Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 16, 1888, Page 4

T —————— e THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1888 i3 THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. fly (Morning_ Edition) including Sunday, D‘l One ¥ear . . #10 00 For Six Months . 5 For Three Ma hs ., 2 Sunday BEE, mailed 1 any ad- onr. 200 STREET. UNE 513 CORRESPONDENCR. Al communications relating to news and edi- n forial matter should be addressed to the OF THE BAE. 0 orNme8 LRTTERS, AT Business lotters and remitiances should bo fddressed to TH® BEE PURLISHING COMPANY, OMAHA. Drafts, checks amd postoffics orders Pe made payable to the order the company. The Boe Pablishing Company. Propvictors E. ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statemen: of Circulation. Etate of Nehraska, C { mlflv(hnuuhnm tidot] i i Tzschnck, secretary of The Beo Pub. « shing compnny, does solemnly swear that the '.’23’&3 sircuintioh of the Diily ee for the woek ending April 13, 1855, was as follows: Saturday, April weakivies Bunday, April & Monaas, April 8, nesday, April '—an.-fdny, April 11 w guursday, April 12 tday, Aprid 13..... Average...... 7! i Rworn to and subscribed in my_presence this ) 2 2 th day of April, A, D., 1885, Etate of Nebraska, }o.s County of Douglhon, {55 Geo. B, Tzechuck, Being first duly sworn, de- ek and says Uit he §s_ secr: of The Bee blishing compauy, that the actual average daily circulation of the Daily Bee for the month ot M 1400 coples; Notary Pubiid, arch, 1857, for April 1067, 14810 plexs for May, 1 coples; for June, 18T, 14,147 copl for July, 187, 1Y plest for _August 867, 14,161 cop September, 1887, 14,40 coples;: for Octob K for November, 80, 16,20 coples; ' for December, 187, 15,041 fes;"” for Janunry, 1685, 15,200 copies; for ry, 1665, 15,002 Coples. eidid M CORES. B, TZSOMUCK, Sworn and subscribed to I’ my prese 4 duy of March, A, D. 1688, N P. immany braves are the St. is democratic 2,000 strong. The question is, how many political scalp-locks will Chief Cleveland offer them for a renomina- tion ? going to sun-dunco Wi its state delegation headed by John M. Thurston and its district dele- gation commanded by Charley Green, Douglas county will have the right to boast of being the stronghold of brass- collar republicanism Tie grand old man of England and the iron-chancellor of Germany have evidently reached the turning point in their career But the man of destiny in France is still on parade to the tune of the Boulanger march. EASTERN Limburger facturers have met and formed a *‘trus for advancing prices and controlling production. If congress ever gets to in- vestigate that combination 1t will have to wear a clothes’ pin on its nose. cheese manu Ir Battenberg is as brave and chival- rous as he is said to be, he ought to steal up the palace stairs some night, carry off his bride, show Emperor Frederick the marriage certificate, and ask Bis- marck what he is going to do about it. ‘Wiar is the use of holding conven- tions to nominate delegates to Chicago and St. Louis? Why don’t the manag- ers of the railroads hold a conference and select tho delegation for the respec- tive national conventions from among their oil-room o tors? TiE republicans of Arkansas have had their stato convention and elected delegates to the Chicago convention. Powell Clayton, the carpet-bag swash- buckler, called the convention to order, and will head the “unit delegation” at the convention. Liberal bids will be entertained TiE bill introduced intothe house for the construction of the Nebraska Cen- tral railroad bridge across the Mis souri at Omaha is opposed only by the Union Pacific. When a railrond com- pany already owns the two bridges at this point, it scems docidedly hoggish for that corporation to insist that no- body else shall have the right to build another bridge. T1E Minnesota commissioner of sta- tistics bas figured out that the chances of death consequent upon railrdad travel in that state is one in one million two bundred thousand. If he had calenlated the visks of being maimed or killed by Minnesota eyelones, he would have found that it was ono million two hun- hundred thousand chuncos against one of escaping aliye. THE cheap fuel problem is soon to be solved for Chicago. A pipe line over 200 miles long is under construction from the Ohio oil fields to that city. And within sixty days the furnnces, foundries and steel worlks 1n and about the city will be supplied with oil-fuel. ‘With cheap fuel Chicago is bound to become a powerful competitor to Pitts- burg in the iron industry. It is all very well for the First ward councilmen to hend all their energies to secure a viaduct over the Union Pa- cific and B. & M. tracks on Teuth streot. But if they would only expend a little of thut energy to compel those corporations to pave Tenth street in front of their property, just as all prop- erty owner: that vicinity bave done long ago, taxpayers and voters would swallow the visduct scheme, which is sprung on them periodically o few months before election Em— Tuk fiest Arbor day in Illinois was celebrated with considcrable enthusiasm all through the state. Governor Oglesby and the other stute officers in- augurated the ceremonies by planting shirty trees 1n and