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ft 10 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE SUNDAY DECEMBER 29. il889 SIXTEEN PAGES If- RICH HOMES IN WASHINGTON " HI ( Wboro Swell Banquets Will bo r Glvon During tlio Son30u. H * SENATOR HENDERSON'S CASTLE B A Etniy About tlio Henry Clny Hnt in H | : which Mr Clny IiIvch Imxiir- H S itiiiH Hotel Ijifc Wnnnnia- H ; leers Gorgeous Parlors H Kntcrtnlncrq nt tlio Capital H ( CopurtoMttl 18S9 by IVmilc O. Crtrprntcr.1 1 Washington ) . C , Dee 20. [ Spo- M cinl to Tub liii.l ! Every ono of the H noted houses of Washington will bo H thrown open next week On Janunry I H the pompous Washington butler will H como out in his glorious livery and for H ; three months there will bo nothing but H ; rceoptions , teas , calling and dinner glv- H ing Year by year the number of states H mon owning houses in Washington In- H : crensus During the present season H only 125 roprosontatlvcs will live nt H hotels ami there nro now only sovontcou H hotels Sonutora Uorry of Arkansas H and Hansom of North Carolina , nro H stopping nt the Metropolitan I'ryo is H at the Hamilton and Dlodgott nnd pious H old Joe Brown of Georgia , are at the H National Drown has the looms which H - wore occupied for yonrs by Henry Clay H I nnd AloxundorllStephens Hohaslivcd H for the past few years in the Northwest * H but ho prefers to go back to his old his H toric quarters in this hotoi Room and H board nt the National and Metropolitan H hotel cost from $50 per month upwards H pev person nnd the Metropolitan , NaH - H iionnl and Hamilton hotels nro among H t&o good but not dear hotels of Wash H infrton B ' It cosls moro at the hotels near the H whlto house and Frank Uiscock , Gil H Fierce , Piatt of Connecticut , Wnsh- M burn of Minnesota and Squlro of Wash M ington , who nro at tlio Arlington , have m boaid bills which run well up into the H hundreds of dollars n month Frank 1 Hifccoek rattles around in the rooms H which were so lone filled with the B greatness of Charles Sumner , and his : front windows look out upon the white m houbo toward which his eyes are ambi- M tlously turned m Senator Farwoll lhcs in Morton's big H flat , the Shoioham , where the chenp- 9 est quarters are $1,200 a year , while B | Dixon of Rhode Island stops at the W Arne flat on Sixteenth street , and Pad Hl dock of Nebraska has his old quarters HJ at the Portland , just opposite Deb H | Schoncks rgsidonco Bate of Tonnes 1 see and Joe Blackburn of Kentucky BIL have cotnfortablo quarters at the Rbbltt Hf house H Nearly nil of the sonntors keep house H Senator Hearst is boarding at Wolck- B cis , but ho has bought the big brick H , house near Blalno'a , which Secretary B | Fairchild occupica last year , and ho is K building a big addition to it Mrs Ht Heaist is ono of the most noted enter B taiuors of Washington and neither ox- B H jionso nor care is being spared in the B H making of her house a beautiful ono B B Senator Sawyer , who has for years BBs > . lived in the house wliioh Jefferson BBS Davis occupied when ho was hero in B H Washington has stopped paying1 rent B H and has built a magnificent brown stone B H mansion within a stones throw of the H _ Dupont circle It is worth at least BB1 $80,000 and Sawyers millions will kcop B H it in line style Thcro are line houses B H nil around it In a block near by Sena- B HJ tor Edmunds hides his cxcluslvoness in B H his iron barred Dungeon Keep His B H house is a rod pressed brick with a cop B H per pluted bay window which has rivets 1 as big around ns a trade dollar Ed- B ll munds' olhco is on the grouud floor near B Bl the butlers pantry and his library and Hf parlors are above The house is worth BBt about $ .50,000 and the lot on which-it is B B ' built cost the Bonator 314,000 sorno years B | , ago J ust above it is Blaino's barn-liko B B palace , for which , the rich retired mor- BB chant , Mr Loiter pays him $11,000 B B a year and docs not use it H moro than four months out H of the twalvo Mr Loistor is hero H this winter and his family are M making the money ily Across the H street is Senator Stewart's castle for H which the Chinese legation pay him a M rent of $10,000 a year , and whioh tlio H Nevada sonatorsays ho owns but cannot H atlord to live in I understand that ho H would like to sell it mid that his prlco B B . , is $125,000 cash B B Ono hundred thousand dollars scorns H nbig tiling to