Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 9, 1887, Page 4

e i o e S WSS e P 4 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY. THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERVE OF SURSCRIPTION ¢ Baily Moeniag Edition) {neluding Sunday SviqPren L8100 M 60 ¥ iree Mont § .2 [he Omaba Swnday Bee, mailed to any Address, One YCAT. ... .ooveessireiiies 300 OMATIA OPPICE, NO. 014 AN KW YORK OFFICE, ROOM ASHINGTON OFFICE, N NAM STREFY CORRESPONDENCE! All communications relating to ness and edi- torial matter should be addressed to the Evi- TOR OF THE BEE. NUSINERS LETTERS: All business lotters and remittanees shot addressed to Tik BEk PUBLISHING CO OMATA. Drafts, chiecks and postofce ordors 0 be made payuble to the order of the compuuy, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETONS, E. ROSEWATER, Eptror. THE DAILY BEE, Bworn Statement of Circulation, 3 | 8.8 ck, secretary of The Bee v, does solemnly swear uiation of the Daily Bee Was as Publishing coin that the actual cire for the week ending May 6, 1357, follows: Saturday, April 20, Sunday, May 1 Monday, Ma, Tuesday, May 3. Wednesday, May Thursday, May Friday, May 6. Average voee 14401 0. 8. TZSCTUCK. Subscribed and sworn to before me this Tth day of May, 1557, N. P. FrIr., [SEALL) Notary Public. Geo. B. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual average daily cirenlation of the Daily Bee for the month of May, 1856, 12,439 copies; for June, 189, 12,208 copies : for July, 1586, 12,14 copies; for August, 156, 1201 capies; for Septem: ber. 183, 13,0 ; for_October, 154, 12,80 copies; for November, 1886, 13,543 copies; for ecember, 15, 13,27 copies; for J-nun?, 1857, 16,266 cop for February. 1837, 14,198 coples: for March, 1887, 14,400 coples; for April, 1587, 14,316 copies. G B. Tzscnuck. Subseribed unil ulvnm to before me this 7th 87, day of May, A. 3 [SEAL.| N. P. F'rrn, Notary Public. Tuere is an abundance of natural *‘gas” in Omaha but we want cheap fuel for manufacturing purposes. ST. JOE'S boom is spreading. Two loaded dynamite bombs were discovered in a cellar in that city recently. Tne Washington monument is being defaced by vandal visitors. The monu- ment ought to fall over and hurt some- body. Tugr telegraph, telephone and electric light wires are to be placed under ground in San Francisco. So it should be in every city. EE————— Tue New York Sun is howling itself hoarse for *'Grady for vice president.” It will hold an election in a few days and elect him, JupGING from yesterday's score it would be very difficult to convict either the Omaha or Lincoln club of playing base ball on Sunday. ———— ViLL the new elty council enforce the existing contract between the city and the B & M. railroad, for the construction of a viaduct at Lower Farnam street? SEepe———— THERE are volcanoes which can be ac- cused of innocuous desuetude, but the one that has just opened up business in Arizona may be credited with pernicious activity. GREELY'S rain storm has not yet struck this section of Nebraska. The street sprinklers are unable to lay the dust in Omaha, and General Greelyshould hurry up his storm. —_— THE judgeship question having been settled, that railrond blatherskite Captain Humphrey has renewed hope of getting on the bench. He would makea tine brass-collar exhibit. Tuk fiery Frenchmen who are marchi- ing ow to Berlin have not yet got beyond the walls of Mris. They'll find a watch on the Rhine which will indicate to them that it is time to go slow. E——— NEeXT winter justices of the peace will be thicker than fleas in Omaha. Eighteen of them are to be elected in November, under the old state law requiring two jJustices for each precinct. " MR. DiLLON 1n the house of commons #ays he will prove the editor of the Lon- don T¥mes to be 'a base and ocowardly liar.” The house of commons 18 getting to be a very common place, Mn. THURSTON ought to have resigned that railroad attorneyship years ago, be- fore he went into the oil-room business. He is a little too late now in masquerad- ing in anti-monopoly garments, ——— Tue activity of the railroad companies in extending their mileage 18 a practical and convincing answer to their professed fear that the new law for their regula- tion would destroy their business. CEEE——————— QUEEN VICTORIA'S jubilee would have been incomplete without the presence of Buffalo Bill in the heart of London, Itis a cold day when Colonel Cody is not in the heart of the city whereyer he may be. Brrore the stone flagging is lad around the court house provision should be made by city and county authorities for one or more public fountains, from which water can be drawn for pedes- trians or animals. Irisalittle too early in the day to trot out candidates for congress in this district. Butitis safe to predict that the republicans will not venture to nom- inate anybody who cannot get the hearty support of this pap: EE—— Tag world moves. Trial by jury has been adopted 1 Spain, and thus has the sphere of the jury (ixer been enlarged. Several professional fixers of Omaha would no doubt find a good tield for op- eration in old Spain. E———— THE mugwumps are not entirely satis- fied with the Kentucky democratic plat- form. Inso far as 1t commits the de- mocracy of the state to Mr. Cleveland they approve it, but its hostility to eivil servica reform causes them great anguish of spirit. This is an effect of their declar- ation which the Kentucky democrats may have anticipated, but which in any ovent will uot displease them. The Police and Fire Commission. The nomes of the Omaha police and fire commission, appointed by Governor Thayer, have been officially announced. The members of the commission are gen- tlemen who enjoy the esteem and confi- dence of this community in an eminent degree. Governor Thayer's admirable letter of advice and mstruction to the commission will doubtless be