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

g The New Silver Market. The project of the new Western Na- tional Bank of New York, of which ex- Secretary Manning is prosident, of creat- ing & silver market in this country, has THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERME OF SUBSCRIPTION ! b%ny (Morniag Editiou) including Sunda, Yo, Ono ¢10 o | taken form and may now be regarded as or Bix Months. ... .. 600 | an assured fact of the near future. The zg:";‘,"’n":hf”""" ailed ta' wsy 2% | one requirement necossary to carry out address, One . 200 | the project, the admission of silver bullion certificates to the stock exchange, has been secured, the governors of the ex- change having last woek decided to list the certilicates for dealing. The other preliminary conditions may be expected to be speedily settled, when New York will become a silver market, which, it is believed, will in time at least rival Lon. don, and possibly may even deprive the English metropolis of its position as the silver market of the world. The plan is entirely simple and the business will be as logitimate as are D 918 FARNAM STRRFY. WINUNE BUILD W YORK OFFICE, KOO FOURTEEN Tl STR ASHINGTON OFFICE, aun orrier, No. 01 CORRRSPONDENCE! All cemmunications relating to news andedi- torial matter should be adiressed o the Eot TOk OF THE Bre. BUSINESS LETTRRS? All businoss letters and romittances should he addressed to Tre BER PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAHA. Drafts, ohecks and postofice orders 1o be made payable to the order of the company, THE BEE POBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, EntTon. the dealings in other articles THE DAILY BEE, of commerce, 88 grain, provisions Sworn Statement of Uiroulation, and petrolenm, On silver bullion deposited with the Mercantile Safe De- posit company the Western National bank will issue certificates, each certifi- cate entitling the holder to receive 1,000 ounces of silver, 1,000 fine, deliverable upon the surrender of the certificate properly indorsed. A storage chargeisto be made of 1 cent per day per 1,000 ounces. These certificates will be dealt in on the stock exchange, just as petro- leum and other certificates now are. In presenting their application to the ex- change, the projectors explained that “the primary advantage is to cnable dealings and to afford a safe and easy way of handling silver bullion, but the principal object is to facilitate commer. cial transactions that are based upon its Btate of Nebraski }. . (70\1]"*{01 Douzlas. 4 .. Geo. B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of the Daily Bee for the week ending June 10, 1857, was as follows: Baturday. June 4 Sunday, June 5. Monday, June 6. z‘;neull)’. June 7 ednesday, .lum-" +0 14,000 L. 14,080 14,000 Thursday,” J Friday,June 10, Average....... GEO. 13, Subscribed and sworn to before me this 11th day of June, 1857, N, P. FE1r, [SEALL] Notary Pubile. Geo. B. Tzschuck, belng first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of The Beo Publishing company, that tho actual averago daily clfcuiation of the Dally Bee for | price.” It was argued that inasmuch_as the ll.mn'lll of ) for NJ‘uue. ‘11'!‘ 6, 12.208 | a large percentage of our foreign trade SoF Rt 1698 {:2_4,!,‘ copies: for Septem: | 18 transacted with countries using ex- ?;r;mlw.‘\f\u!w coples; for Octob . | clusively s silver currency, and W08 coples: for November, 13 3 | i3 nccessarily settled on the basis (it ',"',Bf;f";!-’,}?},‘,\' s el,,:fi;,.mi.:.';,“n;‘:{ of the value of silver bullion, it is 1857, 14,195 coples; for March. 1557, 14,400 | a matter of great importance to have the coples: for April, 1857, 14,31 copies; for May, | price settled quickly and conveniently. 1557, 14,227 coples, GEo, B. Tzscuek, Subseribed and nw&glh to before me this 4th It is an affair of very material interest to importers from and exporters to such “‘I’S‘E'A"I‘:‘;“ A %{) P. Friv, Notary Public. | countries. The importor who has to pay in silver must purchase the bullion against his purchase of merchandise, and the exporter must sell the bullion he is to receive upon the sale of his mer- chandise. If the price of the silver bul- lion is not fixed at the time their trans- actions are made, they necessarily have to speculate oo its value, for it is ever changing. Hence the need of a market where the value of silver bullion shall be established from day to day, and where the quantity in sight will be large enough to form the basis of the settlement of balances. In a wider view it was urged that the policy of making a fair price for silver bullion is of the utmost 1mportance to the whole business intcrests ot the country. It forms so large a por- tion of the circulating me- dium of the world that the fluctua- tions 1n value affect the price of many of the products of this country instantly. If, say the projectors, ‘'silver is unnatur- ally depressed in value, we should know it, but we have no means ot knowing it now as a people, because the price is fixed in London, and we have little op- portunity of expressing our opinion aboutit.” The plan to be inaugurated by the new bank, it is confidently be- lisved, will effectually remove not only the disadvantage to which our importers and exporters are now subjected by hav- ing the value of the silver dotermined in a foreign market, but eventually transfor the market from London to New York. The concensus of Intelligent financial opinion is favorable to the project, which besides accomplishing all that is claimed for it by its projectors {n & commercial THERE are “‘no planks loose™ in the court house sidewalk yet, and Mike Lahey still continues as ex-officio county commissioner. EE————— A CORNER in gold-headed canes is im- pending, owing to the numerous calls for our patent Fourth of July orator who carries the Third ward in his tile. Now that