Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 4, 1892, Page 5

" v | | g » - THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1892 PULSE OF WESTERY PROCRESS | The Juggling of Ooal Rates Provokes Vigorous Denunciation. IN PROSPECTS IN THE BLACK HILLS Extent and Value of Pacific Const Fisheries— Major ¥ the Arid Problem—Overshadowing Wealth of 0'Ka Land ogan. Conslderable feoling is manifested throughout the west regarding the recent advance of the Union Pacific tarift on coal. Butte is particularly warm, denouncing the raiso asa blow aimed atthe smelters, as woll as at private consumors, The victims donot mince words, but vigorously econ- demn itasa “squeczs,” a ‘robbery,” for which thereis no excuse or justification. The Rock Springs Independent charges the company witha palpable violation of the interstate commerce law, and reads the riot act 1o the oftending officials. Tho new tarift makes the freight charges on coal between Rock Springs and points on the Montana Uunon rallroad .25, and the advance charges, or price of Union Pacific coal at the mines, $1.25, making a total charge to the consumer of $.50 per ton. The old tariff also made the total charge &5.50 per ton, but it was divided into $1.75 for the coal, and $4.75 freight charges. The prico of coal 1o all other points remains at §1.75. “The effect of the new tariff,” says the In dopendent, “is that it knocks the private mine operators out of the coal trade of Butte and all other points on the Montana Union. Boventy-five per cent of the coal for this pont has been furnisbed by the private mines here, o stato of affairs that evidently is not relished by Superintendent Megeath, who has taken this method of freezing them out of that territory. No private mine can sell coal at $i.25, nor could the Union Pacific do 50 1f it hiad not the opportunity of getting back the 50 cents reduction on coal by add- ing it to the freight charges. It 1s simply taking it out of one pocket and putting it foto.another.” The Independent further charges Megeath with sharp practice in making the change of rates without giving the legal ten days notice, and asserts that ho is pursuing a policy suicidal to the company and damaging to the industrial interosts of the west. Arid Lands. In an exhaustive letter to the press Major Powell, who for twenty years has had charge of government survays in the west, contends that the proposed cession of arid lands to the respectivo states and territories, on the plan outlined in Senator Warren’s bill, will not solve the irrigation problem. His long ex- perience and knowledge of the irrigation re- glon ond the years of study given the ques- tion of irrigation, lends Major Powell's opin- fon greater weight than that of any unpro- fessionnl man 1n the west. He points out that “'in thearid regions of the United States, as in all arid regions of the world w here ar- tificial irrigation is used, there is always much more land than water: that is the water is insuficient to serve ull the land. The limiv of irrigation, therefore, is in the ‘water supply, not in the acres; consequently, agricultural values of the arid region inhere / chiefly in the water, and only to a slight ex- ~ tentin the land. Land with water rights is & property of much value; land without water rights is @ property of small value. For this reason it is necessary that farmers, while acquiring titles to lauds, should also mequire the right to the waters necessary to perve the lands, and this condition is funaa- mental to prosperity. It is thus important for ail furmers and gardeners in the arid re- gion to consider the questions: What water rights do I own? How are they defined! and by what agency can I protect them!" His plan of solving the great problem is thuse terscly outlined : 1. The whole subject shouid be turned over to the people, to be controlied by local self government. 2. There avo about 150 natural districts, eacn one containing a body of timber lands, a body of pusturage lands, a body of irriga- ble lanas and a source of water supply. Kacn of these districts should have anindependont. organization and make its own laws to gov- ern all theso values. The districts can be ily defined by natural boundaries. . Iuch district should organize by electing ftsown officers and establishing its own court, with general supervision by state of- ficers and the right to appeal to a state court. 4, These districts should have the right to select und desiguate the lands to be irri- gated in such 8 manner as to economize tho water to the greatest advantage; but the right of present farmers and landholders should be primarily and permatcatly se- cured. 5. In such districts the people should make their own laws governing the distri- bution of water and regulating 1ts use so as to avoia waste, 6. Whero it is possible,the farmers should coustruct their own irrigation works. so as o be independent of water compauies, . Wheu it is necessary to employ water compunies as it mav be when large streams are to be controlled or great reservoirs con structed, such companies should be author- 1zed to store and carry water, but not bo the owners of water. The farmers should not buy water or water rights of the companies, but only contract for the delivery of water, he compunies should be carriers, not 8. The companies should have no right to decido to whom the water shall be deliv- ered. Such rights should be in the hands of tho farmers. But,on the other haud, the companies should have the right to coliect proper charges for delivering water, as per contract. Whon in stress of dry seasons an fusufiiciont amount of water is procurable, how this water shall be distributed should be controliod by the oficers elected by the peonle, and not by the company. 