Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 25, 1892, Page 5

e A ~ d THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY PULSE OF WESTERY PROGRESS Present and Former Movements of Real Estate in Oalifornia. HELD ON AND REALIZED A WILLION Progress of Irrigation In the West—The Burlington Extem n to Montans—Rich Finds in Nevada—Sammary of Hap- penings in the Northwest, The earthquake shocks experienced in porthern California during the past week were particularly disastrous in the town of Vacaville, wherealarge number of build tugs wore wrecked. The damage st other points was slight. No lives were lost as far #s known, but the old fright was vitalized anew. The fear of earthquskes is universal among the older, sud especially the timia residonts of the state. Oue-half the build fugs of San Francisco are monuments to soismic apprebensions. To & stranger the wumber of massive blocks of wooden build ings1s astounding, and if he enquires the reason why, the invariable answer1s “fear of earthquakes.' Low buildings and fire traps are characteristic of Caiifornia cities, due 0 & weli-founded fear of an upheaval. For twenty years the people enjoved immunity frow carthquakes. Duriug tbat period fear had almost vanished, and bundreds of mag- wificent buildings were reared in cities morth and south. The record of Californin earthguakes be- gins with the oponing of the present ocon- tury. On the 11th of October, 1800, & shock was noticed, and two more on _the 15th. 1In 1808, from the 2ist of June to the 17th of Juiy, twenty-one shooks were noticed at the Prosioio of San Fraucisco. Since that date, &ud prior to 1850, only 1wo Yyears are men- tioned iu which earthquakes occurred. Tne most important shocks mentioned in the Jesuit archives occurred during the month of September, 1812, It overthrew the build- inp wt the missions of San Jusn Capistrano 1 Los Angeles covnty, and that of Puris- suna, in Suuts Barbara county. The num- ber of persons killed is variously estimated &t from thirty to forty-five. Mauy of the buildings destroyed were of stone and ce- ment. A number of lives were lost ana buildings destroyed at the mission now known as Mission Viea. From 1550 to 1855 sixty-six quakes were felt iv the state, but no serious damage was done. In a shock in Sacramento on the 1ith of March, 1860, it 1s recoraea that there was a most violent shock, the vibration causing the church beils to toll. One of the severest shocks noted Francisco, was on Ootober 8, 1865. Many of the buildings were fractured, but most of these were evidently insecure, built upon made lands on the city’'s front. The shock was followed by a condition of continuous vibration which lasted for about ten hours. One of the heaviest and most disastrous uakes had in modern times ocourred March 6, 1872, 1t destroved the town of Independ enoe in Inyo county, aud there was & great loss of life. The shock was general through the state, although it seemed to center at In- dependence. Sinoce that time thore have been & great number of shocks, but they did mo furtber damage than loosen plaster and ¢ muke dishes dance and stop clocks. Rich Prospecting in Wyoming. The San Francisco Chronicle roports that 9. A. Denoen of that city is $1,000,000 better off as & result of a sale of mining claims in Wyoming, which be had regarded as valve- less. They arelocated inthe Wooa River mining district, Fremont county, Wyoming, nd were taken up by Deneen and Billy hompson, su old-time prospector, in the the spring of 1885, About that time Deucen ‘was superittendent of a lurge cattle ranch in Wyoniing, the property of Harry Oelrichs, & trother of Herman Oeirichs. As Deneen now tells the story, he locoted the claims as ® mere *lark,” and never expected Lo realizo snything from them, Deraen says thut Billy Thompson was a frequent visitor at his ranch house, and was continuaily sighing sbout the wealth that was hiaden beneath the surface in the Wood River mining district, about 300 miles north of Oelrichs’ ranch. Thompson bemoaned his fate that e bad o one Lo stake him so that e could strike a mine. One day, purtly from commiseration for Thompson, Deneen iuformed bim that he would not only grub-stake bim, but would mccompany him on & prospecting tour. Old Thompsou would not secept the proposition unless Deneen would agree i0 mocept one- haif the proceeds of the expedition. They set off together and were gone for soveral montns, during which time the twain lo- cated about o dozen promusing claims, The expense of holding them all was something more thau Deneen had bargained for, so he released those that gave the least promise and retained six of the claims. Thompson, with the eye of an experienced spactor, deciared that “‘thar was & furtun D them claims.” Deneern, however, on sev- . @rul oocasions, was ou_the eve of roleasing claim to the locations, but he had & su- rtitious feeling about letting them go. n several