Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 14, 1887, Page 4

-t e e S S e O . e A a5 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, MAY 14 THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSORIPTION ¢ Daily Morniag Faition) lncluding Sunday Bre, Ono Year £10 01 For 8ix Months wriei 600 Montha 10 v 2w ha Swoday v, malied to any One Year. .. wvsivider B0 OMATIA OFFICE, N0, 010 AND 010 FARNAM STER: KEwW YORK OFPICE, ROOM 05, TRINUNE BU{LDING ASHINGTON OFFICE, UUMTEENTI STREEL. oonni Ail communieations relating to news and edi- torial maiter should be wddressed 1o tho EvL TOR OF THE BEP. BUSINESS LETTERS! All business lotters and remittances should bo addressed 10 TiE BEE PUBLISHING COMPAXY, OmAnA. Drafts, chocka and postoMice orde %0 be wade payable Lo the order of the compuny, THE BEE PUBLISEING COMPANY, PROPRILTORS, E. ROSEWATER, THE DAILY BEE, Sworn Statement of Circulation, Btate of Nebraska, lg County of Douglas. | § Geo. B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual ci ation of the Daily Bee for the week ending May 6, 1357, was a8 follows: Saturday, April 50. Sunday, May 1 Monday, May 2.... Tuesday, Ma; Wednesday, May 4. Thursday, May 5 Friday, May 6. AVerage....... Gro, SCTIUCK. Subseribed and sworn to before me this 7th day of May, 1557, N, P. Frir, [SEAL.] Notary Publie. Geo. B. Tzschuck, belng first duly sw deposes and says thiat he 1s secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual average daily irculation of the Daily Beo for the month of May, 1556, 12,439 copies; for June, 1886, 12,208 coples : for July, 1896, 12,514 copies; for August, 1556, 12,464 copies; for Septem- ber, 18%, 13,030 c : for October, 1856, 12,90 copies: for ember, coples; for December, 1856, 13,337 copie: January, 1857, 16,206 coples: for February, 3 coples: for March, 1887, 14,400 1887, 1 coples; for April, 1887, 14,316 copies, Gro. B, Tzscnvek. Subseribed and sworn to before me this 7th day of May, A, SEALT avens occasionally open and clean our streets. KiNp h ate discontent among the Knights of Labor. ——— FAILING to get prohibition Michigan has adopted a high license law. This is sensible. THURSDAY night's rain storm extended throughout Nebraska, and was a god- send, There's millions in it. Tre pool rooms in Milwaukee have been closed. The inter-state commerce law is certainly filling this fair land of ours with woo and sorrow. THE SUNDAY BEE, as usual, will be in the lead of all western papers. The special eable service of the Sunday Bee is alone worth the price of subscription. Mr. GURLEY stands about as much chance of being appointed assistant city attorney as Mr. Moynihan does of get- ting the appointment of chief of police. WE received a week ago J. Warren Keifer’s oration, with instructions not to print “‘until after’ May 12, 1887.” Mr. Keifer need not be alarmed. We will not print until after May 13, 1987, IN ACCORDANCE with an act of the Kansas legislature a scientific silk station has been established for the purpose of demonstrating the feasibility of the silk culture industry. From all reports the industry will proye a success. ~ It 18 hoped that Judge Dundy will issue just one more injunction against the wa- terworks company. What is needed is an injunction forever restraining the company Lfrom pumping unstrained water. EEEp—— Mr. G. M. Hircicock asks Mr. E. Rosewater a half dozen questions, and appears to be waiting for answers. The Bee would respectfully inform Mr, Hitcheock that if he desires immediate answors he should address Mr. Rose- water at New York city, where he has boen for several days past m———— It is none of the Herald's fry, but It be- gins to look as though the BEk's persecution of Will Gurley will make him assistant city sttorney.—Herald. It is rather unkind in Congressman McShane to talk this way. We remem- ber that Congressman MceShane wildly applauded the “BEE's persecution” of Church Howe. ———————— A yucH and numerously married man of Utah has chalicnged Miss Kate Field to a discussion. The Tribune says it is *‘a proposition for Miss Kate to hunt snipe with a howitzer.”” The much and numerously married man had better not engage 1n a war of words with the gifted lady. The Z'ribune, charmed with the absurdity of the proposition, says it is “‘a lightning bug challenging the headlight of a locomotive.” TuE ravages of tho inter-state law are perhaps better shown in this extract from the Wall Street News than from railrogue newspapers: *‘It is now ascer- tained that the inter-state commerce law is causing hog-cholera in the west and drouth in Texas, Its effect, as everybody knew from what the railroads said, would be to ruin our railroads for the benefit of the Canadians; and of course we all know that this is just what it has done. In ad- dition, a