Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 10, 1888, Page 2

| : g | THE DES MOINES RIVER LAND How the Navigation and Railroad Company Acquired the Title. INJUSTICE TO THE SETTLERS. The Government Took Their \|<.m-'_v4 a Been With- Market-De- alities, Aftor the Land } drawn From feated on Techn Disereditable to the Gavernment, Wasnixg 108, Dee, Special Corre- spondence of Tne Ber. ] —“he Des Moines viver land grant, about which you inquire,” said Representative Holmos, of Towa, to-day, “has been the source of disquietuds in the state of Towa for the past thirty years. grant was made under an act of cong approved August 8, 1948, and provides that the t va and the state vhich itm recoive every odd numberod section of land for five miles each side of the Dos Moines river not sold or The tory of 1 sht be organized, should otherwise disposed of, from its mouth to the Raccoon riks, the Raceson rks being where the city of Des Moines now stands, This was for the express purpose of malkin the Des Moines river nuvigable, and, fto quote the language of the aet, for no other purpose, The te ry was admitted as the state of Towa shor tor the pa: act, and the state aceepted the grant a board of comm wpointed state, and improvements we hroy ssione od for » proseci a time. The first commissioner of the general Jand oftice called upon the goveruor of the state to make his selection of the lands under the nt. The state in accordance with the demand of the commissioner of the land office, selected 250 acres of land be- twveen the mouth of the Des Moines river and the Raccoon Forks, This sclection was approved by the department. As regards these lands there is nd difticulty with refer ence to the claims by setilers or otherwise, No more or less lands were claimed than the lands tha the stato itsell secured and returned to the commissionor of the general land office. In it was nearly threo years after the original grant had been made that the grant extended beyond the Raccoon Forks, “After a tine an organization styli Des Moines Navigation nd b company, whose members nearly ov (quite a lived in'the state of New York, appe wnd undertook to get convey- ance of the state's intorest in the grant, proposing on their part to make the improvements and in ev com ply with the original the 9th of June, 1574, a contract w between this ol aud the state of Tow by which the con toole the habilit the state and the grant and agreed to forin its obligations. It was provided act that the land should not be disposed deed per- in_the of by the territory or state formed out of it, ex cept as the movement progrossed. There was o further provision that when $350,000 had been expended on the improvement, of the river the governor should cortify that fact to the department st Washiugton, and wnder certain conditions naned iu the grant that amount of land should puss to the state at government prices. The third section provided that after tho river had been made navigable it should be and eve lic highway for the use of the the United States, frec from au clarge whatever’ for any property of the United States or ms in their service passing through and along the sauie. “This company evidently never intended 10 improv navigation of the river from the inception of this contract to the prese time. It tore down mill swes and inflicted very great dimage upon citizens along tl river, aud in 156 refused o push_the work furthier, ‘The commissioner oi the gemeral Ltud ofiice in the samo year, therefore, re- fused to certify any ore lands Indeed, there never had been a single certificate made by the zovernment as demanded by the origial grant. It was only a short time be- fore this grant was made that Fremont and Nicollet surveyed the country throngh which the Des Moines river mns for the fivst time, At the time the zrant was made the Sncs and Fox Indians ovcupied a reservation above Des Moines, Indeed, the river wasnot known as the Des Moinos river above Raccoon Forks at the time it was surveyed by Fre- mont and Nicollet, which was itbout the year 1842, " Above Des Moines it was Moingonan, and the branci was Moingonan Brother. The Sioux Indinns, who occupied the river above the Fox and Snes tribes, called it the river of the Sioux, and its nameé was not thoroughly sottled until after the making of the grant in 1846, The occupation by Indian tribes and the uncertainty of the river's name nbove Ruccoon Forks to the line protty clearly de- monstrated that the grant was not inténded by the original act to extend above the Rac- coon_For “Notwithstanding the company refused to make further improyements, they continued to claim all the land which they rightfully would have had had the river been made nayigable. After thoy made their contract with the stato they persisted in claiming thut the grant not ouly extended to the Raccoon Forks, or the city of Des Moiues, but to the north line of the state. Upon this claim there wero various rulings by the attorneys eral and secrotaries of the intevior. Attor- neys General Johuson, Crittenden and Black all decided aguinst the validity of the cluim made by the Des Moines Navigation and Railroad company, as did also McClel- land, thon secretary of the interior. Attor- ney General Caleb Cushing, to whom it w referred, after an exnaustive exi ination also decided against the claim of tie com- pany as to its extending to the north line of the state. In the case reported in the twenty- third Howard (United States), being the Du- luth & Paciic railroad company agaiust Litchfield, the United States court held, in express terms, that the grant did not extond above the Kaccoon Fovk, Meantime, and rior to this decision, the land between the Raccoon ork and tho north line of the state subject to entry had been withdrawn fr the market by the secretary of the interior Anain & pub overnment of tollorother whilo tho matter wus undor discussion until it should be finally decided. Here s where the diMicuity of the settlers all commenced. They went onto the lands after they had been withdrawu trom market, and made set- tlement, supposing that they were open to entry. The laud ofiicers of the government