Omaha has had her spring cleaning by the weather clerk, the street commissioner should complete the job by having the gutters and alleys cleared of rubbish and rofuse. . R — CoLORADO, which formerly depended mainly upon California and Utah for her supply of barley in excess of her own limited product, mow draws almost wholly upon Nebraska tor this grain. THE anxicty which always has been manifested by certain patriots to man- age the public schools of Omaha without a dollar of pay, very naturally arouses a euspicion that therc was some meat in that larder. Tar Mormons have been more than fitteen years building their temple at Balt Lake City. At the rate of progress which the contractor of the city hall basement nas been making, Omaha will consume twenty-hve years in construct- ing her city ball. TaE speoulation in coffee, which forced the price of lower grades up to extraor- dinary high figures, advancing Rio and Sautos just 200 per cent within a year, lieved will also has boon broken, and the market has | W20 158 s e teud to improve silver min- me to pieces in & psnic, The market | ;= g proporty. @b’ 'the: *bonanzs as been depressed since the middle of last woek, and efforts to rally it were ounly temporarily successful, Yesterday the decline was 120 points from the clos- ing figures of Saturday, with a very panicy feeling provailing. It was inevit- able that this disastrous downward plunge should result in numerous failures, . While it will necessarly for a time leave the market in a state of demoralization. Just what circumstances had conduced to this collapse does not appear, bat it is likely that the chief manipulators of the corner found after their squeeze of a couple of weeks ago that there was no more juicein the lemon and sodropped it. The spoculation has been one of the most remarkable in the history of such enter- prises. * A NEW campaign is being inaugurated by the friends of the movement in Dakota for the division of the territory and the admission of the southern part as a state. 1n order to set on foot a thorough can- vass for working up the sentiment in favor of division and admission before the next eleation, & conveation has been oalled to meet at Huron on the 18th of July, while the friends of the movement In the northern part of the territory huve been appealed to take similar action, The determination s to urge this de- mand upon the next congress with in- creased vigor, and if it should develop that the majority of the people of North Dakota are favorable to a division, it is thought that this will remove all difli- culty. There is, however, some doubt regarding this, the general sentiment there hitherto having opposed division, and been inclined to favor the admission of the entire territory as one state. In any event, the next congress ought to dispose of the question miners it is thought this plan of giving a market tor their silver by issuing certifi- cates upon deposits of bullion ought to be more satisfactory than the method of the government. 1t would give them a pear market in which their product would sell for exactly what it should be worth, and which would in all probability take a considerably larger amount than is now disposed of to the government for coinage. With regard, however, to the transfer of the world’s silver murket from London to New York, the pro- fess«d expectation of the projectors of this plan does mot find very great en- couragement. However desirable such a result might be, thére are seen to be very large difficulties in tho way that will not be readily overcome, if they can ever be. London is the world's silver market tor the reason that Indis, China and other countries that absorb most of the silver, bave much closer business rela- tions with that metropolis than with New York. There must be s radioal change in the course and relations of the world's trade before London can be driven from her position as the controlling silver market. E———— Business Methods in the Board of Public Works, Ever since the board of public works was organized five years ago, there has been a lack of system and publicity in its methods of transacting business, The first chairman, Mr. James Creighton, was a vigilant, active and efficient super- visor. His aggressiveness and self-asser- tion crowded the other members of the board to the wall, and to all intents and purposes he became the board of public works. The other two members of the board took part occasionallyin its meet- ings, but really became mere figure- heads. While Mr. Creighton aischarged his duties creditably, there was a lack of publicity in the transac- tions of the board, which to say the least often created a great deal of dissatisfac- tion among the people who had business to transact with the board. Con Gallagher, its secretary, wasa clerk in the freight department of the Union Pacific. The records of the office were inaccessible because the oftice was only open semi-occasionally. Under Mr. House this loose system went from bad to worse. Mr. House was chairman and secretary of the board at the same time, and the board met at odd hours to simply give formal approval to whatever Mr. House bad seen fit to do. Whenevor Mr. House was absent, the office of the board was closed and the books and records were ont of the reach of members of the council or any parties interested in our public works. The two associates of the chairman had degencrated into mere ciphers, The press never has bcen in position to keep the citizens of Omaha informed about the action of the board . EEpeesssem—— It scems that the ship builders of the country are not exhibiting the interest and anxiety they were expected toin connection with the construction of the new cruisers, The bids are to be opened on the 1st of August, if there should be any, but from the fact that upto last Saturday only a single inquiry for in- formation had been received it is begin- ning to be feared at the navy department that at best the number of bids will be small. The explanationls in the faot that since congress authorized these cruisers and fixed the maximum cost, there has boen a considerable advance 1n the price of material, so that ship build- ers cannot see their way out, to say noth- ing of profit, at the figures to which the cost of these vessels has been limited. Moreover, there is & limited supply of steel, and this added demand would fur- ther advance the price. Then there are the risks always attending this class of government work, which aro a little greater now than ever before. Surelyno other government was ever 60 embarrass- ed quite as much us ours in the attempt to build up a wavy. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY. JUNE 14, 1887, on any question except as it fbocame known through meetings of the city council, The new board of public works should, by all means, inaugurate a radical change of methods in transacting its mont, and other minof jobbing ocen- ters, While Omaha, by reason of the volume of her traflic and command- ing position as ofie of the great trade centers west of the Mississippl, enjoys advantages which smaller cities west of forced an opéning about two the eccentric spouter. profession 1n Ravid City. ors confine their talents to suthin’ blocks north of the mouth of the well, and thero are grave apprehensions of trouble from Mixocoly is the name given to a new The profess- EyTups. business. the Missouri do not possess, her | A colony of about 200 people from the 1. A competent and trustworthy man | merchante, jobbers and heavy ship- [ borders of the sea of Azov, in southern should be elected secretary, He snould | pers have been most shame. | Russia, are locating in the castern part be required to keep the office | fully treated by the railroad magnates. "'Tl;“l“"“"‘l m:p!y. 1 the aff ? the di - p (0 y he investigation of the affairs of th open during business hours and afford | The state commission may be powerless Yankton insane asylum will be carried access to city officers and citizens di- rectly interested in public works to the records of the board and the plans and papers in its custody. . 2. The meetings of the board should be held at stated times, and calls tor special meetings should be published to enable re- porters and interested citizens to be pres- ent. 8. As the exccutive head of the board, the chairman has a right to excrcise his personal discretion in the supervision of public works, but no appomtment of in- spectors or award of contracts should be made. nor should any works be endorsed or accepted, without the concurrence of a :nn]ori(y of the board at a regular meet- ng. 4. The vote of each member of the board on any proposition, appointment or letting should be recorded and the record of such vote should be subject to public inspection. to redress their gricvances, but they must realize by this time that the hue and ery about the favoritism shown by the rail- roads to Omaba is founded on a miscon- ception of the true state of facts. It has been found by experienco that one city inspector of meats, milk and vegetables cannot possibly do thorough work in the city with its enlarged area. The ordinance now pending before the council to divide the city into two inspee- tion districts is commendable. Even two inspectors will be kept very busy from now on until cold weather scts in. At this season, particularly, the greatest care should be exercised in preventing the spread of disease by the sale of stale vegetables and fruit,adulterated milk and tainted meat STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. cluded in about two weeks. A strong 1n Rapid C fields of Wyoming. company at present consis of oil land and 160 acre: lying i Crook connl?‘. new town of Oil City is to the company’s lands. Rapid City Journal, “that the b the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri of the country. learn the intentions of railroad nies and the motives governing, bi the case scems plain.”" the Battle-Field. forward in a thorough manner and con- company has been organized ity to work in the oil and coal The property of the of 1,82 of coal land, Wyoming. The located adjccent 20 aeres “There can be little doubt,” says the haste of Valley road to build northward from Rapid City this year is inspired by the late activity B, & M. in pushing toward this It is sometimes “dufficult to compa- ut here —— MONUMENTS AT GETTYSBURG. List of the Monuments Erected on o y J Chadron is worth §140,064 for tax pur- | National Soldiers’ Monument, Rey- |:;:fih~'»'lmtl”-md ofi:llo’ln,r;hbuslm im- | 5oses, v nolds’ Monument, First Minnesota, P vely demanded in the public inter- | “rPhe agsogsod valuation of Hamilton | Seventy-fiith Pennsylvania and First est as well as for the benefit of the board. | county is $2,083,014. es Massachusetts battery in National ceme- The tax-payers of Omaha are entitled to McCook has decided to plant a §4,000 | tery know how each member of the board | bridge over the Republican river. Twenty-seventh Pennsylvania, One votes on any vroject, contract or job and Crawtord is confident that the B. & M. | Hundred and Sixth pflms\-]m";n' tablet, the members of the board should take before the summer pride in having their transactions made ublic. Fourteenth India Fifty-third Penn on kast Cemetery hill. Thirty-third Massachusetts on to Culp's hull, will strike the town wanes. The trial of Ed. Carr for the murder of Warren Long will_commence at Albion on the 20th inst., and me sensational developments ] During a thunderstorm Thursda: lvania light a The steady and vigorous growth of Nebraska is best shown in the progress [ During a thunderstorm Thursda and prosperity of its towns, to whioh our | il by ightning mear Albion. columns