Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 8, 1892, Page 5

PULSE OF WESTERY PROGRESS Progress and Pcssibilities of Irrigation De- velopment in the West, A ROAST ON THE WARREN BILL A short Chapter on #lack Hills Tin— Another Race for Land—Sioux Falls Municipal Saloon—Summary of Northwest News. The adjournment of congross placos irriga tion measures on the shelf till next Decem- ber. It is exceedingly doubtful if any action Will be had during the coming short session on the main proposition—the transfer of the arid rogion to tiw respoctive states and torritories, No lewisiation is better than bad logislation. A measure of such vast im- portance, involving the futare welfare of the great arid west, demands careful discussion. A year and a half may bo profitaoly employed by the friends of the movement in #preading the light among tho unenlightened and in devising measures which, if enasted, will solve the problem in a | manner beneficial to the masses of people interested. Senator Warren's bill, proposing the trans- fer of the arid lands by the general government 1o the states and terri- tories, was drawn on the lines luid down by the Salt Lake convention. A ltke convontion in Montana, infiuenced by Senator Thomas Power. pronounced against the principles of the Wurren bill. Various correspond- ents of Tue Bree have av different times pointed out sarious delects In the measure and charged that, if enacted it would create & wionopuly, the effact of which would te disastrous to settlers on the arid recion. The Rocky Mountain News, a stanch advocate of irrigation methods, re- ferring to Senator Warren's recent speech in the senate, declared the measure requires radical reconstruction. It asserts that the “bill involves the hugestiand grab in the history of the nation, without Lope of a yestige of the public compensation that fol- lowed the immense railroad grants. latter opened the way to the settlement of the far west, built towns and cities over an arca great enough for an empire, and pro- moted production on a scale that regulates tho markets of this ecountry and England. Warren’s bill seeks to aivide the bulk of the remaining unoccupied territory of tho Unitea States among a combination of land monopolies. 1n its present shape tho passage of tha bill would bo a public calamity. Too much monopoly constitutes the peril of our time. Legislation should take another tack. “While this swindling bill provides as a cloak to its real purpose that such lands as shall be reclaimed—that is supplied with water for agricultural use—shall be sold only to actual settlers undor tho homestead law, the design of the combination for which Sen- ator Warren is acting is disclosed in section 8 of the bill, which authorizes the states and territorios respectively to mortgage or sell the granted lands, or any poriions thereof, in order to raise the necessary funds for recla- mation. That section opens the way to cor- porate greed for the abyorption of immense tracts of land, the acreage of which will aggrecate hundreds of millions, It was pub- licly stated at Minneapolis, in connection with & proposition commending Senator ‘Warren’s bill, that sixteen wealthy corpora- tions were ready, upon its passage, to com- mence operations in tho region possessing these lunas, The benefits that would accrue to the peop.o from the measure would bo less than nothing when compared *vith the era of legislative corruption and wholesale land stealing that would follow. “The News will hail any honest projeot for conserving irrigation by utilizing the waste waters of tho mountain streams—not more than au eighth of the volume of which is now applied 10 agricultural purposes. But Warren's bill needs ironbound safeguards ag t land grabbing before it should be- come & law. Thus oliminated, 1ts promoters would lose all mterest in its passage.” Irrign Future, The matter of the transfer of the lands is not of such pressing importance as legislation that will prevent water monopolies under existing conditions, The great arid empire is controlled by the general government. All streams penetrating the country have their source in the mountains. The aistribution of the water is progerly within the purview of national legislation. To secure the greater 2o0a for the greater number, legislation should b had preventing the rapidly multi- plying ditch companies from monopolizing he hoad waters. Realizing the profits to accrue from jrrigating ditches, capitalists are making heavy investments, securing valuable rights which in the near future may, unless checked, prove injurious to the sottlement and development of the country. “The possibilities of irrigation in this country,” writes the Vashington correspond- ent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, re- viewing the statistics collected by the census office, “are beyond guessing. The proba- bilities are almost beyond credence. The actual accomplishments to date are cause of astonishiment to those whose autios have made them investigators. Two years ago the census oftice gathered statistics of irriza- tion. There is an outcry now against the correctness of the figures. Doubtless the information then cotlected is out of date, It is only valuavle for comparison with the immediate present, and to show what strides irrigation dovelopment has shown in twic twelve months, The irrigation inquiry of the department of agriculture brings the in- vestigation and returus down to date, and a