Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 22, 1892, Page 5

PULSE OF WESTERY PROGRESS Insids Facts Regarding the Burlington Rush in Wyoming, PUSHING RAPIDLY TOWARD THE PARK Berions ber Kffoct of the Silver Dec Tim. Thieving and Irrigation—Rail- rond Basiness in South Dakota ~Northwest News. Low temperature and florce wintry storms have no effect on the extension of the Bur- lington road in northern Wyoming. The grading army of Kilpatrick, Collins & Co. is now at work between Gillotte and Buffalo and proboses to complete that section boforo spring glides into summer, Three thousand " teams urc employed and a temperature of 40 degrees below zoro does not check the activ- 1ty on tho grade, * A vopresentative of Kilpatrick, Collins & Co. formed the writer recently that the objective potat of the extonsion is Yollow- stne National park. The distance to tho ark boundary from Buffalo is 160 miles, and (0 miles are under contract to be completed and ready for trains by September 1. Much of tho route calls for heavy work, but the contractors are confident of completing the ‘work within the time limit, The remaining mixty miles to tho park are to be covered dur- inw the fall and winter, The remarkable rush in the work of con- struction is explained by the fact that the Burlington proboses to run excursion train from the World’s fair to the park in 1503, wnd to that end all energies and means are now directed. The Buffalo Echo reports that Chief In- xin nsign of the Burlington is under orders to reportat Buffalo as soon as spring opens and proceod with his corps to locats the most feasible route across the Big Horn mountains, It says “‘three preliminary sur- veys Liave already been made of this routo, two 1o the interests of the Burlington and one by the representatives of the Midland Pacitic. It leads from Buffalo across to Paint Rock creek, tappiug the richest farm fng country of the Big Horn basin, penc trating the fiuest body of timber this side of the coast states, touching the southern boundary of the Yellowstono Park, trave fng a splendid but undeveloped section of Tdaho, entering Washington ut tho southeast cornor aud terminating at one of the now seaports on Puget sound. Sucha line would shorten the distance by rail between (Chicago mod *ho sound by three kundred miles and place all transcontinental competitors in tho distant rear.” Tue Ber informaunt gives un entirely different version of the route and he isin position to know. He declares the Helana extension is not seriously thought of, that the main objective point av present is Butte, Mont. As soon as the extension to tho park is completed the construction corps will push on tothe great mining campof Montana, Ho asserts the line has been surveyed to Butte, skirting tho eastern boundary of the vark, ‘thenco northwest touching city on the way to Butte. It is not likely the Burlington will be per- mitted to enjoy & monopoly of this now region. It is said tho Northivestern is vro- puring to run a branch into the Big Horn hasin from the vicinity of Casper. ‘The important fact is that the vast region of northern Wyoming, of which little is known, will sooh onen to settlement and development, swelling the productive wealth of the west and correspondingly enlarging the commercial importance of Omaha, P s Irrigation B Representative Pickler of South Dakota is confident his bill, introduced on last Satur- day, providing, with designated limits, for the diversion of nutural waters and their ap propriations to beneficial uses, and for the regulation thereof, would receive early favor- able consideration, as it seemed to meet with general favor among members of the irriga- tion and arid lands committee. In brief, the bill proviaes that in all that portion of coun- try lying west of the 97th meridian of longi- tude w from Greenwich, England, any and all waters, whether standing ov running, and wnether from surface or subterranean souvces, may be diverted from natural beds and channels and devoted to purposes of ir- rigation. ‘That the privilege o divert and use sucli waters for the purposes of irriga. tion shall inhere in the actual appropriators to such uses, without regard to the location of any such approprintor with respect to state, territorial or other civil boundaries, according to the order of appropriatiou of the actual and continued use in point of time, precedence in time piving precedence in right: a bona fide attempt to secure and use asupply of water for irrigation being con- sidered au actualappropriation thereof to the extent of the bona fide and continued effort 10 80 appropriate it That the rght of prior appropriation of water for irrigation shall bo an appurtenanco to the irrication works by and through ‘which it shall have teen acquired and exer- cised (subject to the rigbts of actual users thercunder), and may be sold apd trans- ferred therewith fora valuable considera tion, or pass by inheritance as any other property: and each separato parcelof land upon which water from uny irrigation works shall have been used shall have precedent ight to such amount of water as shall have ) lawfully used thereupon from year to year, subject, however, to the procedent right of every other such pardel of land as shall have acquirea an earlier right by ac- tual and continved use of water from such works. Idiho's Court Bill, A favorablo report has been made from the house judiciary committee upon Repre- sentative