Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 4, 1889, Page 2

HAPPENINGS IN NEBRASKA, Kearney Oitizens Wroestling With the Sewerage Question. FIRE IN A GRAFTON HOTEL. Natnral Advantages and Resources of Red Willow County—1The Platts month Perjury Oase— Other State News. Politics and Sewerage nt Kearney, Kransey, Neb, Nov. 8.—|Spocial Tele- gram to Tnp Bee.)—The all-absorbing in- terest in locas polities here is the seweraues- tion. A complote seweraze plan of the city has boen made, calling for tweniy-four inch mains aud laterals to correspond. A call has /been made for $70,000 bonds, The opposition eems to ba strong. All of the active busi: ness men urge the matter, and the opp tion gencrally comes from men who do not understand the requiremerts of the city, or less—the proposed plan of sewerage. County politics aro divided on republican straight and a_combination of democrats with all tne political creeds known in the west, The ficld has been well cunvassed by both parties, and reports are encouraging for strong republican gains over last year. A Grafton towel Catches Fire, tartos, Neb., Nov. 8.—[Special to Tae Brr.]—Barly this morning a lamp in the oftice of the Lacleds hotel exvioded and ignited the building, The fames were rapidly extinguished, however, and what for @ time threatened to be a ereat fire resuited oaly in slight aamage to the hotel oftice and the scorching of some hands in the effort of putting out the fir Red Willow County. MeCooxk, Neb. Nov. —|Special to Tue Bie.|—This young and rapidly growivg county is located in the southwestern por- tion of this state. it is the third cast of the Colorado line, in the southern tier, and con- tains 400,800 acres of the finest lying and most productive farm lands in the west. These lands are generally gently slopiug, just enough to lead the surplus water to the draws. These slopes are miles in oxtent, and give excollent natural drainage, in case of excessive moisture. There are no ponds or sloughs, and no red roods, rocks, gravel, sand, or anything else in the soil to hinder farming operations. Any common plow will scour, and the soil is very easily tilled. The 0il is & dark loam, threo to five feet deep, and exceedingly productive. It ubsorbs moisture rapidly and retains it near the sur- face with remarkublo tenuoity, and will s tain_crops_through long p wenther. There is no hardpan, but a porous vil classified by geologists as “leoss de- Lis os ly adapted to the suc- cesstul growing of all kinds of grain, while vegotables attain an enormous size and are o very best quality, Corn grown in that county this year was awarded second premium at the late Illinois state fair at Peoria. 'This county is so situated thav the Republican river with its ameliorating nflu- ences flows through the central portion, and it 18 seldom_ affected by the hot winds of Kunsas or the cold blasts of tho north. temperature is moro even, with few ex sively hot days in sumuier or severe cold in winter. There are buv few days in winter that outdoor labor canuot be verformed comfortably, The snow fall is light and generally the ground is bave half the time during the winter. The wintors being short and mild, stock is not usually fed more than three months in the yeur, aud sometimes not that long. Spring opens early and a laree acreage of wheat is usually sown in Feb- ruary. The air is pure, light and froo from ma- larn. Ague and asthma are unkunown, ‘while catarrhal affections are scldom heard of. 'The county s settled chieflly by Ameri- cans. - The school facilitios ure excellent, the county out of debt and taxes light. Parties seeking a_location should visit Red Willow county. Land is cheap but cannot vemain 80 long. » That kraudulent Verdict. Prarrsmours, Neb., Nov. 8.—[Special to Tur Ber.]—The action taken by the at- torneya for plaintiff in the case of Coon vs the Missouri Pacific Railway company by using hired witnesses to testify so that a verdict was rendered in favor of the plaintiff has been the main topic of conversation sinco it became publicly known, and is con- sidered in court circles as one of tho most sensational and outrageous frauds that ever was attompted to be imposed upon a court of justice. Mr. B. A. Gibson, the leading at- torney for the plamtiff, has filed an aMdavit with the clerk of the district court whercin he attaches all 1he blame for the dirty work upon M. A. Hartigan, his associate counsel in the ciaso. In the aMidayit he says that after meeting Van Gilder and hear- ing his statement he sent him 1o see Mr. Hartigan, sending with him lotter of instruction to Hartigan; thut he advanced money (witness fees and mileage) for Van Gilder and Torrence to get back 10 their work in the westorn | that he never signed or authorized to bo signed by anyone in any manner any agree- ment of uny kind whatever, or ever offered o procured suid Van Gilder and. Torreace apy sum of mouey whatever for their testi- mony in the case, but that he advanced their miloage and witnoss fees for traveling ox- penses only. He claims that he did not know of such an agrcement having boen made between hi »eiate counsel und the witnesses, und feols it u great disgrace to his name to beassociated with such an in- justico and crime. Got Them Mixed. Bratrice, Neb,, Nov. 8.—|Special to Tur Bee.|—Ina recent dispatch from this city Tug Bee stated that “George Hastings, o notorious Saline county crook, attempted to escape from Sheriff Barton,” etc. This was an inexcusable error, and the man who peuned it should be severely dealt with, Tho highwayman’s name 13 uot Hastings, but Charles Wilber, alias Doc Lee, alias John W, Walters. Georyre Hastings, as everybody in this part of the state knows, is the attorney of Saline county, who prosecvred the cri inal und sccured his committal to jail to await trial. To auyone who knows Hastings of course the report appesred ludicrous in the extreme, but for the information of the gen- eral public and for the good of Tus BEE, which is usually correct, your correspondent furnishes these facts, Jailed For Robbery. Prarrswourit, Neb.,, Nov. 8.—[Special to Tue B table J. H. Austin, of Union, arrived in this city yesterday, having 1n custody George and William Smith, who Wro charged with having robbed several houscs in Union last ‘Thursday night. ‘The thieves were committed to jail and will have @ hearing Monda, L AN HISTORIOAL PICTURE. A Work Attracting. Much Attention at the National Capital. Wasmino1oN, Nov. 1,—|Special to Tue Ber.]