daily bear gratifying testimony. | animals’ were the property of Johm There are few of these communities that | O'Neill, are not rapidly forging ahead, exhibiting in their advancement a generous enter- prise and public spirit which bespeak the strong incentives of the present and an unquestioning confidence in the fu- ture. The people are alive to the opportunities at hand, and are not only ‘‘making hay while the sun shines,’’ but sowing seed that will bring forth a bountiful harvestin the hereafter. Itis this sort of enterprise and spirit, the manifestation of a well-grounded confidence, that makes largely for the growth ot commumities and the upbuild- ing of commonwealths, and nowhere are these qualities to be found in more vigorous exercise or more wisely directed than in the favored towns of Ne- braska. All this bears evidence also to the growth and expansion of the agri cultural districts and the prosverity of Nebraska’s farmers. Happily the imme- diate outlook for the farming interest is of the most cheering churacter, and as the welfurc of the whole 18 so largely de- pendent upon the prosperity of the agri- cultural class this favorable promise must be a source of congratulation to all, It is believed Nebraska's growth in popu- lation the present year will be unprece- dented in the history of the state, and with her fields again bountifully produc- tive she may reasonably expect to realize a still greater prowth next year. end of Culp's hill line. Seventh Indiana, Kn Twenty-cight Pennsylvania, third Pennsylvania, 'l’\\'clll? night r nintl; Pennsylvania, tablet of compan Hundred aund Forty-seventh P vama; Second Maryland Twentieth C Second Ma: seventh Spring. The Nemaha river 1¢ gathering in huge wreaths of fare as a trout stream. This is due Lo the fact that the game nibble and toy with the jouraalistic line and frequently hook on. A ragged tramp entered a dry goods store at kremont the other day, and seiz- ing u package containing a dozen pairs of socks, dashed out. The proprietor gave chase und soon returned with the socks and a bloody nose, but the thief escaped. . The wire fence seems to be getting in its work of destruction on the stock of the state as a lightning conductor. Of the scores of horses and cattle killed by nnecticut at Culp’s H achusetts and T Indiana east sylvania on avenue from Fairfield Spring's avenue. Reynolds in Reynold's grove. run on Spring’s avenue. Oue Hundred and Forty-ninth sylvania, on Chambersbur, were in the immediate vicinity of wire fences, C. C. Akin, the nushville ramter who spurned a coat of tar and feathers ten- dered him by the community some months ago, made his final bow as “Mar- tyr” last week. His suit against the dev- otees of the ‘‘black art” for $35,000 col- lapsed the moment they tendered him £500 net to drop it. It 1s cstimated the cost to the decorators will not amount to | o over $10 each, which is considered deuced cheap for the sport. Prof. Samuel Aughey, of Nebraska and Wyoming, has turned up in Arkansas as courier of the “Lost' Lousiana_ Mining company.” The Little Rock News as- serts that the comm\nly is oontrolled by Nebraska farmers, and has purchased the Moftet smelter at Crystal Springs to reduce the_ ore and extract wealth from the GGolden Wonder lode. Aughey's rep- utation as a Iinceal bore does not desert him in the southern wilds. “The ecrop prospoct in Johuson county,” says the Tecumseh Journal, ‘‘is good.” The corn crop will undoubtedly | b: be a very large yield. ‘The fruit crop will be good but not as large and of as good quality as in some years. There will be a small crop of peaches. The yicld of spring wheat will be large, fall wheat crop small. Potatoes will be an excellent crop. All kinds of garden crops will be a good yield. Berries will be small on account of the dry weather this spring.” The Lincoln Democrat utters a nine- teen line squeal against the magmficent proportions of the Omaha directory, claiming that it 13 an unfair record of population, because the work, it believes, was begun in Oetober, and thousands of trxrlsie{n;‘s lmol(ed‘;h t(,‘«;;:ccdingblnr the sake of harmony that the number was | .. g boosted 10.300, ynhllle Linlcoln multiple ‘émg* in the woo f three and a half to cach name gives s & z’)mnhri a population of 94,677, just 4,000 One Hundred and "I'wenty-fourt short of the actual number. ~ "There is excellent authority for saying” that the Lincoln directory man got in his best licks during the senatorial campaign. The Patrick teeding ranch, near Kre- mont, will be an extensive 1nstitution. The brothers have purchased 1,400 acres of land within six miles of town, most of it equally suited for farming or hay, but they propose to raise no ain, but use all for hay. They are building extensive sheds and stables, steam mills for grind- ing feed and pumping water for their stock, and wiH build seven miles of wire and board fence, in addition to the two miles aiready built. They intend to ship and feed 700 head of steers from their ranch this fall and 1,000 head per year after they get better propared. The Ehstlugl Journal suggests a com- bination series of excursions under the management of the board of trade of k. Omaha, Grand Island, Hastings, Lincoln, m.mlm\rf ridge at Fuirtield road. Third In “Tapeworm’’ railroad cut. Thirteenth Mussachusetts, sylvania, tablet on Cemetery Ridg Mummasburg road, avenue, Seventeenth Connetticut, at_oth f same avenue, on Barlow’s Kno Tablet to Colonel Ward,of the Fi ‘Top railroad, First Massachusetts, Eleventh chusetts, Thirty- Sixteenth Massachusetts, and Fourteenth Penns; and Roun burg road. THE new French tariff on wheat 13 ex- pected to yield about fifteen million dol- lars per annum, which the government will undoubtedly need if 1t undertakes to maintain its now extravagant expend- itures. So far as the people who must pay this are concerned, they