Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 17, 1890, Page 4

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STRANGE s it may appear the bro- gans of the assistant United States dis- trict attorney for this district are still waiting for a tenant. Tie “kickers,” despite Mr. Kimball®: devision. will be on hand bright and early to receive the members of the in- terstate commerce commission in this city. Tur Bromfield style of justice is commendable chiefly for its expeditious effectiveness. It admits of no ex- ceptions and cannot be set aside by human courts. WitEN it comes to w show down fore the interstate commerce commis- be- gion, Atttorney General Loese will be there th royal flushes and pockets loaded. TF t <1igns of the day may be trusted, W yoming, Idaho, Avizona and teered in Uncle Sam’s New Mexico will soon be ga: the named upon roster order [ 15 about time for the bar associa- tion to read the riot act to some of its members whose wild orgiesand fathom- less mouths are disgracing the legal profession in this cit; THREATENT to kill seaman for smiling at a s@porior officer is a kind of discipline which does not recommend Commander McCalla as a person fit to rule the American navy. NEW Youik and St. Louis congr men now demand that Chicago putupten million dollars or shut up on the world’s fuir project. It remains to be seen whether Chicago will meot their biuff, Tie Burlington and the Missouri E cific must “get together™ if they desire to enter the new Fort Omaha reserva- tion with their tracks. The govern- ment does not propose to granc exclu- sive priviloge! LET us have light on the county coal 3ills. Itis due to the taxpaye s well s the uggrievea contractors that the churges of crookedness should be cleared up. The investigation should he thorough, regarvdless of the conse- Guences, PurnLic respect for the courts will not be materiully improved by giving them coutrol of presidential and congress- ional elections, as is proposed by the Lodge bill. The aim of the government should be 10 remove the courts from all political influence and raise them above the mire of partisanship. The states are competent to manage elections without judicial interference Tne physician who declared that the man who lies ou one side endangers his health, but the man who lies on both sides is past human aid, must have had in lus mind’s eye the congressmen who vecently pronounced u panegyric on prohibition as operated in Kunsas and lowa and incidentally de- denounced high license in Ne- brasika. It is useless to argue with wen who utterly ignore facts and lie in all dircctions. . - Tue reports of freezing weather in the northwest and the absence of u 1o the upper Missourl and Mississippi valloys should be received with joyful weclamation 1y the peopie of the south, Hud the spring season sct in us ear this year us customary, accompanied by the thawing of snow, heavy raivs und high water, the groat freshets rav- aging the lowlands of the Mississippl south of Caire would have beeu greatly augmented and the amount of damage to cities and plantations would have Boen incrensed fully ten fold, dor of the Company, | | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: v MONDAY, MARCH 17. 1890. THE ARID EMPIRE. jor J. W. Powell, director of the I'nited States geological survey, pub- lishes in the Ceatury an acticle of sur- on “The Irrigable Region.” Mr. Pow- ell’s experience in and study of the inter-mountain region makes him an authority on the question of reclaiming the vast arid empire of {ho west. Six million acres of this land has already been vedeemed, and an irrepressible army is steadily at work and yearly add- ing hundreds of acres of scorched wastes to the cultivated area. Briefly stated, Mr. Powell declares that to make the waters redeem the largest possible area, 1t becomes neces- s first, to select properly the land to be redeemed; secondly, to select the reservoir sites where the water is to be stored; thirdly, to select canal sites to be dedicated to public use, so vhat indi- viduals may not acquive title to land and havassefarmers dependent on the water supply. For this purpose topo - graphic, hydrographic,enginedring ana geologic surveys are considered essen- tinl, The mountains, hills and valleys ntust be outlined and their relative le cls determined. The waters of the strenms must be gaugel to determive the volume they carry through the dif- ferent seasons of the year. Then the rainfall must be measured, o as to sup- plement it with the rejuired amount of artificial moisture. Tho varying char- actoristies of the soii must be taken into account to determine the amount of water needed to serve an acre of land. One of the most important guestions to be considered dn conrection with an tensive system of irrigation is the regulation of the quantity of water to he taken by aoy one state or territory from interstate rivers. = All the rivers .rising in the Roc mountains and flowing through through one or more states. remembered that a vigorous contro- versy arose a few yoars ago botween the ofticials of N aska and Colorado on this identical