taken as the keynote of the reform to be inaugur- ated in our police system. First and foremost the commission will be ex: pected to reorganize the police on a civil service basis with military discipline. There are to be no appointments as o reward for political activity and no re- movals except for misconduct and incompetency. In the next place the commission are en- joined to enforce strict discipline and sobriety in the volice foree, and make the streets of Omaha as safe in the night as they are in the day time. The gover- nor takes pains to impress upon the com- mission that under the law which confers upon him the duty of their appointment, he regards himself as personally respon- sible for the success of the metropoli- tan pohece system in Omaha. It 1s doubtless this view of his responsi- bility that has inspired the governor's choice of commissioners, who, as he de- clares, are identified with the two great political parties, but expected to dis- charge their official duties as non-parti- sans, Out the Judicial Muddle, The opinion rendered by the supreme court with regard to the muddle over the judiciary apportionment bill settles the mooted question as to the validity of the recent judicial appomntments made by Governor Thayer. The court strains a point in favor of the new judges. by de- claring that the bill in so far as it creates new judges s vahd, while the section which rejates to the additional judge in the secona district is pronounced void, thus leaving ten judges in the district undisturbed. While thisis a very satisfactory solu- tion of the knotty question involved in the failure of the legislature to enroll the right bill, we are rermnded by the decision of the celebrated Union Pacific bridge case at Omaha, in which the court held that the bridge was part of the main lire, and at the same time was not a part of the main tine so far as bridge tolls are concerned. — Immigration of Skilled Labor, In considering the very important sub- ject of immigration, which by reason of its present extent is now commanding a good deal of attention, the proportion of skilled labor coming into the couutry is of great interest. The New York Post has been studying the treasury reports since 1883, and it found the average pro- portion of skilled labor under the treas- ury divisions, during four years of the largest immigration, to be about 10 per cent of the whole. 1t has been observed with respect to the immigration of the current year that only a very smuall proportion of 1t is skilled labor, and it is very likely that the per- centage of such labor this year will be less than for the previous years of largest immigration. It is shown by the returns that those countries where industry is least de- veloped and supplying anincreasing pro- portion ot the non-mechanieal labor. The United Kingdom, France and Germany sentation. Itis not probable that Mr. O'Brien will find this attempt to weaken in advance the story he has come to America to tell any obstacle to the atten- llion or the belief of the people he will ad- dress. That the story will have a great deal of interest for other people than those of Canada cannot be doubted. But the value of presenting it dircetly to the peo- ple is obvions. The popularity of Lans- downe in the Dominion 1s confined to a very limited circie. He has very little to commend him to any except the cour- tiers, who may profit by his favor. Nei- ther his ability nor his moral standards are high. He is notoriously avaricious and without private or public generosity. He draws heavily upon the public treasury of the almost bankrupt Domin- ion to waintain a show of royalty for which the country gets nothing in return. Were he a wise, liberal and progressive man, the expenditure could be patiently borne, but as it is he isa useless and costly mmcubus whom a majority of the people would be glad to be rid of. 1t is possible that O'Brien may be able to help them to this result, unless Lansdowne should wisely conclude to avert such a such a catastrophe to his personal for- tunes by doing justico to his tenauts, in ase the sole object of their repre- sentative would be attained. st advices from the earthquake region of Arizona and south of that ter- ritory are interesting. The first report of a voleano having been opened by the carthquake is verified, the location of the eruption being in the Whetstone moun- tains. This is the only volcanic eruption in that auarter since the first white con- quest of the country. The region is vol- canic in its past history, and ligs within a belt of not unfrequent disturbunce. As an earthquake has been defined to be merely and unsuccessful attempt to es- tablish a volecano, the result of the re- cent disturbance is entirely cousistent with scientitic observation. The erup- tion appears to have been disastrous, de- stroying the town of Montezuma and killing 150 persons. A number of per- sons were also killed and injured by the earthquake, but the visitation was unot entirely a calamity, since it brought to the surface n body of water that will irri- gate a great deal of country much in need of it, and which has indeed been al- most worthiess for want of water, It is reported to have also opened a couple of largo gold veins, In the end it may prove to have been a very profitable dis- turbance. THE returns of the forcign trade of the country for three-fourths of the currcut fiscal year are very satisfactory. Ourex- vorts of nearly all commoditics show a large mcrease over the corresponding period of the previous year, and the growth of our trade in some dircctions teresting, Thus England bought more of our wheat and less from India, while France also very lurgely increased her imports of Am n grain. The trade with South America shows a steady ad- vance. We increased our export of cot- ton cloths to South American countries from