Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 22, 1888, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED P\ ERY MORNING. TERME OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Morning Edition) lnrlmunu unflny , Ome Y enr iy Tk, Taiied 10 aby nd: dress, One Year 2 ONARAOFFICE ! Nosoi 18 FARN AM STREET. New Yo , ROOMS 14 AND 15 TRIBUNE NGTON OFFICE, NO 613 CORRESPONDENCE. 1t communications relating to news and edi- tomm matter should be addressed to thie BDITOR IEE. OF THE BEE. o iNESS LETTERS. All business letters and remittances should be nddressed to THE ) OMANA. Drafts, checks and Ve mado payable to the order The Bee Puhlismng—cfilnany. Proprictors E. ROSEWATER, Editor. TSHING COMPANY, ostoflice orders to of the company. THE DAILY BEE. Bworn Statement of Circulation. tate of Nehraska, Elmlm of Dong! }' -0 Geo. B, Tascliuck, secretary of The fiee Pub- Mshing company, does sole umli swear that the P S eruletih of the Duily oo for tho' week ending June 15, 1865, was as follows Eaturday, June 9. . une 10, June i, June 12 Wednesday, June i3 g;:mr‘«lnY June 14 iday, June . Average. Eworn t: presence lhll 16th (|A) flf June, D., 1888, P, FEIL, Nuul’y Publie te.s. being first ilu!v sworn, f The Beo al averay u fnr th Btato of Nebraska, | County of Douglas, George B, Tzschuck, deposes and snys that le s sec Publishing company, that the a dally circulation of ' the Daily of June, 187 was ¥, i coples: for Mar . 10,080 coples I, 1888, 18,741 coples, 1888, 18,181 coples, GEO. B, TZSCHUCK. Sworn to beforo me And mibscribed in iny presence this 16th day of June, A. D, 188, N. P. FEIL Notary Publie. AVERAGEDAILY CIRCULATION 18,175 Total for the Week - - - 127,225 A DARK horse hails lmm Ohio and carries on his back somebody who looks like Congressman William McKinley. It must be the friction of colliding Dbooms that makes Chicago weather so uncomfortable. For all that, enthusi- asm does not abate, nor the starch wilt out of a single delegate. T “G's” have stood by the republi- can party so* well that a leader whose name begins with that letter is not to be sneczed at. It was Grant and Gar- field once. It may be Gresham now. Tie high price of live stock in the western markets has been traced to a scarcity of gr: cattle. In the last twenty-five days prices have ranged higher, it is stated, than wasever known before in the cattle industry. If ~\|ch a condition exists, it must be grati to the cattlemen who have suffe sovercly from heavy losses on ranges, the CANADA is advertising herself as the refuge for American boodlers. A judge at Ottawa in passing sentence upon two embezzlers, members of the city coun- cil, snid that it was necoes: to stamp with reprobation the pernicious p tice of tuking the people’s money with- out legal authority. He then put them in prison for six hours, although each had approprinted $1,000 of the public funds. No wonder Ottawa sees plenty of American mone, IN 1872 Mr. Thurman declared that, “as long as the incumbent of the prosi- dential office can hope for another term he (the president) will use the immense patronage of the government to procure his nomination and secure his re-clee: tion.” That was the time when Grant was renominated for the second term. But in 1888 the democratic nominee for vice president malkes a complete somer- sault and lands without winking hiseye right in the arms of second-term Cleve- land. THE local option law b d an- other sethaclk in Michigan from the rul- ings of the supreme court. The recent decision is of considerablo importance, morcover, to other states in its bearing upon the liquor question. The court has pronounced uncounstitutional the act in the Michigan license law which prohibits brewers and wholesale liquor dealers from going on the bonds of re- tailers. It would seem from the decis- ‘ion of the judges that no state can enact laws which specially discriminate against a class of citizens by declaring thom incligible as surcties. As many states besides Michigan he included this act in theirlicense laws deyelopments may be e THe Minnesota supreme court has de- cided a case which will be as balm to the wounded spirits of many a traveler, A passenger got on a railroad train but could find no vacant seat. The condue- tor demanded his fare but he refused to pay unless he was provided with a seat. On being ojected from the cars the pas- senger brought suit againstthe railroad company. The court held that the plaantifl had a right to refuse to pay his fare, and did not thereby become a tres- passer on the