Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 5, 1894, Page 6

DALY RBEE: MONDAY, IT IS A POPULAR SUBJECT nt in Favor of Irrigation on the In- n Nebraska, tim or ERTILE ACRES THAT CAN BE RECLAIMED Culbertson Diteh f Errigation and th e Been Ac- Bomething About t Early Agitation Results that Ia complishe 27.—To in CULBERT the Editor of Tn own 1 N, Be Many are Corinth and and b people the Pan land discussing merits and demerits of a ama or large important promise licity of who are then should the and which canal takir ad the increased th te pushing it examina vantages and mult wea individuals truction. Why v ! or e discussion of entery to build up home it wealth and be of practical and to It of this nations and the ¢ not into at are caleulated our rests increase In manwe It i who whe tinj nefit the people com: oft two expression that he blades of grass to grow grew before is a benefactor to his race. An examination of the history of Egypt and the valley of the Nile will con vince the most skeptical that more than 2,000 years ago the science of that ly age de it possible to reap an abundant vest where vegetable life did not exist fore the advent of irrigation The been existing in the minds of the inh ants of th castern and middle states opular theory 1 an erroneous but established idea that the presence of frrigation in a locality was equal to the as sertion that vegetation could not be pro duced without the ald of irrigation, which has done much to retard its progress in the states between the Missouri valley and the Rocky mountain ran The subject properly Qivided Into two separate sions, the arld r n, a country gation 18 absolutely necessary for duction of agricuiture, and the semi-arid reglon, or that bordering the arid re- gion, where sufficient moisture falls to raise the ordinary yield of agriculture, b where it can never reach the highest state of cul tivated excellence and bring forth its largest capable return without the aid of irrigation The thoughtless reader nd uninterested public confound the two ideas, which causes gettlers In the sen arld region advocating irrigation to be looked upon _as endeavoring to depreciate the resources and do damage to the country in which they live. Ne- bragka has sven no exception to the gen- eral rule. uch a condition existed in this locality to a marked degree, and while Colo- rado has been enjoying the prosperity and benefits of irrigation, Nebraska, her sister state, has b groping along in the dark, bound by a popular pre and erroncous theory Western Nebraska, lying as it does in the extreme eastern portion of the semi-arid region and having an annual rafr fall of twenty inches, has been successful as an fcultural countr attested by the fact that many a poor man came west, located on government land and following the occu pending upon in a comparatively ndustry and econ omy, been enabled to improve his farm, building a good frame house and substa tial barn with money derived from the pro- duct of his farm. But Lhow much more been successful, their barns filled to over- flowing with golden grain, had they b aken advantage of the science of irrigat and followed in the path proven highly suc- cesstul by experience of the Mormons and the operations of antiquity. The first that is known of irrigation in Nebraska, to the general public, dates in the year 1890. It fs claimed upon the part of the people of Culbertson and the projec tors of her irrigation ditch that she sus- tains the same relation to irrigation in Ne- braska as Salt Lake sustains to the country at large, viz., the birth place of irrigation in her domain. And it Is generally con- ceded that while there might have been a few small private ditches, which covered small tracts of valley land, before the com- mencement of the Culbertson ditch, that Culbertson was the first community to brave the storm of popular dlsapproval, commence the agitation of the subject and inaugurate the construction of a diteh of any magni- tude which promised to cover and supply with water the broad divide. Having proved an important factor and the step- ing stone to extensive irrigation in Ne- braska, a history of the Culbertson ditch and a description of the same will no doubt prove intercsting to the thousands of readers of The Bee, and of possible value to the many localities now contemplating the build- ing of irrigation ditches The sentiment favoring Irrigation in N braska was of spontancous growth. In the early spring or the winter of 1890 a spark was discovered In the vicinity of Culbertson favoring irrigation, and so rapidly did it in- crease in size and influence that public at- tention became centered upon the subject and an investigation made apparent that in localities having twice the rainfall of west- ern Nebraska irrigation would prove profita- ble, because its presence would guarantee moisture the very moment it was needed and enable formers to raise larger yield per atre of a more perfect and superior quality than 18 possible depending upon the uncertainties of the natural rainfall. The agitation of the question and the in- vestigation which followed was productive of almost an ro to acauire the means of irrig which resulted in a pre- liminary survey being made from the north banik of the Frenchman river, near Palisade, Nob., to Culbertson, and thence north and to the west line of Red Willow county, which revealed the fact that it was possible to build a canal which would supply with frrigation 30,000 acres in the vicinity of Culbertson. The pioneers of the scheme did not rec any encouragement from other committees, but on the other hand received some criti- cism, the result of prejudice and misguided opinion, but nothing daunts the enterprising spirit of the west, which causes towns to bhe built in a day nd cities of the cosmopolitan class in a year. The precinct in which Culbertson 18 located voted honds in the sum of $18,000 In ald of the nal, and local funds were pledged and used in the construction ot the diteh, C. J. Jones, known as Buffalo Jones, was