about thestate house grounds at Springflold, In various eities of the state the churches planted trees, Two Grand Army posts turned out in a body and planted memorial sugar maples. The school children ad- fourned te the school yards and withap- propriate exercises set out class trees. The day was the most distinetly marked Toliday of the season, sind 111 has pet o good eapmple for her sister ATE %0 follow, ois Agninst Western Sccurities. The warfare that has been waged for a year pact in the eastorn press against western securitios and farm mortgeges, it scoms, is to be carried into the legis- latures of that section. Massachusetts is setting the example. We noted a fow ago that a bill proposed in the Togislature of that state allowing savings banks to invest in the bonds of Minue- sota and of its cities and towns had been rejocted by an overwhelming majority, and that this fact was referred to by an eastern journal as a warning to other New England states that 1t was time to call & halt to investments of these in- stitutions in western securitios, There are now before the legislature of Mas- sachusetts bills providing for the gen- eral regulation of loan and trust com- panies, and also for the placing under general provisions of law the western farm mortgage businoss, A Boston paper referring to the lutter ohject urges that the field of these com ought to be divorced entirely from the western farm mortgage “It far from boing a business in which trust funds should be invested,” says this journal, “nor should these mortgages he made & legal investment for such funds.” A few of the companies ave willing to give up the privilege, but more are not. Yet in view of the action of the legislature regarding the savings banks it is alto- gether probable that Massachusetts will prohibit its loan and trust companies from investing in western farm mort- And the example is more than likely to be followed by other New Eng- land states. There is injustice in this policy to overybody but the borrowers of that sec- tion, who, by the shutting off of a large, safe and profitable market for the in- vestment of the accumulated capi- tal in savings banks and loan and trust companies, will be assured of cheap and cheapening monoy. This class, it is safe to assume, are the most ardent ad- vocates of the policy. It is primarily and especially unjust in the implication it involves that western securities, and particularly farm mortgages, a - gerous investments. So long as thi was proclaimed simply through the col- wmng of the newspapers, by correspond- ents whose mission it was to hunt up v fact that would make a depreci- v showing and give it the most ex- aggerated application, no very serious harin was to be feared. It was ve easy to refute such testimony by over- wheiming facts, as has been done. But when a legislature, presumed to- act honestly and disinterestedly in such a matter, virtually stigmatizes the securities and mortgages of a great and growing scction of the country as something to he shunned by capitalists, the wrong and injustice done become a very serious matter. It isan 1 justice also to those who entrust their capital for investment to the savings banks und loan and trust companies for- bidden to invest in these securitios and rages, since it curtails the carning power of this capital. The rate paid by these banks and companies for the money entrusted to them will be greater or less according to the rate they are enabled to obtain for it in safe invest- ments. I their field is circumscribed, haps to the demands of their imme- diate locality, a cheup and cheapening rate ‘is inevitable, with corresponding small returns to the owners of the money. To all but the local borrowers this would be an unprofitable and un- Jjust policy. It is not necessary to repeat the evi- dence, several times presented during the past few months, which shows con- clusively that there have been no safer investmonts than western securitics and farm mortgages, and none others so profitable. The testimony to this effect is uniform and of the most trustworthy character. A very considerable portion business, is gages, of the wealth of Massachusetts and of other New England states is due to these investments. Untold millions have gone from the earningsof the armers of the west and from the enter- people to augment pital of the east. Not one-tenth of one per cent of all the eastern eapi- tal invested or loaned in the west been lost, nor is it in any danger now unless by a narrow, short-sighted and unwar, i done antable policy of hostility on the t of enstern legislators something be to jeopardize i The people of this scction ha not grown out of their way hon and upright d to. of ling, nor arc they They have kept faith with the c - ists of New England, and they tend to continue doing so. Mor that, they have gone on until now un- complamingly paying tribute to the protected inter that section, while they supplied it with food at free trade prices, But they protest ag having their character misrepresented and their integrity maligned before the world, as has been so freely done by the s of the east, and they justly com- 1 of such unwarrantable hostility as is being shown in the legislature of Massach usotts. Heads