned at all times, Itis a perversion of their proper func tions und a vielation of their agreement with the people. Their oflice is to serve and uid the legilimate business of the country, When they go outside of this they disregard trust and give counte- nance and support to a system which is iuimical to legitimate trade and hostile to the interests and welfare of the people. But it is particularly unfortunste at this time, when the nutional banking sys- tem is again a promient subjoct of public attention and discussion, that the enemics of the system should be given any fresh ground for questioning its value and the rity with which it is conducted, The wotive of the proposed inquiry may be entivoly commendaole, and the propriety of making such an inquiry is unguestion- able, but if the results should show that the bauks had violated the law the ct will certainly be to strengthen the enemies of those institutions and se the difliculty of sccuring logislation for maintaimng and improy ing the system. It will not e suflicient to quiet opposition to show that gencralty the banks conform strictly to legal re quirements, and that the lapses are wholly or chictly in New York., The whole system wiil suffer for the faults of the part, on the not wholly unjust ground that that part is the centre and heart of the It may not be practicable to provide an ubsolute and never-failing of such faults, The cupidity ik ofticials will doubtless at tiwes ler great temptation, evade any vable regulu But it is not unlikely that the existing law might be made somewhat stronger than it i3 in its restrictive requirements with- t any se disandvantage to t gonerally, and with the publie confidenc least repay tho people s wr islatic s may be needed, Such ment, honestly made, would bew byt mtry, and we no would be gro party. Bt be made, There is 1 the republican side ) who has both the con u of whole. preventive of b lead them, v [ [ on in i Cauientiy, defeated abinet disagreement ostensibly on he question of war and naval estimates, has tendered his resignation as ehaneellor of the excheguer. It 1s an examplo for Mr, Morrison, who, as chairman of the most important commiittes of the house, has From tis knowledge and fair inference sunshing over their aicavy life s it b ) incui IO N regarding thie attitude of memvers of the been several times sat down upon, kis last dofeut Congressman Reed ten. | a5 are our capitalists After | BEE: FRIDAY, dred the blunt but E co that the majority of the ways and means com- | mittee had better resign, so that Speaker Carlisle can appoint a new commitice that may obtain the confidence of the ¢ woh might proj some thing different from the pet plans of | charman, It is gosted that it wounld be an act of for Mr. Morri least to surre position i1 which he na s nd consister failure in favor of so1 Juis initi t the revenue legisl tion of cong Good intentions are not of very great value without the ability to give them effect. But Mr. Morrison will not emulate the meritorions example of Lord Churchill. He will eling to s po, sition, regardiess of robull dicule 1 defeat, to the last momont of his tennre, fuily confident that ke 15 the right man in the right place An Injustice to Workingmen There is one fatal objection to making the hours of the city election conform to those of the state and county clections in which the poll at seyen the morning and closo at six p. m. This i that such a limit wonld practically franchise a very large provortion of vote: s who @ mechanies and It would leave only theaoon bour in whicl workingmen eould I'he would bo opened the whistles bl The aim of any ch hould b to call out 1zmen house, has be who possessed the vroperly | » and con s open in dis laborers | | [ voto polls n work a for supy notto deoer » our work Vit On s men means ing todevelop and busin A prospering and growing city stoady employment for Iabor and good wazes for workmen. Hundredsof work- ingmen in Omaha are property ow and taxpayers and are thus doubly intc ested in helping to secure good govern- ment. Any legislation wh les in the