Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 4, 1893, Page 3

NEWS FROM CoU \CIL BLUFFS Ocustable Jackson Narrowly Escapes Being | Baffled by a Woman, MILKMAN LEONARD'S ~ OVERDUE FINE Rffort to Collect it Brooght About Situ- Atlon Which (ired Considerable OMeial Diplomacy to Finally Bring to s Settlemente Constable E. W. Jackson had an interest g encounter with a won last Saturday aftornoon, which for a time seemed likely to result disastrously for hisoflicial prowess, but ho finally came out of it with flying oolor: Poter Leonard, a milkman whose place is in the extreme southern part of the city, was arrested several months ago and given 8 trial in one of the justice courts on the charge of selling impure and adulterated milk. Upsn conviction he was sentenced to pay a large fine. He did ot have all the 1a0ney At the time, and he was accordingly relensed upon the payment of as much as he Yiad and his promise to sottle the balance as 8001 a8 he could get it. Leonard's ideas as 10 the latter condition were somew hat vague, aid hie let the montns roll by without mak: ingany apparent effort to appease outraged Justice. Suturday | ckson was given a mittimus ons to bring Leonard to_ jail or noncy to the court room. He paid onard’s house and was met by onard, who said, on being told what nd was, that her husband couldn’t go to jail, but she and would ged the money and bring it to the ofice. Her offer was refused and Juckson gave her to understand that eithor o settie- ment or her husband would have to be forth- coming on the spot. With that Mrs, Leon- ard flew ha nto the house and locked the door to keep Jackson from following her in. Juckson told her what she might expect if ho had to take her to jail along with her Lusband, and was p g to batter down he door, when the pair proposed a treat. peace and accompanied him to the justice’s ofice. The balance of the fine was finally vaid over and Leonard was discharged. Minor Mention N. Y Plumbing Co, Boston Store bank The Mayne Real Estute Co., 621 Broadwa, The supervisors will hold their regular Seplember session this week, beginung to- duy. rupt sale, Mrs. J. F. Evans entertained a number of friends at cards last Thursday afternoon at her home on Sixth avenue, Th of Bluff City lodge, Jnior Orde American Workmen, at- tended services at the Fifth Avenue Metho- distchurch, A guartet composed of Mrs, W. ficld, Miss Bertha Grass, and Me: Ogden S. Allen furs the Congregational chu The girlsof the industri hool: connected with De Long's mission will give a supper the mission hall, on Bryant st E day evening, September 9, for the benefit of the school, Mrs. Edward Herrold died at Davenport Saturday, aged 47 years. The remuins were brought” to this city, accompanied by the Lusband, and were interred in Fairview cemetery yesterday forenoon. “The city council holds its regular monthiy meeting this evening. In addition to the allowance of vills, the ordimance making o 8-cont fare general all over the city will bo brought up for a second reading. The guild of St. Paul's will meet Tuesdey, September 5, at 4:30, with Miss hoent- eu at her home, corner Seventh avenue and §|xm street, hose assisting are Mrs. Stewart, Virs. Shugart, Miss Stewart, Miss Bhermao and Miss Zurmuehlen, The Ganymede Wheel club took its regu- lar Sunday run to Malvern and return, a istance of 60 miles, yesterday. The mem- ers who went were George l’l\\ illlamson, Don Beno, G. F. Dale, R. H. Nichols, E. C! Robinso i L. Duquette H. Wake- crn Towa Business college opens tomorrow morning for the fall term after yacatfon of two mouths. The enrollment of last year was quite large, but the outlovk for the coming year is particularly encour- sging. This is an old institution and is worthy of a liberal patronage. A suspicious looking character giving his name as Juck Manuing ound wandering about the streets yesterday morning ab 2:50 fock, and proved to be unable to give an count of himself which was satisfactory to e pohice. Ho was tuken Lo the city jail and slatod with vagrancy. Yesterday he was identified us one of the parties wanted for the burglary of & tailor shop in Omaha about ten days ago. He taken to Omaha last evening by n Mostyu good, elean luundry work? to the Bagle laundry, 724 It is turning out tine work solicits your patronage. Tele- Do you lik If 0" send Broadw nOW, an phone 1 Fruit lands and farms, Greenshioeld Nicholson & Co., 600 Broadway. Tel. 17 Williamson & Co., 106 M largest-and best bieyele in’ street, tock in ¢ Domestic soap outlasts ¢ eap soap sSmoke T. D. King & Co’s Partagas. Personal Faragraph W. H. Luring and sister