point. The farmers and ranchers ot Colorado diverted nearly all the waters of the South Platte and Republican rivers and caused great an- noyance and ioss on the people living near these streams in Ne- braslka. No satisfactory agreement was veached, the officials of Colorado \iming the right to divert all the aters it necessary. Thess rivers are essential to the well being of the re- spective states aud the moisture they supply is worth millions of dollars an- nually., How shall the waters be di- vided? The law is practieally silent on the subject, nor does Mr. Powell voue cule a remedy. As it is now, every man helps himself, regardless of his neigh- bor The question involved isone of interstate regulation, which the general government must settle so as to con- serve the best interestsof the people divectly concerned. In Mr. Powell’s vision of the waters presents greater difliculties than the problem of irri- . Should Colorado absorb the wajers of the Rio Grande, for instance, the settlements dependent on that streain in Now Mexico would be practi- cally destroyed. This must be pre- vented by federal legislation, but com- plete data must first be had regarding the average volumo of water in each stream, to reach a just and eguivable division. Mr. PPowell estimates that there are nearly one billion acres of arid land, of which one hundred and twenty million acres ean be irrigated by properly hus- banding the waters available. This would make an empiro of productive land larger than Pngland and Ireland, fifty thousand square miles greater than Prpssin, almost equal to continental Spaun, and wit seven- teen thowsand squire miles of the g of France. The reclumation of*this vast territory is oaly a quastion of time. The mineral dovelopment of the mountain region and the increase of population will eroute such profitable marlkets for agricultural products that private capital will rapidly flow to this rich field of investment. It is import- ant, thercfore, that the goverument should ot only 0id and encourage tho redemption of the arid region, but de- ionsive law to prohibit monopolics controlling the headwaters and to prevent the total diversion of in- terstate streams, passing interest Lands of the Arid e the arid belt pass Tt will be opinion the di- wratio vise a com: WILL THERE BE A FAIR? [tis by po means certain that the proposed world’s fair to celebrate the discovery of Awmerica will be held. 1t is probable that if there isa faiv it will not be held in 1892, The situation does not look promising. The contest for the site having been determined there now appears to be a disposition on the part of the representatives of the de- od cities to put' overy possible clo in tho 3 of leg- islation. The spirit manifested is utterly selfish and unpatriotie, Lver since the choico of Chicago was made there has been an effort to dispa that city with vespeet to its out the enterprise. accepting the result and offering every the western eity New ability to Instend ¢ with good graco, encourazinent to the vepresentatives of Yorkand St. Louis, more especially the former, have shown a purpose to put every possible ol stacle in the way and to as far as prac- ticable embarrass Chicago. This un- generous disposition has been manis fested at every step in the progress of the deliberations of the house commit- tee, und it has appeared in tho utter- ances of represcutatives of New York eary and of tho press. 1iis o spirit which patriotic citizen must condewn, I such a feoling is allowed to prevail the fair cannot be made suc- coss under any circumstances, for the improssion ereated abroad would be every unfavorablo to sending hero any ex- tensive exhibits, We must, in order to sccure the consideration of Furope to the project, be able to assure foreigners of the general interest of our own peoplo 1 it The bill providig for holding the fair has been completed by the house e e and will be reported tomor- row. it provides for holding tho fair in 1502, but this way be changed in the The measure is sald to be satistactory to all concerned, but shis can only be known when it is pre- wittoe house, 1ge ' sent 1t will be an aftreenble sur- prise if it shall appear that all are sat- isfied and the bill is promptly put through. ‘here is cortainly no time to lose. 1t will be a marvelous example of energy and euterprise if thm great work contempiated shall be snceessfully car- ried out in two years and every week of time now is valuable. It isto be hoped, therefore, that this subject will be wholly removed from controversy dur- ing the preseunt week, so that the practi- cal work tobe done may be entered upon. There has_been already too much inexcusable delay and it it ismuch further prolonged popular interest n the matter will die ous. . NOI MUCH OF A CRISIS. The resignation of the French cabinet appears to have created hardly morve than a rippie on the surface of political affairs in France. The Tirard ministry held on longer than it was expected to, and on the whole made a better record than was looked for from it. 1t was not strong in statesmen, and its success, so far as it was