L Win, Tails Y ou Lose. Adams county comes to the state dem- ocratic convention with a delegation picked by the Honorable John M. Ragan, of Hastings, who has instructed them to demand for him a t in the national democratic convention, This information comes to us through tho ree- ognized leading organ of the Nebra democracy and is therefore doubtless ofticial, Like the Honorable Mr, Dave Mercer and many other persons with barrowed jug handles to their names, the Honor- able Mr. Ragan has been a regular at- tendant at our legislative sessions—-not as a representative of Adams county or any other constitueney, but as a regu- larly enlisted paid lobbyist of the rail- roads,with headquartersin the oil rooms, Under the political railroad code whi has dominated in this state for the past years such eminent gervices are a passport, not only to state and national conventions, but even to the uational While the J Ragan chalks gripsack for St Louis, the **honorable” Charley G is getting ready to order his bagg checked to Chicago. - To thé raiiro: se “honorabl ene 1 | managers it is & matter of supreme in- difference who will be elected president next November s0 dong as they can | mugwumpe claim the glory of helping to nomindte the winning man through their honor- able oil-room delegates. With them it is & game of heads I win, tails y Cx- United States minister to Fng- land, Hon. James Russell Lowell, has been delivering an address at Steinway hall, New York, on the advantages of in American politics, a brief synopsis of which has been sent west over the wires. From this telegraphic report it ap- pears that Mr. Lowell’s idea of true and exalted statesmanship was never more cl 1y shown than by the votes of Sen- ators Fessenden and Trumbull against the impeachment of President Johnson. He claims that the mugwumps who left the republican party to vote for Mr. Cleveland four years ago were with God's help carrying through a great moral purpose, and that if they, the so- called independents, have not got all they hoped for from the Cleveland nd- ministration, they have .gotten more than they expectod! So it is now made clear that the high moral purpose, with God’s help, they wore to carry through by voting and urging others to vote for Mr. Cleveland, partook largely of the charactorof fraud on their more innocent perverts; that the leaders in this high moral purpose knowingly decoived them, lied to them to beguile them into voting for the democratic candidates four years ago, in leading them to expect certain re- forms, when in fact they did not expect any such reforms in the event of suec- And this is now publicly admitted this chief apostle of these modern political phavisces! As if this open avowal of humbuggery and admitted fraud were not enough, Mr. Lowell has the mendacity to claim in the same ad- dress that Abraham Lincoln was a mug- wump! THE s reported to be a very inter- csting contest in Pennsylvania for the control of the republican machine. As everybody is aware, this has been al- most uninterruptedly managed by the Camerons, but the ambitious Senator Quay has conceived the idea that he is competent to run it for awhile, and is d to be working hard to that end. If this be true, it is a striking instance of political ingratitude, for Quay owes his political rise largely to the Camerons, or vather to the veteran Simon, who, by the way, is still taking an active inter- st in politics. Quay learned about all the politics he knows in the camps of the old chieftain, and but for his confi- dence it is questionable whether he would now be in the United States sen- ate. Occupying this vantage ground, however, it is said that Quay is now the leader of a strong opposition to the Camerons, and that he will probably be able to prevent them from securing a delegation to Chicago to their liking. This would mean that the Pennsylvania «delegation in the national eonvention would be in the market. The state con- vention will be held on the 25th instant, and a very interesting contest is antici- pated. ONE of the most fortunate men of the country in politics retired to private life when a few days ago General N. P. Banks handed over to a successor the office of United States marshal for M sachusetts. e has been almost contin- ually in office since he entered politics. At the age of twenty-five he was elected speaker of the house of representatives, the third position of honor under the government. Though not a great man, General Banks acquitted himself eredit- ably in all positions and performed some good service during the war. The dem- ocrats of Massachusetts have been after his head for a year or two past, and a few months ago there were charges of irregularities in his office. General Bank sily cleared himself of all re- sponsibilit s to carelessness in not holding actountability the men under him, a develiction due to 1 impl confidencs The disclos- ure, however, was a leverage which the demoerats who wanted the office fully utilized, and when his term expired the veteran soldier and statesman was per- mitted to go. 