path of tho f ized voters is wrong. There is only one condition under which the hours can bo safely shortened. That making clec- tion days holidays. If this was done, of course an hour's shortening of the time during which the polls were kept open would make no difference. Workingmen would have all ttie day in which to cast their ballots. But unless the legi can be induced to make this chang the general election luw, there should be no decrease in the hours in which voters are permitted to deposit thei ballots, In this conncction, attention is ealled to the necessity of more volling pr cmets, and a double sct of judges aud clerks of election, wiihi more ballot boxes in which the various tickets can be voted and connted separately oh throws ob 0 votin Tanry square miles will make a good- sized city and it will not be many years before Omaha reaches double these limits at her present rate of growth. The pro- position of the charter committee con- templates an inerease of o mile for eve 20,000 increase in population. As our city limits stand to-day where they were lif- teen years ago the necessity of their ex- tension needs no argument, Tue ety council has no business to make an overlap to accommodate any firm of contracters whoever they may be. There can be no question about that, THE D OF 1z maclines are springing w west, NDUSTRY. Knitti over th “Uhe ear-builders are booking an - unusua lnrge number of ordersat this tine, A great many additions are being textile, paper and machinery wiils, A Terse Haute car company has just booked an order for 1,500 box, flat, and ¢ Two or three Welsh steel-rail 1 prepuring to roll rails 150 feet long instead ot uinety, A started at Curlis I 10,000, Lhie American [ron works are ha dition put up that will turn eut steel per day. A new steel fu tsburg whicl will steel at one heat, Carpenters are advised to stay y the Pacific coast. 1t is sald that ches road fare has flooded that chanical labor, The textile manufacturing companics in several parts of New England are increasing their capital, Tho general report is that business 1 lent. An eight-tour movement has taken shapo in the morth of Encland to supplant the nine-hour system now prevailing. There is tulk of forming “A National Federation of Labor.” Speaking generally, labor is better em- ployed at this time of the year than for sey- cral years, and the winter prospeets for em- ployiment, both for indoor and outdoor work, were never better, We are to have seve spite of the hi kinds. Sixe: becn projected ty, Makors of American machinery ducing their specialtics into Europe, ro a matter of considerable export, ton fm is doing o big business abroad, “The aceumulations of (he sa thioughout the countryt show a u ment within the st year, but nuch of this is due to the inereased éarnings of labor, due to more work and better wages, Co-operation seems to be well planted in Minneapolis, The workingmen there have o successtnl cooperivg establishiment, an agricaltural colony, # mercantile company, with i profitable Liundry and soveral success: ful building and foan associations, “Thiere is another cowmlaint from Sheflield cutlery people about American and German competition in Australia. Toese competitons put up cutlery in boxes for u dozen, whick eyory one kuows: but it seems that the ki lish 4o not 1 the buyers like their purchases boxed up Thirteen of the Cohoes lipveresumn made to manufacturing cowpany is to be o Md., with a capital of 200 tons of elt put up at P twenty tons of trom p rail seetion with me- [ al new glass works in awy production of glass of all teusive works have recently arious parts of the coun- are intro- Scales A Bos- in them ngs banks enty-six knitting-millsat { work under & promiss {hat no bjacklistiug is t be done, ‘L other thirteen “mills will not stait up until a full sutrender by the o ets 0 cortail dis- puted points coneerniig the retention of some of the old non-union hinds, Companies to manufacture machinery of all kinds, implements, tols, boilers and’ en wines are springing’ up apparently by the dozen, with capital Tanging trom 310,000 to £250,000. “Lhere seeius Lo be a genuine boom in work of this kind. Al the old establish- wents are crowded with orde combination of ive of the princi screw manutacturers of the country is at being wade at Chicopee Falls, and when it las wiped out ail the small fry it will ad- yance priecs. 