Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 4, 1887, Page 4

THX OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, JUNE 4. 1887 TIIE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMA OF SUBSORIPTION ¢ Daily Morniae Editiow) fucluding Ep, (Do Y oar et For 8% M e For Threo Months .., The Omaha Swnday like, miled to uny address, ONo Y onr. .. inths OMATA OFrrem, No. 014 WY Pk, Koo AND, i O N WASHINGTON UPFIC All communications relati atter should be addre: ¥ Tin BER BUSTNERS LETTRRS? All hieiness otters and romittances should ba 10 THK BRE PUBLISHING COMPANY, news and edl. od Lo the Ept OMAA. Drafts, checks and postofico orders 10 be made payablo to the order of the eompuny, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPBIETORS, F. ROSEWATER, Epttor. THE DAILY BEE Sworn Statement of Circulation. Biato of Neraskn, {5 County of Do ins. [ Geo. 1. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swoar that the actual cireniation of the Daily Bee for the week ending May 27, 1557, was a8 Average.....o... L L0403 b Gro. 15, T780HU oK, Subseribed and sworn to before me this 255t day of May, 1357, N. P. F'rr, [SEA L] Notary Public. Geo. B. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of The Iee Publishing company, that the actual average daily eirculation of the Daily Bee for the month of May,15%, 12,439 copiess for June, 158, 12208 copies : for J uly, 1536, 12,514 copres for August, 156, 12,464 copies; for Septem: ber, 185, 13,030 coples: for October, 1888, 12,04 copies: for November, 1886, ' 1548 copies; for Ducember, 18, 13,237 copies: for January, 1857, 16,264 copies? for Febriary. 1857, 14,195 coples: for March, 1557, 14,400 copies; for April, 1557, 14,516 coples, < Gro. B. Tzscnver, Subseribed and sworn to before me this 7t day of May, A. D., 157, [SEAL N.'P. Frrr, Notary Public. —————— T THE real estatg market continues lively in Omaha, Tue Fourth of July celebration must not be forgotte: i LET it be a non-partisan school board. Kecp politics out of the school room. Conviers from New C swarm to San Francisco. will doubtless object to this. donin will The Chinese 2 that he 1s not making up Grover’s slate for his trip across the continent, THe probate court of Grand Rapids, Michigan, was short on wheat, and now his constituents are short on probate court. PrESIDE Omaha, His eagle eye will at once de- tect in our union depot a thing of beauty and ajoy forever. Tuk Pacific investigating committee will sit in Omaha from June 20 to July 5. Mr. Gould has set an example for his subordinates to follow. EARTHQUAKE shocks have been felt in New York stato, ‘The Sunday liquor law of the wicked metropolis is responsible for the earth’s rumblings. TiE wires tell of two tiends this morn- ing—one in Chicago and one in Dakota City, Neb. Such trash should not be allowed to masquerade as men. —— Tue Salvationists who were mending stockings 1 a Chieago jail have been released, each promising to reform. 1f they meet the requirements of their con- tract they must leave Chicago. CoLoNEL, the Hon. Buffalo Bill Cody, a8 the title of the distinguished person- age now reads, in order to properly ad- wvertise his great aggregation of collosal wroportions, is oceasionally obliged to sacrifice a man’s life. Buck Tayloris rapidly recovering. i CHARLES A, LOCKE, of the National Opera company, says that out of deference to public opinion the grand ballet will be left out of all future operatic performances, except when the opera calls for a ballet. Public obinion is old, but apparently not bald. Sm——— ““Trusts” multiply. The last to come to tho surface is a combination to con- trol the rubber industry. The avowed object of this organization i3 to manipu- lato prices, and to direct and dictate gen- erally, in the monopolistic way, the policy of the trade. It is hardly necessary to suy that this does not promise any- thing to the advantage of consuwmers, ——— AMONG its other inturesting features Boston now has n Butler club, Even the crafty old politician in whose behalf the club was organized was candid enough to say thore was no politieal field for it, although ho intimated that an exigency might arise to give it an excuse for ex- isten The reassuring promise 1s that the club will not have the opportunity to attain the dignity of even a nucleus, IF any evidence were wanting to show ‘What base uses the ward politicians will resort to in their desperate efforts to con- trol our publio school patronage, it was furnished by the meeting at the board of education roows Thursday night. Not only was the room packed by ward bum- mers, but quite & number ot school marms were recruited into the ranks of the machine politicians with a view of preventing any action by the meeting that would interfere with the political machine, ——— Tue chamber of commerce of New York proposes to concern itself for the defense of the harbor of that city. What is immediately proposed is the purchase of eight or ten rams, the presence of which in the harbor would at least afford asonse of security. The ultimate aim, however, doubtless is to bring an influ- ence to bear upon the next congress, which it is hoped will induce it to adopt thorough and practicable means of de- fense. Thero is no impending danger, 80°far as can be seen, of New York being placed at the mercy of the guns of a for- eign enemy, but