letter from one of our consuls in Canada shows tbat the law has prostrated trade in that country, paralyzed our trade with It, and devastated things gen- erally.” Erp——— Tag Standard Oil company has cap- tured several southern legislatures. It should be remembered by those who op- pose the inter-state law that railroad dis- priminations have developed the Standard. Oil company in twenty years from noth- ing to a capital estimated at one hundred millions of dollars. Evidence in the Pennsylvania Investigation of the com- pany showed that ten milliois one hun- dred and fifty-one thousand dollars were pald by the trunk lines of railroad to the Standard Oil company as ‘‘rebates” within a period of eighteen mouths. Yet, in the face of this investigation and the facts presented, those who should know better insist that the inter-state law is detriment to the consumers, Section four of the inter-state law--enforced rigidly--will cheapen many articles and &ive competition a chance to compete. The Pension Bureau, Pension Commissioner Black has from time to time been subjected to harsh eriti- cisms by those who were not pleased with his methods in the management of the burean, on the ground that they were actuated by partisanism, 1t is a fact, w believe, that General Black was nota willing convert to the policy of civil ser vice reform, and only yielded obedien tothe policy after some pressure, It arhaps true that if the could have had centirely his own way he would have pre- ferred as subordinates sterling democrats who had never done military service even to ex-union soldiers who are repub- licans. In relation to the distribution of ofli not aware that General Black has ever renounced his faith in the Jacksonian principle. He has sim- ply surrendered at discretion. But what- ever he has done, or may have deserved to do, in thi¢ particular is really afminor affair. The results of his administration are what the army of pensioners, and in deed the whole people, are interested in. The facts are very much to the ecredit of the commissioner, ‘Chey show that in the little more than two years in which he has held the office the work accom- plished by the bureau has been near ly or quite double the amount done in tho same length of time under his prede- cessor. The figures show that during the last fiseal year, ending June 30, 1886, there were issued 76,654 pension certifi- cates, 40,852 of which were original cases. There were also issued in that year 79,095 supplemental certificates to widows and dependant relatives. This repre- sents a vast amount of work, a consider- able part of which was crowded into the last three months of the year. The rec- ord of the vresent year, of which less than two months remain, will ceed that of any other year in the history of the office. Up to April 30 there had been issucd 74,608 pension certifi- cates, so that the total for the year will exceed that of the previous year by at least 10,000, In all other re- spects the business of the burean has largely increased, yet it has been promptly disposed of. This creditable success is due to the application and maintonance of strict business principles, by which a large in- crease of work has been accomplished with a reduced force, thereby also ef- fectiug a material reduction in the cost of the bureau. The strict regulations and rigid discipline have seemed by com- parison severe and exacting, but it can not be questioned that they are justified by the results. There is no other bureau of the government in which it is more necessary to observe promptness and dis- patch than inthat of pensions. The thousands who are dependent upon it need their money as soon as it is due, and with rare exceptions would suffer privation from delay. There can never be any adequate excuse for the gov- ernment holding the money due its pensioners & day beyond the time at which it should be paid. It isto the credit of Commissioner Black that this seems to have been the view that has prompted his administration, and it is gratifying to be able to say that he has carried it out with signal success. The pensioner who regularly gets his cortiti- cate when he should receive it will not be greatly concerned about the political methods of the official who thus cares for his interegsts. The Cost of Opera Tickets. From the fact that the National Opera company has reduced tickets for its last week in San Francisco, to half price, the Call, of that city, muses,on the price of opera tickets 1n a philosophical sort of way. That paper thinks that a manager should only figure on a “living vrofit,” and questions the right to make a price beyond the reach of all. The Call says that because Patti’s expenses, with the exception of the salaries of Madame Scalchi and the tenor, are