Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 6, 1887, Page 4

4 THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. AENME OF SUBSCRIPTION : Deily Oforniag Bdition) including Sunday Ber, One Y enr . ieeeene $10 00 Yor 8t Months M 1] For Three Monthe ... ey 26 | e Omaba Swidy i iniled to any address, One Yenr. 200 OMATA OFFICE, NO. 018 AND, 010 FARYAM STREEY W VORI OFFIOR. 100N 65, TRINUNE B DI WACHINGTON OFFICES NO. 513 FOUKTRENTH STRERT. CORRESIONDENCE: All commimications relating to news and edl. torial matter should be addressed 1o the kor- TOK OF THE BER. TUSTNESS LETTERS ! ters and remittances ahould ba Qddrossed to Tae Bee Pusiaisng OMANA. Drafts, chacks av 10 be ruade payable 10 the o THE BEE PUBLISNING COMPARY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, Eprro All business THE DAILY BE Sworn Statement of Oirculation, Btate of Nebraska, County of Douglas, Geo. B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual cireuiation of the Daily Bee for the week ending Dec. S1st, 1886, wus as follows: Baturday, De Sundav. 1 Monday, Dec Tuesday, De v Wednesday, Dee. U Thursday, Dec Friday, Dee. 3. a8 Average, Subscribed and sworn to e doy of January A, D., 1557, N, P. FEir, ISEA LI otary Publie. Geo, B, Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of the Beo Publishing company, that the actual av- erage daily circulation of the Dally Bee for the month of January, 185, was 10,575 copies, for February. copies; for 165, 11,5 April, : for Ma: this st 314 copies or September, 1886, 12,050 15 covles; tor copies: for ‘or November, 183, 1 r, 1856, 13,387 coni 3 Gro. B, Tzscrr Sworn to and subseribed betore me of January A, 1. 1857, L.y N. P. Frir, Notary Public, Tne senate has resumed 1ts power of choosing its own committees. It vema to be seen whether the railroads have ab- dicated their power of chovosing their own senate. Jay Govn vorite theol ways been that 1t is chenper to buy a legislature than to elect one, and that the state senate is a cheaper bargain than the house because it takes a fower number of members to make a majority. Tie finishing touches have been put on the new Iowa state capitol. The fini ing touches are puton Nebraska's state capitol before cach session of the legisla- ture. Patching and putty conceal the bad workmanship for a few months at a time, M. tIanrAN was a professed Vau Wyck man. His strong following were equally outspoken in advocacy of the senior sen- ator’s candidacy. When the anti-Van vered that Mr. Harlan could not be beaten they swung into line Mr. Harlan was elected by a rattling n jority. And yet we are now told by the newspaper wiseacres that thero is lutely no s Speaker He ing with delight over the sticking quali- tics of railrond mucilage as applicd to democratic members in the house, several bourbon senators promptly jumped the traces m the upper house and cast their votes for a republican as acting president. The precedent st by the railrond demo- crats will doubtless be followed by their anti-monopoly brethren when the time comes to ballot upon the senatorial issue. Two years only surpassed 1885 in the amount of railroads constructed, These were 1881 and 1382, Last year 8,010 miles of track were laid in the rd States, ropresenting at 20,000 per mile, an ex- penditure of §160,000,000. Kansas, Ne- Dbraska, Minncsota and Texas took more than half of the new mileage, Kansas alone being credited with 1,520 miles, N A bids fair to surpass the record, Dirt will fly on half a dozen systems in ate, and the town without a rail- road will be almost as rare & specimen as the man without a country. Tue Berk published a fow days ago an extract from the brilliant speech dehivered betore the New England society by Mr. Heary W. Grady, of the Atlunta Constilu- tion, It is smd that no after-dinner cffort of the past thirty years has excited such enthusinsm among the auditors or awakened g0 much favorable comment from the press. North and south alike are pouring out their praises upon the eloguent young orator whose masterly effort bids fair to mark an epoch in the development of followship between the states thata quarter of a century ago were t war, The entire south is echoinz the eclaration of Mr Grady: ‘I am glad that omniseient God held the balauce of the battle in 11is almighty hand, and that the American union was suved from the wreck." E ifying to learn that hagh political horors are likely to be the reward which his own state will bestow upon this brilliant Georgian spokesman for the New South, Right at the Front, Hon. W, G. Whitmore, of Douglas county, whose re-election to the present legislature was a_splendid endorseme of his able and faithful wo u the I forged prowptly to the front n the pre- liminary organization of the house. Speaker Harlan owes Lis election more to the efforts of My, Whitmore than to those of any other one member. The gentle- man from Douglas denced the pos- session of a cool head, clear braiv il excellent ability as an organizer. The manner in which he managed the canvass commanded the warm devos tion of his friends aud the respect of ls opponents, Willlam G, Whitmore becomes at one bound the recognized leader of the republican party on the floor of the house. Thisis a compliment which Douglas county will appreeiate not less than Mr. Whitmore himself. His constituency have much work whose importance must be pressed