Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 13, 1887, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE; MONDAY, JUNE 13 THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION ¢ oeniag Edition) Including For 8ix A " For Threo Months. ... The Omaba Swnday Hre, mailed to address, One Year. . ATIA OFFICE, NO, PV TORK OFFICE, ASHINGTON OFFIC any ND_ 010 FARNAM STREFY %, TRIN BUILOING, THBTREET. CORRESPONDENCE! All communioations relating to nows and edi- torial matter should bo addressed to the Eoi- TOI OF THE DE. BUSINESS LETTERS! All business letters and remittances should ba addressed to Tre BEx PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMANA. Drafts, checks and postofice orders %0 be made payable to the order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETCRS E. ROSEWATER, Entron. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation, State of Nebrask !’ . Coumir of Douglas. o Geo. B. ‘I'zschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing mm,wmy. does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of the Daily Bee for the week ending June 10, 1357, was as follows: Saturday, Jul Sunday. June Monday, June 0. "Tuesday, June 7. Wednesday, June Thursday, June Friday,Jund I Average. . GEO. 8. TzscnUCK. Subseribed and sworn to before me this 1ith day of June, 1857, N. P. FEIL, [SEAL.] Notary Publie. Geo. B. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of The Beo Publishing company, that the actual average daily circulation of the Dally Bee for the month™ of for June, 183, 12.% coples: for July, 1838, 314 copies; for August, 158, 12,464 copies; for Septem- ber, 185, 13,030 coples;: for October, 145, 12,9490 coples; for November, 1886, ' 13,343 coples; for December, 1850, 37 copies: for Jnnunr‘V. 1857, 16,206 coples; for Iebruary. ,108 coples; for March. 1887, 14,400 egg)lm: for April, 1887, 14,316 copies; for May, 1887, 14,227 copies, ko0, B. TZsCHUCK, Bubscribed and sworn to before me this th day of Junte A. D., 1857, ISEAL| N. P. FriL, Notary Public. 00 mnnyrvlzrn’nru Vorr 7loa?cris7§x;l::t the postofice building. Our metropoli- tan police should require them to “move on,” Tne fact that a colored cadet has car- ried off high honors as second on the list of this year's graduating class at the West Point military academy is posi- tively shocking to the nerves of Amer- ican chivalr, RAIN or shine there will be another picnic next Tuesday might at Hascal's park—better known as the council cham- ber. The municipal orchestra of which Councilman Hascal is leader will play lively airs for the entertainment of the audience. Admission free. MAYOR BROATCH is to be commended for calling special attention of tho board of public works to the wretched condition of our sidewalks and the necessity of en- forcing the ordinance which requires sidewalks adjacent to paved streets to be of substantial material, either brick, stone or concrete. Two Americans—Henry P. Clifford, of New York, and J. A. Verges, ot San Francisco—have within a short time se- cured from the governwment of Mexico the largest land grants ever made in that republic. It covers an area 358 miles long by 136 miles wide, and the consider- tion is the thorough survey of the coun- try and the development of the known munes it contains within two years. The parties to the grant will enter upon the required work, which will involve a vast outlay, at once. e A NEW expedient for getting around the prohibitory law has been developed in Maine. The national government pro- tects from prosecution under any state prohibitory law persons importing liquors from foreign countries and selling them in the original unbroken packages. A liquor dealer at Augusta went to Liverpool in March last and recently returned with a full stock of liguors. Having passed them through the custom house he had them conspicuously con- veyed to his place of business, where they are now temporarily displayed, to the dismay of the prohibitionists and the admiration of their opponents, The snrewd dealer is not charging a fancy price for his goods, and is of course hav- ing a thriving business, proudly con- sciour of his security under the wgis of the national statute. The case is inter- esting ns o wholly new departure that may be widely adopted. Ir is stated from Washington that the supreme court came to a final conclusion upon the telephone case before its ad- journment, and that a majority of the court will concur in the opinion that the essential claim upon which the Bell vat- ent is founded is invalid. This is the fifth claim in Bell's specification, cover- Ing the transmission of sound by an un- dulating current of electricity. The po- sition of the court issaid to be that the principle which this undertakes to cover is really a principle of nawure and not subject to a patent. A great deal of ef- fort has been made to ascertain the deci- sion reached by the court, if one was reached, and it may be the above is purely conjecture. If it should prove to be fact, however, it would be hailed as one of the most important and popularly valuable decisions ever emanating from the supreme court. THE controversy regarding the claim of a Kentucky astronomer to have dis- covered the star of Bethlehem s still on. Professor Proctor, the English astrono- wer, whose present home is St. Louis, and who s rather fond of keeping him- #elf before the public through the news- papers, ridiculed the claim of the Ken- tuckian. But the latter was not to be put down in this way, and he comes back at Proctor in a way that shows he knows the use of a pen as well as a telescope. Ho insists that the star he discovered is the same that guided the wise men of the east to the manger, aud he boldly aflirme his belief that the English astronomer is an old fogy, who might get a good deal more light and wisdom than he now possesses if he would apply more