—Thero has recently been completed in this oity o palutiog that is attracting ruch attention, not only for the artistic features of the work, butalso for tho his- torie interest attached. The panting is tne work of Mr. Hurrison Eastman, of this city, and is a portrayal of the arrival av Plymouth Rock o the Mayflower with her load of persecuted Puritans flecing from the rigor- ous severities of Eogland’s laws. The work was painted for Mrs. Stanford, wife of Sen- ator Stanford, of Californis, and -ia the re- sult of long and laborious work and research on the of the arust who desired to make this paintiog of bistorical value, as well as from an artistic standnoint. Although the development of this one plo- ture is butthe work of comparatively short ti Mr. Eastman has neveriheless been carrylug on his studies and researches for years, und has one of the tinest coHec- tions of pavel literature and illusirations of waval architecture in the world. He has %I‘llu times rpund the worid in his bas 8t bis bowe i Seu 'ran- AT PR M cisco a valuable collaction of paintings made by himself daring these voyages. is work has always, with but fow exceptions, beon directea in the channel of marine paintmg and of late years he has divided his time be- tween his work with the palette and an as- siduous and persevering devotion to the col- Jection of matter relating to naval architec- ture. The result was shown your eorre- spondent, who vicited his studio to-day. Numorous portfolios contained the greater part of the illustrative material which 18 in the form of skotches and engravings, while a large bookcase was filled with works on tho same subjects. Tho illustravive material covered a wide and exhaustive field, and all classes of warine craft were shown in sketch or etching from the prim- ftive canoe of the aboriginal man to the massive fronclad of the present day. This material kas been gathered from every conceivable source, and from a systematie, though cursory glance at its pages, one may casily trace the various changes in naval architectiro and. see the evolution of the graceful oraft of the present century from the huge, towering and ungraceful hulk of former centur An almost unbroken sys- tem of_cvolution is shown that while some- what fmperfect m the former centuries of the world is close enough and clearly con- nected in the last few centuries. There are shown the oared galleys of Greeco, and the queer, quaint Nilo boats that are sculptured on Egypt’s pyramids, through a serics of changes that finally evolve the sailing craft of the latter days of anoicot times, but even the latest of these are found to trust not alone to the fickle wind, but are fitted out with oars and slaves or workmen to man them, In the mora receft centuries however, the periods of the different vessels nre separated by but few 3 and from the beginning of tho seventcenth century the years between the different oraft illustrated number but two or three at the most. There are shown craft of the seventeenth century iilustrated by oue Sauffert, an engraver, whose work though not dated is known to belong to a period between 1600 and 17 Scveral others of the craft of this aze are shown in engravings and etchings, and the period between 1619 and 1637 is covered by nearly a score of authenticated pictures of vessels of that time, It is from these that the picture of the Mayflower was developed. The development when once this stage was reached, however, was comparatively eas, In all these scores of ships, ty| of thi period, there was but little real diffe ence, save in dimensions. Their sail- ing gear is almost identical. The square yard forward bellying away under a full wind, the heavy lattecn sails. still in ase at the stern (at that time), and the pronounced for- ward slant of the foremast, were similar i atl the vessels of that day. There only re- mained the question of the dimensions of the boat. Satisfactory information on this point was only obtained after long study of the historical authorities at hand, but it was finally ootained, and the picture that re- sulted is undambtedly an almost perfect copy of the vessel that brought the pilgrims to Amer Evidenco of tho high-sterned ves- sels of war and commerce combined of an r are clearly shown in the picture ecided lift of the deck aft, rising with a high quarter decis, but with a 16w bow and forecastle, In fact, the stern of the ship is 80 bigh abovo the water as to give a decided slant from stern to bo Eetets SN Survivor: of the Rosaline. CnanLestoy, S. O, Nov. 3.—The schooner Flora Rogers arrived here to-day with four of the crew of the warterlogzed steamer Jen- nie Rosaline, from Savannab, for Providence, whom it hud rescued. Captan Bartow and wife, and the colored steward of the Rosa- line were drowned. e A Key West Cigae Factory Burns, Kry West, Nov. 8.—The Delpino Broth- ers' cigar factory was completelv con- sumed by fire to-day; loss, $120,000; insur- ance, $50,000, ‘The strike is still on with no prospeet of settlement. o ART 1IN OMAHA. Al Efforts to Establish a School in “Ahis City Abandoned The proposed organization of an art school has been abandoned temporarily, owing to the lack of substantial irterest manifested by Omaha citizens. It was the intention to getupa class of about fifty students aund then orgunize aschool. The tuition was to nave been $30 per term, or 800 per year, which was thought would make tne institu- tion self-supporting. A comunttee was ap- pointed by the Art association to canvass the city for pupils, but the most ditigent work on tho part of the committee resulted in finding less thun & dozen prospective students. It is strongly intimated that some of those who should have bien the warmast advo- cates of the establishment of such an insti- wution here, nawmely, the loy artists, were theones who were 'instrumental in its de- feut, under the impression that a school of that character would diminish the number of their pupils. “Iiis u very short sighted policy,” said a gentlewau who had taken some 1uterest in the matter. “The artists should realiz fact that a school like this woula rather than diminish the number of their pupils. Aside from that. it would afford them an opportunity to exhiby their pictures in a place prepared especially for that pur- pose, thus increasing their sules.” Mr. George W. Lininger was called upon at his gallery and asked if all effort in the di- rection of establishing an art school had been abandoned. **Yes, for the present,” replied Mr. Linin- ger. “Wacould not get eaough pupils to start with, so we thought there would be no use 1nopening a school without pupils. There are