none the less the ques- tion of a thorough defensive system there is timely, and the chamber of commerce does well in giving it attention. It should not abato its zeal until congress makes the required provision, Undesirable Immigrants. The statement is made that the Britieh government is again trying to' unload upon thisg country destitute ‘and panper. izend porsons whom it is unwilling to sup- port, evidence of which appeared in the fact that lust Sunday the steamship Scan- dinavia brought to Philadelphia a hun- dred immigrants from the west of Ire- land whose passage bad been paid by the srnment representatives. Sixteen of the number evaded the inspectors, but the others were detained for examina- tion. Inquiry showed that the landlords of the district from which these immi- grants came were requested to make lists of persons who were anable to earn aliving and whom the local authorities were unwilling to support, and that to each of the persons whose names were thus reported the government gave a steerage ticket for a passage to America and adraft on New York for a small sum of money, The descriptions given of these immigrants present them as a worthless lot who if they remained here would almost certainly become a public charge, us they had been before coniing. Recently published statistics in regard to the number of insane persons in new York city and state show an increase would be alarming if it were not ct that most of the ons to the insane population have come direct from Europe. A New York contemporary aflirms that of late years the European governments have made use of this expedient to get rid of their insane poor, and have shipped them by hundreds to America. Every steamship arriving from Europe brings to our shores, among its hundreds of steerage passengers, a large num- ber of physical wrecks—persons cither already insane or on the verge of in- sunity, and destined soon to become in- mates of our agylums and jails and alms- louses. There seems to be very litte reason to doubt that this statement is en- tirely true. There will be no difference of opinion ding the course to be pursued with respeet to such immigration. The laws intended to exclude paupers, lunaties and criminals from abroad must be vig- Iy enforced, and if they are not suflicient to accomplish the purpose ade- quate laws must be promptly provided. We believe there is still room in this country for people coming here from other lands with the mtention of making homes among us—honest, industrious and law-respecting people who will be- come useful and respectable citizens, but there is no room for any others, and they must not be permitted to remain here. Itis evident that this subject will be urged upon the next con- gress, and it is not unlikely that more rigid laws than now exist for the regula- tion of immigration will be passed. The tendency is rather to an extreme policy in dealing with this question, and such facts as we have noted will undoubtedly have the effeet to intensify it. Must Be Itesiste Reputable citizens of all political and religious creeds, and more especially the vatrons of our public schools, must rally and resist the disgraceful and infamous methods pursued by the rowdy clement of both political parties in its efforts to keep our public schools under partisan control. Such shameful performances as took place at the meeting Thursday night should not be tolerated in any civilized community. Shall Mike Meaney, Julius Cooley, Morearty, Dan O’Keefe and that stripe of political hacks be allowed to dictate who shall manage the schools of Omaha? Shall a horde of political bummers, vagrants and shysters control the public school patronage? Will our citizens remain any longer in- different to the danger which threatens our public chool system by surrendering it to the mob? Will the parents of the five thousand school children sit tamely by and surrender the schools in which they all take pride, and in which the future of the new generation of Omaha boys and girls is at stake, to the hoodlum element? The party primariesare a farce and a fraud. The po- litical bummers have had supreme con- trol. Their object is not to make the schools better, but to control the board for base personal ends. Can’y the ocitizens of Omaha, who fa- vor a non-partisan school board, meet peaceanly and without being hooted at and disturbed by political rowdies. Can- not citizens meet for a commendable public purpose without being insulted, disturbed and voted down by parties who are inimical to the object in view. S Police Chief 8 A sensation has been created .in this community by the publication of an ex- tract from a Los Angeles paver in which it is charged that W. 5. Seavey, Omaha’s new chief of police, years ago deserted bLis family in Santa Barbara and ran away with a married woman. This charge, if true, will compel the board of police commissioners to cause Mr, Seavey's re- tirement, Chief SBeavey denies the charge, and until ho s proven guilty the public should reserve its judjgment. Nobody connected with the Bk has had any agency in the selection of Mr. Sea- voy as chief of police. But we have given the commission oredit for exercising its authority in the public interestsolely, and hence have given no countenance to any factious attempt to interfere with the new chief or hamper him 1n the effort to reorganize the police forca. 