knew no botter, or assumed to not know ‘whether the lands w withdrawn from entry. They proceeded to take applications for pre-emption and homestead entry long after the lands had been withdrawn, took tho settlers’ mon, and gave thom tents for their lands. Now, by the laws of he United States, after public lands have once been withdrawn from market they can not again be reopened for sale or entry until a proclumation or ovder bas been made by Yhe department of the interior, placiug thei upon the market for salo or entry, “In all the litigation which subscquently occurred in the United States courts this tion was the basis upon which the de were made and judgments entered against the sottlers. That s, the courts hold that the settlers were trespassers bocause th lands had not been thrown open by procla- mation for sale or eutry. The Des Moinos Navigation and Railroad company, having had a colorable right to earn them, were held to stand prior in right. ~ As a watter of fact, however, this cempany bad no disposi tion or intention of earmwng them, and by this mere technicality of the lands being withdrawn and no proclamation having be made reopening them, the settlors were de- clared to be without standing in the court, aud as having no rights against the Des Moines Navigation company. It must be borne in mind, kowever, that during all this time the government was profiting by its own technicalities and mistako, 1t was tak- iug the money of the settlers, giving them first papers on Liis land, and issuing them patents, while at the same time it had with- drawn the lands from market. How was the poor pioncer on the bleak sad wind-swept prairies to know what the government had done and what the laws were, if the registers of the govern- ment land oftice, the distriet attorneys and other federal ofcers, whose business it was 10 know the law and she facts, did not know them or intentionally misconstrued them, This whole quostion assuuies this basis; that be- cause of the techuicality the settlers are not 10 be allowed to mufi the lands for the reason that they had not been reopened to public sale or settlement, und that by reason ©f Lhat fact the Des Molnes Navigation and THE OMAHA DAILY BEE MONDAY, DECEMBER 10. 1888, Railrond eompany should be allowed to ap. propriate the lands bodily without rendering any services to the state of union in the man uer provided for in the act of 1546, *In all the litigntion which has arisen re. garding this question the issue whether or not Des Moines Navigation and Railroad company has ever complied with the granting _the nds has nob be tried, 1 S or _even put issu g sottlers havo in ever casc had judement rondered against e on the technicality I have named. The Wolcott case, which was a made-up case on the part of the Des Moines Navigation and Railrond company, and in which the success- party paid the costs, as APPears on Tec Uhere has never been any serions al that this was a made-up cass, and it is well known, by those who aro familiar with it, thav such was the fact. It surved, how. ever, as a basis upon which all the subse quent decisions were made recarding this land. Under the law, as it stAnds nc the sottlors were nover pormitted to raise in issn ostion of whether not the Des Moines Navigation and Railroad company hud eomplied with its obligations to the gov- ant of 1546, as well to other erniment under tho & “This principle applies ons, and did in tho Bell telephone case. weh olaimanis were not al , for instance, to show that there had been malfeasance and bad faith on the part of Bell in procuring bis orizinal patent. The government in this ease does not allow citi s and outside parties to litigate such ques; tions ns peculiariy t itsolf, Theretore it was that settlers werc abligod to scel relief for it all by the bills which have been intro- duced in congress during the past six or eight and in which it is only provided that soitiers shall have = the benefit of raising such questions ns the United States by its attorney general y _raisc, or that, in other \words ¥ general himwelf shall_appear on of ‘the United States and raise tho question of whether or not the navigation of Des Moines river has been improved and whether the lands buve been earned as con- tempiated in the original act, The act itself does not seck the payment of a dollar out of the treasury, but oniy that the settlers may have the benefit of the grants which the United States may inquire into, and litizate, and if it is found that the lands have not been earned it is provided in the bill that they shull be deelared public lands, in which casc the settlers who now oceupy them would \ave the first right to claim them, “No action that the settlors could b unaided by legisiation which is now sou would engble them to inquire into this fact, and raise this issue of whether the act had been complicd with, No cquitable defonse by the Des Moines Navigation and Railroad company of its position has ever been made tomy knowledge, nor can there be in m judginent, cither under the delusive plea that it may yeb sowmetin prove the river and Ly with its cont w relying on the technicality before named, that’ the settlors arc tresspassers because’ of the technical failure to prociyim them as public lands after they have onc hdrawn. Phis company s to apply to its own use this vast truct of the public domain, the richest and most valwable in the northwest. Most of the lands adjoiniug the Des Moines river are underlaid with valuable coal de posits, and_the best quality of the lands sell at %0) an acre, Many of the ve raised thoir chiliren and grand children upon these lands. They have the patents of the government in their pockets, and the government has the settlers’ money in its treasury. This same Des Moines Navigation company and its grantecs are said to have talken over §100,00) worth of coal out of the 160 acres of land owned by Mr. Collins, in Webster county; that would be his r one npon the. cos taken if re had been paid the market rate. “I should say here, however, that after the decision mthe 23d Howard that the grant did not extend above the Raccoon Forks, the Des Moines