occasions Deneen had been of- fered #,000 for his munes, but he did not thing that was & sufficient inducement for Yim to part with them, slthough he admits that if the offer had been aoubled he would bsve gleeludy accepted it. The claims are rich iu copper, siiver sud gold-bearing ore, but as the district has pot as yet been de- veloped to mny great extent, to properly work the mines would reguire the invesi- ment of large capital in San Progress of Irrigation. Anv important report will soon be issued vy the agricultural department detailimg the re- sult of investigation of the arid region. A line drawn north and south uhrough the middle of North Dakota to aud through the middle of Texns forms tue eastern bouudary of the arid_regions. There are millions of mores which need only to be irrigated to make them wonderously productive. In the lust ten years euough progress has ‘been made in irrigation in California, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Montaua, 1daho snd Arizons 1o show the eutire feasibility of the Tuthe last seven years the United tates hus increased the area of irrigablo land by 5,500,000 acres. But the greswer aotivity 1s seen in the wth of important brdraulic works. The d under *“‘ditch” is reported for 1801 an estimated ares of 15,280,207 wscres. The furgest proportion of this will be made vail- sble for use in the nextyear, sud by the time of the opening of the World's fair the * s njtea Stutes may anticipate the cultivation by meaus of irrigation of at least 17,000,000 acres of laud that within the last decade has been declared by lesrned authority as wholly Irreclaimuble. Under projected works or partially con- ptructed nearly 5,000,000 acres may be added, making in all as now reclaimed or in prooess of reclamation not less thau 25,000,000 acres. At present California is st the tront in the matter of hortioultural products, but the pid growth of fruit culture as stimulstea ¥ irrigatiou and the uctive profits are caus. ing the rapid plantiug of large orohard areas I~ Colorado, New Mexico, northwest Mon- tans, easter Washingion, soutbwestern 1dabo and south central Arizons. ‘ -4 Moving on Montana. A large number of prominent oficisls of the Burliugton bave been skirmishing sbout Moutans during the past ten days. Their movewents did not escape the sttentiou of the press, hut the fuot thatthey emulsted She clam indicates thattle trip was not one of pleasure. Among the number were Gien- eral Manager Merrill, Genoral Froight Agent Genersl Westeru Agent bheldon, Superiotendent Haslings, Passen. Asevt Konyon, and several subordinates Omaha and Liucoln. The ubject was 01004 at the lay of the land &ud plan for right of was into cities on the Moutans ex- tension. Thut the Surlington will tap Mon- tana before the close of 1845 is o louger in @oubt, It is more than probable the road xxu cross the Moutana line this year. The Iy mystery is, what city is the objective ut. The Great Falis Leador asserts st the company will build to that eity, sud that the work of copsiructiou is about o begin st thet point. This would indicate that the Dillings route 1s & go. 1t 1s asserted with equul positiveness st Butte thet the eun 1iue 15 Bended for tusl poiat by way of irginis City. This wallies with iformation piven Tux by & gentleman conuecied with the construction foroe. Sutte m\d' seem o be the most advantageous point for the new roma to strike. It is the business ocenter of the state, and the route to it would open up a section of country now wholly dependent on stage and wagon for transpor- | tation. But these are mattors of which the company is well informed. What airectiy juterests Montana and Nebraska is the cer. | tainty that they wili have direct rail commu- | nication within two vears—a consummation | that must prove decidedly profitable to the commercial interests of both. n Big T vadn. Probably not since the big strike on the Comstock lode has such excitement and activity been witnessed in Nevada us is now | prevalent in Pioche over the exceedingly rich gold sud silver discoveries reported from Ferguson, Lincoln couunty. The first big find was reporied in November, 1501, but it recerved little oredence owing to the many previous similar reports which bad only proved & delusion and the ruin of many seek- ing to mequire riches in & short space of time, The first miue located was the Monkey Wrench. - This claim has been sunk to & depth of sixty feet. The ledgoe is five feet wide, with an eicht-inch streak of high grade silvor ore, which continues the full depth of the shaft. The eight-inch streak covtaips born silver aud runs up into the thousunds of ounces 1o the ton, while the average of the five-foot ledge is sixty-four ounces of silver to the ton. The next claim is the Thistie. The shaft is down 140 feet, and very high mssays have been obtained from 1t, while ihe average of the ledge, which is fifleen feet wide, is 142 ounces in