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o r——— AN INVINCIBLE COMBINATION. | Bullion, Business and Brawn Waxing Fat in the Northwest. HIGHWAYS ALVANCING OF COMMERCE, Rallroads Penetrating New and Rich Precious Metal Produce Flanked With Loaded Granaries—N Regions tions s ision of the Gireat North ern railwuy promises to be as h 1n scenle wonders as the Canadian Pacific, 1t s tho only transcontinental road that reachos the summit of the Rocky mountains on what is known In ongineoring as a 1 por cont grads, or one foot to the 100, T'ho extension leaves tho main lin at Hayre, a town soven miles east of ['ort Assinaboine, and runs through the Plogan Indian reservation over the “igreat divido,” It has been found necessary to build over Cutbank river a trestio 1149 feot An height and 1,500 feet in leagth, and across tho canon of Two Medicine river a trestle 212 foet in height and 751 in length. Tho Iatter is said to be the highest wooden trestle in America. No tunnel has been made in the route over the mountains. the summit down to Essex, eighteen miles distant, tho ade attawns the maximum—1.8 per cent, or ninety-fivo foet to the mile, Tho maximum curvature is ton acgrees. The mountain peaks are very steep, end often riso to great 1ghts, More thau one of the lofty peaks west of the summit bears the scars of snowslides, which must have rusned down the mountain sides with tremendous force, as troes wi pulled from the ground and can be seon Iying at the bottom of the mountains, beaped upon rocks and other debris, just where the snow melted in the spring. 'he engimocrs Lopo to seo tho track laid as far as Spokane by May 1 next. The Pacific ex s A Night Scene in Puyallup avenue was wranped in the sable folds of night, mingied with a Sound fog. FHoro and thero flickering lights from street lamps and stores piorced the gloom. Sounds of rovelry aroused a fearless policoman, Bravely and cautiously he moved toward the peeno of thegisturbance. Hist! In the decp phiade of a building ho doscried what ap poarad to be the form of & hobo enjoying a snoozo. Tho dignity of Tacoma must be maintamed. With o preliminary whirl of his club and a porceptible elevation of staturo tho fearless policoman moved cn the hobo. “Coom ulang out o' that, neow, will 000’ he exclaimed, The hobo moved ' not so much #s a muscle. “Dye hoar mo! I sayed coom alang out of that, will 0of Yez won't, ehl Woll, DIl show yez. With that the feerless policeman grabbed the supposed hobo by the back of tho neck. There was a short, “omi- nous growl, the clanking of a chain, and then the fur fairly flow. It was the pot black bear of the Union ciub saloon the policeman had awakened. For about twenty-five min- utes there was a little the liveliost scrapping match thoro or thereabouts that has ever been known in potico circles, and when tho policeman got out of reach of the cub he was minus a bran new mackintosh, a €5 hat, the slooves of bis uniform and his breath, and he was plus numerous wounds and scratches, bruises and black spots, and, to cap the c max, the young bruin stood 'guard over his handcufrs, his gun and bis club, 1tee and Boise “Lne project to connect Butto City, Moat., and Boise City, Idaho, by railjs progressing favorably. A preliminary survoy of the route has been made by citizens of Boise, fFhe cost of construction 1s estimated at from #i5,000 to £20,000 per wilo, The distance is €900 miles. ‘According to the route as now laid out, the road leaving Boise City will run up the Boise , and~ then turn down Sal- on agood grade to Saimon City. Continuing down Salmon river, the road wili turn up tho north fork of the Salmon, eross fug the divido in a low pass at the head of ‘'hreo Mile creel. ~ Passig by Gibbons' battle ground, the road will follow the Big Holo to Divide, from which point it will reach Butie by & routo similar te that of the Utah & Noighern. The entiro country from Butte to Salmon City is a splendid mineral district of ro- pources, tho development of which has been rcely begun. Gold, silver and copper are to bo found in fabulous quantities, but at prosent only a beginning has been made and the rich country cannot be well developed until_tho rond has been built. Beyond Sal- mon City, the rond will run toward Boise through a splendid agricultural country of seventy miles, and beyoud that will again enter rich mineral and timber