modern raethods to his science—among them the Kentucky professor’s apphiances of a smoked glass and a wurror. The 1ssue oan bode only a passing 1nterest for the uninitiated, but it would be rather grati- fying if the somewhat pretentious Proc- Jor got the worst of it. The Pacific Rallroad Land Grants, According to the statement just pube lished by the general land office regard- ing the lands granted, selected and pat- ented by the Pacific railroads these corpo- rations still have many millions of acres to their credit. Thus, of the more than cleven million acres granted to the Union Pacifie, that company has still in excess of eight mililons to be selected. Of its selectlon thus far of a fraction over three million acres it has patented 2,616, 178 acres. The Kansas Pacific grant was 6,000,000 ncres, and of this there are over four million acres remaining to be sc- lected. This road has only patented about half the amount 1t has thus far se- lected. The other roads have selected and patented about all the available lands 1n their grants. The significance of these figures will not be apparent to everybody, but it can readily be made so by the simple statement that the failure of the corporations to take up and patent the lands granted them, has not only re- tarded the settlement of vast areas ot which they are a part, but during all these years the corporations have es- caped the taxation they would have been subjected to had the intent of the grants been complied with. It was never de- signed that these roads should have their own time in which to select and patent lands, and the collusion or whatever clse that has permitted them for fifteen years to have their own way in this mat- ter, making their selections and patent- ing them in whole or in part as their con- venience suggested, has been wholly at variance with and 1n violation of the spirit and purpose of the acts making the grants. I'here is & great deal of history con- nected with this business, which, if brought into a small compass, would be exceedingly interesting. 1t would show the way in which these corporations unquestionably by the most unserupulous means, have denominated and manipu- lated both congress and the national land oflice. Not only were millions of acres which rightfully had reverted to the public domain within five years after the Pacific ronds had been completed* held in reserve for these land grant mo- nopolies, but some of the roads, notably the Burlington, was allowed to select and appropriate immense tracts to which they were not entitled by their charters. There is gratifying promise, however, that the end of the land grabbing era1s at hand. The purpose shown to bring all these land-grant corporations to book and compel them toreceive what belongs to them, so that all the rest may be re- leased to the people, will undoubtedly be carried out. It should be practicable be- fore the close of the present year for the government to add twenty or thirty mill- ion acres to the public domain. — The Indian Severalty Law. The law for allotting lands to the In- dians in severalty, passed near the close of the last congress, will come into force on the 1st of July next. The law was the outcome of eftorts running through two or three congresses, and its purpose is to place the Indians, except the five civilized tribes in the Indian territory, upon farms of reasonable size, securing those farms to them in fee simple in such a way that the owners will be unable to alienate them until after twenty-five years, the surplus lands to be opened to white set- tlers for the pecuniary benefit of the In- dians. Every Indian who takes a farm as provided for in this law is to- be made a citizen of the United States. There are now upon the reservations about 260,000 Indians, occupying 135,000,000 acres of land, very little of which they use for their benefit. To give every one of them a farm of 160 acres would take only 51,600,000 acres of land, leaving 83,400,000 acres to furnish homes for more than half a million of white settlers. ‘I'he operation of the law will break up all the tribal relations of the Indians, thus destroying the anomalous condition of affairs which has compelled the gov- ernment to deal by treaty with its own subjects as with a foreign nation; it will also provide for the support of the In dians until they are self-supporting with- out expense to the goyernment, 'the means for this purpose coming from the sale of surplus lands, and it will make the Indians amenable to the laws of the country like every other inbabitant. The application of the law must be preceded by a presidential proclamation, and it is under- stood to be the intention of the depart- ment to tirst put it in forco on the smaller reservations. The process will be to survey the land and to allot 160 acres to every individual Indian who applies for 1t. Two years must elapse before the govern- ment can enforce the law upon any who do not consent. It has been understood that the plan was approved by a majority of the Indians who will be affected by fit, but there has recently been developed a good deal of opposition that may become general, and result in seriously obstruct- ng the operation of the law, if 1t shall not practically nullify it. The bill was opposed while under consideration by the Kokos and the Wichitas, who sent representatives to Washington to protest against the measure, and since it became a law the opposition has been growing. The action of the Indian council in ses- sion last weck at Enfaula, I. T., which embraced representatives of eighteen tribes, shows very forcibly that there is a deep-seated hostility to the land-in- severalty plan, and that its enforcement will be accomplished with some trouble. The Indians are reported to be worked up to a piteh over this question that they have never before experienced. They have been