Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 21, 1889, Page 4

i, B . = THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, Y 217 1880. THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. ——— TRRMS OF BUBSCRIPTION. Daity (Morning Fdition) including SUNDAY Brr, One Yei '“2 2 200 e L o200 , Nos, 014 and 010 FARNAM STRERT, et Orricn, it RookERY BUILDING. ww Yonrk Orr ROOMS 14 AND 15 T'l(lllml; BUILDING. WASHINGTON O¥rioR, NO. bl FOURTHENTH STREET. 1 it to fiews and odl. eommunications relating to n - fifm ‘matter should be addressed to the EDITOR ©r ThE | RUSINESS LETTERS, 11 bustness lotters and remittances should bs dressod to THE DEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAIA. Drafts, checks and postoflice orders vo be made payable to the order of the company. ko Bee Pablishing Company, Proprictors. E. ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAIL Sworn Statement of Oirculation. Btate of Nebraska, County of Donmu,%”" Georgge B, Taschuck, secre lllhlnx‘(‘?nnmnny. dovs solemuly swear that the mctual cireulation of TiE DAILY BEE for the was as follows: of The Res Pub- week ending May 15, 1 Funday, May 1 Monday, May 1 May 1 osdAY, Wednesd: ayis.. Thursday, M Frid Mn‘( 1 Baturday, May 18 AVETURe. . .iiiieiins c e 18,048 ul’.l)K('}E fi TZSCHUCK, Bworn to before me ‘;Id|'fllhsACr|l?ufs:f; in my resence this 18th day of May. A. ). 1850, Vet * 1 D FRIL, Notary Publie. Btate of ‘Nebraska, .8 County of Douglas. Georgo B. Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de. wes and says that L8 13 secretary of the' Beo bublishing company, that the actual average dnily circulation of THE DAILY IkE for ti month of April, 1848, 18,744 copies: for May, 188, 18,183 coples; for June, 1 43 copls Jnily, 1884, 18,083 cepies; T Coplés: for 'Semtember, 1883, 18,11 : October, 1883, 18,034 copies: for November, 1888, 38,980 copies; for Docomber, 1885, 18,24 ooplesi Tor Jannary, 18, 18,574 copiex: tor February, 3680, 18,16 coples: for March, 1%, 1454 coples. Eworn to befors me and subscribed in my presence this 16th day of April, A. D., 1880 N . ¥ElL, Notary Publie. h:)':;z_un and cometery huve en- tered into a defensive alliance in the south. e OMAHA redeemed herself in the elearings record last week. She leads St. Paul and Minneapolis, and main- tons her rank among clearing house cities. The influx of immigrants this year promises to equal,- if not exceed, the top record of 1882, Nearly six thousand persons landed at Castle Garden last Saturday, the largest number in one day for many years. DuriNG the last fiscal year the United States bought one hundred and eighty millions of South American products and sold only seventy millions of manu- factured goods to the South Americans. This would certainly indicate that our trade relations with the South Ameri- can countries could be immeasurably improved. MONTANA will celebrate her silver wedding May 26. In other words, that dny will commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the act creating the ter- ritory of Montana! It is eminently ap- propriate that just within a quarter century of growth, Montana should take the preliminary steps for speedy admission into the union. HeNRY VILLARD is aguin on the crest of the Northern Pacific. His sec- ond rise is as sudden and remarkable s his fall was startling and disastrous three years ago. Villard is a journalis- tic railroader, shrewd, tenacious and every inch a fighter. For further par- ticulars, write to Messrs. Adams, Ames and Dilion of the Union Pacific direc- tory. AvL fears of drought in Colorado and western Nebraska are happily relieved. The rains during the past two weeks have been copious and make up for the lack of snow during the winter. It would bave been a most serious mattec to Donver, dependent upon the clouds to fill its 1rrigating ditches and water supply, had the rains held off o few weelss longer. WieN admitted to statehood the two Dakotas are likely to become great rivals. Each will be imbued with the desive to surpass the other in wealth and population, and the success of one will be a spur on the ambition of the other. With the prospects of the open- ing of the Sioux lands, South Dakota gives promise of becoming a great agri- cultural state, The richness and di- ty-of its mineral products, more- ndicate that the young state will develop as well into a mining and man- ufacturing community. North Dakota will have her hands full in keeping up with the pace set by her twvin sister. MoNARCHIAL sulks are becoming alarmingly frequent in the old world. The I"'ench exhibition survives without the smile of pompous royalty, and the banquet given to the French cabinet by the delegates of American republics wias a success notwithstanding the frowns and ill-concenled contempt of kings and queens. After all it is per- fectly natural that potentates should curl their olfactories when the people actively compete with them in the rul- ing business. It smacks of a whelesome foar of the growth of liberty in the west, and fills the throne rooms with a haunting suspicion that the accident of birth and ‘*‘divive rights” are empty baubles upheld by bayonets. A tip on the royal sword hilt has no terrors