1€ is foported tiat it has of ferod one company at that place 10 per cent, of the eapital stoek of tiie new eowbination if it will shut down for Live year Southiern comwpetition is driving a good uy New Euglaud wills into the produc- tion of & 4ner grade of goods. Oue of the mills wholi Las found it neessaiy o ke s depariure is by Aunutic Corjoiation, of | DECEMBER 24 1886, wrenes, Mass, any of the land mill8 are purchasing larce cotton, some of them recely 0 tous per day. . Thoy Don't Say B Phitaday @ Gresham has receiy gratulations from the fellows w ate turned toward the white house - Entitled to Gene ons Assl e 1d considerata to foll vle and inflict t1 oars on the pub; man ma Fort entitled to generous as na Capital, aton Critie, Labo Wash , M. Lawler, ed to the glad to mect you, 1 great exponent of honest lator,” “You are right—that's what sponded Frank, proudly, My mot with a bz L and Capital with & th i “A ntrod - Desorves Thanks, 1 Lea ham deserves ¥ honest man for b in lis authority woul fying the infamons frauds of the Wabash matter, the ove and, so far as nu crowd in vently plotto & teal a railvond b fetail and thy may o it Nothing is Lost, Uie M. Ward, the drop of dew in the leaf or fall anesw honder showoer Within the bow fronts the sun at fall of day anee to sparkle in the dow O1 Tountains tar away, g | e tinicst seed wild birds borne or breezes b Finls something suited to its neod, Wherein "tis sown and grown— The Tangiaee of some bousehold Che perfume of some cherished flo Though gone, from Lo mewmory's atior-hour, S0 with our wore are not all forgot; They havd their intlience on tie m, 1’ass on—but perish not S0 with our deeds: for good or ill They Liave tieir power searce U “Then let us nse our better will Towake themrife with good, AL e STATE AND TERRITO Nebraska Jottings, ug fr said & gentleman Chicago statesman, understand you arc the littte k, ew En supplies of m 100 to od 10 00 lose door. stance, hard up, b W Tenny of lns de his reason stance. st I'm 1 ar 10 is Labor all t I permit, the Gould and it is fer to be hoped that the whole exposed ul shame cannot by lown, e, er, ubwind sense, beiong : or haysh or kind, ind, uderstood; ny, Superior is threatened with o reor ized brass band, Sioux county people will vot berd law Junuary 2 A sixty pound beaver nsport at Liberty last week, Nebraska City is anxious to railroad branch from the Elkho Christmas trec. Henry Nurfin of C: 800 bushels of beans on twent year. There is “Nurfin'' s that, Fullerlon tipplers are preparate ary new leaf, January 1. Last froshot warked murdculous el stimulants out there. Tho Rock Is! the Blue river at Beatrice and tho construction train sample the town turkey to-mor line west is completed to rbu ‘The fadies of the W. C. T, U. ings have deelared war “Home of the Iricndless” in better known as tl taperin; 'y to_turning over the et e Slanghter pon, ¢ on (he plucked by pluck a tn Valley ss county, harvested acres this all about off ton; mg's in Sy hangc nd railroaa bridge over completed will The ang 0w, ary. of Hast- on tho alleged Lincoln, n which the state invested %16,000. - Somo weeks ago the fastings ladies se fortunate girl to the “homo’ to for. After threo days’ stay transferred to a female infirmar, coln, whero board - and furnished for the moderate sun week. Mvs. Slaughter, super of the *‘home,” informed the ladies that they wust pay th they refused was shipped standing the to m Slaughter honse odors k to them, forts of the superin utain a halo of godliness, the o sulliciontly nt an un- be cared she was y in Lin- troatment were m of §20 a intendeut Hastings e bill, but nd the unfortunatoe girl Notwith- ndent strong to command a legislative investi- gation. lowa Items, Ottumwa is 1o have anew un at a cost of $100,000, fon depot