engaged to construct and complete the canal, and work was commenced in earnest Afte the construction was under good headway the entire plant was sold to the Culbertson Irrigation and Water Power company, com- posed of W. L. Matson, president of the Becurity Company of Hartford; Banker Abbe of that city; C eral Manager Holdrege of the B. & M railroad, and Lawyer F. 1. F of Crete, Neb, who have pushed the con struction from that time until the present expending the enormous sum of $250,000 and making of the Culbertson ¢::ch one of the best t of the Rocky wountains. In the description of tho Culbertson ditch it shall be my purpose to zive as full and correct a description as couil be obtained by a personal inspection, in summer tim with th thoughts and meditative results that would naturally come to a person driv- ing along the line of the canal The water is taken from the Frenchman river, a stream having a fall of ten feet to the mile, whose volume is perpetual, neve failing and exceeds in the dryest time mor than 300 cubic feet per second, and in the estimation of Prof. L. B. Hicks, who ha mado a personal inspetion for selentific pur. poses, is worth to the residents under the ditch as an irrigating medium $500,000 an nually The water s diverted from its natural bed by means of a head gate of large dimen sions and substantial construction, being 100 feet wide, with ten spans of ten feet each built of solid and massive timbers, upon & foundation of piling, strengthened and made solid by large quantities of rock flled in around the piling, adding materially to its stability and constituting a head g of such proportions and dimensions as to withstand the floods of many summers and remain a solid foundation and permanent factor in the construction of the Culbertsc diteh, Leaving behind the head gate and to the right, the Frenchman river, the canal ffty an oft repeated auses none har be Goserves to be and distinct divi where irri the pro short time, by frugality, might they have V fe t our | e gently yet fost to the wator large and ranged permit may again f bed. Attaini head and force to send t the capal with the required velocity, at the Stinking water flume the ditch s r duced in dimensions to twenty-five feet wide | on the bott and four feet (and a | fall of a foot and a half to the mile) with the exception of where it travels through the hills that ciosely line the bank of the river, where through banks of clay and d"beds of rock the banks attaln efghteen twenty feet in helght, thus permitting the canal to pass through on water line and reach th ond bottom of the val ley, where It beging ite mission of dispensing water to the thivsty sofl Running ac plateau for the canal at approaches of Lone Trec feet thirty feet deep, but a flume from bank to bank enables the water to cross rapidly yended in mid-air, where failing from th waste welr the surpius water strikes a bed of rock in the bottom of the canyon, wher it rebounds in sparkling spray, glistening in the Nebraska sunshine Passing comfortable farm h meoting occasfonally the sod house (a relic of home days), coursing through groves of trees,. wit the beautiful valley below, and strefch- ing out for higher ground, the canal stops abruptly at the bank of Fish canyon, which is 600 feet wide and thirty feet deep, but skillful engincering and money enables the water to be carried ac the canyon by means of the Indispensable flume, buflt -of hard pine timbers, upon hard wood butts, carefully braced and bolted, with a box ten feet wide and four fect decp, made of two- inch plank, which conveys the water to its artificial bed on the opposite side as easily and successfully as if it were flowing in its natural bed Here I 1 five feet steadily mile, and winds river in itself having a fall crossing the below, by bie bridge i flowing of two4 Stinking of a tourist ot w deey the nd s the sid fall where into its natural ime of sufficler water through am a mile ans railroad water way good ®0_ar which it surplus to nd its to two the miles bank wide and ross a length canyon, 300 © bluffs arise towering toward the heavens, and in their strength and massive proportions defy the onward march of the artificial river, but at this age such obstruc tions do not long remain where capital i roady and practical engineers ar chargc and two cuts, one 1,000 feet long and seventy-five feet dzep and another 400 fe long and sixty feet deep, permit the water to flow uninterruptedly forward, distributing to the farmers the greatest feriilizer of the age, bringing through its bed a commodity fch insures prosperity and brings hap) ness and contentment with its presence The history of the crystalization of the sentiment favoring irrigation at Culbertson is but a similar repctition of the experienc of many o The growth of irri gation in Nebraska is not unlike or materi- ally different in its progress (except in point of time) from other states and territories The growth of gentiment favoring irrig in the past three years has been fully ju fled by practical resul he government after thorough investigation makes the state- ment that on the barren desert with irrlga- tion the yield of agricultural products will bo twice the amount that is possible in the humid region without irrigation, and that on vegetables the yield will exceed from five to ten times the best results obtainable in the rainbelt states The sentiment favoring irriga‘ion is march- ing on. No locality or country is free from the destructive resnls occasioned by lack of ainfall. The exporience of Germany the past son should prove an object lesson from which a valuable conclusion on the subject of irrigation can be drawn. Florida, having the greatest rainfall of any state, has joined the van and identified herself with irrization A. L. KING e WHY MARRIAGE IS DECLINING. eason I8 Given at Last Grant Allen. Mr. Grant Allen, in what he is pleased to call “A Philosophic View of the Marriage Question,” undertakes to explain why mar- s common teday than it was a by rlage is le century ago. Thirty or