suceessful, was due rather to its negative character than to any positive qualities, Do Frey- inot, who has reluctantly accepted the invitation to form a new ministry, will make a stronger cabinet than the one which-hus retired. It is unfortunate that thag eminent statesman is not in good health, but even with this disad- vantage he is very much to be pre- ferred to the lender whom he succeeds. President Carnot, in urging De Frey- cinet to accept the premiership, did not overstate the claims or the popularity of that states- man. Probably no man in Franee, not even the president himself, has a stronger hold on the popular con- fidence than De Fraycinet, due to his uncompromising republicanism as well as his commanding ability. The absence of political excitement following the resignution of the cabi- netis interesting as illustrating the firm grasp that President Carnot has upon the popular confidence. No man has done more than he to give strength and solidity to the republic, and to create in the public mind a sense of security. His selaction for the presidency, it is now seen, was the very wisest that could have been made. Tt was not thought so at the time of his election, because he had not in his legislative career given any marked evidence of statesmanship, and his experience in public affairs was not extensive. But he h; demon- strated that he has statesman- ship of a high order, or at least a capacity for administering affairs which is quite as valuable to a country as the ability to evolve new principles and policies in government. A careful and conservative man, he is particularly strong in self-relinnce and in the ability to act firmly in all exi- gencies without parade and bluster. His methods ave not those of the mere politicinu, and being most thoroughly imbued with republican principles, he has achieved the admiration, the re- pect and the confidence of the French people to an extent enjoyed perhaps by no other man. The administration of President Car- not has done much to tstabiish at home and abroand a feelinz of faith in the permanence of republican institutions in France, and while he continues at the head of affairs there will be general confidence that the government will be wisely administered and the interests and welfare of the people carefully and faithfully subserved. IN arecent address before the stu- deats of Harvard university Mv. Theo- dore Roosevelt one of the civil service commissioners called attention to the need of men of education and wealth devoting their time to public life. In this country there is alveady a -class of men, a leisure class, vesembling very much the gentry of England whose in- come for life is assured and whose time is wholly its own. adily growing in size, it remains to Dbe whether this class shall become a curse or a blessing to the nation by the use which its me make of their leiswre, If leisuro is understood to mean idleness or viciousness then the possession of it is an evil. There ean be little doubt but that leisure is a sore tomptation to thousands of young men the scions of wealthy familics. The larger citis of the country are filled with a class of men whose highest ambition in life scems to be to figure in disgraceful scandals. They are the deunkards, , spend- turifts and physical wrecks who blight many « home and furnish the skeleton scon nbers of many 1 closat. But it must not be taken that all wen born with silver spoons in thew mouths become idlers and drones in the busy hive of society. Bducation and wealth are powerful levers to a young man ot brains and in- dustry. Professional life opens its doors wide for the physician, the lawyer, the sdientist not de- pvendant on daily practice to make valuahle inv wions and researches. Mr. Theolore Roosevelt himsall is an stig example of the latter. H:nry Cabot Lodge, the young historian and con- gressman from Massachusetts, 1s an- other, Willinum Waldorf Astor, ex-min- ister to Ttaly, is a thied. Others could be named who promise well in political life.~ [t was from the gentry that \Vash- ington, A leflerson, Madison, Monroe and the leading spivits of the young republic weree drawn, With the example of these men the leisure class has o great work before 1t to rescu2 practaeal pohtics from the slums and to dethrone the venal, ignorant bosses, the bane and power of every motropolitan city of the country, ms, in their shoulders under the nose of NEWSPAPER shru Se men Washington or Dolph’s smelling committee and tell him to commit thew to jail for cons tempt if he will. There is very little probability, however, that the seuator will proceed to extremeo measures with the correspondents who refuse 1o give the source of their information of the secrets of executive sessions. The newspaper fraternity of Washington is cemposed of men high in political and social life. They have been selected for their important duties solely on their character, theirability, their ver- acity and jogpgeity. They are meu whose opinions are consvited and whose advice is followed and wnose friendship is valued by eabinet officers, senators, represeutatived and