wounderful revelation 1s made, *This revolution in_conditions forces upon the government new land problems. The law which gives each settler 160 acres and no more does not work well in the development of great irrigation systems. The government has been running a hard race for a couplo of years with the spoculutors 1o keep the latter from gobbling up all of the best reservoir sites, It1s 4 question now which side has so far had the best of the contest. Reservoir sites aro none too numerous. A good site commands the ariu land Iving below its level to the extent of its water supply. That land s worthless without the reservoir's contents and valuable with the water. How sball that land be disposed of ! There is another feature which has ted to a species of blackmailing, The smart plainsman seeing an irrigation company vegin to lay out canals and laterals to utilize & river or a lake on & large scale slips up, files upon 160 acres of the most valuable land aud demands that the water com shall buy out his right at his price. has beeu practiced to such.a degree in the state of Washington that capitul has been ohecked in some of its plans for irrigation works. Tho states of the arid region, quick to feel the chauge of conditions, have within the past two or three years added more or less olaborate irrigation laws to their s utes. ‘I'he genoral government, moving more deliberately, has been overtaken by these growing problems. And now the question is, what shali be done with the 558,141,374 acres > publio lauds ln the arid region! A com- mittee of the house hus split upon the policy. I'hie majority has reported a bill in favor of ing this vast bady of land over to tue @8 and territories within whlch it lios. Phis_would transfer the probiom to local tolution. It would make these states and territorios rich forall time to come, if the gift was rightly bundled, But they would be opea to all the aangers attendant on dis- rmnnn of such a magnificent inheritance. 'he question is still an open one,” ville Keservation, ‘The Colville Iudisn reservution 1n eastern Washington, toward which land bunters are aow directing their steps, s the greatest teservation thrown open to settlemenc on the Paclfic coast for many years. It com- prises 1,500,000 aores, rich in agricultural, minoral, grazing acd timber resources, Toypusands of people have been looking for- ward 10 its u‘)unlnu with great interest. A were hundful of Indians, under the leador- sbip of Chief Moses aud Chief Joseph, not to @xceed (00 in all, nave been holding this Afrom sertlement for many yoars. 'This is not Al of the Colyille reservation. ‘There are in the whole of it 2,500,000 acres, so that the amount to be thrown open is only o little wmore than bulf. Tho 600 Indisns have beon bolding not only the 1,600,000 acres, but all the rest of it for these years ‘The reservation is bounded oun the north by Britush Columbia (Lhat is, the mainlaad), on tho east sud south by 'the Columbia river wud on the west by the Oksnogan. The part to bo thrown open stretohes for thirty-olght miles south of the boun . Much of it s rolilog plateau sud uvearly Hat prairio land | | THE It is coverad with luxuriant grass and well watered. A fow findustriovs Indians have been raising wheat, oats, barloy and vege- tables on littla farms thers, enough to dem- onstrate tue richness of the land, but in all the eighteen resorvations of tho stawe of Washington, comprising 7,120,503 acres, per- haps not 30,000 acres are farmed by them, A Maunicipal Saloon, Several progrossive preachers down east have evolved schemes designed to paralyzo the saloons, One urgod the opening of billiard balls in the basements of churches, coupled with a supply of tomperance drinks minus winks, Another advocated a plan whereby tho attractiveness of the saloons might bo transferred to the churches, but this sugeestion diea a-borning, because nono of the brathren could determine whothor the decorations, the onter pictures or the liquids wero the magnot. A third struck a new lead. He insistod that the [naian method was just tho thing. Poor Lo's tender svot was his stomach. Make bim “‘beap full’ and he is tractacle. The pale face is tender in the same line. Therefore the true remedy was to open gorgeous free lunch houses, and thus check the race to perdition, It sukes the progressive west to originate and oxecute. A blooming wenius in Sioux Falls, S. D., shockod by the evils of prohibi- tion, suggested a municipal saloon. The au- thorities gravely considered it. They saw the joint, the drug storo and tho spoakeasy wax fat and arrogant, while youth and adult writhed, biear-eyed, in the throes of forty- rod. A race of one-eyed peoplo was boing reared by the universal evil of winking. In mutters liquid, truth took to its heels and fabrication reigned. 