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Fi POLITICAL power and population go hand in hand. Both are rapidly fol- lowing the star of empire. THE board of education again chal- lengss defeat by renewing a proposition which the voters rejected last spring. AvTER all Vice President Morton’s liconse was no license at all, only so far as it licenses the unbridled tongues of the women in pants. WASHINGTON places the forty-second star in the union field of blue. Though late in coming in, its welcome is none the less hearty and enthusiastic. TuE Standard Oil has gathered in a few more refineries tosupply the domand for lubricants during the Ohio sena- torial campaign. B STORMS of snow and zeroic weather are reported north, west and southwest, while bright skies, bracing breezes and mellow sunshine make life a panorama _ of pleasuro in Omaha and vicinity. SvucAr advanced one-fourth of a cent per pound over quotations to-day. The market is strong at seven and one- fourth to seven and one-half cents for granulated, but the stability of present 1 prices is doubted. # D T I i UNDER the new schedule of trains g adopted by the allied roads, mail trains between the Pacific coast and Chicago will run at the remarkable speed of forty-four miles an hour. This demon- strates what western railroads can do when they want to. —_— TniE friends of the classic drama will hardly regret that Modjeska and Booth E have fallen out. When a couple so ill- mated and belated in yenrs attempu the role of Romeo and Juliet, the realism of the pluy is cnough, to make u horse laugh. Me. Booth should stick to Ruchelien, and Mme. Modjeske keep _on as Mary, Queen of ,Scots. “Ir I owned.the city,” says Herman " Kountze, ‘‘and these railroad bond ~propositions were made to me, I would accept them so quickly that it would surprise the managers.” We feel con- 3 fident that the voters will back Mr, . Kountze’s judgment and secure for the city the immediate and permanent bene« “ fits to follow the settlement of the rail- road embargo for all time. Tuere has been altogether too much b * real estate speculation and jobbery car- ~ .ried on by the board of education. « The proposition to sell the Hartman school house and site and buy ancther site six 3 blocks west squints altogether too much B in the direction of another real estate deal, A distanceof six blocks is nearly half a mile and if another school house is needed then why not build one at moderate expeuse ou an inside lot that need not cost oyer five thousand dollars The Hurtman school property will be- come very valuable in the course of a . few years, but if it is sold this winter it will go for a mere song, Eme——— RiGHT on the heels of the mnational " oonveution, of which Miss Willard is It bead and front, Chicago is to have a (conference of reformers made up of fragments of every *'ism” that has agi- tated the country in the dead and v buried pust, or is hikely to convulse it in the dim and distant future. There will be labor reformers, greenbackers, women suffragists, men who want God in the coustitution, and an assortment of loug-haired men and short-haired women, who want to reform everything under the sun excepting their own con- . Auet, This collection of political freaks #hould by all means be retained in Chi- THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1880 AN ABSURD CLAIM. 1t s perhaps natoral that the demo- eratic organs and the so-called inde- pendent newspapers should endeavor to make it appear that the course of the administration is in large degree re- sponsible for republican defeats in the | 1ate eloctions, but the strained nature of their conclusions is so obvious that .they must fail of effect with their intelligent readers. The party leaders and the discriminat- ing wpoliticians of both parties know perfectly well that the course of the admimstratios had no more to \10'1 with the result in most of the states than the kilver question or any other subject not at the time in public atten- tion. Doubtless there are republicans in all of the slates dissatisfied with tho administration, and most of these very likely did not vote, while others may have voted with the democrats, but it would manifestly be absurd to claim that this class was numerous enough, in Ohio and Towa for example, to turn those states over to the democracy. It would be a large estimate to place the num- ber of republieans in either of thoso states, who refrained from voting or voted with the democrats by reason of the disaffection toward the admipistra- tion, at one thousand. The only cause of republican dissatisfaction with the president rolates to the policy of ap- pointments, and the number influenced by this is comparativeiy very small. General Boynton, tho well-known Washington correspondent, who was in Ohio during most of the campaign,enys that he heard no mention of the national administration in connec- tion with the expressions of the dissatistied republicans, and that there were no national issues atstake. Hon. John I'. Plummer, of New York, one of the most active and best informed re- publican politicians of