silver per ton. Next comes the Hunter, owned by Cassedy, Roeder & Conway. In this the shaft is four feet wide and hus been suui to & depth of thirty-two feet. The ore assays ninety ounces of silver and $14 iu roid per ton. The Magnolia, the richest mine of the dis- trict, and the one which has caused the greatest excitoment, 18 owned by Ferguson, Manning & Cohn. They have atisined a depth of forty-three feet and @ four-root ledge continues the full depth, which aver- ages 8600 ir gold and 1,184 ounces of silver per ton. Picked sampies from this mine have gone $3,000 in gold and 1 At present there is a stunding offer of $100,- 000 for this property, but it bas beeu refused by the owners These new diggings, in addition to the al- ready developed resources of Lincoln county and southern Nevada, it is believed will re. sult in the construction of the proposed ex- tension of the Union Pacific from Milford to Los Angeles. Mount Hood as & Public Park. S8 The Alvine club of Portland, Ore., wants the government to reserve Mount Hood for a public park. The lands included in the plan are s0 mountainous that they will never be needed for settlemont. Itis true the sides of this fine mountain are heavily timbered, and therefore extremely valusble to specu- lators, but it 1s mainly because of the exis- tence of the forests that the aemand for reserving the land has arisen. Mr. S. I Blythe of Hood River says on the subject “The peopie of this valley are much in- terested, or shouid be interested, in having the lands surrounding Mount Hood re sorved from smie by the government We have s robie river flowing through the valley, which rises in the heavily tim- bered country surrounding the mountain, The river is capable of supplving water for irrigating purposes to the whole valley, say fifteen miles long by about five mile in widih. We have s climate here unexcelled for health, and the fruits of Hood Hiver valley are of superior quality. All of these conditious might be changed if the lands at the head of the valley and surrounding Mount Hood ur allowed 1o be denudoa of their forests.' Special Agouts Savery and Looms huve ia- spaoted the lands that have bsen mupped out by the Alpine club for a public park, aud are preparea to make a favorable report to the government. The National Park. Senator Carey of Wyoming has introduced a bill authorizing the secretary of the iu. terior to lease tracts of grounds in the yel- lowstone Nationsl park, not exceeding three acres in extent for not more than fifteen years, on which may be erected hotels and outhouses and suck other buildings for the use of the public, but the leases ure not to include the geysors, the Yellowstone falls, the grand canyon of the Yellowstono river or the mammoth Lot springs, nor suy land within a quarter of # mile of suy of the great curiosities of the park. Steamooat leases are also provided for. The secretary of the interior 1s_given authority 1o fix rates ut hotels, etc. He may also rescind leases, subject 1o the approyal of the Wyoming district court, sud is niso authorized 1o negotinte with 1he Yellowstone PErk commissioners for securing the Lracts of land for lensing purposes. Montsus Minernl Lunds, Ap smicable settlement of the disputed rights of the Northern Pacific and miners to certain mineral lends in Montaua now seems certain. Under the railroad land grant the compauy claims title to valuable mineral land within the twenty-mile limit. Known mine- ral lauds were excluded from the grant, but after the limits of the grant were defined ud before the road was completed, mineral was discovered on the disputed 'and. Efforts were made to convey title to the company through tue Interior department, but the op- position of the miners prevented fiual action. The matter is now before congress. The company &grees Lo compromise by tRKing other lands in lien of the miueral land in controversy, and 8n early settloment is ex- pected. Wonderful Hot Springs. In the process of development, no one factor at the present time is atiracting more attention to certral Wyoming than the Aloove hot springs,abuut thirty miles south- west of Casper on the North Platte river. They are attracting aitention in the west as well as the oust, trom the act that the tem- perature of the water is 8o hot that eggs can be boiled and meat cooked. the temperature being 165 fahrenheil, and the volume of the water, flowing from thirty or forty springs, would make s good sized oreek. Tbe springs ure surrounded ou all sides by wild and picluresque scenery. AL this point 8 company of cupilalists are about to erect oue of the finest hotels in the west. Wyoming. Wyoming is & rustler aud no mistake. Saratoga has orgauized a flour mil com- pany. The state bullding at the World’s fair will be adorned with Laramie made glass, The Blanchard smelter deal with Cheyenne peopie hangs fire snd 18 liable to fall through. The Big Horp war did not disturb