are already foeling the effect in the advanced price of bread, of which the French people of all classes are remarkable eaters. But the interest of American farmers in this tanift will relate to its probable effect in incrensing the home production of wheat. Its ad vocates have promised that it iR to prove a protection to the agricultural in- terests of France, [t1s shown, however, that the tariff of two years ago, which was passed with the home protection purpose, has thus fur had no appreciable effect on the wheat acreage. Instead,the harvest of last year was less than that of the previous year by 43,000,000 bushels. From this circumstance the wheat growers of America are justified 1n con- cluding that they will doubtless be called upon to supply France in the future with qui te as much wheat as they have sent in the past. from Peuch Orch; Tablet of Bigel W heattield. vania, kighteenth Massachusetts, vania, Twenty-second Massacl Second Company of Andrews’ shooters, Thirty-second Massach Twenty-cighth ‘Massachusetts, i aroun field. Mervin near the latter, also tablet Twenty-seventh Connecticut west **Loop." Devil's Don, Pennsylvania, One Hundred and Maina, on Little Round Top. Ninth Massachnsetts, and Eighteenth Pennsy —— THE laudable undertaking of the New York Star to raise $125,000 for the Grant monument by popular subseription, has not thus far met with very generous en- couragoment. At thg end of two weeks only a little over $1,000 had been sub- scribed, at which rate over four years would be consumed in obtaining the re- quired amount, This would certainly become a very tedious proceeding, of which the Star would probably tire be- Round Top. Devil’s Den. One hundred and Thirty-ninth Pe vania, Third Massachusetts Pennsylvania, nortl near Althoff buildings. Second Rhode Island, Seventh chusett, First brought into the state at Omaha, then taken around the circuit of the state through the big towns in the order named above. In such a swing around the circle the visitor could get an admirable view of the finest portiou of the state and they would have an opportunity of viewing and comparing the six best cities of the state. Of course the scheme would involve the expenditure of a little cold cash and the dead citizens of the several towns who are walking the streets only to save funeral expenses would grumble and kick; but it would be splendid advertise- ment and be the meawns of bringing thou- sands of new citizens 10to the state.” lowa 8. Work is progressing rapidly on the Rock Island railroad shops at Davenport. The Roman Cathelig Mutual Protective society meets in Burdijgton on the 23d and 23d inst. 54 avenuo, The sheriff of Allamakee county is said to have departed $0F parts unknown, owing from $5,000 to $10,000. Three boys, from lt&ruen to seventeen shooterss on Round Top avenue. to contribute to a purvose which that city promised to carry out, and which it does not do because its wealthy people are the most niggardly on esrth in such matters. Were the monument to be erected at the national capital there would be little trouble or delay in get- ting the necessary fund by popular sub- scription, sachusetts, Nineteenth Seventy-second Pennsylvania, at Pickett’s charg Battery A, m———— ware, Twelfth New Jersey, on A MOVEMENT has been started in some of the larger cities, notably San Francisco and New Orleans, to suppress profane and indecent talk in the streets and public thoroughfares by hoodlums, row- dies and genteel loafers, *“‘The use of profane and vulgar language on the street,’’says a San Francisco paper, “is a disgusting and most unmanly practice, On all sides in passing along the street deceat ears are offended by showers of verbal filth, horrible oaths and expletives uttered too often by respectable looking, evidently Intelligent men, as well as by hoodlums, and even young boys.” What is true of Sav Francisco in this respect will apply with equal force to Omuba. Some of our street corners have become almost impasgsable for ladies on account of the vulgar, profane and ob- scene remarks of the bummers and loaf- ers. gathered there on every pleasant day. It seems to us that an effort by the police to suppress this nuisauce would be timely. E——— Now that the state railroad commis- sion is in possession of indisputable facts and figures which show that Omaha job- bers and manufacturers are subjected to unjust railway discrimination made 1 favor of interior points, we shall probably hear less clamor for Omabas rates from Lincoln, Fre Fourtcenth Connecticut at the which they burnt under orders; loage confederate sharpshooters. Ninth Massachusetts battery near Bryan house. Eighty-eighth Peensylvania Twelfth Massachusetts labiet in Zi tysburg, Foundations have been laid g years old, were dro%npd near the Des Moines river, Friday, They could not swim and got beyond their depth. The tramp nuisance is becoming a matter of common complaint in the eastern part of the state, and the proba- bilities are that before the summer 1s over serious trouble will arise. William bebout, tried at Sidney last week for the murder of Richard Hill eighteen years ago, successfully worked the plea of self defense, as a majority of the witnesses had disappeared. He was acquitted. The Northwestern lowa Soldiers’ asso- ciation, that heretofore has heid 1ts meet- ings at Spirit Lake, will meet this year at Sioux City,probably during the last weck in August, although the date has not yet been definitely fixed. Dakota, clinj | A Groton is having & queer experience | gate’s unsurpassed Toilet Soaps. with an artesian well, the water having | mere Bouquet most popular, necticut on Culp’s Hill, all of monuments will be dedicated duri battle, e Attend to Important Business Dakota Bell: down an’ make an arrest,” said early in the morning, to the sher! ‘‘What's he been doin't" “*Shot two men un’ 8 woman, fire