train, for the passenger bas the right to be provided with ascat, This decision settles a long disputed subject asto rights of a passenger, und railroads will not be long in finding out that it is to their interests to provide the traveling public with the necessary accommodations. It was a graceful tribute of the na- tional republican committee to the peo- dle of Dakota in deciding to allow that territory the ten delegates to which she would be entitled if she had been ad- mitted to statehood. It is moreover a fitting rebuke to the democratic party in itssectional partisanship in keeping Dakota out of the sisterhood of states. The liberal policy pursued by the com- mittee toward that tervitory is in line with the traditions and principles of the republican party. No wonder that the peoploof Dakota have afliliated with their friends, The stupid action of the democrats in congress ignoring the rights of the free people of Dakota to govern themselves can not fail to react upon the party of obstruction when the bour of retaliation comes. The Republican Platform. The platform adopted by the national republican convention can be under- stood by everybody. It is compri hensive, explicit and straightforward. There is no straddle in it, and n» equi ocation. Tt is thoroughly patriotic entirely courageous in its statement of policies and principles. In all these ro- spects it will favorably compare with the best productions of previous repub- ican conventions, while boldly contrs ing with the last somewhat lame effort of the democracy in the same line. As to every declaration of the plat- form, except that relating to the tariff, it will receive the hearty approval of all republicans. Especially will there be aporoval of the demand for legislation to seccure a free ballot and an honesticount; of the declaration of opposition to all combinations of cap- ital organized in trusts or otherwise, to control arbitrari the condition of trade; of the position regarding vhe ter- ritories; and of the duty of the govern- ment to the defenders of the union. Others than republicans will also ap- prove the clear statement of the atti- tude of the party regarding civil service reform, a matter concerning which the democracy studiously avoided giving any assurance for the future. The sincerity of the declaration on this subject is at- tested by the course of the party in the past, which not only inaugurated the reform, but carried it to the highest point of efficiency it has reached. Since the democratic convention Mr. Cleveland has endeavored to make amends for the failure of the represent- atives of the ety to pledge it toany future support of this veform by prom- ising an extension of the policy, but no one will be misled by this who is not willing to be deceived. The success of the democratic party again would mean the end of eivil service reform befove another administration had expired. Citizens of foreign birth will find in the pledge of national protection, in what- ever land they may be on a lawful er- rand, the ertion of a policy which the republican party has always firmly stood for and which more than any other party since the foundation of the gov- ernment it compelled foreign na- tions to respect. Upon all these declarations of principle republi- cans will have no disagreement, and they should have the approval and sup- port of all patriotic citizens. Regarding the protective system the platform has the merit of directness and cournge. But a great many repub- licans, particularly in the west, will r gret the extreme position taken on this subject, and many such may be foreed their confirmed views respecting the ity of a fair and wise revision of the tariff to withhold their support from the part; The present declared policy of the party is more radical than has before been proclaimed in twenty years It docs not oven contain the plodge of four years ago to correct the in- equalifics of the tariff. It ig- nores the changed conditions, which render the high tariff less justifiable now than at any other time since the tariff was enacted, and demands that the system shall be maintained without alteration or modification, unless it be to increase duties on such articl > duce revenue by checking imports. That it was a mistake to put the party in this position we have no doubt will lily appear. No intelligent man stions the necessity of maintaining protection. The county must obtain a large part of the revenue n, ry to pay the expenses of government from tariff dutics, and it is equally essential