land. Afoot from Omana to Butte. A woman named Mrs. Henry Gearing, who appliod for lodgings in tho jail at Butte, Mont., told a strango storv. Mrs. Goaring, with three children and Charles Giuiske, reached Butte about the st of November. They walked all the way from Omaba, ho busbing a wheelbarrow contain- ing two children, the woman earrying one in her arms, at timos alternating their mode of travel. Fivo years ago Mrs. Gearing lived with her husband on o farm near Deadwood, There sho met Charles ko and forsook her hus- band for him. Thoy went to Omaha together and lived thoro until a fow months ago. One day Guiske was building a cupboard out of a lu v goods box aud the woman concoived the iden of turning the box into a wheelbarrow and teundling the three chil- dren to Butte. This was done, one wholo summer being consumed in the journey. eavy Damage The dispatch from Carso v., stating that Asn M. Hamilton had rocovercd §4,000 froin the Southern Pacific compauy was wide of the fucts. Instead of this sum tho jury gave Hamilton $44,750 dumages. The caso turned on the signing of a railroad ticket. Hamilton bought n first-class unlunited of an Omaha scalper. He had no trouble on the Union Pacifie, but when he reached the Central Pacifie ho was requested to sign the tioket or get off the train, Ho refused to do eitbor, aud when tho conductor and other ofticials tried to use force he stood them off with a rovolver, For this he was arrested at_Lovelocks, handcuffed and taken to jail After fivo days ho was acquitted of the hargo of assault with a deadly weapon Then he sued for $100,000 damages. The case will provably bo appealed by tho rail- road compauy. The Exiled Boss. Atest of the extragition troaty recently concluded between the United States and Great Britam is to bo made by the authori- tios of California. A requisition has been {ssuod by Governor Mavkham on tho Canadian authorities to deliver up Christopher A. Buckloy, tho noted political boss, who has been indicted for bribery und who is now sojourning in Montreal. “The politics of great cities has brought many queer characters into prominence, but probably no political manipnlator has had & stranger carcer than that of Christopher A. Buckley, the blind boss of San Francisco For tep years this man, although he has not looked upon & human face in all that timo, bas ruled tho politics of San Francisco as absolutely as over Tweed or John Kolly ruled New York politics through Tamumany, 1he Burning Mount: ho Choyeune Sun polishes with truth the story of the “burning mountain” in Wyo ming, An old abandoned shaft immediately vack of the towa of Rawlins, contaiving con. siderable rubbish, was fired by thieves to gestroy evideuco 'of their depredations on morchundiso cars. This was Lon years ago. Today there are hundreds of groat holes and fissures in this mountain, and some tme there will bo & cave-in that will well nigh lovel tha uill. Steam, gases and smoke riso through the openiugs and poison tho air, To the Coast. In @ recent interview Goneral Manager Doage of tho Rio Grande Western confirmed the report that the company would extend to the coast. Tho route has been surveyed to the Sierra Navadas. The whole distance to be covered is 833 muiles. There are three feasible routes to choose ffom. Oue of tuese and the most direct is Tintie to Ploche and | purchasad 10,00 foet of thence west by Mono lake and through @ piss north of that sheet of water down to Stock ton or Lathrop and then oo to San Francisco Anotner route is to Piochs and then south by Walker pass and up to the San Joaquin Stiil another and the most roundabout of all is south to Mojave and then north up tho valloy to San Francisco, jortion of the line to b extended to Tizti ing rushed ata groat rato, The work is going on night aud day, and the road to Tintic will be com ploted and in full operation oefore Decomber. The Precions Metils, o repurt of Mint Diroctor Bdward Loech for the fiscal year ending 1501, supplies val Mines of the ( ar pro tho last 3 ouncos, Gold, tine value, £52,545,000; coining value, §2,545,000 Silve y ounces, 54,500,003 commoreial valno, 7,225,000 colning valup, &0, 44,041 The product of our mines and reduction works, *including tho gold aud silyer con tained in foreign matorial reduced in tno United States, for the same year, was: Gold, fino ounces, 1,835,306; silver, fiue ouuces, 04,0020, 