Sweet's bill providing times and places fo: holding terms of the United States court in ldaho. In tbe report the committee BiL) “Court is now held only at Boise Uity, the capital. The bill reported provides three places in the district for holding court, and gives oach place two terms u year.” It is proposed to hold the terms for the northern part of the state at Moscow, Latah county. The accommodations are ample, and the placo is connected by rail with the ex- treme horthern ana southern portions of the 1t is 500 miles from Moscow to Boise y. Litigants in the United States court from the northern part of Shoshona and Kootenai counties and from Idaho county are now obliged to traver from 600 to 700 miles. The distance s so great thot the poor man is unable to pro- tect his property rights because of his in- ability to guaranten the expenses, while the persons accused of petty offenses, or settlers charged with timber ' trespass or other of- fonces connocted with the publio lands, are utterly unable to make the long journey and be subjected to the great expense arising from the trial and the ncidents thereto, The same statement will apply to Blackfoot, although the distances are not quite so greut. Both Moscow and Blackfoot are county seats, and each place has & commodious court house it which quarters can readily be ob- tainwa, Effect of Silver Deel Tue decline in the price of silyer is having aserious effect on the mining industry of Butte, Mont., and in several Idaho camps. The oro of some Butte mines now leaves a scaut margin over cost. In the Wood river country the decline threatens to close sev- eral mines. Heavy producers are consider- ing the unvlnblm{ of ceasiug to ship out & reater quantity of ore than that just abso- utely necessary to meet the working ex- penses. Aud again, should silver and lead continue to decline in value this step will ouly be a forerunner of what must eventu- ally foliow, viz : ha complete cessation of silver and lead wining until these metals are agsin brought up to a fair standard price, as itis a well established fact that there is scarcely any margin at the present figure, or cortainly not sufticlent to pay a reasonsble intercst on the large capital invested. Montana Gew The rush to the sapphire grounds along the Missouri river, near Helena, still coutinues. Every day location notices are received at tho oMco of the county clerk. Just what state the uitles to these various claims are laid in is bard to tell. Some have been located probably two or three times. Not ouly is the ground on both sides of the river taken up, but locations are made iv the river chanuel, 80 Lhat no spot may be overlooked iu the ro glon of country empraced in the sapphire THE OMAH fields, called by some the New Golconda of Montana. Location notices have been filod on 1,840 ncres, embracing several islands in tho river, One -location of 160 acres also claims 100 foet of the river bed and channel The river for miles up and down the sap phire flelds will be a_lively place tnis spring and summer, and will present a scene not un like that witnessed in the palmy days of the famous Alder Gulch, which poured a iighty strenm of the yellow metal out to the world. A daily four horse stage now runs tothe sapphire fields from Helena. Organized Timber Thieves, According to the roport of Special Agent Do Lambert, timberstealing from Uncle Sam is being conducted on a gigantic scale and 1n the most unblushing manner along the Manitoba border. De Lambert declares that the present depredations constitute a systom of vast proportions, in which there is an organized combination of men and capital controlling some fifty large sawmills aud employing hundreds of hands, He also reports that most of the deprodators are Canadians, and that the stealing has been go ing on for years and to a much greater ox- tent than tiie government has ever until now beeu aware of. The Rainy Lake river,which forms the boundary line for many miles be- tween the two countries, is made the base of operations. Timber is cut in wholesalo quantities on this side of the line and rafted to the Canadian side, where it is manufac- tured into lumber by the mills belonging to the thieves, In view of the fact that the special officer himself says that here is the richest and ripest fleld for fraud he was ever called to nvestigato—and his report fully substanti- ates this statement—it behooves the United States to take prompt and summary moas- ures to protect this portion of the public do. main from further spoliation. South Dakota Railronds, The annual report of the South Dakota rallroad acommission has been issued. The total mileage in the state June 30, 1801, was 2,679, of which 152 miles were laid during the year. The total cost of building and equip- ping was 8,313,061, On this investment the roads earned §11,067,581 during the fiscal year. Exclusivo of deadhead 1,856,011 pas sengors were carried and 3,153,500 tons of freight handled, In the service 3,107 persons are employed. The result of the commission’s work shows that up'to December 1, 1801, there was as much wheat shipped out of the state as the entire output for 1500 aggrogated. It also shows that at that date the wheat still in hands of the farmers was equal to the entire vield of 1500, and that the elevators and warehouses throughout _the state on Decem ver 1, 1801, contained 7,800,000 bushels. These last figures represent the capacity of the 600 grain warehouses of tho state, which were full to overflowing at the date mentioned. 