Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 20, 1889, Page 1

e L TG 2419 MY 0 o S LTS Awvtiargn ot oo Semmacond ARG 1RO THE OMAHA DaIiLy BE —‘:fi EIGHTEENTH YEAR. - OMAHA, SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 20, 1880, NUMBER 309 HORDES OF HOME-SEEKERS. | Mighty Hosts of Boomers Bound Across the Border. SWOLLEN STREAMS NO BARRIER. Foolhardy Attempts to Cross Them Result in Death to the Invaders dakirs Engaged in Trape ping the Unawary. A Migratory Mob. BonvEr or OKLANOMA, via City, April 19.—[Special Tele- Tue Bre.]—The advance to Oklahoma continues to-day and trains of ‘wagons, droves of cattle and a large number of horsemen are hurrying into the Chero- kee Strip, undaunted by swollen streams and the almost impassable condition of the roads, Some of the home-seckers passed to-day with fine carriages aud buggies which will scarcely carry them over the rough roads, which have been 80 badly cut up by heavy wagons that it is almost impossible for an empty wagon to travel them. Others had sulky plows and rakes and other improved agricultural imple- ments. Some of the wagons had coops of chickens strapped on behind, while several had ready-made cabins set upon hay frames, 80 that the boomers, on reaching Oklahoma, can unload their houses on their quarter sec- tions and occupy them at once. Runners from along the line report to-day that eighteen boomers were drowned yesterday and last night in attemoting to ford the swollen streams, but in the rush and confu. sion 1t is difficult to get particulars, and owing to the poor facilities for going from point to point it is almost impossible to get reports of all the things that are hapvening along the line, and eightcen may not be the half of those who have fouud watery graves in attempting to reach Okluhoma. Several colonies are providing themselves with rude flat boats with which to construct pontoon bridges across the deepest streams, while others are hauling heavy timber aud lumber for the purpose of building bridges. The Santa Fe is preparing to run special trains from this point into Oklahoma every ten minutes after 9 o'clock on the opening day, and will probably carry 10,000 passen- gers to that place on the 224, for this is the great assembling point for boomers from all northern and castern points. The Santa Fo rolling stock is being concentrated here, and to-morrow they will begin making up special trains on the fifty miles of side track at th and neighboring points. No engincer, trainman or conductor will know which train will move first, until the orders to start are given, This is decmed necessury on account of the great rush there will be on opening day, when everybody would make an effort to get aboard the first train if it were known which would be first to start. Mickets are already being sold here for Guthrie and other points in Oklahoma, to be used on the 22d. This is being done to avoid the rush, as it would be impossible to sell tickets to all that want to leave on that 3 It 18 ninety-four wiles from Arkansas City to Guthrie, the prncipal land ofiice in Okla- homa, and the point toward which the major- ity of the boomers will rush, Trains leaving here in the morning will get to Guthrie in about four hours, nence all of the hom seekers can be put in there before the land office closes on the opening day. The town is full of fakirs of all kinds, and all sorts of catchpennies are congregating here and preying upon the thousands’ who have been held here until to-day. Bands are playing, drunken men are whoopg and ellng with joy, and a general feeling of ilarity prevails. Everything is in a state of great confusion. The telegraph wires are kept busy day and night, and yet it is hard to get off a te am. The town is full of newspaper correspondonts whose specials keep the wires very busy, and even with a double force of operators, there is constant delays. The Western Union is putting in an extra wire, which will be ready for business to-morrow, and special arrangements are belng made for newspaper men to use the trains for neighboring points in order to en able them to file their matter wherever it can be handled earliest. Ox e ARKANSAS gram to Scenes Along the Road. OX e OKLANOMA Borber (via Arkansas , April 19.—[Special Telegram to Tuz ®.]-—The scene along the roads through the Cherokee Strip, from the neighborhood of Arkansas City and Caldwell, Kan., to Oklahoma, beggars description, and the gen- eral appearance presented is similar to the line of march of some great army on retreat. The recent hard rams huve softened the rogds so that the heavy immigrant wagons cut them till they are almost without bottom. As a natural consequence, wagons stuck in *fl mud or broken down are seen all along e line. The streams are all up, and the determined and impatient boomers are hav- $ng great trouble in crossing them, and sev- eral lives have already been lost. A heavy rain last night added to the discomfort of the home-seckers, many of whom are pro- wided with no shelter, but are traveling in open wagons, on foot or on horseback. Hun- dreds of women and children accompany the boomers on their march, and in many cases women are drawing the wagons, while the men walk along, driving their small herds of cows and calves. Some of the wagons are loaded with housebola furniture and goods of all kinds, while others contain but a scanty supply of provisions and a few old quilts and blankets. Some of the emi- grants are provided with good teams and are evidently possessed of ample means, while others have spikea teaws, rope har- wess and old, worn-out wagons, Great num- bers of the boomers are in camp near Salt Fork of the Arkansas river, about I way between Arkansas City and’ the Okla- homa line, unable to cross and waiting for the roads to dry up, while mavy others are pushing forward, regardless of the roads, ward the line, where they intend resting their teams and lightening them in order to be able to go into Oklahoma with a rush on the opening day. The boomers' camps present lively scenes this ovening and as far as the eye can reach are groups of tents and covered wagons, The people are geuerally wraveling in crowds in order to be better able 10 assist one another in emergencies, Most of them seem to have stuked everything on Oklahoma and to have abandoned their bomes elsewhiere to seek homes in this terri- tory. They are braving the hardships with true ploncer fortitude and their scemingly bright prospects