'ng cable dispatches of the SUNDAY were & most comprehensive and in- ing presentation of the several matters that are at this time agitating Lurope, showing that there are deep and strong currents below the surface of affairs which may at no very distant day develop most important” results. The threatened crisis in German growing out of the matrimonial ques- tion, cannot be said to have passed, but on the contrary the complications lead- ing toward it appear to become more numerous and more serious. It seems that popular seitiment is by no means altogether with Bismarck, and it is evi- dent that were the emperor in health the chancellor would have to abandon his hostility to the marriage, or relin- quish his office with the general popu- lar approval, In France all interest still conters around Boulanger, and the result of yesterday's election in the dis- triet of the Nord is exvected to have most important political consequences. The present situation in Europe ispre possibilities naut with of concern, universal Axorner railroad suit svain shippers has been Dakota court, It scems that the North- ern Pacific had persistsutly d i nated against a certain wheat important to decided in a shipper who entered into competition with the railroad compuny’s elavators in o smadl town. Iu orderto freeze him out, the Northern Pacific refused to furnish him with cars. A suit was brought to com- pel the company to furnish him with v ion, and a decision has just been handed down in favor of the plaintiff who will be awarded dam- ages in each cass wheve he failed to get cars as demunded, This will be good news to grain shippers ali through the against whom the railroads have discriminated in order to build up ele- onopolies at the expense of the mr—— y-third apniversary of the if Abraham Lincoln was ap- celobratod yeswerday. THE tw shoc | yriat TATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. Benkleman is moving for waterworks, Ord’s butter and cheese factory is nearly completed. The Wahoo postofiice handled $32 for the year ending March 1. The scheme for a professional base club in Fremont has been batted over the fence. J. M. Woodson, of Plattsmouth, has fallen heir to an estate in Virginia worth $35,000, The farmers in Clay county have planted all their emall grain and are now preparing the fields for corn. O'Neill has swiped the land offico from Niobrara. The coolness between them would make a superb summer re- sort. The round-up of the youngsters of York shows a total of 1,202-606 boys and 596 girls. Fortunately there are enough boys to go around. “‘Hastings and Grand Island,” says the York Times, ‘‘are right smart towns. If they were a little further away from York they would have a brilliant future.” The joyful news comes from Rulo that the Missouri river ‘“is going down.” Had it stopped a moment and looked Rulo in the face the consequence would have been appalling. Another daily paper is promised in Hastings, The recent mounds orected in the journalistic cemetery thore have no terrors for men with more money than discretion. Pewter plates come cheap, however. Omaha brick makers are investigat- ing the clay banks near Weeping Water with a to establishing yards there. The clay is said to be a superiov article for the manufacture of prossed, paving and other grades of brick. York is pushing to the front in a way that threatens the pence of slumbering ivais. On the heels of waterworks and a big school comes a united pull for a foundry and a planing mill, both of which are almost assur A Gage county man was hurried to the pearly gates last week with *‘good luek” branded on his abdomen. He was kicked todeath by a horse. The brand will give him a leading position among the Mavericks knocking at the door. The recent arrest of 1. E. Finney in Omaha for raising money by mortgages on cheek did not astonish any person in Framont, where he masquaraded as a model youth and borrowed right and left. The Herald says he left dozens of vietims in that cit, ‘I see that the base ball rules for 1888 provide for three strikes,” remarked laud to Alfred, as they stood up to soften their joints on the grand stand, *I hope it won’t spread to our boys. I should hate vfully to see them lose their situations. They are just too lovely!” ioux City imagines that the finger of scorn will scorch the nose of Omaha if she borrows the corn palace idea. The hamlet on the Big Sioux is necd- lessly worried. Omahu’s corn palaces are ample for home needs, without bor- rowing from the bootleg joints of her red-headed neighbor. Men and teams are at work grading the Elkhorn extension from Creighton to Verdigris. near Niobrara, a distance of twenty-four miles. It is generally believed that this move is a preliminary SU‘Y toward the Sioux reservation. It will give the company a big start through that country as soon as it is opened. Beatrice is looking hopefully toward the Rock Island to build northeast from that city to Omaha. The Demourat says surveyors are working in that di- rection now, but no one knows what their purpose is or what company they ent. The territory hetween the two cities is the most inviting in the state, rich in natural resources, well improved and stocked, and open to the first comer. Liberal aid will be given the company that undertakes the job. The I. C. society, of York, has pro- cured a gold medal to be presented to Miss Minnie Freeman, the heroine of