for republican E— Tne statohood movement is vecoming general throughout Wyoming. It is quite probable that an election for del- egates t0 a constitutional convention will be held early in July, and a consti- tution framed for presentation to con- gress at its next session. It is safe to estimate that the present pepulation of the tervitory is one hundred thousand. The influx of settlers is greater now shan at any time its history, Its vast mineral wealth, its unsurpassed graz- ing intorests, the building of railroads frow the north, east and south, are at- tracting enterprising investors, work- fugmeu and farmers from the surround- ing states as well us from the east. It is safe to predict that Wyoming will huve the requsite population for state- hopd belore the census of 1890 is taken. T'ossessing unrivalled agricultural and niineral wealth, she will make the rich- &+ iewel in the dindem of stutes. A SUGGESTION TO SETTLERS. Tho rush to Oklahoma showed that there is a very large number of people in this country dissatisfied with their condition and anxious to improve it at almost any hazard. Thousands who went to that territory to settle were disappointed. There was not enough land to supply all of them. Some of these have gone to the borders of the Sioux reservation to await the opening of that region, under the impression that it is likely to occur within a short time, or as soon as the Indians have ac- cepted the terms proposed by the gov- ernment. In this they are misled, and the result to mostof them can hardly be otherwise than a sad and severe ex- perience of hardship and privation. We print elsewhere a letter of the com- missioner of the general land office to Mr. William F. Payne, county surveyor of Cheyenne county, Nebrasica, to which we would direct the attention of {hose who may contemplate taking up lands in the Sious reservation. They will learn from this letter that the consent of the Indians to the opening up of their lands to settlement is but the first step. The cession of the lands will have to be approved by congress, and after this is done they will have to be surveyed and subdivided, for which congress must make provision. Until this necessary action by congross, the department of the interior will do noth- ing in the matter of surveying the lands, or authorizing the opening up of the same to settlement. It will thus be soen that under no circumstances can the Sioux reservation be opaned up for settlement within a year, and it may be a much _longor time, depending, after the consent of tne Indians is ob- tained, upon whether congress acts promptly or delays in approving the cession of the lands and making provision for their survey, subdivi- sion and allotment. Those who are hanging about the borders of the reser- vation are therefore assured of an ex- tended period of suspense, and some of them of a hard and cruel experience. It is not difficult to understand why a new country has peculiar attractions for people seeking to bettor their condi- tion, and undeniably the Sioux reserva- tion, or a very large part of it, is one of the most desirable regions for settle- ment in the country. But there are very desirable lands elsewhere which settlers can secure at once, and which are located in propin- quity to already well-established facilities of civilization which the territory not now open to settle- ment can not possess for years. For ex- ample, in Cheyenne county, Nebraska, there is a large area of fertile govern- ment land well adapted to the growth of all kinds of agricultural products, while unsurpassed for stock-raising. Here the settler would find all the con- ditions of organized government, a mild and heathful climate, and markets al- ready established. Were some of those who are still-hanging around Oklahoma and on the borders of the Sioux reser- vation to betake themselves to Western Nebraska the time they are wasting they could make profit- able to themselves, and doubtless in the end reap a reward quite as sutisfactory as they can reasonably hope to obtain from settlement elsewhere. Unquestionably when the great Siou reservation is settled by white men it will speedily become one of the garden spots of the country, but portions of western Nebraska offer no less favor- able conditions and promise to the home seeker, and such at least as can not afford to sit down in idleness for a year or two until the closed territory is opened, would do wisely to turn their attention to a region that is ready to be occupied and is rich in pos- sibilities. PROHIBITION IN PENNSYLVANIA. In nfew weeks Pennsylvania will vote on the proposed mnendment to the state constitution prohibiting the manufac ture and sale of liquor. The campaign is consequently growing more active, and popular interest in the issue is in- creasing. After the signal defeat of the prohibition ameudmeat in Massa- chiusotts the advoeates of a like amend- ment in Pennsylvama experienced a depression and permitied their cam- paign to lag. They had received a very severe blow, and although not “knocked out,” they were badly shaken up. They seem, however, to have recovered, partly by reason, it may be, of the encouragement received from