nominal, her manager should not charge such prices as he did when last thore. We beg to differ on this one point. Patti is not one of the greatest, but unquestionably the greatest singer this century has produced--standing without a peer. Genius, when combined with true art, is always appreciated, and the fact that the peerless woman can draw $10,000 houses in no way implies that tickets should be cheaper—thus giy- ing the rabble a chance to distunb those who aporeciate vocal music, in order to give ttem an oppprtunity to say they have heard the diva. The fact that Patti took something like $60,000 out of San Fran- clsco argues only to her credit, and from the reason that tickets sold so high it is gratifying to know that only those who appreciate and could afford it, contrib- uted to the fund. Booth coramands and receives from $4 to $6 a ticket and sccures crowded houses where an ordinary actor would play to emopty chairs if he attempted to charge over $1.00. Because an Uncle Tom’s Cabin company with its stuffod club, red-fire and donkey plays to ‘‘de- lighted audiences at “*popular prices of admission,” it does not follow that Patti should appear before a disinterested pea- nut chewing audience and sing for glory. The Nebraska Pharmacists. The Pharmaceutical Association of Ne- braska concluded its annual meeting in this city on Thursday. It was a body of intelligent gentlemen whose presence here was most welcome, and whom we are quite sure carried away with them highly favorable impressions of Omaha and its citizens, The objects of this association are worthy of themost cordial commendation and encouragement, They aim to ele- vate and improve the profession of the pharinacist, to render it inaccessible to all who are not thoroughly educatéd in 1ts requirements, and to give it an un- questionable claim to popular cunfidence ond respect. 1t was through the efforts of this association that Nebraska has a law defining the conditions under whicha person may enter the pharmaceutical profession tuat is not surpassed in the character of its necessary and proper re- quirements by tho sumilar statute of any other state. 1f rigidly enforced no man can becomo & pharmacist in Nebraska who does not possess a thorough knowl- edge of the very responsible demands of the profession, and as & consequence it must bappen that in timo the state will havea class of model pharmacists, whose intelligence and thoroughness will invite the emulation of those elsewhere. How important it is that the druggist should be thoroughly educated in his work everybody wunderstands. The knowledge of the physician may be ren- ‘dered uuavailing by the ignorance of the druggist. Worse than this, human life is endangered by the man wanting accurate knowledge of medicines and possessing only a limited intelligence in their preparation. In the hands of such a man the saving prescrip- tion sent ot by the physician may re- turn to the confiding patient a deadly compound, We congratulate the association upon the success of its last session, aod confi- dently trust that every goad purpose it sceks to accomplish will be fully attained. e — Wild Cat Insurance Companies, It is certainly high time for the proper officials to investigate 1insurance com- panies operating in Nebraska, and purge the state of the grave yard concerns. The law of Nebraska provides certain requirements, and it is stated that many alleged companies are levyving their as- sessments where in case of death the pol- icy would not be worth the paper upon which it was written. The auditor of the state has recently furnished the names of the bogus con- cerns doing business in Nebraska, There are some ten or twelve companies all told. This has nothing to do with the Beatrice concern which here of late has been busy announcing in paid editorials that it had ‘‘re-or- ganized" and offered better inducements than ever before. Whether it was the intention of the officials to offer “‘better inducements” to rob men and women blind, as it has formerly doune, we are not prepared tosay. Yet the advice of the BEE is, be cautious be- fore insuring in that concern, or any other, and know that the law has been complied with by the company you patronize. An honest insurance com- pany is all right. The wild-cat concerns should be driven out. A fow days ago another mutual “ben- efit” association collapsed in Dubuque, Iowa, after levying heavy assessments on its members for six or seven years. The recent astounding revelations made by the Michigan legislature 1n investi- gating “mutual benefit”’ concerns, sug- gest extreme caution. It is wrongin principle to tolerate such bare-faced frauds, and the law does not protect them, only when corrupt oflicials,with no regard to honor or decency, bear false