Sioux City’s improvement record for 1886 will reacl: $1,500,000 Nine hundred ineandesee large number of are lights, ar tion at Ottumwa, The gambling houses of De: helping to s in the way of heavy fines. The abstract of valuations anc levied and entered on t Scott county for the year 18 t, Linn county pays for e £250,030.65 tax, of whicli F118,80). sohools, over It is a self-imposed tax, Mrs. Mary Mahoney, aged ni years, died"in lowa townsh county, on the 17th inst. nine grandchildren and f great-grandehildron, The oficers of the law who arc in extracting the prpent’s Sioux City are having a four-ri all to themselves. They Crow’s nest Tuesday, and found tax hesides a in opera- s Moines 1 the treasury surplus 1 of tuxes lists of mount to 1886, 4.44 is for oae-hulf the entire amount, nety-nine Dubuque hiad fifty- My-seyen sengaged tooth™ in nz circus tackled A, the chief of the roost 1n front of the building with the door locked, The sheriff demanded the key and Crow began a search for . Just a8 the last crate of diluted disappeared through the buck key was found, and the officers serpents door the enterod— to find the bur dismantied and not a drop in the jug. Dakota. The longest toboggan slide i the world is the 2,000-foot one at Bismarek, County officers elected in wiil assume their duties Januar ‘The first Roman Catholic cath the territory will probably be Picerrve, The Nc passenger Pacific to 4 cents thern rute an lion pounds of been shipped to Omana from t Hills since the 16th of August The city authorities of notified the public that cattle v large will be “*held to answer. Parkston is represented by ligious denominations: Method byterian, Baptist ana Catholic, 1 society contemplates building worship. Ihe Dickinson Coal begun operations on 4 veiu of co fcet thick. The quality is said i superior to any coul in the north Dakots Wyomt ramic's new club b opened, ‘The B. & M. is reported to be tiation with the Laramic Plains L pany for the right of way thro und The Larame Plains Land u compuny have purchused 1,000 stock cattle in Nebraska whick fecd this winter on their rauch At a meeting of the stock h in Lusk, Wyo., December 11 stock of the compuny was Hicr $2.000,000 to $10,000,000 Acting under ins! from Washington, United 5108 ! will reduce company U began suit arsivst Coe November y i edral built m at 13 mite after ore has L I Yankton have mning at four re ist, Pres ind each house of has al twenty ) be far arkets nd com- nd Catt head of they will ers of the | Wyoming Central railway compuny held the ¢ received Attorney & Car- ter on behalf of the government for the fecovery of $175,000 damages for infr ing upon the public domain, Among the novol sights along the rail road in Wyoming is that of great herds of antelope. One band, which has been about Rock Springs the past ton days, is supposed to. number over 10,000, A | party went outfrom that town one day | and returned in two hours with seven- toen, which were all they wat iey could have Killed m mor varty went from Bryim and bag 1 were glutted with meat L y Gazott We often been asked the question why the Union Pacific railway is bu ling | branch line up the Platte valloy into the | North Park. 'While the matter pevhaps has been a state seorot in- railway civeles for sevoral years, wo bolieve there is no betrayal of confidence on our part in stating that the Union Pacitic has abso: Inte control of an extensive fiold of an thracite eoal just over the line m Colo | rado, “They are now buitding the hranch Line of rond from Fort Stecle for the pur pose of reaching this coal, The comple tion of the Fort Steole branch into the park means the ercetion of steel works at Rawlins, where the stecl rails not only | for the North Park br . but the wholt Union Pacitic system will he mad ny e says Colorado, improvement regatc 0),000, transfors ) £ Donver's will Real week amonnted employed in Denver to attack the army foot pads and sneak thieves in the city The report of the state anditor shows that on November 80, 1881, thero ro mamed in the treasury in cash and se cuvities #310185.61; there