forty years ago,” he says, “young men used to rush by blind instinct into the toils of matrimony—because they couldn’t help themselves. Today they shilly- shally, they pick and choose, they discuss, they criticise, they say foolish things about the club and the flat and the cost of living. They believe in Malthus. Fancy a young man who believes in Malthus! But~ they don’t marry, and it is because they are less of young men than formerly. W in confinement seldom propagate tI i Only a few caged birds will continue their species. Whatever upsets the balance of the organism in an’ individual or a race tends first of all to affect the rate of reproduction Civilize the red man and he begins to de- crease at once in numbe; 1s not the same thing true of us? ation and its works have come too quickly upon us. The strain and stress of corre lating and co-ordinating the world we live in are getting too much for us. Railways, telegraphs, the latest edition, have played havoc at last with our nervous systems. We are always on the streteh, rushing and tear- ing perpetually. We bolt our breakfast, wo catch the train or 'bus by the skin of our teeth. The tape clicks perpetually in our ears the last quotation Eries, the telephone rings us up at inconven- lent moments. Something s always happening somewhere to disturb our equa- nimity. Lite is one turmoil of*excitement and bustle. Financially, 'tis a series of dissolving views; personally, 'tis a rush; soclally, 'tis a moslac of deftly fitted en- gageme Drop out one picce and you can_never replace it. You are full next week from Monday to Saturday—business all day, what calls itself pleasure (save the mark!) all evening. Poor old Leisure is dead. We hurry and scurry and flurry eternally. One whirl of work from morning till night, then dress and dinc; one whirl of excitement from night till morning, a snap of troubled sleep, and again de capo. Not an hour, not a minute we can call our own “The first_generation after Stephenson and the Rocket pulled through with it somehow inherited the sound constitutions of the men who sat on rustic seats in the gardens of the twentis The =econd generation that's you and me—felt the strain of it more everely W machines had come in to make life £till more complicated, telegrams, Jell and Edison, submarine cables, evening papers, perturbations pouring in from all sides Incessantly; the suburbs growing, the hubbub increasing, metropolitan rallways tram bicycles innumerable; but we still endure nd presented the world all the same with a third generation. That third generation—ah, me! there comes the pity of it One fancies the imoulse to marry and rear a family has wholly died out of it. It seems to have died out most in the class where the strain and stress are greatest 1 don’t think young men of that class today have the same feelings toward women of their sort as formerly With cert clagses and in certain placés a primitive Instinet of our race has weakened. The present crisis in the m: lage market is due not to clubs or the comfort of bachelor quarters, but to the culminative effect of mnervous over-excite ment." Civili THE PERILS OF WINKING. Question Agitated Jersey Tow A Qispatch from Mount Holly, N. J., say “The question as to whether it is a misdes meanor to wink at a pretty girl In church will probably be decided in a few days by a local justice of the peace, who issued a war rant for the arrest of a young man 19 years old charged with the offense mentioned on Sunday at the Daptist church. The young lady at whom the wink was directed re sented it, and as a result one of the elders entered a complaint against the young maj who was arraigned and ordered to pay a fine of $10 or go 10 jail. He demanded a hear ing and claimed that the wink was involun tary. The justice Is holding the matter under adyisement Ten dollars, says the Baltimore Sun, is rather a high price to pay for a single wink even when it is a wink of the most satisfac tory character and s thoroughly recipro cated by the party of the second part. When the winkee, however, does not reciprocate, but s, on the contrary, ofiended by the ac tion of the winker, it seems rather hard to put high a tariff upon unsuceessful performance, Apart from this equitable cousideration, it will in the nature of things be extremely difficult to conviet the young wan in question of any offense known the law Even if it conceded that & wibk may be of a0 ferocious [ A Dimcult In a New | Conaldered THE _OMATIA to defamation of charact to Impossibie to prove th Kinds of wink. It m een a sentimental wink, an admiriy a warning wink or a score of of winks known to the skillful w Iy to what of winks this wink belonged could not be de even by an expert testimony, e g oxperts differ from each other as radically in their opinions as medical and ther experts always do. If, as the young man_solemnly declares, the wink was wholly involuntary, he cannot be heavily pun ishe it it be decided that the wink was heinous and diabolical apppear- ance had a disastrous and deadly af fect the young peace of mind from this standpoint, the ver have to be simply aceidental or womanslaughter, for which, of ung man ought not to he can't help being and th at character as ault, or ning technical ous as to sng it will be next was efther have ost sOrts Precls ticular mined it winkir par or- en even of a and upon 1y's dict would involuntary course, a_handsome be held responsible, ingly charming Probably the best would be by man and a what to man, do not or otherwise of to the the young effect acel 1k ahead to to di admonition tion to the the following wink in church but if you do w winkee before you ) Young woman, do not be too ready agine winks or (o take them to yo And if you do not want to be winked at do not look at winking young men."” Beware of Imitation good.”” Sce that you g Bull's Cough Syrup, the peerle MAKING CORKSCREWS. way pose an case Woman Young dentally sure of your ke no the genuine s specific. ‘Just as Dr. Which Hard Times Has Not Affected. have made no difference with More