Myva valley. It bears on one side the ed initials, M. F.,” inlaid with net and turquoise. Upon the re- is engraved the lctters “I. C.,” the name of the socicty which gave it, and “January 12,” the day upon which she rescucd so many little onds from perishing in the great blizzard. Mi man isa member of the L C. stantial city of over cight sand inhabitants,” suys the Plattsmouth Herald, *wiih but on y yot that is IPls mouth’s condition to-day. The He has tiie hest of reasons, however, for be- lieving that cre long we will be blessed with another line. ~ The Missouri Pa- cific people will build through to Omaha this year fom Union, fourteen miles south of us, That is our prediction and as we have achieved something ofa rep- utation as a prophet, we shall take no chances when we assure our people of the building of a new line.” Land speculators and_s s are pouring_into western Nebraska and castern Wyoming and Colorado by the hundred. Asa rule they eople, well equipped to rough it until wevest time, - Government land is dis- aring so rapidly that in less than a :ade the choicest of it will have :d - into hands of settle fact coupled with the certainty of rapid inc in value is a powerful emigration agent. Another incentive is the widespread belief that congress will repeal the pre-emption and timber cultur laws, and limit claims to the homestead law under stringent regulations, Scores of work- ingmen and i " sons in and around Omaha are arranging te take advantage of this bol a, With a little mone; and the gritand energy to stay | claim, a man can securc 480 ac and and at the end of five years will have secured a competence and freedom from the stripes inherited by ) workers, Go west and secure a slice of the nation’s bounty. lowa ltems. The whale has succeeded the legisla- ture as an attraction in Des Moines, The people of Le Mars are making a strong effort to secure the Sioux City & Northern vailroad, A six-year-old son of George Huthluff, of Fort Dodge, was severely scalded by turning over a kettle of hot soup. The artesian well . in Central park, Davenport, is now down 800 feet, and the work is still in limestone which has been penetrated a distance of 660 feet. The people of Marcus have prospects of a creamery and cheese factory, There is considerable building going on in the town and the people seem pleased with their prospects. A veteran of two wars, aged eighty- four, has been sent to the state soldie home. s A moderate passion for grog is said 0 have made him prematurely old and reduced him to pove The seventeen-y or of Farmer Beckman, living four miles from Dubuque, was roasted to death last Thursdsy. While burning cornstalks it f ore and wssist- in the field her clothing caug she was burned to death b anee cowid reack here A colMsion occurred at Pacific Jun: tlo day morning. _Enging]20, train 40, didn't stop at the Kansas Clty or ing, but plunged _into a ewitch engine in the yards, sending her fiying into a lot of baggage cars standing on the track. No, 120 struck her once more, for fun, and the game ended by the box~ cars flying around like nine pins in an alley. Dakota. The territorial firemen’s tournament will be held noxt June in Huron. Tt is reported that conl was struck at Wessington at a depth of 280 feet. The amount of government money handled per day in the Deadwood post- oftice will average nearly $2,000. There is a prospect that central Da- kota will have the best immigration this year that has been known for sev- eral Prairie fires are unusually numerous for this season of the Great care should be taken by all in preparing proper protection for their buildings. A flowing well was struck the first of the week six milessouthwest of Howard, Miner county. At the depth of thirty five feet pine wood was struck and the water immediately beneath. Brule county claims the oldest in- habitant in the territory. Mrs. An- toinette Osmondson, anative of Norway, has reached the remarkable age of 104, She is the mother of cightchlfilw“.fi\'u of whom are living. Wyoming. Laramie has struck sulphur water and astrong smell. The town has all the luxuries of a first-class summer resort. Laramie has inside information to the effect that the Northwestern road will be extended to that town from Sweet- water. William E. Guthrie, of Cheyenne, has sued the Union Paci for §25,000 damages for injuries sustained in & col- lision on the road last year. A Saratoga sanitarium has boen in- corporated at Rawlins. The ownoers propose to build a hotel and make the journoy to the grave asagreeable as the vietim’s means will permit. One of the strong indications of what is being done in the development of our mining industries is the fact that over two hundred placer location cortificates have been sold at the Cheyenne office during the past two we i tadt o Sensational Reports Corrected. Siour City Journal. The Big Muddy is a stream pregnant vith surprises, and the inhabitants of its valley newer know just what to ex pect. Navigators have cursed its fickle currents from the ecarliest days, and land owners in many of 1ts bends have groaned in spirit over the knowledge that it laughed to scorn the claims of title and possession. It cannot even shed its coat of ice as do the tamer rivers