Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 30, 1888, Page 2

THE OMAHA PAILY BEE: MONDAY, APRIL 80, 1888 NEBRASKA'S LITTLE OMAHAS Although Not Yet So Large as the Metropolis, THEY GET THERE JUST THE SAME. Ttems of Interest to People With Money, Brains and Enterprise— New Opportunities for TIn- vestment—Wyoming Oil. Affairs at Ashland, Asnraxp, Neb., April 25.—[Special to the Ber,]—Ashland now seems to have a pros- pect of a prosperous year. Her trade is - creasing and everything scems to favor a boom. We have & population of about twen- ty-five hundred. As evory one that is well versed in the geography of the state knov Ashland'is located in as favorable a locality as thero is in thestate. The-city is assum- ing metropolitan airs, and there is talk of strect railways, street paving and electric light. We aiready have a complete system of water works. David Dean, president of the South Platte lumber company, will build a 10,000 resi- dence this summer. Besides this a host of smaller residences will be built. K. C. Pan- ©ost is contemplating the replacement of his present place of business with a large brick structure, and also thinks he will build a fine residence. W, J, Dennir, the well-known Turniture dealer, has sold his immense_stock and business to O. D. Harford, of Minne- apolis, Minn,, who will take possession im- mediately, and talks some of building abrick store, H. Snell is about to commence the erection of a large addition to his already large building on Fourth street. otition for the erection of a bridgo across 1t ereck, at the foot of Silver street, is in aircnlation, and is meeting with good suc- cess. E Rumors are afloat_that the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad will enter the city from Nebraska City, and press on to the northwest, and the rumor is well founded. seems also to bu a fact that the Union Pacific will build through the city thi aner. The camping of a large force of men With the necessary machinery and tools north of town, conveys the idea that something in the way of railrond grading was_to be done in this vieinity this summer. With these prospects Ashland naturally feels somewhat elated. o Creighton's Advantages. Crereuroy, Neb., April 20.—[Correspond- ence of the Bek,]—Knox county and Cregh- ton are experiericing & general boom. Since spring has opened business of all kinds has assumed a very healthy and substantial as- -pect.and we look forward to one of the most “prosperous years we have ever experienced. ‘The splendid weather is affording a good op- portunity for' scedimg which is progressing rapidly. Kuox county, already noted for af- fording good facilities for feeding, has more ‘than sustained this reputation the past season. Three special trains of Knox county stock have -already been shipped and there are from two to three thousand fat steers await- ing shipment. About three hundred men and teams are grading on the Fremont, Elichorn & Missouri oxtension from Creighton to Verdgre, a dis- tance of twelve miles. The grading is to be finished by June 15 and the iron to be laid thirty days later. Creighton people are quite elated over the prospect of two new roads in the near future. We have a positive assur- ance that the Duluth & Denver will build a line to this place en routg from Yankton to Denver, The prominent business men and railroad men of Sioux City are secking a western route in order to r‘. a flrmer hold on Nebraska trade. t a meeting of the prominent citizens of Sioux City, Creighton and O'Neill, a com- pany was formed which will be known as the Sioux City, Creighton and O'Neill Wes- tern railroad company, and the route is being surveyed at the present time. With three roads, Creighton’s importance as a distrib- nting point would soon become manifest, and ‘building is- being pushed forward rapidly. A new creamery will be in operation in May. Qur citizens are offering liberal inducement s to parties who will build and operate a pack- ing house or a canning establishment or ‘both. These interests would find as good support here as in any city of like size in Ne- ‘braska. Land hunters are arriving every day and are delighted with the country, Thousands _of acres of farm lands change hands overy “weoek ; inthe eastorn part of the county there is a tract of noarly three hundred thousand aeres of speculator’s land which can be pur- chased at from 7 o $10 per acre. This is as -fine land as can be found in Nebraska and on the line of the proposed roads from Yankton and Sioux City. Oentropolis and Banner County. CrNTROrOLIS, Neb., April 20.—[Special to the Bre.]—During the last two years a fierce division war has raged in Cheyeune county. Last fall the question was submitted to the voters on the three-county plan, and was de- feated by 118 votes, The people of Sidnc the present county seat, were then opposed o any division, but upon finding this spring that the outside people were preparing to combine and carry division by making a large number of small counties and cutting Sid- noy’s territory down to the smallest parcel allowod by law, the Sidney citizens immedi- “ptely conferred with the more conservative “Jeaders of the division cause, and the vesult is that a proposition has been submitted by the commissioners to make five counties out of Cheyenue_county. + . Pumpkin Creek valley is almost as widely %known throfighout Nebraska and the cast as o yyenne county itself. It is certain that is famous valley is to-day the most thickly “settled portion of this great county, Tho new county of Banner boasts that within its