1f a tippler was hauled up as # witness against a dispenser of budge, he displayed such a weaknoss of memory and vitiated taste that he could not tell fusil oil from the seductive *pop,” nor distinguish a #chooner of beer from a modern man-of- war, Tbe city fathers, roalizing that something must bo done to rescue the people and relieve a vaccuum in the city treasury, bave decided to insugurato a municipal sa- loon. The council committee reports in favor of the estublishment of six city saloons in Sioux Falls, one for each ward; that there bo appointed a saloon superintendent, under whom the working force of bartenders will operate. The saloons aro to pe open from 5 a.m t010p. m. Nothing is to bo sold ex- copt that which can be bonght of Sioux Falls Beer is 1o be aisposed of at 5 vents a glass, while whisky shall command 25 cents a drink. The possivilities of this innovation, its ad- vantago as a political irrizant and its effect on the metropolis of South Dakota, are mat- ters to be developed later, The experiment will be clos2ly watched. Meanwhile, what's the matter with the corkscrew as a symbol ot Sioux Falls’ gettherativeness? whoiesalcrs or manufacturers, Disastrous il Booms. The collapse of various real ostate booms in California has had a disastrous effect on real estute values in San Francisco, At a recent moeting of the Real Estate exchango a prominent member declared that the ns- sessed valuation of city property was 3 to 40 per cont too high. His assertions were denied by others. ‘Tho discussion developed tho fact thao there wera 8,000 empty houses m San Francisco, and rents were at the lowest point. The development of the loan and homestead associations recently has been very great and overy house built in this way for'a nomo leaves a vacant dwelling for rent. One cause of the deprossion in San Francisco and throughout tho state that is genorally iguored 15 the drain of treasura by the Chi- neso. ‘I'be Chinese of all classes sond their savings to the Flowery Kingdom instead of spending thewn in this country. The census guve 71,000 Chinese in tho State ten yoars ago. Their earnigs amount to not less than $20,000,000 yearly of which thrae-quarters is sent home to China. For the thirty years that this has been going on we thus have the ouormous sum of $150,000,000 doported. This huge amount put into proauctive industries would have made the state twice as wealthy and populous us it 13 tod: ‘The officers of the Harney Peak Tin com- pany tartied in New Yotk before their de- parture for Englund and gave a reporter in- formation regarding the mines aud the com pany’s plans, although while in the hills they wero as mute as an oyster. . “This country,” said Lord Thurlow, *‘will not need to import any tin two years henca, for yourimines will produce enotgh tin to last for centuries. The production will saye $75,- 000,000 & year, which this country is paying for tin plate. This enormous sum wiil go into-the hands of the people of this country, _*This company, of which I am the chair- man, and in which New York or American capitalistsjare equally interested, has already built two of the largest and most thoroughl v equipped mills in the world. HKach has & capacity to produce 500 tons of tin a day, and this will bo increased to 3,000 tous aaily should necessity demand it. *“I'wo or turee other mills of similar pro- portions have been planned. We expect to begin to work the two mills alvcady con- structed by October | and to put tin on the markot in commercial quantities. 1 have in- spected tin-making properties in various countries, but I never yet saw such ro- sources as I found in South Dakota.” ebraska. Captain Whitman of Ericson, a veteran of the Mexican and civil wars, is dead. The force of teachers at the York college will be increased for the next school year. The Plattsmouth Herald has been enlarged and O. M. Peterson has become the editor, Oluf Alexanderson has arrived in Wahoo, having walked all the way from New Yorik. The voung laaies of Lyons quarrel over whose 1n0se is the longest, Fne champion length so far found 1s 437 iaches, Ira S, a trotting stallion valued at §1,500, cut a tendon in a runaway At Geneva and was ruined. The animal was the property of L. Steiger. John H Mohrman ofiSyracuse is dead at the age of 74 years, and was_buried by the side of his wife, who died May 19 last. Mr. Vohrman was born in Germany in 1818 and came to America in 15! He was married in 1840 aud celebrated bis golden wedding Just two years ago. Improvemeuts costing 315,000 have been made 1n the Crote flouring mills. The new plant is the largest and most complete flour- g mill in Nebraska aud will huve a capacity for turning out 400 barrels of flour every twenty-four hours, It is expected to start up the new machinery about August 15, Speaking of the Nebraska Development company, the Silver Creek Times savs: “It is the intention of vhe company to blish a supplementary exhibit in the Nebraska buila- ings at the World's fair. The promoters of this schemo have undertaken it for the rea- son that the World's fair appropriation by our logislature was, s everybody kuows, entirelv inadequate, and their prinoipal ob Ject 18 to advertise the products of Nebras| aud to demonstrate on the ground the uses to which they may be put. The enterprise seems to be & most laudable one and deserves eucouragement.” Wyon There are 400 licensed insurance agents in Wyoming. Laramio sandstone building purposes, The caso against the cattlomen will be called in the Cheyenne courts this week, The Saratoga Sun has veen sold to I P, Crawlord and will bereafter be run asa ro, publican paper. The Haho Peak placers are said w0 be panning out rich, “Tho greater part of the ground lies in Colorado, but some rich claims have been found over the line in Wyonaing. The Elkhorn Horse and Land company has purchased all the stock of the Douglas- Willao-Sartoris company. There are sup- posed Lo bo about 4,000 fead of cattie and etween 200 and 300 head of horses, The is In demand for oattle were bought at an averazo of $16 p.r noad and the horsos at #13. Reports from the Rock (‘reck mines aro quite lurid. enst for assay. 