about one hunared und fifty persons in this city who are receiving instructions in painting from our local artists. Our commit- tee met with very poor success in their can- vauss und the matter will be allowed to rest for a time.” ‘The board of directors of the Art associa- tion and the committecs apoointea 0 make arrangem for the fall extibition of the association, which opeas November 18, will meet at Lininger's gallery to-morrow night, to perfect arrangements. ' It is expected that this exhibition will be held av the same place as the last one; namely the second floor of the Brown building, Action will also be taken on the matter of prizes at the coming exhibition, 1t has been suggested that medals be offered instead of the money prizes herctofore given. While it may not bo advisable for the society to offer medale in each class of panting, it is probable that a medal will be awarded the artist making the best display, with the understanding that the successful artist will be prohibited from chm- poting again, There will also be medals offered by private inaividuals. Mr. Lininger announced hs intention of offering a medal t0 be known as the “Lininger medal,” and mentioned others whowould no doubt do the same. 1t is predicted by those who have exam- wed into tho matter that the coming exhibi- tion will eclipse all its predecessors. The members of the association have been pre- paring for it all summer und are doing their ovel bost to surpass their former efforts, with every prospect of success, The num- ber of pictures will probably be no greater than before, but the quality will be greatly improved. ‘I'ne plan of operation for the wiuter will also receive due attention at the hands of the direciors, A course of lectures will be given and other entertainments, etc., remain to be arranged. ‘Tue valuuble collection “of Mr. Lininger has beeo supplemented by the addition of a handsome vase of Limoge ware, exquisitely decorated in Japanese design; and old fash- ioned Duteh chair, with delicate ialaid work and upbolstery ; an antique Dutch desk and bookeuse combined, made of oak and hand- carved, with many curious nooks and It was made in the sixteenth cen- tury, but is still very substantial, The most interesting of whe recent acquisitions is a fifteenth contury iron chest made in Holland. 1t is about two and @ half feet long, two feet wide and two feet high, made of heavy sheet iron and bound with heavy iron bands. The lid is fitted with nine bolts, all operated by ono lock in the center of the Lid. The key hole of ts lock is covered with an iron lllnlc, which can ouly be removed by touch- g @ bidden spring. In the bottom of the chest is @ small apartment, wo doubt in- tended for the most valuable articles. This also locks. Through the bottow of the chest 18 & large screw, waich secures the chest o lh:flflunb i h loted his gree: r. Liniuger has compl n- house and bus arrlnxurlhn Woodman col- lection of palms in it, supplemented by his own sollection-of beautifu! potted piants. A fountain pluys in the conter und the whole mmu @ 1ot pleasiug annex to the art gal- ¥ WAITING FOR THE VERDICT. The Iowa Oampaign Now Praoti- cally Over. HOW THE BATTLE WAS FOUGHT. Republicans Employ the Methods of Civilized Warriors, Whitle Demo~ corats Indulge in Guerritla Warfare—State News. tening For the Decision. Drs Morxes, Ta., Nov. 8.—[Special to Tre Bee.|~The lowa campaign of 1380 is practi- cally ended and the parties are awaiting the verdiet of the polls. It has boen a very peculiar campaign in some respoc having had the chief fight center about the governorship, to the total neglect of everybody and everything else. The republican sido of 1he campaign has been conducted in the usual manner—frank, fair, open and straightforwa There have boon botween forty aad fifty speakers in tho fleld at once, under the direction of the re- vublican state central committee, and they have pushed the batue along the lines of party principlés But the democrats have conducted a very different and very dishonorable campaign. They staried out with the inteation of muk- ing a still hunt. Mr, Boies was, of course, kept on the stump, but not half a dozen other domocratic spoakers joined him. The chief relinnce of the democratic managers was on false ges, misreprosontations of records and positions, and mean personal attacks upon Senator IHutchison. At the very outset of his campaign the democratic paper in nis own home began to sneer and slur at his soldier record. Senator Hutchi- son raised a company and served in the army of the Potomac. Although in the ser- vice only about a year, he took part in some of the hardest fights, such as Antictam and Chancellorsville, and saw more bard fighting than many men who were in the service three times as long. Buc his ~yoar was packed fuil of fighting, in which he took such a conspicu- ous part that he was specially commended for his bravery., And yet this paper in his own town came out in a low, disreputable attack upon, ridieuling him as & white feather member of the “milish,” and impugning his bonor und bravery as a soldicr. Other dem- ocratic papers copied the article and began the campaign by that kind of guerrilla ficht- g, Ithas since been developed that the editor of the Democrat, who started the slanderous attack, was the same man who offered to sell out to the republican state central committee in 1884 tor £200. A letter of his to Chairman Wolf, making the proposi- tion, has since been published to the world, 80 that it can be seen what kind of defamers these Iowa democrats are. This attaclk upon his record as a soldier was followed by at- tacks upon his private business affairs, charging him with having made false returns 10 the assessor and evaded paying bis taxes, @nd much other insulting and absolutely un- true insinuations and stutements of lke character. Then carae the democratic tool, who was hired to attack Senator Hutcl ison’s legislative record, under the guise of being an oficer of the Farmers’ alliance. It was oot a fair review of his record, forit suppressed facts that were necessary to properly explain his votes. But taking out isolated votes it distorted their meaning and_put unfair constructions upon them, and deduced inferences and con- clusions entirely unwarranted and unjust. ‘Chis atta r the state as the “authoritative’ expression of the allinace, although it was known at the time thav this democratic tool bad been drovped by the alliance weeks before. So it has been one assault of slander and abuse after another. The democratic managers haven’t