elsewhere, but occasionally in- dulges in the unpleasant freak of break- ing up at the wrong end, and when it does commence the process in the proper order there are its sand-bars and eddies to catch the broken ice cakes and form them into gorges that act as dams. So it is readily understood that no matter how inunocent and quict the river may scem to boe while submitting to the dominion of winter, its breaking yp is always a matter of absorbing in- terest. The break-up commenced three weeks ago, and had the fine weather of Sun- day, March 19, held for two or three days longer it is altogether likely that the ice would have passed out quietly and without damage to property, but weather turned suddenly cold and was severe enough to form new ice that se- curely anchored the old and brought the movement to a complete standstill, Meanwhile the upper waters were send- ing down their floods and the increased pressure only strengthened the gorge of ice already formed between here and Llk Point. The damage was foreseen by the people acquainted with the stream and precautions for safety taken in time. Andthe flood came.” For a week communication has been cut off be is city and I'lk Point,and a con in the latter’s inundated. or jeopardy of immediate vicinity has be There has been no los human life and no destruction of e or property, save that in the overflowed Qistrict the operations of planting nnd sowing will with. be somewhat interfered case of disaster, mote or difficult nts investigation the outside world, clamoring for is fed from the fertile brains of those accommodating people who fur- nish special correspondence for the daily press. Thus it happens that the Journal, bound to present only the facts based upon reliuble reports and the ob- servations of the newsgatherers, has necessarily been confined to accounts that seem” meager in comparison with the thrilling and graphic novels pro- duced for the press of other cities. Comparisons of the situation at Elk Point with the memorable flood of 1581 further up the river have been made in amanner that conveyed the idea of similal and which 1s all together mis- s in rumor supj and news, leading.” It is probably true that the water was as high and perhuaps a little higher at Elk Point thi than it i ume locali , for the then the principal gorge above that town, while this season it was below. No corr parallel conld be drawn between the Elk Point freshev of 1887 and the terribly destructive in- undation that reached from below Ver- million to Yankton in 1851, There was no such sudden and overwh i no batte and crushing of tr building: no such permancnce of flood heigh, and nosuch days of cold and storm to torture flooded dwellings the flood this yea dle” to that of seve 2. 2, A GREAT SOLDIER GONE, the people in their In common par! did not “hold a ¢ wrs ago. Death of General Q. A, Gillmore at His Home in Brooklyn. New York Herald: Major General Quincy dams Gillmore, United army, died carly yesterday morning at his home in Brooklyn, No. 147 Remsen strect. He nad been ill for about weeks previous to his death of & com- plication of liver and kidney trouble but for many years he has horne with a soldicr’s fortitude the suffering caused by malaria contracted in the south during the war. General Quiney Adams Gillmore was born at Black Riyer. n county, O., on February 28, 1525, father ‘was one of the earliest 1 of Ohio. and General Gillmore’s childhood was spent on his father’s fary General Gillmor gained his e y education in the old- fashioned country school, and later he stadied at the Norwalk (O.) academy For three years preceding histwentieth birthday he taught a district school and attended two terms at the high school in Elyria, O. While there lie read hoem of his owa composition at a pu ic exhibition, which att ed 1) tention of the congressman fre district, who offered * him _the v the United cepted the o terid the uead s and cu nt West Point on July 1, 1854, He wasn hard, consojontious student, and grad- uated with high honors on June 80,1549, standing first in his clase of forty-three. The next day ho was promoted to n brevet second lieutenancy in the oorps of enginvers, and for three years served as an assistant engineer in the building of Forts Monroe and Calhoun for the defence of Hampton Roads. He was now promoted to & second lieutenanc in the corps of engincers, and in 1852 he made assistant instructor in practigal military engineering at tho West Point acndemy, in which position he served until September 15, 1856, In July, 1856, General Gillmore was promoted to a first licutenancy,und held that rank in the army registers until 1861, 1In the interim f\n had served as tronsurer at West Point and as quarter- master, had been in charge of the engi- neer agency 1n this city for supplying and shipping materials for fortifica- tions, ete., and wasalso in charge of the fortifications in the harbor. When the war of the rebellion broke General Gilmore was acting as assistant to Major General Barnard in the con- struction of the fort at Sandy Hook. In August, 1861, he was promoted to a cap- tainey in his corps, and as chief of en- ‘r peers accompanied the Port Royal xpeditionary corps on the staff of General Thomas W, Sherman in Octo- ber, 1861, He too! yrominent part in the operations npon Hilton Head, S. C on November 7, 1861 and after the r duction of the place he vebuilt and strengthened the forts and superin- tended the erection of new fortifications at that point. He acted as one of the commissionors in the arrangement of the terms of ca- itulation of the place, and on April 11, . he roceived the reward of his mer- itorious service 1n the shapo of a pro- motion to be brevet lieutenant colonel. 