border lines will be found almost the entire Pumpkin valley. This new county will be in shze twenty-one by thirty-six miles, extend- jng from township 17 to the middle of 20, in- .elusive, and ranges 53to 58, inclusive. It ilt be bordered on the north by the new unty of Scott’s Bluffs; on the east by what §aleftof old Cheyenne county; on the south by-the new county of Kimball, and on the ‘west {s found tho great territory of Wyom- n the 15th of July, 1885, T explored the then wild region to which' we now npcly the title of Banner county. There were then just two sottlers’ shanties in the valley. To-day’s B lation- is five or six thousand, and nearly I the immigrants who land at the ncarest railroad station—Kiwball, twenty-five miles south—are bound for this favored spot. The ew county is & perfect garden of natural ources. Water can be obtained anywhere &t from fifteen to eighty feet. Hundreds of strong springs are found in the mountains which border the valley on either side. Enough cedar and piteh pine timber abounds along the bluffs to last the inhabitants for pears to come, Itis free for th \ The first town with any tance has just beeen surve; known. capitalist, C. A. Schoole him are associated scveral energetic men. The new metropolis, or Centropolis, s it is called, is lo- cated just one-half mile from the center f tho new county, aud it is as yet a paper whn only. Several stores, 8 nOWSpaper man and other business wen have combined to Degin active operations at the new city on tho 16th of May, aud from that tune forth things will hum wround Centropolis. The Missouri acificralway is headed for this valley from Courney, and the new town being in the hands of men who are intimately connected ‘with the high Missour: Pacific officials makes our prospects anything but dull. “The post- office is at present called Randall, and all mail should be addressed to Randall until July 1, when the oftice will be changed to Ceutropolis, Wyoming's Coming Industry. pER, Wyo., April 27.—[Special to the Bee.]—Many oil transfers are now being re orded in the office of the clerk of Fromont eounty to different oil compunies. A resi- dent of Lander is in New York stirring up fhings and with flattering prospects. The Carisa gold miving company at South Puss pave developed some astounding results, by fhiscovering that the black sands in the Bwootwater mines which havo been allowed $0 run off with the tuillngs, assiy up o the , and with wealthy and ! i thousands per ton, one sample assaying §S,500 per Yon. Another sample of eleven pounds of these sands gave #9600 per ton, This is going to revolutionize quartz mining in Sweetwater, This is in close proximity to the oil belt. The fuel of the near fature avill be crude petroleum, Every residence will have con- veyed into its firo places grates and stoves, the ctude material by pipes similar to the manner i which gas is conducted through houses, and avoid all the labor and filth which usnally accompanies the using of coal and wood, by the simple turning of a cock. Manufactures of every description will ro sort to this fuel. Brick burners who have tested its heating qualities have proclaimed to the world that coal and wood for brick making-is a thing of the past. Crude pe troleum supersedes it by 50 to 75 per cent in cheapness and time required. It is only tho progressivo man of to-day that can grasp the revolution being made by the appliance of this agency and the many new aventes it is ovening up. The distillers; brewers, hotels, smeiting works and fountdries will in a short period of time chan ge their fuel orders from coal, coke and wood to a cortain number of barrels of oil properly placed in underggound cisterns, {6 be drawn upon at their w with an outlay of not to oxceed one-third of the cost of the former fuel. Omaha _has within her grip the means of Dbeing the best and the cheapest lighted and heated city in the United States excopting Pittsburg, and it will rank close to that city when matters are thoroughly understood. As the Northwostern approaches the oil fielas of Wyoming a daily growing interest is manifested_in oil lands, 1'our thousand eight hundred acres of oil lands have been located in the last week in the George B, Groff oil mining district. The thounn,r’l(i! of barrels of oil collected in the dry of Little Sopragie near the Groff wells, is liable 1o go out when the high water in June comes and cover the cultivated fields below with oil. ‘Tho people of Lander pay 50 cents per gallon for oil and yet have at their door ponds whero escaping ofl has gathored in suficient quantities to float a steamboat. Oakland Nowa. OARLAND, Neb., April 28.—[Special to the Bre.]—Oakland has no particular boom, but is having a steady and substantial growth and will continue to grow as the town has fhe country to back it. Several residences are being built, and many are under contemn- plation. A beautiful town hall is one of the probabilities of the near future. Business i in lines is perceptibly brisk. Many of our business men thought when the saloons were opened again, that they would prove a dis- astrous effect upon the commercial interests of the town, but it appears the boycotting threatened by many temperance farmers just after the election, contiguous to Oak- land, was all talk as thoy still trade in Oak- land, where they always get the top price for all their produce. The pride and boast of our town is our graded school, which is conceded to be one of the best in the state, under the efficient management of Prof. Emery with able assist- ants, Our present