had the manliness or the courage this year to make, a3 they have made other years, a square open fight upon their principles, Instead they have gone about 1n the dark, starting irresponsible stories afloat, making stabs at personsl character, dodging any square fight upon their principle, but running in and out with insinuations and false charges which they dare not make, for they could not meet in open, honorable warfare. In the last few days they have growr bolder and have been making the wildest claims of success, which were utterly without founda- tion. Their game now is brag ana _bluster, in the hope of influencing some wavering voters. Hut they have no better chance,and not so good, of winnmg, as they had two years ago, and unless all signs fail Senator Hutchison will have 10,000 or 12,000 more votes than his democratic opponent. At no place in the state can any serious defection of republican votes be found. Of course, there will be votes lost here and there for one reason and another, which is to be ex- pected every year, but the party lines are in ood shape, and there is no break anywhere. As General son had over thirty thou- sand plurality in this state last year the re- pablicans can afford to lose a few stragelers, and sull have a very good victory. Jowa's Public Lands. Des Moixes, Ia., ov. 3.—|Special to Tae Bee.|--lowa has been settied so long, and its public lands open to settlement by homestead disappeared so long ago, that it may be a matter of surprise to know that it still maintaing a land department as a subordinate branch of the state government. But there is considerable work for a land office to do, in caring for and disposing of the lands which are held by the state for the public schools, the state university and agricultural college, and what are known as the swamp lands. ‘I'ne report of the truns- actions of the land department of this will be ready for distribution in a few da; But from advance sheots some interestin, information can be ootamed, The unsold school lands of the state are divided inw three classes, as follows: Sixteenth scction grant lands. 500,000 acre grant lands. . Mortzage school lands, Total number acres unsold..,.,..40.417.10 The university lands come in two grants, of which the greater part are of course sold, There remains of unsold lavds. of these two grants, 2,695.96 acres, and of lands re ceived by donation und otherwise, 441 acres. ‘The agricultural college recei originally 222,532 48 acres. Of this 127, acres bave been patented, aud 95,195.42 acres still remain unpatented. During the biennial period, 16,641.07 acres bave been patented, 14,521.07 acres of which belonged 10 the congressional land graut, and the balance, 2,320 acres, were of the class known a8 tho Casey purchase. The lands patented were scattered through sifteen counties, 600 acres being in one county, Kossuth. The report also covers the matter of the swamp lands, By the act of congress of Septomber 23, 1850, all the swamps and overflown lands within the state, that were undisposed of at that time, were granted to the state. Io 1553 the state donuted theso lands to the counties in wnich they were situated, and most of them have been sold, The report accounts for the disposition of 1,613,335.28 acres of these swawmp and over- flowed lands. State Teachers' Association, Des Moixes, Ia., Nov [Special w Tae Bee | —Arrangements are now being made for the annual meeting of the State Teaoh- ers’ association in this city during the holi- days, It will bring together some five or six hundred pedagogues, who do so much to keep lowa's percentage of illiteracy down to the lowest notch. In addition, there will meet this year the State Music Teachers’ association at the same time, adding much wterest to the week. Des Moines Manufactories. Des Morxes, Ia., Nov. 8.—[Special to Tug Bee. |—Almost without the knowledge of its own peopls, Des Moines has grown to be quite a maoufacturing oity. The Commercial exchange has established o custom of devoting two days ennually to visiting the different industries of the place, 80 that the business men thewmselves wmay know more apout what is belug dove & home in the way of industrial enterprise. These days are called “Factory days," and they came last weok for this year's visit But the oftl and_directors of the ex change foun t the number of the fac tories had sd, freased within the year that they could rdY ¥isit them all fn two days. There are ngiv 140 manufacturing fndustries in Dos M“"’lfl nd the value of their com- ploted produdt dst vear amounted to 80,485, 000. For a eity in the hoart of the agricul- tural rogion of the northwest this is doing pretty woll.stAmong the new industries of the past year id the cotton factory, the only one of the Xind in the state. It mak several thowsawd yards of sneeting a day, and can not filllats orders fast enough to meet the demantl, [ A——— - “TE ,"Jl.ahhl!s AND COSTS." Dr. Lamar'y Sermon to the Omaha Workingmen. A large audience gathered in the Grand opera house yesterday afternoou to listen to the first of the series of sermons to working people by Dr. Lamar. All classes of me- chanics and other laboring wero represented, and thero was aiso a sprinkhing of well- groomed darlings of fortune, who evidently appreciate the dignity of labor and are will- ing to be styled ‘‘working men." ‘T'he musio for the occasion was a number of gospel hiymus on printed slips whioh were distributed awong the members of the audi- ence, The subject of the discourse was, as an- nounced, ‘“I'en Dollars and Costs,” and the members of the audience paid the highest possible compliment to tho speaker by listen- ing intently from beginning to end. Dr. La- mar said that the precedmg Monday morn- ing he had visited the police court and secn the motley array of prisonors arraigned beforo the judge. He described — the appearance of some of the miserable culprits whose careers of vice, debauchery and crimo had left their tell-tale traces on ' their fea- tures. Certain vagabonds, drunkards and thieves were delineated, recalling to mind the fellows whose faces have become fa- miliar 1 the police court. Yet even the vilest of the vile in that motley crowd had once been pure and innocent. All had mothers whose hopes were once built upon them, All, atone time, had doubtless given promise of a noble, useful life, but step by step they had gone down 1n sin, stride by stride they had gone from one vice to an- other, until they lost their seif-respect and ambition and blasted the hopes o re- posed in them. Here they were finally