led to regard the law as con- templating a grave injustice and an in- jury that will ultimately destroy them. In this feeling they have appealed to the president to delay action under the law. It is the opinion of the Indian commis- sioner that outside influences are re- sponsible for the opposition to the law, but it is not at all evident that this is so. At all'events the opposition is apparently very earnest, and unless the Indians can be clearly shown that their present atti- tude is & mistaken one the enforcement of the law is going to be & slow and troublesome proceeding. Emrre— A rFEw enterprising UOmaha land owners are orecting houses for rental, and they have no dificulty in finding tenants before the structures are ready to be occupied, Indeed, in some cases leases have been made before the founda- tions were laid. Tuere qught-to be more enterprise shown in this matter, how- ever, as the demand is very pressing and becoming every day more so. There is immediate and liberal profits for such investments, Money put into small houses in almost any locality within a reasonable distance from the business center will pay from 10to 15 per cent. above the cost of taxes and insurance. And while the land is thus niade a source of income 1ts growth in value is not in- terfered with. Of course those people who are simply speculating in real es- tate will not be influenced by this consid | eration. It is addressed to those who are putting money into property as an in- vestment. There isa demand now for at least five hundred small residences in Omaha, and perhaps double that num- ber would find occupants. —— REFERRING to the government statis- tics of emigration recently issued, the Philadelphia Record remarks that this willlo much to dispel the false notions 50 industriously propogated in regard to the new comers from Europe. “So far from consisting of the dregs of Ku- ropean populations, the very large pro- portion of them are strong and healthy workers, and belong to the same ele- ments that have done so much to promote the wealth and prosperity of this coun- try. Without this immigration the soil in more than one prosperous state of the far west would be unturned by the plow to this day.” There is a great deal of senseless opposition being manifested just now, by a certain class of newspa- pers, to immigration, partly due to ignor- ance of such facts as supply the text of our contemporary's comment, and in part to a false and pernicioussentiment of na- tionality, which is neither truly patriotic nox truly American. THe conspiracy bill passed by the [lh- nois legislature, and now in the hands of the governor,is & more extreme measure of the kind than exists among the stat- utes of any other state, or perhaps of any other country, except possibly Russia. If conspiracy can thrive under this law then its prevention may be regarded as impossible. But to so fine a point does the law go in defining what shall be re- garded in . word or act as constituting conspiraey, that the danger of its becom- ing an instrument of injury to innocent people is very great. It was framed in re- sponse to a public feeling which for some time vast has been contrclled by ex- aggerated fear, and it may well be ques- tioned whether 1t is the sort of legislation that can be commended in a free country. — THE local real estate market is not so active at present as it has been, but this is only in sympathy with the general lull in business to be expected at this season, and has no other significance, This it tion may be maintained for several weeks, perhaps through the summer months,but it cannot last long. There are the best of reasons for believing that next fall will be one of the most active periods in real estate transactions Omaha has ever known, and the more sagacious property holders regard the future with the utmost confidence. The present and next years are certain to exceed the best record of any previous similar period in the growth of Omaha's population and busicess. Wiri three juries administering jus - tice in our district court, as is the case nowadays, litigants who have despaired heretofore of bringing their issues to trial will have little tronble in that direc- tion hereafter, —— STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebrasks Jottings. Columbus has a Mexican war veteran, Creighton 1s a thorough prohibition town. The Weeping Water hog thieves have been jugged. Fremont’s boom is confined to the auction block. Valiey count{ is worth for tax pur- poses $1,117,321. Whisky rescued a Dunbar boy from ratticsnake death. The assessed valuation of Wayne county is $1,637,804. Fremont will vote on the question of street car franchise on the 18th. The grade of the Elkhorn Valley road is completed through Butler county. It is quietly rumored that Fremont is to have a packing house and stock yards. The ten cent cirous evil vies with the nichel plated fakir in doing up the coun- try. ‘The showers of last weck were worth millions. The earth opened and took ‘em in. The school board of Nebraska City expects to hump along the coming year on $20,000. Long Pine's ambition to become the railroad center of the world is laudable, considering the source. Prof. Wise, of Seward, goes to Pawnee City.1nstead of Fremont for an advance of $35 a year in wages. Dundy county is a two-year-old, yet the assessed valuation amounts to one- third of a mullion dollars, A large force of Nebraska Central railroad survevors are sketching Cuming county and rushing business, The Neligh Republican has been changed to the Autelope Tribune, with James Carey orator of the day. B. & M. surveyors are camping in the neighborhood of O'Neull, and the natives are floating in a sea of speculation, There are several full developed squals in the state, without any visible way of becoming acquainted with their fathers, The Albion line of