9. The people of each_aistrict should bave control of the forests of the district, tu order that they may proverly use the timber in their industries, properly protect it from fire and waste, say how the timber shall be m‘.\r. in order best to protect the water sup. V. PG, The people in each district should bavo the right to coutrol the pasturage lands, and such lands should be held by the people in common 0s pasturage lands mnd bo used only to such an oxtent us not 1o injure tho flow of waters to tho irrigable lands. The control of the pasturage lands in the interest of irrigation 1s fur more important thun their control in the interest of stock raising. In a letter to the Cheyenne Leader Mr. I, N. Morgan of that city poiuts out the wal dofects of the Warren bill. He say: first that to secure title to the 15,000,000 acres of land within that stato the people of ‘Wyoming must within ten years provide the svm of 150,000,000, or just §,500 for eac man, woman and ohild of ber 60,000 popul ti00, veing §250 per capita for each year of the ten. ‘I'his money cannot be socared ou tho credit of the state, for the constitution of “'_}olu!nl{ limits state indebtedues: ho writer next shows the futility of the section o1 the act which aliows the arid lands to be mortgaged to raiso funds for reclamation purposes by usking how much money could be raised on mortgage of land 10 whbich the mortgagor has no title ana to which title could be obtained ouly after tho expenditure of $150,000,000. Tha interest, % Mr. Morgan, supposing the loan to be nogouated at 5 por cent, would be §7,500,000 8 year, which the peoplé of Wyoming would have to pay. Auother objection which the writer points out is in the section of the law whwrpu- mits all lands not supject to reciamation and useful for pastoral purposes only to bo a portioned or leased Lo actual settiers in tracts pot exceeding the lauds lyiog con- u{unul or adjacent to such settler’s law- ful claim or entry of land. This means that the person or syndicate who at the time of the passage of the sct had eatered 100,000 scres of land could uire in addition as mueh more under such stipulations or at lulurlua as the legislature might pre- Black Hitls T Development of the tin interests of the Black Hills is not confined to the Harnoy Poak mines. The owners of the latter ha erected a reduction mill at Hill City, and the machivery is now being placed. It is ex- pected that practical work will begin within sixty duys. Like activity prevails ip the Nigger Hill district, and” it is cootidoutly rted that the latter will sur) Harn, F:h Present workings oom of t«‘n{ shafts of an average depth of fifty feet: nu- merous oross and open cuts, in all of which the ore body is exposed. The vein averages four feet wido between porphyry walls and is almost vertio: Sampies of ore were taken from each opening. Some of the poor- est in appearance were pulverized and from 114 pounds of puip 30 grains of metaliic tin wis obtained; this being equal to 3 4-10 per t. By selecting or sorting the ore, tons upou tons can now bo taken from the dumps of the various claims owned by the Boston company that will give 20 to 25 per cent tin per ton. Iu all probability suitable works will be erected in the near fnture to treat the ores of the district, says the Deaawood Times, With prosent openings a plant of 200 tons daily capacity could be easily kept in opera- tion. Nigger Hill was the first section in the Black Hills in which tin was found, and with the exception of one or two companies, all the development work has been done by the prospector, who located and still owns the ground. If one-tenth of the capital spent in the Harney Poak rogion could have been di- verted to Niggor Hill, the results would have astonished the investors and the district would now be producing the white metal 1n commercial quantitios Pacific Const Fisheries, According to a late census bulletin 13,850 persons are employed in _various capacities in thoe fisheries of the Pacific states. The data pertains mostly to 1888, At that time thero were £),495,230 invested in the indus try and thoe value of the products was 503, Of the persons engaged in the fish s of the states of California, Oregon and Wasbington, 5,338, or 33,54 per cent, are to be credited to Catifornia, Of the capital in- vested, $2.054,210, or 4131 per cent, repre- sented California interests, and of the value of products, $4,40 , or G057 per cent, ac- crued from tho sale of fish and other marine objects taken by the citizens of that state. ‘The fisheries of Oregon rank next inim- portance to those of California, giving em- ployment to 4,052 persons, or 4351 per cent of the total number engaged in the three states, the capital invested amounting to 206,032, or #5.34 per cent, and the products 1ding €1,0: , or 10,18’ per cent. There were engsged in the industry in Washington 3,830 persons, or 2 per cent of the aggregate number of employes in the Pacific fisheries. The amount of investment was 81,017, 5 per cent. The value of the catch was #590,860, qr 13.05 per cent. The canning of salmon is the most import- ant Bshery industry in the Pacific states, and the capture of salmon in many places 13 wholly depondent on and tributary to the canning business. Of the sixty-throee facto ies, eight wero tocated in California, thirty four n Oregon and twenty-one io Washing- ton. The quantity of frash salmon utilized in the preparation of the canned product was 41,632,223 pounds, for which the fishermen ved §1,783,2 ‘Te cained goods con- sisted of 622,037 cases, worth §3,703,835 at the ruling market price Black Rilly er Resort. Ravip Ciry, S, D, Avril 2.