1t is estimated by the commssion, fixing their caleulations on the information contained in this paragraph, thatin round numbers, the wheatoutput of South Dakota for 1891’ was fully 40,000,000 bushels. According to their calculations there is 40 per cent of the yield of sull iz the hands of tho farmers, Change in Timber Claim Procedure. In the matter of govornment proceedings against the alleged fraudulent timber land entries 1n Washington, Oregon and Cali- fornia tho commissioner of tho general land office, with the approval of tho secretary of the interior, has instituted a change in the procedure, by which the partics claiming title to these lanas will hereafter be requirea to produce tho original entrymen and their witnesses at the local land ofices for further ezamination with reference to any contracts or arrangements which may hava been made prior to eutry for tho convevanco of the laud_to corporations or syndicates, It appoars from the records of the general land office that large tracts of valuablo timber land in different localities havo been ontered on tho same day by a large number of persons and immediately thereafter trans. ferred by all the parties to svndicates. It now confidently asserted by these syndi that the government, tannot vrove that the entries were originally made in their inter- est. This new order is made with a \iew of simplifying the procedure in such cases. eat Paper. The Irrigation Age for February s asu- perb number, both in contents, arranzement and typographical appearance. As itsname in- dicates, tho Ago is devoted to the interasts of irvigation in the west, a field as rich for journalistic endeavor as for agricultural de velopment. The current number i3 a com- prehensivo record of 1ast vear's progress, copiously 1llustrated, and contains a number of spoctil articles from the pons of irrigation experts. The Aee is published by the Smythe, Britton & Poore Co. at Salt Lake City. Nebraska A new depot is being built at Cedar Creek. A mad dog which was chasing cattle was killea by a farmer near Madison. John Honuy, sr., & pioncer settier of Clay county, is dead at the age of 79 years. The Catholic cburch at Ridgeley, Dodge county, was entirely dostroyed by fire. The wife of Hon. L. W. Gilchrist died at ‘Wahoo Friday after a protracted illness. H. L. Ganoo has retired from the Greeloy Leader and has been succceded by E. C. Smith. It is reported that an English syndicate has offered to purchase the nursery of Peter Younger at Geneva. Over 200 guests attendad the reception given by the Modern Woodmen lodge of Harvard last week. Peoter Borlet has rotired from the presi dency of the Bank of Talmage and has been succeeded by J. H. Damme. Father Lechleitner of Valentine has ar- ranged to bring fifty families from tho ocast to settle in Cherry county. Mrs. orge Mosier, residing near Rising City, died last week in Chicago from the ef- fects of a surgical operation, The Tekumah Driving association has pre- pared a program of races for June 15, 16 and 17, ana will offer over §2,000 in purses. The Ohiowsa elevators shippod during the month of January 2,651 bushels of wheat, 1,801 bushels of oats and 63,530 bushels of corn. I N. Harbaugh has resigned nis position as county attorney of Dawes county and George A. Eckles has been named as his suc- cessor. A prominent physician and a_professional gambler of South” Stoux City indulged in a shooting mateh, but fortunately no biood was spillod. Clay county has an agricultural society, a swine breeders' association, @ poultry a clation and a trotting, pacing and road hors association, Mrs, Sawyer ot Pleasant Hill, whose hus - band was drowned two years ago whilo ho was intoxicated, has been awarded 1,500 damages agaiust the seloonkeepers who sold the liquor. Scotia is to have a normal school and busi- ness college. Prof. W. H. Barrett of lowa will conduct the school. The citizens of Scotia donated the old court bouse and grounds, 150 lots and suabscribed for 150 scholarships. Articles of incorporation were adopted and five trustees elected. The school will be opened in March. ‘Phe First Baptist church of Ashland has decided to exclude the dissenting member: who some months ago withdrew and or- ganized the Emmanuel Baptist church, from feilowship with them. Thestruggle between the two factions is now practically ended, as the members of the Emmanuel church will probavly eall an ex parte council for recogni- tion lu the state assoclation of Baptist churches. . ™ Over $3,000 has been subscribed to the Marshalltown public Library fuad. Leutsville is urflulllu‘ & company to pros- pect for natural gas, which is believed to exist there, Tt is proposed to hold a special election at Webster City and vote bonds for a 816,000 school hous Fraoklin township, Lee county, farmers have incorporated the People's Mutual lu- | surance company. ‘The budget of the Board of Bducation es- timates that it will cost $30,000 to maintain Dubugque's public schools this year. Domestie infelicity has led to & case of | threatened polsoning at Muscatine which has been brought to the attention of the city ma | shal for iuvestigation, A farmer who Is a strict cburch member ot mixed on dates and hauled a load of corn uto Aurelia Sunday morning. A dozen | almanacs were mailed to bim. Burglars entered the house of J. M. Kus sart at Ouuwmwa sud