to a house." “Well, I can’t go to-day—gotte e An Exquisite Ferfame Dakota county, near the Montana that stole two hosses und a mule, ;vntch yer man—1 reckon he won't go ur.” a, One Hundred and rtillery avenue o, Tablet of Sccond Wisconsin on west s battery, Twenty- i Penn- sylvania,One Hundred and Forty-seventh (G, One ennsyl- confederate, Hill. wenty- of Spangler's One Hundred and Twenty-first Penn- road to Pennsylyania memorial to General Ninteeuth Indiana near Willoughby Penn- ani mbe turnpike, the clectricity this_summer nearly afl | Bear NePherson buildings; also tablet on diana cavalry on avenue near Twelfth Massachusetts, Eighty-eighth Pennsyl- e, near One Hundred and Fifty-seventh New York, at entrance of new Eleventh Corps er end 11, fteenth Massachusetts, near Emmittsburg road Massa- enth Massachusetts, One Hundred ylvania, Battery E, Lirst Ruode Island artillery,on Emmetts- Sixty-cighth Pennsylvania,Second New Hampshire at Sherfy's peach orchard. Fifth Massachusetts Battery, Bigelow's Ninth Massachusetts Battery, on road d to Tar uw‘u Hfligry at Trostle arn. General Zook monument on edge of One Hundred and Fortieth Pennsyl- tablet of One Hundred and E:fhwnnlh Pennayl- wsetts, Sharp- husetts, n and the “Loop,” west of the Wheat- Second Delaware, Twenty-seventh Con- necticut, in Wheat-field, with tablets to Captain Chapmap and Lieutenant Colonel of the of the The New Ham&mhire. Twentieth, In- s west of the Wheat- h New York, Ninety-ninth Pennsylvania, west Tablet to General Vincent, Ninety-first Fifty- fifth pPennsylyania, Une Hundred and Forty-seventh Pennsylvania, Twentieth ne Hundred t vania, Une Hun- dred and Ninetcenth Pennsylvania on Tablet to Colonel Fred. Taylor north of ennsyl- Battery, Ninety-third l’cnnle‘lv;n(i}a.l\'llnnty-cl h of Crawford's hih len, Massa- Massachusetts cavalry; Tenth fiwwhuum,’l‘hlrzy-mvanth M sachusetts, on ayenue near Round Top ark. B The Eifllly-e!ghth Pennsylvania,tablet, fore the consummation was sttained. | Beatrice and Nevraska City, %o bring | Twelfth Massachusetts tablet, companies The tronble is that u majority of the peo- | settiers and capitalists from tho east. “A | Eand F, Hampton's battery, Pennsyl- ple outside of New York are not anxious | 1arge tramn of excursionists could be | yania artillery, New Hampshire sharp- Battery B, First Rhode Island artillery, Twenticth Massachusetts, Fitteenth Mas- Massachusetts, One Hundred and Sixth Pennsylvania, clump of trees on same avenue at scene of Rhode Island artillery, First company of Andrews' sharpshoot- ers, Fourteenth Connecticut, First Dela- avenue north of clump of trees; also tablet of site of Bliss buildings in their front advance, to dis- tabled tablet, iegler's grove, near north end of Round Top Unvafry shaft three miles east of Get- for the Sixty-ninth Pennsylvania and Seventy- first Peensylvania at the scene of Pickett's obarge, and Thirteenth New Jersey east of Spangler's spring, and the Fifth " Con- which ing the coming twenty-fourth anniversary of the Firat, “Want you to come right a_mun, of a line. & an' set T & man to the skin of those who use Col- Cash- Just delv! life Hele gold tn, got less in| motf last was man ov out of it a millio About nine year indication that led him to bel mother lode was somewhere the mountain in front of him, but where even the experienced prospector and adroit miner could not exactly deter- For fifteen years ho had stuck to his claim, working hard when he could and, when provisions got scarce, knock- ing off and working on somebody else's m at miners wages. mine. can real Nevada; e found much somewhere made. Fnded at the Tomh ing on search for gold. mine on earth. 208 W Cruse was full of notwithstanding provisions, ising and good. bhard, honest toil. in the Prick: worn out. trust the embryo eit; being started. thought he was. mountain, ree and finally be; into the side of contenting pickings and scrapings below. “A big strike or nothing” t was along about 1878 that he struck pay-dirt far into the depths of his own tunnel, and for a time his enthusi- asm knew no bounds. running along direetly under the bed of the stream and close to bed-rock. little while he came to bed-rock, cleaning it up a8 he went und, taking out the last streaks in a sack to his cabin,he pounded it to a pulp in a mortar, and washed out the gold at nights in a bread-pan. e stumbled upon a cross-cut vein, into the bonanza he Cruse’s fortune was to. which led dm»:-u‘v seeking and the Montana and the This hirin, himself n( labor in the his Grasshopper went Jocpted, facetionsly alone, without {friends, you sny. and without relatives on this old wun--prematurely flour labele ub, Itisa remarkable in At ol WIFE AND WEALTH WELL-WON A Romanoe of the Rocky Mountains Which CRUSE'S CROSS AND CROWN. Maggle Carter's Fidelity—The Dream and Hope of a Life-Time Real ized, Only to be Robbed of Its Joys by Tyrant Death. Nothing in romance, eays a Helena letter in the Philadelpbia Record, equals the story of Thomas Cruse, the million- aire widower of this wide-awake moun- tain city, who, after years of prospecting, mountain gulches near Helena, at last struck a rich mother lode of almost pure gold that made him a millionaire in one day. Cruse was no doubt born under a lucky star, as far as solid wealth is concerned; but his history is the sad, pitter story of all men of wealth who have all the com- forts and cash that this world can be- stow and yet lack what money cannot buy—happiness and a home. this man started life as an ordinary pros- pector, spending the better portion of his frontier, in the gulches and ravines of the Rocky moun- taing, in the stubborn and persistent It was somewhere dur- g the dark days of 1863 that he followed on the heels of the stampede to Alder gulch, but struck off soon afterward m the direction of Helena, where 1t was in store for him to discover the