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THE PLUMB TRRICATION BILL. €” Report of the Minority Members of the Senate Committee, DIFFERENCE OF OPINION, WIDE The Majority's Statement of Facts Dis- puted- Its Recommendations De- clared Tmpracticable W ning the Arid Wastes, WasniNoroy, May 14, [Special to Tne Brr.) ity members of the senate com. ation have submitted the fol- lowing report on tle Plumb irrigation bill “The uude gned members of the sclect committee on ivvigation and reclamation of arid lands, have considered the matters r ferred to it by the senate, and having made ns exhaustive an examination of the genera questions relating to irrigation in the arid lands as the time would permit, have reached iclusions which they desire to submit to the senaté, While the report of the majori of the committee contains much valuable in- formation, we find ourselves unable to agree with many of its statements of fact and with some of its reasoning, and we wholly disagree with most of its important conclusions and recommend congressional action which is diametrically opposedto that recomm 1 by the majority. “The 18 sections, h treats of a distinet topie. In them the p al facts 1 g to the subject under investigation by the committee are arranged in order, so as to lead gnaturally to the conclusions that are ultimately reached, ien follow, numbered in soctions, th mmendations which it is desired to make. And finally, still in num- bered sections, the bills and the veport sub- mitted by the other members of the com: mittee are examined in detail and the reasons set foyth for dissenting from the recommendations views thereinexpressed An abstract of all the sections is here given, numbered to correspond with the ions themselves, “1, The avid lands embrace an_area of 1,- 840,000 square miles, Of this amount, 1,000,000 acres can b 1ed for agriculture through the agency of irrigation by using the total supply of the perennial str 3 2, The water of the arid lands is to be ved from the streams, which are the f soure from the storage of storm ters, which Is the second source in im- ance: from pump wells, which are the I sonrce of finportance, and from artesian which have & slight value for horti- cultural and stock-raising purposes. 3. The sub-humid region lies between the on of the west and the humid region east, and embraces an arvea of about, three deg in width, equal to 250,000 . Disaster has alw: have attempted to settle in on agriculture without ~The minc mittee on ir arranged in “4. When the system of applying the water is good and the eultivation is thorough, waters used in jvr are consumed. 5, 1t would be greatly to the advantage of the farmers on the irrigable lands if a proper system of measuring the waters with which are supplied were adopted, and gr @ would be avoided. 6, Experience proves that the arid and sub-humid lands are very fertile when irri- gated. The forest lands are of limited extent veine rapidiy burned and ned pr o, These forests are distant from the able lands where the agricultural popul tion must be established in homes, but th farmers are dependent upon them for the supply of wood and lumber. They deperident. upon them for their full supply of water for irrigation. Therefore, In the in- rmers the forests should be 8. There are great areas of pasturage lands which furnish a scant but valuable supply of food for flocks and herd, and th farmers engaged in irrigation can utilize th sturage to the best advantage. But it also being destroyed and needs protection, and the farmers with permanent home: the people primarily intes tion. The lands that area, s an be redeemed s The best lands lie at the foot of th mountains and near to them, and should be chosen purpose. The mountain lands are not good agricultur: 1ds, and the lands far down the streams can_be used only by & to of wal The irrigable lands should be carefully selecte “10. The irrigable lands should be sogu gated, and declarved such; and the right to u! water on them should be established, and prohibition should be put to the use of wat on all other lands, 1. The irrigated lands are of great value, varyi E 200 per ac 12, The size of the homestead should be re- a~ duced to thirty acres, and perhaps for “Nayould be better, that the public domain may distributed among the greatest number of ed ro often established to o the development of agriculture and rroutly obstructive. Y14, Infernational conflicts in relation to water rights ave impending. 