the cur- rent of life at the Gold Hill diggings. Tne residents kept right on digging. During the vesr ending Maroh §1 the Laramie postoftice did a business of $10,697, au incresse over the preceding year. Natrous county is looming up in the sheep and wool business. It is estimated by those in B position 10 know that at least ¥,000,000 pounds of wool will be clipped here and shipped this spring. Funds for the proposed Episcopal nathedral at Laramie sre pouring v in suflicient vel- umne to insure success. The bullding will cost §60,000. Of this Larsmie is expecied Lo put up $10,000. The remainder will vome from friends iu the east. South Dakota The Monitor property was sold to the Homestake company for §20,000. Municipal elections in Hill towns were lavgely in favor of the democrats. Tue mid-month shipmest of bullion from the Homestake snd sssoclate mines amounted Lo $300,000. Ex-lndisn Agent M'Gilliouddy was snowed under ms s candidate for msyor in Rapid City. The complotion of St. Jonu's Episcopal church & few dsys ago adas anotber place of worship to the number now in Deadwood. E. M. Eerso, & machinist in Deadwood, s0id & muneral claim i Movtaus 10 the An conda compsuy for $26,000. He took the claim two vears ago iu exchauge for & loau of $200 muge Lo & friend. Fvery candidate for municipal office in Sioux Falls in sempathy with probubition, was euthusiastically defested. Water has its uses, bul it won't work us & political - rigaior iu 8 @ivorce ceuler. Moutana. The coul output iz Montans for 1801 was 582,000 tons, an increase of 09,016 tons over the preceding year. A large body of copper-silver ore was un- covered in the Lexingion mine in Butte. 1t is estimated that the Chinamen who worked the Lost Guloh piscer mining dis trict iast year cleared $55,000. The Great Northern western extension 18 now compieted ninety seven miles west of Kalispeil, and within ten days trains will be running to Bonner's Ferry. The Davis will contest did not come up for trial in the Buite courts last week. By agreement of counsel tho trial went over til the next term. So far efforts to effect a com- promise have not been sucoessful The Sapphire & Ruby company of Mon tana, limited, which is to work the sapphire fields on the Missouri north of Helena has filed its articles of incorporation with the secretary of state. The capital stock of the company is £450.400 in £1 shares. ldaho. A gold ledge was discovered near New- port. One of the burelars who participated in the Boise postoffice robbery confessed the crime The Mine Owners association in the Coeur @'Alenes is going to meces. The effort to reduce miners’ wages from §5.50 0 § is doomed to failure. Tdano Falls is tohave an Odd Fellows' or phaus home, & government experimental sta- tion and & westher bureau station. Buildings for ull of these are 10 be erected this summer. And in addition to these public buildings the town 1s to erect a §7,000 school house. The lessoos of the Star mine, near Hailey, are jubilant. They have run 56 feet on a veiu of ore 6 010 fect wide, 10 to 22 inches of which is clean 170 ounce galona ore. The remainder 18 good concentrating ore. As 500n s the roads are iu condition shipping will commence. A cleau up of $22,000 was made at the Gold Hill mill at_Quartzburg week before last. The Gold Hill is undoubtedly one of tue greatest gold mines in the west. It is by long odds the greatest paying property in Idato. The lowa ton-ftamp, at the same place, will resuine work this summer. A lurge number of placer mines on the banks of Snake river at Glen's Ferry will be worked ths For the past two years several claims havo been worked. Two men in one of them 100k out §1,000 per month by the slow rocker process. Mining will however, be carried on now with improved machinery for working the gravel rapidly Nevada, mulliplyin Creameries state Pioche is exc the vieinity Eureka expects to cel Fourth with snow balls There are 106 students 6t the Stewart in stitutenear Carson—Shoshones, Washoes and Piutes The rise in the Humboldt river has flosded the cellars of Battle Mountain to the depib of & foot or more. Indians have been holding a big fandango ot Blko. A large number of red men from California were in attendance. The Nevada prohibition party is making a brave strugzle against the universal demaud that all water availuble be used for lund irri gation. The remains of soldiers Indenendence are soon to he disintered und rapidly in the ed over rich discoveries in the glorious the bodies shipped to San Francisco, where the will be buried in the National cemetery e, where the graves will be properly marked and cared 1or. Altuough there ‘is less than the usual stock of sLOW up_in the Sierras the outlook for the rauchers in Nevada is by no means bad. The frequeni showers have o satu- ruted the ground thut crops of ail Kinds will get an early stari aud will therefore e of & height 1o pretty thoroughly snade the ground