witness and make exhibits that experts are puzzled to detect as fraudulent. GOVERNOR LAk and lowa’s rail- rond commissioners have finally de- fined a “‘reasonable rate on coal” and accordingly the Chicago, Burlington & Quiney railroad company must reduce its former charges nearly 40 per cent. The gigantic corporation which has for years fattenced on the money wrung from all of Towa’s producers, objects to the commission’s decision, but as the law which created the commussion is plain and constitutional, it is thought the peo- ple will on the one article of coal, at least, be treated justly. In Nebraska where stupid legislators and bungling engrossing clerks attempt to make laws, the people have forced upon them a meaningless and abortive law which fails to give the commission power to act and does not offer any protection what- ever from the iron hand of railroad cor- porations. Iowa is to be congratulated. JEFF DAVIS has broken out again, He insists that the lost cause still lives. While thrusting his treasonable utter- ances in the nation's face, it is gratifying to know that Mr. Davis is graduaally growing older. There is an end to all things, — Other Lands Than Ours. The consideration of the crimes bill in the British house of commons is pro- gressing, but not rapidly. Only a very small number of the host of amendments that have been noticed are thus far dis- posed of, but the aggregate of results is favorable to the opposition to the govern- ment. The tactics of the Parncllites have been somewhat exasperating to the tories, but both the circumstances and the results justify them, The advantage al- ready gained by the courageous policy of the minority are deemed of very great importance in themselves, while they make a strong incentive to a continu- ance of the sume course. There has never been in any parliament or con- gress a more splendid exhibition of zeal, courage and endurance than s being shown by the Irish leaders in the house of commons, and even if the struggle shall end in their de- feat that catastrophe could not deprive them of the glory of tneir able and in- trepid work. As yet the lines of both parties are unbroken. Reports of dis- content in the liberal ranks have not been confirmed and were doubtless groundless. The voting shows also that the coalition holds firmly together. > a%e Mr. Parnell has returned to London, but it is more than probable that his ill health will not permit him to engage ac- tively in the pending controversy. In- deed, it is more than likely he will never again be able to resume active leader- ship. The labor and bardships incident to Irish agitation have told on a constitution never overstron.g, and a period is threat- ened to one of the most useful carcers of our time. In the early days of the Lrish land struggle Mr. Parnell probably over- exerted himself. He spoke in ecvery corner of Ireland 1n order to rouse the lethargic tenantry. His American tour wasone of the most arduous ever under- taken. He was whirled about from city to city, had to meet and greet hundreds of thousands, to speak nightly—some- times as often as three times one night. Hisrest was broken and his health had been impaired before he returned, The obstruction debates in the house of com- mons, the committee work on the land and coercion bulls, also overtaxed his strength and deprived him of needed rest. This year again he had to bear the whole brunt of battle in the early part of the session. In the first days of this par- liament he had not the ald of his able licutenant, Healy, and some othors were absont for various causes, It is no won- der that he should break down under the terrible strain. l.' The reported extradrdiidFy succoss of the Russian government in obtaining a popular loan attests a degree of patriot- ism, as well as of prosperity, among the people of the empire, most surprising. The government required $60,000,000 and twenty times that amount is reported to bave been offered. 1f it be true that any class 13 ready to lend so great asum to the government, Russia will not be re- streined from fighting in Afghanistan or elsewhere because she cannot procure the sinews of war,, Immediately afto. the amount subscribed had been made known it was reported from St. Peters- burg by way of Belgium that after a fort- night of quiet the country was again uneasy, and military preparations were being made with fever- ish activity. At the same time it was said that the boundary com- missions in Afghanistan had failed to agree, and from India came reports that the Russians were advancing their posts in the disputed tertitory., But it was not to be forgotten that whilo news from Afghanistan by way of India may be trustworthy, rarely does a dispatch that has not b examined and approved by the