building is becoming in- adequate to the demands, and another build- ing will soon be erected. Oukland wants a canning factory, and any- one looking for a firstelass location would do well to visit our prosperous town first. The natural advantages here are unexcelled for different manufacturies, and a hearty wel- come is extended to all such. Our creamery is running, making fine butter and is proving a great thing for the surrounding farmers. Our city milling interest represents the neat sum of $40,000, with a_capacity of seventy- five barrel$ per day, and is running night and day. Rev. Millard, pastor of the Methodist Epis- coval church, formerly of Hanscom Park Methodist Episcopal church, Omaha, has proved to be an able man here, and has a popular place in the hearts of his people. Since he came here the interest in religion has increased among the people, and the praises from Oakland and Craig people bear testimo ow well his work is being done here and in Craig. Frank Wallestead has sold his store and will move to Salt Lake City. Mr. and Mrs: J. G Arthur returncd from San Diego, Cala., where they have been for six ronths. . : The republican club here meets twice a month, Considerable interest is being mani- fested. ———— Booming Palmer. PaLMer, Neb., April 25.—([Special to the Bek.j—Among Nebraska's many promising towns none offor more advantages to settlers than Palmer. The town 1s located on the B. & M. railroad 100 miles from Lincoln, The railroad branches from this point for St. Peul and Arcadia, also for Burwell and intermediate points and the road has been swerved from Palmer east to Schuyler, gi ing a direct ling for the products of the north- wost to Omaba. The Union Pacific railrond has also.surveyed through this point. Palmer is to be made the eud of a division. The road has completed a five-stall rouna house, a depot 130x30 two stories high, large coal houses, an ice house and over eight miles of side track. Repair shops G0x160 are also promiged in the near future, Our growth has been remarkable in view of the fact that it was all done in midwinter. One large brick block and twenty other substantial business houses have been crected, also about twenty dwel- lings. Two churches are in process of con- struction and erything promises a lively growth this season, Our citizens are terprising and determined to bring to the front. A board of trade has been or- ganized and will send a man to the west bound excursion trains to advertise the The Loupe river which flows near P; shuts off a portion of the country, naturally tributary to the town, but this obstacle was promply come by the construction of a splendid Settlers have but to visit the place to at once recognize its splendid advan- tages. Chadron Water Works. Cuavrox, Neb., April 29.—[Special Tele- gram to the Bee]—A. A. Richardson, the expert hydraulic engincer of Lincoln, who has been engaged by this city to get up plans and specifications for 4 system of water works, hias been here for the last week taking surveys of the surrounding country with a view to establishing agravity system, After carefully reviewing the matter Mr. Richard- son recommended to tho council that they abandon the gravity system as being expen- sive and not consistent with the requirements of the city, and to adopt the pumping system instead, taking water from the Chadron creok two miles from tho city which is fed. by springs and will afford 2,000,000 gallons per day at that point. Thecouncil,aft refully 100king the ground over with Mr. Richardson, adopted his recommendation and instruoted’ him to pre- pare plans for 8 pumping system, as soon as possible, The citizens are highly elated over the prospect of a first-class system of water works, The works will be completed, Tamtold by the engineer, in about four months. The city is already booming on the strength of the water works, and property has gone up 25 per cent in the last two days, The plunt when complete, will cost §0,000, Wafts From Wahoo, Wanoo, Neh., April 25.—[Special to the Bee.]—During the last thirty-six hours Saunders county has been blessed with sev- eral Leavy refreshing showers, which have made the long face of the farmer broaden with thankful s The rain is worth £50,000 to this county. The ropublican county central comuuittee have caltled the county conveution for day, the Sth of May, to select del coming state and district conv friends of Hon. K paraiso, will ask a de convention at Ashland, who will fa as a delegate to the national con There scems to be no opposition and it probable a delegation favorable to him ho mew mayor and counil have pas ordinances raising the saloon license to ¥ and levying & $250 occupation tax, making it cost §1,000 to run a saloon in Wahoo for ihe xt ycar. Five spplications have been made d that is probably all that will take out cense whereas wo had ten saloous last year, The business men's ¢iub bave a packing house pro sition on hand and it seews likely we will add a packing house to our indus- tries before season is over, There is | also a proposition for the erection of an cultural implement manufactory. The ol is doing a great deal for Wahoo gt its mem- bers, who include nearly all of the bauiness men, intend to keep Wahoo among the first cities in the state, Crete Callings. Orere, Neb., April 25.~[Special to the Bre.)