carried off the loug range revolver kept as a protection against burglars, They got very little else. ‘The owners of the Dubuque stroet rail o decided that the storage y eolectric system is a failure, and let contracts for putting in an overhead wire system. John I at Burlington Dacember 2 heard of since. The police # information as to his whereavouts. play is feared. A man named Ferguson has been arrosted in Hardin county on the charge of poisoning the stock of his neighbor, Lockwood, and mixing ground glass with the feed. Twenty fii;’?;! head of cattle and two horses have ied, Mrs, J. H. Robinson of Monticello at- tempted suicide hy shooting. She haa boen married but a short time when her husband died and loft quite an estate, Troubls con- eorning the seitloment of affairs is said to be the cause. Wilhelm Schubbe drew #180 from the bank at Davenport, intending to buy a ticwet for Germany. He fell in with bad companions in a saloon and was rovbed of the wholo amount, The polico recovered most of his money for him. A boy named Winegarden was bitten by a dog, supposedly mad, at Pocahontas. He failod rapidly and finally tho Oskaloosa mad stone was tried. It took fifteen applications to satisfy his friends that the poison had been removed from the boy's systom. A cable has been laid on the bottom of the Mississippi between Davenport and IRock Island, through which all teleptione commai- cation will hereafter bo had. The cable does away with the induction that mado other methods of telephone connection impractic- able, Elijah Hoffman, living a few miles from Red Oak, whilereturning home from a neigh bor's was attacked by eight wolves, two of which were of the large eray species. Mr. Hoffman is an old man, but he drew his koife and slashed one of the animals, after which the others gave up the chase, A crazy acting swindler bas roped in a large number of Keokuk young men and women with a “millionairo association.” After joining this secret order and payiug their initiation fee they are never to work again, but will vs furmshed with plenty of money for necessities and amusement. Ed Simeson of Boonesboro advertises ns follows: The undersigned desires to marry a Swede girl who has not been married and who has domostic qualities fitting her for lifo on a farm. Have $1,000, one lalf se of land, team, Am 25 years of aze and am single. Address within n month and a balf. and has not boen e searching for Poul oming. Building and loan assoc root in Laramie, Railroad activity in northern Wyoming stimulates all branches of industry, Considerable loss in sheep is reported in the vicinity of Aurors, owing to heavy snows. The Sodn lnkes, near Lacamie, are nearly drained of surplus water and the work of taking out pure soda will soon bogin. The country in the vicinity of Casper has had but little snow this winte! As a result stock on the ranges is in prime condition. Mining interests in Gold Hill and around Sacatoga are looking up and a genuine boom is iooked for with the opening of spring. Having anchored a smolter, Cheyenne is now reaching out for iron blast furn having au unlimited supply of the ruw mat rial in the state. From a careful estimate made by a leading Carbon county sheepman ovor 2,000,000 pounds of wool will be shipped from Rawlins this year, and the valup of the woot clip of the county will exceed 300,000, The sheep- mon do not owe over £50,000. tions are taking South Dukata. A sale of state school lands is booked for March 24, Sixty-doilar ore has been Buxton mine, Tho American Express company resists the payinent of taxes in tho state, The republican stato convention to meet at Chamberlain, March 23 Mitchell has brightencd up considerably under the infiuenco of electric light. Machinery for the Haraoy Peak tin mill has arrived and is being put'in place. The Deadwood Central raitroad has been blanketod with o mortgage for £00,000, An exira session of the legislaturo hangs fire. Governor Mellette is still negotiating with members for per diem waivers. The extension of the Northern Pacific to the Black Hills is practicaliv assured. Ar- rangements have beon made for active work in the sprin, struck in the is called A collection of Montana animais is being made for the World's fair, An anti-treat society is the latest assault on Butte's liquid industry. Great Falls has a scl 2,240, u gain of 436 in a year. Clerks and salesmen of Great Falls have organized a protective association. A big strike of 800 ore is reported in the Mountain View mive, near Riminini. Other properties adjoining are looking well. A streak of bigh grade ore has been found in the Kock of Ages, on Cataract creek, a couple of miles from Basin. The strike was made at the depth of 140 feot, the ore run- ning nearly $200 a ton. The assessors of Montana have completed their tax list and show the real and personal property of the state, as valued on the tax duplicate, at $142,205,428. This means that the real value is about three times as much. Montana assessors found 8,544,534 sheep, and the state will be interested in Brer William Springer’s little bill on the sheep. A sewing machine agentat Butte resorted to a sharp trick to gain business, Ho com- pounded an alleged “watch oil,” which he gave to his sub-agonts with instructions to use on machines of all makes exceptthoso vt their own company. The good housewives ol Butte soon complained that their machines would vot ruu after tho oil was used on them, and he