them than ever during the past year is the birthplace of most of of the world, Hence this to get statistice on the sub correspondent of the erat At anything interesting can aid about the ubiquitous bottle-opencr seem funny, but it true, all the An Industry Hard time: corkscrew were turned Newark, N. J corkscrews spot writes i th of out jeet, Der be in New rews last the indus beats the is stated that made 160,000,000 ¢ size und importance of try will be unde . This vecord. The Wilson bill fsn't suppored to disturh) the traffic in least. It I8 har to see just what is done with all the cork- serews that nufactured every twelve months. T mendous of them hroken ar fact that the Jast year's vield of the uscful little instru- ment was big enough to supply —every voter the slobe with one and leave envugh over to supply the advoc: ot woman suffrage s proof of the & The average length of the fnches. If the corkscrews turned o the market by one firm in 1803 could be laid length (o lenzth they would have extended from New York to San Pranc would have 8 the broad Pucific océan and reached half way the kingdom of Japan, 1€ all these cork-pullers could be melted into one big serew, some mythical ssus could pull the cork from the sur face of the earth and set the geysers spout- ing and the volcanoes erupting from the in- terfor of the globe. This, be it remembered, s e of only one establishment I the new corkscrews of 1593 could be numbere would doubtless be sufficient to_supply inhabitant of this hand- some sphere the article: 1t required nearly 100 men simply to t the the 160,000,000, These too, and every day ¥ X 1 took a number more hands wooden and other stvies of h are nearly fifty varieties of the et. Among them are handle, steel wire screws for and large bottles; the folding broad wire handi ago an fce pick made with A s concealed in I tube handl he tube can be slpped off and the ice pick forms the handle of the serew. Another novelty has a brush in the handle, £o that the waiter in (he restaurant is not oblized to run his finger around inside of the neck of a wine bottle in order to remove the particles of cork and dust For champagne bottles a screw is made with a blade cut in end of the handle (o cut the twine around the cork. Another handle contwins both the blade and brush The power corkserew {5 an inglorious and popalar aren ement, which sives the knees and arms from a tussle with an obstinate cork, A cone of steel fits over the neck of the bottle, und the screw draws thecork while the cone presses on the bottle. Cheap novelties out of twisted wire have also been invented and patented by those in the corkscrew trade. spiral thum serew §s one of these. be into @ board and easily removed after serv- ing as a temporary hat rack. It ean be purt 20 for $1 a gross and retails at § cents, Spiral paper hooks, wall hooks, hat and coat racks, ne nails, spiral carpet tacks air buttons, card sus penders and holders, bill files, soap holders, pickle forks, topsting and vegetable forks and spiral shoe button hooks are also manu- factured here in Newark. There 18 also a left-handed corkscrew. — The original was made for left-handed bartender, and it has taken immenselv. Another 'Newark firm turns out over 300,000 pocket corkscrews every year. The au has already been ri what becomes of all the corks course, loss and breakage cuts o ure. Large New York restaurants, like Delmonico’s, Hoffman house —and Hotel Brunswick, buy corkserews direct from the Newark makers, and they zet hundreds at W time. It is no unusual (hins for big hardware houses In iloston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington and the large western citids to order 10,600 puliers a time. 1f the corkserew 18 a good barome- ter of intemperance, the onists have ise for alarm. 1f 0 15 @ mar ket for 160,000,000 a year, how ny bottle: do these corkscrews help uneork? — Cer- nly, on an average, one corkscrew will open’ at least a_dozen bottles before lts working davs are over. If this is good reasoning,~then the Newark firm referred to furnished material last y for the opening end imbibing of over 950,000,000 bottles of one sort or another. Just' think of 1,000,000.000 bottles a year, and all opened by corkscrews made by oné firm, and that A concern in a state famous for Its apple it looks as though the tem were neglecting their dut war on the corkscrew. A wle is now in order. ch Hazel Salve nures sores. CTRIC NOTES: Work on the new Atlantic cable betwee: Vovia Scotia and the Irish coast will be begun May 1. The cable will be 2,200 u long. The cost of horse steam is about $25 power delivered at Buffalo, or at any point within a radius of fifteen miles from the great water power dynamos at Niagara, will be sold at a price not to exceed $12 per year. In the one firr ks When it alond year the they every with one of vist men corkscrews i the ring demijohns and clgai-box opener sed as to o or te a fig- making cru in not corkscrew DeWitt's W EL generated by but horse power per year New York charges the bill introduced in the assembly to regulate telephone following rentals for telephones are fixed New York $78, Brooklyn $66, in cities of from 100,000 to 500,000 $48, in cities of from 20,000 to 100,000 $36, in cities of from 8,000 t0 20,000 $30, and in all other places $27 A Cincinnatl inventor, Dr. Von Doleke, has devised a plan for the prevention of col lisions on railroads in which electric storage batteries play the principal part. The com plete detalls of the system have not be published, as the patents for the_de have not been secured yet, but an” outline of the plan Is as follows: The entlre road is to be divided into sections of 500 feet to a half a mile each. Wires are to b connected with the flange of the rail al certain points from telegraph poles that stand along a road. In this way the in ventor proposes that overy road that w o prevent collisions shall fix its tr ery engine on the road is to be provided with a storage battery. When one en gine is on the track the circuit is open, but it a following