Mr. Quay, who has promised to vote for the amendment on strictly moral grounds, and are now pushing the contest with a great deal of zoal and vigor. The opposition to the amendment is also making an earnest and active fight, andas it hason its side all the strong arguments derived from practical expoerience with the two policies ot prohibition and high license, it is not believed to be losing ground. Pennsylvania has had a high license law in effect less than two years, and the vesults have been in the highest degree satisfactory. In the larger citios the number of sa- loons has been greatly reduced, the more disreputable class wipod out alto- gether,and the cause of temperance has been distinctly promoted. These facts the advocates of the proposed amendment are competled to admit, and they are o potent argument with the practical friends of temperance. But the opposition to the amendment does not confine itself to this argument. Asin Massuchusetts it calls to its aid the abundant facts which the records of the prohibition states supply in evi- dence of the failure of prohibition, and in this particular Iowa contributes lib- erally. The recent statement of the United States collector of internal revenue for the morthern district of Iowa that the number of government licenses issued in that district, when taken together with the number of “‘boot-leggers” convieted, indicates an increase in the number of dealers as compared with the number in existence belore the prohibitory law took effect, is being freely used in Pennsylvania by the opponents of the -amendment, and it is certainly the best possible material, since it can not be gainsad. No doubt is entertained of the defeat of the proposed ameudineat, probably by & majority relatively as lavge, if not larger, than that given againstalike ition in Massachusetts. The prohibition vote of Pennsylvania last November was a little less than twenty- one thousand in a total vote of nine hundred and ninety-seven thousand. Very likely not much more than half this vote will bo cast at the election on the amendment, and it ought to be rea- sovably safe to expect a majority against the proposition of from fifty to soventy-five thousand. AN I RESTING CONTEST. Politicians will be interestod in the result of the contest between Represen- tativo Cannon, of [llinois, and the two sonators from that state, the determina- tion of which rests with the president. The 1ssue involves the rights of senators and representatives in the matter of appointments under certain circum- stances. An internal revenue collector was uppointed on the recommendation of RRepresentative Cannon without either of the senators boing consulted, and they have auother candidate for the position. Tho office is in the district represented by Cannon, where is also the home of Senator Far- well, On this account the senator claimed he should have been consulted before an uppointment was mude. The senators have united in a written pro- test against the appointment, which was sont to the secretary of the trea ury, and will be submitted to the presi- dent, The protest does not relate to the person appointed, but to the policy of ignoring senators whero the terri- tory of the oflice is partly senatorial ter- ritory. The decision of the president in this case will be of general inter- est, and particularly so to every senator and representative. If the appointment made is adhered to, it will be regarded as a precedent for giv- ing representatives greater considsra- tion than heretofore in the distribution of patronage, while if it is revoked the power of senators will be incroased. The tmportance of a decision on this issue is, therefore, obvious, and it im- poses a somewhat delicate duty on the president. In considering this contro- versy tho question suggosts itself whether men charged by the constitu- tion with the duty of passing judzment on appointments ought to have anything to do with procuring them. OMAHA is interested in the hearing to take place in Chicago on the 2lst inst., before the inter-state commerce commission on the question of alleged discrimination in rates on pucking house products and live hogs from the Missouri river points to Chicago. The Chicago board of trade in behalf of the packers of that city has preferred the charges and the packing industries from St. Louis to Sioux City are the re- spondents. With the facts in the case the general public is more or less familiar, The claim of the Chicago packers is that Missouri river points have a aecided advantage over Chicago and that the classification between the packing and live stock is not a proper one inasmuch as the rates on live hogs shipped to Ckicago is dispro- portionate to the rates made on packed products from the Missouri river to the same point. This is one assumption on the part of Chicago,: as repeatedly shown, which is not borne out by facts. The advantages that may be possessed by Missouri river packing centers, due to their proximity to the hog-raising belt, is overbalanced by the advantages possessed by Chicago in being able to get its coal, salt and other commodities necessary for packing purposes cheaper than points farther west. There can