enable them to cheerfully endure all trials and hardships, and even the cold and chilling rains can not dampen their ardor or affect them, The women are as en thusiastic as the ien and speak very hopo- fully of the bright prospects of happy bLomes in Oklabomau. All seem to look only on the bright side and to have lost sight of the fact that at loast three-fourths of their number are destined to disappointment owing to the fact that there not near enough lavd Lo go around. Most of these people are headed for Guthrie or points in that vicinity, and from prescot indications every acre of land mear the railroad between the Cherokee Btrip and Guthrie will be squatted on within 80 Lour after Oklahoma is opened. For forty miles through the Cherokee Strip the roads :n lined with wagons, buggies, sulkies, orsemen and footmen, a!l bound for Okla- homa. Every imuginable kind of convey- uce hus béen brought Into requisition. me are of the old style wooden uxle wagous, relios of other gencrations, but most of the movers from this direction ave of the better class, while the lurge wa fority of those gathering about Purcell, soul of Oklatoma, are of the poorer class aud Lelong o ihe reguler ele- ment of society that would be termed rough, All passers-by are londly cheered by these boomers, who wave thoir hats, whoop and yell in high spirits, The soldiers are camped at various points along the line and rein- forcements are constantly arriving. Two more companies of infantry arrived to-day, and the general impression prevails here that, owing to the absence of other law for Oklahoma, the country will be placed under martial law for the present, until suitable laws for ita government can be enacted. Captain Hayes, in_command of the troops here, has permitted several bridge builders to enter the territory and bridge some of the most dangerous streams which the settlers will have to cross. Theso men wil be alowed to charge & small toll to compensate them for their work. The United States troops have been ordered o withdraw precisely at noon onthe 224, and to permit the settlers to enter Oklalioma. In the meantime they are gathering along the line, and their numbers are hourly increasine. A _large United States flag floats from one of the boomer's wagous. In other wagons are desks, chairs, law books, bank furniture, restaurant and saloon fixtures and everything needed for the business of a city, and on next Monday a city will spring up ‘at Guthrie with such rapidity as to astonish the world. Boomers Hold a Town Site Meeting. ARKANSAS City, Kan., April 19.—[Special Telegram to Tur Bee]—An Oklahoma boomers' meoting was held at the opera house here this morning to take action look- ing to the reservation of land enough at iuthrie for town site purposes. The law on this subject is variously construed, and there was some difference of opinion as to the best course to pursue. About six hundred men attended the meeting, and all were of the learned of the drowning. At one time this morning there were over a hundred wagons on the streets, Raijroads Taxed to Their Utmost. CaLpWELL, Kan,, April 10.—The rush of people who will try to take the Rock Island route between to-day and Monday will be 80 great that the Rock Tsland alnfost despairs of being able to accommodate them. One colony of 600 will leave Wichita to-morrow. General Passencor Agent Sebastian, as soon as he heard of the possible trouble at Pond Creek, telegraphed to Wichita that the road would furnish free transportation to teams and wagons if tickets were sold to owners, trav- elers to provide their own transportion from Pond Creck. Manager Green, of the stage line, “Cannon Ball Green,” as he is known throughout the southwest, 8 bnying all the Thorses to be had here and in the neighboring country. He shipped twenty-six to Pond Creek this morning. Fourteen stages in addition to those used by the old Fort Reno line, which are at Pond Creek, were shipped from Will- ington to-day. The Rock Island officials, who returned from Pond Creek this after- noon, say that the reports of high water have been greatly exaggerated, and that Captain Woodson réports from the frontier that there will be 1o trouble with the streams. Pawnee Bill's Colony. WELLINGTON, Kan., April 10.—A special to the Standard, brought by courier to South Haven and from there telephoned to thi city, says: Pawnee Bii's colony. consisting of 300 wagons, left Hunnewell yesterday and is now water-bound at the south fork of the better class. Ex-Mayor Constantine, of Springiield, O., presided. Soveral speeches were made and great interest was manifested in the town site question, for it is rumored that certain persons have arranged to rush men into Oklahoma on race horses Monday in order to wet them in ahead of all others for the purposo of having them squat_on the quarter sections where Guthric is located, and take possession under the homestead laws. The law concerning town sites in Ok- lahoma is swid to be defective in many respects, and the mecting, after appointing a_committee on res- olutions, - adjourned until _afternoon. This_afternoon the committee's minority report was accepted after considerable dis- cussion, and the president of the United States will be requested to reserve two sec- tions of land at Guturie for townsite pur-s poses. The majority report opposed making this request on the grounds that if land is reserved for a townsite the lots will be sold at public_auction to the highest bidder, whereas if those who intend locating at Guthrie will go there and oceupy the land on the 22ud, the government will afterwards donate theland to them and they will not have to bid against speculators for its pur chase. There are already over a thousand men there who contemplate locating at Guthrie next Mon They are merchants, bankers, lawyers, doctors, druggists, hotel keepers and mechanics, and from present indications Guthric wili be a city of from five thousand to ten thousand inhabitants be- fore it is twenty-four hours old. Banking and Newspaper Projects. Anrkaxsas Crry, Ark., April 19.—|Special Telegram to Tue Bee.