that state, said to a representative of THE B that the resuit in that state was largely due to the usual indifference of republican voters in an off year. Everybody ad- mits that it was the prohibition 1ssue which defeated the republican party in Towa. There were local issues in all these states which determined the re- sults, and there is not the least reason for charging any degree of responsi- bility upon the rational administration, which us yet has declared no policy and has given offense only to the very small number of republicans who have been disappointed in their search for office. THE THREE AMERICAS CONGRESS. The delegates to the congress of the three Americas will return to Wash- ington to-day, having occupied about & month in their extended journcy. The congress will reassemble on November 18 and enter upon the deliberations for which it was called. The trip of the delegates, judiciously planned and ad- mirably carried out, has given the for- eign visitors idcas and impressions of the industrial capabilities and re- sources of the United States which they could have obtained in no other way. From Boston to Omaha and from Omaha to Philadelphia they visited the wealthiest and most prosperous section of the country, and witnessed the highest industral development of the nation. They have learned from personal observation what the United States already has at com- mand to meet the wants of their respec- tive countries, and they have gained much knowledge of the vast resources vet to be developed and employed. They have seen the splendid results of the encrgy and enterprise of our people, and they have found us pos- sessed of a hospitality as hearty and generous as that of any people in the world. All this may reasonably be presumed to have made an impression upon them much stronger than is conveyed by any of their expressions of gratification, It may be supposed, also, to have greatly enlarged their views of the advantages possible in closer commercial relations between the United States and other American countries, and perhaps to have strengtn- ened the American sentiment which is the foundation of the conference they are to hold. False theories have been disposed of and misapprehensions removed, and the Pan-American congress will assem- ble with every foreign delegate pos- sessed of a very thorough knowledge of what we have and a very good idea of what we are capable of, information most necessary to wise deliberation and practical action. It will be interesting just before the meeting of the congress to note some of the views which will doubtless dominate its deliberations. Tt is evident that the question of increasing the facilities of communication will be prominent, All of the foreign delegates regard this as being most es- sentinl to enlarged commercial rela- tions, and while the majority of them may-have some delicacy about express- ing an opinior favorable to a govern- ment subsidy policy in order to provide increased communication, some have anunounced that thev should advocate such a policy. The indications uve that the conference will recommend subsidies and if it ghould do so the effect would very likely be to give that policy amuch larger support in ‘congress than it has ever yet receivea, It is under- stood that ® number of south- ern democratic representatives are prepared to favor it, and 1f 80 the chauces of its success would be materially increased, It is quite conceivable that the representatives of southern states having seaports might be induced, without much effort, to sup- port subsidies. Another thing which the foreign delegates seem to be agreed on is the necessity of simplifying the customs methods of this country. One of the foromost of them says that under the present complicated methods great embarrassment to trade arises, and he suggests that a uniformity of customs vegulations upon the simplest basis should be estab- lished, Another matter of very great importance will be the question of establishing a uniform standard of money. American continents are as numerous 88 the countries which arve embraced, and each country has its own standurd The staudard coins of the | form metallic currency of the American countries is both a hindrance to com- merce, & loss to consumers of merchan- dise, and an inconvenience to mer- chants by reason of the necessity for computations and the employment of agents and brokers to make the ex- changes, A coinage system of wuni- form value and designation is not impracticable, and it {s obviously a ne- cessity to extensive commercial rela- tions between American countries. Such are some of the more important matters that will occupy the attention of the Pan-American congress, and will give to the deliberations and conclu- sions of that body a universal interest. It is to be hoped the resuit will just the opinion of the representative of Chili that the ‘‘conference will con- tribute powerfully to the union of the American nations.” SSsses——— MOST EMPHATICALLY, NO. The bourd of education has seen fit to make another attempt to over-ride the will of tho people. In defiance