the Elkhorn Valley road was completed to Oakdale last week. Regular trains will be put on this week. All _accounts agree that the orators at the Plattsmouth banguet decided the presidential contest of 1838, The country 13 safe. Hastings will indulge in another special election on the 18th, when the question of granting a street Jsilway franchise will be settled. Nebraska City boasts that 1ts Masonic hall is the tiest in the state. There is no danger of the town being attacked by an overdose of modesty. Jackson is the paradise of prize fighters. ‘The exhilerating climate compels every man, and some women, to throw up their dukes and defend themselves at sight of an opponent. Falls City will vote next Thursday on the question of issuing $24,000 in bonds to build a system of water works. The safety of the town depends on the suc- cess of the proposition. The bunko man,be of the brass wonkey and lemburivuwh. tackied an asylum of fools in York last weck and raked in $300 in one hour. The asylum for incur- ables should be moved from Hastings. Benkleman utters s Drolow.l protest nfnlnll the anarchaie ediet the B. & M. to section foremen, to burn old and useless ties, thus depriving homesteaa- ers of gonsiderable fuel. . The Rapid City Journal rasps our in- plated e. c.'s by declaring that Omaha pers issue a boom edition one day and low about it tiie remainder of the month, a feast for one day and a famine for thirty. Dundy county's Anti-Horse Thief as- sociation 18 growing rapidly, The an- nounce is made that at the last meeting “‘several members were taken in." The state auditor of lowa has received a modest request from a Nebraska offi- cial to .-unruL the census reports of the state for the name ‘“IFrank Neels." As the job required six months’ solid work, it was respectfully and «sorrowfully de- clined. The ancient dames and cheerless wid- ows of West Point are a queer lot. They announce their evenings “‘at home" by shooting leaden messengers through the plate fronts of unencumbered neighbors of the opposite sex, The response is generally prompt. An enterprising draymen is making a rofitable haul on Union Pacific revenue ¥ bucking steam with horse power be- tween Platte Center and Columbus. The ruilroad rate is 50 cents per hundred, by wagon 13 cents. The wagon has knocket out competition. The lightning temporarily abandoned church spires in this city Saturday to prove that blessings fall on the good and evil alike. French Em's was iired by batls of electric fluid, but the tire depart- ment turned on the hose before much damage was done. The boom at Holdrege scems to bave been engineered by the B. & M. townsito company, who possessed more vacant ground than it was convenient to carry. Superintendent Holdrege declares that the company has not and never thought of locating shops at that point. Newspaper wars are raging with un- abated lur,z in the country. Although the Pilot and Republican of Blair thirst for blood, both arrive at this oftice like un- separable twins, Their strife1s limited to the country, beyond that their tools are edged for the common enemy of freshmen. The report that a Fremont foung man fell down and broke his gall is without foundation. Generations may pile upon one another, and mountains tumble into valleys, but the carth has not yet yielded a substance sufliciently hard to bruise the prettiest. The thing is impossible. The Flail fabricates. Hastings declares she is *‘still on deck,’’ notwithstanding the envious proclama- tion that she was taken in by the Mis- souri Pacific. The report that the latter company would not build to the town originated at the headquarters of the Annanias whose lightning imagination constructed the main line of the Union Pacific and landed it with headquarters in Lincoln. The Lincoln Democrat .declares that the ‘Unknown,” a raw-boned, hungry individual who entered the foot race in this city for the sole purpose of loading his psunch at the expense of the patrons, is a resident of the metropolis, Itis due the legitimate sport to correct our occa- sionally truthful ‘contemporary. The “Unknown’’ proyed to be a member of the state railroad commission 1n disguise, who successfully made a long haul at Missouri river rates. The O'Neill Tribune has passed into the hands of the Killoran brothers. S.L, Bohan, after a brigf experience with pen and gluemug,concluded that it wasimpoe- sible to please every featherhead in town and gain the earth so he sold his inter- estto P. F. Killoran, brother of the junior editor. The latter, being an enfiineur by trade, is expected to screw down the valve to 120, keep her crown sheet warm and prevent her popping. It 18 apparent that Richardson countfv is determined to apbate the Gandy evil, better known as the 2 per cent conta- ion, raging in the southeast. A few ys ago the aunouncement was made in an afilicted community, ‘*We regret that the report that Dr. Gandy was lynched by a mob proves tobe incorrect.” The good doctor is a thorough disciple of the ancient shylock and exacts every penng ‘“‘nominated in the bond,” but his meth- ods of collection are such that a radical reform is necessary to avoid a funeral. Erasmus Carrell, ex-president of the State Press association, has launched the first steam yacht on the Littte Blue river. The boat is a stern-wheeler, as becomes the Eroleulon of her millionaire owner, bat her future success depends Inlfi?ly on securing o competent crew. This, however, 1s not an impossible task. Farmer Calnhoun, for instance, could be depended upon to steer the craft in dash- ing style, while Fairbrother could fur- nish the power to provel her from port to cognac President Henri Bushuell can heave the hawser like a veteran tar, aud MacMurphy can be relied upon to sp: bar a mile off and hug the lee side. With such a crew well in the hand the Correll could weather a succession of squalls