upon by legislature and a large purt of the burden will nocessarily fall upon him. Mr. Whitmore has great possibili- ties before him. He hus made an excel- lent record, which inspires confidence for hus future and fwth in his honest ability and unswerving integrity. There is little danger that he will disappoint bie friends. e et e Let Him Oome Korward, There is no longor any doubt that the Northwestern wnroposes to bu Omaha with the opening of spring, organization for the line hus be cured, night of way bought snd § tions are already in progres the beginning of work when frost 1 the ground. Under the errcumstanc Hughitt shonld not delay in laying before our people a proposition which he has been promising to make and which it understood will be to the mutual benefig of Omuha and the Northwestern There 18 no good why this ecity should not the Misso river terminus of the Iremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley system, with tho shops and headquarters of the road located in our midst. There is a feeling of growing towards Manag Hughitt" the removal of the discriminations which s operated against our merchants has grown steadily as an import- ant patron of the Northwestern and the system has grown no less steadily equally important outlet for the trade and traffic of a great city, Now that the Elkhorn Valley road proposes to invade the southwest as well a1 the northwest, and to build from 200 to 500 miles of com- peting lines during the next twelve months, 1ts relation to Omaha bec of still greater value, aud Omakia's pros- pective value to the road will be correspondingly enhanced, Mr. Hughitt I3 ord to come for t once with bis proposal, which t has beer merely nuted at. He will find our sposed to give him an atte vz and tavorable consideration. n para. to aves s, Mr look is system. reason be made mes Hazen One More, One of the strongest « vor of abolishio guments in fa- the signal service ns a branch of the war department is the fact that it would abolish Hazen. That pe- culiar individy as once more been showing his cloven footby a persccution of Licutenant Glassford, oue of the ablest officers in his bureau. Llcutenant Glass- ford had the hardibood to appear before the congressional committee and give itus his honest opinion that the weather ser vice should be transferred to a civil de- partment on grounds of economy and to secure better work. This presumption on the vpart of his subordi- nate so incensed General Ha- n that he promptly transferred Licutenant Glasstord to San Francisco out of reach of prying committees. General Howard since his arrival on the, coast beeanie s0 impressed with Licuten- ant Glassford’s abilitics that he applied for permussion to sppoint him on his staff. But before the request could pass through its travels from one officer to another up to the seeretary, Goneral Hazen heard of the proposition and promptly blocked it by ordering Licuten- ant sford to one of the most disa- greeable stations in Arizonn, Secretary Endicott has just had the case brought to his notice and has administered a severe rebuke to the military martinet who has abnsed his position to perscente an honest and able subordinate. General Hazen has beeome an insufl able nwisance. Every year his name is brought into disagreeable promimence in a manner gre; to his own discredit and that of the good name of the a which his bureau is unfortunats tached. al warrior who, by some mysterious influence, has been boosted into high ned in a position which he ste his prejudices and s: his bureau could be terior department and Hazen himself re- tircd on three years' pay, the public would be material gainers by the change. The Delegation and the Charter. The sooner the Douglas county delega- tion at Lincoln begin work on the new charter, the better it will be for all con- cerned. 1he measuro should be drafted and introduced as early in the session as The work of the charter com- Much of it can be incorporated entir D portions with slight smnendmen! mect the publie demands, while ns should be entirel, viaduet clause as finally o an improvement on Mr, Poppleton’s sug- estion, but it wili not fill the bill. law which makes the people b chief part of the burden of main safe crossings over railr ki be incorporated in our statute books. That 15 a duty which common law and the decisions of the courts ha - ently imposed on the compauies, ‘They shonld not be relieved from it in Ne- braska Most of the minor topies of chang the eity administration as discussed the charter committee and suggested in their drafv can be adopted entire by the delegation. These mclude the 5 ment of damages and benelfits, provisions for park and police commissions, exten- sion of the city boundaries and of the jurisdiction of the police courts, power of cminent domain for water purposes, and assistants to the city attorney and city engineer, together with & number of otuer reforms which th so of our population mal ests of proper government. But the delegation must not forget that bowever valuuble may be wany of the suggestions of the eitizens’ charter com- mittes people of Omaha will hold their delegation in the legisiature re- sponsible for the pa of a charter suited to their needs and elastic enough to adapt itself to the requirements of the immedinto future, w ome of ored. No ar the ining The Government Will Try Again. The counsel