be little doubt that if the merits of the case are laid before the inter-state commerce commissin clearly and exhaustively, the Chicago packers will be refused their demands, and the existing relative rates, satis- factory to both railroads and packers, will not be disturbed. THE defeat of the Union Pacific for a controlling interest in the Oregon Transcontinental company is likely to end in a complete rupture of all alli- ances between the Union and Northern Pacifle. Such a consummaution would be a great benefit to the people of the northwest. It would force the Union Pacific to build an independent line from Huntington to Portland and through Washington territory to Seat- tle, where the company acquired valua- ble harbor property years ugo. The business interests of the territory feel the need of a rival railroad. There is no competition. The Oregon company coutrols every avenue of commerce. high rates and indifferent service is the rule. Should the Union Pacific decide to build through the territory it would receive substantial aid and sccure the patronage of the business men whohave felt the lash of the Villard monopoly. THE street railway companies oper- ated by electricity in Boston have made an agreement with the y which is both important and instructive to other cities. It is stipulated thatat any time the trolley wire should be cut by the fire department, repairs are to be done by and at the expense of the companies. Moreover, that for the protection of the y fire and police departments, telo- phone and telegraph system, the single trolley overhead wire shall be so con- structed and insulated that no damage or injury by reason of heavy electric currents shall result to the city ftlephone and tole- graph systew. This is a wise pre- caution, and said to be the fivst case of the kind in the country. The city authorities of Boston do not propose to allow a faulty construction or a careloss use of the trolley wire by the company owning it to burn out the more delicate telephone and telegraph system with- out holding the street railway compa- nies responsible for it. Sm—— THE reckless assertions concerning oppressive taxation made by our two cent rontemporaries are bearing fruit. They are being copied and commented on by the press of rival cities, and the showing is not faverable to this city The truth is that taxes are as light Omaha us in any city of equal size in the country. Assessments arve made on a basis of one-third valuation, but the rate is nearer one-tenth thae one-third. If assessments were made on & basis of nctual valuation,a levy ot one per cent would produce more revenuo for city and county purposes than the seven per cent now levied. Instead of a total valuation of twenty millions it would be nearey one hundred and fifty millions. The assortion that there has been an 1nerease of thirty per cent in taxes in a year is false. The total increase did not exceed four mills, THE BEE is not opposed to the con- struction of a line of railroad between Norfolk and Yankton, as a paper pub- lished in the former place would have its readers beliove, but directly to the contrary has advocated the building of that road, or any other that will give Omaha access to the Jim River valley. It is principally because a special in Tre Bek from Yankton referred to the proposed line as the “‘Omaha & Yaokton railroad” that the Norfolk paper took offense, but as the line is so- called in both Yankton and Omaha, the error is one very easily made. The compnny is, however, incorporated un- der the name of *“The Yankton & Nor- folk Railroad compan POSTMASTER GALLAGHER has re- called the Mulvany banquet in 1886, at which he made the remark that as be- tween Cleveland and Blaine, he would be for Blaine in 1888, This expr was quoted at thie time by Tur Br denied by Mr. Gallagher's friends, for fear of consequentinl cumages o a democratic candidate for the postoffice. But Tne BEr had its report from first hands and declined to retract. Now the postmaster’s intimate friends ac- knowledge the indiscretion and we cheerfully certify that Mr. Gallagher was not a very ardentadmirer of Grover. As A result of profit-sharing Post- master-General Wanamaker’s mercan- tile establishment netted his four hun- dred employes for the yoar ending April 15, 1889, the sum of one hundred thou- sand dollars. If the postmaster-general makes the mail sorvice as protitable to Uncle Sam as he has his own business, the people of the United States would have no reason to complain. French Thrift. Chicago Herald. The Fronch are an economical peoplo, and exhibi tit in every possible phase of their actions. Even in their advertisements they carry their thrift to an extreme. A specimen of consolidation of multum in parvo may be of interest to American readers. In a late issuo of Le Figaro there appears the fol- lowing: “Mr. titre. 