left for Chicago yesterday. Mrs, Thornton and family left for Chicaj 1ast evening. Mrs. William Robinson is homo from a Chicago visit. Miss Ortha Harrington lett for Chicago Suturday afternoon. Mis, A, T. Elwell and children have re- cet the third proposition, namel Janua) anteed. and spring use. turned from the World's fair, W. C. Estep leaves in aday or two fora trip Lo Duluth, Mino,, and the Worla's fair, C. G Suunders leaves roday for Ottumwa, where he will Join his wife and with her take in the World’s fair, Mrs. I M. Treynor and son Albert, Mrs, E. M. McKune and Miss Nellie Harl started for Indianapolis last evening, and Mrs. 1. ). Schnorr have retumned from a visit to Cha Mrs. Schuorr also visited her old home in O 1 Lake, Tl Torry liverett left yesterday for eencactle, Colo., where he will meet his brother d’ ward and o party of friends and go on u hunting and fishing expedition. . Mrs. G, M. Gould visit with friends in Beatrl Shortly aftor reaching howe Mast, d had @ bat fall, which resulted in the compound ture of his arm, Miss Mattie Jones and Miss Georgla Grant, who have been visiting Miss [rene Test for some time past, left Saturday even- ing for their home in St. Paul, accompanied by Jumes Warrack, jr., of Om returned from a Notice to Grooerymen, e brand of corn known as “D, W, Archer'sWorld's Fair Brand Sugar Corn, Council Bluffs, Ia.,” is not vacked at Council Bluffs and Council Biuffs: Can- ning Co. has no intercst whatever in said brand. CouNciL BLUFFS CANNING CO. Coal cheap for cash, Carbon al Co., 84 Pearl street, Grand hotel bldg. Btop at the Ogdon, Council Blufts, tie test §2.00 house in Lowa. George S. Davis preseription druggist. Travel Men Play Ball Next Saturday will be a great day among the traveling men of Lincolu and Council Bluffs. A woek ago the members of the Council Bluffs Commercial Pilgrims paia a visit to Lincon and played a game of vase ball with the pilgrims of that place, defeat- ing the Nebraskuns by u small majority, A rolurn game was arranged for next Satur- day, and recent advices indicate that o Gkl traln contaiuiug about seveuty-five [ wm—— U — braska travelers, with knives whotted for gore, will arrive in this city in anticipation of the event. After the ganic the Blufites will entertain their Nob banquet, and will_try to Towa hospitality from a com point of view looks like, aska brethren at & show them what mercial tourist Notice to Teachers. School will open Monday, September 4,and in order to make lifein the school room as bearable as possible teachers siould provide themselves with good, mfortable shoes, and of course the cheaper you can buy them the bettor, Thomas B, Hughes of 910 South Main street is closing out his entire line of ladies' shoes at a sacrifico. The line OMprises evi hing in the way of a first-class lad: shoe, and when you de- duet 20 to 50 per cent from his regular prices (according tdstyle) you got a shoe for a very small price. Beautiful etching given with overy dozen cabinet photos at Riley & Shorra- den's for twenty days; frames of all kinds 1o order Domestic soap is the best Acting With Pri nee. A meeting of the members of the local as- sembly Knights of Labor was held last even- ing at the Danebo hall for the purpose of discussing the recent action of the Union Pacfic in reducing the pay of its employes. There was a large attendance and a warm discussion took place, Tt was decided to ac- ly, to loan wages until contemplated is was in order to offset uny rid times that might bo made by ny. A public meeting was areanged for some evening this week. to be decided upon by the executive committee, to which all Union Pacific employes will be invited whether they belong to the Knights of Labor or not. At this meeting an effort will be made to en- list all the employes in the common struggle, Themen who were present at the meoting last evening hove that the present dificulty may be patched up withou’, the necessity of a strike. the company 10 per cent of the 1. 