Navigation and Raiiroad com- out securing legislation from cou- gress lookiug to the eutent of the grant to the north line of the state of lowa. 13y an act of congrress passed in 1862, this oviginal grant of 1546 was extended so 48 to include the alter- nate sections within five miles of the Des Moines river on cach side to within five miles of the northern boundary of the state of Towa. Butit was expressly provided in the act 80 extending the grant, ‘that all the lands should be held and appited in accordance with the provisions of the original grant of 1846, so that the company was still left with its status -unaltered, both as regards the nul grant and the grant of 1862, It sim- coured several hundred thousand acres more land, but was held to the same detail and particularity of performance as to the Des Moines river as by the act of 1846. During this entire controversy the state of lowa so long as it had control of the improvement, was not charged with caches, 1t only after the actof 1862 had been passed, extending the grant, that the peculiar tactics of the Des Moines Navi- wation and Railroad compnny were brought 10 light. The company badgered the oficers of the state government and legislature until what was kuown as the Harvey settle: ment was made, and the governorof the state deeded over to the Des Moines Naviga- tion company the entire interest of the state in the lunds, By this conveyance no title passed to these lands given by the grant, but the state simply conveyed” its right to suply earn the land under tne title, or its equity to carn them. It would have been impossible for the state to have conveyed any title for two reasons: First, becausc it was a conditional grant, in which the land could only be sccured as fast as it was earned, and second, because of section 7 of article 11 of the constitution of Iowa. This provision of the constitution prevented the general assembly from conveying any public lands which had been taken or granted by congress to the state, on which actual ~ settlers had located, without the consent of such occupants, not 10 exceed 160 acres o each. ‘This constitu- tional provision alone would have been u final and completo par, even if the provision whict required the earning of the lunds s fast wted had ot been, and it is an umpor in the history of thes lands, ut this time, that no patents have ever been issued to the Des Moines Navigation and Hailroad company for the lands iu dis- pute, and in any abstract of title that they ale to any purchaser they are oblige oly upon the void grant which thoy buy ¢ fullilled or complied with, This wat wiy was to be made navigable for the beuefit of the public, Government property was to be transported over it o terms pro- vided in the act, and it wag in no way differ cut from the griut made to a railroad. There is not a railrond iu this country receiving a land grant that has not had it forfeited where the rona has not been built, and very many of them have been forfeited when tho vouds were completed, simply because they were not finished within the time named in the acts making the erant, and does the Des Moines Navigation and Raitroad company oc- cupy uny better or higher plane! “All the rights they have secured to these sputed lands they bave secured after the state had relinquished its claims. They have taken action 10 evict large numbers of sottlers just at the opening of winter, and in a most heartless manncr. United States marshals, uccompanied by large posses, have seized upon the household goods of the set- tlers and thrown them into the road. T settlers are not allowed to go back eve after their crops, which, in uwiany cases, stand in the field unharvested, particularly the corn, which is the priwcipal crop raised there, There are ulso about 12,500 acres of school land which this Des Moiues Naviga- tion company secured. This school laud b longs to the state school fund, but the navi- gation company got thein yuder the Wolcott cae. “The commissioners of the river improve- ment on behalf of the stato reported to tho legislature at the time tle matter was in issue that the Des Moines Navigation com- pany did not complete a single lock and dum and that the damage they bad commitie along the line of the river would more than offset all thut they had spent. This was about the year 1856 or 1557, “For many years past, at ncarly ever, sesslon of thé logislatiire of 1owa, memorials liave been passed requesting congress to take action in favor of the scitlers upon these lanas. Potitions with thousands of names have also been sent here frow the state, and the matter was supposed to be in a fair ‘way of solution when the bill of the settlers had passed the Forty-nmth congress. It was vetoca by Mr. Cleveland, however, presuni- ably 10 accommodate his New York fricnds, composing the body of the owners of these lands, for certainly he gave no reason in his veto message that was worthy of the name. The bill sought to be passed does not af- fect the title to the great body of these lands, which have passed into the hands of third parties, but only to such portions of them as are on\n'riqd bfl.ll ttlers who have valid clulms. This DI would settle the question at iseuo for all time, and the litization and difficulty that has' been entailed during the past twenty years upon the section of lowa in which theso landa are located have not been confined to the lands in_ dispute, but has affected as well the value of the land upon the even sections adjoining, and has proved a veritablo cloud upon the progress and prospority of the Des Moines valle: { of the richest and most productive in Unftsd States “The fact that the company have no title to the land, and kave not complied with the re- qnirements necessary to make it their own, is shown in the fact that thav have never re- ceived any patents for it under wilen title to the lands Id be evidences from the be- ginning of ti ant. Their contracts made with the settlors have been most unconscion- | able and inequitable: the sottlors being gen- | erally poor and without means. Speaking of one of these contracts in & case at bar, Judge Love, in the United States district court for the southern district of lowa, said, substantially, that & man such a contract was a fool, and asked him to Sign 1twas a knay a very terse and proper summing contracts this company have been compellinge settlers to accept, becanse as & matter of fact, most of them have been compollod to accept it under duress or loso all they had. To use the language of one of tie political parties 1n its platform, “This ques- tion will never be sttled until it is sottled vight.’ There ia such a foeling of outrage at the injustice of ullowing the Des Moines Navigation and Railroad company to seize these lands without any consideration, either sed or implicd, and cast out all those ors on the cold charities of the world, that public sentiment will not stand the out X 1L 15 urged that some of these settlers no equity or rights upon the lands, rthe fact may be regarding that , certain it is that the act sought to bo passed into a law, and which passed the house Thuraday only, provides for those set tlers who have meritorious claims to such lands that the act secks to beuctit Penny § one the b &hou who would sign who A man Hearu. KNOCKED OUT. An Eight-Round Sunday Mill Near Minnchaha Palls. MixyEAroLs, Dec, §,—[Special Teleeram to Tue Bee|—One of the Lottest Aghts to the finish with two-ounce gloves ever fought in Minneapolis took place at an early hour this morning at a_ s) resort near Min nehaha Falls, and was witnessed by about two hundred men about town. The contest- ants were the “Biack DPearl,” champion col ored middle weight of the nortnwest, and 13d. M. Mochler, who stood before Demp sey four rounds, something over a year azo Time was callod at 1:3) with a well-known pugilist as roferce. Both men were in zood coudition and sparred nearly the ‘whole rowsd for an opening. Only a few bard blows were struck. In the second round the real sluzging began and continued until the eighth round when Mochler was knocked completely ont. When the eighth round opened th was some lively fighting, in which both men got it in the f: 1 times. Just before timo was called the Pearl made a feint with his right and swinging with his left caught Moehler on the left jaw ,just under the car. Mochier dropped like ‘& log, and after ton seconds hud pnssed, the Pearl walked over to it and lifting him from the fioor placed him on a chair. rhe Pearl was declared the winner and given the purse amouating to F200, The Western Base Ballists, Mivxearouts, Dec. 9.—[Special Telogram toTur Bee.|—The session of the Western base ball association was resumed this morn- ing at the West hotelav 10 o'clock. The principal business before the meeting, which remained unfinished, was the fixing of the salary of the umpires. Various schemes were discussed, and the total amount to be 4 umpires for the season was fixed at £3,500 for the four men, individual saiaries to be fixad according to the work of the men. Some business of minor importance was transacted, and the second annual meeting of the Western base ball association was over. The remainder of the day was de- voted to exploring the cities. Omaha's Batting Record, Relow will be found the batting record for 1858 of the Omaha team, including the record of those who fluishea the season with the team : EAEIENETE HETCHEIR 2le|88(55 Sl 2|z Blal 5 1 O'Connell..... ....| 2 Burns, S 8 Shanuon.. { bl il 1 1 1 15 Wilson, 1 1 () Burdick 0T I relark,........ |.197 i _Dor: [Nt By the above it will be seen that O'Con- nell heads the list of batters, with Burns but oue point behind, Crooks as a run-getter and base-stealer hieads the procession, A Six Day's Chase. The great six day's race, horses against bicyeles, begins at the Collossoum this after- noon at 2 o'clock, Marve Beardsley, the champion long distance rider of the world to do the equestrianizing, and Tom Bek and Jack Prince to stride the wheels. Beavdsley il use fifteen horses, all thorough bred cors, changing at thie ond of every mil while Bele and Prince will alternate each hour, The stakes are 3500 a side, and 05 and i per cent of the gate money, and eight hours each day and evening will ‘be utilized in the race. Cireat iuterest is being taken in this novel struggle. s Those who take Dr. Jones’ Red Clover Tonic never have dyspepsia, costi ness, bad breath, piles, pinples, ague and malaria, poor appetite, low spirits, headache or Kidney troubles. Price 50 cents, Goodman Drug Co. Stopped the Lecture, LoxDo, Dec. 9.—Tho officers of Woolwich garrison recently invited Charles Marvin to deliver a lecture on the cutting of Russia's w0ad to Indw, Marvin accepted the inyita- tion and mado the necessary arrangements, but the war ofice, learning his intention, interfered and re mission to de” liver the lecture, Dy spe si Makes the lives of many people miserable, causing distress after eating, sour stomach, sick headache, heartburn, 10ss of appetite, a falut, * all gone" feeling, bad taste, coated tongue, and irregularity of Distress wepowels. Dyspepsia does After not got well of lsell, 1t requires careful attention, Eating .0 a romoay like lood's Sarsaparilla, which acts gently, yet eMelently, It tones tho stomach, regulates tho diges- tion, ereates a good ap- Sick petite, banishes hoadache, and refresties the mina. HO@adache I Liave been troubled with dyspepsia. 