82 a., ay sit. car. lib., epou, dile ou vve av. dot. Pas oxig. rap. direct. Ecr. de B. de V., pterte bd Haussman." In these three lines the economical and in- genious advertiser secures what, rendered iato English, reads as follows: “A getleman of title, thirty-two¢ years of age, having a liberal profession, will marry a young girl or a widow in possession of a dot. He is not exacting in his demands, and the matter can be settled at once by personal communica- tion. Address B. de V. poste restante, boulevard Haussmann.” Thus the French advertiser saves one-half or more of the space used in such cases by spendthrift Euglishmen and Yankees. g Wyoming Feels Gratefal, Laramie Boomerang. Tho two papers outside ot Wyoming which have done the most for this territory and lost no opportunity to say a good word for it arc the Denver Republican and Tue OsAno Bre. They have treatod Wyoming in that generous and liberal spirit which should charactdrize those who wish their neighbors to prosper, and what they have done and are still doing toward making the resources and possibilities of Wyoming known will always be gratefully remembered by tho peoble of the tervitory. Their course is in striking contrast with the narrow policy of somo of their contemporarics. There is no cause for the people of Colorado and Nebraska to feel jealous of Wyoming, or to look upon her growth with apprehension. Their marts are Wyoming’s principal sources of supoly, and ‘must necessarily continue to be 50 for some time to come. Wyoming's growth can bs nothing but a benefit to both Nebraska and Colorado. el Education and Restriction. Denver News. While there 15 a general weakening in the prohibition tendencies of the country, be- cause of a growing conviction that the policy is not backed by a winning popular senti- ment, there never was a time in our history when there was such a gathering volume of carnest and determined temperance opinion, nor was there ever a time wh the burden of the liquor trafiic was realized as it is to- day. This is the work of education and it will bear fruit. There 15 a demand for ra- tional legislation that will lessen the evil and the work is being pusbed in every scc- tion of the country. Denver is no exceprion and the truest interests of the city require that such work be sustained and extended. Prohibition Receding. St. Louis Republic. The wave of prohibition is undoubtedly re- ceding. ‘The defeat of a vrohibitory amend- ment in Massachusetts will almost certainly be followed by the defeat of asimilur amend- ment in Pennsylvania next month. This does not mean a relaxation of the people’s resoive to rogulate the liquor traffic and abato its worst evils. It wmeans simply that the popular mind throughout the country is becoming fixed in the couviction that high liconse and local option are the most eficient methods of attaining the objects aimed at. S Miss Hotehkiis is Ambitious. Washigton Capital. The revival of the rumor of the marriage of Governor Hill of New York, to Miss Hotebkiss reminds me of the remark I heard the youn lady make not long since. A party of young ladics were discussing the many attractive qualitios of Mrs. Clevelund when Miss Hotchkiss said: I hope soon to occu- py the place Mrs, Cleveland filled so admir- ably.” The governor, should he marry, will have a partuer sharing his ambition to be & resident of the white house. lebration. Cincinnath, Commeroial-Gazette, It is now charged that the New York cen- tennial commitiee made a profit of $10,000, sod the Sun aemands that they shall tell all about it, and turn the surpius over toward the construction of the permanent arch. Are we never to hear the last of that celebration ! It is well there is unot to be another of the kind in 100 years. Start Another Expedition, New York Sun. With Stevens, of the New York World, lookinz for Stanley, aud James Gordon Een- nett, of the Herald, organizing an expediion in bis own person to bunt for General Gor- don, there is nothing for Br'er Dana, of the Sun, to do now except o aliow a decent in- torval to elapso sud then send out searct parties for both Bennett and Stevens. Beer Indianapolis Journal. For a probibition state lowa requires & great deal of beer, if the confiscation of a carload by the authorities every few minutes may be taken as an indication, There is good reason to boliove, t00, that the authori- s do not get it all. ey Muscular Ohristianity. Chicago Timss, The Presbyterian general assombly now in sosslon in New York is made up of men who know something besides preaching the gos- pel. A crankarose in their midst and in about three shakes of a lamb's narrative one of the brethren took that crank by the nape of the neck and cast him into the street and the organist thundered “Old Hundred" to drown the excitement. PRSI ) A Bensible View, Cineinnati Commereial-Gazette, The Philadelphia North American, & paper of high character and moral tone, says it feels sure that the cause of temperance can bo better promoted by high license, which has been proved practical, than by pro- hibition, which has everywhere been provea impracticable. ‘We think so, too. —~—— A Tyrant's Dog St. Louts Reyubiic. The czar has escaped one more plot and the conspirutorsmre saving him trouble by com- mitting suicide. But they will get him sooner or later. An absolute despot who in- sists on maintaining his despotisn in Europe this late in its history cannot avoid the neces- sity of doing 1t at his own expense. i Senator Vest's Lungs. Globe-Democrat, Senator Vest acknowledges that he was mistaken, thirty years ago, in thinking that “the then inevitably deadly strife could never be allayed;” and most of his thoughts since that time have also been mistaken, owing to the fact that he does his thinking mainly with his lungs. e iy The Greatest, Fairfield Call, Edward Rosewater has been abused and slandered more than any other man in Ne- braska, yet, i spite of all this,she continues to publish the greatest and most popular newspaper in the west. —_——— Keontucky's Fading Glories. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Tho Kentucky boast in race horses, like the Kentucky idea in politics, has been knocked out. Next the superiority of her whisky will vanish; and then her humiliation will be complete. o —— HITS AND MISSES. The mushroom growth of Omaha dailies that have recently blossomed out with start- ling figures of rapidly growing circulations, are cleverly taken off by the funny man of the Lincotn Journal, in the following fashion : “An affidavit expert has been engaged to testify to the circulation of this paper, at a orincely salary, astonishing must be the re- sult. “The first work of this expert follows. It was doue so late in the evening that no notary public could be induced to “mwear him.” But 1t is nevertheless relinble: 1, an imported falsifier, do hereby swear that the circulation of the State Journal was as follows during the prescent wee Wednes Thursday. Friday. e To this statement T will cheorfu Ricuanp NEVE! The Omaha club can play a good contidence game. Some four thousand people wera aken in yesterday. According to Omaha's great art eritic, the back-ground of raw carth threatens to se- riously injure the wsthetic repose of the new city hall. On this point there is no difference of opinion. We suggest that the job of level ing the dirt be given to Edward Rudolf. Huckman Mahoney has earncd a place on the police force. The man who captures a red-hot murderer, and calmly stands off a mob with a gun deserves o star of the first magnitude. He would make a shining exam- ple of nerve on the force. The *dance of death” is not the creation of lurid pulpit imagination. Tt is a reality Beatrice and Council Bluffs demonstrate that it is not only dangerous to the soul but fatal to the body. In the former place a white man waltzod across the deathat a colored dauce. Tho coroner gathered in the remains. At the latter place & young rounder collided with a bullet while forcing his way into the hall. In both instances the ball was loaded, and two funerals resulted. Arsenic in coffee cannot be recommended as a means of removing an obnoxisusboard Itis too cnthusiastic and gets to the vitals too quick., The only vroper way for a land- lady to lull suspicion is to take the intended victim by the arm, escort him to a confec- tioner's and fill him with vanilla ice cream. 1t is cool, palatable, inviting, and *'it gets there just the Speaking of cult in the west, the new soci- oty caper of attaching pistols to ball pro- grammes, is not likely to meet with general favor. Writing cngagements with gun bar- rels gives novelty and piquancy to the dance, ot be commended as a promoter of 1t is too persuasive and penetrat- ing for practical use. Commissioner Anderson’s picayunc charges agaiust the county clerk have fallen into the soup. As a specimen of small-bore spite work, they have no rival in the records of the county. A lady called on an Omaha dentist recently 10 have three or four teeth extracted. Being a believer in christian science, she hud a “doctor” go with iier to charm off the pain, refused ether or gas, and to her surprise and intense delight the teeth came out withiout pain! It showed conclusively what the sci- ence can do for the faithful, especially when the dentist wisely puts some cocaine on his forceps. 2HE SIO0) {VATION. 1t Will Not Bz Gpened to Settiement For some Time: 1o O Stoxay, Neb., May 15.—To the Tk t3rE: 1 have re 1 the oncl ter from the commissioner of the general land oftice, and send 1t to you for publica tion, believing it will be of intergst to many of your readers, A greal many settlers who have thought of locating in Cheyennecounty, Nebraska, have been holding off, thinking the Sioux reserva- tion would soon be opened for settlement. Without discussing the merits of Ne- braska and Dakota, I know that Nebraska bus room for, and nocds more settlers, There is plouty of vacant goverament land in Chey- euno county, Nebrasia, which is fertile, and well adapted to the growth of all kinds of agricultural products, and for stock raising is unsurpassed. The county has been blessoed with an abunduace of rain this spring and prospects are all that furmers could wish for, the outlook for the wheat crop-being ex- covtionally fuvorable, With fine lands, a mild snd exceedingly healthful climate, and Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. e et Whon Dabyx was sick, we gave her Castoria. Whea she was & Child, sho eried for Castoria, When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, 1712 e had Children, she gave thom Castoria markets alroady ostablished, wostorn Ne- braska should surely be worthy of investiga- tion on the part of home seekers, W, F. P. Following is the lotter reforred to: DEPARTMENT OF T® INTERIOR, (ENERAL LAND OFFICE, WA SHIS 1.'C., May 14, 1880.