—As an evidence that Crote 48 march ing on slowly but suroly totvards @ success- ful future, the real estato traasfers fully prove, during the past ten days, $10,000.worth of property has changed hands, which might be considered very good for a much larger town, Colonel H. F. Dorors, of Lincoln,. aud a committee of the First regimont of K. of P., of this state, visited the assembly grounds to-day and choose & loeation where they will camp a8 a body during the session of the ns- sembly this summer. They will bring their families with them, This will bring a good many who are interested in the assembly. Every indication is for more than_ twice the number of peoplo this year than there were in_attondance last summer. Kvery ono is gotting to apprecinte the assembly work. ot~ Dorsey's Ohances Good. Norrork, Neb., April 20.—[Special to the Bei.]—At the republican caucus yesterday D. H. Holms, George N. Beels, J. 8. Pierce, W. H. Widaman, W, Leavitt, W. H. Dexter, H.S. Spaulding, P. F. Sprecher, Walter Powell, and C. F. Eiscly were elected dele- @atos to the county convention to be held at Battle Croek next Saturday. Dorsey stock is at a premium in these regions, and without doubt Dorsey delegates will be chosen at the county convention. The Third congress- jonal district convention is to be held here on tho 14th of May to nominate a congressman, and also deiegates to the national convention in Chicago. The Union Pacific will run trains to accommodate those wishing to at- terfd this and the state convention at Omaha on the 15th. —— Outran the Officer. Cunris, Neb, April 20.—[Special Tele- gram to the Beg.]—At the term of the dist- trict court just closed indictments were found against the election board of this place and two promment citizens. There were twenty- seven indictments in all against these seven persons. All were arrested and pleaded not guilty and bound over to the next term of court, except one of the clerks of election, L. A Bl"ynn, ‘who escape: He returned on a train from the east to-day. He was discoy- ered just at dusk this evening by Deputy Sheriff McGowen, and when the officer started for him ho dropped his overcoat and started across the prairie with the ofticer after him. Tt was a dead heat for a while, but the fugitive outran the officer, and is still at large. Items From Harrison. Hannisox, Neb., April 26.—[Correspond- ence of the Bee.]—This village recently in- corporated is recovering from February's disastrous fire aud is re-building the burnt district better than ever, A refreshing rain on Wednesday broke the drouth that was causing some apprehension to agricultural mterests. A disastrous fire-has boen burn- ing for two weeks in the timber, extending from Sowbelly canyon to Hat creek, but has been checked by the rain. The republicans of this precinct have just organized a club, involving weekly meetings and discussions of questions of party policy ofi national is- sues. ————— Voted As He Preached. 8rraTTON, Nebh., April 27.—To the Editor of the Bie: Please make this.correction in justice to Rev. G. W. Rich, of Stratton, Neb. Mr. Thomas Dunn and myself, who were both judges of election, took the pains to ex- amine the ballots, and find that Rev. G. W. Rich, pastor of the Congregational church Stratton, had voted the Peopl=* ucket, which was understood here ag #lc prohibition ticket, and so voted hiss<itiments as he had preached the Suude, previous. N. T. JoNEs. ———— ‘Washington County Democrats. Bramk, Neb.,, April 20.—[Special to the Bek.|—The democratic convention for the purpose of electing delegates to the state convention to be held at Omaha ' May 2, was held here to-day. The following were elected delegates: P. McCarthy, W. H. Farnsworth, Peter Hammong, E. P. Newell and E. N. Grennell, They go uninstructed, but it was uniformally resolved that they would support tho candidacy of Hon. John E. Sherwin, of Fremont as one of the delegates to the national convention a ——— Snowing at Norfobc: © Norrork, Neb., April 20.—[Special to the Bee.|—The heavy ana much needed rain of Thursday night was succeeded by a cold wave which encouraged the use of coal and overcoats, The storm, with ‘some inter- missions, has continued, and this morning it is snowing. If just enough and not too much of a good thing is had, farmers in this rogion will hope for good’ crops again this year, Witl Vote on Court House Bonds, Bram, Neb, April 28.—[Special to the Ber]—At a session of the board of - super- visors of this county held on thie 20th, 4 prop- osition to vote bonds to build a court house was adopted, the bonds to be for §50,000 and to run twenty years ath per cent semi-an- nual interest. Tt will be voted on on June 2. SMALL PO N BROOKLYN, One Dead and Nine Oases in the Same House. Nrw York, April 20.—[Special Telegram to the Bek]—Information was received a week ago at the coroner's office in Brooklyn that Hermann Hilmann, eightoen years of age, had died suddenly at his residence. Coroner Lindsay upon investigation found death was due to small pox, He_ immedi- ately communicatod with the health depart- ment and it was learned the case had been concoaled. The health inspector discovered the boy had been con fined Yo his - room . for some weoks and thut the neighbors had come in contact daily with persons by whom he wis doctored. The houso was thoroughly fumigated and every precaution taken to pro- vent the spread of the disease, The health commissioner was surprised yesterday to re- ceive information that there wus more ‘small Pox in the house, He dispatched two in- spectors to the place and they found nine persons down with the discase. The pationys were removyed to Flatbush hospital and tha houso was again fumigated. To-day the commissioners sent a number of vaccmators out to attend to the people in the locality, - Lived One Hn Sr. Joseren, Mo., April 20.