and “cast her lines in pleasant places.” lowa Items. Clinton has its second artesian well. A 500,000 land deal was consummated at Ft. Madison a few days ago—the larg- est single real estate transaction cver re- corded in Lee county, An Osceola county editor attends so many lodges and evening meetings of various kinds that his wife always speaks of him as her late husband. The Santa Fe Railway company will erect a hospital two miles below Fort Madison. The buildings will cost proba- bly $60,000, and the institution will be the most perfect railroad hospital in the country. Near Iowa City four head of cattle were killed by lightning. ‘Lhe position in which they were found indicated that they had their heads between the wires of a fénce along which the electricity was traveling. Henry Rasmussen, of Ellington, Han- cock county, was struck by g‘ghmlng Weduesday and instantly killed. The same bolt killed a team which the man was driving. Rasmussen leaves a wife and two small children, A force of men employed in blasting in a Dubuque stone quarry hroke through into an immense cavern. The cave was found to be very, large with the roof covered with bemiulul spar, stalagmites and stalaclites. It has not yet been thoroughly explored, Dakota. The new artesian well at Huron has a prelasuru of 150 pounds to the square inch. Farmers in_the vicinity of Rapid City claim they will have sixty bushels of oats per acre. l 1t is estimated thut 8,500 Dakota farm- ers are members of the alliance. The number of societiqs Is 426, Prof. J.D. Btaey, of Antwerp, N. Y., has been engaged ‘@s principal of the Yankton public sehuols for thé coming {Em‘, to succeed Prof. A. F. Bartlett, who as accepted a prefessorship in Yankton college. Two children of a Norwegian named Bokin, at Manvel, made a fire on the floor Saturday with papers. The house burned down ‘and one chila was burned with it. The mother perished with the other child while trying to rescue it. Ed. T, Kearney, & young bavker of l’unoa‘, Neb., on \Vedmmhy married Miss Clara A. Miner, whose parents live near Yankton. The ceremony was per- formed by Rev. Sullivan, of Sheldon, making it quite an inter-state aflair. The mystery concerning the sudden death of Henry Hopkins, near Rapid City, on the avenlnanl Mn{ 28, seems to irrow decper with time, The coroner's ury returned a verdict thut death re- sulied *‘from a violent blow, causing dis- location ef the blow having been inflicted by a blunt fnstroment.in some manner to the jury unknowa.” CHEERING CORRESPONDENCE. Letters From Throughout the State Which 8how Progress and Prosperity. A BUILDING BOOM AT FAIRBURY, Crete's Brilllant Prospects For Fu- ture Greatness— Fattering Show- ing at High School Commence- ments—Booming Towns. A Building Boom at Fairbury. FAamsury, Neb, June 10.—[Corre- spondence of the Ber.]—A fine rain fell last night and this morning and the at- mosphere is delightful. We have had splendid weather so far this season and crops are in good eondition. The farmers seem happy, and well they may be with the prospects of good crops that are now vromised. Our boom continues and the city 18 lively. Business 18 good and every- body is making money, especially real estate owners. Many new homes are in course of erection, some of them of ex- coeptionally superior protensions. Mr. Whitaker's fine residence is ready for the plasterers, and Mr, Nelson’s foundation is completed and the frame raised. His will be one of the handsomest houses in town. Mr. Hanchett's large residence is nearing completion. Colonel Harbine's store building is moving along. It will be the handsomest business house 1n the city and a credit to him and _the fown, John Price’s store building will soon be read for the roof, the brick and stone work being nearly done. The Pacific house is being newly furn- isned and refitted throufihuut. everything fresh and new. An addition was built to the building, and now with its new pro- prietor, Mr. Parker, in charge, the travel- ing public may be assured of first class acccmmodations and courteous treat- ment. The house takes the name of the ]vrovrinlur, and will be known as the Parker house. An addition is being built to the Com- mercial house, which 18 much nceded, as the house has been cramped for room. What Fairbury needs and must have before long, is “a hotel costing about $25,000, run in first class style. We are a ity ot too much importance not to have better hotel facilities. Such as we have are very good, but not such as a city like Fairbury should have. There is a ho- nanza in this for some man of capital, The assessment shows that the value of personal property in this city 18 $114,- 319 und real estate $175,479, ttotal $28 898, an increase over last year of $45,468. A large number of the buildings being put are not included because they were commenced after the 1st of April. The values are about one-fifth of the actual cash values, railroads and telegraphs not included. The Fairbury & Strombur%ebrnnch of the Kansas City & Omaha is being push- ed vigorously. They are pilingup acres of tics and iron and material for this round house und shops. Our other railroad schemes lgrndmxlly developing and soon things will begin to hum. We already are breaking the record in the boom business and will before long astonish the native: Crete's Bril t Prospects. CRETE, Neb,, June 11.--[Correspond- ence of the BEE.]