02 "'he produc durmg the last £116,009,000, ana silver, mercial value). Dakotan Whoat Roturns of the acreaga of wheat in North Dakota show a total of 2,007,415 acres, an in- ase of 03, acres in u ye Ttis be- lieved tho genoral average yield for the state will reach twenty bushels per acre, which would give a total yield of nearly 60,000,000 bushels. For South Dakota no reiiable figures are at hand, as_the county assessors have not y made thoir returns either of acreage or yield for 1801, The wheat pro- duct in the aggregate 1s conservatively estimated at 35,000,000 bushels and the averuge por mcre at about sixteen bushels, In a general way it is safo to place tho total for the threo states at fully double the joint yield of 1590, which was 73,750,000 bushels, [} June 80, blo statistics. lited States yielded during as follows commercial 15 motals 1,599,480 of gold and silver in the world calendar ¥ was: Gold 084,506,000 (con S cd to Death. A special excursion teft Great Falls, Mont., for the new mining camp of Nethart, sixty miles distant, on the morning of the 15th. During the trip a slight difficulty aroso be- tween Jake Har sus gambler, and another n at Falls actod as peacomaker and was fatally wounded by Harris, When thg train reached Neihart, Harris was promotly “scarcd to death’’ by the in- dignant populaco, with tho assistanco of o stout rove and a tree, Marshal Treat is about 30 vears old, and is a native of Decorah, Ia. He had just ro- turnod from a visit to his parents in Decorah, Nebrasca. A Lyons man is contemplating building a creamery at Randolph The Hartington Horald has passod erghth birthday and is proud of its vigor. H. A. Turrell, for many years a resident of Shuyler, died last week after a prolonged ill ness. Re d Clarke has been_orduined as pastor of the Congregational church at Munroe. A serios of revival meetings Is in progress at the Alion Baptist church under the di- rection of Evangelist Redding. The forco at tho Nebraska City packing house has been increased so as to_ bring tho killing capucity up 0 1,500 head of hogs por day. Rov. Philip McKim, who bas boon pointed rector of Trinity cathedral at folk, conducted his first services at his charge Sunday. The bridge across the P'latto river at Co zad, which has been operated as a toll bridge by the company which built it eight years ao, has now boen made a freo bridge, Richart's livery barn at Ulysses was dis- covered to bo on fire the other night, but tho flames were extinguished. Tho next uight flames broke out again and the structuro was entirely consumed. Tho loss is §1,500. A man named Jury, who lived on its ap- Nor- new, out with a load of wheat ana two mortgaged teams. He was followed as far as Mar, ville, Kan., whore all trace of him was lost. Holub & Hotub, tho Schu merchants whose stock was seized by creditors recentl have offered the creditors about 33 per cent in settlement of all claims. Many of them are willing to accept it. The liabil ovor §6,000; assots about 2,500, Idaho A large amount of spurious coln Is afloat at Poeatello. The Gold Hunter Is now netting 1ts owner noless than 0,000 por mouth, which placos itnear the hoad of the list of 'Caour d’Alone bonanzas., Thero aro soveral specimens of oro just brought in from the Hub mine on exhibition av the Altras botel in Wood River. They carrry black sulphurets of silver and evon show somo nativo silver, and assay ovor 200 ounces per ton. William Doherty, who shot and lilled Ed- ward Young at Burke, August 16, has beon sentenced to twelve years' imprisonment in tho state penitentiary. Doherty is creditod with baving killed two men in Montana and two in Colorado. Reports from the Gettysourg mise on Chloride wll, near Mallan, Idaho, aro to the offect that enough ore is in sight to insure the bullding of & concentrator for that prop- erty during the early spring, ‘T'ha property $hOWS an immenso oro body. Among new professions for women, that of horso dealer has not yet been recognized, yet it exists in 1daho in At least one notabld n- stance. A ranch there with D0 b has a young lady for traveling ageut. She has recently made largo sales in New Oricans, whero her moerits as an expert aro well koown, for she has been on th road six years, o claiws that the range-tred horse, brought up naturally in the open air and with plenty of space to run and roam, is superior to uny other