1t would be unfortunate for Omaha, for many reas- ons, if Mr. Seavey should fail to prove himself a man of good character. The shouts of joy over his impending downfall come altogether from the wrong quarter. The admission, made by the paper that has given the greatest pub- licity to this scandal, that the anti-Seayey phalanx 18 jubilant bodes no good to the community. Who constitute the anti- Scavey phalanx? Everybody knows that it is made up of men who have been plot- ting to overthrow law and order, and keep open the vile dens where crooks, sluggers, and rowdies chiefly congregate. 8 to the Seavey scandal itself there may be some truth and yet nothing to justify a chargo of desertion. We all remember the Hipple-Mitchell scandal. About the close of the war a man named John Hipple left his family in Pennsyl- vania and cmigrated o Oregon, where he assumed the name of John Mitchell, He married there under that name, beeame quite prominent, and was elected to the Umted Siates senate in 1875. After Mitchell had been elected to the senate the story of his change of name and first marriage bocame known 1in Oregon and was discussed by the press all over the country. Mitchell's version ofthe story, if we remember right, was that his separation from his first wife was cansed by mutual’ disagreoment. When Mitchell’s term was completed, he was defeated for a second term, but ne lived down all opnosition, and was elected again to the senate last winter, and is now a member of that body. This does not necessarily point a moral, but is sug- gestive. There is no telling what an 1n- vestigation into the Seavey scandal may develop. Mr, Seavey may sustain him- self, and in that case the joy of the “phalanx” may be premature. The B. & M. Land Granta. The efforts of ex-Senator Van Wyek to secure a prompt and just settlement of the land grant rights of the B. & M, rail- road, so that the corporation shall re- ceive only what belongs to it, and the lands it has already taken in excess of its rights and those withdrawn 1n its favor may be restored to settlement, have been productive of good results. The sere- tary of the interior has notified Mr. Van Wyck that the final adjustment of the road's grant is now under consideration m the department. The matters to be passed upon are the recommendations of the land commissioner that legal pro- ceedings be instituted to recover lands patented by the corporation in excess of the qnantily to which it is entitled, to cancel the selection of such tracts north of the company’s line of definite location as have not been patented, and that tracts withdrawn, but not se- lected, be restored to settle- ment and entry. Ths is in accord with the new policy of the department, and there is no reason to doubt the assur- ance of the secretary that the recom- mendations submitted by the commis- sioner will be passed on with proper speed. If these recommendations are sustained the effect will be to return to the people a considerable area of land now popularly, and it would scem of- ficially also, believed to be unjustly held by the corporation, while there will be restored to settlement a larger area se- lected but not patented and which has been for years withdrawn subject to the will and convemence of the B. & M. cor- poration, This land, be the amount more or less, belongs to the people and is wanted by them. Much of it 1s desir- able land that will be promptly settled when released. The successful efforts of ox-Senator Van Wyck to obtain speedy action to this end will be fully appre- ciated by the peovle uf Nebraska, Denver and Omaha, The Omaha Bee has the best end of the argument in the position it has taken in ref- erence to the election of a board of directors for the common schools, It advocates the non-partisan basis as against tickets named through the agency of the republican and democratic central city committees. Denver, where the common school system challenges comparison with the best in the country, has persistently followed the non-partisan plan, and the party leader who wouid favor a re- lapse therefrom to the partisan method is as- sured in advance of a cold reception and a crushing defeat.—Denver News. No respectable party leader in Omaha favors a partisan school board. The move to nullify the school law is confined to a garg of political ward bummers and roustabouts backed by a couple of rowdy editors, Tk president has turned another ras- cal out—a justice of the peace. The festive justice refuses to give up his com- mission and great notarial seal. His oflicial opinion 1s that the president has overstepped his authority. ‘T'uk Sioux City Journal serves notice that railronds must surrender to the peo- ple when the legislature assembles. The Journal should take notice that the mem- bers do not surrender to the railroads. Other Lands Than Ours. The new French cabinet is not regarded as & lasting affair. 