that a reasonable protection” be given American industries and the labor em- ployed in them. But to effect all this it is not mecc sary to maintain the existing high tariff, which gives to manufuactur- ers a most generous bounty beyond the protective point, and is to that extent an unjust exaction and an oppres burden upon the people. Tt was hope 0 by tariff reform republicans that the convention would show some advance in this matter, that it would give some heed to the large and growing senti- ment in the party in favor of reducing uu- war tariff and giving the people tho rvelief th require *from this form of xation. he failure to do this will be a great and serious disappointment to these republicans, who are move num- erous than the extreme advocates of the protective system doubtless suppose. How many of them will be alienat from the party by reason of its extreme position on the tariff is a most import- ant question which may only be deter- mined by the result in November. An Adverse Decision. The decision of the inter-state com- merce commission, adverse to the com- |)L\|||t and petition from Omaha, alleg- rimination by the railroads inimical to the business interests of this city, and asking velicf at the hands of the commission, is undoubt. edly very disappointing to our 1 ness community and to all interested in the mercantile growth and prosperity of Omaha. DBut an intelligent and candid reading of the views of the commission must, we think, carry the conviction that the decision 1s just, and different position would be ally unjust to the other towns of Nebraska in interest. The commission found the statement of facts on which the complaint was based to be true. The railvonds do make through rates from Chicago to interior towns in Nebraska which are less than the rates from Chicago to Omaha plus the local rates to such interior towns, but the bencfit thus obtained by the interior lu\\na they are held to Do entitled to “‘unless Omaha has in law some right to consideration in the making of rates superior to that of other Nebraska towns,” which obviously she has not. We take it that no one will seriously contend that Omaha should receive special consideration or favor at the ex- pense of the sixty-one interior Ne- braska towns cited to the commission as ubmming advantageous through rates from Chicago, or of any other Nebraska town. Those most anxious for the up- building of Omaha would not demand that this be done by any favoritiem or discrimination that would op- press in any degree the other towns " of the ever advantage they can got under a fair and proper observance by the rail- roads of the requirements of the law they are clearly entitled to and must be allowed to enjoy. But the failure of Omaha to secure the desired relief in this instance does not remove the last means of putting lier merchants more nearly on an ity with those of Chicago in com- peting for the trade of Nebraska. A re- tes, which will destroy the margin of di nce which was the Om complaint to the tate commerce commission, is ble, and this the board of trans- portation should speedily effect. The interior towns would be benefitted by such a reduction and the greater part of their trade that isunder present con- ditions attracted to Chicago would come to Omaha, All things being equal Ne- braska merchants will prefer to do busi- nessin the metropolis of their own state. Justice to our poople demands a reduc- tion of local rates, which as repeatedly shown ave higher by from twenty-five to forty per cent. than in Towa, Minne- sota and other states, without any sound reason for being so. This way appears the plainest and surest for relieving Omala from the damaging dwmum.n- tion practiced againstit by the railr in favor of Chiceago, it would wor injustice or disadvantage, but rather be a benefit, to all the interior towns of Nebrask: nd there should be no fur- ther delay in adopting it. The Difterence. Compare the democratic and the re- publican conventions and what a con- trast is presented. The former was dull, colorless and moved along under a cut and dried programme. The dele- gates were mere automatons who ma- chine-like at the proper moments cheered and cast their ballots for the common candidate as the leaders had mapped out in advance. From begin- ning to end the St. Louis convention followed the carefully arranged plan of Mr. Cleveland, Like dumberiven ttlo, the men who were supposed to voice the wishes of the democratic party allowed themselves meekly to be put under the yoke of the admini