for draught purposes. Montana. A balf interest in the Hope mine at the Basin sold for $25,000. & Thé Belknap coul mine, located at Fort Belknap, and owned by Butte parties, is indications of a most gratifying character, Recently a rich strike was mado in the Black Bear, in the Okalogan country. Itis claimed to' bo richer than any heretoforo made. The vein is large and long. Tho first-class ore being shioped to the Helena smeltor from the Little Bonanze mine, east of Beaver crees, proves to carry 74 por cent lead and i ounces of silver. A number of Chinamen employed on a flume in Jefferson county, attempted to thaw out a few sticks of giant powder. Knough of the remains havo tot been found to war- rant the expense of a funeral, The Ontario_is steadily shipping ore that nets cousiderably move than 1,000 a car, and from the Monarch shipments have beon mado, and will continue, of equally high- graud ore. These miues are in thé Rimini district, During this year the famous old Lummond has paid two dividenas o ting §50,000. Up to date the amount paid in dividends was £337,007, I'he highest per cent was in 1887, whon it reached 0, and tho lowest has been 5 per cent. The mine was sold for £500,000, Sout Rapid City is talkiug up & board of trade. A new plant for the treatment of Binck Hills oro is being built in Deadwood. Tho regular semi-monthly shipmerit of gold bullion from Black Hills mines in Lawrence county aggregated in value g Hangman's treo on Hangman's hill, a grim sentinel overlooking Rapid City, disappeared 1n the bosom of a wild storm & fow nights ugo. The sugar faztory committeo of nos arranged o big Neb,, on November & later, A bonus of §10,000 cash and fifteon acros of land, douated by Rapid City, has secured for that town the new chlorination plant of the Welcomo Mining company. Bon Homme county has recontly sold soventy thousand dollars’ worth of county bonds, the proceeds of which will be used in squaring up a former bonded indebtodness, A large body of valuable carbonate ore has boon struck in the Bristol lode galona, owned by St. Louls parties, Average assays give returns of 15 ounces silver, §0 gold snd 13 per cent load, Kilpatrick Bros., who have the contract for the B, & M. exteusion to Speartlsh, have Drum Abordeen oxcursion to Norfolk, , Teturning two days THE OMAHA DAII umber for the eroc of & pormanent eamp on the s about miles this side of Spaariish. ke of an irely new body grade silicious gold ore’ s reportod from Gold Mountain group, at head of Two Bit T'he new vein is wbout four f thick, and pre o8 to ourich owners of the property Wy 3 As an intellectual centor Laramio s tho Boston of Wyoming. Bring on your beats o third trial of the case of Jarvi ngains! thie Union Pacille Ratlroad company in a verdict for £,000 for the plainti Prof. D il h yped with the 400 of Choyenne and acranged to give the members instructions in Fronch. After gatherin from pupils he flod the town. Joo Martin, a cowboy employed on & on the Little Laramie, encountered a family of vears on Elk mountain, A desparal sd, but Joe cume out victorious. {1 cubs and a she-bear was compen for u broken arm and tattered clothi Tho university students and public school boys of Laramia indulged in asuowball battle recently As the fig axed hot stones were thrown. One school boy's cheek has been se 1 up by tne doctor and a uriversity boy is minus some teeth, Others are more or less seriously wounded Towr. s packing house has begun oper- tion thre [ of hi e 1ion Ottum ations, The now completed, Breda has a ghost after night. Cedar Palls will_hava a free mail aftor January 1 The Lucas connty court houso at Chariton bas been condemnéd. Rev. S, W. Kern and wifo colebrated their golden weddiug anniversary at Toledo. A tramp was found ¢ with cold in tho suburbs of Oskaloosa. He was very dr William Holt, a mail carrier between slow and Cascade, was thrown from cart and killed, Belle Plaine has tho reputation of support ing wore secrot societies and oth aniza- tions than any eity of its size in the state, A Burlington young woman has received notice from a justico that she will be sucd for the collection of her poll tax. Sho alway; signed the imitials to ber namo ana that is low sho happened to got upon the list The wife of a Buena Vista county farmer attempted suicido last weok by jumping iuto a well. The water was so cold, however, that