15, Conflicting rights to the use of waters tates are being established bitter conflicts have vights are of & dreds of wmillions of dollurs. The gencral problem, therefore, is a national problem, 16, A conflicts are arising between commuuitics in v on to the use of water on lund and between individuals in the same cammunity. The waters should be divided by some Just method 7. Speculative water rights, where work has not actually been done and ated, should be " summarily extin- of vi Lands ir: guished. 18, Existing water tained, but those that are improvident obstructive must ultimately be condemned and the owners jusily remunerated. 10, Waters that are to be stored have be divided among the communities +20, Tn many regions the people are devel- oping agriculture where it cannot be per- manently maintained, and the foundations for lurge claims against the general govern being laid. ghts should be to g and the lands of the avid region are rapidly being gated in tne hands of a few persons or in the possession of great corporations. Thus aresult is being se cured unfavorable to the welfare of the great body of peaplo who porform the lubor on the farms— the actual famers periyDho goverument. ueed uo igating works, The increase gi ~™alue of the land is more than sufti the purpose. 23, 1t is possible to g dopendent upo aniul stream waters into tion districts cach > & catchment and a co rigable area where the waters of the dis. trict can be used 1o the best advautage and where water vights can be permanently maintained. Such districts have Leen pro. visionally planued and mapped by the d rector of the geological sury ; 24, Irrigution districts posed of compact bodies of with the pasturage and_timb ratehment area about them, and the fav on the irrigable lands should control catehment areas with all their valu 25, Interstate complications make it nec. essary for the general government to pro vide @ solution of the problems; and the United States and the several states arve in terested in th waters and ids : hence the United States und the several states must alike make concessions and reach an agree ment 26, The populatfon in each of the irriga tion districts planned seems usually to be suf flcient to take charge of the inte od in such district in relation to the use of waters, forests and pastures. The district with thesmallest population is that of Bill Williams’ Fork in~ Arizona. The district the largest population is that of the uth Platte, which includes the city of Denver, and probably has a population o i oue hundred” and forty-two thow People 7. The solution of the foregoing problems Is very simple. It consists in organizing nat ural iivigation districts through the agency of A survey by the general government and neo lor v de the arid re hould be com erigable lands, s with | ble lands, s come to | are also | the committee is in the inferest of the | strictly | explaining the bill | for hom: lands of thé | yot b the | | nerves. ossary legislation by the states, and all turn: | ing over the problems of irrigation to such districts, | X, The present irrigation survey is per. ts duties in compliance with law and in an efficient and thorough manner, and the work under it should proceed at @ reasonable rate of progress until it is finished, 1t is cs ated that the irrigation survey will cost 000,000, but that in making the maps it will 8ave #,000,000 10 the geological survey, Thus the real cost of the irrigation survey is but £3,000,000 over and above the cost of - the geo logical survey. The work performed in two years demonstrates that this estimate was onable 2, The s glon cal su sub-humid | a geologi- | 1t should in order to | of that region ¥ needed for the it plains is pure 1 on topography, s wants of the farmer: Iy suffering by on of _their rigation. Another reason for its prompt completion is to give to new settlers in these regions necessary information of the conditions under which success afd prosper ity may be se accomplish the solution of the prob- lems the methods proposed, a bill has been drafted, which is printed with this port 31. An analysis of the bill is made by sec- tions and the effect of each section pointed out. The sections may here be characterized sum- Section 1 of the bill provides for a survey of the arid lands into natural irriga- tion districts, Section 2 of the bill provides for the segiegation of the irrigable Section 3 of tne bill provides that lands ready irvigated shall be declared irrigable for the purposes contemplated in the bill - | tion 4 of the bill provides that certain of the irrigation works shall be constructed ouly on sites designated and reserved therefor in order to protect