before the hot weather of summer comes. Along the Const. Portiand had & slight touch of the sesmic | tremeus. The old time greoting, *Suake, pard,” is tabooed in California society. Eugeue, Ore., offers a purse of $100,000 for 8 raiiroad from that city 1o the sea. At @ railroud meeting held recently in Graugevilie, Wash., the farmers of Camas proirie agreea to give §i50.000 worth of wheat 10 the first railrond company toat would buiid to Cawas prairie, providea it built within two years. The life of & policeran is uot a happy one. A Portland cop who attempted to arrest a aisorderly fellow had u narrow escape from being idusped. The tough picked up the policeman and ran away wilh bim. He was rescued by citizens after a livelv chase. The site for the Great Northern bridge over the Columbia hus been finully selected, near the Voice place, nine miles below Wen- sichee, Wash., Euogiveer Haskell has been ordered to select & site for u temporary bridge across the Columbig, 1o be used while the permanent bridge 1s being constructed. Three holes have been bored on the pro- posed postoflice site in San rancisco. The Tesult bus been a convinomg demoustration that & bog formerly existed there, and that uo safe foundation could be secured without driving piles and filing the space beirween witn cement, work tuat would cost &t least $700,000. Iu Spokane tbe farmers aluisnce and In- dusirial union have consolidated, and ar- rangements are nearly complete for the establishment of an_arricultural implement house at Spokave. It has een incornorated with a capital of $100,000, divided nto $50 shares, and $25,000 his been guaranteed by the alliance. The lnst few days have seen an end of the shipments and planting of olive trees in southern California for this vear. The season of olive-orehard planting began in Januapy, and there nave been shippea from Pomons ulove since thut time between 450,000 sud 470,000 young olive trees, while there has beeu & lurge demuud for trees that could not be filled Immigration is so heavy into the Palouse country i Wasbington ihis year thst the ncreage will be incrensed over” that of last year by 20 per cent. Computing from last year's proguction, whick was 12,000,000 bushels of all kinds of grain in Whitman county, ana allowing for ihe increase, Lo- gether with au increased production per acre, it is & couservative estimate to place the vield of 1502 at 20,000,000 bushols. Fruit is wiso in prime congition, especially around Colfax aud on Snakoe river. Near the moun- tains it is & little backward, and may be burt some by frosts. kurly vegetables are on ihe market. i O One Minuze. Oneminuto time often makes & greit dif ference—a oue minute remedy for bronohitis choking up of the throat, lungs, etc., of ourse s & biessing. Cubeb Cough Curs is suck a remedy, For sule by all draggists. Cubeb Cough Cure—Oneminute. FATAL FALL OF AN 1REON GLEDER. Death Tukes Part in the Laying of & Corner- stone at Holyoke, M Houvoke, Mass., April —A shocking accident occurrea during the exercises at- tending tbe cornersione laying of the Young Men's Christian association gymuasium this afternoon. Au iron girder, weighing & ton, held iu place temporarily by & brace, gave way under the weight of the crowd which bad climbed up to get & good view of the ceremomies. It fell without & moment's WArDing, CRrTying with it & lot of timbers. George Merritt, 8 wealthy young man, was crushed o death. Mrs. H. B. Terry, wife of the cashier of the South Hadley Fulls Natioosl bauk was burt iv Lbhe back and head. . E. Nasb of this city heaa and becs in- jured severoly. Twelve oLbiers were move or less seriously Aniumfl *resident Gates of Amberst coliege was speaking when the accident ocourred snd there was instautly io in the crowd, Women faiwted and & force of police was called out 10 keep the people buok. When the iujured had been extricuted from tbe ruins the ilev. W. G. Winoe closed the ceremouy wilh & prayer for whe injured. He asged divive blessing on the buildiog and prouounced the beuediction. : —~_— Dr. Birney, nose and throat. Bee bldg —————— - Drunkeaness, A disease, treated as such and perma- neutly cured. No publicity. No infirm- ary. Home treatnent. Harmless and effectual. Refer by permission 1o Bur- lington Huwkeye. Send 2o swmmp for phiet. Shokoguon ChewiculZCo., urlingion, la buried at Camp | APRIL 25, 1892 An Omaha Traveling Man's Observations | in the Prohibitien Btates. | A Casunl Comparison O Kansas and Ne. braskn — A Novel Sign on & Black. Reversal of Fo. wmith Shoy | litionl Sestiment, | | Ixperexnesce, Ksn, April 20.