government consors get out of St. Petersburg, and for this reason the re- markable stories about the new loan should be taken with a grain of salt. e With regard to foreshadowed or pos- sible observations of Russia in the east, it 13 apparent that she would be far weaker on the frontier of India than on the frontier of Afghanistan, Her armies would be further from the base of supplies; they would be surrounded by a jealous hostile population cavable of furmishing large numbers of irregular, but brave and hardy tighting men, and they would have to face the English and [adian armies in a much stronger position. On the frontier, or anywhere within the limits of Afghan- istan, even at Candahar, the conditions would be almost exactly reversed. It is pretty certain now that the Afghans will not submit if they can help it to the entry of either Russian or English troops upon their territory. To either alien army they would be a dangerous foe, and to its enemy most valuable allies. ‘The safety of India as agamst Russin, so far as Afghamistan is cancerned, lies in helping the Afghans with money and arms, and possibly with officers, to resist Russian aggression while respecting loyally their independ- So long as this is the policy of and the intense jealously of all for- cigners, and particularly Russia and England, folt by the Afghans, will be a powerful element of strength. - With it, in the words of one of the presenit mins- ters, when discussing the question last year, she can “await Russia on the thres- hold of India,”’ and that she ought to prefer to do, and probably will. 0 **e The movements of the Vatican for ex- tending its power and influence are of great importance and interest. One of the most insignificant reports recently cmanating from Reme isto the affect that the people and the czar are negotiat- ing for the reunion of the Greek and Latin churches. = Strictly speaking, the Greck church contains seyeral dis- trict branches, mcluding not only the one within the Czar's dominion but the churchin Greece abd the church in the Ottoman empire. « Besides these there 18 a United Greek cliurch which acknowl- odges the supremacy of the Vatican while employing the Greek liturgy. Bat of course the Russo-Greek church is the chief branch, and a . reunion between it and Rome would 'be an ccclesiastical movement of supreme importance. Morc than once during the last six centuries attempts have been made to heal the breach between the Eastern and the Western church. These efforts have been made paruy from political and partly from eccle- siastical motives, and have as often been defeated on one ground or the other. Occasionally formal discussions of the doctrinal points 1n dispute have preceded the efforts at reunion, but even compara- tive agreements on this subject were not able to permanently bring about the re- quired result. Protestantism has also from time to time during several cen- turies aimed ata union of the Greek church with itself—one of the latest at- tempts of that sort being undertaken about twenty years ago, the archbisho p of Canterbury taking part in the corre- spondence. Any effort of Popo Leoin this direction will be watched with great interest. e According to statistics compiled by a French medical journal the number of suicides in Russia is increasing at an ex- traordinary degree. Whereas at the be- ginning of the century there were only thirty suicides to every million inhabi- tants, the proportion is now greater in St. Petersburg than in any other Euro- pean capital, In other great capitals the numerical relation of suicides to the pop- ulation, at the same period, stood as fol- lows: Paris, 206 in the million; London, 180 1n the million; Berlin, 170 in the mill- ion. The remarkable increase in Russia dates from tho last twenty-five years, and the 1ncrease 1s notable in many direc- tions, partioularly in respect to the age at which self-murder is now frequently committed, Cases have occurred of late of boys and girls, from eight to sixteen years of age, taking their own lives, gon- erally on the plea of the cruel behavior of their parents. The medical statist does not shrink from declaring that the causes are to be sought partly m the wretched social conditions of modern Russian life, and partly in the pessimist views and anarchist tendencigs embraced by many inearly years. The increase of insanity, he asserts, has not gone on at an equal rate with the increase|of suicide. *, »e The present unforfunate attitude of John Bright toward the Irish question is deeply regretted by every admirer of that well distingulsited statesman, the best years of whose life were given to the the cause of relieving! the people from oppression. Mr. Briglit has been recently placed inan unpleasant position, The