water hts and to conserve the waters for beneficial purposes ion 5 of s for the division of the waters ts, Section 6 of tho bill ganization of distr ated in two or more states or territor tion 7 of the bill provides that the non-i ble lands shall remain in the possession of the general government—as forests, and pas- turage reservations and catchment areas for the Dmigable lands, but it provides for the disposal of the irri nestead settlers in tracts 3 n eighty attaches the khts to the homesteads of the irriga- Seetion 9 of the bill makes it un- lawful to construct unauthorized i the bill rganizat ction 11 of th 1y mar the bill provi among the distri provides for the riga- wat irvigation distr s gives to the commissioners of the irri districts the authority to provide laws and rules for the use of the waters belonging to the districts and _for the protection and use of the forests and the protection aud use of the pasturage. Seetion 12 of the bill makes it lawful for the states and territorics te pro- vide general legislation relating to the use of the waters and forests, and the pasturage, and provides methods by which tie eapital for the construction of irrigation works may be obtained. tion 13 of the bill makes tion commissioners o supe of the worls authorized made by district commi of the bill provides that be excluded from the vy ives the states and territd ¥ to ignate the water which such cities and s may use. Section 15 of the bill pro- vides a method for obtaining the consent of the states and territories to the legislation | proposed in the bill, and refusessthe rights and benefits othel se granted to any state or territory which faiis to give its consent. 32, The general effect of the bill is’ to turn over the control of irvigation to the states and the districts, the general statutes tobe made by the stites and the specific rules by the districts. There it complish local self government in rel to irrigation and the fo ministration. It re ernment, of all adminlstrative dutie: plete the irrigation sur and the linear survey = of the gable lands, and to adminis- ter the homestead laws, coal land laws, min- ing land laws and the townsite land laws ugh the general land ofy vise and app nd the c mers, Section 14 nd towns may and lent legiglative and cept ouly to com- / of the whole | great cattle companies that pasture their animals on the public domain and opposed to the interests of the farmers making homesteads on the lands. Its effect is to give the com- | anies access with their animals to all nat- cators, whether the same be running ns, lakes, pools, ponds, springs or other surface bodies of water, or subterrancan streams, pools or underflows produced by natural seepage ov drainage in_disvegard of the authority of the states. Itis also in the interest of the great irvigation companies | rapidly developing in the west, turning over ter rights for irrigation to them and illy excluding the poor settler on the | ishing to obtain a homestead. There- fore it is disupproved ion of a new bureau of i gation in the agricultural department is un- ry aud unwise; therefore it is not rec- nded 1. The expended o ne topo of irvigation _survey, in ompliance ~ with the It is also in compliance with the 3 submitted to congress by or prior to the enactment of the It is strietly in_compliance with the representations made by the director to tho committee on apy ations and published by that committee in_its report to the senate months after the sported to organized that it of the of the phic work divector portion survey fund a This has | for | part, | is S as the! statute. ¥ Th passage of the bill the divector congress how his work had | and was being prosecuted, showing was strietly in compliance with the luw and that topographic work had been begun, Tl topographic work is necessary, economical and legal. i, The the topographic wol is believed to bo unwi through this method for diverting works, lunds can be discovel momy and tho ved to the recommendation to o1 the frr e, Itis catchment nal sites s with the greatest It is also be- basis for a bydro- discontinue | ation suryey decmed that arens, sites wablo irr d over t- tions 00 | landf thoess corpe ved used imch of be turr The the gation_suryd the signal the signal are not at streams should of men would b that the measurin, for irrigation can be most economically and promptlydone by the irrigation survey through the topographic work. gy, The two bills are diametrically op- posed in theory, purpose und effect. Tl bill recommended by the minority is in the inter- f the favmers