crafty agent came to their rescue with a machine of his own company, which he guaranteed. He sold a nulaber of machines before the trick was discovered. Uty Tho Salt Loke public building bill which oassed tho senate appropria‘es 00,000, Thonatural gas strikes provokes an over- flow of human gas in Salt Lake corners, Oden has arranged liboral cash prizes for a contestof bands to bo held June 15 and 16, Proyidence is a favored spot. in (acho val- loy, It bus not bad & funoral siuco August ast, Tho lobbyist, that most interesting and versatile of Amarican e:ruduol.u. is ulmost ex- tinet in the empire of Utah. A call has beon issued for a couvention of cattlemen at Ogden, April 27-80, to discuss “‘wransportation, brands, mavericks, fencing, water rights, range priviloges, stock yards, broods and braeding of cattle and quaran: tive.”” The states and territories embraced within this call aro Utah, Novada, Idaho, Wyoming, Califernia, Orogon, Moutana. Washington, Texas, Kansas, Colorado. North Dakota, Nobraska, New Mexico, Indian Ter- vitory, Oklahoma and Arizona. population of Idah Keeley wants $1,000 cash for the right to bichloride the jag carriers of the state. Republicans held a convention at Boise and organized the State Republican league. The Great Western canal will irrigate 75,000 acres of land. It taps the Snake river ten miles above Idaho alls. Itis asserted by the Eli Devils country that grouse killed in that seo- tion had their craws filled with nuggets of gold, many of which were a3 large as grains of corn, The grouse were so plentiful for a while that several parties made good wages by killing them just for the goid contaned in thelr craws. Washington. Chehalis funding bonds sold at par, Whatcom will invest $00,000 n sewers this year. A colony of Norwegians has been planted at Noraland. ‘acoma councilmen fixed up & neat salary crab, The courts knocked them out. Snobomish taxpayers rejected the proposi- tion to issue $250,000 in bonds for roads and bridges. President Hill of the Great Northern has cowpleted a tour of Washington towns and put in his best licks for reduced right or way. The state attorney general declares the & tempt to attach aslice of Washingion to Tdato is & vluff. The boundary lines as they now exist are correct. Yakima county claims to have more lana Fager disappearcd from his homo | of the Seven | 'BRUARY 99 under irrigation thanail the rest of Wash ington put together, Tho cost ot the irriga tion work aiready completed, under way and to ba beeun at once, ks estimated at $2,500,000. Land thus reclaimed. will aggregate 433,000 acres. And as vet but a beginning has been made in this diroction, as the county contains over 3,000,000 acres Oregon. Portland’s tax roll * for 1802 will troasury §711,531 Bird Waggoner, an died recently aged 82 A company has baen organized to build an- other opera house in Portland. Work of construction has been resumed on the Oregon cific at Albany. Portland’s 5 per cent’ thirty-year bonds to the amount of #100,000 soid At a premium, A cougar weighing pounds was killed in Briges valloy by James Fercin, aged S0, A large number of {mported song birds were turned 00se in & méadow near Beaver- ton, They seemed dolighted to regain their freedom and at once rose bigh in the air, singing gaily, and then made a wids cirelo and settled along a erook which runs through the meadow. Two hunared will bo addod to their number in a fow weeks, Iiven rattlesnakes live to a wonderful old age in castern Orogon’s healthful climate, The [ast Orogonian states that mr. Darnell hus the tail of a ratilesnake in his possession contawnivg fifty-four rattles and a button, it seoms incradiblo that a rattlesnake could at- tain tho age of b years, sot the rattlos were there to prove it and w een by numerous citizens, net the Oregoman ploneer, California, A polico station has been planted in heurt of Chinatown, San Franeisco. lwprovements to the amount of £1,000,000 15 10 be made by the railvoads at Sucramento. Wild hogs ave very plentiful in the west- orn part of Novada county, and furnish good sport to the hunters, One of the auimais killed recontly weighed 200 pounds. A Sucramento genius has evolved a five escapo in tho shape of a toboggan stige, It 18 uu ivon flame circling rouna o post. Tho surfuce is smooth, 5o that the stide will not gather a harvest of steel sliver: Jacob Primer Loes, the founder of the city of Sun Francisco ana “the pioneer of piot- eers of California,” died in a hospital in* San Fraucisco a few d. az0. Ho wasS2 vears ola, He buut the first house in San Fran- cisco in 1836, and killed deer and bear where 500 of that city’'s bUSINess SLroets are HowW. e madoe a great deal of money during s life, but lost it in s later years, he covote bo law, which was passed 10 help sheep raisers, promises to cost Califoruia deari Oune hundred thousand dollars have been paid out 10 nino months as 20,000 scalps have been turned in and ® paia foreach sealp that is certified toas kitled in the sounty whore it is prosentod. Kern county lhieads the list with ove ) coyotes slain. The next legislature will probably repeal the law and compel cach county to pay out its OWIl COYOLO mOne, tho ippe Su “I have just attack of the rip this ves 0. Joues, pablishor of the Tex n tho latter cass 1 lain’s Cough I siderable suc recovel a cond vs Ale. James Leader, Mexin, used Chamber: medy, and I think with con buly being in bed a littie over two d uinst