-To William F. Paine, Esq., County Surveyor, Sidney, Neb,-Sir: 1 am in re- ceipt of your letter of the 80th ultimo n quiring whether or not the lands embraced within the Sioux Indian reservation have been surveyed and the townships subaivided Also if the work will have to be done before the lands are opened for settloment. In reply you are informed that the great Sioux Indian rescrvation in Dakota has not been surveyed, nor have any of the town. ships therein beon subdivided, excopt as hereinaftor stated. Somo yoars sinco a fow townships situato in the extreme southern part of the territor, in the vicinity of the Pine Ridge and R bud Indian agencies, were survoyed and sub divided for allotment to the Indians, 1n theevent of the Indians ccding to the rovernment uny portion of said reservation (negotiations for which have been, and still are peading) the lands thus ceded will doubt- less be surveyed. Until congress shall have Ally approved any cessions of said lands h may hereafter be made, no action will be taken by this department ho matter of surveying tho lands or authorizing tho opon- ing up of the sume for settlement. Very respectfully, 8. M. STOCKSLAGER, Commissioner. ——— e STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska dottings. The eryiog need of Hay Springs is a new al An Indian hod-carricr is one of the curios- ities at Valentine, Norfolk hus begun and comoleted improve- ments 8o far this season which awount to $100,000, Elijah Filley recently paid $16,000 for a section of tand south of Filiey, which e has sown in flax. A number of solid business men of O'Neill have mterested themselves in a project to erect a §0,000 botel. A nine-your-0ld Seward boy dian with a bow and arrow an ono of his eye: The saloon license at Leigh has been raisad t0 $1,000, of which §500 goos to the sciool fund and 00 to tho town. Great preparations are being made by Columbus people to celebrate the Fourth of July and to ontertain the Knights of Pythias e ncampment. A commercial traveler who visits Harrison carries around in his grip as pets two garter snukes, two mud turtles and one deadly moc- casin snake. The two companies which have been man aging the Newman Grove silica deposit have consolidated and will'at ouce take steps to develop the find. The chief of police of O'Neill has been in- structed to rigidly enforce the ordinance against keeping herds and cattle corrals and stacking hay within the city limits. Rutherford, the Doniphan man who wus convicted of arson, has_been sentenced to twelve years in the penitentiary, and if he lives to complete his term, he will probably bo tried for horse stealing. Some twelve years ago Mr. Brookbank, then superintendent of the Clay county schools, loft suddealy, and has just been heard from. He has joined tho Mormons and is now traveliug as a missionary in Europe. played In- is now minus Dakota. The Rapid City screamery s ready to operate. Lead City has a school library of 172 volumes. ‘The Fort Sisseton reservation is to be sold at auction next fall. Work has commenced on the electric motor line at Watertown, to be five niles long ana cost $40,000. Mrs. A. M. Bowen, of Sioux Falls, owns a 11g troe which is loaded down with four spec- 1mens of the fruit. Lake county's commissioners will pay a cash prize to the person bringmg iu the largest number of gophers by July 1. The Yankton Insurance company has paid $10,000 losses by the praurie fires of April 2 and has $5,000 more in process of adjust- ment. The Black Hills Plaster company at Stur- gis is shipping carloads of their stucco and plaster continuously to tern and Black Hills points. Last week they were com- pelled to work their full force night and day in order to catch up with orders alre One of the deserters from IMort B ‘was caught at Highmore the ovher day by the marshal of Blunt, and while he was being taken to Pierre attémptea to escape by jump- ing from a moving train near Holabi ofticer shot him in the face, and he was again arrested. He is recovering and will be all right in time. The ball went downward and came out under the chin, or he swallow or spit it out, as he suys he spit out some- thing, and it was either the ball or some teetn, strikers and itary Collide. MirAx, May 20.—Strikes among-the peas- ants in this province ave spreading. A con- flict has occurred between the strikers and mulitary, during which a peasant was killed and eight others wounded. ¥our carbinecrs were also wounded. - The Chief Sugar Swindler, W Youk, May 20.—-The trial of William . Howard, chief of the alleged sugar swin- diers, who cheated the Eiectric Sugar Re- fining company out of thousands of dollars, as begun liere to-day. @§he work of sccur- ing a jury is in progre e Another Blow at Women's Rights, Losnos, May 20.