themselves; the one by in the lnterest of companies. to continue the present v while the other proposes to cre- ates new bureau of irvigation, and a second sery the be well does not suggest that works should be constructed by | 1 government, but he has consist- | ently for a long tevm of years urged that the industry of agriculture ‘by irrigation should be under the coutrol of natural irrigation dis tricts, | 440, No delay in theoperations of irrigation | survay is caused by the operations of the | geological survey, but wherever. maps a ‘ made in the urid and sub-humid regions for the geological survey, they serve the purposes | of the irrigation survey and forward its work. 41, The legislation already | by the act of October 2, 1888, which reserves the igation Works in tho hands of | rument, | ptible of irvigation thereby | L ut, is wise and should pealed. The desert-land laws, the timber-culture luws and the pre-emption laws, which are in effect repealed by this should not ugain be made operative, for theiv ugency large tracts of land have here- tofore been aggrogated in the hands of indi viduals and corporations 42, Experimental boring for the discoye of urtesian water is unwise, The experien of the world demonstrates artesian wate ways _inadequate to the wants of agriculture and of fusignificant jount, though such fountains are valuable for domiestic und horticultural purposes. E pecially is it unwise to create a new ge cal survey to discover artesian waters, Penky S, Hea irrigation the gen B lands made su is - Miles' Nerve and Liy An important discovery liver, stomach and bowels A new principle. billiousness, bad ta piles and coustipation. Splendid - for men, women and childven, allest, mildest, surest, 50 d for 25 cents. amples nwl r Pills, ey act on the through the They speedily | cure te, torpid liver, at Kulin & Co.’s, 1th aud Douglas. " | bothe | while he has men like Phil Dwyer | the store-room | protege and some of th that the supply of | NACAL'S NEW YORK LETTER | Latest Gossip Anent the Knights of the Squared Oircle, AUSTRALIAN MURPHY'S EXPERIENCE Auliffe's Ambition Brooklyn Handicap the Yachting Sea- son, Etc. Joe The | and New Youk, May 16, [Special Correspond ence to Tur Bee.]—Sporting matters have been dull the past week. nothing of much im portance happening in the pugilistic line, Billy Myer has sent a dispatch to Frank Ste- venson of the Puritan athletie club, stating that he would like to meet either Jack Me- Auliffe or Charley Norton in a twelve-round | o before the club for a suitable purse, the men to weigh 135 pounds, It is reasonably certain that MeAuliffe will not accept, as k at present is interested in horse races, and as long as he has money he will not his head about fighting. He has been | quite successful on the tuef so far, and if his luck holds out until the end of the season it is dollars to doughnuts he will never enter the prize ring again. As he remarked one day: “Tain't in the business for glory, I obtained that long ago. I only fight when necessary, and os long as I can live comfortably without fighting I will do so, as 1 am not stuck on the busincss.’ Jack has provided a comfortable home for his mother and sister, and he will never want and Dick Roche behind him The Oceidental Athletic sco has offered apurs ibbons and Mike Cushing. hardly take place in_the some time ago that he did not care to go to | California to fight. He says that a purse of 1,000 or £1,500 cani be raised in the east for I can settle their dispute with- out making such a long journey. Cushing, | like McAuliffe, is interested in the turf busi- it the ' lightweights will hear from 1 the full, fan Murphy 1b of San Fran- of &1,500 for Austin he battle will | west, as Mike said York for him the c of the mpionship of the world. I 1 quite a talk with Murphy over his past history. He told me when he left Australi he had but $1 in_his_pocket, and he still ca ries the coin to this He was engaged on the steamer a i nand worked his passage oves © had quite ¢ hard time of it on the hoat, varying his labor from waiting on the table’ and_cleaning out crubbing up the deck. He was an apt worker, however, and the chief d took quite’n fancy to him. When the nded the steward gave him £10 and old him that any time he needed a dollar to b to him. Everybody knows how he de- feated Griffen, Murphy and Weir, and the little man that landed on our shores six months ago penniless now returns home with at least £10,000 tohis credit. Speaking of the bult, this is the first time an Austral- ian ever took home an American belt. Mur- phy will