—Word has been received from Captain Clay, who has veen east for several months, that all ar- ravgements have been completed for carry- ing out the plans of the Upper Rapid City company during the present year. Last year the company, composed of Chicago, Cincin- nati and Kentucky capitalists, secured 1,600 acres of land three miles west of the city and at an expense of 50,000 constructed a dam forty feet wide and over 700 feet iong across Kapid river, where it flows through one of the most picturesque canyons of the Black Hilis, The Iake thus formed is the largest body of water within several hun- dred miles of the hills and forms an import- ant part of the plans of the company. It will furnish water power for the electric motor line which the company will buud at once to their property, for a system of elec- tric lights, and also for manufacturing pur- poses. Excavation for a 0,000 summer hotel, on the bank of the lake, will be com- menced at once and_another large hotel will 2lso probably be built this year. The lake has been provided with row and sail boats, and a large dancing pavilion has been built. Itis the intention to make it one of the famous summer resorts of the northwest, though it will take several years to carry out all the plans already arranged for. Montana's Bullding. Montana’s building at the World’s fair will be & beauty and no mistake. The architect- ure is modified Grecian. The building will cover an area of 6ix124 fect, and contains seutes of parlors, roception rooms, oflices, vestibule, lobby, corridors, labatories, wain exhibit room and gallearies The material is called staff, manufactured, modeled aud moulded on tho ground, at the buildings, so as tv couform to the differant architects’ designs, and is used for its peauty and duribility. The coustruction general will consist of heavy balloon fram- Ing, morticed, tenoned, iron-strapved, pinned and blotted together, estimated to carcy 300 pounds pressure to the square foot. The skylight or dome opening over the exhibit hall and gallery will be constructed of light iron, dome shuve, glazea with ornamented, fluted and colored glass. The skylight is not only a pleasing feature to the exhibit hail, but furnishes abundance of light to tho interior as well as thoroughly ventilates the exhibit hall and gallery. The octagon dome over the main entrance lobby will be constructed of light won, wlazed with colored and fluted glass, is dome lends a pleasing feature to and thoroughly lights and vontilates this part of the building and arises to the height of forty feet. Fancy Figures in '49. During the gold craze in 49 in California clerks in stores and offices had muniticent salaries; $5 a day was about the smallest sti- pend even in the customs house, and one Bupust preacher was paid $10,000 a year. Laborers reccived £1 an hour; a pick or a shovel was worth $10; & tin pan or a wooden vowl &, and a butcher’'s koife $30. At one time the carpenters, who were getting $12 a day, struck for §16. Lumber rose to 8500 per 1,000 feet, “‘aud every brick in @ house cost §1, one way or auother.” Wheat flour and it pork sold at $0 a barrel, @ small loaf of bread was 50 conts, and a hard boiled ogg You paid I to get into the circus, and &5 for a private box. Mon talked doliars, and a copper coin was an object of antiquarian 1aterest. Forty dollars was the price for ordinary coarse boots; and a pair that came above tho knees and would carry you galiantly through the quagmires brought a round bundrea. ~ When A shirt became very dirty the wearer threw it away sod bought & new one. Washing cost 815 & dozen in 1540, RRents wera simply monstrous; $,000 @ month in advance for & *'store” burriedly built of rough boards, Millions in Sight, Creede, Cripple Creok, Jimtown and other yOuUng mining camps iu the west are consid- ored the richest and most attractive in the country, The former is said to have shown as bigh as 1,000 ounces of silver to the ton, Cripple Creek boasts of ore that netted §3,000 in gold per ton. But thesa camps, rich as they are, cannot be compared with the pock- ots of minoral uncovered in the great O'Kan- ogan district of Washington, if reports from that section aro true. A disvateh from Con- conully says “tho largest and richest flnd yet made was In the Black Bear on Palmor mountain near Loomiston. A streal of free gold was found oarch 15 in the 110-foot level that will run from 30,000 to $100,000 per ton. Sheri¥ Rush, who Wwas on the ground at tio time the find as made, stated to & reportes Lhat there was o mitlion in sight.” ‘The Kocky mountan mining camps must bump themselves considerably if thoy hope to come within hailing distance of O'Kauo- gan. Stock Growing Luterests. ‘The annual meeting of the Wyoming Stock Growers association