or approaching train comes within the 600 feet or half mile sec tion the circuit for each battery is c osed and the result s that a torpedo on each cab explodes and warns the englneer of danger. If by any chance the engineer 1s slecpy and does not hear the dis charge, the battery, in a limited - time, works a wire that reverses the lever and stops the train. As an earnest of what th invention will do, it is proposed to start two engines heading toward each other, and let them try to approach. Dr. Von Dolcke says that they will come to a standstill be fore any damage is done. He says experi enced rallroad men have told him that train going forty miles an hour can be stopped in 300 feet, and he proposes to be safe and put the limit at 500 or perhaps a half mfle. Some of the details of his in ventlon the dootor would not give out, but he says he will explain everything when his papers arrive and he feels that be ! fully protected a a De Witt's Hazel salve cures allag other | “'l}RH;ll‘l'IiXI'\'(; UP VERY FAST Business Prospeata jn Omaha and Nebrask Lock' Much Petter, WARM WEATHER'HAS THE DESIRED EFFECT Snow, Chureh & Co for Last Week I What Loeal D ~Market Find the Tmprovement idedly Marked - o2 Ne Albert Church & “The warmer has had the and 1 tion better Andriano, representing Co's dantile Snow, me agency, says lier of the past expected good effect on busine am ch gratified to e my pre verified in the for the It is, of ¢ to ex pect a large increase of a few there amount we week m decided change Wble the r many urse, unreason in tra and sult lines the that warm da in is no appreciable improvement in of trade, but jobbers all agrec the continued warm weathor of th has done much to stimuls many lines there | better. Rotailors encouraged and are inclin hopeful view of the situation tone is undoubtedly firmer and with con tinued fair weather a marked revival of Mairs may be looked for in all branches of trade. Clearings wn ficrease over pre vious weeks and collections are easier A number of Omaha jobbers are invading new territory, extending their business largely in Towa, and the results thus far are very satsfactory, with a good for an increased trade in the future “Boot and shoe men report a decided In crease in trade. Although dealers buy ing conservatively and orders are generaliy small, they are more numerous, and the sult is beiter than was expected undel isting circumstances. This is owlng lar; to the fact that dealers have run down size, and must fill fn to meet the demands of their patrons. A large number of Ne- braska retailers who have heretofore pur- chased the bulk of their goods in the re now buying more freely in Omaha. Not prepare order us liberally in past years, find it convenient to order in small lots from st jobbing cen ter, and Omaha the result Local jobbers are taking every advanta of these circumstances to satisfy and hold this trade, and no doubt many dealers who have heretofore bought largely in the cast will in the future favor Omaha to a greater or less extent. “The dry goods trade good showing and many dealers who in the past have favored Omaha jobbers with only a slight share of their trade and even some who never bought before arc_beginning to send their orders this way. Trade in this line, which is uzually at its best In January and February, was very much depressed dur- ing the same period this year, but the last few days of February and the beg'nning of Mareh show up o well that jobbers are now of the opinion that unless there is a ceseation of activity the aggregate of the first three months of '94 will compare very favorably with previous years. In agricultural same pred’ction is above mentioned last week business, and in 1 change appear much 1 to take a mor The general a deci and_ jobbers show ly spect to they as mord the near is profiting by makes an equally h the lines order implements made as in in_that the first trade, or contracts will be small, while the order trade will be large. T is t the reverse of thp usual order of affair in this line. Last y for instance, when every indication vored good busin the contracts were inwually large and as the depression graduzlly setiled on the country, orders fell off A number of firms in this line will this year do their business largely on what is termed number two contracts, protecting their accounts with farmers’ notes thus enabling them to extend a larger line of odit at less ri: “The prospects scem cqually bright, ufacturer “In summing up the gituation it may be sald that although the prdspect is brightening it is as yet largely i prospect. Of course, the last week’s jmproved weather counts for something, but the continuation of this con- dition of affairs depends to a great extent on the weather. We will certainly see so bad days in March and a little rough weather would do no harm, but an early spring and the prevalence of fair weather is absolute necesgary to a steady revival of busin i general improvement during the past week, the result of the warm weather, made its s0 apparent that this deduction admit little doubt. Country roads have been mu th ith the furniture trade specially with the man- such condition that farmers are little in clined to come to town, but a few more day of warm weather will dry them sufficiently for easy driving, and the inevitable result be an improved trade for country mer- chants. “Jobbers have long since given up hope a large spring trade, and a gradual improv ment_in the situation is all t J hoped for. Under the most favor cumstances the business of the first half of *94 will fall much short of that of the same months of previous years. But, with a mod- erate spring trade and a steady improve- ment of business, merchants will again gain confidence and matters throughout the country will once more assume that firm tone consistent with a prosperous condition of affairs. CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET. the Trading and the Closing Prices of Saturduy. CHICAGO, March 3.