782 per eent of gold and 19) of silver. bon 18 the outfitting point for the camp. The proclamation of President Harrison ordering lawless bands to disperse and not obstruct officers of the law created much foeling in Johnson county. It 18 asserted that the president has been deceived, that thore are no bands or assembiies opposed to the law it the country. Oro of the so-called rustlers sent the following saucy aispatch to tho president: “Refereing to your proclamu- tion of July 30th commanding all citizens of Wyomingdistrict to rapair to their respective | avodes, I would respectfully subrit that my homo, the K C ranch, was butrned by tho invaders on April 9th, and 1 have no other home or place to go to, Please say what 1 ] shall do.” | Car- South Dakota, Huron and the adjacent country is sfflioted with an army of tramps. Groat activity pravails in the construction of vhe Yankton & Norfoik railrond. Over 400 toams and nearly twico that number of men aro now at work along the line. The monthly cleanup of the Homestake and associate mines was valued at $300,000. The semi-monthly cleanup of the Golden | Roward works and several cleanups from minor works make the total amount shipped in the neighborhood of $400,000. A handsoms gold brick, weighing 1,240 .ounces und valued at something over $24,000, is on exhibition at the Deadwooa National bank. It was the result of the cleanup at the Golden Reward chlorination works for the last fiftoen days inJuly. 1'he works are pro- ducing nearly 50,000 overy month, Tue Vietoria mine at Carbonate shows ‘up in good shape. The ore is almost solid galena and, although 1o assays havo as as yot been made, oxpoerts say it 13 very rich and one of the best finds of the seaton. The striko was made in a drift which was ran into the hill from the north, only twenty feet in. Indications are thatitisa true fissure vein, The Harney Peak Tin Mining and Milling company have issued a mortgage to Henry Clauson, jr., of New York, Fravk Crisp of Lonaon, and Samuel Uttermeyer of Now York, as trustees, to secure tho bonds issued by the company to the amount of $4.858,000. Tho mortgage includes all tin, both placer and quartz, and all other property ownea by the company. Captain Wondern, the locating engineor of the Dakota & Wyoming railroad from Rapid to Mystio, states that £40,000 had been received at Rapid. the first payment on the bonds recentiy issued by that city in aid of the railroad project, and work would bo resumed at onco. Ilive miles of tho road has been graded and ironing is to bo com- monced, while the remainder of the grade will be ‘completed. Montaun, Butte plunges av a lvely pace into the racoe for the state capitol. The wool clip of the Judith basin for the year 1502 is estimated at 15,000,000 pounds. A nugget valued at £300 was washed out on ono of the Diamond City placers oue day this woek. The cleanup in that camp is ex- pected to be very hoavy. Tro Golden Star in Jefforson county re- contly yielded a 22-inch vein of $35 ore near the su The company has a mill at work an audling twenty tons a day. Last vear the total receipts of wool at Great Ialls amountea to 1,700,000 pounds. Besides this amount 1,000,000 pounds wera shipped from Armington. This year the Armington wool all went to Great Falls, Up to August 1 there had been received about 1,000,000 pounds, Castle 18 agog over the roporc of a strike of great richness 1a the Jumbo, being a fine body of rich gray carbonate nine feet long 4na three wide, which appears to be in place and solid. ' Another place in the same contact, 250 foet away, they are running in 8 tunnel and have found the same ore there, ingicating that the ore is an immense body. Several rich gold discoveries have been reported from the vicinity of Phillipsburg during the last few days, all in different sec- tions of the country, If these roports prove to be half as gooa as many claim them to be ana their owners show up ledges of any reasona- ablo extent, the createstsilver producing di trict in the United States will soon earn the ;nnulntlon of beinga wonderfgl gold pro- ucer. Utah s 4 Tduh The United States assay oftice 1n Boiso re- ceived during the month of July 235 deposits of gold bullion, amounting to $172,488.20, This is the largest business done in any one month since tho office was established in B715 The Oriental mine on Rock Creek, Idaho, has now in sight the largest ore body ever encounterad in its workings. It is owned by two industrious, hard-working miners, who ara quictly developing their property. As a rule very littlo is said about this mine in the press, although it has produced about #60,000, and most of it taken out near the grass roots, Statistics of Ogden’s prosperity show the total mssessed valuation to be $13,500,000; city aebt, 356,000, and population 18,000, During the year ending June 30, 1802, bouses were erected at a total value of $206,- 210. ‘The number of business houses erected during tho year was twenty-tive, with five schools ‘and four city buildings ot a total { value of $301,086, Five hundred people attonded the laying of the corncrstone of St. Mark’s Episcopal hospital in Sult Lake City last week. Tho building is located on a knoll opposite Warm ) Springs. The size of tho building is 74x9l t, three stories, pressed _brick front with Iyune stone trimmings. 