1t is a combination of opportunists wiro however well mean- ing do not really command the confidence of the country and are not likely to win it. It has the appearance of being merely a provisonal arrangement while affairs are shaping themselves in the nation, and it is believed that it must inevitably go down before the tremendous and uncom- promising opposition it will encounter. Even the new ministry saw the impolicy of retaining Saussice after he had an- nounced his purpose of seoretary of war to withdraw the war budget, and he was dropped to give place to Ferren, who declared his intention to follow the course of his predecessor in pur- suing military reform and increas- ing the defensive forces of the republic. But the evident fact 1s that the majority of the French people do not have faith in the ability of anybody but Boulanger to carry out successfully the volicy ke inaugurated, and it is further- more evident that they believe in that policy. Itisnot probable that the new ministry can educate them to a different wview, and itis not unlikely that before long Boulanger will be found by the gov- ernment itself to be the only man who can hold the people 1 control, either as their leader or in the way in which Na- poleon controlled them under the author- ity of the couvention. The convention ‘was weak, but it was no weaker than the present ministry or, apparently, than President Grevy himself, whe seems to be at his wits’ end and utterly at a loss as to what the crisis—which now more than ever 15 a crisis—requires of him. General Boulanger looms up like Frank- enstein’s monster before the French statesmen, who, if they have not made him, certainly have him on their hands. Next to the position of Boulanger, the attitude of M. Clemenceau concerns France the most. He is the maker and was she chief supporter of the war minister. Boulanger was thrust upon M. de Freycinet by his influence, and when M. de Freycinet retired, Gen- eral Boulanger was maintained as the real leader in the Goblot cabinet by lemenceau. There are some signs, however, that M. Clemenceau now ‘feels that his protege has gone beyond him. General Boulanger now stands indepen- dent of assistance, and fills a larger place in the eye of the public than his dis- coverer. M.Clemenceau, though radical in his views, 13 a sincere grepublican, and would dread as much as M. Ferry. the advent of a mulitary dictator. If heis disposed to maintain the peace, he will support the Rouvier cabinet in the main; and if throws his powerful weight in that scale, France may pass the summer undisturbed. *, ‘The time during tln: recess of the house of commons is being employed by both parties in appeal to the poople, though there really does not seem to be anything to be accomplished by doing this.© The public mind. of WGreat Britain must be pretty ‘thoroughly. made up regarding the leading politieal issue, and éven were it not so it is questionable if any expros- sion of popular feeling now would change the attitude of the parties in par- liament. The coalition opposed to home rule appears o be as strong as it has ever been, and it would probably not weaken before any popular demonstra- tion that could reasonably be expected Mr. Gladstone has gone to Wales, where he will deliver a number of addresses in favor of home rule. This would indicate that his health is not in so pre- carious a condition as has recently been represented. With regard to the health of Parnell, also, it is reported to have improved, but the promise is not good that he will be able to resume active vo- litical work. The announcement of the scrious 1llness of Sexton is calculated to alarm the friends of Ireland. He isone of Parnell's most able, eareful and trust- worthy lieutenants. * e The condition of the Crown Prince of Germany improves slowly. He 1s well and hearty, but voiceless, or nearly so. He will no doubt improve in this respect to somo extent when his throat recovers from the immediate effect of the opera- tion performed by Dr. Morrell Macken- zie, but his voice cannot be fully re- stored until the growth is entirely cleared away. Inview of the alarmist rumors that have been flying about, it may be well to state that this growth, which is not much larger than a split pea, has been pronounced by Prof. Rudolph Virchow to be no more malignant than a common wart. This statement is the coufident decision, after careful microscopic ex- ammnation, of the pope of modern patho- logy. It is this which makes Dr. Mac- kenzie's operation of such cardinal im- portance as regards the future of the patient. It is now proved that the dis- ease from which he is suffering owes its chief, it not only, importance to the situation of an enemy not terrible in himself, but who stands in the very gate- way of life, and must therefore be got rid of. German surgeons were on tho point of doing this with a display of energy as superfluous as the use of a battering-ram to crush a black bettle. It was not merely making an artiticial opening in the windpipe that was in con- templation, but the infinitely more formidable operation of a partial excision ofthe organ of voice. To say nothing of the great risk of life necessarily inyolved in this, the prince, even if he had sur- vived, would have geased to belong in the category of articglately speaking men and could have only .communicated with the outer world in a gruff whisper. . *"x The temperance - question seems to have been definitely settled in Switzer- land by the result of the povular vote, or referendum, as it 18 called, taken on the 15th ultimo, on the federal law giving the the government the sole right to manu- facture and sedl spirituous hquors. The luw has been approved by a vote of 252,791 to 127,474, This is doubtless