—Wheat the start, but weakened and closed at ¢ lower for May. The prospects of a cold wave caused buying the opening, but it was met by fre This and larger northwestern re cablos and the mild and balmy with a continuati the selling, caused & %c cline y closing at_the bottom, — May 1 is 14c lower, and May oats Yc lower, but provis ed to share in the weak- ness of the grain markets and closed higher alt around. May wheat bid, started at Features of was strong at cipts, casier weather, Ay at G0c ts of a which closed yester 6034c on the pros cold wav but after some activ trading for a few minutes, it started on a decline which lasted during the first hour and had by that time worked away from the openin 9%c becoming current for a mo- ment two before any noteworthy rally oceurrad, The very liberal exports of the week, amounting to 72,000 bu. in wheat, and flour from both coasts, did not have any more than a very transitory effect upon the wheat market at the opening. The weather is of the most promising character what- ever It may have In store for the future and the foreign markets still withhold encoura ment to shippers, Liverpool was quote quiet at %d decline in the price of futures. The northwestern recelpts were from a bull point discouragin liberal. Minneapo- s reported 2 and Duluth 94, or 34 in all Ay 4go these two places re- ported 384 cars, - Chicago received only 46 cars compared with, 201 last year. ow York wired that [foreigners were sellers of wheat there at the opening and here Schwartz-Dupee . and other private houses were loaded with gelling orders from the outside and swamped the people in unload ing them, who were proyided with orders to buy. W. R Lipn let go freely and among the local| crowd the decline which followed a slight fipmness at the opening was called “a Linn! Trading was lively for half an hour. = After recovering to 9% a little buying there was a return of weakness and on the next slump there were plenty of sellers at 5itec, with some transac tions at 1-16c less, The closing quotation was at the bottom figures of the day In corn there wis a very moderate no noteworthy transactions occurring out side of a fairly good buying by one of the houses which sold quite eely on yester day's advance. An easler feeling prevail and prices ruled lower. The receipts today were large and the weather fine and 11k il arrivals are expected Monday and Tuesday, which, together with the ction of wheat caused prices to recede from e to e om the opening prices. The market afterward rallied a fraction and closed with May but Y4e from the bottom. There was an easler feeling in oats, a moderate trade Iy ars an trade with The decline of from ¥ to Ke was due mainly to sympathy with wheat and corn, as the pressure to sell was not large. May closed at the bottom figures of the day. Provisions opened strong and higher for pork wnd ribs and steady and unchanged for also rk by on unloa 2 A 8t o afforded the in_the i t there feularly pany, but A little easiness tovelor the end of the slon, the m steady, however, for pork and \ for ribs, Compired with last n K 18 2%e higher, May lard 1 May ribs 7150 Nigher A rec for Monday: W corn, 550 cars; oats, 250 cars; b 29,000 hea little t 1 st before closiy and fir May | higher o Estimate s futures ranged as follows CORNTN OATH 3 whi RYE-No. 2, 4 (I ARLEY Nominal FLAX Sik 1 TIMOT Y , PROVISION L No. 3, 414 $1 Frim i1 H A LIVE STOCK MARKETS, the Local Yards Show Pecalinr Condition, SATURDAY, Mar Receipts for the past we te incr compared Compared the same cattle and show crease, while the run of hogs has more t doubled. The figures are as follows: Catile. oMA Receipts Ri h with last weck last considerable ase with sheep as W S Ihis we e Work T e wiek 1 Jinuar K K 2 mioath Another very cattle_trade | have ‘not gone previous, that w is about the best trade. There | receipts or g more there change. hand to very 1500011 13501 unsatizfactory week passed into history, iy lower than the hardly possible, but that can be said of 5 been 1o change eithe al conditions and wha no prospect of any immed Killers are pursuing the mouth policy necessitated by icted consumptive demand and this n on_any marked dec ceipts prices brace up, but weaken on any appearaice of large or c normal supplies. There were instance this kind during the past week, but for most part the morket dragged along v prices’ at_the lowest point in over years. Shippers have been operating t moderate extent, but the absence heavy cattle and the unfavorable condit prevailing east bave made the specula element very conservativ Phe scarci good heavy cattl very unusual eirc stance at this season of the year. is ge ally accounted for by the fact that on count of the ruinously low prices for in Pr & as qui L of the pa Hng rad rtly arket lard 1l \0gs, o k show a moder cek. i de- han \eep, ices ok that the rin t s iate me the for re- ckly ven s of the ith three 0 a of good fons tive ot um- ner- ac. fat cattle feeders became disgusted or else could get the usual and necessary accom fon at the banks and marketed t stock long before maturity. IT WAS DISAPPOINTING. After the active, firmer markets of past two days, the heavy receipts and market today were the more keenly felt dealers. There were considerably over loads on sale. and improvement noticeable in the gener ings, the proportion of pretty well fa steers beir ewhat larger than comn of late. The receipts were about 800 he: than a week ago, and more than that, m vier than dealers were expecting. Buy wants were rather restricted, and as offerings were ample they took their ti Really desirable beeves, on which kil and shippers came in competition, sold st in some cascs stronger, but in most ca the market was a shade easier than Frid while common and inferior stock sold to 10c lower. There was little life and snap to the trade, but a very fair, altho rather late, clearance was effected. he cow market was also slow There were about thirty loads on sale buyers did not rush out after them. Sel were generally glad to get steady prices, as a rule they had to tuke less. The abundance of cheap, common