1 bad but listle appetite, and what I did eat distressed me, or did mo Hearts 00" 00, "Alier oating 1 burn ouldhave o faint or tired, all-gone (eeling, as though I had not eaten anything. My trouble was aggravated by my business, patuting. Last Sheiag 1 took Hood's Sar o SOUF saparilla, which did me an Stomach unmenso amount of good. It gave me an appetite, aud my food relished and satisfied the craving 1 had previously experieucyd.” Geonos A. Pace, Watertown, Mass, Hood’s Sarsaparilla Bold by all drugglsta, 81, six for §3. Propared ouly by C.1. HOOD & CO., Apothocaries, Lowell, Mase 100 Doses One Dollar [ THE COMMERCIAL TRAVELER Advontures of a-Trio on the West- ern Prairies. TALKS WITH GRIPSACK KNIGHTS, Death of a Veteran Traveling Sales- man—The lowa Banquet—Meet- of the Unlon — Notes Along the Line, Wrecked on the Plains. A fow days ago throo wayfaring travelers of commercial proelivities hired a carriago and driver to take them across the country from Gothenburg to Parnau, a distance of some tweiity miles, through the most deso- lato part of our Nebraska frontier, Their names arc Tom Harvey, Jim Hughes and S, P. Brockway, and those who are fortunate enough to have their acquaintance will say that a more jovial trio noever traveled to- pether. The road, or trail rather, leads throngh sand hills and across rugged and alnost perpendicular canyous and impene. trable gorges. Now and then a dugout in the side of a minature mountain marked the existence of the 1solated homesteader, To pass the time pleasantly our travelers would indulge in their ever ready wit suited to a good story, and just as tho vehicle surged intoa rut, and as Jim was_putting on the fimshing "touches of a “whopper” —and the pent-up hilarity of his listen- ers was just reedy to burst forth ~in peals of laughter at the climax of the story, tho axle broke, Brockway rolled out and Tom “came tumb- ling after.” The bronchos reared and plunged and sought to extricate themselves from the buggy, but the agility with which Brockway was possessed, frustrated their designs, and lie inan instant had them by the bridle, while *Litule Willie" (he was the driver), held taut the reins, Here was a pre dieament. Far out in the desert. no house in sight, 10t & human being in hearing dis- tance, night was approaching and with 1t the cold and chilly eveaing blust of Decom- ber. The fertile brains of all were taxed to invont some way out of the scrape, but for a time to no purpose. “Aha," says Tom, as he upon a tuft of bunch grass and deliberately draws from a pockot of his inside coat, flask of good old 'S2, which a friend b given him to use in case of snalke bite, have au active stimulant. Come hither boys and brighten up your fagging spirits, Drink to the health” and_comfort of ou selves.” A surprised look pussed am them, for no one would suspect that Toun carried anything of ti d with him, but all indulged in a sovial nip. A moment pisse then, us though seized with an iuspiration, Jim hajostically speaksout: It remains for me to be_the hero of this occa sion, I will mount the buckskin broncho and the other I will lead, aud go forth to scek a homesteader beyond the hill Chicago, Burlington & Quiney_cornplanter must be sold throughont the land. 1 zo, but Iwill return with ‘the means of our.cscape. Doubtnot my ability to perform the act.” squats himself Hours of suspense came and weant. Twi- light had merged into darkness. The vast solitudes of the wilddrness were made reso- nant with the dismal wailing howl of the caduyerous coyote, who sits;upon his tail and throws back his head in_the ecstasy of d cord and 1 s the mght hideous with his doleful noise. ““Phose brutes take me for the slayer of all their kin_ becanse I wear this overcoat made of their hides,’ s Com. “Do you think they will attack us! There seems to be millions of them congregating, judging noise they are making. I have been on th ers of Lake Manawa, ¢ policomen in Omaha, ditened in railroad wreeks, but’ never in all my life have 1 found so serious an occasion. as this, If ever 1 - get out ulive th Patice cultivator company may for auothor man to soll thel ters- tory. O, why doesn’t J Brockway, off a f feet, to himself solilo- quizes: “John Dodds make his Tig. ke to be used in civilized countries, name would indieate it could be used jungles of Tnd.” A screech owl precipice, breaks out in nterrupting his thoughts, Jumping to one side of his companions, he screams: “That i3 nothing more nor less than the demoniac screams of the hungry panther I have so often heard inthe moun- tains of Tennessec in my younger days, and in the perchied on an adjacent onizing Serewn here we are in this wilderness as traveling men and unarmed. No more of this in mine!" ered and prayed a dis- Lonls pri The hearta While “‘Little Wi to be again in the u tant rumbling and the s claimed the approach of Jimmny. of tho three in harmony ~beat with joy. But a feyw moments more and he was with thom He had found a wa nd the crippled bugey was trailed ou behind, aud in the darkness of mght, the little party wended s§ way on through canyon and gorg making slow progress, however, as difileult to find the trail~so difiic that our travelers compietely abandoned the idea of following it and found themselve lost. Not a landmark, not a star to mar their way, they wandered on ‘and on until the dreary hour of midnight, when there sud- denly appeared a light in the window of a n whose house anumber of the family were Sick apd necessitated a light all wight, o this tho} mado. thoir and finding the host, inquired the distance to nam, “Just about a mile straight south, yow'll run into a wire fence out there, ( 1 better get a lantern and siow you throu After being piloted safely boyo have a wee bit left: take it,my frien keep the bottle, and we thauk you for your kindness,” says Tom. Farnam is reached; ou, 4 but but not a light to indicate the habitation of the village. The landlord is awakened after nearly knocking in the front doo “One room, two beds.” The jaded bronchos are stabled to a stack of prairie hay, our heroes into the excuse for abed; Tom and Jim in one, Brockway and SLittle Willfe" in the other, too tired avd sleepy to be molested by the' festive bodbug, they find oblivion in slumber, and tho lust aceents of their sunorous voices on the som bre stilluess of the night,refrains the melody ot “Home, Sweet Home.” A Crop Talk 1 have traveled for ten years through all parts of the country, but never in my life bo- fore haye scen the amount of cornthat I have seen in the state of Nebraska on this trip," remarked n traveling man to a passenger on th rland flyer'ta fow days ago. *Whole villages of bins and erlbs filled to the full ex tentof their capueity. Elevators runuing over, solid train after traiu loaded for ma ket, piled up on the ground in ricks and stacks, the sight of which would make un castern farmer starc is utter astonishment, while through the coiitry along the line of the railroads nothing but” corn, corn, corn. Why, if the peoplo -of Nebraska