slie criod lustily for help, which fortu: nately came in time. She has since been taken to an asylum, 13. Shafenberg of Botua, Sk recovered a team and wagon which his brother had stolen fiv and which ho had driven from his brother's farm accompanicd by Mattie Kortum with whom te had cloped and whom he afterwards married, abandoning ihe team where the owner discoverea it. Hurry Hitehell, the tombstone agent ar rested in Keokuk for bizamy, seems to have been ambitious ooth in the matter of woumen and monoy.. While in Hanuibal, Mo., one day talking with an acquaintance, o lady assed. The acquaintanco remarked “that thero was a good cuance’” and explained that man was a widow with 3,000 left her her husband in the Aucient Order of ited Workmen. ic's mine,” saia Mitchell enthusiastically, and she soon was his—as No. 2. He lmd siego to her heart ar once. At first iv was cold but the gay wooer was used to handling marble, aud ho won an early victory. Tho easo of Thomas Moore, a substantial tarmer of Zwingli, Dubuque county, against the Homo Iire Insurance company of Now York will be tried at the present term of the district court in Dubugue. PlaintitP’s home was destroved by fire. ‘Tho ndjuster secured proofs of tho loss from Moore and because there was no justice of the peace or notary public before whom aflidavit. could bo made the proofs were forwarded to the company without being attested. After waiting sixty days the company uotified Mr. Moore that he had sacrified his Tight by ueglecting to_file vroofs of loss within sixty days as prescribod by a small typoe provision of the policy. The case will be hotly contzsted on both sides, paper mill at Lyonsis unearly that walks tho streets delivery On his weeks ago, Nevada, William Thomas proposes building a huu- dred thousand dollar hotel in Rono. A Chinese leper has beou discovered in Reno. He will bo sent to San Francisco. An Indian suicided in Piocke last weol by shooting himself. He haa beon on a pro- longed spree, and was broke. Thomas Barmby of Winnemucea captured a live a porcuping weighing fifty pounds, in tho Harmony mountains, near Winnemucea, On the Ashton ranch in Smith valley thero hard of 3,000 treos, and it a that 200 tons of fruit wore raised this season, It is reported that the vein recently eut on the 400 lovel of the North Belle Islo at Tus. carora is five feet wide with u ten-inch streak of $1,000 ore._ The real estate, mill, pipeline and mines of the State Line Mining company at Goid Mountain, were sold by the sheriff of Esmer- alda county recently for $19,000. Utah, A rovision of Sait Lake City's charter is under way. Burglars are harvesting a profitablo crop in Salt Lake City. The Mammott mino has declared a divi- dond of 10 cents per share, a total to date of $1,000,000. The territorial Bar association will voti- tion congress for a separate supreme court and six district judg Having exbausted tho visible supply of gamblers in Salt Lake City, the federal authorities are giving their attention to saloon keepers who soll liquor on Sunday. Five citizens of Smithfield, Cacho county, havo discovel aluable mine three mil cast of the town_which _consists of & decom posed quartz. ‘The blow pipe brings sil» shot out of the rotten stone, and the finders are accordingly elated Along the Coast, he normal product of Seattle's divorco wlls s six a day. Seattle's debt November | hin treasury, $124,520.; al, bean growers averago this year $:5 to $15 an acro uet ou their crops Within the past thirty days over $100,000 1 gold bullion has been received in Baker City, Ore,, as theoutput of the mines ad Jacent, Tho Madison_streot brido across Willametie at Portland has been pu by the city and made a free bridge. price paid was 814 A man from O Veutura, the hased The w Redwood City, Cal, this weels looking for a suitablo place 1o Jocate for u **Homa for tho Cure of Inobri- ates! after the system of Dr. Keeley. A sportsman in Wilbur, Oro,, has traiued two eagles Lo cateh ge Ho \weights their bodies so that they cannot fly after they nave captured tho gamo. He follows them on hors the geeso from their claws John Smart, a resident of Clackamas county, Oregon, has & picco of tho cradle cover of Edward 1L, of Blugland, which was cutin 1313, Mr. Smart has also in bis pos. session o manuseript writted by the celo- brated Captuin Cook, in 177 Los Angeles is preparing plans_for