liberal caucus in the division of Birm- ingham which he fepresents in parha- ment was conveugd a few days ago to discuss tha! Irish home rule and cocroion queitions, The veteran statesman wrote s letter tothe obair- man, challenging a division and stating that a vote in favor of home rule would be tantamount to a personal vote of cen- sure. On Satarday a division was taken, and home rule proved to be just as popu- lar in the caucus as coercion was unpop- ular, The result was announocd to Mr. Bright by wire, and be replied, threaten- ing to resign. The dispatch was tabled, and the old advocate of liberty, who has drifted into error in his dotage, has either to carry out s threat or eat very humble pie. s The principal features of the proposed military reforms of General Cassola, the new Spanish minister of war, read in the Cortes, comprise compulsory service for every born or naturalized Spaniard who bas attained twenty years of age. There is to be no exemption in time either of peace or war except for physical infirm- ity. The duration of service will be twelve years in the peninsula and eight in the Spanish colonial possessions of Spain, Three years will be passed in ac- tual service, four in the first reserve, and five in the second reserve, the last class being only liable to be called out one month ia each year in peace time. No pecuniary redemption will be permitted except for an exchange from colonial to lome service Sose would-be political leaders and young bloods in the republican ty of this city either gave Broatch a very luke- warm support or voted against him, and now they have the supreme gall to beg favors at his hands. —ee STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. The report is out that the Rock Island will build to Grand Island. Plattsmouth is talking up $50,000 in Londs for public improvements. Norfolk 1s boring for information in an old fashioned spelling school, Fremont has organized a cattle com- pany to steer some business to the stock yards when built. The ball and chain has rid Grand Island of tramps. Itis a milistone to their freedom, and produces dire fore- bodings of labor. The labors of the Salvation army have been fruitless in Lincoln. 'They have succeeded, however, in drumming up in aud a few plugged quarters. J. C. Tivis, a farmer living near Au- rora, was thrown from lus wagon and danzeruuslf injured. A compound frac- ture of the hip will lay mm up for sev- cral months. Brewster, Blaine county, has been ban- 1shed from the list of postoftices. This is a heartless outrage on a cold water re- publican who gave the town ‘‘a habita- tion and a name.” Thursday’s rain was worth thousands of dollars to the farmers of the state, ‘The prospects for small grain through- outthe country are vastly improved. Most of the corn planting is done and the acreage largely increased over last year. “Omaha,” says the Rapid City Journal, *‘is again happy, A dismond drill was put down, and brought up a core of good ¢ If the Omaha people really know that'n good bed of coal underlies the city, it if about time they started in 10 mine it.! A Custer county editor has succeeded in “filling a long felt want” and an- nounces the fact in this style: ‘‘Through the courtesy of the whole-souled manager of the palatial Kendall hotel, we enjoyed a square meal last Sunday, It was a mighty good meul, too, and was much appreciated by the omniverous editorial stomach. Once in a while the editor of a country paper does strike big luck."” lowa Items. The corner stone of Carroll county’s new court house will be laid on Decor a- tion day. Five thousand six hundred dollars of the #10,000 guaranteed the glass makers, conditioned upon the erection of a fac- tory in Des Moines, has been raised. The Towa railroad agents closed their meeting at lowa City on Wednesday with a” banquet, at ~which Governor Larrabee and others made speeches. A minstrel street parade in Burhogton, a few days ago, so frightened an old blind horse that he broke loose and plunged against a depot Imllnliufi. break- g his skull. He preferred death to such music, T'he Vinton Oil and Gas company, with a capital stock of $100,000, filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state yesterday. The object of the com- any is to prospect for and ascertain whether petrolenum, natural gas, coal and other minerals exist or can be found in quantities to be used and made profitable b)); boring, digging or sinking wells or shafts in Benton county. An Onawa man, E. B. Christian, com- plains to the board of railway commis- sioners that he is now charged $87.77 for shipping a carload of stock to Chicago, whereas the cost for the same service was only $70 previous to the new law. Also that it costs twice as much to ship & cor of baled hay to