had' some thing reasonable in freight rate, and did not have tosell onebushel in order to get auother to market, this country would have moremone, itwould know what to do with, 1 little town down tho road a short distancer twenty lorded teams at one clevator awaiting their turns to get welghed. Althougli |t is very quiet now, business is bound to be good here in the neat future, and you bet I'l) check my samples for this country oarly in the spring, and If I don't haye a good trade I'll be very much disap- pointed. The Death Roll. The death of Mr. Robert W. Dyball on the 4th inst., leaves another blauk in the ranks of the veteran travelers of Omaha. For the past couple of years ho has been manuger of Peyck ndy department. Previous to that time he was on the road for J, Numes & Co., of Chicago, aud in that capac ity made the acquaintanceship and friendship of many of the boys. In private life few men have a record of which they have greater reasou to be proud. He was born in Phila- delphila, and ut the age of fourteen enlisted iu the uavy, serving through the war under Admiral arragut aud receiviog an honora- ble discharge at its close. The scars he re- ceived in the service of his couuntry he bore to his grave. He leaves a family of six chil- dren, three of tue boys peiug conuected with the other three at the Paycke Bro school. and 1 8. T. M. A Banquot. The annual banquet and reception of the [owa State Traveling Men's association at the Aborne, Des Moines, Ia., Saturday evon ing, December 1, was an event long to be cherished 1n the memories of those prosent Tho annual business meoting and election of officers for the ensuing yoar was held dur- ing the earlior portion of the ovening, and at 10 p. m, fully two hundred travoling men, with their wives, mothers, sisters and sweet hearts, took their seats in the spacious din ing hall of the Aborne, ready to do justice to tho elegant repast prepared for them by the worthy host, Major Holmdale Mr. Carroll D. Wright officiated as toast master, and the following toasts were pro- posed “Jowa State Traveling Men's Association' Response by W, A. Work. “‘Dos Moines, “The Greenwood City* '—Rosponse by L. M Ames, “Our Wives and Sweethearts, Part ners of Our Joysand Sorrows' —Hesponso by Rov. A. L., Frishee, ““T'he Railvoads’ e sponse by Suporintendent L. M. Martin “The Mon We Work Llot™—Response by James Watt Then*‘the boys' 1 a short time for social converse, and at_1:30 a, m., good night was said and everybody went home voting the banquet, recoption and all a success The Protective Union. Morchant Traveler: The Traveling Men's Protective union of Kansas City met in the clubroom of the Midland hotel, Saturday evening, November 18, President George . Kean presiding, The meeting was a good one and well attended Secretary B, V. Woodson reparted that several additional firms and their salesmen had gned the constitution and by-laws within the past week. The interest in the idea promulgated by the union is fast spreading, and from pres ent indications the time is not far distant when cvery firm and every salesmam making Kansas City his headquarters, wili y. Ivis the inten siety to rent rooms to be used the purpose of strengthen- ures of the association, night was informal and cussion of the objects of benefits to acerae there. rent o be n member of the soc tion of the se as club rooms f ing tho social £ “The mect devoted to the di the order and the fr One good effect is the enlarg tho acquaintwnee of the members with the tellow ¢ , many of the traveling salesmen being unaquainted with otbers in the same line of business antil introduced at the meoeting: “The best of feel i men, generall full, x prevaila among trave and the desire to becone ith their competitors tas been satistie means of this socicty, At the meeting, to beheld next Saturday night at the same place, the canvassing coi mittee will make its fivst report. A large at tendance is expected. - Beat the Comb Pittsburg Leader: *We was one man in Pittsburg who v *cnough to get ahead of Captain Wishart his law and order week,” marked a prominent tobacconist to the writer lust night. When asked whomand to what he referred, the gentleman continued: *One weel ago to-night a drummer for a Balti more, M., leaf tobacco house came to Pitts burg and secured rooms at the ¢ h nue hotel. He was a great smoker, being not very well postea on the of the L. & O. 1 this city, did not lay in_ his supply of cigars for Sunday. On Sunday morning, just after breakfasting, the drum mer came down 10 the hotel cigar store to purchase some Henry Clays, but, alas the store was closed. He was not surprised at ad there as smart and spios lust but workings this, but started out to huat up another cigar store. I supposc it is ncedless for to say he seavelied the city in vain for ! an hour, at the expi which time ed to his hostelry disgusted and fie could not understand why alt s in Pintsburg were closed. He laid he mystitied. the stc in u complaint against “mine host,” who in formed him that the day was the Sabbath “—— —— 1 know what day it is, drammer, what in the — cigar stor fort” “Ren the hotel keeper, “that Pittsbura has a Cap. (ain Wishurt and a nd_order socicty.” In the space of an hour or wwre the run- mer was made to understand why all tobac conists were apparently sleeping, and he ro- tired to his room in a state of extreme ndi F L SRt >~~~ e —— - Pears Soap Fair white hands: Brightclearcomplexion Soft healthful skin Y PEARS’~-The Breat English Comploxion SOAP,~-Sold Everywhere.” Noaring Mr. Jackaon tell Indian reminiscnces HUSBANDS AND WIVES, and has also heard them verified. Some of g them would do the famous General Crook | The Disconrse of ey, Lamar at the proud. M. Juckson has the reputation of Ar Ve BRI OH beitg 10 best salesman in the weat solling | ooy o, sk th AL bl t Baptist church was crowded to shooa, He is one of tha most gemal of com yanions, always causing fun and mirth from flowing last night by a most approciative rly morning to early morning wdience to hear the Rev. Dr. Latmar's ser There were about cighteen commercial | mon, “Husbands and Wives, " Q‘,','",_”“, ::u:r‘«;n'\ !I’-N“‘\:u.