—Crete is having a re- markably good boom. The people are all feeling it, and the air is full of it. The B. & M. railroad company has just com- pleted the purchase of the right of way between Crete and Milford, and teams will be at work upon the route by Mon- day next, so that the line from Central City, Grand Island, Columbus and Bro- ken Bow will be direct from this place. It is rumored that they will make thisa division station for freight purposes; that a large roundhouse will be built, and that various improvements will be made. It is further rumored that large purchases of property are about being made. For what purpose no one knows, other than can be surmised from the fact that Crete has natural ndvnnlsges which no other town poesesses for the building of shops, and the carrying on of manufactures of almost any kind. The rain of the past few days has made the farmers all smile. Crops of all kinds are looking remarkably good, and everybody feols jubilant. The grand event, however, of the whole summer will be the Ncbraska Chautauqua usemhl&. Everybody is getting ready for it. New buildings "are going uP, particularly those of denomi- national headquarters, which shows a permanency which the assembly has never yet shown. The . & M., in its new line of the north. ust touches the northwest corner of the assembly grounds, and has agreed to put up & nice little dopot on the same for the benefit of the assembly. This shows its estimate of the assembly to be held in this place. At this time there have been more tents taken than were taken altogether last year, and the indi- cations are that we will have twice the Kcoplo that we had then. The managers ave this to say, that they will take guod care of everyone who comes, give them tho _attention possible, and en- deavor that everyonme shall go away pleased. The dining hall particularly will _be an attractive feature this year, and Mr. Reed, who will run the same, deciares that he will satisfy every one even if he loses money. That will be his aim, It is not money that the veople of Crete are going to try to make out of the assembly this year, but to give satisfac- tion to the people who come. The cot- tages of Mr. Welsh and Mr. Calvert have a very fine appearance, and make the grounds look homelike and attractive. ‘Weat Point High School. West Point, Neb., June 10.—[Cor- respondency of the BEE.]--Yesterday evening was a notable event in the his- tory of the West Point high schools. The first commencement exercises were beld in the opera bouse. West Point has prided herself in her excellent schools but has not sent out any graduates till now. Yesterday evening, therefore, marked an important event in ber his- tory, having for the first time given cer- tificates of graduation to three brilliant young ladies. The following is the programme: Musie~*Spring Flowers. Invocation—Rev. J. C. Jacobs, English Lutheran Church. Music—Vocal Duet Oration — *‘Calamli ‘Touchstone” AVM pastor Man’s True Miss Ella J. Bruner “fho Force of an iden’. 88 Antoinette Zajicek Oratlon—"Methinks it Is good to be here. 11 Thou wilit, let us build—but for whom?”. Miss KEmma R. Miller Conferril At this point Judge W. F. Bryant ad- addressed the graduates in a grand address. . The exercises of this first commence- ment at West Point, was a credit to Prof. Dusenberay, who has so faithfully cared for them during the last year of their eourse of study. Commencement at Stromsburg. STROMSBURG, Neb., June 10.—[Corre- spoundence of thedigk. |--T'be first com- meucement of the Stromsburg hgh school was held in the Baptist .church !lul evening. There were nine gradu- ates, four young ladies and five young gentlemen, The class was greeted by & full house and nota single break oc- curred to mar the exercises of the even- ing. This was the first graduating class for Polk county, and it is safe to say that no high school in Nebraska sends out a class whose talents indicate a brighter future. Our people are enthusiastic over the high standing of our pub hools, and last evening's oxercises we strong encouragement to their support. Grafton's Growth, Grarron, Neb, June 10. — [Corre- spondence of the BEE.]—Situated in as fine a farming region as there is on earth, Grafton is the chief grain-shipping point in Fillmore county, and is destined to be one of the best cities on the B. & M. between Lincoln and Hastings. It has a population of 1,000, and if the in- crease continues as it has in the past year. Grafton will have a citizenship of 2,000 within a short time. The boom is comiog. Grafton has not yet built up with the countrysurrounding. Property has been held cheap, but it is now rap- ialy advancing. With the prospects of two more roads and a bulding boom, Grafton will outstrip her sister towns. Several fine resi- dences are going up. Joseph Price, Grafton's capitalist, is erecting a large brick block in which will be located the Bank of Gratton. R. C. Price owns the Grafton Leader, and is ably assisted by Mr. T. M. Fisher. Grafton is on the verge of a boom, as well she may be, as she has nearly twonty-five miles of rich farming country in nearly every direction tribu- tary, that will support’a city of 2,000 in- habitants, ‘The Impetus at Holdrege. HovrprepGE, Neb., June 11.—[Corres pondence of the I —The Holdrege boom is not waning in the least, all owing to the fact that the B. & M. ma- chine shops are to be located at our thriv- ing little city. The giound has been purchased by the company and the plans for the shops drawn and are here. For the past two weeks corner lots and addi- tions to Holdrege have been all the talk, and our real estate men have been kept on the go, showing uv lots and making the transfers. Additions to the town nave been laid out, sold and other additions Flam‘d, such has been the de- mand. The Lincoln Land company, after advancing the price of its lots at different times, at last took all the re- mainder out of the market, knowing that the time for high prices in lots had not actually come. A system of water works is being itated, and with the machine hops an assured fact, water works is simply a question of the timo it will requiro to put them in. Holdrege is as certain to become a city of 10,000 people 1nside of five years as she is now acity of 3,000 at the age of three and one-half years. A. Dravo, Jas. A. McKillip and E. D. Einsel aro together erecting a large two-story brick business block 75x100 feet. Work has already been commenced on this. Other parties are having the plans drawn for a brick block 100x120 feet. ‘I'he boom has simply given a fresh impotus to building, which Is going on in all parts of the city, Columbus Happenings. CoLumsus, Neb.,, Juno 8.