water works to be owned by the city. It is ost mated that at present rates the interost on the bouds can be paid, the plaut repaired and extended and the entire plant puid for within twenty yoars. The prosent com- panies will bo 1giored. Figures of the produce oxports from San Francisco for October show that tney were 5,008,500 This, with September’s total of over $,000,000, i3 the first instance of an ox- coss of £,000,000 mouthly exports for six years. Tho total exports for the first ton months of this year is $42,915,300, which is $10,500,000 fu 6xvoss of the same montis last year. Thoso boavy shipments havo helped businoss througnout California, Tue California Board of Trade is considor- ing a plan to market California dried and cauned fruit in London. 1t is the desigu of General Chipman, who thinks that a com pany with #10,000 capital could handie most of the dried’ fruits, wive and olive oil now imported into England, Imports of these articles into _CGireat Britain last year amounted to #50,000,000 in vaiue, ‘that there is big money, even with small commis. sions, and un opportunity to maiutsin & high standard of qualit - Mrs. Winslow's Sootbiug S)rup for chil- dren teethling produces natural quiet -1 ep. 25 cents a bottle, 2Y B MGNDAY. ELE, the scope c Lois Mailet’s Dan, A Tale of the Tow Two * Techs A Boy Lieutenant. Smoky Days. A A Story Articles of great value to You Hon. Andrew D. White President F Professor J Epi: Boys and Girls at How Queen Victoria Travel The Story of Kernsi How 1 Met the Quecen ; by The Flash-Light. will be marked by imparti be more attractive than cver. “A Yard of Roses.” NOVEMBER The Announcements in this advertisement and The Serial Stories Path. How Dickon Came by hi Abroad. A Young Knight of Howor. 23, 1801. those w ch will follow will enable the friends of Tue Companion to judge somewhat of waracter of the reading that will be given in its columns during 1892 — the sixty-fifth year of its issue. Nine [llustrated Serial Stories. A New The Hardsh A charmingly wr They sct off on The Story of a Boy who stood Free S. Bowley. E. W. Thomson. a Forest Hints on Self-Education. 7 Men who desire to educate themselves, A Rare Young Man. sdes in My Life. The “tory of the Atlanti Unseen Causes of [ gton Palace; by My Cueer Passenger, Molly Barry’s Manitou. Shut Up in a Microbe Oven: The Cruise of a Wagon=Camp. y and clearnss. 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More than One Hundred capital Storics of Adventure, Pioneering, Hunting, Touring will be printed in this volume. Old Thad’s Stratagem. Very Singular Burglars. The Tin Peddier’s Baby. Blown Across Lake Superior. A Young Doctor’s Queer Patients. His Day for Capturing a The Weekly Editorials on the leading Foreign and Domestic Topics The Children’s Page will TED WEEKLY a beautiful painting, pecimen Copics Troe. ntitle Address, THE YouTHSs COMPANMION, Boston, Mass. Send Check, Post-ofice Order, or Registered Letter at our risk. Mrs. Mary Ca Miss Fanny M. Johnson. A Valuable Paper; by vils of Small Lo The Girl Who Thinks She Can Write. Amiclia E. Barr, Jeanctte L. Gilder, Kate Field. s; by The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone. The Count de Lesseps. Sir Morell Mackenzie. Col. George R. Davis. by Supt. N. Y. Central, Humorous and pathetic In the Burning Pineries. The Boys and the Wild-Cat. On a Cattle Steamer in a Stormy to January 1, 1892, ISTMAS and NEW YEAR'S SUPPLEMENTS, Any person wh , “A YARD OF ROS in number. herine Lee. Homer Greene. Harold Frederic. C. A. Stephens. Lossing G. Brown. Will Allen Dromgoole. Advice. Andrew Carnegle. F. B. Thurber. asan Electrician; G, P. Lathrop. ns; by Henry Clews. Three JArticles of Advice by Cyrus W. Field. Col. H. G. Prout. Theo. Voorhees. Charles Paine. by An Old Bral ich, Southern, Among them are: the Flag. Desperado. Free to CORY CROP, AN TDIENSE Nobraska Farmers Unable Gather all Their Grain. Western to PROGRESS IN OTHER PARTS OF THE STATE. Find Their Lands Increased dating al m Demand at Prices—Accommo- Farmers rsonal Notes. Gener- to Tue athering Juxiats, Neb,, Nov. Bek.|—Farmers are very busy corn. Farm hands are searce, many 1armers ave offering 4 cents per bushol for gathoring tho corcal and help is hard to get at that The corn crop is so la rge that much of it wil Do lefr ungathored t the closo of 1801 I'honsands of busheis of corn are coming to market now and bringing 25 cents per bushel Mrs, Patridge, mother of C. ., L. B, and E. I Patrideo, died at Cozad, Nob., und was brought hero for burial I fal West Point News, Wyt Poixt, Neb,, Nov. 22.