1t will cost 835, 000 and accommodate 200 patients. The institute will be ready in Decomber. Along the Const. Novada ranchmen are gathoring a huge crop of hay Tho assessed valuation of property 1 Se- atcle Is $49,258,050. A fire in Poruand last week destroyed 500,000 worth of property, Washinglon state will sona 100 carloads of exhibits to the World's fair. The low price of silver has caused a ma- terisl reduction of miners' wages in Nevada. A large congar, measuring six feet from tip to Up, was caught in @ beartrap at Sat- sop, Wash. Ore running #1,000 in silver to the ton, and called by the miners “‘azurite,”” 18 the latest development from the May Day mine in Ne- vada, A San Leandro (Cal.) paper mentions as & long peeded public improvement that has been made that a hotolkeeper there has pro- vided bis barroom with a new deck of cards Two out of three of the militia companies of Nevada have decided to disband, The use of militia in labor strikes is the cause as- signed. Most of the membors of the Nevada militis were members of or in sympathy with labor organizations, There 1s still complaint of considerable de- struction of grain by the armies of so-called vats, which this season for the first time made their appearance in_ several places on the ranches in Nevada, This little animal, ‘ from descriptions given of it, appears 1o be & species of lomming or yolo, At Pullman, Wash.,, the agricultural college regents have given out contracts for the erection of dormitory, college hall, resi- dence, farm bouse and barn. About $17,000 hes been expended out of a total appropria- tion of §00,000, and contracts now on band call for the expeunditure of about $28,000 more. W. G. Scott, who has charee of the mining exhibit at the state fair, has traced the first bit of gold found by James W. Marshall in the miil-race at Sutter's mill, The precious nugget is no larger than a Lima besn, It is in possession of W. W. 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Ranches in Nevada are beginning to grow 8 good desl of wheat. This year the crop will be mach larger than will be needed for home consumption. At theone settioment of Loveiock over 100,05 bushels will be pro- duced, and in Mason and Smith valleys, as waell as in all the valloys lying along tho east- ern base of the Sierras, there will be large crops of wheat. Oakiand is naking great efforts to secura the establishment across the bay of tho Fulton 1ron works. It offers a bonus of $50,- 000, and from present indications the ity will secure the works, The ropublican papers have made good use of this incident to demonstrate the fallacy of the free-trade nroposition that no artificial stimulus should be given to the iron industry. The California State Boara of Equaliza- tion fixed the following rates of assessment on railroad propertios: Californin Pacific, £2,500,000; Central Pacitic, $18,000,00 Southorn Pacific, $15,800,000; Northern Cal foraia, $265,000; Northern Railway, 3,082, 000; South Pacitic Coast, $1,300,000; San Francisco & North Pacifio, $1,900,000; Southern Califorain, 82,850,000, Carson & Colorado, $230,000; Nevada, California & Oregon, $05,000; Nevaaa County Narrow Gauge, 805.000: North Pacific Coast, $4 0003 Pacifio Coast, $300,000; Gualala rai road, $50,000; California & Nevada, $75.000; Pajaro Vallev, $130,00); Atlantio & Pacitle rolling stook, $125,000; Pulimin company, £208,000. —— DoWitt's Sarsaparilia cieanses the blood, increases tho appetite and tones up the sy tem. It has benefitted many peopls who have suffered from blood disorders. It will helpyou. o S THE DALTON GANG. Leaders of the Traln Robbers in Territory, Train robbory and highway bandits have been themes of general discussion in St. Louis for the past day or two,says the Globe-Democrat. The bold hold-up ot a Missouri, Kunsas & Texas passen- ger train inthe Indian Territory Thurs- day night hus occasioned renewal of a subject which a few years ago would not have attracted much attention in the west on account of the frequency of-the occurrence, but since the breaking up of the James, the Younger and othor des- perate gangs that infested Missouri and Kansas western people have felt comparatively secure from depredations of this character. Three or four years ago Texas was the favorite arena for the exploits of the freebooters, but the constabulary of the state became 90 vigilant and merci- less in tho pursuitand punishmeut of the scoundrels that they have all apparently been killed ov driven out of “I'exas, as no_train robbery has oceurred there recently, The Indian Territory seems to be now the only rendezvous left to the gentlethen of the mask and Winchester, and’'when the conditions there are considered it is no little wonder that outlawry of this nature is not evenmore rampant than it really is. The Daltons;- who robbed the Pacific Express car: of the Missouri, Kansas & Texag'at Adair Thursday night, are by alli- oddss the boldest and most audaeious bandits who have ever plied their callng in the Territory. There ‘are four of the Dalton brothers who are known to have committed train robberies in the past. Ouly two of them—Ed and Charley—were in Thursday night’s hold-up. The other two boys a year ago were captured in California after desperate resistance and convicted of Indian ‘MONDAY, AUGUST om Mrs, Klikibbth Wimmor, who, | robbing a Wells-Fargo the Southern Pacific railroad at Tou- lare, near Los Angeles. They were sentenced to life in the California peni- tentisry and are now serving their terms. All four of the boys werae in the California robbery, but Bd and Charley eluded eapture and made their