for the government in the suit against the Bell ephone company Luve been for some time hard at work ring the bill to be filed in th achusetts court. The suit will st the Bell company n, as there are no subordinate cor anies in Massachusetts, Otherwise the bill will be similar to that fi the rovernment i the smit brought in Olio, in which the court disclaimed jurisdi tion. The department of justic never in its history guilty of a greater or more expensive blunder than that of bringing suit 1st this corporation in another state than the one in which it has its home, and yet there was a de of justification in the fact that the Bell company is so strongly intrenched in Massachusetts as to warrant the belief that the chances of securing justice in an action against it there are much less than elsewhere. ‘This opulent and pow- erful corporation is managed by ex- traordinarily shrewd and far-seemng wen, at into | have not been and while they havo becn incroasing their | fortunes with phenomenal rapidity they | unmindful of the exy v of distributing their favors lavishly in dircet where they wonld do the | most good gecuring i enco should it ever be required The history of telephone liti Massachusetts is one of unbroke for the Bell company, and in no s 1se has it won on the merits of its elaim but always by compromise or co'lusion tolerated or connived at by the court Five suits have been brought by the com- ny in the United States court for tho district of Massachusetts einco 187 iinst alleged infringers, and 1 evi c a decry was madein favor of Bell In th of the suits—those of Hurd, Dowd and Redding—decrees in favor of Bell were entered without opposition, I'he Dowd case was defended by the Western Union graph compan whose agent Dowd was, and resulted in borate agreement or contract be- tween that company and the Bell Tele- plone corporation, by which the latter agreed to pay each year one-fifth ot its tota i to the former, T and Redding were really never ted. In the Spenc 1wl Dolbear suits evidenco was taken and arguments made, but the fact that they did not make an issuc of the Bell patent shows protiy conclusively that they were collusive, The decrees of Ju 1 oll and Gray in these canses were remarkably for the obvious care they took to make the broadest sort of decisic is if de siring to make the most possible out of the opportnnity for proclaiming the v lidity and unassailability of the Bell company’s cimims, The opinons of these judges incvitably been sub- jectedd to a strong suspicion of partiality in view of the fact that many of the near relatives of both are large stockholders, and some of them oflicers, of the Dell company, But whether or not this susnicion vs just, the fact that there was strong influence largely con- ceerned in the welfare of the company very close to the judges is amply at- The partiality of the Bell com- 1y for Massachuseits was shown in tho timony of its president beforo the Pan- investigating committee of congress last year, in which he stated that hie advised the president to have the proposed suit of the government brought in that st: It is expeeted that the government’s suit will be begun at the May term of the court, and the case will be heard by judges less susceptible to local infiuence than those already on record m behalf of the Bell company. Meanwhile, during the present month, the supreme court of the United States will pass upon one or cases on ap- peul aflceting the validity of the Bell patent, which the government alleges was procured by fraud. a pow ation in victor an s cases Perplesities of the Appointing Power. The appointing power giyen the presi- dent by the constitution is greater than that enjoyed by the gn of any other nation, except perhaps those of Russia and China, and m those countries there are fev oflices to be disposed of and demands upon the appointing power are loss frequent. It is one of the great prerogatives of the exceutive oflice, which really gives the president much more importance with the people than any other of his ‘The control affecting the inter ests and welfare of more than 2 hundred thousand citizens, and exerting in its use and distribution more or less influence upon party feeling and fate, is a power compared with wineh the right of veto or any other prerogative of the president is mall and Bat it is an uthority he: ghted with perple: ties, as Mr. nd would unquestion- ably attest were he required to do so. There may have been presidents who had A more reer than lus has been in the exercise of this power, but 1t 1sn't necessary to go back of his for evidence of its annoying and aggravating char- acter, What arecord of blunders, stupidly or recklessly made, it is from the ning until now. At home, unkno without expericnee in publi and of mediocre ability, for important trusts. / misrepresented men without the d their duties or with habits that disqualify them for properly per- forming such dutics. Mr, Cleveland is not wholly to blame, and we have no doubt he has felt keenly the humiliation to which the administration has been nmen, | quired by law to be | very ! of the [ will subjeeted by the many ill-juiged appoint- ments t have been de. He has been badly advised in many cases when he was largely compelled to accept advice, and in others doubtless has been too willing to serve those who had a personal end to accomplish, Not