\‘h \';3'14|;|‘v;vlf:l\‘\l4y"‘ The tivst thing marvied persons should do ROSHAR AN P A U R R U and forboar. Without forbear . vIg Were the ot prommin ance lifo to married couples would at least Their visit hore at this time is to sell the | be itksome, Time would bo wasted and the ana Hardware company @ Orin Wal- [ interests of families, both morally and phys who = mover —missed | jcally, destroyed. Husbands should boar Tihae CTeonstost " tvarie For Uiilitabupe: | Wit thoit wivos; boar with thom in theit William G. Miller, tho smiling lock vendor | trisls, domostic, moral and physical, for Who never passes in or represeating 1% | Woman is the woaker vessol. - Wives should & T. Corbin, New Haven, Conn.; William C. | forbear with their husbunds. The latter's Hrotwn, the champion bird cage wman from | trials are mnot all domestic, and when he Clilongzo; Will O, Stovens, the josial lone | Contes home tired, and perhaps disappointed tishermun of the Mississiapi river, represent- | At some event which may have possibly oc g Culler, Woodrough & Co., | Chicagos the | curred in the day, then woman's forbeatance should assert itself. sedate Ben Kershaw, who never smiles, rep resonting N. & G. Taylor, Philadelphia; The speaker then urged the ostablishment V. Sanders,reprenseting St. Louis Stamping | Of & genuine c¢o-partnership between hus Co.: John H. Heimbaugh, the never say-die- | band and wife. ‘i'hiere should exist in every democrat from St. Louis; Dan W, Campbell, | Bouschold an ¢ fr 1 from suspiclon the jolly Scotch ie, *a wee bed stiff, | between both partics. Neither should g but still m the ving, reprosenting Roy & Co., | the other the slightost accasion or ehianee for VYo N FEAL Dantit proprictor | the most trifiing suspicion. Husbands on of the Contral Garriage works, Chicago, was | their return me i the - evening in town last woe n his goods with the | from th day toil should listen trade: L. L. Prive, of Odell, Nen., is in the | With — guarded — tendora to the city oh business for u fow days. Lest is o | trials, difiiculties and troubles —of his BTGP wife's days expericuce, and | art, Eel gl L should also make her his confil wy i Great Little Men. an been saved ‘rm“ Absoluto ruin, and g in many easos froin diseace, by confiding in e of the great men that ever | nig wite. She shoald alwis be taken (nto sve of Small statve and insigni- | coneideration when 1 s of groat wt appearance. The reader will | business importance rack the brain adily recall man tances. Very | Theadvice of n wife is always good and small is Dr. Picree’s Pleasant [ never more so than in business consulta HCEPRITEtE & Bt y | tion. "Phe husbind has no vieht to jeopardize effective than the huge, old- L A L AT pilis which are so difficult 10 sw |t IBTe SR L bs . SRt e and 50 havsh in theiraction. The TR lets™ a tle and never cause rontloman noxt spoko of the stipation. For liver, stomach, and i be shown by both hus bowel derangements they haveno equal. ureligious matters. Ho by btk 2 troubles that arise by ott’s Physician Wants His Pay ddiliob Sl L Barrowoue, Doe. 9, —The young physician i k"j‘}]{ Dr. Nathan Gorter, who accompuniel could come of uy 1res of this kind 1 tho Robert Garrett on the teip he nade aronud | children secing v angles the parents the world before his mental troubles as. | had over reir matters often drifted sumed so serious a form, has entered suit for U] LHeOT 8,000 for professional services rendered. | giaphod in 2 South Omaha Bagino, ne bill for that amonnt was presented to R e o el TRkt e R A B Ta A William Erick, who refused to pay it, and | * e Wil L) b At once put the matter in the | Dlayer at tho Birdie Maun resort and Al hands of a Luyyer for scttlement, Tt is as. | Williams, a barber, white in a house of easy serted that the amount is not exorbitant, in- | virtue, between Twenty-fifth and Twent, asmich s Dr. Gorters labors were ihost REEN e trenla et arduous, and becauso ave up a growing LABBAT WAt ikt and Incrative practico in order to accompany iabiiiis/a gaBhis0 deonithit Lyl rreit. W swiwoned, put his, fingers in i B the whole tength. Whetlier the That haeking cough can he so quickly | won is lik P T T curcd by Shiloh’s Cure. Wo guarantee | stuted. Cob psequently arrested. it. Lo sale by Goodman Drug Co. - i The Belgian Strikers. Mors Trouble at the Casing Brrssins, Dee. % - Two batalions of the Casino was aacenc of con- | troops hu i ordered from Antwerp to o excitement. OlJicer Domorset hind lonvier, the conter of the strikes and at- ol thatraeti e nite outrazes. A large num 15 from police headquar- cortain u arvested. ave be - Whitebhreast “nut™ conl, $1, »b. Fuel Co.. 211 South o be on the lookout fo The oficer imagined he s o th parties of ollow S por ton, 13th st. sded 1o and p ion. In a short time vhercafter he reap red in the drawing room smoking an elo- in his pocket he had a dozen or pe gant cigar. noy distributed among the guests. experionced cigarmaker, had t ber of his sampies of le formed them into Hue re of the same brand,which he generously He being an a4 num- Too Fine Weather, A drummer has this to say of the state of affairs in the country The fine weather this wintsr has put a Qamper on nearly ali classes of busi While it has been greatly favorable to Ul rmer in gotting his corn in the erib and to the merel has suffered for the it of trade, and traveling men generally e complaining. Hspeciaily is this the ca with woolen goods and clothing, ! oots and shoes, has been so varn and pleasant that has as yet b en no de mand 1 so lines, and ‘merchants tha bought early, in many instance , find their winter stocks still unbroken. bills arc ma turing, aud many a good wery hant will bo compelled to asi for an_ exten:ion of time, while some will have to siceu b to the in cvitable, and clo Collections in the rural distr the farmer realizing 4 fair pricefor wheat, corn and other pro ducts, and is marketing crough to pay his oyst past due notes and accounts, Th r and fish bu s, Which in the sggregite is im: mense, is also much effected, the warm weathor not being conducive to this kind of business. .M U A meeting of the Traveling Men's Protec tive union, in the membershiv of which it is desired to include all the jobbers of the Mis souri river, is called for Decomber 22 ut th board of traae rooms, St Joscph, Mo. Grocers are especially reguested Lo be pros ent, The oflicers of the union are M. Will iuas, prosident, and £, V. Korr, secretary. imples, 3. M. Dimon, representative of the Glid don barb wire in this state, has boen suc ceeded by A, W. Wellinan, foru in the hardware business at Bradsaaw Neb, M. D). Chilton, famiiiurly known as “Littlo Dick,” who has' been convalescing at’ th Arcade for the past two weeks, is again able to be out on his territ looking after the ests of 1. 