—[Special |t Tue Bes|-Two yeurs ago when | Nebrasks was strogglie with the question of pronibition ve high license {1 was en attentive listener and | careful reader of all the discussions of the “Kentucky colonels” aud Mr. Rosewater, | and while 1 was not fulty couvinced by Mr. R. thet probivition in Kunsas was a failure, peither was 1 of the Kentucky opin- | ion that 1t wus a bowling success. It has re- mained for a persousl examination extending over oue-half the state and takiug in fully 100 towns and cities 1o estatlish in my mind | that prohibition, as exemplified in Kansas, is a most extraordinsry travesiy of the name prohibition. The first town I made in Kansas was | Padonia, u village of 100 inhabitants. It bhas 8 barber shop whioh coniains @ looking | giass, a regular barber's cuair, several com- | mon chairs, two small ronud tables, and | about twenty cases of beer und, incidentally, | two packs of well worn cards. ' This barber | shop (1) runs dey and night und especially | Sundavs. | Another town of 500 people, not fitty miles from there, was happy in the possession of @ | drug store, the proprietor of which assured me that he suld twenty cases of baer & woek, | ana the sight of eight or ten empty beer | cases ut the depot BWALLINE the tram was as- surance that th® statemeut was not over- drawn. Another druggist kept 8 bottle of “glycer- ne’ uncorked on his prescription stand ail any. | uskea its use and he told me to watch &ad see for myself. in twenty minutes ful five persons handed iv piut or balf pint bot- tles. A teaspoonful of glycerine and the ba ance whisky made sn_absolute remedy for | sun i w sume decoction | ®iso cured cases of fr | summer. I have made it & pomt before leuving & town to inquire: “Can I getanything to drink here?” 1 have yet to be introduced to the Kansas town that liquor could not ue ob | tained in—and in @ large majority of the | towns in o number of places, ana with tne fuli knowledze of a large portion of the 1n- habitants, From now on whenever 1 shali hesr suy Jecturer, mule or female, descanting on the advaotages and glories of lansas under the beneticent aud fostering e of the prohi bitcry law, I shall betieve that either they simply lie o are fools and consequently to be | " From careful observation, I do not think it would be u excessive statcment to suy that thero are today more pluces 11 Kausas where liguors ure dispensed thmu there is in Ne- | braska. Tuose poople who read this state ment and who have been’'broucht up to be- lieve that aull Mrs. Gougar and the colonels claim is absolute truth, will assert at once that the statewent is false, To all such ] have only this to say, that I am an absolutely temperate man and no liguor of auy kind has passed iy lips in vears, 1 have the good and welfare of the temperance cuuse as much at beart s some others I could name who go blathering around over the country doing us much evil as they do good by their persistence in statements, the correctness of which they have no actual knowledzo of, and which, whon guestioned, thev ouly answer with abuse and tirades against chuwacter ana busivess hoaor. ‘Between prohibition and the opening up of the Indian country southern {ansasis having & nard time. The people have left everyibing and tlocked to the border in the hope of securing a farm pr towa lot in a future vity and business bas largel sufferea tnerevy. Excepton the exireme uthern surip and bordering ou the “nation’ you meet with few towns thut can bs called Drosper— ous. Undoubtedly, bowever, with the settie- mont of these unoccupied sirips there will come o reaction. Peonie will become more settled and Kevsas, like the traditional rose, will biossoms. and With the raiegation of pro- hibition to Kentucky and the adopl wise laws for the control of the liquor dealers there 1s no reason why Kan: should udt b me second 10 none of e states. Traveling on the rail” cne meets with o0dd incidents. The nther day two iadies i looking out of tne car window observed the mile posts on the Missour: Pacitic ralway Ou this roud they are murked like thy 105. MILES TO OMATA. Tuese ladies failed to reslize the sigm- ficance of tbe decimal point and their mearks convulsed the car, but wholly cblivi- ous_tey finally aecided that Omaha was 1,053 miles and St. Louis 4,832 miles, and the iadies confidontislly informed us that they had no idea thet Omaha was 50 fur off. Southern Kansas possesses a curiosity { thut Onieba should buy and place iu the city | ball to remind our councilmen thut brovity (ns woll as silonce) is golden, This cur- iosity consists of a sien board placed over s blacksmith snop. The owners name is A. Black. Inorderto suve expense and fully 10 utilize spaco and 8150 10 convey in as few words us possible the fact that Lis name was A. Bluck and that be run & blacksmith suop be fiually evolved his production A, BLACKSMITI HOP, 1 could not ascertain whewner Mr. Black had received any mssistauce from eitner “Our Jerry,” Bei Clover or funston, but judging from tneir productions they un doubtedly gave bim aid. Tamno prophet, but if the opimions of bundreds of people 1 have talked with go for anytung, you will see a radical change in the ropresentation of Keusas in congress. Tew of the wesiern sisies have bhad as