—[Corre- spondence of the BEE.]—The drought is broken all over Platte county. A continuous rainfall of three inches all night has brought gladness to all our farmers and hope to business interests. Again to-night copious rains will put new energies in all branches of com- mercial life. Our sckool board has re-elected Prof. L. G. Cramer superintendent and princi- pal of our city schools for the eleventh term; also all of last year’s teachers, not onge adverse vote being recorded. Eleven graduates were sent forth from our thh school, developing high mental discipline. Prof. Cramer is a model in- structor and enthusiastic educator. Col- umbus is very fortunate in having an educational board (non-partisan) that se- lects its instructors with direct reference to their qualitications and fitness. The board of supervisors raised the sa- loon license to $1,000, with a determina- tion to enforce the Slocumb law and puta stop to the rcrpated violations of its pro- visions by selling to minors and on Sun- day. Blaine County’a Fatr. BREWSTER,Neb., June8.—[Correspond- ence of the BEE.—]—Thc Blaine county agricultural association met at Brewster hall yesterday, the object being to elect the necessary officers and select the place for holding the fair. The largest crowd ever assembled in Blaine county turned out, and after avery enthusiastic meeting the fair was located at Brewster for three years. This, in connection with a cer- tainty of two railroads, coupled on to our already booming town, will make Brewster the most business Amlnt of any inland town in Nebraska. brass band is to be orgamzed immediately, and all are mlnilutmfl) deop interest in the movement. J. D. Brown, of Purdum postoflice, was elected president; R. O. unning, of Dunning, vice-president; T. C. Jackson, of Purdum, treasuer, and George W. Brewster, secretary. The directors consist of fifteen of Blaine county’s most able representatives, and the annual membership numbers over fifty, Three cheers for Blaine county. Fullerton's Mysterious Crime. FuLLERTON, Neb., June 8.—[Corre- spondence of the Bee.]—Rev. Dr, Tan- ner, of Owatonna. Minu,, visited Fuller- ton this week, and, accompanied by S. H. Penney, who was foreman of the cor- oner’s jury, visited the place where his daughter, Mrs. H. Percival, her husbana, chuld, Mair and G. Baird were so mysteriously murdered three Jears ago. From a conversation with Dr. Tanner the BEE correspondent learned that no posi- tive clue to Furnival, the assassin, had ever been obtained. Numerous clues nave been run down, ll\vnfiu resulting disappointment. Mr. Grebe, of Omaha, at one time traced & man sup- posed to be Furniyal nearly 1,000 u\lfl through an uninhabited country. ¢, Grebe has been active in the search ever since the crime. Mr. Tanner has devoted a great amount of time and money to the search, and still entertains hopes of eventually running down the murderer. The Pegcival cstute has been settled up by 8. 1. Penney, the adminis- trator, and in view of the fact that it was impossible to determine whether Mrs, Percival or Harry Porcival was murdered first, Rev. Tanner waived ail claim and caused the remittance to be sent to Spencer Percival, of Engtand, A magnificent rain fell last night, and fears of a draught are thus ended, Aér:md celebration occurs here July 4, An Indian band, the Genoa Indian school, G, A. R. posts, and numerous bands, taking part.” Some $1,600 will be expended. Arrangements are being made to accommodate 10,000 people. Valparaiso News. y VALPARA! Neb., June 9.—{Corre- spondence to the BEE.]—Refreshing showers have brightened things up and crops are looking well. Business keeps up well for the time of the year when farmers are 8o busy. The railroad company is unloading’a large amount of coal here for fall and winter use. There is plenty of work for laboring men, and the demand is good for carpenters yet, a8 building is going on lively. Liast night a span of horses belonging to a couple of men who are peddling plows and cultivators got on the railroai track a mile sonth of town and wero rut over and killed by a train from the south Foot racing is all the go now. ‘I'ramps are thick but meet with a cool reception generally, N —— QUEER HOTEL HAULS, Things Which Going Guests Leave Be- hind Them in Hostelries, Pittsburg Dispateh: “Heah am a set ob false teef fom a hund'ed an' fo'teen,” remarked a bell boy in one of the city ho- tels as he deposited a small parcel on the clerk’s desk “One hundred fourteen,” said the clerk, ‘‘that's the old gentleman who was called at 5 o'clock to make a train, He'll be sending for them In a day or two."" And the clerk dropped the masti- eators on his dosk. you gather in many such treas- asked a reporter. , yes. People are always forgotting hing—night shirts, watches, ri ol‘E vers, suits of clothes, toilet brushes—al- most everything. The articles are at once brought to the oflice, and a card is put on, showing the number and occu- lmm of the room. 1f the loser is a regu- ar visitor, he gets the article when he comes around again. If not, the article is keptin the office about a month, and then, if not claimed, is put away ina store room and kept. Almost always, if the article is 1f any value, we got a'tele: gram from the owner, directing us what to do with it; but it frequently happens that they forget where it is left, and never know unless they come back and are told about it. ‘'L received a telegram from & man one lh?’ saying: ‘Left §10 in my room. Save till f come.’ I'coulda't find any £10, but he had left a suit of clothes in the room, ‘These I kept until he showed up, about a month afterward. He had found the $10 supposed to have been lost, but had en- tirely forgotten where the suit of clothes had been left.” Corkscrews and pocket flasks are fre- quently left behind and rarely called for; and a conscientious clerk in one of the most prominent hostelries still preserves a little silver-clasped Bible and an empty half-pint flask with a silver top, which were left on the dresser in one of the rooms occupied by a clerical looking man with a Prince Albert coat and a white tie, Clerk Al Kane, of the Central hotel tells of an amusing experience he had some time ago. A long-haired German came out of the reading room shortly before 5 o'clock, and said that he was going to leave at 6 o'clock, and they were to have him called 1f he didn't’ come down. About 5:50 the man rushed up to the desk and said: O! has anypody leaf a P‘fi red pocketbook mit you?'’ ‘No, I think not," said the clerk. “Mein Gott!” was all the gentleman aid, as he ran both hands up through his ong hair. Then he darted into the read- ng room. In a fow seconds he came back aughing and clasping the big red pocketbook in his hands. ‘It whas righd der blace in where 1 left id pefore, und I vhasn't got another cent,” he said, as he opened 1t and counted out $185. The pocketbook had lain an hour on the big writing-table, in plain view from the street or corridors, and 1t was really a lucky thing for the gentleman that he had found it. Pocketbooks, watches and revolvers are among the many frequent finds, owing to the custom so many people have of put- ting these articles under their pillows, Hotel men say that traveling men (drum- mers, ete.) rarely leave anything behind. It is only those not used to travel, as & rule, that forget their belongings. b2 ot Stories About Money. Lee Masters, of Hume, Mo., wae spad- inF up his mother’s garden the other day when the spade turned up an old tin can which wus found to contain $80 in green- backs, The notes were soiled and faded, but still serviceable, When Lee told his mother of the discovery the old lady re- membered that she had buried the money for safety a long time ago, and then for- ronen all about it. he money came n very handy for meeting the intarest on a note which tell due the day after the find was made. A farmer of Posey county, Ind., who could not be induced to vut his trust in banks, paid taxes for many years on $9,000 in cash, which he declared he had buried for safe koeping on his farm. He died a short time ago without disclosing the hiding place of the treasure, and his administrator has been unable to solve the problem. He is being assisted, though, by nearly the entire population of the county, to judge from the number of persons who prowl about the premises at mz‘m. armed with lanterns and spades. ‘While he was K’Iou&hmg for last sea- son's corn crop Mr. W. . Young, of Old Town, 11, lost two certificates of de- posit for $100 each and a $20 bill. They were wrapped in a piece of tissue paper, and although he hunted for the wad for the rest of the day he was unableto find it. Last week, while he was cho}\p{ng up some corn stalks for fodder he foun the money hidden in the roots of one of the stalks, The paper covering of the valuable little bundle had rotted away, but the contents were entirely uninjured. Sam Crofter, a Georgia cracker, and his family recently took possession of an abandoned eabin which had stood for years without a tenant at the foot of a ill in Chambers county, Ga. While they were putting the place in order they found a number of old coins in the chinks and crannies of the walls, and while fix- ing up the well thoy unearthed from be- neath a crossbeam an iron pot filled to the brim with silver and fold. The amount of the coin was about $1,000 and none of the pieces was dated Iater than 1885. Several earrings and finger rings of gold were also found in the interstices of the well. Judge Wellborn, of Gainesville, Ga. has an old Spanish coin that was found in the Coosa gold mine, five miles south- east of Blairsville, at a depth of twenty feet below the surface. It is of copper, somewhat larger than an old-fashioned cent piece, and 1s very much worn from attrition. Enough is left of the inscrip- tion, however, to show that it is a coin of the early part of the sixteenth century, and it is supposed to have been brought ty America by De Soto’s followers. This is considered” a strong link in the testi- mony going to show that De Soto and his band of adventurers passed through the northern partof Georgia and worked the mines there for gold, Al!h(nlf!l it is said that only four silver dollars of the coinage of 1504 were issued by the government they scem to bhe plen- tiful enough. John A. Pearson, of In- dianapolis, hag one for which Raymond, the actor, offered him $800 not long be- fore his death. Another 18 owned by three citizens of Jerseyville, 111, who gaveatraveling man $100 for it a fow days ago, and were afterwards offered $500 for it in St. Louis. Still another is in the possession of a San Francisco man, and there are said to be one or two in New York. It is interesting in counection with this to note that a coun'crieiter re- cently arrested in Pittsburg was found to have several silver dollars of the 1506 issue the figure in which had been changed to 4. Porss i ‘Tno **Life of the flesh 1s the blood there of," pure blood meuns healthy functional activity, and this bears with it the cor- tainty of quick restoration from wsickness or aceident. Dr, J. H. DMcLean's Strengthening Cordial and Blood Puri- fier gives pure rich blood, and vitalizes and stre ngthens nu:*w le body. ‘The venerable couplet that “A dry May and a leaky June make the farmers whistle a merry tune,” was fully veriticd last week. The country was thoroughly souzed xllml the beart of the husbandman