richest gold The country about pretty wild in those days, but pluck and grit, and, the hostile nature of that portion of Montana, the rugged and forbidding mountains, the high price of own miserable poverty, the dogged perseverance of the came all obstacles, and he came aire three times over. 8 ago he run upon an In a word, ieve that a hidden in Just No tenderfoot those days of toil, and many & weaker-minded or less determined man would have given in long before sunn back to civilization and its attrac- ions. Cruse after knocking about over the mountains, picking up quartzite here and there, taking bearings surroundings, with rare judgment and unbounded faith in signs, finally settled down in one rocky gorge where the indi- cations for placer-washings were prom- He builta cabin, staked off a claim, set up location notices at the tour corners, and settled down to To the south of him was Alcer gulch, with all its seductive washings, then in its prime; to the south- west the undeveloped with an underground network of silver that has since had no parallel in history, not even excepting the famous Comstock lode and Consolidated Virginia mines of diggings to the southwest; the hidden treasures of Emigrant gulch in the same direction, and the Salmon river placers far over the mountains to the west. unknown or ignored by the experienced miner, who struck off’ “toward thi ly Pear valley, where he Lelievad move’ gold to bo scnsealod than anywhere else on earth, right, as the sequel will show, miner got out his pick and shovel, un- packed his gold pan, and rigged out a crude rocker, and, all alone in that black. mountain gorge, triously to work washing and seeking for , “As remarked, for fifteen long and tiresome years he stuck to one claim with unbounded faith and judgment, never faltoring in the signs that first Jed him on, and always hoping that the mother lode he was after would soon turn up. After a8 while the country began tilling up. Miners passed him sonth, but always stoppin, to examine “Tommy’s claim," and invar- ronouncing it *‘no good.”d Cruse was not discouraged. Other miners came into the country, and some settled in the bottom ot the very gulch wherein he was sluice boxes and w 8 with boxes and rifles, making a clean-up every day or two, and almost always get- ting paying dirt. Meanwhile Cruse was laboring at the head of the gorge, digging a tunnel into the side of the mountain, but getting nothing except unprofitable dirt and hard, cold, barren rock. He built a door t6 his tunnel and kept it locked, so that no one might see his bad luck if it con- tinued or his good luck should fortune happen to favor him. fter a while times became so hard that the miner, having no food nothing from his mine to buy any with, had to knock off work on his claim, lock the little door leading into his treas- ure-house, and go down into the gulch seeking work from others. visions were exkausted and his tools were out at day labor became a necessity with him, and enabled the miner to obtain_a stake for tools and powder. pleture to look back upon the carly days of this bonanza king, who can now buy and sell some of your nabobs of the east, when he was shoveling dirt into sluice boxes for others st $3.60 a day and find- ings, and was 8o poor ihat iic couldn't for a sack of of Helena, just then ut such are the facts. Once some of the miners from lower down came up to pay Cruse a visit. The, the little door of his treasure vault y locked and the owner nowhe: sight, 80 the and and examining Butte country, All these were north Cruse was The indus- zomf north or a day or two They “huilt ed away for gold and get- His ~ pro- it 'Cruse’s prison,”’ and langhingly went away for the bundreth time pronouncing the ground roundabout perfectly worth But Cruse was shrewder than they What they were wash- out a mile or gobelow the wide-awake individual knew must have been eropped off from some parent lode further up the Torrents and avalanches for centuries had been drifting rocks and quartz down into the bed of the and, a8 all these rockings and placer washings had shown rich nuggets and old, Cruse reasoned that higher up the true vein must be situated, and that was the reason why he worked away at the head of the gulch an boring a tunnel directly of tie mountain instead of with the meager uleh was his The tunne! was Ina into the bowels of the earth, might eart] i from hardship, toil and exposure— stood looking ll‘l‘l\l!y. and lfm‘mi";\‘y o lessly, upen all that vast, untold w..mlfi which was now bis own, and nobody in the world to share 1t with him. ‘Ihire it was—bta beautiful, magnificent mine yot, was Cruse a happy man® | 50, for love was in his <oul without relatives, still one girl had boen fwithful t ntminer all these patient yea! as watching for his coming to cluim her as his brid, whether he eame poor or whether | came rich, Cruse locked the door Jewd ing to his great discovery, and went back to his cabin to ponder upsn and to undor stand, if possible, that the dream of s lifo had at last been realized. The Drum Lummond was no myth, but an sctual, ttue, bona fide, mother lode of gold, and capable of making millionaires of a dozon men. A year or two rolled on and the fame of the mine got abroad. An English syndicate began angling with the lucky prospector for the {mnwny, bat could not buy out the shrewd individual as easily as they thought. Something like $1,600,000 was paid for an interest in the same, Cruse reserving to himself a por- tion, which evinced his business tact as clearly as his prospecting wisdom has been already delineated by the narrator; for although there were 500,000 tons of ore in sight at the time of the sale which fairly sparkeled with dazzling particles of gold, yet since the consummation of the purchase the Drum Lumond hus been steadily increasing as a gold-proaucer, and to-day has