fine s lot of meu to represent them as Kan- sas, Znd white the people feel keenly that they ure not wholly to blame for being new the laughing stook of the United States, yot when they have anotber chance, and send sewin the men who bave heretofore been an Lonor to the siate, that the difference will be appreciated by thinking men and greater nonor will redound. Ksusus will aguin take its place far in the vau as au intelligent, progressive and influential siate. As if its cup were not already full to over- fiowing, Kausas is unfortunate iu having backward spring. Winwr wheat is uot oo an average bigh enough 'to bide s meadow- iark, and the acreage is Mhper cent less than last year. This is nov intended &s & “bull” argument but simply to illustrate ttie old sayiog that “misioriunes never come singly’ (vide Jerry, et al). The time at hand and in fact has al- ready come, when it cau no louger be denied that Omaba is the largest, busiest, most go shead and euterprising ¢ty ou the Missouri river. We will admit Uka® now, and for the next iwelve months, Kausas City bus and will bave more hogs sud gaitie thuv Omabs, vut after that we will cluim the “whole hog," secoud only to Chicago,apd rigni sfier it with & sbarp stiok, and, only & guestion of time before we write first, ‘“‘top of the heap' and sundry otber xpressions 1o show that Omaba is the largest dive stock markes “ou earth.”” « C.FE Now is the time 10 tak¥ & good tonic medi ciue. Hooa's Sursaparilla possesses the great- st merit, and is & popular fevoriie. e Dr Birney cures caturrh. BEE bidg e ——— NEBRASKA CENTRAL. Benefits That Wil Kesult to the City from Its Bullding. Without doubt the subject that is atiract- ng the most siteation from busivess men &nd real estate owpers is the Nebraske Ceu- tral proposition. Wherever tbree or four are gsihered logether the matter is sure to Le brought up and diecussed in ull its bearings | und 10 & degree that proves how importent it 1s reguraed by property owners. George N. Hicks comments ou this subject iv & letter to Toe Bee as follows : 1 am coustutly aeked by property owners when we will have an sotive resl estate markel in Omaus. This inguiry is not cou- | Bued 10 Lhe larger real esisle owners, bui HOW KANSAS LADIES READ MILE POSTS | «L0ST" IN BLEEDING KANSAS | | | | | present time. comes mammly from the smal! ¥ owners, moen who have invested the little moans they in one or two lots with the idea that the advance in property would enable them 1o sell out at & moderate profit and invest their money in & home. 1 have invarably told these people that an active real estate market in Omana was not probable until im- portant public projects of a sufficiently large ature 10 concenirate the attention and tract eustern investors aud manufacturers 10 this city were under way. ““There is no genaral wave of real os! Prosperity sweepiug over the west at the There are dozens of cities onch trying in its own way 1o attract the st tention of ovtside invesiors, and the city that forges to the front and nmes & lead- ing position from now ou must aevelop from within her owx borders large local or public enterprises. “The Nebraska Oentral railrond proposi- tion, if put throurt at once, will come nearer 10 causing & general revival und advanoce in real estate than auytling that has been con- templuted here during the last ten yeurs. East of Jefforson square and exteuding from Dodge street north there is a | amount of valuable property that bus b dormant for years. The owners do r.ot know what todo with it. They canaot sell, as there is absolutely no murket for it it cannot be improved 1o advautage, st is neither resi- dence nor business property, 1T'he Nebraska Central proposition contempiates the con- demnation and use of & large share of this property. Tho estabhishiment of a splenaid union depot with railway terminals on the ground taken for that purpose makes a mar ket for the surroundiug property and setties for ail time the future of this poruon of the city The money realized from the sale of all this ground and from the sales Lhat will neces- sarily be made of the adjoiving pro will all find its way back into other chatv of business. One man will builda hom avother will take the money realized from the disposal of his property here nad erect a business vlock on some vacunt lots he may OWn, OF iuvest in some other portion of the town. ‘The purchase of the necessary right-of- way through. tbe city will throw & large amount of money iuto the hands of hundreds of small property owners. While the build- ing of the bridge and a double track railroad through und around tue city into § Omuha will give employment to hundr our iaboring men e benetits (important as they are to the, real estate interests of this city) that will re- sull directly from the acceptance of the Ne- braska Central proposition, are ail dwarfed, however, by the s:ill greater mood that will result from the