in the police court, dishonored. Some of the culprits had beea flned $10 and costs, some more, and others loss. But this fine was but u little part of what they had lost. They had lost character, self re- spect and reputation, Yet there is a chance for these men to be saved. It was for such as these that the Redeemer died upon the cross and declared that although their sins were us scarlet they thould bo made as wool, and though they were as red as crimson they should be made as white as snow. jebwile oy Fort News. 4 ]:lo!l school commences at Fort Omaha o~ Licutenant B. R. Chrisman has just re- turned from a visit in Towa. Mrs. Fletcher, wife of Colonet Fletcher, doparted for Philadelphia last week. Dr. Haskin and wife have left Fort Omaha for their new station, Fort Sheridan, 111, Captain Charles A. Dempsey, stationed at Fort Omaha, leaves for mond, Va., about the 15th. Hospital Stoward George Land upon the retirea list, to date C 1889, and he will proceed to his home in Washington, D. C. “Lhe evening was concluded by selections on the violin by Captain Keller and B. But- ler, the former accompanied by tho charm- ing hostess and the latter by Miss Keller. Sergeant Reading has returned from San Francisco and says that he would have done better hud he not been taken with a cramp the livst day, which lasted about three hours, ergeant Dunn, Sergeant Wilde and Cor- poral Wedemeyer, who passed the depart- ment board for promotion to the rank of second lieutenant in the army. expect to be ordered before the final board at Fortress Monroe thisweek, It 18 expected that the examination will take place about the 20th of this wouth, " A A regimental council of adiinistration, consisting of Major Butler, Captain Mills and Capuain Keller, has been ordered to audit the accounts of the regimentul treas- urer, and a post council of administration, consisting of Major Hartstuff, Major Rutler and Captain Milis, has been ordered to inves- tigate the accounts of the post treasurer. Captain and Mrs. Keller gave a very pleas- ant_birthduy party to their daughter, Miss Anita, at their home, Fort Omaba, last week. Dancing was the feature of the evening. Refreshments added to the ploas- ures of tho evening. The guests wished Miss Keller many happy returns of the day. Awmong those preseat were Misses A. Keller, H. Knave, M. Rowell, O. Wheaton, A. Mills, M. Hartsuff, i.. Turner and M. Turner, Messrs, ¥. Knave, . Rowell, O. Itowell, B. Butler, M. Mills, J. Ulio, M. Turner and T. Butler. SOUTH OMAHA NEWS, uow Rich- St. Agnes Fair. At1 o'clock Saturday evening the contest for the doll closed, Miss Josie Schromeck winning by 917 votes, to 448 for Miss Lydia Corcoran. At 11 o’clock the contest for the desl closed, and the count showed Sherifft Coburn 640, John F. Boyd 3,672 Mr. Boyd, on account of the condition of his throat, declined to respond to the calls of his friends, and the Rev. _Father D). W. Moriarity congratulated Mr. Boyd on Nis success in this contest, and hoped that it 1 an equally welcome and signal one on Tuesday. “The coutest for the silver pitcher will close at 10 o'clocke to-might. The fair wilt continue to-night and Tuesday evenin, add to the iuterest, it is ntended, 1f | bo done, to run u wire nto the hail and r ceive the election returns Tu..day evening. Democratic Iy. Tho last and largest democratic rally of the campaign will bo beld in Hunt's opera house this evening. E. I. Morairity, Hon. Charles Offutt and Patrick Ford, of Omaha, will mako addresses. Tho local democracy is muking an effort to have this meeting eciipse all othor political meetings held in the city this year, Notes About the City. Mrs. John Fallon is better, The city council will meet tiis eveuing. A daughter boru to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Curtis, A ‘Phe Emanon will hold a business meeting at 7:%0 o'clock this evening. Dr. Fails, superintendent of the Carbon works, 18 very sick with inflammation of the lungs. Tho board of edutation will hold its regu- lar monthly weotiny in the high school build- 10 this evening, The regulor monthly meeting of the Live Stock exchange will be held at the Exchaugo building at 8 o'tldek this afternoon. A very important meeting of local assem- bly No. 8616 Knizhts of Labor, will be held this evening. Kvery member shonld attend. Burglars broke into Thomas O'Connor's saloon, on N stréet, Saturday night, but wero_disappointed, as they got only cigars. Mr. O'Connor had ‘left no valuables there to tompt them. The loss was inconsiderable. The laboriug men of South Omaha gove Willlam Beckett, of Omaba, a_ flue and at- tentive audiencg'in Kunights of Labor hall Sunday afternoon to hear nis lecture on bal- lot reform, it Hookett guve a very inter- esting and Insfpiflive address. His audi- euce was well pleased. The good beginning in these mectings fhsures a good attendance at the remainder of the series, About Versons. Felix Lenegl and bride are the guests of Omaba friends, Miss Tnea Monbeck, of Monotowoe, W. is visiting her sister and brother-in-law, M and Mrs, W, H. Goodma Superiutendent James Hale, of the Ar. mour-Cudahy packiog bouses, hus returned from Chicago, where he spent two weeks vis- iung friends, Jumes Rush and sisters, Misses Maggio and Kal Rush, Miss Catherine White, Patrick Bunce, P. A, Begley and Mr. Rick, ards were sowe of the Omaba visitors at St. Agues fair Suturday evening, M. W.Griest bas just returned from his home in Atluntic, la., where his family has been sorely afilicted with aiphtheria. The whole fumily except Mr. Griest aud the baby was down. I'he bouse was quuraatined for forty-three days, and ono son died. WHERE BRIGHAM IS BURIED. A Pon Pioture of the City of the Saints, CHANGES IN TWENTY YEARS, Almost a Complete Transtormation— Much of Interest to a Visitor at the Tomb of the Prophet. At the Tomb of the Prophet. SaLr Lake Crry, Utah, Noy. 1.—|Corre. spondence of Tne Bee.]—It is difficult to describe this ¢ty to one who has never beon here. S0 much is to be seen, more fhan one ambitious citizen has felt the spirit move him to picture & modern paradise, hence there are books upon books about Salt Lake Cat, Since my last visit in thoe winter of 1860.70, Salt Lake has undergone & complote trans- formation. It was then a place of 20,000 people. The population has doubled, and is incroasing at the rate of 20 per cent per annum. 