way back to the Indian Territory.. They had been driven oat of the Territory only after a bloody war betweon themsoelves and their sympathizers on tho one hand and the officers and, cattlemen on the other. This war was inaugurated threo years ago and cost the lifo of many a good ecitizen and deputy United States marshal, N It will be rememberad that the posses in pursuit of the bandits were lod by Deputy Marshal *“Hee” Thomus, one of the most intrepid officers who has ever had to deal with the lawless elements of the southwest. Various times he was reported killod, but ne always managed to show up, smiling, about the time his friends had ordered crape. He pursued the Daltons farther into their rendez- vous than had anybody before or since. He succeeded in penetrating far into the bushwhacker country, right among the friends of the Daltons, and came out unscratched, though ompty- handed. Prior to this time tho Daltons were not known to have committed any train robberies. They had confined their rascality to stealing cattle and driving them through the *public lands” into New Moxico and selling them along the voute. Then when they ot ready to return to the Territory thoy would steal a bunch of cattle in Now Mexico and bring them home to sell, alwiays returning by a different route. d no good toindict them. Their friends dominated the local courts, and oven if thoy were ever brought to trial they got off scot free. Honest cattlemen of the territory finally grow 8o exaspor- ated at their thieve that they or- ganized to rid the country of the Daltons and waged bitter war upon them. It was then that the cattle thioves per- force quit their old practices and turned their attention to_train rohbery. 1tis ever so much easier anyhow to rob a train than to steal a few head of cattle, they found their new bus ness incomparably safor and more r munerative. Situated as the Daltons were, the business was especially at- tractive to thom. The Missouri, Kansas Te. and the Santa Fe railroads ran ht through the country over which thoy hud ranged ever since omigrating from Arkansus when only mere strip- lings of he They knew every Indian Not a man or trail and deer path in it. woman unfriendly to them had been allowed to live In the section they claimed for their own, and so every cumstance was most propitious to ‘them in their new calling. They lived for the most part on u bald prairvic east of the “Katy” vroad in an uninhabited country between Pryor Creek and Chou- tenu, stations on the railroad. Adair, the scene of their latest dopre- dation, is only twenty or thirty miles to the north of them and [Lelinotta, where they held up a train last September and secured $1,600 in booty from the Pacific Express company, is but a few miles south of them. A little southwest of these two stations begins what is known a8, the Coweta distri It is heavily timbered and abounds in deep ravines and serpentine paths. They know overy foot of it better than the oldest inhab- itant knows St. Louis, but if a stranger enters it without a guiae he is liable to get lost aftor a few hours’ travel and nover get out again. Through the Coweta district they dush into the Fox and Sac country, and then leisurely make their way down to the Canadian river and cross to the Seminole resorva- tion, until they feel 1ike venturing back to their prairie home. Since their hold- ups at both Red Rock on the Santa Fe and Leliaotta on the ‘‘Katy,” they have been bold enough to ride into Woagner with their wagons und teams and buy supplies for their ranch. Hun- drads of people at Wagonor knew per. foctly who thoy were, but none of them dared *‘peach’ on the boys, for if they 0zS.FOR29H¢ PURE - JUSTTRY IT. F.R.JAQUES & CO. KANSAS CITY,MO. ‘25 ABSOLUTELY BAKING POWDER WELL BRED, SOONWED” GIRLS WHO USE SAPOLIO Are Quickly Married. Try it on your next House-Cleaning. A RELIEF THE CHEAPEST AND BEST MEDICINE FOR FAMILY USE IN THE WORLD Instantly stops the most excruolating pains; never falls to give ease to the sufferer; a few applications act like magic, cuusing the pain to instantly stop. A CURE FOR ALL BOWEL COMPLAINTS. It only taken in doses of from thirty to sixty drops in half 4 tumbler of water will cure In o few minutes Cramps, Spasms. Sou iveness. CHOLER., weuther or other cnusod. 50 Stomach, Uollc ORBUS, DIARRHOEA, DYSENT. , Nervousness Slecplessness, Malarin, and all internal ENTS A BOTTLE, Flatule; Heartburn. Languor, , Sick Hoaducho, piing arising from cl SOLD BY DRUGGISTS. Falnt- nusen ange uf BEFOME AND AFTEL USING, *“Norve Seeds,"” the wonderful remod: ia“Bold with ten: gnarantee to curo all pervous diseases, such as Wenk Mem Lows of Brain Power. Hoaduche, Wakefalnoss, Lost Manhood, Nightly slons, Nervousnoss, Lassitude. a1l drains and los of pawer of the . PUL UD CONVENians Lo Carry in Yost pocket. age by mul; 6 for 85, With overy §) ore or refund the money. Circular froe, Address Nerv o Soed A w . it enerativo Xcessive om, youthful 6rrors, or soon lead to Infrmiyy: F we oive @ writte For sale in Omaha by Sherman & McConnell, 1513 Dodge street. Save Your Eyesight ves tostod free by an EXPERT OPTI CIAN Perfect adjustment. Superior lenses. Nerv- ousheadacho cured by using our Spectacies and Eyeglassos Vrices low for first cluss xoods. THE ALOE & PENFOLD GD,, 114 S. 15thSt., Creighton Block. JOSEPH GILLOTT'S | STEEL PENS. GOLD MEDAL, PARIS EXPOSITION, 1889, THE MOST PERFECT OF PENS. NOTICE ~ OF DAMAGE owners of all lots and parts of lots ul estate