the least of his troubles in this direction are due to his secretary of state, who ot all the members ot his cabinet should be, by reason of his long experience in public life, the safest ad- viser, “The perplexitics of the president in this matter are not ended, and in view of his physical condition he is to be commiscr- ated, The case of Minister Manning must have proved exceedingly annoying to the president, That eccentric individ- ual was seleeted by Mr. Bayard, His name was not sent te the senate before the holidays, and the time within which this must be done expired yesterday. conduct in Mexico the world knows of. Not to send in his appointment wou be a palpable snub of the scerel stute, while to send ‘it in would be a virtna! insult to the countr position is a delicate one for dent, though no one can doubt course should be. ‘The country ented in Meaico or ¢ by such a person as Man- The case of Matthews hasnot con- tributed to the peace of wind of the 'nt, and his explanatory and apolo- tie letter on renominating the colored of deeds has not advaneed Mr. and in the respect of s party, or aps in that of anybody. Its asser- tions are questioned and 1ts spirit is pro- ced demagogie, The rejection of thews is believed to be certain. This 1 was put on the back of the president by Scerctary Manning. The appoint- ment of Mr. Benedict to be public printer is proving another unpleasant experience to the president. For this he is inaebted to his generally shrewd private secretary, Colonel Lamont, who 15 credited with the discovery of Benedict. That person ap- peurs not (o huve been thus far a brilliant success. IHe bas pleased mobody, and woreover it is charged that he is dis- qualificd in not being 8 practical printer, THE OMAHA DAILY fiEE. THURSDAY JANUARY 6, 1887 e e e e P e e e e e e & -2 a8 the pnblic printer is very propetly ro- Mr. Bened appear to be are esamples of im- 1t showing the perplexitics gpower. But it must be r. Cleveland is learning, y before his term expires he have become wise enough in this ent of his duty to avord its most chances of confirmation m wte inte appointi npposed tl me and Lroxtoas in Spartan days heroieally held the pass. Leonidas W. Colby is not behind his Spartan predecessor in his grip on the railroad pasteboard, CURRENT TOPICS, Dr. William I Gray, of West Falls, Md., 18 the latest discoverer of perpetual motion. It is the old scheme of a wheel with movable weights, and he claims to have had one in operation for three months. Prof. Smyth, who is on trial at Andover for heresy, will probably be convicted. Any plain Smith who foreibly injects a “y" into the middle of his name ouzht to be vromptly punished without the benafit of elergy. Johin Mann has placed his name fourth on the list of those who have eaten a quail each y for a month. Having won §1,000 by the 20, his backer offered to bet that at ten more birds in the next or Cooper was one of the greatest bene- factors of New York who ever lived in that city, and when he died several years ago it was proposed (o erect a $10,000 monument to his mewory. Only £30,000 of the amount has yet been raised, and the millionaires of the motropolis are getting ready to pass the hat amoni the sehool children for pennios, Antoine Brasseur, the pieture restorer st died ab Cologne, e has eft his tion of pletires, valued at 400,000 fgancs, 1o the museamn of his native town, Lille. Brasseur was . found born at Lilie in 1519, and edueated at tie Comtesse Foundlin nospital. . The mavor of Lillis went to Cologne to reepive the body, and the common couneil votegl Brasseur a public funeral, Allanta Constitution, Thoe report that the czar has been drunk, naturally leads one to sngpect that the great Russian lives in a prohivition town, e Why He Stole a Locomotive, New York G) The Ohio man who stole’ a locomotive siould be judzed with some charity. Ho would have preferred an oflice, you know; but then you know likewise e couldn’t get it, o Knows 1t Al Somer) Journal, can alw: an who has once an exehange, s been that you He thinks Le knows i “You Our experience has als can't tell him much. s rts of Nis Countrymen Ph iladelphta Times, In the hearts of his countrymen John A, Lozan, without a dollar to leave behind, i3 cher than that numerous body o statesmen vho have become millionaires o year. - Why She Goes Barcheaded, St. Paul Hevald, “There is a strong suspicion out west tha n Bartholdi mado his statue bare- to put a nat o er of the esent fashion wi 1 make her about 500 cland Plaindealer, (Dom.) *Is William 1L English of Indiana dead? asks o correspondent. No, But you can write lim - and ask the question. Bo eareful toinclose a postace stamnp and one cent extra with which to pur ationery for the answer. Adda Lidin It is not living—draw Filse 1t were easiers living is to strive o do most valiant battlo with the ranks “I'hiat do assail both from within and out, The 10 7ions of temptations, Hosts of 8 Crowding discouragementsand bafiled hopes, he misconstructions of mallgnant minds That rise ke ainbushed spies and aim hll.lll sht for the heart, Ile who lives tr bears Lyer his shic Kfixed on the quelled. Couri un ot him, foe, cops his eye unflinehing and un- annting, ever undismayed, His watchword is, Le is most victor who, neconfliet ended. counts himself as least, Not crowns or Laurels are his just desert, Nor praise of men, nora mad