111 health forced General Gillmore to goon a leave of absence after theso operations, and it was not until the fol- lowing August that ho resumed acf duty again. Ho was not thoroughly ro- covered at that time, but his less spirit chafed against the restraint of ill- ness. and despite his physician’s ndvico to the contrary, reported for duty. Having been promoted to be brigadier general of United States volunteers, ho spent a month assisting the governor of this state to organize sixty regiments of state troops and forward them to the front. From September 18 to September 28, 1862, General Gilmore was in command of the division that operated from Cov- ington, Ky.,and from the latter date until October 14, 1862, ected the op- erations of the division of Western rginia. Next he commanded the firsy division of the army of Kentucky and later the division of Central Ken- tucky. It was while thus engaged that on March 30, 1863, he administered a crushing defeat to General Peagram in the battle of Somerset. For this ex- ploit he was breveted colonel, and fin the following June,on his return to duty after after another absence on sick leave, he was given command of the de- partment of the south, comprising all territory ocoupied by union troops on the coasts South Carolina, Georgia, und Florida. In July of the same year he was given command of the Tenth aamy corps, and dircoted the memorable operations against Charleston, 8. C. These opera- tions comprised the descentupon Morris Island on July 10, a brilliant achieve- ment, for which he was breveted brig- adier general; the bombardment and reduction of Fort Sumter; the sicge and capitulation of Fort Wagner and Battey G rcgi These operations were characterized by marked skill and bold- ness, and resulted in his promotion as major general of volunteers. During the pursuit of the rebels under General Early in July, 1864, Gen- eral Gilmore was verelr injured by the falling of his horse, and was absent on sick leave for a month. Then he acted as president of a commission for the testing of heavy iron cannon, went on a tour of inspection of the fortif tions from C , 111, to Pensacola, 17 and was again in command of the De- partment of the South from February 9 to November 17, 1865. Meanwhile he bad been brevetted bragadier gencral for his services in connection with the capture of Fort Wagner and major en- ral for his services in the assault ont Morris Island and the bombardment and demolition of Fort Sumtc In December, 1865, he resigned his commission as major general of volun- teers and returned to gineer bureau at subsequently service in the en- Washington, being appointed engineor-in- chief of all the fortifications and river improvements on the At- of New Yor He was made m ant jor in June, 1863, 1 slonel in 1874 and colonel on 0, 1674, He was president of the ppi river commission and of several boards for important river and harbor improvements and as ono of the i at the centennial exposition in ,he made interesting reports on and, Roman and Other Artificial >s and Cements,” and on *Briek- kg Machinery, Brick Kilus, Per- »d and Enamelled Bricks and ements.” Ile wrote a number of ks, among them being, “The Siege and Reduction of Port Pulaski, Hydraulic Cements and Mortar gincering and Avtillery Ope Against Charleston in 1863, Belton Coigne id other Artificial Stones,” “The Strength of the Building Stone of the United States,” and Roads, Streets and Pave ts.” Oberlin college, Ohio, conferred upon him the degree of master ot arts, and ten- Feh- atio Plantin Kansas City Times: Kangag and Mis sourLhye both welbetén bor days, Mr. Goodman, socretary of the Missouri horticultural sooiety, has issued a ¢irons lar urging thatschool boards and ebunty courts take up the mattor and add the waight of their influence to make the tree planting goneral, He gives sho following hinte on the best varieties of trees: The best native forost trees: The elm, then the maplo, then the ash and box-eldah 1f you can get them and can afford it, get the sugar maplo, tulip troe of linn tree; also, in cities, use the aycamore. 