officials in all walks of public life. . To become unpopular in newspaper row is to sign and seal one’s death warrsntito public aspirations. No body of mdn are better aware of their power than the senate of the United States, and {} would be rashness indeed for the upper house to tyraunically step upon the toesof the newspaper guild L at Washington] Tne lamentitions of the Grand Island Tndepeudent over navigation of the Missouri river recalls the remark of tho Frenchman weeping at the grave of his wife, “*Tears cannot restore her, therofore I weep,” Mr. Hedde's weeps are equally uscloss, Whea 1t takes a government light draft steamer four hours to navigate a mile of the river in front of Omaha, it is folly to seriously talk of suceessfully operating a barge line on the river. With the superior navigable advantages offered by the Mississippi river from St Paul to St. Louie. the amount of traffic carried on hoats is insignificant, and does not af- ford the slightest relief to the producers of the surrounding country Tne BEE is not opppsed to eastern capitalists* building and operating the proposed barge line if they have more money than they know what to do with, but when they cali for local subseription to stock, we deem it proper to reiteratea well known truth that there is no better graveyard for misdirected enterprise than the Missouri river. REPoRTS of the condition of stock on the ranges are conflicting. Despite the recent heavy snow storms and frigid temperature in the mountains of Colo- rado and Wyoming, the losscs on the whole are not as severe as they might have been. The herds of Californin. Idabo and Oregon have, however, suf- fered. The sheep industry especially has been erippled and will tak® some time to recover. In Montana:the re- ports are far from discouraging. The winter has heen exceptionally open and stock is said to he in excellent con- dition. A just estimate of the losses on the ranges of the west and northwest cannot be made at this time. But the best authoritics unite 1 suying that the condition of stock is above the average. GoveErNor Nicnors of Louisiana showed himself to be a man of decision when Mr. John L., Sullivan of Boston wanted to run the state. Fo has just given another instance of his character by refusing to accept n gift of one hun- dred thousand doliars from the Louisi- ana lottery company to be expended for the relief of flood sufferers. He refuses to place the people of the state under obligations to the lottery company on the eve of the session of the legislature in which an extension of its charter will be asked, Governor Nichols is a man not to be trifled with. Tue enforcement of. the contract laber law 1s farcical and unjust. In some instances it is nothing short of potty persecution: in others, a species of favoritism. Mill men in Rhode and Connceticut and miners in Ivania have bsen permitted to Island Penns import contract labor on payment of a trifle, while clergymen- and cducator engaged abroad, have been refu: permission to land. will rever. they will come much neaver the spirit and purpose of the law. PRESIDENT HARRISON'S quiet trip through the cities of the south along oal If the authorities se the method of enforcement the Atlantic seaboard contrasts strangely with the triumphant tour made when Mr. Cleveland swung around the southern civcle. One mast not imagine that Mr. Harrison attracts little attention in the heart of Dixe; On the contrary. southern hospitality has been extended and accepted with good grace. But Me. Harrison finds no pleasure in the fuss and feathers, the blure and firoworks which so much delighted Me. Cleveland. SKANSAS Ciry and Omaha, Denver News, *ave now only important way stations, and as they cease to he terminal points, the grip which they have solong held on the commerce of the west will ceuso to exist.” Denver should not lose uny sleep over the commerce Omahaand Kansuas City, but it behooves her to keep both eyes on Cheyenne and Salt Lake City, both of which are sap- ping what little there is of Denver’s commercial vitals, Tae record of the county dispensary should be made more explicit. here is a wholesale desive to know how many official paupers ave aflicted with somnolency, cramups, dyspepsia, und like ailments, requiring dmly requisi- tions on the public drug store. It is generally Lelieved that the druggist compounds an infallible specific for these complaintg, and the ingredients vs the of should be made o matter of record in the interost of sulfering humunity. GENERAL MANAGER HOLDREGE'S let- ter to Attorney/General Lieess furnishes tho key to the railroad line of deicnse rainst reductibn of rates. In this he performed ;an invaluable service. Now we shall, hear sorgan and undoerstrapper io the state re-echo the cry feom trench to trench, und denounce thh opposition as con- spirators against ;jvested rights.” every corporate e OMAHA shouldl not be behind hand with contributions to the suffering Dakoti. mers of dréught-stricken The rehief committeo now in the city comes with credential from Governor Mellette and there ean be no longer any doubt of its authority