to the Amecrican prohibitionists an awful piece of legislation, as engaging the gov- ernment in a criminal enterprise, but the Swiss people,-who have been for some years back wrestling with the liquor question, owing to the terrible in- crease of drunkenness in the Cantons, have concluded that in no other way can they so effectively diminish the quantity of liquor consumed, and at the same time sccure the purity of what is con- sumed. Of course they could not reach this conclusion by starting from the great premise of the prohibitionists that liquor dealing and murder are in the eye of the moralist exactly the same thing. They reacn it by starting from the premise, which is that of the great majority of rational men, that the moderate con- sumption of alcoholic drinks, even if it be a physiological mistake, isnot in itself an offense against the community, and that it is the excessive consumption which society has to complain of, and is bound to repress, until the mndividual man has learned that his wisest course is to abstain wholly. * A letter from a Russian is given to the American manufacturer, which takes the ground that only very limited quantities of petroleum can be produced from the Baku district. It produced 1,800,000 bar- rels during 1886, and he does not think the district capable of producing over 8,000,000 barrels. The Russian cruae pro- duces only 30 or 35 per cent of illumina- ting oil, and a Rangoon correspondent of the London Zimes says that uneither tha Burmeso oil or the Russian can be consid- ered equal 1n illuminative quality to the American. In Akyab, Burmah, are a large number of wells, some of them from 500 to 1,200 feet in deptn, which were opened four years ago, but the flow ‘was 8o small that they could not compete with the American product. In one dis- trict of Burmah the oil is drawn up in buckets by women who walk down a path pulling a rope which passes over a windlass. American kerosene now lights the world, and will continue to probably as long as the supply lasts, and oil is used for this purpose. " The English have recently had ex- posed » very sad state of things in that department which every European gov- ernment is supposed to watch with the greatest vigilance—namely, the war de- partment. A royal commission has been sitting for some time investigating the system of purchasing mulitary stores. Sir James Stephen, an able jurist, was placed at the head of this commission to make sure that the gvidence would be well sifted. The report according to a cable dispatch, ‘“condemns the army sys tem from the top downward, showing how the secretary of sfate for war is being vlayed over business of which he has not an inkling of knowledge.” At the same time Sir Charles Dilke is trying to mend s reputation by showing in magazine articles that invasion is to be u feature of the next war in which England is en- gaged, and that she is not prepared for it. . " 1t 1s said that the Emperor of Austria's juoilee present to the queen will be a case of the finest imperial Tokay. This wine contains a great quantity of phosphoric acid, and it is a wonderful tonic. It was Prince Albert's invariable custom to drink one glass of Tokay every day after dinner, and he has had as much respect for it as a piok-me-up, as King George 1V had for his fanmous black-cherry brandy, A gift of Tokay is no small affair at Vicnna. The Emperor Ferdinand wished to make a present of & quantity of this wine to the late King of the Netharland and as it was thought by tho ocourt offi- cials that there was none sufliciently. old in the imperial cellars a thousand bottles of the fin and oldest Tokay in the world were procured from Cracow at the monstrous price of £3 53 4d o bottle. e Nearly soven hundred millions of pas- songers trayelled on railways in Great Britain last year, and of these eight were killed and 615 were injured in what are commonly ecalled railway accidents, Many other persons not in the employ of the railway companies wera Killed or in- jured by accidents connected with the railw; service, such as falling between res and platforms and the like; but, nts of the companie total number of deaths trom causes inci- dent to railway travelling, were only a tritle over 500, and of injuries only about 1,500. Considering that th numbers include a great many casualtics due to neglect of well known precautions, we may conclude, says the Zancet that as re- gards passengers and the public, rail- way travelling is the safest mode of loco- motion. -, " ®ho chief cconomic trouble in Italy lies in the disproportion between the immense amount of capital mvested 1n railway enterprises and the small sum in agricultural interests. A country can- not hope to reach a reasonable economic adjustment in the face of such a dispro- portion. New Italy will have to learn all the best ways of developing hor agri- cultural resources, of renewing her old time physical strength, before she can take the place that her statcsmen are vreparing for her among the nations, ATE AND TERKITORY, Nebraska Jottings, Bloomington has received positive as- surances that the Santa Fe road will strike that town on its way to Omaha. A moderate stretching of the vote cast at the special election in Hastings Wed ;u'sd:\y, gives the city a population of 2,000. The old Hoffman mill at Columbus was wiped out by fire