1see no reason why it should not have upwards of 100,000 within five yoars, It presents a finer appearance than Omaha when it had 40,000 people. Fhen it showed a civilization distinct from the rest of the country, and tho peovle were dressed in linsey to encourage home manufactures; modest two story buildings greeted the eve on every side, tho tabernucle was barely completed, (it had no galleries then), and the great $100,000 organ was being finished; the temple was up to the firsy story; the Mormons were largely predominant ; the Gentiles were discrect and Brigham Young was alive, though recover- ing from a recent attack of the mumps or whooping cough, which was regarded as a re- markable thing for a man of his advanced years, Even the popular American beverage was dignified with the euphonious title of “valley tan among the saints, and the Towi- send was tho only hotel of any consequence. The old civilization has disappeared. Th people on the streets wear the typical Ameri- can costume, home manufacturars are tlou ishing and increasing, great industrial insti- tutions are being built, and the woolen mills cun barely supply one-tenth of the demaud for their product. Elegant three, four and five-story business blocks grace the privoipal streets, and beautiful brick and stone dwell- ings with handsome lawus sud gardens are numerous in the residence portions of the ¢ 'he tabernacle. with its wonderful accous- s0 perfect a whisper can be heard, or a pin to drop, from its pulpit to the gallery in the extreme end of the struc.ure, begis to show the signs of age, The Assembly Houso has sizce been built, and over it the angel, presumably bearing the golden plates that David Whitmar saw, spreads its wings like its prototype on the temple of the Sun in the frowning city of Milosis, We of the Gentile faith regard the story us fabulous, but to the ;\lfurmon it is us real as any event of bis daily ife. The great temple, costing $3,000,000, to be fln\s‘hcfi m the course of several years, is pointing 1ts spires heavenward, and in its darkened chambers the ceremonies of the church will be verformed, long years after common sense and loyulty to this govern- ment shall dictate to tne Mormons tw @ up their peculiar institution 80 baneful to the material development of Utah, while it dominates this fair aod beautiful valley. Churches of every denomination are here, and of ove 1t is the Episcopal seat, Bishop Tuttle being one of the best and most active clergymen. ‘Mlio Mormons cannot now be distinguished Dy the stranger on the streets; and the tiles are bold in their outspoken determina- tion to build up here the midland commercial metropolis of the country, in the country be- tween the Missouri and the Pacific. TI'ne natural resources of the country are in their favor. But'their discretion of twenty years ago has apparently given way to impatience, “I'he disputes of Liberal or anti-Liberal, Mormon or Gentile, possess no_significance in the conmercial world, except to debar the investment of castern capitai. The man of the east cares nothing for the local differ- cnces of the people. He weighs the chances of the profitable investment of his money. If favorable, in it Roes, promoting commerce in all its currents and increasing_the population by opening new avenues of employment. If nov favora- bie, Lie puts his moncy elsewhere, Brigham Young bas passed away. His homes, the Lion and the Bee Hive, have ve- come the headauarters of great corporations, And as one wends his way through the Kagle gate, a short walk brings one to his grave. Through the attention of the old sexton, a devoted Mormon, the gate of the iron fence around the lot 1s opeued, and I was admitted to the epclosure. Standing by his tomb, I was deeply im- pressed with the vauity of the strifes, ambi- tions and honors of this worid. Here was a man recognized as a Moses or a Josh among his penple; an instrument of God in founding a civilization 1n the wilderness; a man whose voice was law to thousands; crowned with Lighest honors by his church; handling his wealth by many miliioes; a governor and a president. Before me was an_ iron a nameless grave, a plain stone a basket of fuded flowers, a single wreath, the gift of alady but a few moments before. Iuside the grave doubtless there is a pine box and a me tallic casket, containing the crumbling bones of a man whose ctildren are refused tue privilege of being buried beside him. ‘Ihere is much to joterest the visitor to Srigham’s tomb, In spite of you, the his- tory of the sufferings and endurance of the Mormons on their advent into the valley comes to the memory, of their steadfast faith in the Lord, that He would send deliv- erance, when they were without solid food for months; how the grasshoppers and crickets camo to destroy their crops, when the people kneeled down and prayed, and the seagulls camo and devoured the pests, d livering the people from famine and despair. The Mormons speak of this as a fuct which can not be disputed. Hut a short distance from the burial lot stands a hill covered with sage brush. Such was the appesrance of the valley when the Mormons cotered it. Under your feet is tho brizlit green grass, such us wo have at home, Here the past and the present are before you, and irrigation has wrought the change, marvelous as it 18, Next 1o Brigham’s grave 18 that of Mary Aunn. Next to hers is Elizabeth R. S, Smith, the wife of Joseph. ehind you is a grave lovingly inscribed to **Tne Mother,” another wife of Brigham Young. Sadder than all this human history among the dead was when the sexton turned and said, **Here lies the body of Alice Clawson, the daughter of Brigham.” When I saw her at the old theater twenty years ago she was radiantly beautiful. Nothing but the green grass, nov even a flower, marks her resting place, In vesuty her style resembled Neilson, the gifted and beautiful daughter of génius, whose tomb is duily strewn with fragrant flowers by some gentle, loving hand, but Alice Clawson slecps in an unknown grave. “‘Are we s0 soon forgotten when we are gone?’ Do these Mormon people think and say: “Are we loved living and forgotten when we are dead 1 If 8o, the burial of Alice Glawson reveals the coldness of a religion in which there is no place for one of the gontlest human attributes, for in our *‘cities of th dead” we lay the sleepers tenderly away, and then strew their aves with tears and flowers, while & graceful column recounts the virtues of the one who has passcd away., On leaving the enclosure the thoughts re- curred: *Inthe days of innocence Adam fell,” and turning to the gentle old man, after listening 1o what he had to say on the tenents of his church, I said to him, *In the days of our first parents, & man and one wifo was the rule, but in the days of the patri- archs the earth was sparscly populated, and the bible recognized polygamy, though it came through Lamech the descendant of Caln, 10 increase the human race. So with the Mormons, “You were here, I smd, *‘one thousand miles away from anywhere, and to populate the land Brigham Young introduced it into the fuih of the Mormon churcn, but in these days of immigration and the railroads the necessity for it, as then believed, no longer exists.” He disclaimea the idea and said it was necessary for the preservation of the human race, as 80 many dovices Lo defeat the pur- Dposes of (God were practiced in France and other couatrh Turpiog, 1 left him and the towb of the prophet who sleeps to wake no more, until the trumpet sounds calling the living and the dead to everlasting Judgment. Returning to the subject, the “‘valley tan' i8 known no more, atd the' urticle isoalled by its-orthodox name and sold at the ortho- dox price per samplo by both Mormon and Gentile alike. A liconse for selling the arti- cle provails at the rate of 1,200 per yoar. In consequence thero aro botwoen twenty and thirty places in the city where it 18 dis- pensed. This is a more temperate showing than Omaha whon high liconse took effect, and like Omaha I infer that it is on account of n largo transient population. A glance at the hotel registers shows these peoplo come from New York, Philadelphia, Omatia, San Francisco and other large cities of the country. In addition to the old Town. send house, now the Continental, there aro the Cullen and the Walker ns the principal hotels, and a good deal of talk about the orection of another to cost $250,000. The hotels are full of guests and numbers are turned away nightly. A well known gen- tleman assured me, to accommodate tho travel, ho and others bave been asked to open their houses to lodge those who canuot be accommodated at tho otels. Muin strect is daily crowded with people, and on some corners the crowd I8 ue great as at Filteenth and Farnam. There are fow or 100 houses to rent 1o the city, and tho samo gentloman pleasantly informed me one rental agency has o loaded cannon ready to fire at the man who applies for a vacant house. ‘'ho Omaha men make their head- quariers at the Walker. It is a pleasant place, tho rooms and beds ore scrupulously neat, and tho fare excellont, It is homo. lLike and comfortable, and on the day of my arrival I was constantly shaking hands with Omaba friends who are residing and visiting in the city. Ono of theso told me he had made £5,000 in real estate, and a relative about 8,000, Roal estate offices are numerous here, and it will take very littla to start the biggost kind of aboom, The market is vers sousitive, and the indications are pointing to an active trada very soon. ‘I'he duily transactions av- erage from £60,000 to §70,000 and the weekly about §100,000. On inquiry I find the price of tho best business proporty on Main street will average about $12,000 per foot. This is o0 high, and will be apt to create a new business center wnere property can bo bought cheaper, as residence lots from four to five squures distant from the business con- ter can be bought for $75 to £100 per front. foot. Proverty in Omaha ranges much hizher than these ligures one or two miles from the postoffice. Taxes range about 17 mlls for city, county and territovial on a 50 per .cent valuation. ‘This is too low, but it will bo higher when the strects are paved, although the waterials for paving are all around the city. It 18 well worth a_Visit to the chamber of commerce. It has a fine apartment where everything, mineral or agricuiural, vro- duced in Utah, is on exhibition—a bale of cotton is one of the specimens from a southern county. ‘Lhere are seven banks in the city with an aggregate capital of about §1,000,000. Inter- est rules rom 8 per cent to 10 per cent p annum and the bank clearances will average about £300,000 per week. This makes u bet- ter showing than Sioux City or Des Moines. Salt Laie City has no clearing house. The jobbing trade is large and increasing at the rate of 20 ver cent per annum. Deal- ers tell me, strange to say, Omaha is not sell- ing largely in the city, but to the surround- ing towns. In consequenca there is tho same prejudico exieting here, to lias to Chicago for indulging in practice, Omaha shouid sell in job or car load lots to Ogden and Satt Lake City and lot the huckstering businessgalone E. F. Test., TO-MOKROW'S KLECTION. The Batle of the Batlots to B Fought atthe rolls, The county e of Douglas will be held to-morrow, and the pzople will be called upon to vote for candidates for the following oflicers: A judge of the supreme court, two regents of the university, one stato senator, to succeed the late Senator Paulsen; one dis- trict judge, to fill the vacancy caus’d by the retirement of Judge Groff; one county judee, to succeed the present incumbent, Judge George Shields, together with the ‘regular county officers, as follows: Oue shorifl, to succeed William Coburn: a weasurer, to suc- ceed Henry Bolln; a coroner, tosucceed John Drexel; a registrar of doeds, to suc ceed T. A. Megeath; a surveyor, to succeed Charles Howes; a commissioner in the S, ond district to succeed W. J. Mount; a com- missioner in the Fourth district to succeed Peter Corrigan; one superintendeat of pub- lic instruction to succeed J. B. Bruner, o also six justices of the peace for the thr districts in the city, tho Iirst district c prising the First, Second aud Seventh v : the Sccond dustrict, the Third, Fifthand Bighth wards, and’ the Third district, the Fourth, Sixth and Ninth wards. The voung places have been located as fol- lows, and will open at 8 a. m. and close at 6 o'clock p. m. : FIRST WARD. First District—Southwest and Jones. Second District—1117 stroeet. Third District--Eagine and Dorcas. corner Teuth South teenth house, Eloventh {COND WARD. First Distri 3 South Sixteenth street. Second District--1871 South Sixteenth street., THIRD WARD. —1120 Harpey street. Second District—P. Ford's place. FOURTIL WARD. Mirst District—16)7 Capitol avenue Second District—1712 St. Mury’s avenuo, FIFTIL WARD. rst Distri 504 North Sixteenth street. Second District—No, 6 engine house. XTIL WARD. First Distric Second Distr] First District—School house, Twenty ninth and Woolworth. Secoud District—H. € Twenty-ninta near Duy EIGI'TIL WARD, First District—Harness shop,Cuming near Twentieth street. Secoud District—Furay’s barn, aud Twenty-fourth streots NINTIL WARD, First District—Johnson’s stors, Twanty- cighth and Farnam, Second District—Ryan's