—(Special, Tele- gram to the Bex.]--On Tuesday, May 1, at the board of trade in this city, the centen- nial colebration of Husselton Compton, the oldest surviving settler in northwest, Mis- souri, will occur. Mr. Compton was born 1n New Jersey, May 1, 1788, and prior tp his moving to St. Joseph in 1840 had lived in Marysville, Ky., Crawford, Ind., and Adams was at one ‘thne quite wealthy, but of late ) moderate circumstances. He still proserves his senses and mental faculties, the only evidence of weakness being an implacable hatred of the republican party and republi cans. He bas ordered an obituary of him- self prepared, which is to be sent ouly to democratic papers. The city officials, mem- bers of the board of trade, and all old settlers will attend the celeb ¥ PontLAND, Maine, Apri egram to the Bre.]—The schooner Ellen Crusoe, Captain Ross, which arrived yester- day with a cargo of palm oil and pative pro- ducts from Monrovia, Liberia, brought as passengers James W. Goode, high sheriff of Montzerrada county, and Cornelius McKae, grandson of the uative king who sold Liberia 10 the colonization socioty.” McKane was ed- ucated in Awerica, spending four years in New York, Goode was born in Washingten in 1524 and went to Liberia about 1360. He will go to Baltimore where ho will have an operation performed on his eyes, belug stone blind from catarrh. MeKano will go to Washinglon and proposes to make s lect ing tour of tho southers. states 0 indus wigration tw Liberia, red Years, rs has becn in rathor: UNABLE 70 SUIT BOTH SIDES, Towa's R.anrom'i bommlsslou Virtu- ally Between Two Fires. Ty ST.JOHN'S HAWKEYE FOLLOWERS Well Meaning Aposties of the Cold Water Brigade-~Pete Hepburn, the High-Handed Railrond Striker, Dies Tgrible Hard. — Work of the Railroad Commissioners. Des Moises, Ta, April 28,—[Correspond- ence of the Brn. ] —The railroad commission- ors of this state will give an audiente on Wednesday next to the various representa tives of the rallroads, prelimina to their fixing a schedule of froight chargoes, as re- quired by the new law. The manufacturing gnd jobbing interests will also be represented, and representatives of the coal trade will also be on hand. The conferenee will partake more of the nature of a court than formerly. Heretofore the commissioners have possossed only advisory powers, and were regarded with little less than contermpt by the railroads, who either obeyed or disregarded their decisions as suited their humor. Now that the commis- sion has beon invested with all the powers that a legislature may legally confer, tho railronds have changed their tune and throw themselves on the mercy of the commission. The commissioners are literally between two fires. The anti-monopolists demand that the maximum tariff bill which passed the house but did not become a law for want of action by the senate, shall be taken as a guide by the commissioners in making a schedule, while the railroads insist that these rates are to low, and that prosent rates should be maintained. Some concessions will un- doubtedly be made to the jobbers and to tho coal interests, but it is doubtful nif any wholesale reduction will be decrced. The commission may try to strike a happy me- dium and fix the schedule half way between the maximum tariff and the prevailing rates, If they do this it will satisfy neither side and result in the election of anentirely new set of commussioners this fall. The new law goes into effect May 10, and the commision- ers will have sixty days from that date to complete thedr wi Tho present commission consists of Hon. Spencer Smith, of Council Bluffs, Hon. Frank T. Campbell, of Newton and Hon. Peter A, Dey, of lowa City. Mr. Smith was connected with the Nonpareil for some time, and is regarded as a strong unti-monopolist and in favor of all reasonable railroad regu- lation. Mr. Campbell was a member of the state senate in 1874, and assisted in drafting the old ‘“‘granger tariff.” He modified his views somewhat, and in 1878 assisted in the repeal of the law. Still the corporation: while taffying him to an almost unlimite extent, ~were mot at all satis- fled with the appointment. Gover- nor Larrabee's views on the railrond question are well known, and it is not to be supposed that he would have appointed Campbell without knowing his man. Peter ho third commissioner, isa_democrat, and holds his position by virtue of his knowl: edge of the practical workings of the railroad business. If he ever gave a decision un- triendly to railroads the fact has escaped public notice. Whatever relief the people may get from railroad extortion through the commission will be the work of Messrs, Smith and Campbell THE THIRD PAREY- PROTIBITIONISTS, The state convention; of the St. John pro- hibition party was held in this city on Thurs- day. Twenty-eight delegates, representing eighteen counties, were present. They were mainly, or at least partly, former democrats, who, bgcoming ashamed of the position of that party on the temperance question, and not feeling like jowing the republicans, where they can make their votes count for prohibition, they haye concluded to flock by themselves during! the campaign. James Mickelwait of Mil's'county, who heads the ticket for secretary of state, is a well mean- ing farmer of mire ‘than average abil- ity. Fiftoon years ago he was elected to the legislatire on the anti-monopbly tickot, and the taste he then got of public life suited him so well that he bobs up at every opportunity to lead some forlorn hope in the