1884, in lieu of the reduction, T plea of | the com Ba s Mads Good. Business men need their mon these times. If you have bills ag people not living in Towa employ. any railway, express, tolograph ( phone company entering lowa, w the Nassau Investment Co., Council Bluffs. Collections guaranteed. The time for the purchase of new car- pets, ete., is here, and this recalls the fact that the Council Bluffs Carpet com- pany is tho only establishment where you' can positively save money and get satisfaction in goods. Council Bluffs people, and as many in Omaha as desire to save money, will appreciate this hint. Ask your grocer for Domestic soap. O for the £ mpme.it. The national encampment of tho Grand Army of the Republic is to be held in In- fanapolis this week and the Courcil Blufls tion left last evening for the scene of elebration. The hard times have struck the old soldiers along with eve and the number that started was not as large as might have been hoped for, although iderably larger than micht have been expected in view of the Those who left on the spe sent out over the Rock Il Clark, H. G. P. Oblingey. Marsh son The ev also carried F. Meyer, W. S! I B. F. Crosdale, Isaac Phipps, nd R. R. Randall, ng train over the Northwestern quite o number of travelers whose des:ination was the Among them were: Mr. und Mrs, J. lismsund two sons, Dr. and Mrs, P Thomas, M. Welker, I'rank Grass, G. W. Cook and John Booth and wife. Buy one of those wonderful oil heaters of Cole & Cole, 41 Main street, They will heat the largest room in cold weather; cost, lc an hour; fully guar- Just the thing for eatly fall Cook your mea this summer on a gas range. At cost at the Gas company. ce. Covxerr, By . 2.—To the Editor of Tne Bei Ty year uhe city appoints a man to look after 100se stock and collect the dog tax. Fora few days there is a great bluster, and people hide their dogs, when it is all over, and there is the same old howl, yelp and bark as before. ‘The western part of the city is cursed with an army of worthless dogs that make life miserable and the meh' hideous by their noise. Sick people can't rest for the racket tiat is kept up. The city could either put 81,000 in t treasury or rid the city of the nuisance. Not [ty has a collar on, hence no tax id. has to pa a dog tax, all should be compelled to do it. Somo men keep from four to s1x dogs. Can't something be done to abate the dog nuisance Cinders for Sale—200 loads nice, clean cinders for walksand drivey Apply to K. D. Burke, Taylors's grocery Evans' skoe store open every evening after Sept. Ist. Domestic soap is the vest. e ‘Women Writers of the Western Preds. It has often been observed that in the eastern cities women sent out on night details are compelled to go unattended, while here in San Francisco, says the Californian, if a woman is sent out at all on a detail that involves the least exposuro to the rough element she is prov with an escort. Indeed, in San Francisco and other western cities, women are not often assigned to other night work than that of dramatie and society reporting, or lecture ana associa- tion reporting. Few women are employed on the daily press in San Francisco.” The Call has one woman on its staff; the Chronicle employes one woman, but it is an innova- tion; the Examiner employs two and sometimes three women; the Post, the Bulletin and the Report have no women on. the regular staff; the News Lotter employs one, the Wasp three, the Argus one and the West End one. The press of the west is uniformly courteous to women workers and their efforts in the right direction, With its support the newspaper women of the Pacific slope have broader possibilities and opportunities than any other similar association in the country, for the reason that the westis young and its condition formative, and the progress they are making is indicative thut they ave tuking every advantage of their situation, e A Queer Horsesh J. H. Frank of Ligonier, Pa., has in his possession a queer horseshoe which he found on the banks of the Loyal- hanna creck. There are three holes for nails on each side of the shoe, the metal having been extended outward to re- ceive the holes, The bottom of the shoe is hollowed out from end to end, the hollow being three- quarters of an inch wide and half an inch deep. In the hollow lies a three-quarter-inch rope, which was put in place before the metal was cold, and held there by a few taps with the hammer on the soft iron. The rope is now as hard as bone, and was apparently dipped in wax to harden it. The object seems 10 have been to afford a sure foot- ing for the horse on the stony mountain roads, or to make his footstep noiseless, a desirable quality in the days when In- dians were numerous. Impressed in the iron is the inseription, **Patented May 24, 1788." As this date is prior to the first Awmerican patent law, it must bave beon patvated in England, THE GET READY FOR THE WORD Ye That Hunger for Oherokee Land, Hie to the Post, RULES TO GOVERN THE RIDERS Description of the Track and the Terms on Which aSlice May Be Had—First Come, First Served —Information for Land Hunters, The borders of the Cherokee strip which is to be opened to entry and set- tlement at noon, September 16, are flanked