less than $1,500,000 to more than $2,500,000, and our exports of cotton cloths to China from less than $3,500,000 to considerably more than $4,000,000. Our exports of steam engines and miscel- laneous machinery to South American countries increased from less than $600,- 000 to nearly $900,000. The increase in send fewer skilled laborers, showing ecither that the relative conditions in these countries as compared with those offered by the United States have so much improved that the chief induce- ment tb emigrate has been modified, or that the attractions offered by the United States have declined. On the other hand, such as Austria-Hungary, Denmark, Italy. Russia and Sweden are supplylng & far higher pro- portion of unskilled labor, some of which is of questionable value. The emigration from these countries passing through German ports last year was largely in excess of the previous year, while that from Germany recorded at the same ports showed a very consid- erable decrease. These facts will be reassuring to the skilled labor of the United States since they show that while the coming of this labor in the past has not been on a seale to threaten damaging competition it is likely to be still less so in the present and the immediate future, industrial growth in Europe retaining it there. The in- creasing immigration of unskilled labor presents a’problem which offers a wide field to the economist and legislator. The Mission of O'Brien. The arrival in America of William O'Brien, editor of United Ireland, on a mission at once novel and 1mportant, is anncident of the absorbing Irish con- troversy of more than passing interest. The purpose of Mr, O'Brien is to on- lighten the people of Canada respecting the character and conduct of their vice- roy, Lord Lansdowne, as a landlord. It 15 not a self-appointed mission on which the editor has crossed the ocean to con- front the nobleman. Hehas come as the representative of the tenantry of Lans- downe, who is one of the largest owners of land in Ireland, and as O'Brien will doubtless be able to show, one of the most exacting also. He comes fully equipped with the facts and figures show- ing the valuation of the holdings, the rents collected in the past, and the mer- ciless treatment the tenants who were unable to meet the demands upon them have suffered. Probably no man could have been selected better qualified, both in ability and courage, for such a mission. It is noteworthy that as soon as Mr. O'Brien had departed for Ameriea, a systematioc eftort was begun to forestall and break the affect of the disclosure he would make by public statements exon- erating Lansdowne from all personal responsibility for whatever difficulties had taken vlace with his tenants from whicb they were subjected to hardships. The convenient agent of the marquis in Loudon assumed all the responsibility, and has made at least two public decla- rations designed to relieye his principm ot every charge of bad faith. By some means also, the Witishire teaants of Lansdowne were induced to sign a letter certifying to his good character as a landlord. One or two corre- spondents of American news- papers, whose sympathies are known to be susceptible to nfluences not of the people, have been instrumental in giving these statements favorable to the noble land owner the strongest possible pre- canned beef cxports was mainly to Eng- land. In spite of Bismarck there was an increase in the export of bacon to Ger- many, and the bacon exports to the rest ot Europe more than doubled. e—— THERE is most favorable promise that by next winter most of the rairoads of the country will have adopted some method of heating their trains that shall do away with the stove and obviate the inevitable firing of the cars in case of ac- cidents. A number of the roads have been carefully experimenting with de- vices for this purpose. and the best of them will doubtless come into general use. The loss of more than fifty human lives last winter in burning cars was a fearful price to pay for the agitation of this subject, and it is to be hoped that the lesson may never again be impressed upon the people and the railrond man- agers 1n 8o terrible a manner. — GEORGE FrANCIS TRAIN feels confident that he will reach the age of two hun- dred years on the diet of peanuts and cold water, with daily sun baths and ex- clusive a3sociation with wet nurses and children. ‘This will be a piece of consol- ing news to to the parties whom George Francis proposes to sue for the recovery of several hundred acres of land in the heart of Omaha. Long after they have chmbed the golden stairs Gieorge Francis, still 1n the prime of life, will be on hand to push his suit against their heirs. There's millions in it, and for the next three generations the lawyers, employed by their great grand children, will wres- tle with the psycho claimart of Madison square, Tue disinterment of the bones of Peter 3. Ney, the Frenchman buried at Third Creek, N. C., at the request of the His- torical society of Wisconsin, took place recently, Its object was to prove or dis- prove the man's identity with Napoleon's famous marshal of the same name. fortunately the work of dec grave had been so thorough that the bones were so badly decomposed that the one link of evidence—the marks of a trephining operation—was lost. The famous marshal’s bones may or may not rest in North Carolina. The matter will always remain in doubt. L __________ } Ir Governor Thayer's suggestions are carried out by the commussion, very few members of the present police force will retain their star. If every policeman who hangs around saloons and gambling houses is to be dismissed, there will be a great many second-hand uniforms tor sale presently. Em—e——— TaEe liquor license board should issue no license to any keeper of a notorious dive or den. Nor should any resort, which has