Thursday. It was loaded with wagons and binders. Loss, £6,800. Three erack shots in Atkingon are ach- ing for a match with any other three in the northern part of the state. for §100 to $300 a side. North Platte proposes to build 1,000 maps of the town and county and distri- bute them, through Buflalo Bill, among the benighted blokes of London, A slmrrm;i club has been organized in Hasf s, The activtty of sandbaggers after durk shows that the members are getting down to business at a lively gait. W. F. McMenamy, a solicitor for a medical institute 1 Omaha as run down in York county a tew days ago and fined $10 and costs for attempting to ce medicine without registering. “The case has been appeaied, Hastings has picked up another rail- road with a county bonus of 125,00 ‘This does not exhaust her confidenc the future. She is willing to make fur- ther and frequent hauls on her credit for railroads. yhen she sees what she ches for it and puts up the cash to get it. *‘The advertising clerks and the news editors and reporters of the Omaha |):|Yers," says the Lincoln Democrat, “played me of base ball a day or two ago. Of course the ad. men won. For tiirty years we have s otten as once a week gone out into the solitude of nature, under the blue sky and the sunshine, be- th the great arching dome of ' the ns, and there we have yearned with 4 mighty yearn for a time and a place where the advertising man wouldn’t get away with the editor. But the pitiless surroundings gave no answer. Space does not contain it.” lowa Items, Waterloo has struck natural gas. Riverside has a calf with three tails. The animal is loaded for fly time. The festive burglar has been making matters interesting for Creston people. A new insect 18 destroying the straw- berries and the barley crop near Daven- port. The past month was the dryest May ever known in southeastern Iowa, less than half an inch of rain having fallen during the month, Hutchinson, “the new pitcher of the Des Moines club, received a check for $1,000 in advance and is to receive $300 per month for the season. At a meeting of the Scott county bar Tuesday afternoon a motion was pussed declaring Hon. Charles W. Waterman the unanimous choice of the thirty-two attorneys present for successor to Judge Rogers. A number of democrats and greenback- ers have invited ex-Congressman Freder- ick, of Marshalltown, to sacrifice him- self as a candidate for governor. Fred- erick will be remembered as the distin- guished statesman who devoted his best energies and brief career to the distribu- tion of federal pap. Dakota. Four Presbyterian churches flourish in Beadle county. The hospital for the insane at Yankton illmbs‘i‘ng investigated by the examining ard. One thousand three hundred cords of Sioux Falls stone is being shipped to sur- rounding towns for buildiug purposes. Aberdeen will buy $8.000 worth of property to present to the Aberdeen & Bis marck for terminal facilities. A Rapid City man has had an experi- ence with the inter-state commerce law. He bought some gouds in Chicago, the whole smounting to $72. The freight to Rapid City reached $51. A Hermosa man had a worse experience yet. He sent a carload of bones to Chicago, and after they were sold there yet remained 60 cents [acking to pay the freight bill, A common sense preacher in an in- terior town 1s reported by the Dakota Bell to have quieted the fears of the con- gregation when the church began to move, by saying: ‘‘You see there are some workmen under the building with jack-screws, and now they have hitched onto the back end with ten yoke of oxen and are snaking the edifice over onto a back street, In the morning, God will- ing, work will be commenced on this lot on the finest opera use west of Chi- cago. [ tell you, the boom in this town s only just nicely started.’ Wyoming, Sara Bernhardt give the Che, taste of Freuchitied art in “Fe evening. A three days’ racing meecting opens in Cheyenne Tuesday next. Big purses are on the string. ‘The movements of the Northwestern in Wyoming are a perplexing conun- drum to the residents of Douglas. The deterinination ot the federal] au- thorities to remove the fen from gov- ernment lund nas stirred Cheyenne to the depths. On the authority of John H. MoAlpin, civil engineer and town lot boomer of the Union Pacitic, Laramie is the coming motropolis of the toreitory. A Cheyenne mule driver named Forost was partially soniped hy oue of his anie fow duys ngo, A broken Kkneo hralsed side were added o Lis nnese a ora’ last mal wnd pains, Colerado. The provosed road from Denver to Laramie is a sure thing. The Jesuit order is looking over the state for g site for a college to cost £300,000, The Cirele railroad in Denver has been cold to the Santa Fe company for. £149,000, Real estate transactions in Denver 1ast week amounted to #608,87), and for May, 23,008,841 Permits for buildings to cost §1,112,000 were issued 1 Denver during the past five months, Ihe Burlington & Missouri railroad company are purchasing stone quarries n the glades just west of Fort Collins, and lively times are looked for an the near future; Utah and Idaho. e new code of Idaho territory will o into effeet on the 13th of June at 13 o'clock. The Corur d’Alene region continues to attract large numbers of prospectors and gamblers, Polygamous prosceutions have subsided temporarily, Both sides