will be held ia Chey- oune this week. The meeting oxeites much discussion, owing to the war raging between the association and so-calied ‘“‘rustiers.” In his annual revort the secretary of the asso- clation thus summarizes the “year's work: “Duriog the year there were shipped from Wyomiog to South Omaba 53,330 head of caitle, Of this number 1L8) hoad were strays. The proceeds of 5,011 were remitted direct by the commission Bouses. The ship- ments to Chicago from Wyoming awounted to 98,575 head. number 4,348 were sirays. ceeds of "1,663 were remitted to the Board of Live Stock Commissioners and the proceeds of 3,785 were sent direct by the ‘commwission hoases to the owners. From other poiats, Denver, Kausas City, Sioux City and Montans Hoard of Live Stock Comumissioners, there have been Of this The pro- recoived in all sixty-four strays: making a total of 16,306 Wyoming strays taken by inspectors at different points. Of this number the proceeds of 5,238 head, amount- ing to $127,243.96, wore sent the com- missioners: of this amount, $113,203.53 has been remitted to owners of strays, 1,043 checks having been issued. It will be seen by the ahove that the balance in hands of the commissioners amounts to $13,040.73, raskn, Jossie Dudek of Wauneta was severely burned by falllng into a vat of slacking lime. Four-year-old Nellio Hill, residing near Talmage, fell and broke her leg in four places. A Bayard steer was found dead with his head firmly wedged botween the spokes of a wagon wheel. F. B. Stacy and J. at Wayno serving sentences them for gambling. Rev. L. pastor of Breturen at Blue shortly remove to Lincoln. A deaf and dumb couplo 1n Chase county had a deaf mute minister come from Colo- rado to tie the knot in the sign lanvunge. Mrs. Emanuel DoVoll of Grafton has sued Patrick Hammond, a Grafton saloonkeeper, for 200 damages for selling her husband | liquor and thus depriving her of his wages. Tne Norden Borealis figures that the eight threshing machines in Keya Paha county threshed 100,000 tushels of wheat, worth $06,000, or about $120 to every family in the county The Columbus Telegram,one of the bright- est little dailies in the state, has enlarged. Eaitor Davis is now an_oil' inspector, bat that doesu’t hiader him from getting out a good paper and it may account for his ability 1o increase the sizo of his sheet. There will soon bo three vacant pulpits at | David City. Rev. V. I Clark has resigned the pastorate of the Congregational church, Rev. Mr, Crounse will go to_Indiana soon, and Rev. Mr. Hands of the Baptist church is about to leave for other tields. Mrs, Katharino Schneider, an Otoo county widow, is in dive distress because hor cow waded into a mud hole in the highway and miserably perished. The widow applied to the county commissioners for recomponse but failed to get 1t and now she threatens to sue for damages. The saloon of William Benecke at Emer- son, was destroved by fire and a ‘‘vag' named Charles Smith was arrested for arson and burglary. Some bottled whisky, cigar: tobaceo, ete., identified by Benecke as his property, was found in his possession. On | nis preliminary hearing he was bound over to the district court. According to the Gering Courler, Scotts Biufl county holds out better iuducements to settlers—who have a little money, es- pecially—than any region west of the Mis- souri. What you buy this spring for $10 or $15 an acro will_be in_a fow voars, likely ouly oue, worth §0 to 5. The Nebraska Independent and the Farm- ors Alliance, the two leading third party papers of the state, published at Lincoln, are to be consolidated, thus eliminating, as the announcement says, “‘all rivalry between the two papers for support and all possibility of clash.’” A stock company is to be organized to run the consolidated business. Two residents of Sergeant Bluffs who had been hunting would have lost their lives in the Missour river at Dukota City had it not been for the bravery of a couple of young men who heard the hunters calling fov™ help. They put out 10 a skiff and found the two men on asand bar upon whbict they grounded, upset and they had lost their ours. Thoy were too badly scared to even give their names, and had it not been for the favorable condition of the night they would inevitably have drowned. According to the Clay Center Gazette- Democrat, Rev. T. W. Spanswick, a re- vival st who has beea operating in that section of the state,is a wolf in sheep's clothing. According to tho paper named, Spanswick left Grafton *‘at the invitation of the ofticers of the church. The reverend gentloman’s general deportment was not as itshould be for a manin his position, and the church thought best to discard him} Since leaving here it bas leaked out that h was, in several differcnt nstances, entirel too fainiliar with tho sisters of bis Congroga- on.’” Rev. Mr. Button was at one time pastor of the Methodist church at IKichland, Colfax county, but he isn’t any more. There was a little difticulty between the reverend gentle- man and some of his flock, and this is the way Mr. Button explaws it in a card he has issued: “The ofticial board did not seem to be satisfied with the very best Epworth league in the county, a growing and interest- ing prayer meeting, 8n increase in church members, but waoted the best and most faultless preacher besides. Because thoy did not have the latter seven men pot their heads together