uncertain fleld of politics. Nearly all of the delegates are old men, entirely unused to conducting political conventions, and their displayes of ignorance of the simplest parlia- mentary forms were very omusing to the spectators. Nearly, or quite all of the dele- gates are devout church members, and judg- ing from their resolutions, they believe the civil code should be an exact transcript of tho bible. They took strong ground on woman suffrage, and it was difficult to tell whether this reform or prohibition lay near- st to thoir hearts, If the party papers ignore this ticket or treat their well-meaning but misguided men with respect this convention will hardly cause a diminutive ripple on the surging sea of politics: but if they begin a sistent and systematic course of abuse, and continue 1t during the campaign, tho vote of this party will largely incréase, and may swell to such proportions as to imperil repub- lican succe: The irrepressible J. B. Grinnell was pres- ont, and though not a delegate, insisted upon being heard in opposition to the plank favor- ing the abolition of all tax on whisky. Ho declared that the result wouldbe that whisky would be retailed for 25 cents a gallon in his own town of Grinnell, and that drunkenness would increase ten fold. He was taken sharply to task by new converts, who de- clared that high license was worse thau low license, and would not perceptibly decrease the sales of liquor. Mr. Grinnell 18 an origi- nal prohibitionist and very radical in his ideas, and was somewhat astonished to dis- cover that he was not considered orthodoxon this question by latter Gay prohibitionists. W. P, HEFDURN, Railroad strikers die hard in this state, Notwithstauding the fact that Pete Hep burn, of Clarinda, was buried under an ava- lanche of republican votes when he ran for congress two years ago, failing to carry his own county, though it gave the state ticket 1,000 majority, his political hee and strikers are determined to keep him before the people. A convention of republican clubs will be held in this city next week, and Hepburn is booked as one of the leading speakers. There is no hope of his ever sccur- ing oftice in the Eighth district again, sohe is being industriously groomed for the senatorial race to succeed Allison two years hence, For many years, as chief fugleman for the Q" he ruled the eighth district with an iron hand, and finally every self-respecting repub- lican revoited, and under the lead of Major A. R. Anderson administered a most crush- ing gdefeat to thier former political boss. Hevburn, it is safe toaey, dospite the frantic efforts of a few corpgrujion organs, will never be hoard of in lowa tics again. The fear thav his candidacy. :i,uld result in making the whole state an' Seighth distriot,” will deter many conservatlve men from encour- aging his advances, ~Suill he is as fertile of TeSOUrCos @s your Church Howe and does unot know wi 0 is down, aud will never admit that §io_has been struck by political lightning, REX. e Merged a Minor Road, MARSHALL, Mo., April [Special Tele- graw to the Bee. |—The Missouri Central has been merged into the Ceveland, St. Louis & Kausas City railroad’ _To secure its partially constructed roadbed” §uod franchises and complete the works #,000,000 has b bor- rowed under o geneNM mortzage from the New York Trust co ‘Che instrument was filed yosterday in qu (Saline county) and will” be recorded in ¢ in Missouri which the road r Mullan Tacoma. W. T, April General Manager Buckley, of the Northern Pacific, says Mullan tunnel, reported last night to be wrecked, is perfectly secure and safe as any tunnel the continent. The snow-shed at the west entrance was destroyed by fire and the entrance for a while was blocked by falling timbers and earth. The damage will wmount to a thousand dollars only. e A Fight With Indians. NogaLes, Ariz., April 20.—The Mexican terces had two battles with the Yaquis dur- ing the past weeks, in both of which the In- dians were defeated. They lost altogether taventy-cight killed, 8 uumber wounded and several captured. ‘The fuvdcial forces are 81l lu pursuit. RAIN STOPPED THE GAME. But Omaha and Minneapolis Will Play To-day. Agtain the inclenient weather prevented the opening of the champlonship season in this yosterday afternoon. The Minncapolis team was iipon the ground, but the throaten- ing aspect of the heavens induced the two mauagers to again diskgree upon a post- ponement. The initial game will therefore be played ‘this afternoori—that is, if the woathor clovk s gracions enough to grant a pleasant day, Satur game will be plaged Tugsday., The disappointment over tho “fifflurd to open the s scheduléd time throughout the « intense, and yesterday tho game w theme of conversation in the hotels, on the horse cars and in the strects Evarybody seamed to be interested, and this 1s suMcient to show that the feeling over the great national sport this season is unprecedented With' faitt Weathet today and tomorrow great crowds willbe in attendance at tho park, aid in'a moasure the disappointment of the last two days will be counterbalanced. Belaw will be found the positions of tho two teams for this afternpon: Omahns, O'Connell, Shannon. Minnecapolis. Brosman. .Robinson. .Graves. Western Games Postponed. Kaxsas Crty, Mo., Aprtl 20.—[Special Telo- gramito the Bre, 'he Kansas City Westerns and Chicago Maroons were unable to play to-day. The grounds were saturated by the heavy rains of the past few days. S, Louvrs,'April 20.—[Special Telegram to the Ber.]