Council Bluffs as 1t did in the halcyon days now fled. Colorado. Denver is carefully nursing a moderate real estate boom. The Rocky Mountain university has been incorporated in Denver. It is reported in Pueblo that Gould has purchased the entire plant of the Colo- rado Coal & Iron company. The directors of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad company have decided to standurd-gaugo their road from Pueblo to Leadville and Red Clff by laying a third rail, and from Red Cliff to Aspen to build a broad gauge road, giving them a standard gauge line from Denver and Pueblo to Aspen. Articles of incorporation for a new tel- egraph line will be filed in Denver in a few days. It is proposed to construct and operate a thorough system of telegraph throughout the Rorky mountain country to connect with the Pacitic Mutual Fele- graph company, which is to reach Denver over the Denver & Santa Fe route. The first points touched will be Las Vegas, Albuguerque and Santa Fe. Kn- trance into Colorado Springs, Aspen and Leadville has been assured over the Mid- land wires to the incorporators by out- side men. Utah and Idaho. A contract has been closed for 1,000 carloads of Spanish Fork brown stone, to be shipped to Kansas City. Pocatello is doing an immense business in handling freight. The past month was the largest in the history of the station, having handled 104,000,000 pounds against 34,000,000 the corresponding month of 1836. ‘The Union Pacific will build a branch from the Short Line to Boise City and be- yond. In an interview recently Presi- dent Adams said: ““The new road will be run in connection with the Union Pa- cific, and as a factor in the development of Idaho territory will be very power- ful.” The direction of the new line toward the Bitter Root mountains, touching at Idaho City and a{;aninz up the mincral fields 1 the Deadwood country. Last week’s outward shipments from Salt Lake were 14 cars bullion, 362,035 ounds; 33 cars silver and lead ore, ,202,840 pounds; 1 car copper matte, 20,000 pounds; 9 cars copper ore, 242,900 pounds; total, 59 cars, 1,827,820 pounds. The Shoshone Journal states that Dewey & Stone, of Omaha, have sold their undivided one-third intcrest in the Bhoshone Falls to W, A. Clarke, of Butte, for $15,000. The hotel at the Falls has been leased for the season to Mr. C. W, Toyer, of $Shoshone. Measrs. John D, Creighton, of Omahs, and W. A, Clark are now sole owners. A ball of iron almost round and weigh- ing abouv six poynds has been unearthed by some men who were dI‘um a well lgr Wiliam Shovell on his™ big ranch near Bingham, Utah. The ball was found at & depth of nmearly twenty feet from the surface. It is supposed to be an wrolite, but looks exactly hke a ball of cast iron from a foundry. It has been suggested by some persons thatitisa Rrap ot, but such a thiag is hard! probable, as the depth at which it was found and on a level prairie would seem to 1t impossible that a shot could be forced into the earth to that depth. Oue of the ends of the ball is a little flat- ——-.—-—-—W tened, but the remainder is ne form and hasa smooth surfa seratched with a knife or filed it shows up as bright as any iron would, The Buise & Nampa Coal company has been organized, 'Lho chief object the company is acquiring, ¢ ng, digging, owning and operating canals and ditehes in ldaho and Wyoming. ‘Lhe capital stock £500,000, divided into 3,000 shaves. The trustees for tho first year are as follows: KRobert Blickens- derfer and John, Hic Pocatello, Idaho; James A, McGee, Calawell, Idaho; Edward Dickinson, Omaha; Edward 8, Nettloton, Denver; James K. Curts, James M. Stewal Heury F. Weld and o W, L. Ridenbaugh, of Boise City, Idaho. The Salt Lake Tribune, enumerating the resources of the territory, suys: ‘“I'here are near this city beds ot brown, black, white and mottled marble, some of which take on wonderful beauty when polished; there is clay near by out of which first class ftire ‘and pressed brick can be manufactured; within twenty-five miles of this city is an _iron mine of u finer quality than any this side o Sweden; there is a sand for ma glass which Pittsburg glass manu turers say is finer for the purpose than they can procure elsewhero t of the Rock o gentleman here s: all the materials are close by for making cement equal to the finest Portland cement, and these are only a few of the minerals which are waiting to be utilized. There are endless coul measures in easy reach of the city, and when the list of base metals is exbhausted there are precious metals close by in abundance. If the profits of gold_and silver mining for a single year in Utah could be put in structures in this city 1t would shine like ‘the New Jerusalem.' " Montana, A large lode of platinum ore is claimed to have been