tion. But at Chicago,the jostling, enthusiastic clans and supporters of this and that candidate are unmistakable evidences that the rank and file of the vepublican party is represented. No man is in the ascendency. No candi- date is so strong as to grip the conven- tion by the throat and tell it what it must swallow. In the ever-shifting scenes, in the uncertainty of the final outcome, there is a spur to the hoomers of *h candidate to st nerve to reach the winning pmt Such a situation as this augurs success to the republican convention. The constant friction of different interests causes spontaneous and heartfelt en- thusiasm. Tt fans the flame of patriot- ism and loyalty to the republican party 1t c s that undefined feeling t principles ave above men, And when the supreme moment comes to unite upona common choice that candidate will not be a man forced upon a r luctant assembly, but the free and un- trammeled nominee of a great deliber- ate body. state, What- source of Tiue polic; constructing no mor the Union Paci adhered to in sas the Union Pacitic company has filed a charter to build 1,300 miles of new road. With this sort of retrenchment it will be nece: to extend the term of payment of the Union vific debt to the goyvernment two or three hundred At present, how Outhwaite bill satisties the cr that road. is a mere hagatel produ 1 me eager to accommodat in its embar build railroads in own. and of Iroad lines on ic system is still b 1y But in Kan- of retrenchment , and the Nebrs chants are only the Union Pacific s0 that it may cvery but our wssment, state rmer on He s on paying e ot justified 1 n new plan, lends which j gs of the railroad. In conse- ho approves the cutting down of the usual six per cent dividend to five on Missouri Pacific sccurities held by stockhol By and by, when more watered stoclk will be injected into that railroad, he will be justified in muking a four per cent dividend. Apparently there is no limit to this species of re- form, and Jay Gould knows how to work it. crs. One of Grov Spri The Widow McGinais' pig will go squeal- ing through all the federal oftices from this time till November, sts. s, Chunncey, . Paul Pionecr Press. umptuous in the city of ent a presidential candi date when the honored representatives of seven other metropolitan clubs are pounding the life out of its basebail ——— 2he Bee Approved. Boston Advertiser, ‘We never thought that there was much probability of the nowination of Mr, Depew, but such chances as he had were not, in our opinien, greatly improved by the aunounce- ment in the Omaha Bee that if he were nom- inated it would not support him, but would “iplace o separate republican el al ticket in the ficld for independent and anti-monop- oly repu blican support.” e Steady Employment. St. Joe Gazetle, Ap effort is being made to abolish the cooking school, so long & feature of the Omaha publie schools, to whien the World stoutly objects, The World's head is per- fectly level. Teach all the Omaha girls to cook. 1f there s any one thing St. Joe needs it is competent “hired girls,” Every Omaha girl who learns to cook can rely on steady employment and good wages. — War on Issues, Not Women, Boston Advertiser, Judge Thurman denies that he carried del- icacies to the rebel prisoners at Columbus during the war, and says that his wife did it. ‘We trust that Mrs, Thurman will not be at- tacked on this score. It was a noble aud kindly impulse that impelled this action, and not the less 80 because our wen were starved at the south. It is too late in the day to en- deavor to make political capital out of such @u act, when the rebel soldiers thcmselves & JUNE 22, 1888 have been forgivon and restored to power. We could wish that this campaign conld ba conducted without séference to the wives of tue candidates for pdblic ofco. —id The Man Who Owns Chicago. Chicagn Tritune. “If General nk is not enga marked a visitor at the Grand Pacific a day or two ago to & young man who scemed to have charge of one of the delegation head- quarters, “T have a friend hero that T would like to itroduce to him." “Well, sir, he is too busy to see anyhody now," said the young man, pompoust® *‘you and your friend will have to come soie other time.” “Then, if you the visitor will permit us,” rejoined moving his hat, and looking at the speaker with the most protound rever ence, “wo.will stand here a fow moments and ‘gaze in silent awe at gentloman who doubtless owns Chicago.” rasig nership of Railroads, San Franeiseo Call There was a debate a fow days ago in