return in_the fall and endeavor to show some of the little 'uns that he is the real champion. thing new h left New occurred in the prospec- | ake Kilrain mateh, Kil- | does mot expire until next | nothing will be done until Jake | In the meantime Billy Madden 1z trying to arrange a fight with his big fellows in the ast. He has made offers to Jee Lannon, George Godfrey or anybody of his wi The Puritan athletic clib hus offered purse for MeAuliffe and Kilrain, but A ays he will not fight for less thin £,000. the time this is rcad the Brool ap will have been run and won. Allof wdidates showed up well in their trials, lly Sir Dixon, Fides, Budge, Los An” s and Come-to-Taw. > on paper is an open one, but I think that the race will 10 to the Diwyers with Come-to-Taw and i in ord: hting scason has opened and the plendent with the white-winged fly- T paid avisit to the Larchmont yachit club’s grounds at Larchmont manor last weel 4 by the beauty of the piace, lub is without doubt the foremost of s y, not excepting the New York | yacht club, which is but a yacht club inname without any grounds or anchorage for the | Tie Larchmont club is fitted up | vance necessary to a yacht | and \embers are the best in’ New 2 many of the New York yacht club’s members being envolle MACAL. rain’s sentence month and comes north is hust nd salt rheum was « ) ) m Mrs. J. C. Ande tigo, Wis., by Bur 'k Blood Bitters, ual as a'blood purific en on Pesh- The Only One. go, Milwaukee & St. Paul | ilw: the only line running solid | vestibuled, electric lighted and Steam | heated trains between Chicago, Council | Bluffs and Om The berth reading lamp feature in the | Pullman sleeping cavs run on these lines is putented and cannot be used by any | her y company. It is the \provement of the age. Try it and ho convineed, Sleeping cars leavs depot, Omah: at Chic taking this t get out of the wait for the tr tickets and ticket oftice, The Ch the m. daily i a.m I s | ain are not compelled to | at Council Bluffs and | | rific ving ing | 1o be cleaned. Get car berths at Union rnam st. . NasH, Gen. Agt. J. ss Agt. - - | TELS" IN LONDON Burnt Cork Comedians ngland. A popular Eaglish writer thus pays | tribute to the stronghold which negvo minstrelsy has obtained and is 1i hold in London: The pleasunt subur 15 of Ranelagh, Vauxhall énd Cremorne vanished. A Londoner sighs in vain on the hottest summer day for & convenient open-air pluce of r freshment where he can dine, listen to music and smoke acigar. Thecharacter of the music-hall entertainments has been completely changed. We have no | such songs as disgusted Colonel New- | come, no mock trinls to gratify prurient i tastos, The tragedies of Sheridan Knowles | s Jerrold are | only a few of | unas - manage the polka | and the comedies of Dougl no longer in vogue, while fom Taylor’s many d to survive, In private life rose and fell, and rose again, and has | tinally .nm}.,n wed, Corquet came, was popular for a time, and is now al- most forgotien, Lawn-tennis reigns new | and supreme, | English opera has had many vicissi- | tudes during the last sixty years; at one | time the rage, then tabooed, now again | '.u]mmr. What is_called *“the sacred amp of burlesque” has been bright and dim by turns, and now flickers once mor The circus has had | its ups and_downs; sometimes with two or three in London, until last year Bar- num came among s with the “greatest | show on earth, Yet through all these changes the | ro minstrels” have kept their hold on public favor. They came and stayed, .| *not single spies, but in battalions, Rival companies have permeated the united kingdom, and London has its permanent camp of established singers, Their songs, their dances, their puns, their queer sayings, their bits | or acted farce, th ‘wheeze: | jokes, new and old, still excite 4 i | A Pleasing Sense of health and strength renewed and of ease and comfort follows the use of Syrup of Figs, as it acts in harmony with nature effectually cleanses the system when costive or bilious, For sale in 50¢ and $1 bottles byall druggists. A Question Shall | Belfast Weekly | q tion amongst o trifl orient In Indi shave t on the d murmu and the ing for men 1to ¢ SHAVING WIDOWS, that is Agitating the Barbers of Bombey. the widows be shaved? asks the miner, That uestion that is at present causing the bithsrs of Bom- y western ears thé Kibject sounds somie, but in the land the it has a very different meaning. u it has always been eustom he heads of widows immedi ath of their hushand of 1 i protests have been heard, » native journals have been calls reform. The