| —Arrangements have already been made to starta bank and news. paper at Guthrie, Oklahoma, on Monday, the opening day. Everything has beer: shipped to the border, and the cars are side tracked there awaiting the time when the freight can be rushed. The Guthrie bank is to be opened Monday afternoon, and the first edition of the Guthrie newspaper will come out Tues day morning. Ready-made houses in sec- tions are being shipped there, so they can be taken from the cars and vut up in an_hour. Several merchants have their store houses on board the cars ready for the Oklahoma towns, and a large number of complete cab- ins are being built and put on flat cars at var- ious pointsalong the Santa Feroad, to be run into the Oklahoma settlements, and sold to homesteaders on opening day. The growth of these towns will be something wonderful, and the woods of Oklahoma will be transfer: red into busy cities in less than a day. Some Picturesque Outfits. CaLbweLL, April 19—Two thousand camp fires glimmered along the old Reno trail last night from Caldwell w Pond Creek. To-day a thousand canvas-covered wagons are slowly moving along the trail. The day was favorable and notwithstanding the late heavy rains, the trail was in very good con- dition. The most popular outfit is a strong canvas-covered wagon, drawn by two large, stout horses, and the horses of the boomers are all in good coudition. Some of the lary wagons have four or even six horses. Some parties are mounted on ponies and carry whole camp outfits behind their dles. Some are ossing the Strip in buggies. One 0dd turn- outis a large, high, old-fashioned buggy, drawn by two shaggy, yellow horses, with a colt hitched by its mother, and a black cow ticd behind, "The driver is a woman, and she drove with one hand while the other supported a little child, A shocky-headed youngster of ten years followed behind, The “omun was a Kansas widow seeking a home in the “promised land.” Al stories to the contrarv notwithstanding, it does not seem that there can bo any trouble among the men who are driving over the trail. They are as flie a body as ever went into a new country. The most of them are Kansas and Nevraska furmers, and although a gun is in every wagon and across every saddle bow, the owners are men who will use them to keep peace, and not to make trouble. Most of the wagon boomers got out of Caldwell, yesterday, and this morning. There were about four thousand of theui, Many of them have little or no money, but almost all are well equipped for camp life, Salt ifork, Pond Creok, and all other streams, in the Strip, it is thought, can be forded, al- though every one is very high, All is doubt about tho chances of fording the Cimarron, and o wagon left Caldwell, last night, bear- ing a large boat, with which the owners ex- pect to s Soldiers Hold a Conference. Ankansas Crry, April 19.—Last night the old soldiers, union colony of this city held its last meeting before going to Oklahoma. The colony consists of 150 old soldiers. One of these will leave Monday to look up & home- stead for each under the soldier clause. The members will go by train. They have started @ wagon train with supplies of tents and pro- visions and & raft sufficiently large to ferry all accouterments across any stream be- tween here and Okluhoma. The old sol- diers’ colony of Wichita started ten wagons yesterday, The; will enter av dwell, Land Register Dil returned last night from Guthie. He says the roof is on his land ofce and it will be ready for cceapancy to-night. The land of- ficors, both at King Fisher and Juthie, held a consultation last night and gave out oficial notice as to the manuer in which ape plications for claims should be filed. Two hundred land filings per day will be the limit of each oftice. Word was brought here last night from Purcell by a man who was there xrllrnlnf* that a great deal of lawlossness exists along the southern border of Okla- homa, He saild a man wes *‘beld up” in the sireets of Purcell 1 broad daylight. and robbed of $500. The boomers defy the law. They have purchased or hired every available horse in the neighborhood and will mount and wade through the Ca- nadian river just before noon Monday. When the signal flag drops at noon sharp there will be u desperate Y e § opposite bank. Gawmblers and toughs de- clare they will let no one pass a certain dis. tance who is not one of thew. The town full of special correspondents, who are writ- ing from imagination aud against space. A cowhoy from Caldwell, who arrived lats last night, suys the Cimarron is very high,eand that up té the time he loft, eighteen persons lies been drowned while trying to ford the suream. No defluite information can be Arkansas, twenty miles south of that city in the territory. While attempting to ford the swollen and turbulent stream a man named Freithor and his team were drowned in full view of the frightencd colonists, who were unable to render him any assistance. The sad accident demonstrated that fording was out of the question, and the whole colony is now engaged in the construction of a huge raft upon which they hope to float over to the other side with their teams and outfits. This afternoon a train of 485 vehicles, containing colonists bound for Oklahoma from the Salt Lake Valley of Utah aud points in Colorado, passed six miles west on their southern journey. Rivers Rising Rapidly. ARkANsas Crry, April 19.—The Arkansas and Walnut rivers are rising rapidly. The Walnut has gone up ten fect since morning. Cougressman Weaver, of Towa, will arrive to-day. He says he will take up a claim near Guthrie, This morning, at Chillicoco Station, 500 Texas catile were let loose on the prair train of boomers was passing at the time. The cattle stampeded the cattle hitched to the wagons. 'The latter were mixed with the Texas cattle and lost to the owners. A man named Watson, trom Sterling, Neb., in try- ing to save his outfit from the enraged cat- tle, was trampled under foot and badly in- jured. tlemen are making no attempt to protect their fences on the strip, and the boomers are cutting them. Hundreds of miles of fences wili be broken to picces. An Oklahoma Land Opinion. WasiixaToN, April 19.—Sceretary Noble to-day, rondered a decision relative to town sites in Oklahoma: Department of the ln- terior—To the commissioner of the general land office: I am in recaipt of your communi- cation of the 15th inst.. relative to the ap- plication of the Oklahoma Capital City Town-Site and Improvement company, ask- ing permission to locate and enter certain lands in the Guthrie and Kingfisher land districts for town sites n the Indian terri- tory, said application having boen referred by the department to your oftice. I concur in the views cxpressed by you in your said communication, that there is no au- thority to grant the application of the Okla- homa Capital City Town-Site and Improve- ment company to enter lands, #s now pre- sented, and I am also of the opinion_that the provisions of the act of March 4, 1889, pro- viding for entries of lands for town sites, under sections 2378 and 2338 of the revised statutes do not apply to corporations of this chavacter. Although the president might have the power to reserve lands for town sitos under scction 2358 of the rovised statutes, such reservation could not be made for the benefit of a corporation of this char- acter, but would be disposed of in the man- ner now provided by law. Preparations to Preserve the Peace. WASHINGTON, April 10.