1t stands the enn‘i smoke best. The best evergreens: Req cedar, Norway spruce and white ping, Pl 1n clumpa of five or seven,and not in Straig lines 8o much Kansas has yet to give that attontion to trea planting her conditions of roil and olimate demand. The westorn part of the state particularly needs the pros- enco of fo . To quote from Mr, Par- ker’s paper in the fifth report of the state board of agriculture: ‘*Arboreal culture is the most vital question before the people of western Kansas. If one- eighth of the territory could be covered with forests it would become one of the most productive portions of the country. Forests would make this region a para- dise. They would undoubtedly prevent the hot winds and would have a ton- dency to drive tornadoes into the upper regious of the atmosphere and render them harmles; Mr. Parker thinks that in western Kansas it is useless to slant sugar maple, beech, willows. arches, firs and spruces. He recom- mends the black walnut, the hackberry, the ashleaved maple, the green ash, the honey locust and the wild cherry, The vod codar is almost the only evorgreen which ean_bo depended upon. Prof, Popenoe of the Kansas college reports that on the colle grounds the whito ash has done well s0 black walnut, catalpa, soft maple e last two on poor, gravelly, clay soil), ailantus, box alder and green ash. He reports that the lareh, hickory, sugar maple, echestnut and Norway spruce did not re the dry summers and locusts of 1872 and 1874, ~ F'rom the rather meagor reports of the stato au- thorities it is evident that no gencral movement to extend forest culture has been inaugurated. Precise information as to the best varieties for the different soils and climatic conditions does not seem to have been se- cured, and the question is stil in the experimental stage. There is no doubt about the high utility of trees to western Kans All the writers ndmit that gencral proposition. If half the money spent last year in boring for nat- ural gas had gone into young forekts thé state would have an intorest hearing investment which in a fow years would be invaluable for its benefits to other crops. For its instruction in what forest culture can do in producing a direct profit the experience of California may be eited. Tt is said that the most valu- able farm land in the world {8 that planted in_English walout trges in southern Califor The cortain re- turn is never less than 10 per cent. on $3,000 an nere. The trees do not heag for several years after they are plantg —probably not befgre the seventh o eighth year—bnt when they once hegin ¢ require little further x%cnliml.uml v fail to give a crop. There is no tree known which will give such aprofit in western Kansas, but no doubt a full series of experiments would very soon show what is the best for the artifical forests which western Kansas must have, In th ern middle states people wha wish o trec of rapid growth and handd some appearance select the Caroling poplar. On poor soil it will grow in threc or four years to be a large and showy shade tree. Its wood is of little value and it does not live long, but to answer the purpose while more valuablo treesare growing in the east it has no equal. Whether it can be depended upon on western plains has, as far as ve- ports seem to go, not been determined. OThe manuer of planting young treeg cannot be better described than in the language of Mr. M. W. Reynolds, who has recently said ia the Geuda Springs Herald: You can't stick a trec into a Tittle consti- pated hole without any room for the roots to run out, dump on a lot of dry clods of dirt and expeet it will grow. The tree expect better treatment. From kind heaven it ceives refreshing dews and propituous shotv- rs and the warm, geninl sunshine. Tt rebels ge than that The hole should be ample, for an ordinary good sized tree two feet and a haif deap and from twa,o nd o half feet in diameter. Always gp ow the hard pan. Then fill in with fincly ed blacic dirt, or surface soil. Care- d out the roots and fibers. put in few inches, then tighily pacl Unless it is very wet pul hulf to a the dirt full pail of water to each tree. ~Muleh with conrse m dif convenient put somo stones upon the mutehing to hold it down, ng uud to hold {ho keep the tree moisture, 1 providin Arbor day by In western Kansas th zot up early thyt day and keep plaating until dark. Around farm houses, schools and churches should bo big groves. Along the roads, by the ditches, on the hills, in the bottoms should be rows of trees. The people out there can not for one day or one week be too eruzy on the subjoct of tr Plant them this year, and if neces Leep them mulched and watered through tho summer, It wiil be labor well expended. Get them onee s d and they will grow on whether they are cherished or negs lected, Like a lifc insurance policy needed protection bank out of whichin they not only 't a8 asaving Tord (ly(l:;:g‘ s college that of doctor of philos- ! LR SLEIREY L OB QRS General Gillmore was at ome fime | ‘f;‘ I Wih 'A“""_ Anieroat ’R;‘f‘ president of the Kings county “*L" rond. D RIGU THON8: - ACLORAIEIQ iy He was marvied twi Four sons Dy, | ot iEOS (o O SHd, VORI, Bitred QUY first wife survive him. of every 160, planted in trees, will male A tel aph message has been sent to Lieutenant Gillmore, now stationed at Fort Clark, Tex., and arrangements for the funeral will not be made until 1 s heard from, weste Kansns a paradise, Tand in a radise is worth at least $25 to $50 an How can western Kansas in t id and money better than in a cheap crop which will thus advance the of the whole scetion? J value JONES, HE It is no longer necessary 10 puy your tailor fancy prices for trousers. Jones can fit und ple Over u thous- you. and puirs to select from, From $1.98 to $10.00, for perfect fitting tailor mado punte. A chromo will b fit i man who is too tall for Jones to pants. Whatever you forget, remem ber that SELLS PANTS,