to soheit aid, Will i5e Informed. Denver Times, A New York paper asks what Chicago means by “husthing.” It will find out oefore 1892; 50 will the entire country, —— Her Houss Was Her Castlo, Philadelphia R Sometimes the acquarian favatics and crusuders encounter & troublesome cus. tomer. In Lathrop, Mo, receutly o woman stauding v her aoorway thus addressed & band of the priestessos of prokubition and their male coadjutors: *I Lear that you lu- vado private homes to see it you ocan find any whisky, 1will tell vou that we ‘keop whisky in our home, have alwaye kept it and always will. But I have s double-bar- relod shot gun here that is loaded, and the first man or woman who crosses this thiesh- old to search my house will receive its con tents. " The speech was effective. The Amazons disappeared as suddenly as if the earth had swallowed them, like the witches in “*Mao both” riad they persistod 1 their attack the resolute woman would doubtless have taught them that her lionse was Ler castle and that acquarian fanaticism could not in- vade it with impunity - Occasional Intelligent Flashes. Philadelphia News. The United States senate scems 1o know enough onco in a while to koep its fingers out of the fire. - In the Wrong Uarty, Siowr City Journal, The republican party is hardly the place for any man who will make an eight-day speoch and then abuse the newspapers be- cause they don't print such stuff. b ohabuiiy How We Move Matrimonially, Kansas City Times, The Tndiana couple who were married by telephone the other dry “‘just for the fun of the thing” are in a position to fully recog- nize the meaning of the word progress, as applied to the age 1n which we live, pedutatet Neck and Neck. Washington Critie. A cyclone destroyed the town of Carthage, Miss., last Tuesday. It was in its way quite us destructive as an election somotimes proves to be in that region. SIS S 0 Competitor. Washington Post, - The New York people have managed to grind out a new plan for the' Washington memorial arch. When it comes to plaus tho New York people have a clear right of way. A Difficult Undertaking. Chicago Herald. Professor Dunsmore, who hsa attempted tomako the young ladies of the Detroit art scbool quit chewing gum, has himself bitten ©off more than hie can chew. Wiser men than hehave failed in their efforts to put s quietus on the female jaw. —_— Decidediy a Pall, Pittshurg Dispatch, If any one asserts that the Louisiana lot- tery has oo pull in North Dakota the attor- ney general of the state can feel of his nose and declare that he has had personal experi- ence to the contrary. e o A Year of Republican Rule, Minneapolis Trivune. Repuplicanism nas restored dignity, tirm- ness and a positive, strong American quality to a governwment that had grown decidedly weak and inconsequential in democrutic hands. It has vecn a year of triumphs for the administration. — - OUR CONTEMPORARIES, England’a Unclean History. New York World. Suspending Labouchere may tend to pro- mote courtesy of speech 1n the house of com- mons but it will not have the effect of con- vincing the decent people of Great Britain that the blue biooded rascals who shocked and disgraced huwmanity in the Cleveland street den ought to be protected by the eov. ernment because of their aristocratic lineage and connections. The Suuday Newspaper. Philadelphia Inquirer The truth of the matter is that Sunday newspapers and all other news papers are like the men who make them, and still more like the men who read them. more than half human, for they are neither more nor less than the reflex of certain human minds appealing to the minds of the great mass of humamty. There is nothing n them that has not passcd through at least one wind and that is not assimilated by other minds. Therefore, they are like the men who wajce and those who read them—neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but having a constant tendency to the better than to tho worse, for that is the inevitable inclination of intellectual development, of which the newspaper is the exponent. Calvin Out ol Date. g e, Whatever views may be entertained of Brothor Talmage’s dectrine's or his practices ho ds at lesst liberal and keeps himsolf abreast of the times. In his sermon last Sunaay he nddressed himseif to the question of revision and boldly delaved himsolf not for revision but for substitution. Said the Leould call the names of twenty sbytorian ministers of religion who could make a better creed than John Calyin, i'he nineteenth century ought not to be called to sit at the feet, of the sixteenth, As Broth Talmage is shortly to hove a brand uew cuureh it is evident that be wants a braod new creed to 2o with it And no one can blame i, USession Hu New York Tribune, ‘Wo do not suppose that the most devoted sorvant of tradition would contend that ina vast majority of cases the real wellare either of mdividuals or of the country is promoted by secret sessions. Moreover, if the ad- vautages of real as distinguished from pre tended secrecy were indisputable, it would be all the more obvious that a function which bad degenerated into a farce was