world plius ricl comes Bears pene e halm of The world need Than peace and them Sits above kings, for all unheard by him Pass by the hideous discords of the world, STATE AND P Nebraska. Jottings. Beaver City will invest in a town hall, Wayne's improvements Iast year foot up $62, Broken Bow’s improvement list foots up $140,600. Lancaster county issued 411 permits to wed last y Hog cholera is Turnas county. Fullerton is & prolibition yet the wells and cistern thr up. Atkingon is a town of elubs, orders and societies, The lodge night dodge is the key of belated husband little ehild of B, Cunningham, li ing near Wayne, drank medicine con- taining morphine, and joined the ange in three hours. Messrs, Sturtevant and Jackson, ex- treasurers of Nance county, have been sued for $6,000, clumed 10 be due the county from them, The oldest inhabitant in northern Ne- braska hus discovered convincing proof that this will be a short winter, Wild pse have been n in the hibor- hood, ap- But T, meed he who thus conguering unon his brow st 1 el consel atfords not-rie and in lis br e—richer gifts her gilts none calm. e who possesses KRITORY, raging in portions of town, and aten o dry nei 2. Brown, a real estate dealer astings, while whooping up the 1 ar i Keokuk, wis treated to a 1t charging him with cheating alse pretense. The information was file at the instance of the Kceokuk Auction and Commission association. The in- formation charges frandulent conye unce of two seetions of land in Cheyenne county, Nebraska, and the smount in- volved is $4,224, Brown guve an appea ance bond of §5,000. ¢ A runaway street eur in Beatriee Tue; jously mjured *Mrs. W, . Parker and Miss Eleanor Davds. The former was sitting on the north side of the car when it struck the ditch, She was pitched headforemost nearly throngh a window opposite, aud was taken out through the wimdow, bruised, bleeding and uncon- scious. She was budly cut ubout the face and under the chin, Miss Dubois had a cut across on de of her face and upon ber hand. The driver was slightly bruiscd, und the horses escaped without injury. ‘The faculty of the Methodist colle; Central City are struggling with a high moral rule and & number of rebellious students. It appears the faculty estub- lished & rule taat pupils should avoid vis- iting the wicked theaters. Then the new opera house loomed up and the flashing bill-boards, the brass band and attending excitement of an opening night was too wuch for the good Learts and souls within the college walls, and by the aid of win- dows aud shegts slid down aud out ta the show. Thereupon they were given theie walking papers. ‘This aroused the indig- tion of numerous parents, and the un- ypy faculty were called to account. 1t ame too warm for their comfort, and oune resigned. ‘This leaves the school in a p exiremity, not experic encod since a year ago last fall, when the swwind blew out the northwest corner of tho structure and “froze” out the entire faculty for the winter. Towa Items, A new Baptist church at Burlington was dedicated on the 2d inst. Tho building improvemonts of Musca- tine for 1856 amount to §202,6 There ar hteen districts four district judges in the state, The building improvements of Dubugue for the last year figure up $! 66, The footings of the wholesale business at Keokuk for 188¢ regates §11,404,400 The creamery at Ames was robbed Saturday night ot 510 pounds of tub but- ter. During 1830 there were 405 miles of I‘:nlliu:xxl built in the state on ten lines of rond. The bars of Vietors have ron dry but the “Brother Dick' bottle has come to the front, The estimated cost housn of Des Moine furnitu is $120,000. The fire department of Davenport h seventy-two ealls last year, and the pre erty consumed amounted te f ‘I'hie annual_convention of the Temperance alliance will be held at Moines on the 18th, 19th and 20th inst Governor Larrabee estimates that there are 1,000,000 horses and 8,000,000 cattle in the state, and believes they are worth more than all the railronds in the state, watered stock and all, Des Momes® big d figure in the nd forty- of the new conrt county, ineluding State Des) lery cnts a high industrial reviews of tne city. The value of last year's product W ,106,806. Prolnbition sent all the gtofl out of the state, to solace the neigh- boring heathen, as it were. The total value of the school buildings of Burlington is estimated at 113,500 There twelve buildings, contuning seventy-six rooms. ‘They farnish em: ployment to eeventy-six teachers at o total annual salary of $16,0! I'no total enrollment for the year hasbeen 4,106 and the averag i 830, The av- erage cost of tuition 1onth for each pupil is $1.85. Ll The legislature is in session Real estate advanced 10 per cent during the year 1 Colorado Cily. The oil district of Archuleta co ill some day cause an excitement in thi twill build upa large city in i Ol is there in unlimited nt hipments from Silverton n aggregate 13,520 tons, of which ~was treated at Tne value of the total in s will not fall short of the bulk Durango. silver Denver News: The News is encour- aged by a notice from the Union Pacifie, with headquarters at Omaha, that pas senger rates on the line of the system in Colorado have been reduced from 5, 7, T+ and 93 cents per mile down to 4,5 and 6 cents per mile. A corresponding redue- tion in freight rates is all that is needed to complete the