with land hunters preparing for the rush. Itis believed the stampede will surpass that of Okiahoma, as the large number of unemployed will swell the ranks of the professional land hun ter. The strip is 200 miles long and filty- six miles wide and embraces 8,144,682 acres. It lies between the 96th and 100th varallels of west longitude, with the southern border line of Kansas as its northern boundary and the Creek coun- try and the territory of Oklahoma as its southern. Tt will be seen that it sepa- rates the major portion of Oklahoma from the strip formerly knownas *‘No Man's Land,” but now part of Oklahoma. Topographically it is a rolling country. broken here and there by hills and up- lands and interspersed with smiling val- leys and Eden like bottoms. It is plen- teously watered, and the water courses are skirted with fine timber, oak, wal- nut, cedar, ash, beech and hickor The soil of the bottom lands and pr: ries is soft and loamy, black as ink and of marvelous fertility. The undulating prairies are covered witha thick growth of flowery vegetation, nude of tim- ber and prush. _Both the bottom lands and prair offer ideal conditions tor the practically unlimited production of corn, wheat, tobacco, cotton and pota- toes. Upon the ridges and divides the land is not so well adapted to agricul- ture, but as the forest growth is slight they furnish splendid pastures for sheep and cattle, boing profusely clothed with succulent “‘bunch grass Owing to this self-cured “bunch grass” and to the milduess of the climate and the abundance of water, the hilly regions are claimed by old sheep growers to af- ford the best sheepcountry in the world. Extensive Sult Marshes. In the northwestern vart of the strip are extensive salt marshes, and o the east of them is the great salt plain, on the Salt tork of the Arkansasriver,com- ing thousands of acres. In some tracts the salt is found on the surface of the ground and along the edges of the streams. There are also vast fields of salt beautifully crystalized, which greet the eye of the traveler a long distance before he reaches them. It would ap- pear that there is salt_enough to supply the whole country, and it can be had merely for the handling. Hitherto it has been extensively used on the neigh- boring cattle ranches and has been hauled to towns in southern Kansas and sold. All the Indians of the territory have had free access to it for their sup- plies. In wet weather and high water there is little or nosalt to be seen, but after three or four dry days it appears again on tne surface,as before described, from six to twelve inches thick. On September 27, 1719, Lieutenant Du Tisne, from the French garrison at Kaskaskia, faised the French flag on these salt plains and 100k possession in the name of the king. He was the first white settler to enter the strip from the east, as Dionisio had been from the west. Railroads and Streams, The strip is already. traversed by four lines of railroad, with several other lines just a little outside. Two of the strip lines are branches of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, one running obliquely through the western end in a southwesterly airection and the other running southward from Kansas through the Chilocco Indian Industrial School reservation into Oklahoma at the east- ernside. A third, the Chicago, Kansus & Nebraska, runs southward through the center of the strip, and the fourth, the Kansas & Arkansas Valley road, cuts through the northwestern corner. In the western portion, along the line of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad, are the settlem Alva, Noel, Eagle Chief, Nimrod, Sutton, Griffin, Warw Woodward, Orland, Norris, Gage, Stockton and Goodwin. In the ern side, on the other branch of the road, arve the stations of Ponca und Magnolia, besides a number of settle- ments on what were formerly the ri vations of tho Tonkawas, Kansas, Osage Indians. On the upon a 1 ation of 8,640 ucres, is the Chilocco school. By the terms of the law opening the stri] it will be continued in operation and tho reservation made permanent. In tho western part of the strip is the establivhment known as Camp Supply Military reservation. Besides the Big Cimarron river in the west and the Arkansas in the east, there ame Pawnee and are th woks: Beaver, Buflalo, Wolf, Sund, Sleeping Be keleton, Mul: Indian, Traders, Turkey, Bull m-m): Ewers, Scull and Eagle Chief, all in the western portionand tributaries to the Cimarron, and in the middle and eustern portions, feeding the Arkansas river, are tho Rock, Male, Medicine Lodge, Sandy Clay, 1tound Pond, Red Rock, Black Bear, Blufl, Turkey, Buck, Hominy, Pond, Biveh, Hickory, Coon, Bird and Camp creeks and the Shakask and Caney rivers. 