along HAth stroet from Far- streetto Dodze streot: You are heroby notitied that the under- sigued, three disinterosted frovholders of the y of Omubi, have been duly wbplonted by the mayor, with the approval of the city coun- cil of sald oity, 10 uxs0ss tho d’ uge to the owners rospectively of the prog srty affected by gradiug dith stroot from Farnam street to Dodge stroot declured 1 scossary by ordinince 17 pussed July 2ist, L approved July Zird, You are further notitied, that baving ac- conted waid appointmont, wna duly quifidod us roquired by law, we will, on the Tith duy of August, A, D, 1892, at the hour of 10 o'ciock in the fore at the offlce of T, B, olulioch, room 842 New York Life bullding, within the corpornte lmits of said olty, meet for Lhe pur- pose of consldering and ‘making the assess- nient of dumage Lo the OWNOPs respaotively of said property, aifocted by sald gradine, taking 1ngo consideration special benefits, if uny. You are notified to be presont at the time and place aforesald, and muke any objections Lo or statements concerning sald assossmont of dauiagos 3 You muy consider propor. T8, MeCULLOOH, 1 W, GIBSON, JOHN F. FLAOK Omuba, July 20th, 102 Juodioe Ixpress car on [dkl they well knew their 1 ves would pay the ponalty sooner or later. tis considerod entirely useloss and actually foolhardy for any posso of men to go aftor the Daltons now. They are porhaps by this time many miles in the Coweta district, and are so safely en- sconcod that they could shoot the offi- cers from ambush jas fast as they en- tered. 'Then, too, the country around them is full of spies who will keop them posted as to the movemoents of their pursuers. In fact, no marshal or other officor who is known ian that country ought to attempt to foilow them, for their every movement will be shadowed and roported to the bandits, It will 1 quire the very shrewdest detective skill to catch up with thom, nand thon tho Daltons will nover be taken alive. Thoy are much moro desperate than the = Jumes boys, and Charloy, especially, is porhaps the quickest man on the ggor who over carried a pistol. Ed, though the older of the two. is not near o norvy us his brother and Chariey has really been the leader of the gang since its organi- tion, Somehow or other he has od up a smattering of education which none of the other boys possoss, and when occasion requires it he can be as gonteel and mild a mannocod man ns e’er cut u throat or scuttled a ship. To his othor erimes of murder and theft is added polygamy. There is no tolling how many times he has marriod and his wives are all intslligent, wood looking women, s A small incandescont lnmp now made for orainary surgical use in examinfng cavitios is mounted on a thin stom con- taining a spiral resistance, by means of which tho b s of the light can be controlled. is used with a small dynamo, with storage or with Leclanche battery. One form of endoscope for searching the moro inaccessiblo cavities ot the body is in the form of u catheter, or a rod about 5-16ths of an inch in dinmeter and botween 8 and 9 inches long. "Atthetipis a minute incandescent lamp, und ata slight bend close to the end is a roflecting prism which, in con- junction with a focussing arrangement of minute lenses in the shaft of the in- strument enables the surgeon to dis- tinctly see the illuminated Thus the biadder, nnd even the stomach, may be thoroughly looked over for disoased spots. - Nugeot! Nuggot! Nueget! Buy Big N ugget baking powder. 32 oz cents. ” A ONE) ENJOYS Both the method and results when Syrupof Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys- tem effectually, dispels colds, head- aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro- duced, pleasing to the taste and ac- ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepored only from the most healthy andagreeable substances, its many excellentqualitiescommend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 75¢ bottles by =l leading druggists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will procure it promptly for any one who wishes {u try it. Manufactured only by the CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CG., SBAN FRANCISOO, CAL. (QUISVILLE, KY. NEW YORK,N.Y. An. Inyention-that, Ladies Appreciate PEREEQTION ‘ADJUSTABLE Thousands say they will wear No Other Shoe. Wear this Shoe during the Summer Months. DO NOT SUFFER WITH TIRED or TENDER FEET. EXPANDS wi Y iABI Possibie to wear botter, ther make cos, $2.00, $2.50, $3.00 $9.50, CONSOLIDATED SHOE CO., M'f'rs, Lynn, Mass, l‘grx:nlo hy,,‘!'," ”““""‘;‘L",’,‘j, & v Dr. Bailey, $ The Leading ‘I'hird Fioor, Paxton Block. Telephone 1085. 16th and Farnam of teeth on rub 5. out plates or ng 10F 8ingurs OF public aponkers, never TH EXTRACTED WITHOUT PAIN Gold filling ut reasonable rates. All work warranted. Cut thisout for a guide. NOTICE OF AS MENT OF DAM- AG FOR CHANGE OF GRADE. To the ownors of ull lots and parts of lots d roal estite along 40th street from Burt to iforniu stroet ou uro hereby notifi signed, three disintereste eit7 of Omaha, huve bee tho mayor, with counell of snid the owner: spactively of th nging the erado of suld wsanry by ordl uly 21st. 1802, upprove Lou are furth ot fled, ti o ted sunld appoint A duly qualified A that the under- treeholders of the duly appointed by the wpproval of | Ly. Lo ussess the d it s required by inw we will, on the 1ith day of Augnst. A. [, 1822, at the hour of 10 o'clook In tho torenoon, ut' tho office of 8 & 