—An order signed by Assistant Adjutant-General Kelton, sup- posed to have resulted from the cabinet meeting this afternoon, has just been sent to the commanding general of the Division of the Missouri at Chicago. By direction of the major-general, the following is communi- cated: The president directs General Mer- ritt to act in conjunction with marshals of the United ~ States courts having jurisdiction in the country opened to secttlement under the president’s re- cent proclamation to preserve the peace, and will upon the requisition of such marshals or their duly authorized deputies, send the troops under his command to aid them in executing warrants, making arrests and quelling any riots or breaches of peace that may occur. He will use his influence to promote peace and good order, and will take every proper measure to avoid any conflict of arms between or with the settlers, He will also enforce the laws relating to the intro- duction of ardent spirits into the Indian country. A careful enforcement of these provisions will do very much to promote good order, Boomers and Deputies Fight. WioniTa, April 10.—A Daily Eagle special from Purcell, L T., says the chief deputy marshal at that place, with a posse all afternoon has been engaged in hunting the boomers in the Oklahoma land opposite this city. They returned this afternoon with one party and have now corralled in the woods and ravines a party of 800, Intelligence has also been received tnere that an engagement togk place between a party of boomers and deputies, 1 which several persons were wounded. The boomers, who ‘were mostly ‘Texans, it is said, were attacked in a barra- cade of 'logs and stones by the deputies, and commenced firing. Volleys were returned with spirit for some time, but the boomers surrendered after some had been wounded. e Postofice Sites In Two Citles. ‘Wasnixaroy, April 19.—There are several perplexing questions before the treasury de- partment in regard to the selection of sites for public buildings. Among these the most difeult of solution relate to the sites at Mil- waukee and Omaha. Secretary Windom has decided to dispose of them all as soon as ossible, and to that end requested Assistant Secretaries Bachellor and Tichenor and Su- peryising Architect Windrim to investizate each case thoroughly aud to report their con- clusions to him for action. — - Oklahoma Land Office Olerks. WasHINGTON, April 19.—Two and proba- bly four clerks, who are thoroughly in- formed as to the general detail work of the local land office, will leave the general land office to-day Guthrie and Kingfisuer stage station in Oklahoma to assist the local land ofticers. ——— A Double Arkansas Jerk. Sr. Louis, April 10.—A special from Fort Smith, Ark, to the Post-Dispaich says Maluchi Allen, a one-armed negro, and James Mills, a half Indian and half negro, were hanged there to-day for the killing of three men in the Indian reservation. — Price of Whisky Reduced. CixciNNATI, April 19.—The price of whisky, which has been held at $1.03 as a basis for saveral months, was to-day reduced to $1.02, according to the agreement made at the Peoria weeting on the 37tk lust, TREASURY ~ COMPTROLLERS. One Was Too Fresh and the Other Has Resigned. TIRED OF BEING A BOURBON. Jditor Ivins, of the Athens, Tennos- sce, Post, the Oldest Democratic Organ of the South, Has Reformed. WaAsHINGTON BureAv, Tre Ovana Bee. 513 FOUNTEENTH STRE Wasmixatoy, D. €., April 19, It islearned to-night that at tho cabinet meeting to-day about the only topic discussed was the two comptroliers of the treasury. The arbitrary action and the dictatorial po- sition, assumed by the first comptroller, Mr. Durham, in a little controversy with the at- torney-general, a day or two ago, convinced the president that the gentleman’s useful- ness had departed, and that it was time that some one more in harmony with the present order of things should be selected to succeed him. Mr. Sigouraey placed his resignation at the disposal of the president some time ago, and his vlace would have been filled Defore this, but for the desire of the presi dent, as well as the secrotary of the treasury, to ill the more important position first. To- day it was decided that the two comptrollers shall be appointed immediately, and while the names of those who are to have the places could not be learned to-night, it is un- derstood that they will be announced to- morrow, and the current opinion is that Captain'John R. Thomas, of llinois, will be one of the chosen. NO LONGER DEMOCRATIC. Advance proofs of the current issue of the Tenn.,, Post, were received here, The Athens Post is the oldest paper in the state, and the oldesv democratic organ in the south, published under a continuous name. Its present editor aud proprietor, J. J. Ivins, has been the sharman of the demo- cratic couney committee, of his couaty, for some time, and has held several prominent oftices under the democracy, the last of which was Unitea States marshal, for the district, during the first and a half vears of President Cleveland’s germ. Mr. Ivins an- nounces tnat he is no Mnger a democrat, but that he will hereafter B found with the re- publican party. The principal reason for his change of politics isy he says, the recent action of the state legislature in gerryman- dering the Third congressional district, Which is a disgrace to the party and a blot upon the state, a stab at her prosperity, und a reflec- tion ipon the memory of those who have de fended democracy. He also thinks that the state is more prosperous under u protective volicy than he believed 1t would be under any other. These reasons lead him to take the course which he lays out in his card. SWEET UNCERTAINTY. There has been much talk about the proba- Dle construction the present administration will put upon the time of the commencoment of the