and began to howl and the preacher packed his goods and made tracks for Omaha. Just who howled the loudest is a hittle hard to tell, but Brothers Nelson and Grover are entitled 1o the banner. Thanks, gentlemen! I am now located at a placo where all the members sre at peace with themselves, Remembver God’s word says: *All things work together for good to those who love Him,’ and I feel like a bira that has escaped its cage. Again I say, thanks!” Wyoming. A two-faced cat is one of the freaks at Fort Russell. Having anchored a smelter Cheyenno is now reachiug for iron reduction works, A state teachers’ association was the fruit of the pedagogues’ convention at Laramie. The newly organized Black Diamond com- pany will prospect on North Brush creek, north of Gold Hill, Frank Melbourne, the noted water soak, is sojourning in the state looking for spots to drop a shower or two for its equivalent in cash, A lodge of Cheyenne braves has been in- stituted in Laramie. The members are fairly civilized and will not endanger the peace of the state, “The Cheyvenne Commonwealth opines that capital punishment is ““a_barbarous institu- tion.” True, but isn’t “Kid"” Miller a mur- derous littlo shaver! The latest political novelty in the state is the demand of women for representation on the delegatioa to Minneapolis. Having the votes, what women propose politicians dare not dispose. The Carbon Black Diamond says that the veins of the Gold Hill district so far en- countored and worked o any depth are egg- shaped, which, in the eyes of experts, is & certain sign that the main lead has ot boen found; but in view of the richaess of the ore in these, what might ve termed ‘‘leaf lead: itis positively proven thata rich mineral body underlies the mountain side. This ex- planation may be the result of scientific ae- ductions. But from a practical mining standpoint, everything tends to show the vresence of rich silver deposits at Gold Hill. Dak ‘The excursiomsts from Lincola were given a royal reception in the bills, Custer Cily proposes to keep pace with other hill towns in the matter of reduction :‘\‘olrkl. This will muke the third plant in the e The Rapid City chlorinization plant is practically completed. Workmen are now engugod in testing the machinery prepara- tory 1o starting up on ore from thé Welcome mine, _Rapid City is cultivating a tourist attrac- tion—a wind cave four miles from the city. Passagos have been made connecting the various chambers of the cave, the extent of which has not been fully determined, The cave together with the h(.z artificial lake and hotel will make Rapid City an attractive summer resort. ‘Those among the Crow Creek Indians who acted as scouts and rendered the govern. ment services during the Minoesola mas- sacre in 1502 to 1865 are being paid in Cham- berlain for their services by Disbursing Agent ?lm About $15,000 was paid out and the (udiaus celebrated the event by buy- ipg carriages, horses, gold walches and everything else that struck their faney, baudiog out the money with a lavish band. Montana, Butte's hateb of $125,000 in bouds will be sola May 2. ‘The Germania group of mines near Phil- lipsburg bas been sold for §300,000. The manager of the Western Urion at Gireat Falls was tapped for $200 by highwa weu recently. ‘The ore body ia the Cumberland mine at Castle is the largest in the world, beiug s eaty feet wide. Sunow is beginning to leave the mouutains and prospectors are preparing to Lake to the hills. There areno indications that prospact iog ln Moutaua will be on a larger scale than W. Striker are in jail imposed " on the Sorin United will nsual, but it is thought this.sort of work wiil be about an average. Governor Toolo has jssued a against the quarantiue Wyoming's goyernor. Steol galena ore in large bodios and aver- aging from §75 to §135 per ton has been found in the Anacortes mine at Granite. Tho Stockgrowers assdelation will hold its annunl sossion at Miles Cty, April 10, The Board of Stock Commissioners will meet at the same time. The eyanide process has now been put in operation at tho Revents mill at Pony, Madison county, three weeks, and gives avi dence of being an assured-succoss. One run showed a saving of 85 ner cont of the assav vaiue of tailing, carrying only $9 & ton in gold It 18 estimated that Marcus Daly’s losses of colts at the Bitter Root stock farm this sea son will aggregato $100,000. Fivesixths of the colts foaled have diea immodiately after birth. The best veteriuary surgeons are un- able to ascortain the cause, but consider it to be epidemic. Mr. Daly has over $00,000 in- vested in bis breeding establishment, Great Falls 1s confident that the Burling- ton will be built to that city. T'ho Leader says: he road has an army of men at work in Wyoming now, coming this way, and will probabiy put othors at work at this end shortly, T'he road will be pushed north- westerly from here to intercept the Great Northern near Two Medicine Pass, thus {(nrm\nx connection with the sound and Spo- ane.” protest vroclamation of Utal Ore which assays 710 ouncos in silver has been found on the I’rovo river eight miles uorth of Park City Frank H. Dyer, former United States marshal and first receiver of escheated prop- erty of the Mormon church, is dead. A new mineral discovery has been made by Harrison Edwards at Nine-mile creok, near Manti, which is causing considerablo excite- ment at