was received from all sot during the two years ending November 50, 1856, $1,837,305.94, making a total of " §2,8350,530.85. Tho 1 dishursemonts duving this poriod o $1,515,951.80, leaving n balane l seeuritios of §831.578.05 tal debt of the etate is §644,647, grounds and buildings owneld by state are valued at $500,000. estate in Deny 1aah The legislature of Id Boise City. The production of gold he territory last year 5,200,000, Jabez Chase is reported to have sold the Craosus e, Scorpion Guleh, Wood River, to an eastern syndicate, for $75,000, “The prospects of Tdaho,' says the Shoshone Gazette, “never were so bright as at present. Tiamigration and capiial is atl that is needed to start o great many industries and settle up the tinest lawds that lic out doors.”” The treasury of Butte county contains 719,901 cash, Helena has econtracted clock 1o cost $2,400, Butte is the paradise of pugilists, They rank next to the mayor in the social seald, ‘I'he Northern Pacifie announces a r duction of passenger rates in the terr tory, beginning Junuary 1, from seven to five cents a mile. According to the school eensus of Butto just finished, there arve 1,388 males and 1,230 females between the ages of four and twenty-one years; 519 males and 423 females under four of age; total, males and 1,653 females; total of 3,586, Of this number, there are of colored children, six males and sixteen females over four ye ze and one le and five femile four years; Chinese, fouty-four males and females under (wenty-one s, ‘The total in 1845 w: more than the pres ent census, The Pacitlc Const. 1 Dicgo has oxpended over §1,000,000 in building the past year, A Mormon missionary is endes to make converls in Linn Oregon. During November there wer from Calistogn 469 flasks of qui the product of three mines, One hunared and sixty-cight thousand boxes of raising have been shipped from Yresuo by rail so far this scason ‘The Daily Tombstone has been swal- lowed by the Daily Epitaph of Tom). stone, Ariz, ‘This " is the first case on record where the epitaph was larger than the tombstoae. Never at any timo was Los Angeles more over-ran with the crimi element than at the present. Footpads waylay belated pedestrians nightly, and smail burglaries are innumerable, Mrs. Standiford, of Snelling, Merc connty, buricd §25,000 in gold i th f her house for safe keeping. Her year-old boy found the hoard, how , and had distributed $700 of it imo; his playmates beforo hie was found out During November there were shipped from Puget Sound ports 25,000,000 feet of Jumber, 36,140 tons of conl and 1, valued at $£360,000. The total value shipments was §852,000, and the ve embloyed were of 67,600 weasure: ment T C. E. Mayne's priees are always the lowest and his terins ave always the easi- est. Go to his oflice anud buy alotin Cotner & Archer’s add. to South Omaha for $250 to §000 that will double inside of u year. for a town oring county, ship) ksilver, e Christmas Presents of Mind, “Going to give your wito & sonlskin cloak for a Christinas prosent, I sup pose?” chirped Bolded to Wigglesworth, a8 they toddled down strect togather, | LOOK FOR COTNER & ARCHER'S - [ Addition to South Omaha —c— All of you who bave ntot visited this busy place at some time, and those who liave, tako note of the wonderful changos | that have taken plaoe there in tho past twolvo months, From a dozen littlo | shantios thon,you can now sco she smoke ng heavenward from hundreds of cottages, Brick blocks ean be scen on almost any corner. I'rom two stores then the number has swelled to twenty or more now, with othors opening out every day. They now have banks, daily newspaper, and a dozen other m nor” enterprises. But theso are m nothing compared with the great prok gz industries, which are in_operation there, with their thousands of employes and such men at their head ns Hammond | Linton, Fowler | Morris, th South Omaha wili b ture packing town of the world. There has been more money mado in real es- tate in South Omaha, for the amount in vksted, than any other part of town. Lots that one yoar ago sold for $276 nre