building of & new competi tive railrond oridge, with 100 miles of track tothe northemst, conpecting and bringing several different lines of railroud into this city, and one here, out into the state, muking Omabha the ereatest railroand center in the west. attracting copitulists and manufac- turers and causing a prosperity i business circles generally that will result in just such anothe rienc ra movemeut as Omabn expe- d from 1850 to 1886, he interest on the bonds voted will be more thun repmd to the city in the first vear by the consequent advance in valuation aud taxes recerved.” . e Ladies, lndios, thivk of the engagements You have broken nua the disappointments consequent to others aud perbaps also lo yourselves, all on account of bLe.dache Bradycrotine will cure you in fifteen minutes FOR THE CHILDREN'S BUILDING. How Nebraska Will Ralse Hor Share ot the Funds Needed to Erect It at the Falr. Mrs. Briggs, one of Nebraska's representa- tives on the board of lady macsgers of the World's fair, uas issued, with the approvui of the proper state officials, tho following address to the superintendents, principals and tenchers of the Nebraska public schools : To the Suporintendents, Principals and T mchers in the Public Schools of Nepraske 1 bave the honor Lo inform vou that the com- mittee on grounds ana buiidings of the Worla’s Columbian exposition hove granted spuce for the erectior of n buildmg to be kuown as the childran’s building, and to be located betwoen the womsn’s and horti- caltural buildings ut the exposition grounas, Chicago the same to be erected by the nouorable bourd of lady mauagers of the World's Columbian commission. The space indicated ‘by the chisf of construction is to be reserved for sixty days, dating from April 1, 1892, on condition thut by that time they (the lady munagers) prove to the satis- fuction of this commitiee that they bave suflicient money secured to evect o suitable buiidiLe sua to wainta the same. 1t is estimated that the building will cost 20,000, he ariount of tiis sum apportioned 10 our state to reisc is $400. The children’s building will contain all that will contribute 10 the comtort and huppiness of voung peo ple, ana also such an exhibit us wiil tend to disseminate the newest and most vital tuought concerning the weli-beimg of chil- dren, both in the home nd at school, their proper diet and clothing considered from a scientitic and bygenic standvoint, their liter- uture, games and amusements, aud sl th may conduce 1o the natural and happy de- velopment.of toe physical, moral and mental natures of the men and women of the future Mothers whose children cannototherwise be cared for can leave them in the chilaren’s building, where Creche and otner associa- tions will assume the care of the young visit- ors, furnishing suitavle refresiments and ministerng to their wants with the tenderest of care. Oider children will be under the direction of kindergarieners Groups of cuudren of suitable nges will ve entertuiued by stories and exhibits. iu the playroor tors and gumes will be provided i short, this building will be devoted en- tirely to children, Your representative as lady manager from Nebraska bus been ivited by the honorablo voard of lady managers of the World's Columbian commission 10 assume the re svonsivility of raising the wbove smount as Nebresia's shere. 1t seems 1o me to be emently appropriate and fitting that the children of tbis great commonweaith be invitea to furnish thus means, They can do no better than 10 en- gago in this lsudable work of patriotism, and with the permission of the proper sutbority of the stute of Nebrasks, 1 do herewith most cordially iuviee every scholar in i~ tendance Bt our public schools to con- tribute 1 cent for b purpose, and bereby name Werdnesday, May 11, 1502, as Lhe day sel apart by the state superinten- dent of public instruction for making ilis collection, and 1 would also invite the hearty co-operation of the teaches in this matier. With absolute coufidence in the result, I am wost cordially yours, Mus, Jonx 8. Buicas, Lady Manager This movement and the means adopted for securing ibe funds necessary 1o carry it out bave the approval of the State Department of Education. A K. Gouby, Superintendent Public lustruction, LixcoLy, Neb., April, 1592, 1 bheartily endorse the above plan and shall be glad 1o co-operate in Guy Way. FHANK A. FUT2pamioiox, Superintendent City Schools. Oxana, April 22, 1892, A circular letter embodying the above facts, containing the additional iuformation us to the manner of collecting and forwarding all moneys collected, together with & guarautee for the safe dispursement of the funds for the purpose for which tbey are ruised, will be issued and seut out 10 teachers throughout the state s 5000 &5 Lhe same can be priuted. On the mend— the consumptive w’hnl‘:dgnul berelt of judgment a good sense. 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