good worlk Utah, t ke City consumed 54,200 tons of conl during 1856, The United States land oflice ty disposed of 243,917 aci land last yea t Salt s of cighty-seven patients in the no agylum. The males out- numuer the fe s by five, The assessed valuation of Ogden City is 2,100,000, The city owns 1ts water which cost $83,000. wty-three car loads of ornamental shrubbery and nursery stu o sold in Salt Lake City for the week ending December 81, inclusive, were nincteen cars of bullion, 542,610 pounc i 1 ore, 1 pounds; twenty pound; three e pounds, total, pounds. Seven silk looms are in operation in Salt Lake City ma turing silk fab- ries suchas find r the The produet of theso looms for the past year aggregated in valne Most of th raw silk 15 imported. other looms in the territory doing the same work. The product of Utah mines for 1886, ns shown by the annual review of the Salt 1 ‘Tribune, is as follow: Copper, &141,453; refined lead, $9,667; unrefined Jead, £1,405,231: fine s lver, fine:gold, $211,510; total puting the gold nnd silver a valuation and other metals at th at the seaboard, it wonld in value of the product to 10,345,044, In Washington county, Utah, the busi- ness of raising cotton has been conducted on a small seale the past fow years. It is generallyn patches of from f to one or two seres, and being raised on such a small seale costs all the farmer gets for it to raise it. The past year's Jrrulhu’t was sbout 10,000 pourds, which found a market at the Washington woolen mills and the Manti rope works, where its mar- ket yalue is 13 cents per pound. fifty-onc e 1daho. Twenty-five million pounds of ore were shipped from Hailey last year, Hailey invested $84,300 in improve- wents last year, and Bellevue $52,900, Rullion shipments from Kelchum_ dur- ing December amounted to 270,000 pounds, The Wood river mines produced 799,- 2 pounds of ore during the y The o essays 100 ounces of silver ‘und 55 per cent. of lead to the ton, The business of the Hailey land office during the year amounted to a frac- tion over 44,000 ueres of land taken under ‘The cush receipts at the office w Modern ntlemen Adventurers." Boston 1 ha, the ex-confederate, ex- lied in New York, ed experience in warfare, and his Lfe, like that of the late Hobart Pasha, exhibits how much of romance and adventure is to be had even in these aic duys. He first saw ser vice it. Mexico, and on the outhreak of our ciyil w became brigadier in the confederat army and fought under Br Subsequently he turned aypt and beeame chief of stafl’ in the khediv army, General Loring and Un n Hohart scemed to be kindred spirits, enjoving adventure for its own sake, and born fighters. Itis a peeculi arity of such men that they have a fair shure of persol vanity or egotism. which lead them to ell” the stories of their adventarous liyes. g s the youth, who fears that in this hum-diu school-going, work-a-day world there is no longer opportunity for sl exploits, caa learn from thess sol diers of fortune that courage, enterprise and love of adveuture are still marke ble commodities, and that the youth cquipped with thése has a_good stack-in trade to face the world with. It may added that the same guabities can find an even more useful tield for their exercise than that in which Loring and Hobart moved, although the quality of romunce may be lacking. Loring Pa Egyptiun officer, Thursday, had to | be | | A MODEL FRONTIER LETTER, a s of Nebraska Border Life by Gene eral Brisbin, SETTLING UP THE WILD How They Live up at the Dakota Line ~Christmas on the Pratries—Pen Pictures of Hardy Pionecrs = Room for the Million, WEST. Fonr Re 8.~ 150N, Dawes Co., Neb., Jan Swvecial Correspondence ot the Ber.) on the praivies as He is every- We are over four hundred miles northwest from Omaha but even here aro lifoand health and pleasure, The great county of Sioux, Nebraska, has been di vided mto three countics; first, Sheridan; second, Dawes; third, Sioux county proper. We are up at the Dakota line but the people are as happy and con- tented this Now Yoar's timo as if thoy lived anywhore in the east, Good wheat, good corn, good vegetables and plenty of chickens and turkeys, why should they not be happy? 1doubt if anywhere in the United States there were botter Chistmas and New Year's dinners than in northwe yraska, Tho earth lies robed in snow but the merry jingle of sleigh bells and the laughtor of happy voices are heard everywhere, In this land shere, only a foew yoars the wild Indian roamed and the bullalo grazed upon o thousand hills, the peoplo have come to stay and the yoice of the coyote hias been hushed by the voices of happy young men and maidens. Civilization Tns usurped the place of barbarism and the plow and harrow converied tho hunting grounds of the Sioux and the haunts of wild beasts to the wants and conveniences of mankind, “The very place where 1 write 18 ULL OF ROMANTIO INTEREST, It was here the famous Indian Chief ‘razy Hotse found nis death. It was to o5t Dull Kuife direeted s famous march with his Cheyenn and it was here they perished. It was near this post Little Big Man, the Sionx chief, rode on the parade ground of a United States fort and ordered the flag of the nation to be hauled down. It"was from here Colonel Henry “directed his famous raarch, These and muny other incidents cal value in the progress of Ne- ski's settlement will bo dealt with in detail