been complained of before the police court as disorderly, be licensed to sell liquor, The line must be drawn at disorderly houses and dives, E—— PRrESIDENT Diaz, of Mexico, denies that he 18 a candidate forre-election. He probably wants more time to attend bull fights, but to the average Amcrican at this distance, it would seem that there is more excitement in Mexican politics than in bull fights. STATE AND TERRITORY, — Nebraska Jottings, Columbus will shine with electricity. Clearwater is promised an opera house for a bonus of §1,000, Indianola proposes to 1ssue bonds to build a £12,000 school house. The third bank is soon to be opened in Neligh, lowa men will back it with £50,000. Citizens of Beatriee are chipping in to bring the fire department to a uniform color and cut. A teamster on the railroad grade near York, was run in for whipping his horses and neavily fined. A £20,000 distillery is talked of in Crete, The product wilt be shipved to the drought stricken in adjoining states. The Glencoe base ball club is robed in red, white and blue, with huge chunks of gloom and goose egys in the toreground. Columbus is trying to resurrect the Driving Park and Fair association A moderate suck of luere would al- 1ze it. The Presbyterians of York have adopted plans for a church to cost $10,000. It will seat 600 persons and will be built this year. A job lot of peddlers are doing the farmers of Gage. They are note makers and forgers, and should be speeded on the road to the nearest jail. The cuse of Quinn Bohanan will come up in the United States court next Octo- ber. Meanwhile, the spelling professor will be fattened for the halter, The crop of suckers promises to be un commonly large this year. verdants of Schuyler were flecced of £65 last week l_:yb:\ fakir who was licensed to do the job. Fremont plumbers get #1 a day for nine hours work. Their bills, howeve never shrink in the presence of a bank roll. Bankgruptey alone induces shrink- age. he recent damaging firesin Arapahoe have e=avineed the residents that water- works are a necessity. Plans and means to sccure a water supply are now under discussion, Plattsmouth propases to sink $2,500 in agas prospeet hole. The town lost a great opportunity in failing to sccure a century's supply” last Thursday. It will never have another. Ld Oliver, of Beardsley, Il., rid him self of the importunitics of two confi- dence men by jumping into the Missouri, while the train was crossing the river, eust of Wymore. He was drowned. Tnhe Republican Valley Editorial asso- ciation is called to meet in Oxford to-day. Owing to the sallow condition of the roads and the brief notice of ten days given the members, it is teared the at tendance will be slim and shocless. The residents of Waterloo, Douglas county, have been invited to mo to Valley. ~An enterprising real estate agent offers to move the houses and give each family a lot in Valley if the res- dents accept the terms within ten days. JLoug Piners proclaim, in stunning pica type: “We arc a modest people, we are, because we ‘w made so by nature.” ‘The modest section of the pro- claim is referred to Atkinson. Ihat nature lavished on them 1ts treasures of mouth speaks for itseif. Anton Schumann, a fl was killed in the B. & M, yardsin Platts- night,” He was bur- 1 with celebration and attempted to brake beam of a moving freight trai He lived long enough to state that his father resided ncar Mil- waukee. Auwid the crash of mountains, voicanic upheavals, floods and miner disasters, Nebraskn City nesues calmly one the towering banks of the Missouri, contentedly pointing to the ninth wounder of the century—a pro- hibition mule. He pumps water for a brewery. Ofticer Dougherty, of Fremont, at- tempted a long haul of eight tramps who claimed to be of age and entitled to lib- erty or grub. The ofticer drew his per- suader and popped one of them in the leg, receiving at the same moment a stunning blow on the head. Dougherty gave the trumps the freedom of the road out of town and invested a week’'s wages in pain killer. Mr. Fred fuller, of Crete, was the vie- tim of a surprise party lust Sunday. ‘While snoring the happy hours away during the sermon in the Congregational church a fearless thief made off with his horse and buggy, worth §300. The animal was found at Syracuse where the thief borrowed a fresh " horse and con- tinued on his journey. A dusky dancing professor named Nich- ols is gulloping through the southern counties_teaching classes when payment is made in advance. The hmber-legged fraud invariably skips out as soon as the money is secured. A dilapidated grip, weighted with sonr socks, a pair of old shoes and two bricks was left at Elk Creek as & memento of his visit. Henry Eckman and a tough named Bohier " quarreled about a girl in Red Cloud. Eckman was quite handy with his paws and slapped his rival hip and thigh, but Bohier drew aknife and carved a map of ihe latest addition on Eckman's body before friends interfered. Bohier's nosenow points heavenward and KEck- man’s body 18 wrapped in liniment. Sutton’s amateurs tackled the *‘Fruits of the Wine Cup’ one eyening last week. ‘Che heavy villain unconsciously swal- lowed an” overdose of the fruit and knocked down the orchestra leader with a chair just as the latter was scraping an acquaintance with *We Won't Go Home Until Morning.”” It is hinted that an enyious star loaded the sample bottle ;vith forty-rod to produce an artistic ef- out. Bert \'mmf:. an cight-year-old Cclum- bus kid, while playing near the railroad track, kicked up his heels and concluded to race with the oming Albhion train. He ran along the side of the track, stepped into » hole and fell. His right arm was caught by the wheels and the skin ground from the clbow to the fingers, No bones were broken, but the vyoungster will wear & sling for several weeks. 