—Rain prevented the second Milwaukee—St. TLouis White Stockings game to-day. It will be played Monday. —— AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Athletics 3. Brooklyn 2. BrookLYN, April 20.—~The game between Brooklyn and the Athletics resulted as fol- Athletics... Cincinnati LoutsviLLe, April 20.—The game to-day be- tween Louisville and Cincinnati resulted as follows: Louisville, 1 0 0 Cincinnati 6 0 00 0 0—-38 1000 *-8 Pitcher Ferguson Dead. PRILADELPHIA, April 20.—Charles J. Fer- guson, the well-known pitcher of the Phila- delphia base ball club, died this evening of typhoid fover. Sullivan Threatens a Libel Suit. Bostoy, April 20.—[Special Telegram to the Ber.]—John L. Sullivan says the New York Sun must payup for the slanderous story published concerning his conduct on the Catalonia. “I may be a prize fighter,” he said to-night, “‘but my reputation is worth something.” Unless his wrath is appcased a libel suit will follow. Rov. W. R. Manley, a Baptist missionary, who was returning from India and was Sulli- n's fellow passenger, was seen by your correspondent to-day. The story that Sulli- van threatened to break the missionary’s children jn two and toss them overbourd is pure_fiction, a8 is also the episode about the matches. There is no dount Sullivau acted boisterously during the passage and was drunk nearly all the time, and quarrelled with his female companion. A Snowing at St, Paul. St. Pavn, Minn., April 20.—After: a three days’ rain it began snowing this afternoon and at 9 p. m. still continues. Dispatches from St. Poter, Minn., and Yankton, Dak., report snow falling. This is the latest snow of any spring for five years in South Dakota. The rains have raised the Wisconsin and Chi{!pc\vu riyers, causing considerable ap- prehonsion_and some damage at Wausau, Chippewa Falis and Eau Claire. At Chippewa Falls that part of the city known as F'renchtown 18 under water and the people have been compelled to move out, The river is rising at the rate of an inch an hour. At Eau Claive many familics are abandoning theic homes on the flats, One of the city bridges is_in danger to-night. Sev- oral mills have been obliged to close. At Wausau, several lumber yards are under water. The men are working day and night to save property. Railroad bridges are being held down oy car loads of dirt and a portion of the boom is out. Log driving has been abaudoued on somo of the streams on ac- count of the high water. — The Strike Spoiled Their Plans. Cuicaco, April 20.—General Manager Stone of the Burlington road said to-day he did not think it probable any of the proposed extensions by the company west of the Missouri river would be commenced this year. Rate disturbances, and the great strike have completely upset all plans in that dircction. He was not familiar enough with the project of General Manager Holdridge of the Burlington & Missouri t speak regarding the lines west of tho Mis souri river, although he knew considerablo work in tho way of surveys had been done in the mountains, looking to the construction of an {ndependent line by the B. & M. to Salt Lake and the Pacific coast. Al 0y Heavy Rains’ in Northern Texas. Sr. Louis, Mo, Apri lograms from the northern cities of Texas report excecd- ingly heavy rain storms there and in the Indian territory, which have swelled the riyers beyond their bauks, inundated the bottoms and almost swamped the towns, causing a great deal of damage to property and an immense amount of good to crops, No loss of life has been reported but there is much discomfort and many inhabitants aro houseless, having boen compelled to move out. The railroads have suffered great datigge from washouts — More Than Satisfles DrxxN150N, Tex., April pecial Tele- graw to the Bee.]—It has rained incessantly here going on thirty-six hours. The country roads are under water ‘and the mud makes them impassible, The Red river is very high gid where the lands are low has inun- dated the farms, in gome cases destroying all the crops: Railroad tracks are soft and trains slow, every ong being late. Culverts aro Boeatise Hood's Sursaparilla s the best Apring wedl- cine aud blood puriier: Bocause 1t is 8 concentrated extract of the be altomtive and blood purifying remedies ot the Cable ¥ugdom, Bovpuxe, by A peculiar combination, proportion and prepurativn, J§ Possesses CUratiye POWOr Deculiar be suid 100 doses ong dollur,” wu unanswerable arg wept us L0 Btrength and Economy Because It efcots remurkablo cures where uses the kidneys and | in healthy condi [t and herbs are ground In our o makes lmpoesible tho use of noyibing lotorious Boesuse It 18 not advertised to do anything wiich hus not already wecomplished. washod out and bridges rendered unsafe. Wa neoded rain, but this is not a blossing for the crops. e More Rain Than They Wanted. Cisco, Tex,, April Spocial Telo- gram to the Bre.]—No such rain as fell during the past twenty-four hours has ever been known in this section before. All the streams are boyond thelr bounds, and farms in the bottoms have been swept bare of all the growing grain, Railroad trafio is sus- pended in all directions. The weather is cold and gloomy, Corn s not aided ana At s damaged i Blessed With Abundant Rain, Garpes City, Kam, April 20.~[Special Telogram to the Bre.]—Tho receiver of the land office has advices from the fourteen counties which constitute this land district that all have had abundant rains within the Inst twonty-four hour Crops are very promising. Winter wheat is magnificent and corn is up and looking fine. i obics Posto flice Thief Arrested, TRESARKANA, Ark., April 20.