8. Morgan, reaper and mower pany,of Brockport, N. Y. o A, Burke, formerly reprosentative of the Star Wagon compaiy, and latterly with the J. H. Mahler of 5t. Paul, will start for his old Home in silanti, Mich., this week, where he will spend & month's vica tion. ' No better judge of a vehicle nor u more expert salesman ever carrled i o logue in tho west than M rke, and many fr sible in his hollday vacation. For soveral years the Heck & Tron company, of 5t. Louis, hus boen repr ated by J. L. Groeu, who s one of the most succassful in his line, Scyonteen yoars ago Mr. Green was & compositor on " Tig Bre, when the publication was in its infaney® wihien, as he expresses it, **It cost a dollar to 085 the Fiver on @ rickety forryboat.” His me is in Quiney, 11, and he knew young King there when ho was known under the nom de plume of Lograde. Mr. Green says thoy associated i good soviciy at the time and no one suspected that they were any thing but man aud wife W. A. Jackson, representing Dogeett, Bas Corbett sett & Hill's company, Chicago, was in the city yesterday, visiting friends. Mr. Jack 80N is on his way to Montana and the west, where he enjoys the distinction of belng t pioneer shoo salosman, Mr, Jackson tray: eled through Idalo and Moutana years ago, long before the Utal & Northern and the Oregon Short Line railways were built, and at that time stuging was in its pulwy days and the festive highway robber and Indians rtained the travolers as thoy pleasantly through the country tunately for Billy Juckson, the stages were 80 crowded in the early days that they could not accommodate his Leavy buggage, sud he, iu compamy with some one of the boys, would buy @ team aud spring wagon aud make the trip alone. The writor has often enjoyed 1t the hall. Tom O'Rrien, who was acting - doorkeeper, seeing the ofifcer approaci Harricon's Sod House. stopped bty and, “in Tanguazo not"at all £ oy Crey, Neb, Doc. 9.~ [Spocial to Tk Leing in the execution of his duty, drew Lis | president-clect was from “Loup City. Sher- olver and told O'Brien to stand aside and | Inan countg,” not from the state ‘of Ne- let him poss. Fova few minutes groat ex- | braska, as several papers have spoken of it. citement prevailed and it was feared i - - that o stwnpede might resuit The Duche:s of Galliera Dead. O'Brien, however, stood asid wd | Paus, Dec. 0.—The Duchess of Galliera is lowed the oflic W enter. reats a. were made azainst the ofticor by O'Iivien,and = - it was snnounved that a formal report of his Notios Badlastotaoks: conduct will be suade to pelice head;uarter RFSLY A5 M he Casino hus caused the policea great dea Boston T Professor Wi of trouble lately v T w ‘hly. there is a —— ad fal literary taste of Courtships average throe tons of eoal each | the people now Iew peisons core 0s of bad coughs and colds: but then | to vead the early d \ists and poets, prndent wallant is provided with a bot- | (he cssayists and historians: even the tle of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrap, which costs | jijie, which was once the book of books N i finds Tow 1 The good old litera- rontest cure on carth for baip.n | Lure of the pust is almo; wirely nog: Driee 25 cents., lected. ; T Myz, Rielly—Tt is very true what yon Denth of Editor McMillan, sy, professor; but then our weekly NEW Yoni, Dee. %.—Alexander kv, Me- | paper furnishes some very fine detective Millan, cditor of the Comum; al Bulleuin, | stories: so things arce not quite so bad as died to'night. they might b MUSTANG LINIMENT e ', L Tiuscles, Disce i, Druises: OF G and ever) cactes eve B Snow ¢ Rot, T Sin ; Ewin- p ) Piie. cuch 85 4 Soreness, DI Lorn, GF o lotchess Yorses and Go frablo by €5 } L Ringhor N A Thus the “ Mustang” conquers pain, Makes RMIAN or BEAST well againl! RADWAY'’S PILLS, v ihie Care of all DISORDERE OF THE STOMACH, LIVEIR, BWELS, KIDNIYS, BLADDRIL VS DISEASES, HEADACHE, CONSTIPATION, CO3 14V EN165S, SLAINTS PECCLIAT L PAINS IN DI BACK, DItAGGING VEELING V. SPTON. BILLIOUR- o IEVET IXVLAMMATION OF PR BOWELS, PLLES, and i1l derangements of tie 1u- nal Viscera, Purdly vey ntabtitg no MerCey, niieral of delstoriols drugs. —--DYSPEPSIA, -~ tons up the fnternal secrotions to RADWAY'S PILLS are & cure for ihis complaint, The ! $ beaithy nctlon, vestore Strength to the stomich wnd ehable it to pevfor it funetions. 1o symptonis of DYSPEVSIA disippear, wnd with then th+ 1iabi ity (0 contract diseses, —~PERFECT DIGESTION -~ 1 by taking RADWAY'S PILLS. iy so doing, DYSPEPSIA, SICK HEAD- Will he accamnplisl A PO T RIOMACT BICIOCENESR Wil ve aveidediond e food it is eateh contribito 14y Rourishin propertics or the support of the natural wate of the boay. Prics 2 cents. Kold by all t WHST A DWAY'S KEADY RELIEF there 15 no BEVTEI REMEDY for FEVER or AGUK e ] g _ e 3. L. STAUR, 1010 Howard St, Omaha, has drawn plans and Savitieattona tor & 9100m frame houae. WhiCh ‘combitlua utlity,comfort,ecouomy and beauty,ina % 4y 1ipossible b any good housé f1at costs from 1,70 to §L.0J). As more than 1) will s it #0, 1 can afford to offer a copy for i the asca) feoy otlier Wiko buiiig from 107 per cou’ Patantapplicd fo Tor w varlety of 8l plan: ARCHITE - Origingt and splendld Aeslgns furnished, as can be judged form the sets of plausof completed bulldings of p y P, giug u cost L more, wll deteripticns 1 Lave i oy office, ranging Aaen oot T from 86,000 to 100,000, My unusual experieace will guarantes satisfaction e=="7" and reliable ouLruciors vily are eugagud on Wy works. Fariles wisiiog to buld o cordinly tuvited. L]