ten days for the first awtack, Thesecond attack 1 am satisfied would have been oqually as bad us the first but for the use of this remedy, as 1 had to go to bed in about six hours after being struck’ with it, while in the first case I was abls 10 attend to business about two da) before zetting ‘down.’ 50 cent bottles for sale by druggists. e MILITARY MATTERS. Gossip About Ofilcers Hkted Men ¢ only 1,100 vacaucios in tho en- thof the army at the present time. Thi Il the more gratifyiug in view of the excellence of the material which is being secured by the ofiicers in chargo of recruiting. A roport from Valentine, Neb., says that the civilian physicians at that point have lodged complaint with' the secre of war that the Iort Niobrara medical officers have destroyed their (tho civilians') practice and in muny instances taken patients to the post hospital for treavment. The matter is being ed by the secretar There are now on filo thivi tions for the vacant brigadier The gossip of the War depar General Schofield favors General Carlin, cretary ISlkins favors Ge A Carr, enator Manderson 1s urging the claims of General I"rank Wheaton and Senator Haw- ley is pushing General Forsythe. Ordnance sergeants will hereafter be as- signed to posts by the chief of ordnance. "The secretary 6f war has reported to the senate that the militia force of the United States is 111,048 officers and enlisted men. The number of men in the country available for military duty is 8,567,258, ‘I'he Overman court martial came to an end last Thursday at Cieveland. Judge Sanders and Colonel Gardiner made eloquent pleas for the accused officer, and the judgo advo- cate, Captain Myrick, contented himselfl with citing the law. Major Overman is now in Washington, unaer the orders of the War department. listed streu investiga iino appli eneralship, went is that Slduney. Androw Gillyspis, wao was rom company D, Twent, ort Du Chesue, U, T, uoy B, sam> oinea here on [Pebraary Privato John Campbell, compan: L Twenty-fivst infantry, returaed on the 13th inst. from a three months’ furlough. Albert B. Schofield and William 'L, Moore who were enlisted by Lieutenant Stamper at Husungs, Neb, for company A of the ‘Pwenty-first infantry joined here ou the 13th, Commissary Sergeant Otto W, Heiurich, who was assigned to duty at this post by War department orders, arrived here last Saturday. Sergeant Frank F. Rooney, company B, roturned last Sunday from a three months furiough, which be has been spending in Denver. A warrant has just been received here from tho secretary of war, appointing Corporal Julius Jensen of company C sergeant major, Twenty- tirst nfantry. ~ We heartily con- gratulate Sergeaut Major Jensen on his Land- some chevrons, Private William S, Sprague, company C, was discharged frow the service on the 16th inst. ‘There is much regret felt here over tho loss of Lieutenant Almon L. Parmerter, whoso promotion to a first linutenancy in the [ourteenth infantry bas taken him from the Twenty-first infantry. General order No. 1, A, G. O, 1892, has just made its appesrance here, and is of great interest, showing as it does, that out of the thirty-six sharp shooters in the army of the United States for the target yeur of 1801, whose averagze por cent firing with the rifle, was 80 or over, 89,14 being the highest miade in the army. T'he post has the honor of having two, viz: Captain J. W, Duncav, Twenty-first infantoy, 50.71, and Sergeant James Shivlock, company A, Twenty-first infantry, with 80, Liocutenant and Mvs, Brooke gave a most delightful party av the Post ball on Tharsday eveniog, the 11th inst, in honor of Colonel Horace Jowett end Gamily. The ecarly part of the evening was given over to the votar- 105 of terpsictiore, after which came pro- gressive high five, saven tables being in use. ‘The couuters for winuers wero beautiful and unique, consistiug of tiny bells, crescents and medalions pendahit Lo baby ribbons of all colors, The prizes were exquisite, among them belng an imported Japanese Harl Karl sword. The fortunate winners were: First vrizes, Mrs. Jocelyn and Lioutensnt McAn: drew; second prizes, Lieutenaut Morrow and Mrs. Jewett, After cards came a delicious repast, such as was to be expected from & queenly hostess like Mys. Brooke, Fort D, A, Russell, Major Bacon, Seveuth cavalry, was at the post last week for the purpose of investigat- g the caso of Corporal Martin Walsh, whose discharge was recommended by the post commauder for lending money to enlisted men of the post at the rate of 20 per cent per month interest. Lieutenant Dowdy left the post last Wednesday for Fayetteville, Ark., where he is to report for duty March 1 as professor of military science and tactics av the Arkansas Ind ia1 university, Oa account of the illuess of his wife Lieu- tenant Muir has asked that the order direct- ing him o proceed at onee to Fort Omaha be suspended thirty "»‘d’ y Sergeant Major Wilson has just completed discharzad tinfantry, at 4 for com- a roster of noncommissioned officers of the regiment, ono of which will bo sent to each sergoant major in the army. Privato William Done, troop F, Ninth cavalry, reported from furiough at this point without meaas to join his station. Transpor. tation and subsistonce to Fort Robinson, Neb., were furnished him, A Board of officers cons Colonel Y. K. Brady, Seventeontn infantr Major V. Havaid, sirgeon: Captain O Roberts, Scventeonth 1nfantry: Captai V. Waiker, assistant