are catching their second wind. Several important branches of the Oregon Short line are being extended to the mining districts of 1daho. The banks of Salt Lake City report the g Vi nding May 25, in in bullion and $233,800.22, shipments ars bullion, er and lead, 110,571 1bs 00 1bs.; total, J ,427 1bs, includes the shipments R. Jones & Co. Crockwell & Taylor, of Promontory, Utah, have purchasea 6,000 head of year- lings, two-year-olds and cows, at $1% per head, from Todhunter’s ranch, Hum- boldt county, with the privilege of tal 2,000 head more. The eattle will be to the ranch of Crockwell & Taylor, near the head of Salt lake. Montana. t IMmml:\in streams are flowing banks ull. 4 Bullion shipments from Butte last week amounted to £100,700, A large seetion of Mullan the Northern I road is blocked in consequence. lieved the tunnel will have to be doned. The mines in Madison county are pan- ning out ri Three gold mills are now in process of ercction on Wisconsin creek. The Noble mine recently sold for §0,000. Assays of the ore show from $45 to $90 in gold per ton. The Pacific Const, Los Angeles has a crematory just fin- i at a cost of $2,500. ric street railway will be in operation in Los Angeles this month. There are fully 5,000 men at work on the llexlunsiuu of the California & Oregon road. Los Angeles shipped 6,376,530 pounds of freight east during' the month of April, The vein of marble found in Mono county is said to be 440 feet wide, with stratas of variegated colors. The duties on the 10,000 tons of English steel rails to be delivered this summer at San Diego, Cal., to the Atchison road will be about $175,000. It is oflicially announced at Los Angeles that the Union Pacific raillway has com- pleted the purchase of Rattlesnake 1sland, in San Pedro harbor, for terminal purposes. ‘The price is not given. The Piegan Indians of Nevada have made $4,000 skinning carcasses of cattle perishing on the rango last winter. get 75 cents for the hides delivered. squaws do the skinning and the bucks have plenty of pin-money. The shecp owners of Burnt river and Snake river, Oregon, are making rendy for the spring clip, and will commence shearing on the 20th of the month. In the neighborhood of 50,000 sheep will yield up their tlecce m that section this year. “Ihe lightning struck Joe Windsor's barn yesterday afternoon,’ says a Cali- fornia exchange, “‘and s¢ urfiy injured two of Mr. Windsor’s mules. It is to be hoped that they will live. We under- stand that the shock also killed five or six Chinamen.” The streets of California towns are not exactly paved with gold, but some of them approximate that Purml:usicnl con- dition rather closely, Placerville needs o pew sewer system, and the El Dorado Republiean says it can sce no excuse for not having it, especially when the luxury will not cost a dollar. It is believed that the gold that can be washed out of the earth disturbed in digging the sewer trenchos would fully pay for the cost of the proposed sewer s —_—————— CREMATION IN ALASKA. 7 Bodies Burned on the Beach at Righ- water Mark, Alaska Freo Press: Having had infor- mation the other day of a_cremation 1o take place at the Indian village, I went to the beach to witness it. The defunct siwash was known uround Juncau as Frank and was formerly employed at Martin Bro., store in the capacity of Indgian clerk, and the kiockman (it being a double cremation of one of each sex) had been called Sennie: both, a8 it happened. having dies of consump- tion. 'I'he mourning service consisted of the ancient ceremony known as ‘“pot- lateh, which is always customary among tne Indians of southwestern Alaska on the occasion of the death of one of their number. The potlach is a division of whatever temporal goods the deceased may have possessed, such as , dry goods, ete., among his or lons, according a3 the merits of o idual case may justify. In the services of the mourning, which long, and tothe Indian mind y impressive, the first in the orde day is a eulogistie discourse by one of the old men, which, being delivered by him in seetions, so to speak, is taken up and sung by the rest in a monotonous sort of chant: the oid man is then super seded by another venerable ck, who goes throngn the same service, and he in turn by another, until all tne old men have had theit andividual say. ‘The chanters keep time by thumping the with sticks and beating on a drum. This performance being gong over for u day or two, the potlateh takes place. The body of the dc sed is first wrapped in a matung, woven from spht roots, and in appearance resembling coarse straw. ‘Phey then convey the body to the place of cremation, which is al ways -water mark, On'this oceasior hand for the purpose of burning the about one cord of wood, some some in small logs. First a p small logs is luid 8 foot from th and a space of four inches betwe log. On this pyre, which was about se feet long by ' five teet wide, two bodies were placed, nbhout three fe apart, and arouad them a minature hut was built to the height of four fe the inclosed space is then carcfully filled in splint wood and fine kindling, and now everything being in liness, the fire is lighted from the bottom, The na- tive diet being ehietly salmon, an oily substance, the bodies of the Indians scem to contain a considerable amonnt of o1, as they burn very reaaly, While the corpses wore charring, tho friends of the deccused continued to poke them with long sticks, ocensionally raking the fragments of burnt flosh “from tho firo and wrapping them in skins, biane kots, ete. Returniog from tho eramufion of the two natives, 1 heard singing ln s copper_ore, tunnel, on cifie, has caved in. The It is be- aban- the rouse,"and dropped in to see what wa going on. Thore was quite an. assemhlage of na- tives squatted around & small fire in_the conter of the room, and at one endl of the house a corpse of an old woman lay, o d with sheets and blankets. Afl around theroom was strung up muslin, picces of ealico and a fow blankets, also, three umbrellas, ete,, all of which will be distributed among the relatives and near friends Ihen the process de seribedgabove will be gone through. 