of the decided negative vote of the last school bond proposition the board has again sub- mitted a proposition for bonds which is substannially the same as the proposition that was rejocted last spring. Theonly difference bevween the new proposition and the one rejected is that the entire amount asked for bonds ' now, including seventy-five thousand dollars for the high school extension, is lumped, wherens last spring the high school e tension bonds were voted on separately Tne Bek is in favor of the erection of ns many school buildings as may be needod, but it opposes now, as it did last gpring, the proposed annex to the high school building. This annex will doubt- less be ercctod in the due course of time, when the number of pupils in the high school grade need additional ac- commodations, or when a normal de- partment shall be established and made wpart of our public school systom. We do not, however, approve the continued use of the high school building asacen- tral graded school. Public sentiment on that point is decidedly in favor of the evection of a new school house in the central district, outside of the high school grounds. Tnstead of paying attention to public sentiment and carrying out the known wishes of their constituents, the board now seeks to coerce the public into voting for the high school annex by saying to the voters: You must vote for the annex or go without new school houses for another year. THe Bee says most emphatically: Vote down the whole proposition. THE PROPOSED MARKET HOUSE. That Omaha needs a market houso goes without saying. The opening of a market house would bring about active competition in the salo of food products that every workingman must have on his table. It would reduce the cost of living to laboring peovle and thus en- abloe capitalists who want to locate fac- tories and miils in Omaha to operate them as cheaply as they could in other cities where living is cheaper. The proposition to convert the expo- sition building into a market house strikes us very favorably. Thelocation is as central as it could possibly be and the building is well adapted for a mar- ket house. The price asked for the structure is much lower. than it could possibly be built for. The city now puys rent euough for part of the build- ing to pay the interest at five per cent on its entire cost. The structure is now exempt from taxation, so we would lose nothing in that direc- tion. In addition to giving us a market house immediately. we shall also have a building that can be used as a great exposition hall during three or four weeks of the year when Omaha has her annual fair. The greatest advantage is, however, in having a market house ready for immediate use, in a central location, accessible to all people by motor and cable lines, It may be that the political change in Ohio and Towa will reduce the chances of the candidates from those states for the speakersiip of the house of representatives, though there does not appear to be any very sound reason why it should do so, at least with re- spect to Mr. Henderson. He can not be fairly charged with any want of zeal or effort in behalf of the republican ticket in Iowa. As to McKinley there isa faction in. Ohio which is dis- posed to accuse him of luke- warmness in his support of For- aker, and while there is. un- doubtedly no justice in this it may work McKinley harm in his contest for the speakership. The candidate who cannot command the united and har- monious support of his own state can hardly expect to attract strength from the outside, and this seems to be the present situation of the Ohio candidate. Heunderson’s position is more Tayorable 80 far as his own state is concerned. Cannon’s position in the race is said to have somewhat improved, while Bur- rows i8 still sustained by the hope of falling beir to the Reed vote if the Maine candidate cannot win, An elec- tion such as that of & week ago is very apt to throw the most careful calcula- tions into confusion, —e WHEN men like Herman Kountze and Ben F. Smith urge the people to support the pending bond propositions, 1t is conclusive proof that the invest- ment will be a profitable one for the city. No two men in the city own more property or pay more taxes. They are cautious, conservative business men, and their judgment can be relied on, With vast interests at stake, it is not likely that they would recommend these propositions if they did not know that the money paid out would return ten-fold to the city. They know that the investment is a good one, the security gilt edge, and therefore heart~ ily commend the propositions to the taxpayers of the city. e e TaE Omaha real estate exchange starts in business with flattering pros- pects. The need of such au organiza- tion has long been feltin the city and the members have it in their power to make it beneficial alike to themselves and the public at large. It will bring buyers ana sellers into closer communi g ©ago and exhibited nl‘lhc world’s fair, | of weight and fineness. This multi cation, increase interest in veal estato l business apd;strengthen the controlling forces in @he city's orosperity. Aside from the sala of property, the organiza~ tion wilk: bhcournge the investment of eapital in p#¥maneut improvements, act asa unit i “bucouraging the location of factories; and voice the advantages and prospéots of the city with force and authority When occasion requires. The exchunge is a gratifying evidonce that the strong 'mbn of the city are getting togoether and uniting on a common platform to advance the material inter- ests of the ¢ammunity. The time is de- cidedly opportune. A good beginning has been made. Now let our business men give the exchange ncjive support and patronage, and success is nssured. Tue retirement of judge Novval from the district boneh will croate & vacancy in the sixth judicial district which Governor Thayer will be cailed upon to fill. Among the names mentioned Mr. George B. France, of York, would in our opinton commend himself as tho most suitable. Ho is au ublo lawyer, upright and fearless, and a man who enjoys the confidence of not only the people of hiis own county, but of many of the best citizens of the state. Gov- ernor Thayer could not make a better choice. Chicago Herald, Perhaps Tascott will be found in a sewer. RO S A Republicnn Characteristic. Chicago Tribune, “Republicans, can you read tho hand- writing on the wall " shricks a Tenncasee paper. Certainly, brother. Republicuns can ull read handwriting. Any one of them will fnterpret it for you. Barel S The Way 1t Is in Denver. Denver Republican. Tho board of public works of this city is misnamed. It ought to be called the board of public indolence, It has a greater capac- ity for doing nothing than any similar board in existonce, It is likely to promote idleness by its example. weti Rt Should Go a Step Farther. Chicago Times, A Rochester man has invented an auto- matic voting machine, the ooly fault of which is that it compels the voter to go to the polls, just as now. What is needed is o device by which every man can vote in his bedroom before going down to breakfast. e s ) Resubmission For Kansas. Kansas Oity Times. It is generally admitted, and even by Clarkson, that prohibition was the prime cause of the democratic victory in lowa. Kansas republicans will do well to heed the warning., Resubmission in Kansas 1s bound 10 come—with the assistance af the republi- can party orgauization, if 1t has any political foresight; without it, if it has not. AR Foraker in the Future. St, Louis Globe-Democrat. It is reported that Governor Foraker at- tributes his defeat mainly to the jealousy of certain leading Ohio republicans, and pro- Dposes to “‘get even” with them in the future, That is to say, instead of accepting tho re- sult in @ proper spirit, and seeking to re- trieve his fortunes by zealous and faithful service, he is. disposed to adopt a policy of personal revenge, and to become a sys- tematic miscliief-muker. LR Eadh GREAT MEN. Heury Trving will not visit this country professionally next season. The Comte de Paris, being an exile, was unablo to attend the funeral of the king of Portugal. John G. Whittier says he expects to live to see the age of 100 years, though he is not anxious to do so. The late King Luis, of Portugal, was an inveterate smoker, He smoked on an aver- age twenty-five cizars daily. Mr. Gladstone is writing a paper on “The Impregnable Rock of Holy Scripture,” to be published next year. The Russian emperor, as he grows older, becomes in appearance more and more & pyical ack, colossal 1n figure, entirely bald, flat-nosed, and enormously mustached and bearded. Tx-Lord Mayor Whitehead, of London, is aclever man. He is the only Englishman who was beuefitted by the shah of Persia's recent visit. Whitehead, who was then lord mayor, refused to give tho shah a banquet unless he was promised a baronetcy, He rzave the entertainment aud is now Baron Whiteheaa, L Western Art Association. A meetiniz of the Western Art association waus held at Lininger’s art gallery last even- ing. The coming exhibition to be held at Tur BEE building from December 18 to 25 was discussed, and Mr. Lininger urged the members to use their united efforts to make iva success, Ho eucouraged the members by declaring that the exhibits bad been pro- ductive of great good and had done much toward stimuluting the local artists to do better work, and he was positive that the coming exhibition would surpass the previ- ous ones in the quality of the work. A committee consisting of Mr. George A. Smith, Mrs. J. J. Bliss, Mrs. Emerson, Miss Fauonie Butterfield, Mrs, Stimmel, Clem Chase and Mrs. C. F, Catlin was appointed to help sell the pictures at the exhibition offered for sale. On motion it was decided to deduct 10 per cent from each sale for ths benctiv of the association, The different members agreod to sell from five o fifty tickets each for the exnibition, Mr, Charls lgutter reported that Dr. Duryea would: Jecture before the society Decembor 10, he subject *‘Composition,’’ Mr. Elguttegd isisted that the leading artists shoulaive talks on the subject of ractical pictlire painting. Most of the ectures here®efore had been mainly critical and