surgeon, and Fir Lioutenant 5. Chynowith, Seventeenth in fantry, has been ordered to'convene at this post March 1, 1802, for the physical and men- tal oxamination of appointees to the United States military academy. ting of Lioutenant Fort Riley Mr. Gesrge Buford of St visitiug with Lieutenaut J Seventh cavalry, Miss Gertio” Wilson of Leavenworth 1s visiting with Mrs. Captain Henry Jackson. Licutonant and Mrs. Piorco left last Vi for Watervlier arsenal. Captain C. A, Varnum, Seventh cavalry, was troubled with the “grip! for a fow d but 18 now able to 0t his rations regularl ant Joseph Kansky was discharg nlisted in D troop, Seventh cavalr v 13, Private John Dolan, now on_furlough, has trausferrea from B (roop to 1 troop, Seventh cavalr k bus only nine montns to serve before Joseoh, Mo, is F. Bell, adjutant, Seventh and will iarling- Nolan,' X troop, cavalry, bus served iis ' five vears tey anothor five with Captain B ton, commanding I troop. Thoe following promotions and appoint- ments have been made i C_troop, Seveuth cavalry: Corporal Frank Stevenson, to be woant, vice Newport discharged; Private I'red J. Russell, to bo corporal, vice Steven- son promoted. Private Francis O'Donnell, A troop, was discharged, 1 consequence of expiration of term, on Wednesday last. General vih, Major Whiteside and Captain B returned Monday from Denver, The officers’ hop given was a brilliant affair, Joseph Risse, after a ten yoars’ service in voop, was discharged Tuesday, February Risse left, Wednesday for his home in Tuesday evening Soventh cavalry (Captain 1. A. riington), can hold its own with most any troop in the sery “Chere are at present fourtean men in the troop who have served from ten to twenty-nino years. I'ho month of January was a very fair one for the canteen. Declared dividends for tho rler ending Docember 31, amounted o ‘e mess hall ot §183.2), baod 805, hospital corps company of in vattery A, Second artiller Fourth' artiliory, $67.58} ond artille #}LIL T'here are several tine pieces of horse flesh At this post owned mostly by officors of tho Seventh cavalry. Liouteiant W. J. Nichol- son is the owner of a_ promising “-ycar-oid Licutenant i C. Bullock 15 training a old Allen Ru 1L filly that is hard to LicutenantJ. C. Gresham'’s 2-year-old illy by Alien Russell is a beauty und bus commenced to show her breeding. Lieuton- unt L. S, McCormick has a colt that will com tho young- are favorably with any of sters, Postinaster Hugh Bolin takes great pride in showing his bay filly sired by Challiss Major C. Tisiey loft Wednesday for Omaha where ho will report at dopartment headquarters before taking station at Fort Robinson. Licutenant Sedgwick Rice is now in com- mand of I3 troop, Soventh caval Lisu- tenant Rice was trausferred from the Twenty-second nfantry and joined the Seventh cavalry June 10, 1856, "Sinco that time he served constantly with his regiment and received favoraole” mention in general orders for meritorious conduct and gallantry in the battles with the bioux, Indians at Woundaea KXnee creek and the mission at Pine Ridge. Lieutenant Rice is worthy of the nonor and K troop is to be congratulated, The ladies of the garrison are determined that nothing will hinder them from enjoying lifo during the cold months. It1s oue con unual round of pleasure und to keop wack of he separate events would take up all of one man’s time_in bunting up data. Last Satu day the ladies of the post gave an *at home artys ‘'lie whole force was out and from what we can icarn the Limo was enjoy- bly spent. Nirs. Piarce of the ordnance de me ve a farawell tea to her numerous rviends at the post Thursday ovening, Feb uary 4, in the hall of the adniinistr. tion” building. The affair handsomo aged. Progressive euchre is sull tho ne with the ladies at the vost, and on_this occasion it w boartily indulged 1n, Mrs. Gfford of the Second artillory was the hos tess at tne “young ladies luncheon’ given Thoy were all there spent a very pleasaut evening. Chaplain D. R. Lowell has received a gov- ernment stereoptican and proposes o iiu: trate bisdectures hereafter. T'he scheme & new one and will_probably be appreciated. Chaplain Myles Moylan, Soventh cavalry, is anxiously awaiting his promotion as major 1 the Tenth cuvalry. He has commenced packing his goods and will ba ready to leave at a moment’s notic rt MeKinney. The followifig changes have taken place among the noncommissioned officers at this, post tho past week: Sergeant Niel McCun, Joseph Potts ana Henry H. Grave, troop C, xth cavairy, dischurged by expiration of term of servics Corporals Frederick Pove and William Servars, troop C, Sixth cav- alry, prowoted scrgoants and Privates Wathan Ilimore and Arnold Baker, same troop, appointed corporals, Corporal Heury P, Capnon, company I, ighth infautry, discharged ~ by expiration of term of service ana re-enlisted in same company. Corporal John Baptiste, company £, Eighth infantry, has been re- tired after thirty years service aud has taken his departure for Califoraia, intending to put in the rest of his life in that hiznly favored country. Private John Shuter "bas been transférred from troop C to D, Sixth cavalry, and appointed & trumpeter i’ the last named troop. Company E, Eighth infantry, gave a dance to Coporal Baptiste on Friday nignt, which was largely attended by the many friends of the corporal, all of whom wisbed him God speed and good luck ou his leaving the ser vice, Corporal Baptiste