24 ko An Alabama Romance, At Birmingham, Ala, corres) of the vory quic oflice of Justico B M. Allen, ended some- thing of a romance which may be said to A run four year ago. The village of ‘Warrior station, twenty miles up the Louisville and hvillo railroad, is surrounded by coal mines, and is often the scene of bloody encoun- ters and drunken brawls between the miners. About four yoars ago . miner t to Warrior, and, filling up with Ky, proceeded to “cuss’ out the oing to a private house he cursed and abused the ladies of the family torri bly, there being no men prosent. e was arrested and tried for the oftense before Justice Allen. One of the ladies was present a witness and on her evidence the man was sent to tho coal mines for two years. He served his sentence out and then entered the employ of the Coalburg Coal and Coke compiny as a miner. Time passed, and tb had become a quiet, orderly the lady, whose evidenee sont him to the mines, went to Coalburg to live. The two met by chance and failed to rocog- nize cach other, and no one one thought to mention to the lady that her new friend had served a term in the mines Their friendship ripened into love, and last week they come to the eity, procured a license, and the same justice who seut the groom to prison united the two in the holy bonds of wedlock. dJustice Allen has a good memory for faces and in- stantly recogn the couple, but he that they had never guessed the identity of each other and he thought it best to keep the seeret. - Iy Killer’—Dutcher's Lightning, The most successful exterminator. Ev- ery sheet will kill a quart. Quiek work ndent ¢ ex-conviet tizon,when Porsistent use will keep ahead of repro. duction. Dutcher’s Dead Shot for bed bugs. SR, A Romance of Chinese Love. San Francisco Examiner: Some time ago a Chinaman named Lim Hop died and left his widow $600,0n condition that she go back to China and remain there. 1f she did not do so, the money was to o to the cousins of the deceased. The Wife did not appear to like China any too well, so she married Hop Moy. " The cousins then appeared before Judge Cof- fey and had the fair one summoned to show eause why sne did not give up the money when s rot m:\rri\'it Moy said she did not understand English, ana through an interpreter stated that her husband did not | $0600; that he died three months after they were married, and that the night he died she was alone with him, and she did not sec him sign any paper. S The two cousins, Foy Hop and Lang S ng, testitied that their cousin told them of his intentions in regard to his wife, and also that they saw him make a will the night he died. HEARTLESS CRUELTY. Few persons realize how thoroughly they are controllad by prejudice even to their own disadvantage. ~ For many years the tica d headach has been by some outward application, and therefore, without stop- ping to think that the origin of these trou- ples must, from necessity, be internal, the weary sufferer continues to _rub, rub and find no relief, Athlophoros is taken inter- nally, and as a proof that this is the correct principle, it cures surely and quickly. Tha statement of those who have been cured ought to convince the incredulous. Palmyra, Neb, August 3d, 1850, I believe I have been’ greatly benefitted by Athlophoros. Ikeep itin the house all time, and if I feel a twinge of 1heumatism I take a dose, [ have not had to take any for months, and hope I am permanently cured. I have not hesitated on recom- mending it largely and have helped others with it Rev E J Birn. Mrs Geo Hoffman, Cedar Falls, Towa, says: ‘‘My husband wascured of rheuma- tistn by the use of Athlophoros. Three bot- tles of that medicine cured him entirely so that he has not had an ache from rheuma- tism since, and that is now over a year ago. For twenty years previous there was never a time that ie was free from pain, Doctors nor medicine could drive the disease away. With the sciatic rheumatism in his right side the doctors said he world always have it and they did not think there was any curc, He was suffering very much from a severe attack when Athlophoros took hold of the disease at once, and by the time he had taken three bottles he was entirely well and went to work at once Every drugzst should keep Athlopho- ros and Athlophoros Pills, but where they cannot be bought of the druggist the Athlophoros Co., 113 Wall St., New York, will send either (carriage paid) on receipt of regular price, which is $1.00 per bottle for Athlophoros and 50c. for Pills. 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