the British parliament which will ove interesting to Americans. It was on abill for the purchase of the British railronds by the government. Forty odd years ago, on motion of Mr. sarlinment passed a resolu- tion providing for the purchuse of all the railronds in England by govern- ment in twenty that time. The twenty years over, but when the time came to carry out the bargain the government wasnot anx- ious to buy nor the railroad companies anxious to sell, and the scheme was postponed. Tiver since that then it has cropped out ap intervals whenever an octery arose against the extortions by the companies, and quite lately a bill ashoon framad to earvy the projoct into effect. It was on this bill that the debate arose. On the one hand it was argued that the government, secking to make no profit on the roads, could operate them more cheaply than companies which are chiefly concerned for dividends, and that shippers would get the benefit of the reduction. drawn to the fact that fr re higher State O 11 the roads o y.ov in Gern three-fourths of the lines are sume ownership. Tt was L a reduction to Belgiom and German freight schedules would be a boon ich would go far toward lifting sh trade and industry out of their present depression. On the other hand, it was contended that a transfer of the railroads from their present ownership to that of the government would he mevely shifting a load from one shoulder to the It was contended on the part of tilroad companies that the saving in operating expenses reported by the countinental compunies, as compared with the British companies, arose nly from the difference in the value whor in Great Britain and on the continent, and that the government would find. if it ownea the railroads, that it could not yan them any cheaper than the companigs do. In France A ny ment ownership i , and we do not roposition would not prove as be ficial in the United States. T'or in- stance,who doubts that a few great lines of railroads, extending from one ex tremity of the "country to anothe would be of great advantage? Belgium and Germany the trains run precisely as the; are in v, only the gove ot road-beds ar o stock insteac St ik o Rba by incorpor companies, whose only object is to obtain as much money from the publie as possil There is, however, no more necessity for the government run- ning t ilronds if it owned them than is for a governme running boats on a_canal owned by a state. The government own the road-beds, and in- s or comy rvun the trains, paying a toll as boats doon ial. Fidis far the owne eship of vernients. has THE GOLDEN SPIKE. How It Happened that So Many Me- mentoes Arve Made From It The golden spike that unite Union and Central Pacific rail counceted New Yor by ral has, Tribuue, hee immortalized story, and picture until it has part of the history of th tmm(l : wherever the acifie ¢ is of there also ')n‘ srgolden the Central Pa be known. e is one peculiar fact conneeted with this golden spike, eve The spike is still in the custody wral Pacific railroad company, and yet there ave many charms made from gold th iid to be made from this spike. The stories do not agree, and much speculation has been b wre made in the railvoad spikes, an inch lo They with the et that purt of the ‘‘golden sp that joined the two roads, and ;,1\mw the date of the completion of the . May 10, 1860, and the name of the These are looked upon rms, but they are genu cplain this one must go history which is known. The Central Pacific railroad now owns the track that runs to the city of Ogden, but as an actual fact it never built this road. For months the C tral and Union Pacific railroadshad b fucing, one castward and the othe westward, the Union Pacific aiming to get over the Siervas and the Central aiming to get the best pass o those mountains into Nevada and beyond. At that time it was the intention of the Union Pacific to have an entrance into San Prancisco, and the Cent Pacitic was trying to get as far west as_possi- ble before making a connection. During the fivst part of the year 1869 and the latter purt of 1868 each road had its graders working night and day, The met in the neighborhood of Promontor and passed each other, one set grading to the eastward, and the other to the westward within a few hundred feet of one another. Iach road had graded miles beyond their when the tracks fifty-thre miles west of Ogden. Then they pause and thought over the matter, and nego- tiations were made by which the Cent- ral Pacitie railroad purchased the tracl into Ogden and grading