found near Clay mountain, . The output of the Drum Lummon for April was $183,800, from 5,946 tous of ore. The Granite Mountain mine distrib- uted $200,000 among stockholders during April. Dividends paid by Montana mining properties for the first four months of 1857 aggregate $574,000. There will be, it is estimated, about 250,000 poands of cattle hides shipped from Benton this year—the result of o hard winter. Helena is experiencing a boom, and as a consequence her population 18 rapidly increasing. It has always been a wealthy town, The Pacific Coast. An ostrich farm 1s to be started on Cor- onnade Beach near San Diego. Bob Ford, the slayer of Jessec James, is a waiter ina cheap restaurant in Santa Fe, N. M. A silver ledge has been located at Tip- top, A. T,, which 15 said to run 2,000 ounces of metal to the ton. The quartz mines in the neighborhood of San Juan, Nevada City and Grass Val- ley are reported to be paying well. Sheep men throughout northern Cali- fornia say that the clip of wool this spring 1s the best they have seen in years, both in point of quantity and quality. Pleasant Valley, Nevada county, boasts of a Digger Indian who plays a violin at all the dances of the palefaces in that re- gion. Heis said to be an artist on the guitar, flute, tife, organ and harmonica. A syndicate headed by Hon. Thomas R. Bard, of Ventura, has purchased all of the land in Southern California belong- ing to the estate of the late Colonel Thomas A. Scott of Pennsylvania. The purchase mncludes 150,000 acres in Ven- tura_county and a large tract in the neighborhood ot Santa Monica. The coal mines at Roslin, W. T., are doing well. Accordmsmtho report of Territorial Inspector Watson, during the quarter ending March 31 they put out 16,133 tons. They now ship 400 tons a day. The total coal product of the terri- tory during the first quarter of the pres- ent year was 124,376 tons. The Tombstone Prospector speaks of a pine and juniper forest intne vicinity of Flagstaff, Yavapal county, n that terri- tory, containing an area of timber sufli- cient to supply 100,000 feet of lumber daily for 500 years. It also mentions that the Atlantic & Pacitic Railroad com- pany will build s branch through this *‘dense, trackless forest region.” The San Diego Naws says: Mr. Whit- ing, of the Anubeim ostrich farm, tells a good story about a male bird getting on the rampage and ‘‘running amuck,’ as it were, when he unhorsed a sheep- herder, and the poor devil hid himself in atumble weed while the horse was kicked todeath, Facts, as Mr. Whiting haa to Y“y for the horse. He further stated that it took six fleet ponies and riders to corral the fiery, untamed biped, Who wants to own an ostrich farm? A few months ago Dr. Henry D. Cogs- well, of San Francisco, donated real estate to the value of $1,000,000 for the urpose of founding a mechanical train- ing schoel for boys and girls, to be known as the **Cogswell Polytechnic col- lege.”” The plans for the building have been prepared. It will be located on the corner of Kolsom and Twenty-sixth streets, with a frontage of 240x1823 feet. The buiding will be three stories in height of brick and stone. It will be seventy-one feet in width by eighty-five feet in depth, not including the projec- tions. On each side will be a wing two stories in height, each 85x40 feet. There are to be ten class rooms, eaoh 28x30 feet, four to be on the main foor and the other six to be in the second story. On the first tloor also will be the oftices of the president and secrotary, a reception parlor, & library 16x38 feet, and a musenm 20x28 feet, besides a number of dressinf and toilet rooms. A spacious nuumbfhnll oucuples the entire third story. 1t1s 63x70 feet in size and will have a seating capacity for 1,000, ————— Everything which belongs to pure, healthy biood 18 imparted by Hood's Sarsaparilla, A trial will convirce you of its merit, R A representative of the city water- works company stated yesterday that the company was only receiving $60 a year for its hydrants, while for intermediate hydrants it was receiving only $10 a year. — 800 Tarkey fringed clothes at § worth §2, 800 Turkey fringed cloths at 85c¢,wort $1.25. 10 pes Tarkey red damask at 25¢,w b0e. 10 pes Turkey red damask at 3 Goe. 50 doz red bordered doylies at 05¢, wort!: £1.25 20 pes 18 inch pure twine crash at 64 worth 12¢, 100 doz crepe towels, 18x534 at §1.20 per dozen, worth §1.75 100 doz cream damask towels at 1% worth 23c. 100 doz huck towels at 12}c each, worth 20c. 5 casos yard wide sheeting at be,worth 8e. 5cases yard wide bleached muslin at Ge, worth Sjc. 50 bed spreads at 49¢ worth 75¢. 50 doz ladics' unbleached hose, 150 worth 25c. 50 doz ladies’ fancy hose, regular made 25¢, worth 50¢. 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