steers & cow stuff look high-priced, and this m, the market rather weak. Calve at steady to easier prices and the rough stock was just about steady. The stocker and feeder trade J many peculiar features. Last fall wh attle were selling at good figures f were low and now when beef steers are dc to bedrock' feeders are in demand at prices, For instance, a man bought feeders here last fall at $3.2 home and fed them nearly six months was offered less than §3 for the same ca here today. There has been little change the situation all week. Both supply and mand have been light, but prices have b firmly held. That was the condition of market today od to choice feeders quoted at from $3 to $3.30; falr to good from $2.7% to $3, and lighter, commg grades at from $2.76 down BIG RUN OF HO0GS COMMENCED. much as if the big rur 1 and it also looks a 1 receipts we were to | not some nd we It looks very hogs had commen with the increas considerably lower price figur this week will not average a nickel lower than last, the has been from 10¢ to 20¢ lower. The winter packin season'’ cloted Wednes and the Cincinnati Price Current says an that occasion for the four mont now ended is about 4 4,643,000 lust yea may change the The present mate crease of something hogs, with also some gain in average wel; The notuble feature of the season close 18 the relation which between prices of hogs and of product farmer has had the benefit of prem prices for his hogs incident to a short supplies, while the packer stantly been contending against depression which discouraged tive interest, which and the ingly low vaules for grain, notably wh have had an unfavorable influence on provision market and prices of product I been continuously below a ity with ho, weight ana o of the hozs mars spring, and hogs are running y five pounds Highter than two mouths ago. though hurdly as light as a yoar ago at time. The following tuble will show monthly average welght of hogs sold on market for cight years Maonilin much ¢ of the 50,000, winter compared Complete finul i total somew implies es an has exi has the t Bpec sury has fact el January 260241 Februury 245248 291 March 024 April 10 Ma. i Juid 4 July August Septen ber October November Decernber During the month of e the bighest wouth im ihe Listory of mo- helx the low Dy 100 was 1 quality of the offer- tted non vier Lo crs' the me. lors ady wse uy, 5a no ugh rak and ler: but uper- ade ade sold slowly market good me took them and ttle > in de- een the are 1 at oner \ of s if have Although closing over general range old day rent “The indicated total packing ason with ures hat in ght now ted Th fum of rade ula ris- jeat the &8 the this uty il this the this the this m 1887, 1 Deal, compa much nearly Saturd the 1 Ing an b it, but strictly mover longer filled wdvanc finally in $4.65 ¢ At the Supy and th day, b today at are q wester sheep, lambs Receipts and Disposition Ome by the | for tic Mareh 3 CATTL Cars the hogs we first very large He A LITTLE HIGHER rally wore small supply head wer than were ireumstane tone to Chicago firmer feeling at ling was br 10¢ advance epeculators did local houses fra or ratiy fower This better a rather d early tr of a to hing and buyors for in it and at ent was free. than buyers thought the very urgent market flattened out_badly i1d not bring over $4.70, the e was completely lost and the n closed weak with a few load hands, The trading, however $4.75 and £4.80 Friday over 3,000 here t ad the and ¢ Sh ne The supply it would A to o $470 on close last week SHEEP DULL AND WEAK lies of sheep have been fairly | e market dull and weaker from ¢ ut with only one fresh re there was a turn for the needed th strong prices. I uotable at $2.750%.2 ns, $2.2503.10; com $1 15; good to choice § @3, ind $4.80 16 better ir to good n fair to and 10 to 0ok of (e | Yards ¢ twenty-four hours endig at 5 o'el 1404 ECRIPTS, €[ HOGK. [ SHEED.[OTSE 1 Cars. | Hoad | Cars. Tlead| Cars, 31| 161 POSITION The G. & Cudahy P DUVERS. ~TCATTLE,] Packing Co. H, Hammond €6 Co i Co. Hans R. Beck Shipper er & Do 8 and feeders Total Cattle CHIC, wipts f 10,000 b e it tone to largely part Hog receipts 000 hcad 000 head the ely vesterd b3, 11y Sales w There sheep and_ lambs, of fro the lat Recelpt for thin Recely head ghe i) Fexan HOG head heavy, W cpened [ LONT CHICAGO LIVE STOCK, Recelpts for the We Than Usual. March This 0 e K Much L AGO, ul pre Today ng W K i Uy which | the market by (he iner receipts for next the arvivals belon : and were not on (h for today ing the t that the ased week Al for this week U has ‘been reache lant 1wo 1 5w A number . within D January last- the weck e arrivads were 208,774 head, and at better prices than pro (lere bolng an averake gain of gLt hogs. sold at fram $4.85 to $1.75 to $.05 was pald for | principally at from $4.9) to $5.0: was a quict and unchanged mark the former sclling on 0 $1.75 1o $4.00 for inferlor to_extr ter being saleable at from $2.75 to 5 were about 2,000 head, and week amount e L 1,000 1’ sheep, Journal v wipts, 1,000 steady {0 woek npo o extrn, e, $4.2500.75; others, $3.50 to neariy hend 0’ 1 te head 000 e 100 n $2.7504.10, nipments, nickel higl pickers welgghts narke 4.6 heavy uteher Recelpts, 2,000, market top, $8.1043.70, $4.0064.25. Coffee M. March 2. and advanced Rio stovk decreasing ruled moderately 10 points net_adying 3 March, $15.80 May, 10: July, $15; Reptember, § ;' Doden 1.5 Warchouse delivery y i and 'in the | ipply_fo i YORK o, excited nt of W D \elding June, 31 tober, § i i HON changed to HAMI unching RIC Vi 1 ANT $17. dred LOUIS HOG head; 1 4.95: 'pi e aul Texan: KANSAS ¥ it 16 AT white BUDT dulry S bu KAN 00 I HOG! heud lewvies, Yorke HI head ULt haril h 2.40; ox The r clpal ¢ Chicag Ki We pald Hazel Market 1 to higher: rale JANEIRO, Maich 5. Recelpts, 7,000 W0 s, March 3 Receipts from Ul DI Eil Market St. Louis Live Stock Market, Mareh 8 -CATTLE- Recelpt b 900 head; market n re, $G0GAT fale tom 6004105 medium feeding st t natiy Shipie export §2,0003.40" £00d I 1,200 head 1 mediim welg Welights, #4047, none prients, none 107 common Nipment Recelpts, warket dull; & and light 1 Receipt & it Markets. K ey nss Clty M ird Very firm quic MENT Kansas City Live Stock Market. AS LI 1 pite inil Duluth Wheat March Markot, 12T T Live M Sloux City It 32 4o en, §1 could not impr duce, or that m and bought them readily of Stoclk. a the supply 7 DETAILS FURN!I Aut at ar Jast ther Wices, | open - the At to | ro all | $4.75 to $4.80 the | lasted and ers had been od | carly larket still was gain i iberal lay to coived Local atives good stock | 100-1b. Head, ghte nearly e up e o7, I only on S St for basiy and $4.25. 