0'Doy 1403 Farnam st within the corporate Hmits of s1ld city, ot for the pur- pose of coustdering and miking the assuss ment of dumso L0 the owners respectively of suld property, affec by suid chai of erade, tuking into consideration speclul beno- fits. if uny. You ure notified o be prosent wt the sinie und pince aforesuld nnd miuko any objoctions to or stutenents conceraing Asid assessuiont Of dusnagos us you iy considur propor. G. SHRIV 3 MO LLOOH, It B GIBSON, Committon of Appralsers, Omaha, July 30th, 18 “yid10 '0 Out-of-Door Folks Recreative Information s not the tire that makes the bi- oycle, nor the saddle , nor the steel uor the spokes, nor the bearings nor any other one re guisite—"us the whole—Columbias are bala d on the equipoise of successful nicety, All about Columblas, lllustrated, wbous Columblas. fiee on app any Columbis agent. or Mot b Lwo two-cent atamps. Pope Mig. Cowpa, Columbus Ave., Boston, and e e e e 1 2dth and ka A Friend Wishes to speak through the Register ol the beneficial results he has received from u rogular use of Ayer's Pllls, Ho says: “I was fecling sick and tired and my stom med all out of order. I tried a number of remedics, but none seemed to give me relief until T was ine duced to try the old reliable Ayer's Pills. I have taken only one box, but [ feel like a new man, I think they are the most pleasant and easy to take of anything I ever used, being so finely sugar-coated that even a child will taka them. I urge upon all who are In Need of a laxative to try Ayer's Pi Boothbay (Me.), Register. “Betwoen the ages of five and fifteen, I was troubled with a kind of salte rheum, or ernption, chiefly confined to the legs, and especially to the bend of the knoe above the calf. Here, running sores formed which wonld seab over, but would break immediately on move ing the log. My mother tried overy- thing she conld think of, but all was without avail. Although a child, T read in the papers about the benetitial offects of Ayer's Pills, and persuaded my mothe er to let me try them. With no great faith in the result, she procured Ayer'sPills and 1 began to use them, and soon noticed an improvement. Encouraged by this, T kept on till T took two boxes, when the sores disappeared and have never troubled me sin H. Chipuan, Real Estate Agent, Roanoke, Va. “I suffered for years from stomach and kidney troubles, causing very severe pains in various parts of the body. None of the remedies I tried afforded me any relief until T began taking Ayer's Pills, and was cured.”—Wm. Goddard, Notary Public, Five Lakes, Mich. Prepared by Dr. 1. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. Evm:ly Dose ‘Efie;iive M NT POPULA _PRIO COMMENCING MATINEE, AUGUST asao, I se Y WRRT ONE WEEK gyupar Hettie Bornard Ol In a Grand Seenlo Prodution, UNCLE'S DARLING oducing n mor of tratned animale W, turday. dnesdny QUAIL BRAND HEALTH ROODS Parched Rolled Oats, Unequalled in Flavor. Corn Gritz, Sold only iu 24 pound packages Velvet Meal, For muftins and gems. UNTIN AU AN ARY [HE; BEST 18 CHEAPEST Sold by all Fl ‘lass Grocers. THE SHORTEST LINE TO CHICAGO s via the Chicazo, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry, as represented onthis map, Q\O'Ulcl T - Ta K ACEDAR RAPIDS E,, A3 BuyDES MOINES Electric Lighted, Steam Heat- ed Vestibuled trains leave Omabha daily at 7:05 p. m., ar- riving at Chicago at 9:30 a. m. City Ticket Office: 1501 Far- nam St., Omaha, F. A. Nasi. Gen'l Agent. Or the Liquor B X by adminis Uolden > 1t oan bo given in 6 oup of Soise o ton, or in foo ot Cha ko g of o patien, 11 apsglutes harmless, and will effect a permanent and speedy SUrar WhaBor the Pationt 16 a modereto dolaber oF an'aloonolio wrenk. 1t ias boen gien in thon O caser, And 1 avers InUTAnoe A BOFFvCt SuLe b lowed. ftnever Falla. Thosystem onoo impregnated with thio BpRolio, 1 becomey A uiter 1iapos by Ton thie ot Apnatize o et GOLBEN NEESTRIO” Cb. 2 Frop'rs, Otnetumatt, 0. 4B-paie book of partiou ‘To bo had of Kuhn & C thand Douglas & 18th and Cuming Who.esale. Blake. Bruce & Co and Richarason Drug st s freo. THE SPECIALIST. | lnnnuur[i.u“ml i the troatmentot wll formy of PRIVATE DISEASES, und all disor lory and debilitles of youth 400 manhood. 17 yenrs experienco. His rosources and fuoilitios i ra practionlly unlimitod, The ‘Dotor is Facoin- mended by the press, and endorsed in the. stronzest trms by the pooplo for fulr troats mont nnd “houost professional advico, - The niost powerfui remedies known to modorn selonco for tho successful trewtuent of the followins discasos GONORRHO EA —~Inmedinto rollof. A ooy plete oure without the loss of an nour's iy rom business, One of the 08t comploto and suo. cossful tron gloot wnd all an dischurzes vou known (0 the medioal slon. Yho Fesults ure truly wonderful BTRICTURE—Groitost known rowoly for the treatment of strioture, without pil tng, or dilatin . A mostromarkable ro SYPHILIS-NO treatment for this torrlola biood diseaso has over boen more su-cassfi nor hid stronger endorsoments. In the 1 of ern scionce this disoase Is positively curih.e und ovory trace of the polsoi ontiroly removed from the bloo J, LOST MANHOOD, and ambltion, nervous- ness, timldity, dospondoncy and ail wenknosy and disorders of youth of manhood. Ksliet obtulned at onee, ody. SBKIN DISEASES, and all diseuses of ths stomacn, blood, liver, kiinoys and bludder uro treuated wu nlullrv Wwith the groater known romedios for the dise . Write for circulars und auestionlist, tras. s Sty Guahs Ned