at the proper time, but this letter has nothing to do with them just now. It is of the people of to-day and their doings I wish to write. The settlement of a new country and the redemption of the soil from barrencss to productiveness 1s always o matter of groat interest to the people of the east, Weostward the star of cmpire takes 1ts ¢ and it is shining here to-day with all its early splendor as it shone more than a hundred years ago when George Washington crossed the Alleglienies in Pennsylvania from Vir ginin to Pitsburg. My lot in life for more than twenty years has be ast with the people of our border settlements in the great west and now Lwonld hardly change it if Leould. I have learned to love thes HARDY PEOPLE OF THE BORDER, and I like to ive among them, and share with them their privations and hard- ships, if so they may be called. After ¢ it is not so havd to Iive in the far w people imagine. [t is true we towards the setting sun, b rich, the climate all the fun we w A man whosd nearest neighbor is four miles distant, be comes wonderous kind and he isnot long in finding out his neiglbor and joining him heartily in all that coneerns his wel- re. To let the wide world wag as it will, these people are happy, and happi- ness constitutes the true sum of human contentment with life. We have hundreds of thousands of acres still waiting the hand of the husbandman, but we expect to see them all taken up next summer and converted into happy homes. This of the White river, and it has ‘ttlement soon to become dense stern and southern Nebraska. Chadron 1t the mouth of wh stands the growing city of Chadron, only a little \r old, but alre ining more_than a thousand souls. ‘I'hen Pave White Clay with its line and th ing young town of Crawford, less t one year old, but with quite four hun- dred” people, and soon we hope to have 1,000. FORT ROBINSON (this pluce) is near Crawford and has qunite 400 people. Next summer the post will be rebuilt at a cost $105.000, and tnen it will contain 800 soldiers and citizens, If look at the business and buildings of Crawford it wiil give us an ides the progress of this part of the ry goods stores, livery stables, ment markets, hotels, confectionery es- plishments, real estate offices, banks, rs, commission merchants, and all the para- phernalin of a first lass town, The finest dry goods store in Crawford is Mr. [, F, Clough’s. Itis in a large brick building and adjoining the store is his bank. Next in importance to Clongh's - establishment is 8. 5. Paddock’s store. e 15 the post trader at Fort Robinson and 1n addition 1o his store at Crawford hus an establish- ment at Hat Creek, Townsend bas a bakery, restaurant and hotel at Craw ford; ~ Rockwell, a hardware stor G a fine drug store; Hamlin, a wagon' shops Loveland, a watch nnd clock establishment; Stetson, & fumber yard; Bamgrover & Co., wines, liquors and cigars: Dippert, o wood and coal yard; McDowell, wood and coal; Rosa & Tnompson, flour and grain; Myers & Boon, household supplies, and furnitare; East- iman’s supplies; Bower & itrick, drogs; Ellis & Kuthau, a livery and feed stable; Hunt, & gunsmith store; 11, lumber and shingles; Sowards, harness store; Dahlmas & Simmons, a market; dohn Cumings, a meat market; Johnson, a fine restaurant; Mrs Russell, & milluery store; Kooser Marrins, a confectionery; Cooke, a hotel; ith, & paint and repair shop; whilé I Abhot will shaye you, Kathin, hs your goods, Dr. Koons plug 3 : anming attend Lo your law, you, Pardos nd o your real estate and many othiers supply il your wants, CRAWFOR a well established town and ready for Il kinds of business. Next summer it it will have it can do and there will b room for wany more res. We have Deadman, Hat Creek, White Clay,Cotton wood, District 28, Lawn, sud miany other thriving settlements, new but prospe ous and confident ot great things in the future New Yeurs hus come an gone and with it mauy f notwith standing the iselation n, d spite 1ts unlively name, is a very lively place. Sleighing and sliding partics are the ra and on Christinas there were man for the little oues Phoey danced the old year out, and all went merry as a marringe deer hunting is execllent and more deer huve been shot this winter than ever bofore in this part of Nebraska. 5. A, Decker, of Deadman, 18 an expert hunter, and, [ am told, has Killed as many as | er in one day he mount grouse and | prawrie chickens ntiful, Al most any fine day, sun thaws tainment i a fino sleigh and lots ‘of bells, Ounr loca poct says “Over the snow he glides, With his snow-white team, Swiftly and morri Out on the Deadman’s stream,” Which is about as good pootry us old man Tennyson's slogan “Locksley Hall" cabled and published in a newspaper last week. Our local poot has somo snap in him, but the parchase of a bull dog Iast week by a certain old farmer scems to have upset him terribly. I will give ¥ young rhymestor a fow lines to dy over A man may hog, A man may kiss, And court the girls day, sut farmer B, has got a dog, So you'd better keep away That may not be very good pootry. there is a doal of good sense inat, local poct know Lawn had a Christmas tree and danc on Christmas eve. That is right, be merry while you ean, Lawn also has & terary socioty and a star debating club, ‘The next subject for debate is “What 1 be Done With Our Girls.,” There tdition to the dance and Christ- t Lawn, an