111 ‘'he North American Cattle company. of Antelope county, is preparing to feed and fatten 3,000 head of cattle the com- ing fall and winter. Barns, sheds and cribs, to cost $15,000, are under contract. A large elevator isalsoto be built at Clearwater station far the storage of fod- der. The compuny expects to turn 230,- 000 bushels of corn, 2,00) tons of millet and 2,000 tons of common hay into beef next winter, and give surrounding farm- ers a profitable market. The old, old story !of woman's weak- ness and man's perfidy closea with a funeral in Aurora }ast week. The wo- man’s name was Emma Peterson, and death mercifully shouded her and the evidence of her shawe. The inhuman brute who caused her fall deserted her and left her to die among strangers, The fate of a Randall will not overtake him, for he has respectable and powerful rela’ tions, but there is a hot hereafter in store for his miserable carcass. The star-eyed dess of reform, armed with a Ricbelieu sabre, would tind lmon, Nebraska mail nts a rich field for ughter. North, south and west oom}{)lun of miserable mail service. Aurora, Hamilton county, complains that the Sunday BEE never reaches there be- fore Tuesday, sometimes on Wednesday. Plattsmouth, Nebraska Cigy “Tecumseh and towns on tho 8t. Paul & Omaha com- plain of annoying delays. The service 8eems t0 be a go-as-you-please all along the line. Is it uncompleted dewocracy or indiflerent republicanism? “Turn the rascals oot." ing German, MAY 0, 1887 1t was an old-fashionod musket and it was loaded. Anton Burnham, a nine- year old, sneaked up to it, gazed on its polished shape and mused on the angelic possibilities stored within, Anton was not ready to join the upper choir, but Jakie Christians, the three-year old son of Christ, was ripe for the slangnter, Anton pulled on him and blew his head oft, He sleeps on a hillside in Crete, and two families are plunged nto grief. Youngsters and muskets were never intended to abide in peaco on earth, I'he trial of Gilson James for the murder of Charles C. Hays, a black- smith, at Callaway, resulted in a verdict of not guilty. Hays was a local tough and a masher. He wvisited the James mansion on the night of December 9 last, and finding James absent concluded to have social evening with his wife, James returned to lind the usurper on his claim, but was forced to leave the house by Hays. On returning the sec- ond time he was ordered into bed and failing to respond with sufficient aluerit; ays jumped out of bed and made a at him. By this time the Job- like patience of James petered out and he promptly cracked the skull of the in- truder. The verdict of jury is not only a'wise and_just on with disapproval the bucolic custom of three ina bed, lowa 8, Atlantic struck natural gas at a depth of fifty-eight feet. The expenses attending the Dubugue encampment amounted to $2,490.25, all of which ha cen paid. The city council of Keokyik is negotiat- mg for the purchase of the waterworks now owned by a company. Abed of gypsum has been uncovered neur Fort Dodge. The find is very valu- able and will, 1t is believed, add im- mensely to the industrial growth of the town. A farmer of Scott county exhibits a grasshopper that mensures three and one-half inches long and three inches high when on unbent legs. The monster i8 50 young that his wings haven't been deyeioped The city cided to remit the taxes for five y manufacturing establishments whose products are not now made there, and not to increase the tax on any manufac- turing for the next tive years. ‘T'he mysterious disappearance of John Sullivan, of Missonri {'.x ley, is causing great excitement at that place. The last seen of him was on April 27. He wasa merchant of excellent financial standing, and the only theory of his absence points in the airection of foul play or derange- ment of mind. ¥ J. B. Cooper, an Ottumwa barber, has just had his old age shook up with joy at finding his daughter, lost twenty-five years ago. On the advent of the union army at Raymond, Miss., he found him- selt free, and in April, 1863, he struck out for the north. He then had a daugh- tor seven years old belonging to a man named Smith, whom he had never been able to find or hear from. A couple of months ago he was telling a friend about her and succeeded in interesting him in the hunt. Letters were 1mmediately written to the neighborhood in which he ad left the daughter, and a few days go word came }Trum Raymond that *'Lis" was living in the county on a farm and ‘“‘onc of the finest looking women in the neighborhood.” The second trial of r‘ompu!im.?' car brakes and coublers begins to-day n the railrond yards at Burlington. = There will be some new competitors and the companics represented last May will be on the ground with improved appliances from which they expect still better re- sults than were obtained last year not- withstanding the favorable showing then made. The tests last year developed some weak features in the appliauces then under trial and pointed out new vossibilities of which the quick-witted in- ventors and master mechanics hastened to avail themselves. Nearly all, if not all, of the brakes this year will have electric attachments; none had last year. “They all have improvements which it 1s believed will enable them to make quicker stops and do so with less shock and rebound. The ‘‘close coupler' will probably have something to do with the diminishment of the 82 5 Dakot ‘The thirteenth church is going up in Sioux Falls. Saloon license in Bismarck has been advanced to $500 a year. The narrow gauge railroad and smelt- ing works schemes continue disquieting uncertainties in Rapid City. Deadwood will pay a large premium for definite assnrance that a railroad will reach town before snow flies. A party of fifteen Russian families are oing from southern Dakota to join the Salem colony in Morton county. Twenty tamilies from Maine and Ver- mont have reached Hittenger county, in north Dakotu, where they locate. ‘The adjusting agent for the Northwest- ern road has been through Kingsbury county and settled with the farmers in full, paying out over §3,000 for losses that the farmers suffered by the great fire of a few weeks ago. - —.