no equal on the globe in that specialty. The object of his Tife was accomplished, and Cruse's prospecting days were over, He sought out the gl of "his choice, M Maggie Carter, and she, faithful maiden, of a modest, retir- ing disposition, was 'loath to give her hand to the man of wealth who had been her lover whilo a poor, hard-working miner. i He saw her hesitancy, under on, and valued he worth The rough, uncouth man becawe a most ardent wooer, and as both had been and were true to each other for years, the difliculty ing smoothed over. Carter became Mrs. Cruse in and the wedding was the 'r heard of cast of the 1 s and west of the Migs- issippi . It was a great day for Helena. The whole town went on a spreo for a week—not of intoxication, you know, but of wine in galore, edibles of every description and pure, uralloyed joyousness. Lverybody was invited and everybody went, No one who knew or ever heard of Tommy Cruse and his generosity waited tor an invitation to the wedding, They went and were made welcome. Champagne flowed freely for all, and the whole city, including beggars and Chinese, smoked the finest Havanas as not long in be- at Tommy's expense, In short, the town went crazy with delight It was a true Rocky moun- tamn wedding, where cxpense had not the slightest thing to do with the affair, but which was simply an honest and open- hearted miner’s homage to the bride he loved and adored. gift of $500,000 from her husband was one of the wed- ding presents, and nomo!hinflI like $36,000 was necessary to cover the ex- penses of tho occasion. All was be- stowed and paid as freely as it _had been acquired. A hotel was rented wherein were accommodated the guests from a distance who had come to witnoss the ceremony. The lonely bachelor pros- ector, who had gone about for yoars on oot, tramping many a weary mile over rugged mouutaing and dressing in the most ordinary rnd cheapest of apparel, now donned new and expensive gar- ments and purchased a pair of stylish bays, behind which he and his wife used it while driving over the country in nm,}' of the Queen city of the Rockics. Hewas a happy man tor a year, was Thomas Cruse, but grim fate was hovering close on his heels and seck- Hitgs, (U U LHE BUUN aarmss e R month ago doath entered his house- noia and sto(@ rrom ntm the bride, who had been his comfort and his joy for m'}f twelve short months. It left him 2hild- less and alone, and without hope or 8pirit to battle with the world anow. His dream of lifo is oyer. The last tie to earth is now broken; for beyond the hill over yonder lies a new-made grave wherin re- poses the form of her who loved him 1 life, who gave him a home, and made his life happy. Base Ball d Money Bags. Phitadetphia Amertean. The national game of base ball has been pruned of some excresences by the re- visions of the rules which govern the two great associations, But it seems to us to lack a wholesome basis so long as the teams which are supposed to represent the cities are not made up of residents of those cities, as was the case at the outset. It now becomes a question merely of the longest purse and the greatest “enter- prise,” as each city bids durinfi the close season for the men who have been thought the ablest in the preceding sum- mer, This is the rcason for the extrava- gant sums paid to players; and it works also to lower the character of the interest felt in the game. It makes local superi- ority not a matter of genuine local vride in_athletic culture, but only of purse- pride at bottom, And it vitiates the rela- tion of the public toward tho local team. ‘The tone taken by the New York news- rupurs toward the Metropolitan nine il- ustrates this. The feeling was that the public of that city had been swindled be- cacuse the nine was beaten in the openlns ame of the scason. New York has pai: or victory, and victory she must have. The gnme must go from bad to worse unle:: it is botter organized in this re- spect. ———— A New Dodge of th mpe, Washington Star: There is a new dodge by which tramps hope to get a lLivin, without work lndgcl escape the penal- ties of vagrancy. A “tough' of the worst character (luila his home and wanders to a distant city where the labor cause is strong. Here he applies for admission to one of the local trades unions—say, the painters’, for example. When the committee on admission look up his an- tecedents, they report agamst him asa a matter of course, and the socicty re- jects him accordingly, ‘Then he goes to some of the panicky capitalists who d approve of trade unions on princip! and revresents himself as a victim of the tyranny of unionism. The unions will let no one work who does not belong to them, he argues, and when he applies for admission they won't lot him in. The anti-unionists raise a small sum for him out of sympathy, and give him a letter commending him to the charity of other persons who condemn persccution, and when our tremp has nulked the town as dry as he dares to, he passes onto a place where he is still unknown and re- Ppeats his little tri It would be just a8 well for bens ent people with long purses to_scrutinize the appeals of the victims of union tyranny as carefully as those of other sufferers from the imper- feetions of our social system. The Grand Custodian. The grand custodian of the Nebraska grand lodge of Masons, Mr. Benjamin F. Rawalt, urrived here from Hastings yes- terday morning, opencd the grand custo dian lodge which will coutinue three duys. A goodly number of masons were pres- ent. On Wednesday at p.m. the grand lodTa proper will convene, and it 18 ex- pected that between four and five Lun- dred delogates from the different lodges throughout the state wiil be in attend- ance. e oo Sidewalk Warrants. City Clerk Southard, yesterday morn ing, wasengaged in making out sbout a thousand sidewalk warrants agaiost 8 pumber of property owoers.