four-year term of office, where it will vegin, frow the date of the appointmeit of ofticials, or from their confirmation. After niuch delay a conclusion has been reached on this important point, and though it is not settled cither positively or negatively, the course of the adwinistration on the_ subject of removals may be partially understood. When questioned on ti tior_to-day the attorney-géneral sai t has been deter- mined to make no rula to decide whether the term of oftice shail begin with appointment or confirmation, but rather to judge each case soparately, as it may come p. It is thought that wall be the most satisfactory method.” With this explanation officiala who are wait ing patiently to find when their term_of of- fice expire may rest in sweet uncertainty, OKLAHONMA. At the interior department it was said to-day that the Oklahoma proclamation has brought more work upon the lund ofice than any previous action of the executive. Peo- ple from all partsof the country write to know all about the new territory, how to se- cure lands, when to go and all the restof it. They fail to recognize, scemingly, that there are only 10,000 quarter sections to be thrown open to settlement on Monday, and that there are already quite that number almost within the boundaries of the territory ready to take up therr acres. The department ty-day assigned four clorks from the land of- fice to go to Oklakoma for the purpose of as- sisting the registers and receivers at the new land oftices recently established at Gutherie and King Fisher, in the territory. They left tinis evening for Jheir post of duty. There i quite an exodus of would-be scttle; Washington, who also left tonight. They propose to go right through and take up lands if they can get them, and if not to con- tend themselves with speculating in town lots. Most of the Washinston colonists money and expect to make a great de: A NEW NPLRASKA POSTMASTER. W. E. appomnted postmaster at Silver rick county, Neb., vice . W. Riddle, resigned. 10WA POSTMASTERS APPOINTED. Clarcnce C. Kilbourne, Akron, Plymouth county, vice A. L. McGianis, resigned; Sampson, Delton, Keokuk count; W. Chaudler, resigned; B, 1. ‘Cha) Derby, Lucas county, vice O. Bovar signed; B. C. Stark, Gresham, county, vice D. M. Tobii West, Little Sioux, Harrison county, vice A. Minton, resigned. MIZCELLANEOUS, The first assistant sceretary of the interior has affirmed the decision of the commissioner of the general land office, who sustained the action of the local oflice in the case of Susan C. A. Wihite, rejecting her application to make final proof 1n support ot her homestead entry for lots 1and 2 in the east half of the northwest quarter of section 31, township range 15, Valentine land district, Nebias) A contest was pending at the time claim made her application against said entry under which circumstances it is well setued by the decision of the interior department that final proof canuot be made In the case of the appeal of Joseph Burgel from the decisiun of the commissiouer of the general land office of Qctober 13, 1550, cur celing his homestead entry for the southwest quarter, section 81, township 154 north, range 60 west, Grand Fork district, Dakota but denying nis petitfon that such’ cancells tion be without prejudice, and that he be permitted to transmute into a homstead his Dre-emption declaration statement for the southwest quarter of sootioy & township north, rapge 60 west, i said district. « The secretary of the interior to-day re- versed the decision under an act of congress of March, 1550, which gives all pre-emption sottlers upon the publi lauds whose claims were initiated prior to the passage of said act, right to change their entries to home- stead enuwies, notwithstanding they have }mrcv.ororo had the benefit of the homestead aw. The first assistant seoretary of the interior has moditied the decision of the commissioner of the general land offige 1n the matter of the application of Elenor M. Ellsworth as the mortgagee of Sandford D. Ellithorpe for the reinstatement of the pre-emption cash entry of said Ellithorpe for the northeast quarter of section 2, towuship 118 north, range 65 west, Huron land district, Dakota. The commissioner’s action in refusing reinstate- ment was based on the ground that since the caucelation of " Ellithorpe’s entry aud prior to Ellsworth’s application tie adverse homestead claim of Emma Bar- ker had wtervened, but a further investiga tion having shown that her entry has been canceled by relinquishwent, no objoction ro- mains t the reinstatement of Ellithorpe's entry, who will be afforded an opportunity to satisfactorily show the validity of nis claim, and, if such Is dove, his entry will be reinstated, mor ARMY ORDERS. By direction of the secretary of war, Pri- vate Bernard Waguer, company K, Second infantry, now in confinement at Fort Omaha, 7 ebraska, will badischarged tho service of the Umted States, to date September 14, 1587, on receipt of this order by the com- manding ofticer of bis station. Peany S, Hearn, SHROUDED IN MYSTERY. The Boulanger Commission's Work Progressing in Seorer. [Copyright 1889 by James Gordon Bennett.) Pamis, April 10.—[Now York Horald Cable—Special to Tre Bis.]—The proceed- ings of tho commission of tho high court of justice are as yot a profound sccrot. The members of the commission are said to be hard at work examining documents which have been submitted to them. It is not known what they have discovered, There are, however, reasons for supposing that it is their intention to give the widest possible rango to the investigations and to include in them a long period of time. It is not at all doubtful it would be a chimerical under- taking to find in the facts of the cuse as laid down 1n the demand for permission to prose- cuted General Boulanger, and addressed to the chamber of deputies by the procurour- general, the constituent elements of a plot against the state. Kven supposing the ele- ments of conspiracy to be found this would mot sufice under the constitution to justify the jurisdiction of the senate. It would be necessary to send the case through the court of assizes. It is probable that the commission 18 going to mako every effort to discover the facts, going back to the time when General Boulanger was minister of war, or to the days when ho commanded a corps of the army at Cler- mont Ferrand. As a matter of fact, the general would be subject to the senate for all criminal acts imputed to