not worth maintuining in that condition. Sqlong as the injunction of secrecy is vacated every day by individual choree, if not by cominon con- sent, it will be difticult to convince the coun- try that an ancient custom ought v b pre- sorved simply because, by way of contrast, it is nceasionnlly made an object of tender solicitude and jealous defens The Se nbuz, - The Oase of rmivate Wild, Orictyr Tribuns, Private Logan bas put his case wmto the hands of counsel and applied for relief, If his story is correct he should bave rolief aud Licutenant King should be diseracefully dis- charged from the United States arwy. The case is inlinitely worse than that Lo Wild, If such brutality as is practicea in the nrmy it is no wonder that desertions are increasing every vear, No man of spirit would subumit to such indizaity sud crue Private Logan's case should have thorough investigation, and if the fuets are as stated the president and seeretary of war cannot do hiw justice auy ton 5000, his The Fublic Pays the Piper. Philatelphia Ledgr , i his argument postal tolegraph plan, spoke of the ruin which followod the several compunies or kanized to compete against tho Westorn Union. That was rather daugerous ground The Western Union by reduciag tolls mans aged to break up some of its rivals and had 10 buy up others, but the consumer paid and is still paying the piper. The rival now pro posed could neither be baukrupted nor bought off and would not bo ablized to carry aud earn wterest on a dead weight of stock. That is why the Postal Tologr scheme againsy the Dr. appears so objectionable to President Gre North Dakota's Disgrace. New York Tr The people of North Dakota are farmers, and farmers as a class are of all wen nonest The idea of fastening such & rank disgrace upon the state Las excilod 48 wuch rugo wud Qisgust in North Dakota as elsewhere. Tho peopie knoiw, too, that it has aiready wrought inealculablo harm. Immigrants and capital will be much more dificult to get wto North Dakota now than before this affair came along to dishonor the legisiature. Tho com plete extinetion of every man knowa to have been connected with it should be resolutely demanded by every republican in the state. If any educational work necds to be done, wecan concelve of no better document for circolation than Mr. Goodwin's letter, It ‘was written in the right key, morally and practically, and shows its author to bea pavriotic citizen. - STATE JOTTINGS, Nobraska. A county non-partisan _prohibition will be formed at Verdon Wednesday. Branches of tho Farmers' alliance aro to bo formed 1n overy school district in Platte county, The drug storo of 0. A. Wiard at Silver Croek was closed by the sheriff on & chatte! mortgage. Seward county wants to give un the super- league visor aystem and return to the old style commissioner rulo. Another braioh of the Farmers' alliance was organized in Burt county lnst weelk with thirty-six members. _ Mr. Dana McNeil and Miss Mattie Flom- ing, prominent members of Chadrou soc were married last week. The village board of Papillion is consider- ing the advisability of increasing the saloon occupation tax to £300 or §500. The Geneva militia company will give o reception next F'ridav eveniag which Gov. ernor Thayer is expected to attend. ‘The commissioners of Deuel county have distributed 8,000 bushels of corn among the needy farn.ors at 163 cents a bushel. There are about six hundred members of the farmers’ allmnce in Richurdson county, and new branches are being organized every week. ‘I'he old Pierce county court house has been sold for #00 and the purchaser ordered 1o remove the building from thé iot within twenty days. _‘George W. Burtch has purchased a half interest in the general merchandise store af . W. Sherman & Co. at Imperial, . P. Gott retiring. Ors Sabers, eighty-rine years of age, re- siding near Tyons, was burned to death riday morning in his home, The fire prob- ably caught from a lamp. Ed Stannard of North Platte was on the train which was wrecked at West Hamburg, N. Y., 1n which eight people were killed, but he escaved without injury Frank fves,a B.& M. brakeman, was robbed at Red Cloud the othor night by a speak thiet, who ‘‘lhooked” his pants and took $51 from the pockets, No clue. Mark Harbison of Culbertson, aftor a day in Jail and being unable to securs bonds, con- cluded to purchase his liberty by marrying Miss Clara Young, with whom he had boen on too familiar terms. 