literary, ndinuminn lnla‘d been said on & the uctual Wi it the e =l 0f ¥ Kerr, A, M., Ph. D,, of late the Southwestern Presby- terian church, ias been etected president of Hellevue college, Dr. Kerr bad completea negotiations for a pastorate in the eust; but if he can secure & release ho will accept the position to whith hie has been called by the trustees of iellevue college. Dr. Kerr has been secretary of the iustitution for some time, and unaerstauds thoroughly the con- dition and neeas of the school, In addition to this he is a geutleman of learning, is liberal, affable, and, above all, & pushiog encrgetic man of business ability, [ix-Presi- dent Blayney is delighted with Dr, Kerr as a suCcessor. —— Dakota's. Senators J. A. Montgomery, a prominent attorney of Fargo, N. D., is registered aty the Paxton. “North Dakotal” sald he. *'Oh, yes, we aro booming all right now. The legislature meets next week to elect senators. Who will ba alocted? Well, that's a hard question to an- swer. However, 1t 1s generally conceded that ex-Governor Plerce, of Bismaccl, wili be one of them, but there i8 uo predicting the other. There are half a dozen candidates, ana all of thew bave moge or less show of winning the prize. Mr. Pierce i8 an ola newspaper mun, and while conuected with the Chicago News was appointed territorial governor of Dakola by President Artbur, He is very popular.” WEALTH OF THE NEWER WEST A Large Proportion of It Yet to be Developed. THROUGH UTAH AND MONTANA The Altitude too High for Corn but Alfalfa Grows in Abundance— Butte's Mineral Wealth ~lmmigration. Riches for the Digeing. Burre, Moot,, Nov. 10.—[Special to Tun Bee.]—A trip over the Utah & Northern railway from Ogden to Hutte is a revelation. The first surprise is the great immigration from the cast. Ogden is already an impor- tant business center of about twelve thous- and inhabitants and, so great is the travel, the hotels ure filled to overflowing. In fact the “overflow” is troublesome, and ncon- venient, und 1t is not an unoommon thing to have the stars for company during the night, as the princival hotel has been unable to af- ford sleeping accommodations for all who apply. To reliove this pressure mauy run down to Salv Lake City for the night, taking the early train for the north next morning. The best feature of this immigation is that it appears to stick, hence Salt Lake City and Ogden are growing rapidly in wealth, popu- lation and fmportance. Naturally, they are destined to become large cities, us they ara building up manufactories and ~ the surrounding country Dpresents a scene of diversified agricuitural industries, Capitalists have recently mado heavy investments in Ogden, and irri- gation receives due attention. It will aiso become un important center for the sh ment of fruits and vegetable, as Lo vanning factories ure already in successful oporation. Leaving Ogden on the long and full loaded train of the Utah & Northern, tho firat fea- ture of importance is the Hot Springs and the great Sult Lake., The country is lovel in the valley to the norih, and filled with farws, and live stock, which is fed on alfalfa ha, Sage brush, the usual sign of a fertile soil 1n the west, like the grass in Nebraska and tho eust, 18 visibie in svots, where the land hus not been cleared, and, on rare occasions, pateh of corn. ‘[ho elevation in this secti 4,215 feet, is evidently too reat for the e tensive cultivation of this pul, and alfalfa must necessurily take its place, This is an important source of wealty t Utah, Three or four crops can be cut yearly, yielding at euch cutting from two tour tous per acre. 1f the farmers in this territory and the west will devote their time tg raisinghogson this plant,using what little corn may be necessary to “'topofl” the fattening of the animuls, there is wo telling tho enormous revenue iv will bring them. The Colorado farmers have been giving their attention to this in a small way, and, am told, with satisfuctory re- sults. In addition, it is an importantelement in bee culture—the bees attracting tue honey from the sifalfa flower, growing in tnat stute, In Utan the yield of alfalfa (lucerne, they call it) is 1,000 pounds of sewd per acre. This industry is becoming very important. A hundrea car loads of tne seed were smipped from Salt Lake last year. As the country becomes irrigated and settled this will doubtless become the wost exten- sive crop, from Laramie and east, to the Pa. cific coast. In many places along the line, out of the gray sage brush, will appear a spot as green as emerald, presenting a ploas- g feature to the eye, and making the valley beautiful. In regard to these western val- Jeys, many in the east suppose them to be in the nature of ravines, or strips of country between the mountains, only a mile or two wide. It is a mistaken impression and de- serves correction. In many cases they are vast plains hundreds of miles in length, und all the way from five to fifty and oue hun- dred wmles wide, with mountains on either side, henco in speaking of them to an eastern man who bas never visited the country, he should be impressed with