him. . In_such case the competenco of the senate would not bo restricted to an attempt against tho surety of the state. On the other hand, if the commission found fault with certain ac- complished facts which relate to the timo when General Boulanger commanded an army corps, the case ought to be referred to a court-martial. It certainly occurred to the commission that it would do well to concern itself about the events which took place when General Boulanger commanded an army corps. The commission is also to consider events which took place when M. Carnot was -elected president of the republic. There were held at that time mauy consultations in the house of M. Laguerre, at which General Boulunger was present. But admitting that these mancuvres came within the scope of the law, justice will find itself singularly hampered by the fact that several of the radical deputies, includ- ing M. Clomencean and M. Lockroy, werg present at the meeting. The commission is not at all anxious to embark on such a wide field of investigation, and it is doubtless going to confine its efforts to another branch of the question. It cannot as yet be safely predicted what will bo the results of the Cabour investiga- tion, which, in all probavility, will be very long. As for the effect produced on public opinion by these prosecutions, it is evident that General Boulanger is placed in a posi- tion for which it will be very difiicult to give a plausible explanation. A COLORADO LANDSLID It Causes the Wreck of the Salt Laks Express and Two Fatalities, Sauina, Col., April 19.—[Special Telegram —While the Salt Lake express was passing through Black Canon, last night at 12:30, the engine was knocked off the track thirty feet into the river. Fireman North was killed and Engineer Ryan fatally mjured. The ecngincer stayed under water until the steam escaped, and was nearly feozen when rescued. No one else was in- jured. The remains of the fireman, in the river, have not yet been found, but they are being seurched for. Thejtrain was running at an ordinary rate of speed. The jar from the tram is supposed to have startod a rock to roliing, which started other rocks, until the mass grew in volume and became a tre- mendous siide. The noise from the train and the roar of the river, prevented the crew from hearing the noise made by the slide. A force of men was at once set to work clear- ing the track, A : A Hot Municipal Contest. E1 Paso, Tex., April The contested city election took a new turn yesterday. The old mayor, a republican, before the meeting of theold council, which was acting as a canvassing board, and of which there was nota quorum present, declared the repub- lican municipal ticket elected. The repub- lican contestants were sworn in and the new mayor began to swear in_special police after forbidding the old city marshal and police force to act. e then tried toget into the city safe. While working at the combination the marshal sent a policeman o guard the safe and the officer pushed the new mayor back and took churge of the safe, but found nimself covered immediately after by a double barrelled shotgun, held by one of the new officials, Five cases of Wiachoster rifles were secured and placed in the hands of the special police, sworn tu by the new mayor, and other republicans who had assembled, The city hall was then in charge of y armed po who re dmittance 10 two regular city policem he demo- crats went before the district judge and se- cured an injunction restraining the new muyor from acting and putting the city hall in the hands of the court. The sheriff served the injunction and the armed posse at the city hall dispersed quictly At 10 0'clock last ¢ council met again with adjourncd until to-day, will be continued. Thé old mayor having r fused to recognize the old council, Council- man Johnson presided and appointed a lurge force of special police o act with the city warshal. ening the old city quorum present and when the canvass o nough Money. WasmiNGroN, Apric 19.—The board of bureau officers, which has been considering the provosals received for building an armored coast defense vessel, has completed its work and reported to the secretary of the navy. Itis understood that the board finds that it is not possible to build a vessel under tho lowest bid (1,614,000), and comply with the terms of the act of congress, which fixes the total cost of naval rams, batteries and other naval structurcs fo be buily under its authorization at $2,000,600. Ouv of this total must come the armor for a const defenso vessel, which is not to be furnished by @ contractor, and which will cost £350,000, anchors, boats, sub- warine boat, for which projos were re- ceived some months ago. Altogether there would ba' u defclt of about $100,000, if th lowest bid for the building of this' pow&rful vessol were accepted. Tho next move of the department, if the report is accepted by Secretary Tracy, will be to readyertise for proposals, and if that fails to sccure peduc- tion, then to appeal to congress for an in- edse in the limits of total cost. — - Prohibitionists at Work. LixcoLy, Neb,, April 19.—[Special to Tig Ber.|—A paper is beiug circulated for signa- tures calling a non-partisan convention in Lincoln on June 5 to devise ways and means of pushing the prohibitory amendment cam- vaign. Lawyers Atkinson and Robinson, Who are run ning the auti-saloon ropublican league in this state, are at the head of the move. The call is belng circulated quietly, but will be published, it is thought, withiu thiree or four duys. —— Crooked Minnesota Legislators, 81 Pav, Apnl 19.--At various times during the present session of the legislature there bave been rumors of brivery, names being mentioned wu several instances, buv it Not ¥ remained uutil to-day for active steps to be taken, Investigation committees wero ap- pointed by each house, but the proceedings did not develope anything especially sensa- tional. To-day a statemont was made that warrants had been 1ssued and will be served on thirteen persons, whose names aro with- held, for brivery 'and corruption. These persons are not all members, but are said to have boen in various ways connected with the proceedings of tho legislature. Further particulars have not been made public. A HOT-H - ADED HUBBY. Louise Armaindo’s Boy Husband Ore- ates Trouble in Ohicagd Crreaco, April 19.