—|Special to Tuk Ber,|—Rov. Dr. Mueller united in mar viage Saturday last John Schleussner and Minnio Rupert. Water Commissioner Haeflin has by close attention wereased the income of water rents to that point whers the water works aro self-sustaining. Ho thinks it would bo as good investment to extend the water main and thereby produce an income. Richloff = Munen, aged vears, Wednesday afternoon at his rosidence. remains were interred K'riday. 'he quarterly meeting of |0 relical church convened Friday evening nad continued untit today. Rev. M. Tubel- v, presiding elder of the Fromout district, was present Tho Young People’s Socioty of Christian Endeavor held a ploasint sociable at the e dence of Urinh Beamer last evening, Tho man Evasgelical and Mothodist Episcopal churches will hold Thanksgiving union qyercises in th Gorman 3 Rov. Honry Poters will sermon, Louis, the bright 6;ycar-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Smith, Who live north of tho ciy, died Wodnesday of membraaeous croup, uncral was held Kriday A petition was read before n recent meot- ing of tho city councitnsking for a permit to erect poles and stretéhy” wive and have the samo privileges us the electric light com: vany. The resolution yas roforred. Nobriska ) Dem Lyoxs, Neb., Nov, [Special Bik.|—The business outlook for the valloy was nover vetter. There demand for farms of all kinds. 1 vanced cousiderably in prices tho past fe months, yet the salos are larger than ev vofore. ~ The real estato agents at this pla have done rushing business all fall, Land seekers are hero from all purts of the country ard speuk in unbounded praise of Nebraska's prospects. The late snow caught considerablo corn in the fields. died The the German s in nd. to Tur Logan 18 & great nd has ad Not Svrroy, Neb, Bee. |—The high fiv b and Mrs, E. W. Woodrufr. Miss Kate Nelson, r co tly the Gra’lo) Leader, Special to Tt met with Mayor employed on d to_her position 1ast week. Miss Loute Campb Edith Clark were at ITastings for soveral days this weel. Miss Tillic Jacobson has returued from Hastings, where she has been visiting friceds, Adldic Scott bas gone to Viaton, 1a., it to lier grandparents. Misses Maggie toberts and Jarrott returned honie from Kearnoy, whero they have been as deleyates to the Christian Badeavor con- vention, The “bill o ocial_given by the ladies of the Congr al society at Mr. and . Hoerger's was well attonded and sting program was given, Nebraska Editors inte; ob., Nov. 22, —|Speci > editorial oxcursion is over, and itors who participated are home again. They report an excellent time. Seth 12, Mooley of Grand Isiand, a member of the Nebraska Columbian commission, ent the week in northiwest Nobraska in tho intorest of the Werld's fair. Crawford will organize a board of trade this week. Tho scholars cnr Av_ electric light scheme is on f Crawford and Fort Kobinson. capitalists are pushing it. ne New Hamost attle company is feeding 400 head of steers at the ranch near Crawford. e hose company has issued for a Thanksgiving bail "The ladies of theCongregational church ave pecparing to give an eutertainment Thunks- giving evening. They oxpect to prosent “Temple of Fame," v ford scheols led, public have 157 ot for astorn invitations Chadron's New School Houses. Cuannoy, Neb,, Nov. Spocial to Tue C.S. Bates of this place has been awarded the contract of building eightschool houses and ht teachers’ residences, to be situated at. different points on tie Pine Ridgo Agency. The cost 1o the government will bo 316,000, A goud de here by th 1 of interost is being aroused advent of the “Christian Scien- tists, " several of whom have recently been here from abroad, A class is being formed for the purpose of learning all tho truths nee- essary to the practice of healing First Bad Boy— {1i thero, Jimm snipe from that drug storof Second ditto—Thor nicest come on and haye sum Soecond bad boy pulls out bottle of Haller's Suro Cure Cough Sy rup, Pirst ditto—Oh, my ! ain’t that bully! Second ditto—Botcher life, ma says it's best thing she ever saw for conghs and colds, Ll ey Organs from $25 up, Hayden Bros. y! 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