— Minden Matters. MiNpEN, Neb.,, May 5.—[Correspond- ence of the BEE.]—Many substantial ad- vances toward building a city here have been made the last few wecks. A stock company has been organized for build- ing and operating a creamery with a capital of $5,000. the same to be in oper- ation within sixty days. Three large substantial brick “blocks are under the first stages of erection, cach 44x80 feet and two stories high. One of the great- est needs is a good fire proof hotel. Any person desiring to launch in that kind of enterprise will find this a splendid pomt and no difficuity would be experienced in fornung a stock company. Since the establishing of the Kansas City & Omaha railroad to this point five additions have been platted comprising over 300 acres, and iots are sold at liv- ing vrices people in moderate circum- stances are taking advantage of same and securing homes for themselves. nvite the inspection of all classes, capitalists, laborers and merchants, Be- sides a good hotel we need a bank, a steam laundry, a foundry, clothing house, a fin”d dry goods house with dress making department, two lumber yards, elevators, in_fact a tilling up in all'lines, as we have the country to support an in- crease in all our present lines. Black Hill BurraLo Gar, Dak.,, May 6.—[Corre- spondence of the Bekk.]—Ho for the southern Black Hills, Custer and Fall River counties. There is more farming done to the square foot than cver was thought of before. Wheat and oats look well, asfine as I ever saw them look in Iowa or Nebraska at this time of the year, and a great many of the farmers are rlnnling corn. The outlook is splen- did for a large cropof hay, better than for some years past. Especinily on the uplands are the crops, "both hay and grain, doing finely. Our nrtesian wetl is just fairly started. They have drillcd 125 feet through clay and slate rock, which will soon deter- mine whether our town is to be supplied by srtesian water & half mile from town or have to draw her supply from the springs two miles west of town. Oar new grist mill is nearing comple- tion and will soon be in runnm‘; order. It has as fine a water powcer as there 1s in the west, drawing its supply from the Beaver creek, lmfi a ile above town, b canal, and has over twenty-five feet fall. 1t will bave vlenty to do, as there has e sal of wheat sowa. Farming. ¥ citize PROSPERITY AND PROGRESS, Their Bapid March Recorded From Differ- ent Sections of Nebraska. A BUILDING BOOM AT CALLAWAY The Great Rush ot Home Scekers to Reith, Chase and Cheyenne Countios—Activity at Fair- bary—Minden Matters, Callaway's Substantial Growth, CaLLaway, Neb, May 6.—[Corre- spondence of the Brr, ]—Callaway’s boom has been rapidly developing in the last two week. In that space of time over twenty new buildings have been con- tracted to be completed within the next forty days and many more are in con- templation. The greatest drawback we have now is the scarcity of lumber and the inability of the only lumber yard we have here to draw in lumber fast enough. We also necd carpenters, and, more than all, atirm of plasters and painters. T'here is only one plasterer here and he cannot begin to fill the demand in his line. We cannot get painting done for the need of workman at that business. Laborers eannot be found to dig the ¢ lars needed. Now is the time for me- chanics and laborers looking to locate a home in the prettiest and most thrivi new town in this part of the stu come at once and join the ranks of our pushing forward to wealth and prosperity. Our location for health, purity of water, beauty of site and terri- tory for trade is not equaled in Nebras With two lines of the Union Pacitic graded to our doors, and the surveys ot two other leading roads crossing our limits, we are the envy of larger and older neighborhoods. About a week ago the citizens of Calla- way organized and are incorporating an association, with a capital stock of ¥10,- 000, to be called the Callaway Business Men's Protective association. ~ Its object is to push forward all enterprises im- proving and developing our town, and to guard against all endeavors of any who may attempt to encroach on our inter- ests. A fire company has also been or- anized, composed of twenty-six mem- bers, This company will take stens at once to secip: a fire ap- paratus. The organization of & silver cornet band = has also been perfected, with Prof. Webster as the leader and instructor. Mr. Webster was formerly of the Twenty-first regular in- fantry band, and is the gentleman who trained the Broken Bow cornet band_ to such excellency that they took the first premium at the last state reunion at Grand lIsland. The boys propose to $00a give a series of concerts in_Smith’s opera hall at this place that will be a treat to the ‘inhabitants of the South Loup valley. With such a leader as they have heen fortunate enough to secure, we predict a brilliant future for the Cal- laway cornet band. Qur population is now over 200, and we are only waiting until the 2d of June, when our county board meets to incor- porate. We then expect the advent of a few modest suloon men into our midst, The following gentlemen have decided to build business houses just as soon as the lumber ean be got into Callaw: C. W. Johnson, 8. R. "Idell, Chris Nelson, A. W. Darling. C. E. Boget, N son, J. R, Kinfi. Wells & Wallace, Melius, G. C. McMullen, C. W. Gr: Vining, Charles Whaley, R. H. erwood and others. Among who have contracted residences to go up at once are S. R. Brown, 0: AL sL::r-vood, Dr. A. L. Matthews, . Melins, C. Nelson, Dr. Luther hael, Mr. Wells, William Hastings, A. W. Applegate, G. W. Becbe, F.N. Smith, George Benger, Mrs. E. N, Madi- son, A. Deems, G. W. Stevens, E.W. Shaw, and others are 'ntending to build soon. Thus you see there is a substantial rowth upon us this spring that longs for the laying of the rail on the Wood river line of the Union Pacific to enable us to secure the lumber necessary in an easier way and on quicker time than at present. For a town not a year old, we feel that our present showing of buildings and the completion of those now to be erected, will place us in a condition to welcome our railroad friends in such a manner and with such & town that Mr. Callaway will not be ashamed to recognize our young metropolis as h1s namesake—Jim. The Rush For Homes. Nonrrn Pratre, Neb.,, May 6.