the fact that they sustain great cities, thousands of farms and frequently millions of animals, But I am digressing. While at Salt Lake complaint was made as of the drouth last summer, and the fact stated that the lake had been several inches lower than for years, although no evidences were visible in this highly cnltivated section, owing to the complete system of irrigation Visible on ey- ery side, Standing water was abundant, and the high bench lands of the valley seemed admirably adapted to the cultivation of grapes on uccount of ti@ geniul atmos- phere through which the train was moving, One feature of irrigation is to turn the soil black when the sage brush is removed by hitching a team to a bar of raurcad iron and aragging the surfuco. The result of this has been to transform the Logan and Cach val- leys into an agricultural paradise, where the 80il in muny places :s as black as coal, equal to the best in Illinois, Towa and Nebraska. Around Brigham, Coliinstown and Mendon this is noticeable. Grass or alfalfa is tuking the place ofe the sage brush, The valley is full of truck farms and live stock. A fiock of sheep were grazing in tho distance. Barb wire fences and other improvements were numerous, and the farmers were plowing. Logan is an old wwn. It contains hotween five thousand and six thousand people, largely Mormons, and 1 saw no new buid- ings. The soil is lighter here aud the country well settied. It is surrounded by farms, on which alfalfa, corn, cabbages, ete., aro raised. ‘U'ho floor of the valley is mostly level, and here [ saw one herd of horses and cattle larger than uny I had seen since leav- ing Omaba., The fences are den, and some hogs and pigs were grazing n alfalfa field, thus solving one of the great future problems of the west. At Smithfield new houses are taking the place of the old. In many places the soil is excellent—as good us can be found anywhere on the carth, From this point to McCammon the country presents varied features, Tmprovements ure visible at the stations; new frame houses are golng up; the valley is well setled, and truck farms are numerous. The farmers were drilling wheat, and only one machine was idle in the field, and that was recently inuse. The whole farm country presents a thrifty appearance, and the sage-brush on the uncultivated land more luxuriant than in Wyoming. McUnmmon is evi- dently an extinct crater, The lava is curious in its formation; great blocks appear chiseled and fitted into place by the Great Archtect, while the tov of these beds is as level as a floor, There {s wnatural water power near this point, a beautiful stream of running water as clear af crystal, and its bunks are as green as ecmerald. There is litt ¢ or no settlement in the valley, and there is a faint effort at hor- ticulture 1u the shape of an orchard at the station. Pocatello 18 on un Indian reservation, and here Tudians wers scen in great abundance. Thoy had just bud asun and rain dunce. They came from every direction, Just as the dance was finistod the rain came down, and there was great rejolcing among the tribes. The braves were brilliant in the parapheraalia of government blankets and rod paint, soma of the squaws were playing an Indian gawe, with a ten cent limit, and tho punooses, well—two or three necaed a pocket handkerchief. One fat old fellow, in green goggles, with a leather pocket book in hand 'was walking up and down the platform, shaking hands occasionally, and presentiug his cre- dentials, He looked lke @& professor of surgery, with n penchant for scalp dis- oases. Indians looked clean and neat in their gaudy attire—a grateful contrast to the Pawnees, Walching one of the games of the Indian women was a4 distinguished sudi= ence, conslsting of ex-Speaker Carlisle, Mrs, Carlisle, ex-Governor Stevenson, some other lagies and gentlemen, @nd our old-time friend, W. C. B. Allen, who, true to his na- ture as an upbuilder, has just started the laabo Repuolican, with Mr. Austio, former- 1y of tke Omaha Herald, in churge. 1 was @ gleuuru to meet these gentiemen, and with the ex-speaker 1 had a most ugreesble couversation about mutual friends in his *old Kentucky home so far away.” Mr, Car- lisle_was visiting the bedside of @ son, troubled with a dangerous illness. Pocatello has ubout two thousand people. 1t18 fu & state of “expectancy’—on wheels— waiting to uvail itself of the privileges of the “town site act,’ when it will settle perma- nently ou o tract of 1,800 acres near by. ‘e raiiroad company has @ division station here, and Its lmprovements wre very exteusive. Here the Utah & Northern and Ore- gon Short Ling change freight and passengers, but belug on the reservation no attempt is made at agriculture in the imme- diate viclmity, It 15 destined 1o become wn iwportant distributing center for the sur- rounding countey, Norch of Utah & Northern runs throngh a wide val- loy with mountains on eithor side. This continues more or less all the way to Butte, In this vicinity agricuiture is increasing, There are now many farms whore throe years ago there were none, The land is not irrigated to any great