ceased. Like immense mounds the abandoned grades lay along the shore of the great Salt lake to bear witness to the strugge be- tween two great roads. But to return to the golden spike, At Promontory the spike was driyen, and with much ceremony and pomp was the affair cel l(~l-|x||ul The spike was mado of gold—pure gold—and on the tip of it wus a large lump of rough gold. = This was broken off. Leland Stanford drove the spike, which was alterward car fully drawn and preserved, and an iron one substituted. It was from this rough lump of gald, east with the spike, that the little watlch-charws are made. ment prop the govern- the ds and LS about enaraved al was ach . i T T A A N T R NRRGBATCA T 77 THE THRIVING CITY OF ORD. Beautiful For Situation in the Rich North Loup Valley. HER REMARKABLE FACILITIES, Two Great Lines of Railroad, Excels lent Schools, Churches and Hotels, Busy M nctories and Pushe ing Business Men. Ord, Nebraska, The beautiful and thriving young city of Ord, Neb., is destined to be at no dis- tant day one of the leading cities of the state, Ord is located in Valley county, 214 miles by rail west of Omaha and sixty miles north of and Tsland,in the heart of the North Loup vall which is one of the richest agricultural tions of the state, and from herslightly elevated position on one of a of low foothills on the west bank of the Loup viver, has one of the grandest and most pieturesque views of the broad and fertile valley ever presented for obser- vation. The soil of this valley is of a rich, black loam to a depth of from four toeight or ten feet. It absorbs moisture readily and retains it to such a remarkable degree that the most prolonged drought mover bakes or venders it unfit for the plow at These lands need no artificial vevsy ages of cultivation cannot exhaust them. Cropsof corn have b grown in Valley county on tl land for fourtecn years in suc without any diminution in quantity ty, and without the us 1 fertilizer. The la amount of silica in the soil gives the advantage of natural drainage, absorbing water like a sponge, holding it until a time of drouth, and then sending it to the face. On land well cultivated there is varcly loss of crops, if seasons are eithor wet or dry. A peculiavity of the land is that the top soil of the high is as decp us that of the valle it can be truly said that there is not an acre of unproductive land in the county. The versalility of the soil is wonderful. Wheat, rye. barley, corn, broom corn. buckwheat, sorghum, millet, Hung rian, all vegetables of the field and den and all fraits and grasses known to the temperate zone, llourish to perfe tion in this mil sec o8 IDE. The altitude u[ Ord is about 1,15 above sea level. The atmosy light, pure, dry and bracing, the win- ters of short duration with ovdinavily not to_exceed three to X i snow during the entire malkes th mate espe to those wishing to avoid the cold, orvous and uncndurable winters of the novth, ORD’S SHIPPING FACILITIES, There are two great lines of railway traversing the North Loup valloy from the south and southeast to the north and northwest, making Ovd casy of ac- cess. These two lines—the Union Pa- citicand B. & M. railw have con- structed fine depots in Ovd, apd this is considered the principal shipping and distributing ~ point for the Loup, Mira, Dane creel and nu- merous other smaller valleys tributary to this point. The Chicago & tern, also 1linois Central rail- made their sur s through i ave now contemplating on of their lines into Ovd before the begimuing of another year. SCHOO Ord and Vall is the count, , of which Ord well supplied with fine sc m the earliest history of Valley county the educational interest has been fostered, and nothing has been left undone within the means of the people to build up the school dis- triets, most of which have good, com- wbly equipped, frame ov brick school luch district being independ- th of school terms v three to ten months for ea very few districts months of school ) three school distei vice of Ly-ona te o nge from 20 to #40 per month in the and from $10 Lo $50 in the ded schools, During the and ending . on These the school Mhools was July, 1856, the 37,444,958, while July, 1555, and endin total expenditure w ing more than a thy incrense in a trifle over three ye The an increase in the school population of i} county through a period of five years has varied from 15 to & per cent, last ration shoy o total ation of 2,079, whil he census reports now show least children between the s of tive twenty-one. ORD'S MANUFACTORIE! CIEL: An clegant, substantial and commo- , with all the modern ma- \e production of superior nery butter and cheese, hed in'Ovd early this spring. y of ounds of nnlL in butter and” ched The fac- as all the milk it can han- onstructadditional curing rooms. Shipments of cheese have just commenced, und experts claim A No. 1. Nothing but a full is made in this factory. Tho logal trado isentively supplied from it, while Chicago, Omahii, Lincoln and Denver markets consume the balance of 1ts product at the highest market prices, The factory’s pay voll for the month of June shows about 400 to the patrons for milk. About 800 pounds of cheese s made daily, and some 9,000 ||m||u|~ are now in the curing room. H, Rothrock, an expert but and cheese maker from Illlinois, is conducting the factory McCord is presi- dent, ¥, L, Havris treasnrer, and 12, H, Clayton secretar, CIGARS, The Ord cigar and tobacco established in 1888 by A, 1), one of the many institutions of Ord may feel proud. This a capacity of making cver during a season bosides ¢ hand a large stock of all kinds of che ing and smoking tobacco to meet both the wholesale and retml trade, and should receive liberal patrol from dealers in adjoining towns. BOTTLING WORKS, The bottling works of Ord is an indication of ente wrprise on the hu-.m/m. Seeing the demand l.n an establishment of this kind, lh uck constructed earl of 1558 at considerable soda and ginger-ale factory and bott!ing works, which at present his a bottli pacity of 2,500 daily or 75,000 month The works ar qum ne BUTTER AND actory tara, 1s which I receivire rhboring towns, k is 1ging o increuse capucity. ar VATOLS, Ord has two lurge elevators now and one more s00n 10 be constiucted by Mr, \I Jaques who is perhaps tho heaviest or man west of Chicago, Mr. Jaques has elevatorsat Burw Garfield county; Greely Center, Greely county; Farwell, Howard county; Ashton, She nmn.nmm Loup City, Sherman county; rgent, Custer county, and Arcadia, Valley county All of these elovators were constructed and are owned by Mr. Jagues at points along the line of the B. & M. railway with a capacity of over forty thousand bushels of grain'each and reprepresenting an_investment of up- wards of $150,000. The weral offices and headquarters for this system of elo- vators is at Ord. In addition to the above Ord has a planing mill, broom factory, ground feed mill, two ice companies, three brick yards, threo lumber yards, four livery stables, three l-n'nd\nw stables, two flouring mills on the reservoir wards of $20,000, The I“il'nl tional bank, Ord, Net president; George Percival, cashier. Capital, $50,000; sur- 000. This bank was organized its_stockholders representing upwards of $1,000,000, It is conducted upon a conseryative and safo yet liberal policy. " With its fireproof vaults and modérn appliances, it is considered one of the strongest institutions of north- west Nebrask The Ord Fred L. llill cashier. Capite N undivided profits, $ . The Ord Na- tional bank is the oldest established bank—by suceession—in Val 3 its stockholders being among the wealthiest men in the state, represent- ing fully $1,000,000. Its management is vativ d confined to strictly banking business, It is considered ono of the most solid banking instisutions in the state. bank, Ord, Nel Ed Har surplus and HOTT d’America is the finest hotel in Ord or Valley county. It has filty la fine, airy sleeping rooms, several sminple rooms, moaern conveni- ences and every attention given the traveling pumu- by the owner and pro- prietor, | MeCord, to make it one of the lu.ul\ng hotels of the west. JANTILE HOU Ogden & Sharpe, wholesale and tail hardware dealers, established in 51, earey o full line of fine sporting This is the pioncer firm of the county and representan investment of £10,000. Duby Bros. & Co., of Ord, established in 1888, conduct a general merchandiz- iu" busin ing 0 $6,000 stock of goods, groceries, hoots and shoes, ete, huumd\ ed one of Ord’s leading business houses. REAL K M. Coombs, real estate .\gonL Ord, Neb. E. M. Coftin & Co., real estate agents, Ord, Neb. Rowan & Schaefler, Ord, Neb. The TTotel re, re- lestate agents, The above ave of the leading teal estate firms _and land owners in Ord and Valley county. They ot estafe have 1 n\'lnn and sell farm lands, make . any persons desiring relia- ble mhnm.\u.m in regard m 0: -! and the -.