—[Corre- vondence of the Beg.}]--The immense rush of home seckers to the fertile lands of western Nebraska continues to in: crease rather than diminish, and the time is not distant when all the public lands in this state will be settled up. Every train 15 loaded with land seekers and it is rare that onc of these returns without having exercised at least one of the three rights granted to every citizen by the government, Keith, Chase and Clmi(mno counties seem just now to be the favored portions and as & consequence they are rapidly filling up. Keith 1s the choice of nearly all, and it is only when no vacant land can be found that the settler turns his attention to adjoinifg counties, but in all the counties named there are golden opportunities for those who desire cheap homes. Kcith county having the ad- vantage in the way of railroad facilities and besides being one of the finest agri- cultural counties in the state, the vublic land is about all gone. In fact, thero is nothing left that would be desirable, but still good claims can be bought at reason- able rates in Keith county; that 1s, reason- able rates when the value of adjacent railroad land is taken into consideration. Good claims can be purchased all the way from $250 to 1,500, the latter, of course, being very choice. It is not just the thing, however, to say that the occupant of public land offers bis claim for sale. He realizes that there is danger in such business. The settler sells his “1improve- ments,’’ and his relinquishment is placed in the hands of the purchaser, who pre- sents it at the land office and files upon the land. Railroad lands near the B. & M., which crosses the southern portion of the eounty,3 are hell at from %6 to §10 per acre now, and when the tracklaying shall have reached the Colo line it is tghly improbable any good land lying between the Union Pacific and B. & M. can be purchased for less than the Iatter figure. With claims the case is difierent. Many of them are held by set- tlers who are unable to make the im- provements they desire, and which are necessary. Others are held by non-resi- dents who have filed upon lands simply for the money there 1s in it, and the time is rapidly approaching when they must sell at some price or their enterprise will ve a losing game, a5 none of this class ns, those contemplate settling upon the land in any event. The consequence is that such claims as | have mentioned can be ob- tained at nominal figures. 1f all occupants of public lands were able and disposed to hold their claims, there is no good reason why they should be sold for a cent less than reilrond lands in the same vicinity. ‘T'here 15 good reason, however, wh%' they sheuld, in that case, command a better figure. All of them have more or lcss improvements, and none of them are taxable for a period of five years in homestead cases and eight in cases of tree claims, and the time may be ex- tended two and five years respectively, when final proof must be made and 'a patent issue. Keith connty will boom the coming summer, in fact it is booming now. Sev- eral towns have alreadv been located on the linc of the B. & M., and the indion tions now point to a season of unparale leled activity all along the line. Itisro- ported that a large amount of land-- raifroad land—has recently changed hands, and that a large portion of 1t will be settled upon during the course of the lm~ ut yeur. The government land weing all gone the railroad lands will, in the nature of things, be in good demand from this time forward until it is all set- tled np. But Keith can no longer supply the demands of those who wish govern« ment land, and conscquently their atten tion will be turned in other directions. The question now uppermost in the minds of the citizens of Keith is the divi- sion of the county, whieh is certain to bo made as soon as possible. But the peo- ple are by no means reed on the lino of division and this is owing to the fact that the votersin the souths western por of the county have got it mto their heads that they must have « county seat, and in order to assure this, as they think, they are uniting to & con- siderable extent with the people of Ogal- alla, to divide on the north line of Brick House. This would please the Ogalalla people exceedingly, and leave the new county but eighteen miles north and south, and forty-two east and west, a territory too small for sub-divisions. Tho Grant people assume, of course, that the division being made as indicated they have the strength to locate the county seat, and tho territory being too small for two counties the thing would be permanent, This sounds pretty, and if it can be made to wofk successfully, will be a master stroke. But 1t is not abso- lutely certain that the Grant. or south- western people, may not ruake a reason- ably lively tumble into the pit into which they are so industriously digging for the people of the east and southeast. Cheyenne county is now the section where a majority of those who pass through here in search of government land are