present. The latest assay shows $40 in gold, two and one-half ounces of silver and 4.63 per cent lead. In the great damage suit of Wilham Gar- Ind et al. vs the Beaver River Canal com- pany of Owden, wherein the plaintiff sets up that becauso of false estimatos made by the company’s survey the plaintiffs were do- frauded out of §125.000, a decision was ren- dered in this division of the first district court atiowing William Garland a lien on the canal to the amount of $79,400 and Cory Bros. a lien of §11,333. One of the finest strikes ever made in the great Tintic mining district is reported in Eureka, the location of the new bonanza be- ing one'mile and a half east of the Greeloy springs and two miles north ot tho famous loop of the Tintit Range railway, within the bundaries of the Nortn Tintic mining district, and in Utah county. A sackful of the ore brought in shows 140 ounces in silver and seventy-five per cont in lead. Several samples of ore were testea in Salt Lake which assayed from §2,000 to £5,000 por ton in gold. The ore came from a new dis- trict at Tooele, a little settlement on the border of the desert, twenty-five miles from Salt Lake. This is supposed to be the mine which tradition says was discovered twenty- five years ago, and the location which Brigham Youug is said to have forbidden the prflsyucmr to aisclose or even to work him- self. Ldah, Wallace voted $12,000 for a public school. Pocatello subscribel $4,000 to the state World's fair fund. New gold finds have been found near Pocatellc. The ore is rich and runs high in coppel The Idalo Register is thrteen years old, but possesses the snap and getthereativenoss of twenty-one. Residents aiong the Columbia and Snako rivers are organizing a . new steamboat liue to revive the transportation on those rivers. As a divorce state Idaho will soon be en- titled to rank with South Dakota. A resi- dence of only six months is required before proceedings can be instituted. A peculiar disease is creating havoc among the horses in the vicinity of Boise. The dis- case is said to resemble what in buman veings is called la geippe. It is very deadly, the stricken animals dying in from four to twenty hours aiter tho appearanco of the disorder. The grand jury at Boise returned an 1n- dictment against George Smith upon the charge of obstructing the Union Pacific rail. road track. Early in February of the pres- ent yoar Smith hid a row with an emplove of the railroad company, and In & spirit of revenge he placed a lot of heavy timber on the track. Tho obstruction was thrown aside by a train. Washington, Tacoma has 8,005 registersa voters. Iron ore has been discovered on the north fork of Grays river. The state land commission bas entered over 70,000 acres of puoblic land for school purposes. ‘Walla Walla has made arrangements to furnish the sound cities with fresh fruit, whicn will replace California fruit. Walla Walla will entertain an excursion from Cleveland, O., this spring, and proposes to refund expenses of the trip to all gwho purchase $2,000 worth of property. Tae Seattle water works, owned by the aity, earned $7,453.35 over all operaling ex penses during the short month of February. This showing ought to evcourage otaer cities 10 own therr water supply system. An electric railway is to be built between Tacoma and Sumner, a distance of nine miles. The right of way is 110 feet wide, and there is a novelty in the announcement that the plans include the conmstruction of sidewalks, the setting of shade trees at in- torvals of fifty feet acd the lighting of the highway by electric arc lamps placed 150 feet apart. The Great Northern company has sent cir- culars to all 1ts preferred stockholders offer- ing them the privilege of subscribing to the extent of 75 per cent of their holdings to $150,000,000 new 4 per cent collateral trust bonds secured by the Manitoba Pacific ex- tension bonds. 'The procecds of these bonds will be used to completo the Pacific exton- sion from Spokane to Puget sound. Oregon, Arlington voted 10,000 in bonds to securs electrio light aud water works. A wave eform 18 ruwing in Portlana which promiscs to wine out the Whitechapal district. ‘The Kiddle nickel mines, situated near tho Oregon nickel mine proporty at Riddle, has been sold to a Chicago syndicate. The contract for grading the projected raitroad from Portland to Astoria was cap- tured by an Ogden firm. The job will cost 1,000,000, The crop outlook in the central Willamette valley is exceltent for & bountiful yiola, The acreage of fall graw is nearly equal to that of 1801, when a puenomenal crop was pro- duced. A rich find in gravel ‘diggings has been made at Auburn, The lucky discoverers sunk a shaft to a deptn of eighty feot and after breaking through what was supposed 10 be bedrock they came vuto a heavy de- posit of gravel which prospects wonderfully rich in gold. J. W. Draper, a shrewd young lawyer of Oreeon City, has captured 'a snug fortuae. By examining the records e found no titie to Rock Islaud in the Willamette river, op- posite Oregon City, and promptly filed on the land, The price paid for the island 1s not much more than #10, pud for that sum he secured property that controls the water power of Oregon City, 83d puts in his hands a fortune estimated at #100,000. California, Heury Miller, probabky the largest land- owner in the San Joaquin valley, was forty years or 50 8go & butober boy, with scarcely adollar of bis own, He individually con- trois over a million acres now, and 13 be- lieved to be worth between $30,000,000 and $40,000,000. A large and elaborate piece of sculpture was placed over the malu eutrance of the new German baok building in San Fraucisco. Ivis o panel twelve woa oue-half feet long and four and one-hult wide, representing Lwo cupids as money chaugers. ‘The front of this bank building is noteworthy, as it is of granite and white marbie. The Peabody mine at Grass Valley is still takiog out the richest kind of ore from the bottom of the shaft, 500 feet down. The mivers here are happy over tho news tele- graphed from Washiagion to Mr. Tregidgo, presidont of the miaers’ association, that the committee on mines had favorably reported Camiunetti's bill to aporopriate §i50, for building restraining dams so that bydraulic mining can be resumed. l Ex-Governor Newton Booth, of California is slowly dying at his home 1n Sacramento, of the same discase which ended the life ot General Grant. Cancer is eating away his tongue and taroat, and for weeks the suffarer has communicated with triends only by means of a_typowritor. Ho rooently con- sulted specialists in New York, but decided that death was preferabie to tho torrible operation that they held was necessary. In tho city of Sacramento a now charter has been prepared and submitted to the tax parers. One section provides for licensing & number of trades, which are enumerated, and thon says, ‘also to fix and coliect & license tax upon all lawful professions, trades or business, not heretofore srecified, having regard in such cases to the amount of busi- ness done by each person, firm or associa- tion thus licensed.” This is broad enough to cover tho licensing of every kind o trade or business carried on in Sacramento Sk Mrs, L. R. Patton, Rockford, 1il., writes : “From personal experience 1 can recommend Do Witt's Sasapariila, a cura for impure blood and general dobilit, ol AMONG OMAHA TEACHERS, Spicy Bits of News and Gossip About the Pedagogues, Back to tho school rooms come teachers and pupils after this brief breathing speil. Some changes will be mado in several buildings, Central expocts a new room and Lathrop will require an additional room to accommodate its new class. Mr. Fitzpatrick roturned Saturday from Chicago. Miss Squiors returns aftor a leave of ab- sence and will bo placed at Lathrop. Miss Carter 1s transferred from Walnut Hill to Castellar, to take the place left vo- cant by the resignation of Miss Chamberlain, Her place will bo filled for the present by Miss Powell, Miss Hubbard of Dupont has resigned her position. Mrs. Kent's friends are encouraged to be- lieve in her ontire recovery. The Omaha City Teachers association was called to meet Saturd morning at 10 About fifty persons responded to the call. Much discussion was oalled forth which amounted to tho proposal of amendments to the constitution which it1s hoped will render tho association less unwieldy and redeem it from its alarming simptoms of decline. The meeting was adjourned to meot on the first Saturday in May. A school report from. Sheflield, England, for 1300-01, bearing the inscription, *‘F'rom Benjamin Folsom, Unitea States consul,” contains the foliowing items interesting for comparision with our own_schools, and also as denoting the educatioual trend of the old world: “The whole of the schools of the board have been made froe, under the pro- vision of the elementary education act of 1801 * * % The effect has been a large iuflux of children intotheschools and greater regularity of attendance. It 1s too early to calculate with certainty what the vltimate result will be upon the school attendance, as the change only took place two months ago. There were sixty-five meotings for hearing the appeals by pareuts respecting notices as to irregular attoudauco of children held at various centers during the twelve months; parents had notices to attend respect- ing 7,102 children, and parents or guardians uprcnmd in 8,370 cases.” The Chautauqua people send out a most inviting anuouncement for 1502, The gen- oral work is of the most varied and inter- esting character. Among speakers definitoly engaged for August is found tho name of J. T. Duryea of Omaha. The department of pedagogy, or “teachers’ retreat,” will be in charge of Colonel Francis W. Parker, the well known principal of Cook County Nor- mal school, Chicago. He will be assisted by his able corps of teachers. A model district school house, completely equipped, will be one novel aud interesting feature of the sea- son. One of the most important depart- ments of this work will be that of natural science under the direction of W. S.Jackman of Chicago. ““Do you enjoy visiting schools?"" was asked two visiting teachers recently. ‘Yesand no,” replied the first. “I cannotspend a day 50 profitably. 1 gain so many points and it's such a satisfaction and help to compare your own work with another’s, but it's very un- comfortable to feel, however politely you aro treuted, that the space you occupy could bo used to such a good advantaze,” The second visitor said: 7 think what I like best about the visiting is that it is about as near as 1 can ever come to walking in unaware upon myself in my own school room. When 1 hear a teacher talking in a strainea, unnat- ural key I say, ‘Do 1 doso.’ When I'see her erowing nervous and, perhaps for that very reason, her movements are awkward and un— graceful, I put a question home. When I find a woman who can ba really a lady while she governs well, I take notes.” Today I saw a teacher whose power seemed to me pos- sibly, to be aided by ber charming personal appearance, anc I said I shall wear my ‘other’ dress to school tomorrow. *‘You see,’’ she went on, her brown eyves growing wide and dark, “if we should place a bad picture before these litue people's eyes and keep it there for 5 or 6 hours a day for a wholo year, we would expect a serious result, but here we are an ever changing pic- ture, snd farther with voice and personality. If a boy does not leart long division today ne may learn it tomorrow or next year, and the result not be serious, but if ho becomes, sees and acquires awkward movements, discord- ant tones, poor taste, bad temper and bad manners, when will he learn better? A north side first A teacher_says that on Monday she will have at least 75 I As. She is probably not the only one who will cry, 40 Shades of Fraevel, Pestalozzie, Come- mius,” O age of great invention, and spirit of Nineteenth century progress, whisper some method by which ono woman can lead, teach and unfold to all these little minds toward knowledge und truth, The many friends of Miss Bruner of Mason will be sad to learn that she mourns the loss of that one friend—a mother, The Educational Review says: *The <Lrong educational tide that 1s setting 1 to- ward tho west * ¥ * is attracting very general attention. * * * The westera civ- ilization may at this momeat be cruder than that of the east. butit is more mobile. It has not outgrown 1ts enthusiasms.” The editor does not attend the meetings of the Omaha City Teachers association, For the Columbian Exposition —let some ingenious Omaha girl who is n teachor maie a collection of drawings and photographic views of Omaha school buildings, within and without, from the first shanty that furnished poor shelter for the pioneer master uod his flock, down to the present achievement of architectural skill that affords comfort to elghtean or twenty teachors and 600 or 700 children. [t would be of great interest in many ways. At the National association last year in To- ronto, Nebraska sent twice as 1argo a repre- s otatioo as & Massachusetts. Will she do herself so great credit this year at Saratoga! At the teachers’ examination this week there were eighteen applicants for the pri- mary, eight for grammar and oue for high school certificates. CHAMBERLAILN 1 REMEDY, Superior to Any Other, Mr. W. J. Mowrey of Jarvisville, W. 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Circular n Omaha by Sherman & MeConnell, 1513 Dod, **Norve Seods, the wonderfyl romely {5 sold with ' Wl all net ox, such % Weak Momir 1088 of powor of U outhful orrors, or | o Tafrmity. Consump. ¥ rtion, Kot Fpack IS CAUSED BY A COLD which settles in anil infiames tho ate tubos leadia othe lungs. It s the beklnning of Bronchial Consumption And if neg! ads to that disoase vory speedily. A sharp, metallie cough necompanio it Take it in timoand you can certainly cure It with SCHENCK'S PULMONIC SYRUP. W BRONCHITIS ctod ich is Without an Equal for and for all discases leading up to aund Including Consumption Dr, Schenck’s NewBook on Diseases o the Lungs, Liver and Stomach, should he in every home, Sent free. Dr. J.H. Schenck & Sou, Pailvielpiiy, A GEN MICROBE KILLERIs KIDD'S GERM IERADICATOR--Curos all doseases beciuso it kills the microbo or germ. 'ut upand rotalled n §2, 5 ani 5 8703, the Intter 1 callons. Sent anywhoro pro. pald on rocelpt of prico or C. 0. D. 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Such personsre also entitled t> pension whether discharged rom the service on ac count a disability or by reason of expir- ation of term of service, Iif, while in the service and line of duty, they incurred any wound, injury or disease which still disables them for mannal labor. Widow s of persons rendering servies in the regular army and navy Stnce the War are FEntitled to Penswon. ifthe death ofthesoldier wasdue to his service, or occurred while he was in the service. Parentsof Soldiers & Sailors dying in the United Statess vice since the War of the Rebel- lion, or after discharge from the service, from a cause originat- ing therein, leaving no widow or child under the age of sixteen years, are entitled to pension if now dependent upon their own labor for support, whether ths - soldier ever contributed to their support or they were depsndent upon him at the time of his death or not. FOR INFORMATION OR ADVICH As to title to pension, ADDRESS P H F\— Bee Burean of Claims ROOM 220, BEE BUILDING, THE SHORTEST LINE T0 CHICAGD is via the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R'y, as represented on this map. crd Clilcicn Electric Lighted, Steam Heat- ed Vestibuled trains leave Omaha daily at 6:20 p. m., ar- riving at Chicago at 9:30 a. m. City Ticket Office: 1501 Far- nam St., Omaha, F. A. Nasu, Gen'l Agent, C. C. LincoLn, Pass. Agent, Privals Europsan Parlis, Under the patronage of Mrs. M. D, FRAZAR, 70 and 71 Globe Blde., Boston. Tour of 80 days, $300; Tour of 50 days, $#400; Tour of G0 anys, §373; Tour of 45 days, 300, ettt a0 10 st with o NowFh e T Mes, Frazar, July % e Boskon) 13, by stoam- 5 daya, $3) ado a4 Gace £OF tals Lour euce. steam Application. and for clroular