barbers have com- neide with these more en- oly s lightened views, and it isoxpected will refuse to perform the requiy it The they o w *d tonsorial on. Brahmans have threatened that scissors themselves, ill use the but'this is believed to be impossible, as it wou very im ligous, | country, s is not s bay. The hairis and the renewa 1d result in their losing cnsto—a \portant consideration with a re- self-respecting Brahman, Up- an Indian contemporary, of shaving the widow's head tently enforced asin Bom- flowed to grow again, has only to submit to u unwelcome operation 0 pe y widow 1 of the when she visits a shivine of special sanc- tity. In Be ¥ or ep distr if the w the sar lands ths ymbay widows ave shaved 1o a week, and this ¢ It would really apvear idow in Indin was regavded with ne touching affection and rever- rogard as the mother-in-law in lie more in the direction of regu- 1ses them the setting sun. Tn adyanced fully re wonde It really A Yan Phon Yan ning o is u vie New York Mornix Yan I to study our langus studying the language the ch young ladie uvery i to a point wi verb 't terrupt learned learnin, and he in Amc kin refused - ge the declining powdrs 1 by Hood's Sursa does “‘make the weak strong SEoeog CONSOLING THOUGHT. Lee Will Not Cor o's Divoree are willa, est His Wi Phon Lee erts, with tears run- liquely down his cks, that he tim to his wife's mother, says the Jourr me to America in18’ re and customs. In he also studied users of the lar r—our He found the oceupation nteresting.one, and had advanced re he could conjugate the o love” when he was rude i ed. The emperor of Ching that his sub, he g other things than grammer, t once recalled every Chinaman the business of in washing or giving out ‘dope to obey the edict, for they ap- *hon Lee ¢ ief ets preciated the blessings of our institu- tion; W o mas, le turned Phon I But knowledge that he The ror. by o st his him. every Fair 1 hand, while hundred ing stoc T'h Chinese, andth monds, his eyes. Among the pretty ) was Elizabeth Maud™ Jerome. her, danced posed te Elizabeth had an $80,000 mar Yun thought himself a very lucky tion, man, Alas! host Yan nely upon him at began to suspect that one of his slanted Maud's uglier dor Americ that is, without his mothe But the students, of whom ther number, pucked \p their pa ot down their pigtails, and re- to the flowery Kkingdom. Yan .ee was one of the obedient ones, Yan displayed much new urprised the cmpe- wtter was particularly please y to win at fan-tan which anized subject explained to at once cred Yan Phon 1 obe 1, e. Healso e w Te 1. lionized. At wing hero. dens fought for the honor of his the male decendants of a years of successful whale fish- d by in silent rage. German was rechristened the in deference to his nationality, o favors were always sweot als a poetic allusion to the shape of ew Haven maids Yan saw loved her, pro- td her with he 0 her and mar 1ge por- without his -in-law, -in-law smiled t, but then she WOS Wils tion of izabeth at once heeame st dragon that walls of a Joss house. he had reckoned says his mothe in the dire money than the od the Yan says that she 100ks so to him, Bit ¥ estrang apart as Hong Kot Yan went to San 1'ra a bank, ther her mamma, and did her, But N with th found 1 over Suppo: angry. Yan t is now cate. A Jou wife he She s | Tt is not so. istence, wretehe It is she who is pe who ha shall le though also o | some e Henvy Packinie Thomus’ uts, bru be During summer special ous effe un Where yards; vided, or the mental undue husband and W soon they we id New York, 500 10 cle was not suti on going home to g0 Yaun followed v bit wife we od, i but Mrs. Yan She insiste Tamma Jerome was not o presence of her son-in-| Wi once laushing upre pleased w. She fously per grew hen eame to this city, where the editor of the Chinese Advo- wnal re it his ec called on him yes- 1 offle said Yan, with 3 s sued me for absolute divoree, vs that T was unfaithful to hyr, she was the rof my ex- But, alas! n like many otl »d men. [ have & mothe cuting mey it i But ¢ default, because, the divol s instig t the suit go | [lose my wife my nothe msolation, at le - - Schoenhals, foreman Hen: Co., St. Joscph, Mo, Electric Oil with his mc rises, chapped hands, ete. ¢ Krugs uses D, forsprains, It is the —_— Shade for Poultry. the hot, sweltering days of » the poultryman should take precautions to avold the danger- cts on his stock, resulting from exposure to the sun’s rays. fowls have their liberty, ason m, there is no need of providing Wl L the Nebraska But when they are confined in hade of some kind must be