—In the house of Jords, Dby a vote of 108 to 23, the proposal made by the earl of Meath to allow women to sit in county councils was defeated. THE GRACE CRURCH NUDDLE, Pastor Minehart and Frionds Ans swer Their Enomies. FELL DEAD IN A CARRY-ALL, Mrs, John Hasse, of Lincoln, Expires With Her Baby In Her Arms ~A Petition For a New County. LINCOLN MUREAU OF TR OMATA Bas, 1009 P Street, LaNcoLy, May 90, The muddle at Grace church still con tinues. Pastor Minehart and his frionds meet the charge that the stoves taken from him last week were not the property of the church, but of private mdividuals, and that his salary had been drawn up [fully at the time of his peremptory expulsion, The assertion that tao *riff raff ' who had their names stricken from tho ochurch records were “poor pa is answered by ans- appeal to the treasuror's books, which seoms unanswerable, the records showing that tho “riff rafl 7 had given $550 for the prosent conference year up to Maroh, whilo the gilt edge had dropped about §140 in the contribu- tion hox. The books of the Nebraska Wes: ana §135 down for the oppo- sition, Sudden Death, Mrs. John Hasse, while en route home from a visit with friends who live south of the asylum for the insane, yesterday. fell dead in the carry-allin which she was riding. Mrs, Hasse was apparently an usual health, and when the sudden call cam e had her babe, an infant four or five months old, in her arms. She was twenty-four years of ago. It is learned that physicians state that death resulted from blood clogging the action of the heart fro'a a bursted artery, probably caused by a sudden jar in driving over rough places in the road too rapidly. ‘T'he funeral will take place to-worrow afternoon. Kersey County. The necessary petition has been socured calling for the organization of a new county in this state. The county will commenco at the northeast corner of townslip 23, range 41, thence wost thirty-six miles to the north- west corner of township 23, range 46, then south to the southwest cornerof townsh range 46, and then cast to the southeast of township 19, range 41, thence north to the boundery line just traced. This takes an equal slice from oach of Wje two counties. Fhe petition has been d to the county commi of the two counties, vraying that the matter may be voted upon at the next general election. It is said that the action 1s stirring a hornet's nost in Sher- idan county, and that & most bitter dght will result. If it wins this will make the county 36x60 miles, still a large county, with tho Burlington railroad traversing it centrally from east to west. The District Court. The time of Judge Field was occupied this forenoon in hearing arguments on motions to dissolve the injunctions in the casos of Small vs Scrambling and Molick vs Scrambling, both of which were sustained. This makes it possible for Scrambling to proceed in cols lecting his Judgment against the Now Res public, the prohibition organ of the state, and_ he proposes to do it sharply. It is said, however, that the judgment _money 1s ready, and if so, Scrambling will be unusually happy. No tears. Actions in foreclosure wore commenced in the district court to-day by T. P. Kennard & Son vs Libbio Elliott ot al, and John Smith vs Jefferson H. Foxworthy ot al. Tha amounts in_controversy are, respectively, $183.25 and $1,000. Tn the caso of Sarab F. Smith and Paul H. . Holmes vs Oliver D. Wright, wherein plaiat- i ved the appointment of a receiver for over-mortgaged property, it was the sensa of the court that the insolvency of the do- fendant had been established and Charles Houper was appoiuted receiver, of whom 4 bond in the sum of $00 was exacted. New Notaries Public, The governor to-day made the following noturial appointments: Jay T. Swmith, Ra. venna, Buffaio county; Charles J. Vanicek David City, Butler count, nos H. Docker, Caloway, Custer county; M. Kimball, Hartington, Cedar county; Dennis Dail Crookston, Cherry county; Clarence Kingsburg, Ponca, Dixun A Kydd, Brolen Bow, Custer Powers, Omaha, Douglus v} Marion sman, Ashland, Saunders county; H. G. Hay Springs, Sheridan county; William W. Copeland, Omaha, Douglas county; W. H. Stouell, Verdon, Richardson county ; Jawes 13. Speean, Omaha, Douglus Muxwell K. Walker, Mission Creel, Willam A Trye, Omaha, Douglas county; C, W. Anderson, Grant, Perkins county; J. Alfred Snyder, Hold: redge, Phelns county; W. H. Banstield, Au. burn, Nemaha county ; I E, Murphy, O'Neil, Holt county ; Williain' H. Ackerman, Onick, outier county; C. 1. Budlong, Campbell, anklin count) The wolf-scalp bounty law proves to be howling success. Auditor Bowal man says that e brings in fro thirty to forty that_to-dny’s rc ceipts have been unusuall; . Tho war rants issued for scalps aggregate $191 for tha day. The Nebraska & Western Railroad com- pany filed their by-laws in the oftice of the seerctary of state -day. HE average ‘¢ ilver polish " is a strong chemieal compound, that will, in a short time, destroy the finish of every article it ig used upon. If you would have yeur silver retain its brightt clea it with Ivory Soar and hot water; use a soft brush for cleaning the chased and ornamental work, then rub with a dry chamois, and you silver will be as bright as new. A WORD OF WARNING, ‘hens ars many white soaps, cach represented to be “ just as good as the ‘ivory ;" they ARE NOT, but like all couniurfeits, lack the peculiar and ronsei cable quaitics of M gonuing, Ask fur ivory” Soap and insist upon getiing il. Copyright 1%, by Iruiar & Gatable, i