oystor suppor and nee at C. H. Iron's, The sottlers aro preparing to build & new bridge over the Running Water, near Mr. Grogg's place. A CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION District Number Twenty-eight not to b behind the rest of the_settloments had « elebration at Maple Place on Christmas night, It wasa great success, 'ho fols lowing was the programme for the even- ning’s entert hall we Ga tation by, Manie Cottage,” Sone by all, “esus Lover of my Soul Qddress, Chiristuns, by Mr. Hall, Song by all, “In the' Swoet, Bye Select “readi e by Mother's St I Frank n Homes,” Halland others i Country, The sponse by Mr. Tiall an, Leeitation by Mamne I the Homestead,” Musi _Instrumental exhibitions by Stuart, St. Nicholas then made his appearance prnvn'rl\':u'vmnl'm( nd - after receiving the hearty congrs tions of all, pro- ceoded to distribute his load of presents, After all the presents had boen d tributed, Mr, 14l sang for the audienco, closing with his_beautiful rendition of ““Where are Our Friends To-nigl Supper was next announced feast was most delicious. Eyery until they could eat no more and still the were loaded with un- touched vis The Rev. J. G. Martin was present and eontributed much to the njoyment of the occasion. 1 have mon- tioned the Christmas occasion at District 28 80 muchin detail in - order to prove to you what [said at the opening of this let- ter that away out here on the prairies of Nebraska there 18 good cheer and the peovle are happy and contented. The winds m:.{ howl, muking the snow ap and whirl in wmad fantw tio nee before its fitful blasts, but wi the farmer's home the tire burns brigh and there is joy and happine ain and hail and be cold, stormy Miss Itosa and the one sut come the farmer a drinking of nls er.” o having lists of all 5 in the o can immig the good ty made up so that wo blish them for the informuation of ants who desire to find homes in this t of the west. The county is not yet more than on sixth settled and there thousands of acres of good land yet untaken. We want sot and two or three thousand hors can . ind good land and desirable homes in northwest- ern Nebraska, about Dawcs, Bheridan and Sioux counties. Then come alony, come along, come along § 1y, Conid fram every nation, And come from every w Come along, emne alor For Unele Sain is tich Lo <ive you all a farm JAMES 8. DRispin. — OUNTY DUSINESS, make no delay, BLOWHN Milling Fac pro LONG Pix of the Bi: ities in Long Pine—lm- ments in 1886, Neb., Jan. To the Edi- Juring the twoor threo s imm preceding the tormi ion of the year 1856, Long Pine has A nothing occurring that was exciting or wtions along in yen tenor of its way, in such things ood and substantial improvements re necessary for the stability” and reasing develovment of any well ulated town. A few wecks ngo the citizens of this place witnessed the com- pletion and good working of the machin- ery of the Pine R Rolling mills. This mill has been in process of coustruction ever sinee June, 1586, and now it chal le: ny like institution m Nebraska for the completeness of its architeetural do- sizns, the fimsh of its iachinery, the standard of its flour, und novelty of 1ts power. The latter is obtained from a dam on the Long Pine river, and is 4,000 feet from the mill s0 that 1t requires a cable 5,000 feet long to conduct the power to the mill, The mill is now running night aud day, and the ehances are that it will continue to do so. The wheat raised in Brown county is 80 hard that it hasto be s ned b fore grinding, There are now running three burr wills and one roiler mil und there is plenty of power for other kinds of mills, On account of the cheapness of the power, the flour is sold at very low prices and 'consequently has o great de- mand, I'he board of trade of pre ne a pamphlet containing a rec ord of the mprovements of this piace for the past year, wood cuts of some of the principal buldings, a deseripiion of the surrounding country, detailing its nd- W stock r, which to wee cl It has been going Long Pine is mostunlimited; the people, the ndvanta and ' schools—in history of county, Th throughout the ments for the y vz Pine wmonnted t prospects are that it will amount in 1837, When buildings must go up Lhe crowning effort son \n nunl ball under the auspices of the order railway conductors of the Long division. It wus one of the finest been given in th special r A with people eame down from ( n; twenty to twenty-tive coupl sSOUrk Valley, Norfolk and N 00 coupl in all were in attendance and they tripped the toe il of New ornin The my 3 excellent and ren ley by Missour Vulley orchestra M of churehes fact n short Pine and Brown to Lo eireulutod untry, The improve: r iR in the village of 110,000, and the be doable this rents wre hig of the sea- givon of enter wis northwe: A the - Xour Friends Will Never ut perhinps somebody, whe at your pre el You isn't your e is ren the fo { smcll of cath, Every word you utter, b the very eeho of wisdom and fusts your hearers, and your the snow off the tops of the bills, they cun be seen covered with lundreds of prairic chickens. The an such occasions is more of \ighter than sport LOCAL POETS s Dippert e o sductive of auything but mirth is a duty you owe, not only il Lo S0cICLY, 10 remove this % s Catareh reni cascd mucous mem bring relief to yourseif and \te Lo, employ it Sa othera, - 40 noi A an \,