1ndian Neigl Prospective settlers in the strip may now prepare to get acquainted with the Cheroke Creeks, Choctaws and other tribes or nations of Indians in the terri- tory, who, with the white homesteaders of Oklahoma, will be their nearest neighbors, These Indians ave of a high order for their rvace. They practice agriculture and many of the arts; they raise all sorts of grain on their farms, own great herds of cattle, ponies and horses, live in good houses, run mills and factories, conduet excellent schools and academies and maintain good roads, in accordance with legal enactments. They are as tribos exceodingly wealthy, und have enormous sums of money de- posited to their credit in the United States treasury, on which they receive interest annually. They are now rapidly adopting American manners, customs, usages and gavments. A newspaper ex. erting wide influence is published at Tahlequah, the capital of the Cherokee nation, one side being printed in the Cherokee tongue and the other in En- glish. The Choctaws, to the southeast, are governed by a written constitution. They elect their principal chief every four’years, and have a regularly organ- izod judiciary, with trial by jury and the right of appeal tothe supreme court. The Cherokees number about 20,000, the Choctaws 16,000, the Creeks 15,000 and the Cheyennes und Arapahoes 7,000 #nd all the other tribes 000, making altogether 80,000 Indians resident in the Indian territory. The Cost of the Land, The price to be paid the Cherokees by the government for their relingdishment of the strip is $8,095,736, of which $295,- 786 has already been uppropriated and hors. OMAHA DAILY BEE GR Thirty-nine Thousand Dollar Bankrupt Stock of W, D. Richardson & Co., Rockford, IIL., $39,000.00. SALE bought by the BOSTON STORE This stock was bought by us at a mere fraction of cost and will be SOLD AT A MERE stock. SECOND FLOOR. All our COATS ard CAP. actly half price, 25 pairs Lace Curtains sold for $2.00, during sale for $1.19 per pair. 20 pairs Lace Curtains sold for $3.00, during sale for $1.79 a pair, 15 pairs Newmills Lace Curtains sold for 83.50 and $4.00, during sale at $2.19 S at ex- “a pair. A’l 0dds and ends in our Curtain stock at less than half price. . 15 pairs Turcoman Portieros, ronl chenille border, sold for 83.75, to go at $1.89 a pair during sale., 10 pairs Chenille Portieree, dado top and bottom, heavy Meuco fringe, sold for 85.75, to go during sale ut $4.50 a pair. 10 pairs Chenille Porticres, figured all over, fringed top and bottom, also ono side, soid for 812, for $7.50 a pair during s saie. We have about 100 pairs Corsets in 0dd sizes that sold from $1.00 up to $2. 2 10 go during sale at 58¢ a pai can find your size here is a ba See our If you rgain. cand 50c counters of Musiin Underwear, somo choice garments can be picked from them. Our 19¢ Silkelene . to b sold during sale at 7e a yard, AllWall Paper will (be sold during this sa'e at exuctly half price. We will hanz paper for 10c a roll dur- ing this sule, FOTHERINGHAMN This announcement should crowd our store from Now is the time to clean housé; you can save money by doing it new. WOOL DRESS GOODS. 48 piecos double foid Cashmeros, Checked Suitings and Changenblo Diagonals, worth from 1240 to 20ca yard, for this sale at 104¢ a yard. 50 pieces of Scotch Cheviots in plaids, stripes and wixtures, well worth 50c a yard, during sale, 25¢ a yard. 20 pieces ull wool Bedford Cords, sold for 75¢ a yard, at 25¢ a yard, 50 pieces all wool Henviettas, Matte- lasse Cords and fancy weaves, worth from 69¢ to $1.25 a yard, to go nt 30c a yard, 15 preces of an odd lot of heavy cloik- ings’and suitings that sold for $1.25 to $1.75 a yayd, during this sule at 60c a yard. Our 81.00 line of Ottomans, Poplins, Epinglines; a good assortment of colors, all at 50¢ a yard. We have about 25of our fine dress patterns left to be sold at just one-half the regular price. SILK DEPARTMENT. Our entire stock of Figured China Silks that sold for 3 69¢ and a yard, during this sale at 20c a yard, All our Black Silks, including Surahs, Chinas and the famous Natchung dross silks at cost price. Every piece at the top mark. WASH GOODS, b0 Lawne and Challies 1e a yard, 15¢ Chiilian cloths 5c a yard, 124c Corded Dress Ginghams ¢ a yard, 15¢ Buncy Dross ilnghams 7c a yard. 124c Tafleta Cords and Mulls Gte yard. Choice of our entire Calico stock. grays, blues, blacks and fancies, during alo at 5 a yard. Ail remnants of wash goods at ex- actly half pri UNDERWEAR DEPARTMENT. Ladies’ Silk Vests, regul during saleat 4Se. 7c ludies’and children’s vests, 8¢ each., 124c ladies’ Ribbed Vests, 8¢ each., 25¢, 88c and 85¢ Swiss Ribbed Vests, 17¢ each, or three for 50c, All our 39¢, 45¢ and 50¢ Lisle Vests, in one lot, during sale at 85c each, or three for $1.00. 