—[Special Telegram to Tur Bre,|—Lonise Armaindo and her boy husband, who are well known in Omaha, are in trouble once more. The fair Louise shook her thriftless “hubby” at the con- clusion of the recent Omaha ladies’ race, and for two weeks things lookea up in the Ar- maindo treasury, but alas for human hopes, a limited Omaha freight last Tuesday brought the boy husband Chicagoward, where Louise was trymg i vain to keep in sight of the rear wheels of Baldwin, Ouaks and Wood. Arriving at Battery D, he was refused admittance by the manugors, Sen; tor Morgan and Tom Eck, and he created quite a stir until a_policeman invited him to depart, Miss Armaindo, who was hopelessly out of “the race, sided with her recent lord and left the tracik. Next day a warrant was sworn out for Ick's arresy for detaining Armaindo’s wheel, the case being decided against Louise by Justice Bradwell, as the wheel was_Eck's property. During this morning, Stewart, Louise’s husband, used abusive language ' to Senator Morgan, and the Omaha professional responded by floor ing him with a heavy left-hander, for which he later paid £1 fine. The race is a decided success, and tho English girl, Ok, looks like winaing, with cither Baldwin or Wgod a good second. A great crowd was pMsent last night. The Chicago_all-around-the-world base ball play- ers will be present_at the fimsh Saturday night. Misses Oaks and Baldwin rodo thirty miles the first two hours last night, which is record for a fourteon-lap track. — MORE FISHERY TROUBLES, Lower Oalifornia Waters the Source of a New Dispute. SaxD Cal., April 19.—There has been trouble for some time between the Inter- national company of Mexico and American fishing vessels, the company claiming the sole control of the fisheries of Lower Cali- fornia in the Pacific ocean and Gulf waters, The Mexican consul at San Diego has issued proclumation warning ail ins _of can and other vessels that he has red the authorities at Ensenada to com- mence an active crusade against,and to confis- cate all vessels found fishing ju the pre- scribed limits, together with the imprison- ment of the offending ns, T e Business Troubles, Bostoy, April 10.—C. M. Barrett & Co., dealers in rough leather and hides, have sus- pended payment, and will elther assign or call a meeting of creditors at once. They are reported fo have direct liabilities of $25,000 or $30,000, and contingent liabilities to a still larger amount. The failure_is at- tributed to losses by other failures, and a shrinking in business. Barrett has an ter- est in the leather business carried on by Frank B3arrett in Toledo, O. NEw Youk, Avril 19.—The office of the Callendar Iusulating and _Water-Proofing company, which failed this“morning, was closed to-day. The place is in the hands of the sheriff, and no business is being done cither here or at the factory in Newark. The ofticials deny that their suspension is due to thie departure of William Callendar, presi- dent and treasurer, for Ilurope, nor will they admit that he 18 a defaulter. The creditors think the amount of the iiabilities will run up more than $400,000, und they do not ex- pect that uny satisfactory arrangement will be made. — The Dakota Docket. YaNKTON, Dak., April 19.—[Special Tele- gram to T'ne Bre.|—In Judge Tripp's court this week the territorial docket has been un- oventiul and the term will probable ciose to- morrow. The cases against John and William ter and John Flood, indicted for larceny, were continued and the nccused released on bail of £100 each. trial of M. T. McLaughlin for uttering od cheeks was commenced to-day and will probably be concluded to-morrow, He 15 4 young man and forged one or two checks for small amouuts, Laura Leeford, keeper of & public house on the levee, was indicted and has fled. For veral terms the court has imposed a fine of 500 on those offenders, and intimated that if they continued, imprisonment would be added. The grand jury has been discharged and the house and busimess has changed hands und goes on as usual —— Charges Against Smalls, WasHmINGTON, April 19.--Charges have been filed with the president against ex-Rep- resentative Smalls, of South Carolina,which, if proven true, are likely to prevent his ap- pointment as collector of customs at Beau- fort, said to havo been previously mined upon. One of tac charge against him is that he bolted the atthe last presidential election, and committed acts of treachery to the which muke him unt for the least recogni tion at the hunds of the present admiuistra- tion, —— Nam:d After a Nebraskan. Hovyoxr, Colo., April 19,—{Special to Tnr Bee, |—The county commissioners of the new county of Phillips held their first mecting here to-day and accepted the bonus of the county clerk, treasurer, judge, sheriff and assessor. Ihie new county was formed by an act of the Colorado legislature at their last session from the southeastern part of Logan county, and was named in- honor of 1. O. Phillips, of Lincolu, Neb, - A Plot to Assassinat St Pereusnuna, April 19.-~Tae prefect of police has discovered the existence of a ) hilistic plot to assassinate the czar while he was attending the funeral of Gencral Pavcker, minister of roads. The czar was immediately warned no attend the fu neral. A number of persons charged with being implicated in the plot have been ar- rested. The Nibilists intended to use dyna- mite in their attack on the vzar. the Oza to A Blacksm CuaMBERLAIN, Dak., April 19.—|Special Telegraw to Tue Bee, )—-Ole Nybg @ Nor- wegian blacksmith, who has bedfl working in this city the past year, committed suicide this worning by shooting himself through the brain, He had been on a protracted druni for # mouth and had run through a large awount of mor - B. & O. Strike Averted, Cu1eaGo, April 19.--The superintendent of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad in this city says the threatened trouble hetween the company anc employes, growing out of the life and accident insurance plan, has been bly settled. Noemptoyes will be re- cd o sign gniess o in S . A Hoosier Hanged, INpIANAPOLIS, April 10.— Sylvester Grabb was hanged at Vincenues at 11 o'clock this morning for the murder 1ast September of Miss Gertrude Downey, his sweettisart, A few weeks ago he broke jail and made his way to lllinols, where ho' was afterward captured. th Suicides, Steamship Arrivals, At Baltimore—The Oranmore, from Liver: pool, At New York--The Saale. frow Hreiuen aud the Bothuia, from Liverpool, l [ THREE MILLIONS 1N FLAMES, New York City Visited by tho Wors¥ Firo in Years. A HALF A MILE LAID WASTE: A Big Lard Refinery and Huge Eles vators Consumed—Loss of Lite Heavy But no Dotalls Obtainable. New Yok, April 19.