extent, I am toid, but the Big Hole and Snake river will furnish An abundance of water whenever needed and there is plenty of surface water at this sea- son. The drouth in this section of Montana has boen severe, but the people clalm it is not 80 bad as roported on the great stovk ranges. It has had no visible effect on Butto. The principle stations on this end of the Utah & Northern are Blackfoot, Cama Dillon and Bagle Rock. With an eastern railroad connection throngh the Yellowstone park and thenco east, Dillon will become an important poiut. It has about two thousand people, The trend of travel is now to and from Salt Lake, The Utah & Northern runs through a beantiful country. When its ro sources aro tully developed it will be a lucra- tive investment to its owners. Butto is a remurkable pince. Tt is one- foarth mining camp and three-fourths city. It has 82,000 poople—about 13,000 more than Helena—and is the largest city m Montuna. It rejoices in a cable and a stoam motor line through the principal stroats, but is badly in need of a union passenger depot nearer the ceuter, Snlid throostory brick blocks are rising all over the busincss district, and Maun street 18 a b Tho MeDor- MOt 8 the principal hote), but thore is room for a structure liko the Millard or Paxton. Dwellings to rent are ve y scarce, and a St. Paul syndicato is about to ercct resi- dences to meet the demand, Butte is proo- ably the Jeading mineral producer in the world, In thisit is unique. The product comes from the hill on which the city is built. Last year it amounted to §23,000,000, and this year it will be greater, Tue sum paid for labor in the vity is | rge, amounting to upwaras of $1,000,000 per mouth. As there are only throe bunks to handle the business of Butte, there ought to be room for another large banking institution, as there aro ten smolters and mining establishments constautly at work. In other things Butte i3 also unique: it has no agrioulturo in the vicinity, it has licensed gambling houses, a low saloon li- cense, $300 per annum, pavable quarterly, and little or no jobbing trade, A jobbing house to cover trade with Spokane and the vicinity of Butte ought to have a rich field here, us Helena canuot uffect it. Tho busi- ness men of Butte buy mostly in Chicago, St. Panl and Minneapolis. "'With the re- sources of the surrounding country fully de- veloped, and the vhannels of trade opened with every section, Butte will be the leadng city of this part of the country. 1 do not seo how 1t can possibly avoid becoming one of the richest cities in tho world, when silver is remonetized and the interests of Montana receive the attention they deserve. With silver in its present conaition. Butte can show such splondid results, what will the city be when silver is on a parity with gold? E. F. Tust. — STATE AND SRRITOKY. Nebraska Jottings. Falls City 18 again figuring on putting an electric light plant. The Baptist ludies of Norfolk have organ- ized a home missionary society. ‘I'he Pierce councy farmers be held at Plainview December George H. Starbuck, treasurer-elect of Red Willow county, died last weelk at his home in McCook. A young man named Sherrard, 1 Ravenna, killed forty-four snakes twelve of them rattlers. A new paper has been started at Western, Saline county, called the Reporter, of which 1. H, Purcell is editor and proprietor. The public reading room at Falls City has been reorgauized for the winter by the ladies, who have secured aboutnine hundred volumes. Fourteen young ladies of York have or- ganized a Young Women’s Christian Tem- verance Union as an adjunct to the married ladies’ organization, The Bancroft Judependent appears to be a «eonsistent non-partisan paper. In its issue bvefore election it gave advico to readers as follows: **At the election Tuesduy véte early, vote often, and vote for who you durn pleuse,”’ Somebody stole the old bell from the high school at West Point, and after diligent search it could not bo found. Several days later, however, it was found reclining on the school house steps. none the worse for its temporary absence. Says the Exeter Enterprise: Our local village government has been a total wrecik for the past two weeks. Our clerk has re- signed, one of the trustees moved away, one temporarily absent and one sick, 80 no quorum can be had to fill vacancies. The marshal and street commissioner are still alive, however, and as long a8 no saloon licenses expire the town may be expected to exist. ‘The judges of election at Allston, Dundy county, had a nice ittle scheme which they worked on election day. They numbered the names in the poll book, and as each elector stepped up to deposit his vote, the ballot was numbered to correspond with the number op- mn liance is to ing near oneday, FOR NOVEMBER. : ey Begins a new volume (the twen- ticth year), and presents a table of contents of remarkable est and variety. the long expected open the number. esting record of a .life upon the stage could be laid before the American people, installment s full of delightful rem- iniscences of the boyhood of Mr, pocatello the | posite his namo. This