83¢ gents’ Underwear for 190, 50c gents’ Balbriggan Underwonr, 83c. 65c gents’ Blue Mixed Underwear, 33c. HOSIERY. ladies’ Fast Black 750 grade, 170 puir. 25¢ Regular Mado Hoso, pairs for 0c. dide and 39¢ Fine Imported Hose 27¢ a A pair. 19¢ children’s Ribbed Hose, tans and reds, for 124c, 1240 chiidren’s Heavy Ribbod Hoso blacks) utea pair., Hose 124c a 17¢; three IA. SONG along with our immense ead to end for the next thirty days, THE GREAT SALE NOW IN FULL BLAST. 15 dozon Yadies’ Lislo Thread Hose black, boots and staialess opera tops, guod value ut 58e, to go during sale at 39¢ a pat GENTS' FURNISHINGS, 15 Mixed Socke, 69¢ box of halt n. _124¢ Hoavy Rockford Socks, thrae for 63 and 750 Shirts, excellent styles, 500 oach $1.25 and $1.50 Silk Striped Shirts, 870 cach. 50c and 750 Neckwenr in Gonts’ Tecks, Pour-in-Hunds and Pulls, 35¢, throe for $1.00. 15c four-ply Linen Collars, choioe of stock 10c each. DOMESTIC DEPARTMENT. All Musling, Cambrics and Sheetings during this sale ut actual cost. Potter’s best Oil Cloth 124¢ o yard, 10e checked Toweling Ge a yard. d9¢ and 42c Unbleached Damask “Lable Linen nt 83c a yard. 50c and 5S¢ Unbleached Table Linen 39¢ a yard. 58c and 67¢ Bleached Linen Damask $1.00, 81.25, $1.50 72-inch fine Damask at 874c. During this sale we will offer our en- tive stock of Linon Sets and Napkins, including fringed, Wemstitchod an plain, avactuul cost. , WHITELAW & CO. COUNCIL BLUFFS, and $8, 30 hereafter in five equal installments, beginning on March 4 next and‘ending on March 4, 1899, with "~ 4" pér cent interest, payable anually. Thero being 8,144,083 acres of the land, the net price per acre is $1.05. By somo this may be deemed entirely too small, in view of the fact that the prices at which the government is required by law to resell it to home- steaders ave fixed at $2,50, $1.50 and $1, according to location. How It Will Be Settled. By the terms of that act no person is permitted to occupy or enter upon the land except in the mannor prescribed by the president’s proclamation opening it to settlement, and any person otherwise oceupying or entering upon it forfeits all right of acquisition in the future. All intruders already on the ground are re- quired to be removed as _trespassers, but provision is made that such as oceupied houses and had barns, fences, crops or other improvements prior to August 11, 1886, should, before their removal, be in- demnified by the Cherokee nation for their improvements upon an appraise- ment of their value by a board of three experts especially appointed for that of- fice by the president of the United ates. Such improvements thereupon become the property of the Cherokee nution. The amount paid for them must not exceed $250,000 in all, and the ap- praisers indetermining the value of the improvements may consider the value of the occupation of the land. The Cherokee Allot; Citizons of the Cherokee nation wno, prior to November 1, 1891, had made permanent and valuable improvements upon any portion of the strip for farming purposes have had the right to select one-cighth of a section of land each, in conformity with the government sur veys, upon the sites of their improve- ments, and their wives and children have been at liberty to make similar selections of lands fmproved by their husbands and fathers, though each one 0 taking allotments must forfeit $112 from his or her per capita share of the purchase money received by the nation for the strip. The number of such allot- ments is restricted to seventy, not to exceed in the aggregate 5,600 acres, and the sum of 8140 per acre isto be de- ducted from the full amount due the Cherokee nation, These allotments to the number of seventy as permitted have now been selected, and permission has been given to the owners or cMiimants to file proof and argument in'their support at the Interior department until September 1 ne The delay ih opening the strip has been occasioried by the slowness with which the alletments were sclected and located. An‘briginal map, showing the location of each allotment, has just been prepared and* published by the de- partment for the ‘information and guid- ance of prospective settlers, and will be distributed at all'the prineipal points in the neighborhood'of the strip, Opon tp Rettioment, Aside from these, allotments