store, Mercor and Lowe avenues, SOUTI OMATIA. fiest District—F. Pivonka's storo on N street, Second District—J. Lovi, street, between N and O Thitd District—Itear sree Fourth District—Exchange hotel. COUNTY PRECINCTS, Union—Gramm's hotel, Irvington, Jeferson—P, Daidrecnsou’s hotel, in Bon nington. rk’s building, Cuming Twanty-sixth Kelker's hotel, Q hool house at Valloy station, Masonic hall buildiog, an Ault's oftic Millard—At school house at Millard, MceArale—At MeArdie’s school bousa. Douglas—At Ruser's place, West Omaha—AU school houss, Elkhoro—At Towa hail. Florenc hool house. Irvinglon—George L. Re THE JUDGES AND CLERKS, man's, % Who Will Havs Charge of the I8, The following judges and clerks have baen appointed by the couuty commissioners, aud will 86rve 10-morrow : PINST WARD, First Distriot—Judges, Robert Glenn, Leon Kopold, C. P. Birket. Clerks, Scott Batler, J. B. Foolien, Second District—Judges, Charles Fanning B. I, Madson, James Henderson. Cleris, E. K. Long. Joe Graff, “Lhird District—Judges, B. H, Mahao, D. Cogan, C. F. Goodman. Clerks, B, M. Smith, Williatw 13raua, BECOND WARD. Pirst Oistrict—Judges, 1. Boehme, Shay Waraer. Ciorks, John Shroder, 1. W. Bartos. Second Distriet—-Jud: , Lo D, Pickard, W. C. Cloud, James Sliguton. Clerks, Joun J. Sweeney, Willlam Gatzwaod. THIRD WAKD. Judges. John Crosby, 1. arows. Cleris, A. Groen, he Oilic %, Riebe, Otto First District McClain, P, M C. E. Vanderbury, Second District -Judges,Jumes A Fogarly, W. 8. Jones, John McGuire. Clorks, Sol Prince, A. French, FOURTH WARD. First Distriot—Judges, P. E. Charlos Iillis, Al Porter. Clorks, #. Merchant District--Judges, Bd Parratt, C. 3. Hanna, A, F, Clerks, Bernard Gordon, Charl - FIFTI WARD, First District—Judges, Alex. Gray, B, MeGinn, W. J. Whitehouse. Clerks, Fra k Friday, James Wailace, Second District—Judgos, O, C. Brfling, P, F. Dennison, Ed Dalton. Ctorks, A. J. Webb, R. O. Bactus, SIXTIU WARD, First District—Judgos, W. A Grang, 1. R. Wiggs, Poter Tuttle, Clorks, E. G. <Glenn, Johin Stecl Second District—Juages, «T. €, Cody, W. Lessentine. Clerks, Sievers, A. T Mayne. Third District—Judiges, A. Powall, Stewart Gwynn, Georgo A, Astr Clorks, M. Stovens, George Smith BEVENTIT WARD, First Distriot—Ju Iges, 1. T T 5 orks. Robinson, William' Boya, M. W. F Sholby, O, T, Arthur Jole Quealoy, Johu I Bvans, Christian § . Clorks, Joho Huelft, Hel First Distric Boll, L. F. MeGinn, spear, J. A. Young, Second Distric White, Andrew Schimidt, F\. J. Bakor. NINTIH WARD, First District—Judges, P. Johnson, R. R, Muleahioy, , I . MeSha ind District—G. H, Zimmer, I, Hertzman, Feod, A. E. Edwards, SOUTH OMAITA First Distriot—Judwes, T. i3 H. Doud, A. V. Miller, Parks, J. C. Carroll, Second District—Judgos, Joseph Sivo, Pat Halpenny, C. O, Stauley. Clerks, M. J, Flaherty, A. Hailey. Ihird Distriot Willinm Earight, J. C. Bowley. Mulkearn, J. J. Weir, Fourth District—dudges, D. R. S W. Curtin, J. C. Hough. Clerks, E. [ age,E. D, Johnson. Florence Precmct—Judges, Henry Hall, Hugh G. Clark, . I Runsom. Cierks, Charles Brown, Herbers Huut. Union Precinet s, Joseph Christ Fedde, G, W. Knighi. win Knignt, W. L. Crosby. Jefferson Precinct—Judges, Benjamm Bb- H. ‘Thowie, Heury Wilke. Clerks, C. ._Kloninger, Elknorn Precinct—F. J Drexel, Willin Moore, G. G Valley P Harrian, ward Burk. Mitehell, Frank Whi Waterioo District I D. B. Jordan, John Nason, Hennieer, L. L. Step Chicago Precinct Naualst, Joaa Rolp. Dan Cannon, Millard Precinet Clerks, W, H. W Judges, T.. T Clorks, J. Maginn, C. i Wolsh, C. Cloras, W. Wobstor, F. 1, Clerks, J. W, Hatchor, Clerks, Itobort udgos, Charles King, Clerks, Tim Sav- Phalen, Clerks, Bd- " Bissey, George Schumacher. Clerks, J. W, ", H. Thomas, P, rks, William C. Traber, Clerks, H. B Judges, A, T, Nalte, T, Clerks, J. B. Silvers, Judzes, William Poppen- hagen, Christian Kaclbor, od [Bbener. Clerks, Barvey N. Lank, Henry Kolse; le Precinet—Judges, i A. McArdle, Aardle, Heury Harris. Clerks, M. Elijah Allen. us Precinct—Judges, H. Ruser Fritz Wahler, George Henry. Clerks, Oscar Pickard, J. H, Roher. West Omaha—Jug Peterson, Michael W McGiuness, Henry s, A. Clemmons, James Clerks, Honry M. Cook’s extra dry champa natural fermentation of the pur grape. ‘Lhere is none better, b e Fire in a Soort Factory, Analarm from hox 42 called the fire de- partment to the shirt factory of R. Cahn, over the District Telograph office on Doug- 1as, where a bed had caught fire. The bl, was _extinguishod before it had communi- cated to anything else. It was reportod that alamp had exploded and caused the dire. The damage was very slizht. bttt b 4 s/ d By Hans, McKersront, Pa., Nov. 8.—TLast night a riot occurred amonga number of Hungarians and Chief of Police Robinsor and Oficer Mc- Quade were probably fatally injured. Robin- son was stabbed in the head dnd cut about the hands and arms, while McQuade rec three ugly wounds 1n the back aud & When the officors appeared the Huns charged upon them, und but for the timely arrival of other officers they would have been murdered. Four rioters were arrested and after u des~ verate fight placed in tno lockup. The Huns were colebrating a wedding and beon drinking all ¢ mado by jui Wamen's Mis INDIANAFOLIS, No! exercises Women's | society to-day abstracts were read of tho re- ports of the treasurer and corresponding secretary, ‘The resources for the year wero $77,604, und_expenditures, 867,500, Judeo cinnati, and General Clinton the anniversary o Missionary Jongres Cueaco, cial Telegram to Tue Bek.]— cago delegates to tho Catholic congress that meets in Baltimore on November 13 met at the Grand Pacific this afternoon. A special train has been secured to carry 100 from Chicago, and the Omaha aud St. Paul delogations of twenty and fifty respectively. A Ropo JKANsAS C11v, Not to Tie Bre.) —Alexander Simpson, an ac- countant, and formerly a rcporter on tho “Times, Lias fallen heir to 200,00, left by an Who died in Edinburg, Scotland, in am A Faial . xplosiol WieELiNG, W. Va., Nov. 8, —I3y the pre- mature explosion of blastin a quarry in Barbour county yesterday two men were fo- stantly kitled and one fatally injurcd. - - The All-Ameri Tourists, 1evine, Nov. 8. All-American tourists spent to-day exvloring Mammoth cave, and started to-night for 1 « AND DEALYR YHE CHARLES A. VOGELER CO., Baltimore, M&. BLANCARD'S PILLS IDE OF IROM. Bpectally, SISOl Tor tho it at™? % SCROFULA KING'S-EVIL, CONSTITUTIONAL WEAKNESS, CONSUMPTION (IN ITS EARLY 5); POORNESS OF THE BLOOD, eriodio. course, HOLD Y ALL DI & CouN. Y. Agents for i rpmanedt {08 atlafa [Oricr” Jons purity, ko