\nmumllnwlolml inly receive p)ulnpl republican, The H nhh ~l cell paper in about 1,200, The Ord Democrat, democ: skson.editor. Weekly, C about 1,000, The Ovd Blizzard, prohibition 3 Haskell editor. Wecekly. Circulation about 1,000. Peter Herri full line of book pers and stationery of ARG ed in the postol CHURCHE: Ord has two fine chuy Methodist and I tists and Lpisco; hsare now erocting new buildings, which will be as fine as sen in any of our western towns or cities, There i H(l\\':p He large amount of building going on in Ord this' seaszon, which is ono of the bost- evidences of her prose petity and general thriftiness of the surrounding country. Crops are look- ing fine, and unless something unfors scen occurs the farmers will have one of the largest vields of corn and small grain ever vroduced in that section. I'rom a business standpoint Ord can not help but push to the front and take station among cities of a larger class in the almost immediate future, She has the commercial advantages: her citi- zens are thoroughly American (searcely any foroigners among them); they are keenly alive to the interests of their town and its brilliant future, They are a progressive, wide-awake, ihtelligent people and oxtend a most cordial invi- tation to the less fortunate of eastern towns and cities who contemplate now locations in the west to them a visit before locating elsewhere. - - i A Verified Drean A popular pastor of this oit detained at his home by afternoon recently, fell asleep, says the Troy (N. Y.) Times. While he was dreaming the form of one of the ladies of the parish came before him. Al- though this may seem not o surprising fuct, especially as tho lady is one of tho most cheery Workers in the rougrega- tion, the pastor thought the vision might be a messenger to convey the news of misfortune. ]n _spite of his illness he sought the house, and found that she had wl with sudden and serious rming had been hor |llm-~~ that she had directed an attend- ant to write out full instructions for her funcral arvangements, including the textof the sermon, the hymns, the sing- and the name of ihe officiating gyman. It was the clergyman who called upon her, and, as she'was -then recovering from the shock of her illness, to him she read the document. Tho minister said he had frequently re- ceived such information in his dreams, .nnl had alw peals for attention mnl hulp "T"h MAIH H , who was illness one Where Dickens Got His Original for This Unique Creation. One of tho most amusing characters in the “Old Curiosity Shop” is that of the small girl who wore a “dirty conrse apron and bib, which left nothing visible but her face and feet,” and who was called “The Marchioness” by that choice spirit, Mr. Richard Swiveller, in ovder “to make it seem more real and pleasant.” The novelist took his first impression of this domestic young person from a maid-of-ull-work possessed by the Dickens family when iving in Bayham street, Camden Town. She was an orphan from the Chatham workhouse, and continued to wait upon her employers during their incaccera- tion inthe Marshalsea. Like young Charles Dickens she had a lodging in -the neighborhood of the prison that she mightbe carly on the scene of herduties; ot her,as he \\ulxlddu is lounging place by London bridge, he would occupy the time before the gates opened by lullhw her most astonishing tictions about tho wharves and the tow: **But I hope I believe them myscli,” he would say. The room which young Dickens then occupied was a back attie in the house of an insolvent court agent in Lant street, Borough, where Bob Sawyer lodged man s afterward, His land- lord was * good-natured kind old gentleman. He was lame, and had a quict old wife; and he had a very inno- cent grown-up son, who was luné, too.’ The clderly couple and their only son were dead when these pavticulars wore related s to his biographer, 5 they lived still very n another form, as the Gar- mily in the “Old Curiosity Shop.” to a_minor character in the story, it is said that the fir ~'||u\ for the poet of Mrs. Jurley's wax works was made from onc of the rhymesters regu- larly employed by Robert Warren, the 1 o mi acturer, whom Dickens remembered so well, S Applying keroseno with a rag when you are about to put your stoves away for the summer will prevent them from rusting, pleasantly Tand Turning A pollo’s bird, the bird of the Muses, the emblem of purity, ride no more lightly upon the waters than KIRK’S WHITE CLOUD FLOATING SOA The Swan is said to live a hundred years: per cent pure, White Cloud is 100 The spotless plumage of one finds its counterpart in the glisten« ing brightness of the other, WHITE CLOUD IS A SUCCESS! 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