1 head; §4.500) G400 | head: top ptions Al 14,250 $15.45 14,5070 oxtor baigs nited o thy ba 1 trom azilian ninal § r i fc e HOW CoDY Wiipp Persistont t Buffalo F | this | no woman in the Cody of ington duel made got enough n Chamberlain's M of Co i i ar Ve I iy n re matt one, and ne on Both May me mot and im in lan, Cody behi a the hall He | in “N n I3 t | was | i ht | renew long “Thi; braskan fa, he down with th re: Co M. when help b of each M' iy v, on had a not | fay stepp h not n mi fist knoc ot hair. fing on t floor. by to and he n hen ( mingled i May's il in the to fri ities told him t wr 15 int in th mutual a dude patted to for a_moment | and in a few stoo: renew the flas fec th ot nd away shod fight ne. an Why xt oth His got a revolver, but he never pulled it had intended departing from W: day o fron Answer Th, Sir Julian dor e Columbia where he has since be neing lessons. the f tendant much en I short of the teacher 1 an o a path Cady ut of a Battle One Roun that W, i SHED BY AN EYE ook Meld 18 o Polished \alo 1 o Assadlants n Con w " Ington Cafe, ridan A son W At 1, 1 Frod iberlain details o it of r, and paper 3ill or. n do toriety, 1 right the set In first pla In th men that ni ran away f of it. There men have shaken 1 Fred May knows Here is the plain st had a fight in New Y Cody whipped his ma until the Washington corrldor. May wecused him of taking the fight \ tied and apologized gave a dinner party After dinner Cody ax rest m ipped two ver recount t again in in the na i ining May fow nt of met not drinks in in he guest May drunk, a i such 1 him and welghs 2 ly and re vired in hich With the habit of I ieck, an the wall attack and grabt 1 been in th nutes to May Ked agalnst he on 1:the and 1 Co cemed o nd he proce ally knocking o Bill's long him. The fight was fi May's friends rushe stood them off and s lis man good and literally wiped the club man squealed that none of his frie nettle the ded to pur him dow ir and p it 1 lick the saw out ‘ody and mbatant n the enemy’s ends ur, Tapping Ma; hat his ong manne cerest up. May uped ed round camp him to on the s ends were ady and that it ke hands w piesed I had the other's thi that to He a minutes g hands. attitude, affair had o 1 in wrot the the the fight shoulder and u Cody eyed t and the next thing of a fist through the air 1 saw May's friend land in_an aftitude that res loughnut. May didn’t re friend hed down but r: that at lay 1L o'clock, for fear’ mal might start {he report that he wa away where he wiil exhibit winter fair, May. Cody left his show for at n it that people u Because it is th e > Salva Dbest lin other na 1 myself lod his b floor for ] D IS .\II:L‘\"‘ as Over in WITNESS » s HI's Cont iple ot is a€ oxe yo. of the wcky and ks lad May Wa M it 1o famons lave in vas nd place, tead Washs will be no hands and n he has ory: ( ork n n day Cody pr Ivantag provious the ey Chamber= who n leave Mg down reported. true, bug nanner ag ted the morne i, i vy, ] n o iy e ly ThsC that club m foll dy L ! Miy's May; n i on 1 ta hig witle n, ulled nish a hou hard nds could s th nd iendg I ard hos= houlder, [ ising him would ba, ith M graspe Whild saring friend of May's got behind his backy e him he fellow saw wa I heard bout terg embled d new the tairs and Codyl shington the ned over, B ¥ the tion OIl% SIR JULIAN BIFFED. British to t g e tim York clul “pulled off expressing “Charley the | ju: Pomy esson fan Mitchell proposition, his left ou Drogi lowey an coming Corbett and Mitchell fight} Minister Puts on th, «d Does the Mitehell Act, Pauncefote, the Britis United States, recent Athletic club of W he He has b gymunasium in the manly art he is not taking any mpc abandoned ago. suys a corresponde Sun, he entered th b and procecded to go th arse of instruction, wi tutor. During his distinguished el tthe would Julian, o whether in Florida, Sir the belief that his con Mitehell, would —certain sadour Jim.” Toward the the ambassador remark you are Corbett and th The professor i as he did s hand and caught him a ered it Sir blow on the nose “That ing to smile lightly pr wa ofes neck, apparently having ay i and in 1t nally was a Julian, upon his ruddy face, and beauty,” said through the tears that he tapped the blg return. be afraid to hit with a & me if y iile of ¢ gain on the everything again and the professor led with and has assented Crossley hen he ta Glove I ambas4 1y joined hingtong 1 taking boxing and gular ats mad At nt of tha boxing room | tha Profd the rests the pupil talhed really bd ot course ntryman, ly knoclg » close of cd: “You iat 1 ang to the Julan let stinging trye filled hig diplomag on_can, onfldence 1 the face and his owik his left, and Sir Julian threw up both hands to ward off t fo it a right glove fr mastcr and explained that rt t lit h he p resist tle ¢ amba an wl lard 1t Oures ol 2 Yo 2 Wh in A3 ny 1l leaving a fine The tu pected blo rofessor's right the temptation, and s xtra driving er he la squarely on the end of ador’s nose The bloc a4 was wiped by th 1o made the most profuse & did not mea pted t he he Sir Julian the apolog sin but ds, Cou hooping Cough, B o cure for Consum 1 o relief in advance Use ‘see the excelicut effoct nfier ta Bold by dealors everywhere f rublication \ EUGENE M Auditor of Public” A apening tor could nmoning ided hig the Drits ' flowed e hosing apolo, fes" n o “hid e expias has not pu — at one g ths Larke u stutd | tinen talk in the th the [T audls | yvear JOIE (™ 114 <