1. P. Boyer, one of the earliest settlers of Lincoin county, has been declared insane and will be sent to the Lincoin asytum. He was at oue time in_afluent circumstances, but had recently lost his fortune, The citizens of Deuel county will vote April1 on a proposition to issuo $10,000 in bouds to build a bridge across the North Platte river twenty-five miles east of Chap- pell. The improvement is badly needed, as the viver is not fordable more than six months in a year and peoplo are obliged to travel from forty to sixty miles to get to town Mrs. Stockton, a lady residing south of the river, shot and killed o wolf one daj lust week.says the Gothenburg Independent. Mrs. Stockton suw his wolfship approaching the house and she quietly took the gun from its resting piace, opened a window und shot the bold beast on the spot. She didn’t faint, cither, as women are generally supposed to do under such circumstances, but reioaded the gun and triumphantly awaits the coming of any other wstruder. Conductor Coy had quite an experiencon few nights ago while train No. 1 was at Benkelman, says the McCook Tribune. Three bold, bad *‘cow boys” got on the train to take possession, and tried to induce him to_dauce, offering as an inducement a look down the polished barrels of some 44-calibers: but William, who wasn’t built that way, remurked that he nover had be- fore and was too old to learn. The bad men aro now under arrcst at Benketman, lowa Items. Onawa wants a new overa houso. The soldiers’ orphans’ home at Davenport is overcrowded. Denison has veted $13,500 bonds to build a new school house. A female burglar is making frequent raids on houses at Algona, ‘The Masonic temple which is to be erected at Dubuqus will cost §12 Dubuqus hopes to s A typewriter factory with a capital of §200,000. Forty-one male and five female dentists were eraduated from the state university last waek. The Odd Fellows will hold a state rally at Des Moines April 26, the seventy-fifth anni- sary of the order. Twenty prisoners were received and tweive discharged from the Fort Madison penitentiary during February, 5 The first Youne Men's Christian associ- ation convention of the Cedar Rupids dis- triet will be held at Muscatine March 21, 22 and 25, It cost seventeen yonng people at Marengo 92 apiece to serenude a unewly married couple with tin pans, -ete. The tax was usscesed by the mayor, The merchants’ cavoival given by the Woman's Relief corps of - Anamosa cleared £300. The money will be used in relieving the soldier poor of the community. Dr, Jacob Ludwig of Jasper county is ciztity-thvee years old and has 123 living de- seendan Mrs. Wheeler of the same county is mother, grandmother or great grandmother of an even 100, ilans Paulsen of Rock Island is evidently subsidizad by the reporiers on the other side of the river to keen them supplied with , suys the Davenport Democrat. some times two times u day or 5 out upon @ weak spot in the ice und breaks through into the river. The last tme he did this he went down with a pipe in his mouth and cmme up again still smoking. He hasa horse that can full in al most a8 successtully ns he does himself They are o great teat [or news. The Fort Madison Democrat suys: *Dude’ \derson, colored, who recently got into a ub und was shot by a Des H ditriculty, shot Moines police ofticer, served o terui in the pevitentiary here several years ago. Ho Was a quarrelsome fellow and was punished clets with bis fol- OCcasion LOINK manas cied back-to-back with another and the two placed in a “solitary” Uil they they thought they could ngree to agree, which idea it took several hours 1o inoculat into their belliger- cnt heads, iy The Two Dakotas. ioux alls 15 to have a new school house stingg §21,000. The city of Do Smet is out of debt and has several times for vaising r low prisoners, ou one 400 10 the treasury Codingeon county farmers have com- menced spring seeding, According to the Pierre Capital the laws pussed by the lute legisiature cost South Dakotaabout §690 apiece, A citizen of Hughes county has organized a cotony of Germans who will come 1o this country and settle in Hughes county this spring Ching Saw Quay, a Deadwood Chinaman who had lost his ull at the gamblog table and run in debt for §1,00), committed suicido by taking poison, or shooting & Russian tirough the hand during an a'tarcation, Frank Morris of Pewn biua county has boen sontenced to two years in the poniteatiary and 1o pay & fine of §2,250, Withelm and Kathering Keaebeth of Can istota, azed respoctively saventy-three nod sixty, after loss than o year of wedded bliss, have both commenced “divorco proceedings. Woonsocket now has a frst-class firo pro- tection syst Counection Lis been mude with the nrtesian well, which forces a solid stream of water 150 feet high through 1,000 foet of hose Miss Eva Spoits of Fargo hns boen held to await the action of the foderal wrand jury for sending improper matler turougi the mails. hSe returned a valentine 1o the wan who seat it to her with her opinion of hum written on the back of it, and he was moan enough to flle information agalast hor, On the Grandin farm in North Dalota fifty men are employod in seeding in tho priog, and during the six weeks of harvest 250 aro at work. - Only ton men are required ( 10 look after the bropurty tha baknoe of yho year. Tho farm contains 40,000 dcres, upon which not one singie family finds & perma nent home, T NN S IN THE ROIU ‘Just from Kearaey, S “This moraing. “Whuat's the news “Know of none of especmal interest.” What are the peliticlans doing “Laying the avires 1 supposc-they're protty quiet, thovgh.” “Going to be any new congressional didates in the Third?" ‘I can’t really say, but it's likely.” DA riff Wilson!" can- “How are affairs at Hastings, Dr. Koller!" About as usual—-nothing new that I ean think of." . *“The political pot—has it begun to botlt* “Not very vigorously.” About Congressman Laws ' ““He's all rignt 8o far as 1 know," “Any dissatisfaction with his congross! 