—The largest an fiercest fire witnessed here for years swop the east bank of the North river clear tos day, from Fifty-ninth street to what would be Sixty-fifth strect if that strect ran to the river. It destroyed more than £1,500,000 worth of proverty belonging to the New York Central Railroad company, and at loast £00,000 worth of lard, flour and the like belonging to other persons, nots ably N, K. Fairbank, the great Chi cago lard mefchant. The flames destroye two big elevators of the Vauderbilt a big brick building, strotening from ninth to Sixtieth street, and occupied jointly by the Fairbank lard refinery and thp Rossiter stores, and wiped out the dock prope orty of the New York Central railroad from Fifty-ninth to past Sixty-fifth stroet. Henry Benning, & workman i the Fairbank res finery, was killed by a jump from a thirde story window. Many others were injured by jumping, but in the great confusion attend? ing the conflagration, the names and extent of the injuries of but very fow werd obtained. Rumors were rife all even. ing that & number of workmol had been caught and burned in the refinery, but it has been imposgible to verify® them. ~Tle fire broke out in the southe corner of the Fairbank refinery, but how nos body kuows. Soaked in grease as the old building was, 1t was in flames in an_ instant, The men at work in every story dropped their tools and ran to save their lives. ‘Tnd stair cases were columns of flames and the windows presented the only means of ese cape. Pursucd close by tho fire, the me flung themselves out headlong, and_hot many there were nobody conld tell. Man; picked uua fire ha A Financial and Human "n‘m‘aulq who came out were up carried away by friends. The soon swept throvghout the length of tha building, and shot over towards the bl grain clevators of the New York Central railroad. Between the place where the end gines were stationed and the elevators word twenty-seven railroad trains, which no fird engine could cross, and next the Union Stock yards, half a mile of broud enclosure an pens, equully impassable. There was no wa; for a fire engine to reach the elevators ex- cept along Sixtieth street, past the burning buildings, and that stree] after two engines had fought thek way past, was blocked by falling walls, Furthermore, near the elevators was only one small water pipe. The fire boats wer sent for and several of them began work i a heroic struggle to save the elevator, but i was all in vain, The tremendous heat fro the fire across dried and warped the woods work of the big frame buiiding under i corrugated iron sheathing, and in a shorl time clovator **A” was on fire and burnin, flercely. Soon after the walls of the unsmm% stores fell, releasing tons on tons of |'Buriing merchandise that rolled in blazin, heaps in every direction. This increases the heat and flame, and the efforts of tne firemen secmed to be entirely useless. About this time the stock yards pens were cleared out. Ab7 o'clock elevator “I3" caught fir and the scene had then, in the growin, darkness, lurid effects that made a spectacl of awful grandeur. The second elevator was entirely consumed also, and at 11 o'clock to-night, when the fire was gotte under coutrol, the half mile of ruins sen out u furnace heat. An estimate of the losses is as follows: The Rossiter stores and contents..$ 900,000 The Wilcox company, stock... 450,000 ) S00,000 750,000 200,000 000 220,000 Doclk “A”, The Wilcox The loss to the New York Central come pany is covered by insurance. Wilcox coms pany’s stock was insured for 100,000, e e Fairbury ltems. Famnvry, Neb,, April 19.—[Special to Tig Bre.|—The Fairbury Driviug association will hold a meeting here July 4 and 5. A purse of over £1,000 has been rased, and will be applicd in payment of premiums, A sers ies of races will be given and & great time 18 expected. A fine span of eray horses, belonging to Houghtelin & McDowell, millers, which was stolen by an unknown thief the firsu of this week, bave been recovered. They wer found about ten miles southwest of here, an itis supposed that being fat they could’ nof travel fast cnough for the purpose of th thief. - . A Canadian Extradition Bill, Orrawa, Ont,, April 19.—[Special Telee gram to Tie Bex. | —Notice is given in the house of commons of & motion by Sir John Thompson, minister of justice, to place Weldon's extradition bill on the governmen® 'he bill in question is to enable the slunteer the return of refe ugees from justice 1o countries with which Cunadi docs not happen 1o have an extradie tion treaty. The sting of it lies in the face that iv is retroactive. Sceing tl the go crment has taken hold of the measure, it looks as if there was a defermination’ id hagh guartecs to push it throngh. -~ A Coal Find. Famnvny, Neb., April 19.—|Special to Tug 3ie.|--Coal has been discovered in this vicinity, George Fornoff, T.T. Berry and others have, for wecks, been sinking wells along the river above and below town, but ;attons have appeared untiy contly. by refuse to give partice t present, but steps have been taken 1o perfect a corporation with upital, A skaft will be sunk at once, and Fairbury looks hovefully forsward to cheap fuel and & geniine bhoom, The Minneapolis & MinsraroLss, April change of consiquence street railway strile. arrived (rom tako the rect Cur Strike. 19.—There is no in the status of tho Seventy-five cowboys Kansas City this morning to aces of the strikers, but they have ced at worle., Cars are ru sgularly on these lines vbances. ning more or with winor dis Flaherty Smiled. Hunox, Dak., April 19.—(Spectal Telo- gram to Tup Bie)—Judge Spencer pro- nounced sentence upon Flaherty this morn- ing for the wurder of Hattic Wilson here on the 27th of last August, and Flaherty was taken to Sioux Falls this sfternoon, 1o serve a life sentence in the torritorial penitentiary, He was evidently pleased to escape hanging, and smiled when the seutonce was pros nounced. Boulang Qught to Take a Tumble, Buussers, April 19.—The Beigian governs ment has decided to sond a second notico to General oulanger, to the effect that he will not be allowed 1o conspire against Fran on friendly to Belgium, - An Niinois Hurricane, itisciiey, 1L, April 19,—A hurricane passed through this village, last night, un- roufing many buildings and tearing up side- walks and trecs, in a path about one huudred feet wide, No oue was seriously lnjureds