pro- sult will be most detri- to the flock. A ve convenient mode of providing shade is to build a roof oy the boards during should date th whole 1 tho is an excellant plan to seatter grain casiona house, er one corner of the yard, next where w few ‘additional on one side wil keep out the sun the whole day. The enclosure be of such a size as to accommo- e flock all at_once, although the wmber would seldom go in it at no time. In this enclosurve it oc- Tk ly. will often sprout and afford a dainty morsel for some inguisi- tiv pear ub flock serateh down. A re the fir growe Ii a manner trimme: forms a biddy when the ténder will blades At any rate the exe in when thrown ove the ground, get some good them ing ufter ent writer commends very highly tree. 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Appltances for Difor r uccessfil tron NINETY ROOMS FOR PA’ reulars on Deforaities and b Hronehi:e, Inh:lation, ¥ | Pa Rurgloal O;erations. DISEABKN OF WOMEN a ely added & Lylng-1n Department f.r Wowen dur al Lustitute mukiog o speclalty of PRIVATE DISFAS 68 8y philitl 7ol frow the wyslen w L1 Viial Power. T y be tren'sd ntinl. Mo aail or or seider. Call an s will snd In piatn wrapper 7, Bypblls, Gleot and Brat Faciiit ve ble Med aucces fully treited. 0t for 1081 ¢ oy Diseases of W o onfinement eily Private). All Blood Diw Reatorative T1eata Allc mar t mo o home |y raonal It BOO! Gorner 9th and Harney Sts, Omaha, Neb, SHROEDER & DEAN, GRAIN, Provisions and Stocks. Basement First National Bank, 808 South 18th Street, Omaha, NEBRASKA National Bank U. 8. DEPOSITORY. OMAHA, NEB. $400,000 87,800 Officers and Directors—Henry W. Yates, rra-moui Capital, - - - Surplus Jan. 1st, 1800, - 18 8. Rood, vice draaldont; Jamss W. Savage * Morse, Jobn 8. Colllns: R O. Cushing; J. N. Patrick; W. L. 8. Hughes, cashior. THE IRON BANIL, Corner 12th and Farnas A General Banking Rusin Street COMMEROIATL National Bank $400,000 40,000 M. M. n Milliard, Capital, Surplus, Titehe Jr., E Ande Wilil h I, Wil A; P canhi B. Bryant Omaha Manufacturers. KIRKENDALL, JONES & CO., Wholesale Manufacturers of Boots & Shoes Agents for Boston Rubber Shoe Co., 1102, 1104 and 1108 Harney Street, Omnlin, Nob. Brewers. STORZ & ILER, Lager Beer Brewers, Cornice. EAGLE CORNICE WORKS, Manufacturers of Galvanized Iron Cornice Window eaps and nietalic aky 1 — Artists’ Mat A. HOSPE, Jr., Artists' Materials, Pianos and Organs, 1515 Douglaa Street, Omabn, Neb. — ) Coal, Coke, k OAL, COKE MTL‘» LIME CO, Jobbers of Hard and Soft Coal. B. E. Cor. 10th and Douglas Streots, Omunha, Neb, = NEBRASKA FUEL CO,, s Shippers of Coal and Cu}ic, als, $th Str Cigars. DEAN, ARMSTRONG & CO., Wholesale Ciga 402 N 10t Street.“Hello! Dry Goods and Notions. M. E. SMITH & CO.,, Dry Goods, Furnishing Goods and Notions Corner 11th and Howard Streots. “KILPATRICK-KOCH DRY GOODS CO., Importers and Jobbers in Dry Goods, Gents’ Furnishing Goods. Cornor 11th and Harney Streots, Omaha, Neb 1490, Furniture. e DEWEY & STONE, Wholesale Dealers in Furniture, Farnam Stroe Nebraska. CHARLES SHIVERICK, Furniture, Oniaha, Nebruska. Ownha Grocerics, McCORD, BRADY & Wholesale Grocers, 13th ana Leavenworth Streets, Omaha, Nebrasks, “JOHN A. WAKE! Wholesale Lumber, Etc., Etc. ortland Cement. State Hydraullo Coment, wnd 5 Whito Lime. Ly ~ A .(:HAS. R. LE Dealer in Hardwood Lumber. Wood carpets and parquet flooring. 9th and Douglag FH_ED \V.. GREY, Lumber, Lime, Cemicii, £t ————————————— y and Notions. 1. OBERFFLDER & CO., Importers and Jobbers in Millinery, and 212 South 11th etreet. Wholesale Notions and Furnishing (woods, 1124 Harney strect, Omahn CONSOLIDATED TANK LIN Wholesale Refined and Lubricating (llls, Axle grense, ete., Omaha. A. 1L Bishop, Manager. and writing Carry a nice stock of pri 0 card pup paper. Bpecinl attention @17 Safes, Etc. A. L. DEANE & CO,, Gonegal Awents for Halls" Salcs, 2 South 10th St., Omaha. Toys, F H. HARDY & CO., Jobbers of Toys, Dolls, Albums, Fancy Goods, House Furnishing Goo! Farnam stre e e hildren's Omaha, Nel i Water Supplies. Steam and Water Supplies, Halliday wind mills. 915 and 20 J t, Omaba K. ltuss, Acting Manayer. Ird PAXTON & VIERLING IRON WORK Wrought and Cast Iron Building Work Engines, brass work, general foundry. blacksmith work. O w Ky, and I7th st un OMAHA SAFE & IRON WORK! Manf'rs of Fire and Burglar Proof Safes, Vaults, Jall work, fron shutters and fire escapes G. Andreen prop'r. Cor. 14th and Juckson Sta. —— Sash, Doors, Ete. M. A. DISBROW & CO,, Wholesalo manufacturers of Sash, Doors, Blinds and Mouldings South Omahs: “TUNION STOCK YARDS CO., Of South Omaba, Limited,