drifting, and the mumry containy some of the finest agricultural lands in the state. It has an extent of 103 miles by 70 and is comparatively well watered. ‘The North Platte flows diagonally across the county, and the South Platte cuts through the settlement, with the Lodgo Pole running through the south central portion, and the Pumpkin Seed through the north eentral. The county, of cour: will be subdivided and there may be a half a dozen counties formed out of what is now Cheyenne. There may be some doubt about the number of ncw counties formed, but there can be no doubt of sub- dividing. It is estimated that sottlers are going into the county at the rate of 100 per dn{ and at that rate the present senson will exhaust the government land to be found there, But lying to the north of the North Platte river, there are thou- sands of acres of rich, fertile prairie land yet open to entry, This land is from twenty-five to tifty miles from the Mis- sour1 Pacifie, but it is only a question of a year or two when there will be a_road up the valley of the North Platte. Much of the survey has been made, and the right of way has been purchased and paid for some distance. Those who take up the government land there now may be morally certain that a r:\ilwn{ will be ready to carry the crop of 1888, It is con- fidently expocted that the road will be built the coming summer. The people who are settling in western Nebraska are chiefly from eastern Ne- braska, western and northwestern Iowa, Missouri, Dakota. llinois and Indiana, and they are coming to stay. No one in- quires why people leave “Missouri and Indiana; the only mystery is how they managed to get away at ail. 1t is taken for granted that any -citize i state leaves as soon as possible. complaint of the lowan and the Dakotian is that the severity of the winters is too much, that the summer's earnings are exhausted in fighting the terrible bli: zards, and then when spring comes whi little a man may have left is liable to be strewn all over the country by the dee structive wind storms. The winters here are very wild, and the terrible wind storms common 300 miles east of here and in all of the states of the Mississippi valley are, up to this time at least, wholly un- known The past winter in_lowa, when the mercury was quietly sleeping 'way down 1n thé forties, the settlors of weste ern Nebraska were breaking prairie, ¥or six or eight months of the year lowa and Dakota mercury is pretty drowsy, and for the remainder, when arouse from its slumbers by the balmy breozes of Nebraska, it cavorts about in a wild and unscemly manner, totally unreliable and wholly unmanageable. ‘I'nose who are in search of cheap homes and who would enjoy a climate not subject to such sudden and violent changes of tempera- ture should not overlook the merits of western Nebraska. Valuable time and good money can be saved by those contemplating a visit to these rich Nebraska prairies, by profit- ing by the experience of those who have preceded them. The most reliable in- formution can be obtained from the set- tlers in the community where the land- seeker desires to locate, and those who contemplate settling upon vpublic lands will do well to heed this suggestion. Fraudulent locators and rapacious land sharks are abundant and a reliance upon these has been attended with more or less disaster. The victim has been shown excellent land and assured with all so- lemnity that the numbers given him corresponded exactly to the land he had been shown. He returns home and ar- rives in the spring with his family only to learn that his numbers locate him in the sand hills. These cascs are rare, but entirely too numerous for the man thus located. 2 Fatrbury Facta. Famsury, Neb., May 6.—[Correspond- ence of the BEE.|—The members of the Fairbury board of trade to the number of 125, with the wives of several of them, ‘went on an excursion to St. Joe recentiy, and were royally entertained by the St. Joe board of trade. The opening of the Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska—the Rock Island’ railroad—to business was the cause of the blow-oat. The company very kindly furnished us with a special train of new coaches and the run was made in six hours each way, which i very quick, considering that the rond-bed 1 new and not thoroughly ballusted. There is consideravle talk that the . & M. will build a braneh from DeWitt to Fairbury, If the road is built it will give us a dircet line to Lincoln and Omaha, h we need very much. There is every tion that the Rock Island will start their south-west branch from here in- stead of farther west as was at first pro- posed, The Kansas (‘,u.)l" & Omaha have be- in work on their Fairbury and Stroms- hurgh li ‘I'he round house and other buildings will be built as soon as needed As weare the division headquarters of two railroads it is not to be wondered at that we boom. ; ‘I'ne building fever continues with all its vigor and new houses are commenced duily. Colonel Harbine has the cellar under the big brick store he is building neerly done and the foundation will soon be commenced. John Price has the base- ment and part of the wall of his store building under way and will push it as fast us possible, any handsome resi- dences are being built and more are to be commenced immediately. The additions to the Christian church building are nearly completed. The Methodist church has a new 1,100 pound bell. Mail will 'be carried by the Rock Is- land soon, when we will got our Omaha mul soveral honrs sooner. : g “Phe number of school children in Fair- bury is 678, which multiplied % five gives 3,7 l.wulutiuu. nearly uble % what we had one year ago. full blast with a ag “‘The brick yards arc in demand greater thau they can uuprlyb. “Thousands of trees and acres of ‘blue grass were planted this spring. Wo pride ourscives on our sylvan appesrs ance.