1 know 8 none—1'm not much interested in politics.” “How's business “Good." “In your line!" “Well, not particularly, but in commercial circles everything scems to be brightening work in Great tcwn, Hastiogs?" “Indced it is, ono of the best state, tho in Frencis C. Grable has just roturned from his annual trip through tho Black Hylls country. He spoke enthusiastically to a Bre representative of tho prospects of that region, There has been no time, he said, since tho gold excitemont of 1877 that business has been as active as at present, there being two reasons for theactivity, said he: “First, the possibility of the H. & M. ex- tension to Deadwood; second, the develop- eeut of the tw ore discoveries made scveral years ago, ~- lie territory in which this valuable min. eral has been 8o far found in paying quanti- ties is confined to the Harney Peak ridge in the vicinity of Custer City and Hill City. onr both of theso towns substantial works arc established and now being oper- ated. The largest are at il City, :whero tne Harney Peak company is at work with a capital of £15,000,000, the corporation being « composed priveipally of English capitalists, 1t employs 125 men and the busiuess is in its mfancy. The company paid from $10,000 to £70,000 for mining claims of twenty acres cach snd these consolidated gives them con trol of a large acreage of mineral lunds, “Hill City has had a veritable boom. Last June 1t was composed of three log house now it Lias about 200 buildings and vusiness Iots twenty-five feet front are scarce at from $750 to $1,000. *Custer City enjoys the distinotion of natural location, which for beauty is second to none in the Hills, It lies in a picturesque little vailey sheltersd on either side by gradually uscending timbored poaks frog = which the view is indescribable, “Deadwood, the quiet city of a year ago, is now one of the most buoyant places in tho west. A traveling salesman of an Omaha wholesaie house is the fortunmte owner of a rasidence lot in that plage. e received §1,500 for a thirty day option on the lot at $30,000. The time expiting he de- clined to renew tho options on the samo terms. There is a great fortune for the own- ers of the coal mmes neur New Castle. No one can form an idea of tue immensity of the coal deposit there without seeins it. It is estimated that it will last 100 years at the rate it 18 now boiug taken out. 1t now yislds 10,000 tons to the acre. The output is now tweaty cars a day,which will be increased to fifty soon. +The excavation wto the mines 15 m tho side hill about onc hundred and fifty fect above the railroad bed. From that elo vation the coal is (umped into a shuto down whien it desconds, separating into fc grades on the way and loading four cars at once at the bottom. The machinery in theso mines is all of the most expensivo and with the latest improvements, “The Hot Springs of tne Black Hills may become @s famous as those of Arkansas. s The water from these springs bursts from tho hills at a natural temporature of 95 de- grees. 1t 1s suid to possess mineral proper ties that cures mauy diseases. Thero wero over two thousand visitors to this pluce last season, the hotel accommodations bemg far bolow the demand. A new hotel that will accommodate three hund nests @8 mow building A four story sanatarium is about finished. Tho Metnodist college gis up to the thi g story. while the soldiers' home, to cost £80,000, will be ready for occupancy in the spring. All these buldings aro of stone, which is obtawed in an_uulimited supply near the town. Rishop Vincent dedicated wronn ds adjoining this place for a Chuutau- qua assembly, which are sure (o grow into great favor because of their many atirac: tins.” Mr. Grabi fine mineral interesting sc brought home with hw many specimens and photographs of Ty - The Daffoil Beneath Harper's Bazaar, What thisk you of the winds of March, My daffodil? The dream-blue skies that overarch The loafless, sap-stirred trees; the birds Awinging upward to the north; The brown-greor: meadow’s lowing herds; The wooing sun that brought you forth To bioom bencath my window-sili! You toss your saucy yellow head, My daffodil, As thoueh for you the skics were sprend, Tho sun were mado to Woo you forth, “The biras to tell your blossoming In herald notes throughout the north, And I my poet’s song to bring To you benenth my window-sill. Your grandams sl were sad coquottes, My daffodil, With poet's iearts! To vapue regrets Phey turned that lusty parsh pricste Who sang love-songs in Devonshire; And Wordsworth, rigid moralist, Was moved to dance in fair Gr As you peneath my window-sill, What prank with me woula you now play, My daffodilt Ah, sweet coquette hark what [ suy, As'close to yours | put my wouth. Go tell the poets of the north, Phis whispered mossuge of the south “The singer sends who speeds you forth om h beneath his wndow-sill. 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