to Tndi- ans and the 8,640, acres reserved for the use of the Chilocep ehool, together with two sections of land (numbers 16 and 36) ; in each township, set apart for publ school purposes, practically the whole remaining body of the strip will be thrown open for settlement to home- steaders upon the date announced in the president’s proclamation. Each scttler on the new lands, before receiving a [mv.cm, for his homestead, is required by aw to pay, in addition to the customary fees, the sum of $2.50 per acre forland between parvallels 96 and 974, the sum of 81.50 per acre for land between 974 and 984 and the sum of 81 per acre between 984 and 100, together with 4 per cent in- terest un the amount from the date of entry to the date of final payment. S me of the land botween parallels 6 and 974, particularly in cerain tracts directly east of the Chilo reservation, is worth at least 850 per acre in its present wild swte. It is splendidly watered and within easy distance of several thriving towns in Ka and every foot of it is capable of eultiva- tion. e The Magnitude of the Hotel Business. Some idea of the enormous proportions the business of hotel-keeping has as- sumed in this country, saysa writer in the North Amewican Review, may be gained from the fact that there are in the United states upwards of thirty thousand hotels, exclusive of what may be termed inns and taverns and what are commonly known as apartment houses, ulthough the latter are in many instance conducted as hotels, in that they have a common kitchen and dining- room. During the past two years thero have been opened in the ¢ity of New York four new hotels, the aggrogate cost of which inclading furniture was upwards of $10,000,000. They are veritable palaces, both in archi- tectural design and interior splendor, and yet they may be said to be only in keeping with a large number of hotels with which our_citizens have for yoars been familiar, Inproof of this, and as a notable fact, it may be mentioned that in_the municipal tax levy for the cur- reit year the highestvaluation put upon any building, but one, in the whole city of New Yorlk, is placed upon a hotel that has enjoyed a world-wide fame for more than thirty years, and another curious fact is, that the two hotols bears ing the highest assessed valuations are two of the oldest in the city, thus illus- trating the high character maintained by the hotels of New York for many generations, — The Blood- ike" Apples, The so-called *“Mike" appl of east- ern Connecticut have a queer history, 80 it is related. Micah Rood was a once thrifty farmer inold Norwich town. His habits suddenly changed, and he becam idle, restless and intemporate. He neg :oted his work and shunned his neigh- bors. Some thought the change due to witcheraft, others to insanity. When the apple trees blossomed in the soring, on one tree the flow- ers had turned from white to rred. The neighbors wondered much.and especially as Rood was drawn to this tree by a v sistless facination. When the “yellow apples ripened in the fall, each one found to contain a red globule which was known afterwards as the ‘'drop of blood.” The people remembered that a foreign peddler had passed through the village in the previous fall and had stonped ove night at Rood's house, and the story grew that he had killed him for his money and buried the body under this tree. ~ Search revealed notling concern- ing the peddler, but the people said the dence of Rood’s guilt was summed up in his disturbed spirit and the blood- mottled apples. Micah Lood lost all interest in his farm, became a dependent on the town, and died in 1717. But so long a» the blood-spotted apples grow they will be known as the *Mike" apple and will perpetnate the story of his li —_— Standing Up for iHis Rights. Chicago Tribune: **Ara you the editor that takes in the society items?” inquired the caller, an undersized man with a timid, appealing look on his face. “Yes, sir,” replied the young man at the desk. *'I can take any kind of items. What have you?" “Why, 1t's this way,” said the caller, lowering his voice. My wife gave a swell party last night, and I'm willing 10 pay to have this write-up of the aftair put in your paper.” “We don't charge anything for pub- lishing society items,”” observed the young man at the desk, taking the prof- fered manuscript and looking it over. “That's all right,” was the reply “You don't understand. I wrote this up myself, and [ put in a line or two that BaV! ‘Mr, Halfstick assisted his distin- guished wife in veceiving the guests. 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