now worth from §2,000 to $3,000 and cheap at that, and there are just is good clunces now as then, and better, for the reason that we now know Sonth Omaha will linye & nopulution of 10,000 in less than five yoars, Now is the time to buy. Wa have o list of property here, and would be pleased to show it “to one and all. Call and examine our list_and tako nride out and see the town. We have a List of burgains in all parts of (own; como and see same, f-room house, ¥dl:wild, $5,600 If taken this weok, JOXT82, on Harney st with 4 story brick Rents for §3000 per year. $20,0000 §16,- 000 eash 4 lot 1n block 354, $1,800, | cach, bat- ance 1, 2 and 8 years, EXAMINE THIS LIST And sco if you do not find &owothing you want. A great bargain, 8 largo lots, 66 foot {rontage, each, on 22d st., with small house, in B. V., Smith's add, cablo line built within 2 blocks. This will make four lots of 49ix140each. §6,800. Only $2,000 cash. Must bo taken atonce. This will 11 for §10,000in the spring. A bargain. House 7 rooms, 1ot 100x120, in Omaha View. Price $3,800, $1,000 cast nneo to suit. A burgain. 160x166, on Sherman ave., in Kirkwood. §1,000, §1,600 cash. Corner lot, 60x1%0, 1 Pairmount Place, $2,000, $650 cash. A bargain. 60x140, on 20th st., in E. V" mith’s add, £2,700, $1,800 oush. , near William st, on S 1 building, 2 storics, rents for 62.50 por month. $4,500, termé easy. This is & bar- ain, will net you 17 per cent per year on tment, 26x150, adjoining the above, with two ry frime store building, rents for §60 per month, $1,000, terms casy. This 18 great bargain. Call at once as this is on the market but a short time. One whole lot in South Omaha in busi- ness part, $1,200. A burgain. Two houses, one of 12rooms and one of 3 rooms, rents for $50 a month, in Hor- buen's wdd. $4,000, §1,000 cash, 8 bargain, A bavgain, House of 10 roows, rents for 2750 per month, in Horbach’s add. $3,000, $1,000 ensh, Iight-room houso and barn, Horbach's add,”"rents for $30 per month, §3,000, $1,000 cash, A bargain. 66x152, on Dodge st, $1,600. Beautifullot m block 6,Hanscom Place $2,500, ¢800 cash Cor'lot in Marsh's add, $3.100, $1,020 cash, 30x120, in Jacob’s add, with store and 1 rooms nhove, rent €40 per month. This on the Park ave, ear line and & bar. gain. $1,500. $1,500 cash, bulanco 1, 2, wnd 4 yon We have y problem the fu is soly¢ new, ,storo rms in Towa and Nebraska to exchango for Omuha eity property We havo purchasers for (st mortguges on improved property Also have *‘money low on unprove pre Block Lon, s lois, t within two blocks of iEnrgai pom house, Idicwild, $5,100. room howse, B vement As sociation, 1ot #9x151, ensl front $13,500, g-room house, Georgin avenue, hen by steam, water and gus. full lot, barn, cic., near Leavenworth, $7,700. HWousc, 8 rooms, 2 lots, Windsor 10y blocks west Park, 200, to loan" at very S city and fari 18, Credit Foncler addi- chage each side, oal mine. 2 “y my wmind,” Wigglesworth testily retorted “1 suppose you would call that presents of mind, wouldn't you?" Boided con jectured, But Wigzlesworth was too husy fulling over a boy (l to make reply Muyne's prices are alws lowest and his terms are whways the easi est. Go to his oflice and buy a lot in Cotner & Archer's udd . to Sonuth Omaha for §250 Lo %300 that will double inside of a year CE e — A somnambulist in Albany, Ga., 1 for his 1 Iy y shot night sted one while R N ORPRICES FLAVCRS MOST PERFZCT MARE | Froparod with Btrict regacd > Prstty, Strang, anh | Mecdtktuinesa, Dr. Frite e 8akicg Powder c e Awmoale (e Alum o Plospbetes. Di 1 e, & | Eauncie, Veillla, Loioa, eic., Savas Qelicdously. e and 1ot in Lowe's addi- 1,800, new house in Flace, @atherine str sted by furnac bullt in e city. Bargal 5. 700, Hroom cotiuge, new, E9Mh and Ohio strects, addition, $2,500; 5400 balance $235 per mor Fine lot in Washingto, $2,300, corner Lak CRITH Squitre Denise's add This a burgain utiful lo a0x133 ), $100 cush. in n Muyne P We havoe soy to Waluut Hill ou ca: for sule | We of 10 DR, Archer, (. M. Sobolker 1609 FARNAM STREET RBoom 9, Redick’'s Blook Cull ind mm Pepmocn Nfim TYATN