—[Special Tele- gram to the Ber.]-—Charles W. Scroggs, who robbed the postofiice at Ingraham last month of §100 in cash, stamps and registered packages, was arrested lato last night on tho south bound train, He was taken to Little Rovk by the United States marshal, prbie oot The Fire Record. New Yok, April 20.—Fire to-day de- stroyed the building at Nos. 403 and 405 Bed- ford avenue, Brookl, ocoupied by dry goods, clothing, grocery and tobacco stores. The i0sses aggregate §225,000. —— Ask your Yrocer for Crow’s high pa- tent flour. Best flour in market. —_—— Mattson. 1CE. Tel. 422. 1822 Douglas. SNty H. H. anc:,junmo of the poace, 506 S. 10th st. Canon City coal. Nebraska Fuel Co. ‘Wanted $100,000 in loans for an eastern customer. A. K. Riley, 1519 Farnam. e 2 Ay FIELD AND FARM. How to Make a Dairy Profitable, A correspondent of the Country Gon- tleman ina_recent letter, writes from Aurelius, N, Y.,on the keeping of a small dairy. He says: The want of something more to uso up the feed [ grown on the farm induced mo to sce if the cows paid. Below you will find the amount of butter made each month, and the number of cows. In the month of April the milk of one cow, a thorough- bred Jersey, was allowed to stand only twenty-four hours for the cream to rise, as it was necessary to have the milk calves. She made pounds of butter. In the month of May were added three grade Terseys, one a two-year- old heifer. The amount for the month was 114 pounds. In June anothér three- year-old was added, making five in all; the |]n'fld\u‘t was 16i younds. July the yield was 141 pounds; the month was hot and dry, with no extra green feed ready to h:lpout. August, 125 pounds; Serf tember, 156 pounds; October, 138 pounds; November, 132 pounds, ’, ¢ pounds; January, 92 pounde, making for the ten months 1,221 pounds of butter. Raised three calves and u: all the cream and milk required for a family of Dbesides the extra help- required on a farm of 200 a Assoon as a cow came in her feed was increased as fast as it would do until it amounted to four quartsdaily of corn and oats ground (one-third corn)and what mixed hay she would eat up'clean. This feed was continued until they went to pasture. After being there a week the grain ration wi decreased until about the 10th of June, and then cea; Near the-1st of Au- gust they were fed a little, a quart ench of oats and bran, until they went into winter quarters, The grain was then increased to four quartsof corn, oats and bran—one-half” corn, the other equal parts. The grain was fed on cut clover hay, about five pounds daily in two feeds, night and morning, and all the cut cornstalks they would consume I will not ask your rendersif it pays; they can figzure for themselves. I have had 25¢ per pound for all butter sold. I think that with all full-aged good cows, and the same cave, 1,500 pounds or more could be made. The better cows and care, the more profit. Salting Butter. If fresh made butter be drained to some extent, and salt added in this wet condition, we get perfect salting, for the moisture in the butter will saturate the salt and dissolve it so that each lit- tle globule will be encased in this salt saturation, and when the butter is worked over, the surplus moisture will be pressed out, leaving the dissolved salt evenly distributed throughout the mass. Any more salt than can be dissoly- ed in butter remains in the butterassalt crystals, and does not aid in preserving it. The film of dissolved salt about each globule seals it, so to speak, from the air, and holds its colour fast for t1 time. The addition of more salt than this er to the taste for a salt flavor d by habit. As soon as one he- stomed to the salt solution salting, about half an ounce to the pound, he discovers that the butter fla- vor and the sharper salt flayor in the butter are not in de, but of kind, and so prefers the forme Butter, like buck-wheat cakes, should be eaten when young. The practice of making butter and keeping 1t for monthbs for a £ is wrong. 'Butter nev i fectasit is the first week; and, il possi- ble,the production of butter should be s0 equalized that the consumption ghould keep pace with the production, and do awny with the summer over- sunply that loads down the market brings low prices, and _consigns thousands of tons of good butter—in its day—to the grease rendering factories. —(Butter Maker, Bocauso Hood’s Sarsapurilla (s an honest medicine and overy purchaser revelves o fairequivalent for hiy money. Bocsuse we usk only & fair pric upon the public confidenice by b pron for. Because its advertising is original andnot depend- ont upon the brains of competiLo s0itis & modern medicine; the ripo fruit of industry and study of exepricnced pharmacists undor whose personal direotion 1t is still prepared. Besuse it hus & Good Name at Home There heing more and do not impose rdly adyertising Bursuparilia us ‘worth” more than we sell it sold in ther sarsuparil: ympared with preparations. testimonial usod in advesuising It Is ¥, ¥MiUy muko u given @ falthful trial nceording to di s it 18 resonably ertain 10 effect the desired 1ts adveortising is thoroughiy bucked ap by the merits of the wedicine itsels. Hood's Sarsaparilla S0ld by ali drugg ists. §1: six for $5. C. 1. HOOD & CO., Lowell, Nuss 100 Doses Oue Dollar Prepared an'y by Sold by &l dru; L. $1; 8ix for 83, 0.1, HOOD & 00, Luwell, Mazs, 100 Doses One Dollar Freyared ouly by CALIFORNIA! THE LAND OF DISCOVERIES. 4"““ SES L, NGBS Sokon O 'Send for ciuuhr.sl_pthflcgkrzfi £ MEDE Co.0ROVILLE, CAK. 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