has spent the past twenty years in the Fourth and Eighth in- fantry, on the frontiors, taking part in most of the Indian troubles in which our little army has been engaged during that time, Suow fell continuously from about 2 p. m., the 10th, until aboutv 2 &, m., the 12th, more than a foot deep on the level being on the ground when the storm ceased. It must be fathoms deep in tbe mountains between the post and the end of the railroad, and in con- equence thereof the mail that before the torm reached us occasionally has about qu it altogether. Preparations are being made for starting up the sauw mill about eighteen miles from the post. It is ruwored that Troop H, Sizth cavalry, will be detailed to out and saw lum- ber for the next month, but 1t is doubtful if they can reach the mill while the snow 1s so deep in the mouutains, Lieutenant C. P, Terrett, Eighth infantry is expected L0 arrive at the post on the 17th nstant. Licutenant Te belougs to the skeleton company K and will not find much of s company hiere to do duty with, al- though this is its station, on paper, Capta n Toumas Withelm, Eighth infantry the ouly DELICIOUS Flavoring Extracts NATURAL FRUIT FLAYORS. Venilla ) Of perfect purity. Lel Of great strength, [ Economy In thelr use Rose etcy) Flavor dellcately &nd deliciously ae the fresh frulte | poned, the weather being other momber of K is on recruiting service at St. Paul, Minn Licutenant Terrett joins after a long ab sence, having heon dotailed on recruiting duty in September, 1830, tor two vears, and on the expiration of his detail having apnlied for and obtained a loave of absence for four months. The provosed woli hunt that taken pla was to have o last week was unavoidably pos tirely too severe for anything of the sort. Thera are plonty of wolves in these parts to hunt and_some of them are not four footed animals either. Fort Nlobrara. ohn Malady, formerly of the Fifth oa reenlisted at Fort Logan, Colo,, for the s cavairy and loft this post on February 8 for Fort Washake, being assigned to troop B, Sixth cavalry Private Joseph Berben, troop G, Sixth cavalry, was discharged on' Fobruary 7. Bov- ben had been for a long timo in the PostCan teen. rivates Manyan and Hamilton, troop A and Privato Towson, troop £, Sixth cavalr, were dischargod the servico of tho United States, per expiratiou of term of sory First Licutenant B. K. Wost, cavalry, and Sergeant Harrigan, troop B, arrived at this post on the morning of Februs ary O and will proceed to soveral towns in the states of lown and Nobraska opening regimental recruiting stations, Major Dallas Bache, medical director of the Department of the Platte, arrived here 01 February 7, inspocted thesanitary dopart meut of the post and left for Omaha on February § Licutenant Colonol Stanton, pavmaster, arvived at tho vost February 6, paid the 1r00ps of this command on tho 7th, and left the post the same evening. Private Bdward Boyd, troop A, and Ser geant William R. Logen, troop K, were dis- charged from tho service of tho United States per expiration of term of sorvice, February 10, Both mon had excollont dis: charges. Captain Charles porter, having returned to duty, Second Licutenant E. T. Colo was relieved from duty with company B. Sixth Jighth infantry rt M . Firat Lioutenant Farrana Sayer, who was expected here on_the 15th, has been granted another month’s leave. In order to comply with recont general or- ders extra s‘wrml duty men are now per- forming guard duty. It keops one busy here keeping track of the weather, It has_been all the way from 102 below 70ro to S0° above during tho past weok. Private Wi on, B troon, Kighth cavalry tried r utly by court martial for running © while on pass, was released Thurs- day by telegraphic instructions from depart ment headquarters, Privato Herbert Taylor, trocp E, has beon havged on surgeon’s certificato of disa- rivato Max Franks, A troop, has boon discharged by purchase, ho having deposited $100 for that purpose at the time of the Chilian trouble, it MeNamara, 1 troop, leaves us 4, having served the required num- ars to _entitle him to an honorable piece of sheopskin Oficers’ Iycoum meetings aro held every ening at the post hall. Captain regular and intorosting that has beon produced since curation of the series. difficulty is experienced by the con tractors in furnishing horsos for the Eighth cavalry. Out of 675 horses examined only thirty-two were accoptod. teags euralgin Cu 1in Fifteen Minutes, M. J. S, Sturtevant, editor of tho Waupaca (Wis.) Post, says: “Last night Chamoerlaiy’s Pain Balm cured my wifo of neuralgia of the face and tooth in fiftoen minutes, We wonld not be without it.”” 50 cont bottles for sale by Gruggists. The ladies connected with the Croche wish to thauk in this public munner the ladies and gentlemen who kindly donated their time and services in the very charming and suc cessful play, entitlod A Box of Monkoys," Wednosday evening, at Germania hall, Tho ladies s0. 1o acknowledgo tho Kindness of Shivericic & Co., Dewoy & Stone, the Morse Dry (ioods company, and My, H. M. Biiss, for stage fucnish Dono- huo, for Horal decorations World-Herald and the Excalsior due notico of the entortainmont.” They are also'indebted to the business firms who gon- crously advertised in_tho prozram —thereby assisting materially in the procecds of the entertainment. Mr. J. H. Esthill, prosidant Morning News Co.. 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