was kept up for some 1imo, but when the editor of the Times went 1 onst his voto he made a strong ‘‘kick," which resulted in the numbering business being stopped. . lown Items. Codar Rapids wants the firomen’s tourna- ment next year. Electricity will time for Chiristmas, Goorge Porter, of Bast Elkport, was fatal- ly injured by falling from a hay stack onto who handlo of a piten fork. John Christian, a farmor living near Sae City, lost a dozon ©attle last week by tuening thom 10080 anong the cornstalks. Teachers in_the Musoatine schools will make a tour of the larger citios of the state W post up on the latest educational fads. The ehampion pole cut _huntor of thoe stata is John Waeaton, ot Pulaski, who eaptured ten of the odoriferous animals io ono day re- cently, illumine Bloomfleld m Mra. Jubor,of Pleasant Hill, died rocently, aged 106 yoars. She was born in Quebod county, Canada, was of French Sho retamned hor mental facultios strong and active until a short her death, A voung man living at Sioux Rapids. who has been alling for some months with o stomach troublo, last woek vomited a snake @ foot long, He thinks ho mus' have swal- lowed the reptile whilo drimking out of a brook while on a hunting trip lasi svring, having noticed a poculiar sensation at the time, The suake only lived two hours atter making its escape. A crazy man from Illinois was examined by the commissioners of insanity of Bremer county at Plainfield the other day. He came Over to this state on allozed business, and the first day of his appearance in Plainfiold he wanted to marry the twelve-year-old daughter of a citiz»n of that place, Failing in that he wanted to elope with the daughter of the lavdinrd of the hotel at which he was stopping, and not succeeding in that, schems ho insisted on voting the democratic ticket was arrested. He will be sent to the lum, Harvoy Round, of Bloomfield, is under ar- rest at that pluce for burning his brother-in- law’s barn. LKvery time the authorities go near him he tells a different story about the affair, sometimes owning thaf did the burning himself and at others accusing some= one else. He tells about a young man named Mankin boing in love with a girl in the neighborhood, and because she went buck on hin he went into the barn burning business. Next he exonerates Mankin and owns up to being the villain himself. As there are two charges of bara burning against him it is ox= pected that Harvey will spend the next six or soven years in scclusion, and was timo before nd Northwest, t'he May flower gravel mine, Hill, Cal., bus yielded $302,804 sine ber 11, 1858, Anrens, a well kuown rosident of Cal., was thrown from o wagon and s back broken, lwing only a few min- utes after the accident. The Pendleton Oregonian tels of a pros- pector around Mitcheil who struck a pockot near Robinsonville, Ore., last week and took out §7,000 with a hand wortar. David Steele, awaiting sentence at No- vuda, Cal, for Killing Peter Chappel, killed himself by severing an artery in his avu. He had neither eaten nor siépt. since his conviction, 7 The Boise City, Idaho, National bank re- ceived during the month of October gold bullion for assay at the United States assay oftice amounting in value to $33,570 und sil- ver bullion for shipment to the' amount of 24,830, William H. Wallins, ex-chief of police and ex-superintendent of the Oregon state peni- tentiary, who tigured conspicuously in_the Haye: affair in 1870, was_found dead in Ius room at Portland, Ore. Walkins w. addicted to the uso of morphine and death supposed to have resulted from an overdos Thomas Ellis, o blacksmith residing in Waitsburg, Walla Walla county, Wasiing- ton, died recently. He had been drinking ana : sked the doctor for medicine to sober upon. He was given a sedative mixture and instricted to take a teasjoonful occasionally, instead of which ho took the whole bottle at one time. Says the Virginia, Nev, Chronicle: The name of Patricic Holland s included in to- day’s death notices 1 the Chroniclo, Tho immediate cause of his death was pnenmont coupled with the fracture of one of his leg: by un accideut in the Chotlar mine October 15. A singular coincidence in connéction with the last accident is the fact that the date of its occurence was the tenth auniversary of the followin heroic incidents in Hollana's mining career: On October 15, 1879, while a cageload of men wera being Fabidly hoisted through the Hale & Norcross shaft, one of the men fainted, and Holland in successfully saving his companion from falling from the cage wus himself hurled from the deck, but fortunately grasped a wall plate of the tim- bering, where he hung suspendea 500 foet above the bowom of the shaft and from where he was soon after rescued by the min- ers on the cage, who expected to find his goreo frightfully mangled inthe sump be- ow. Forest. Decom- inter- First chapters of AUTOBIOGRAFHY OF JOSEPH JEFFERSON No more inter The present Jefferson, and is richly illustrated with portraits, etc. NOVELS BY FRANK R. STOCKTON AND AMELIA E. BARR. begin In this number. 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