pay for a house , but Washington has dozens of such man B B elons nnd big transfers are made every B B week I see advertised today the resi- BBb donco of Stanley Matthews The prlco BB | asked Is $87,000 , which is loss than the | ' value of the ground and the irrtprovo- B > monts Near by this is the homo B B ) of the Into Senator Yuloo , which Ht is ono of the finest houbes K in Washington and which was decor Hv v atcd by the famous painter Lafarge H' ' 1'his is for Bale at $100,000 , and Senator HL | Palmer , now minister to Spain , is nsk- Bu ing $125,000 for his Washington house Vr Ex-Sccrotnry of the Navy iioboson was f ruined by the owning of a big house in 1 Washington , and his mansion on Six Br teonth street has boon on the market H ] for a long titno at Bomowhoro botweou Hf $76,000 and $100,000. Within the last Ht few days the for sale sign has boon BfcH' - t taken down , and I suppose the house Bf ' . * has boon sold Just below this is the B BK ' beautiful homo of the late Son a tor Pen K ; dloton , whioh will probably bo for sale BBBBrJ , on account of the senators death , and L , across the street Is the great red brick K < - , which Windom built and in which B' " ' Blaine wrote the grcator part of his B BF , book This has been sold for a good Bf ; , round sum Next door to Pendleton's Blf ' is Senator Cnmoron's house , which has Bf" enough rooms for a sutnmor hotel and 1 ; which ho sold to Morgan , the Now York BI ; i banker , for $05,000. Morgan expected Kt to cut a swell in it , bub ho died the HE ' eamo ycur , and his widow now occu- BBBBnlcs it v\ , Sixtconth street is the wide avenue Hf ' • loading from the whlto house north to K i- the boundary It is ono of the most Hf j fashionnblo streets of Washington , and Ht ' " lots upon it need a carpet of bank notes HI In order to pay the sum domaudnd for B [ . them At the head of it ox-Sonator Hi Henderson of St Louis has built a Bj ; grand brown btono castle nnd this Is Bl t about ready for occupancy , lthnstur- B B rots and towers , bulcouys and cosy nooks , BBBB aud it mast have cost in the uoighbor- BBW > hood of $100,000 to build it It has a Bft largo lot about it on the sldo of the hill B : ana its windows give u view of all of BB B ; Washington nnd miles of the Potomuo B vnlloy Just above it Is Joanuln Mlllor's BBBf r log cabin and within ashortuistanco of It B BJ nearer the white house ib the modest B BK , f i * brick which Broekonrldgo of ICen- B BJ - ' , , tucky has rented for a torin of years BBVB h On the corner of Sixteenth and V H i , 4 streets Souator Tailor Is living in T. C. BBBB i Crawford's house , for which ho pays B Bf about $100 a month , and on the corner B Bj - of Sixtconth nnd-K , in a big rod brick , B mcoly furnished , lives Secretary B * . " Evarts Evarts was u great ontortiilnor B while ho was secretary of eta to und it is said ho spent $30,000 moro than his salary during the Hayes administra tion Senator Wolcott lives in modest quarters near by , nnd further down still , on the corner of Slxtoonth nnd II , is the beautiful brick mansion of John Hay , Lincoln's biographer , which stands on the ground which cost him 40 a square foot , and which could not bo now got for $10. Mrs Znch Chnndlor has just bought a big lot on Sixteenth street opposite the Dvarts mansion nnd she will probably build a house hero as n residence ) for herself nnd her son in-lnw , Senator Halo of Maine A number of senators llvo in historic qunrtors Senator Cameron paid W" , - 000 some years ago for the old Ogle Tay lor mansion on Lniayctto square It 'ls a threo-story brick of a dirty yellow with nn iron portico running nlong the second story above an nngllsn basement The front door Stipulated an olive green and the lower story contains the olllco of the senator und his reception room The parlors are on the second iloor nnd the house is nlcoly furntshod In this house lmvo bebn entertained nil of tlio presidents since the days of Andrew Jackson nnd Winileld Scott and Martin Vnn Buren have otton put tholr logs under the mahogany In Us dining room Ono day when General Scott was dining hero a violent hailstorm occurred , smashing the windows and bringing down lumps of ire the size of hickory nuts These hailstones were brought in to tlio tnblo nnd Scott , as ho dropped ono of thorn into his wineglass said : Ladles wo will cool our champ agno with celestial ice " Just below this lieu o of Cameron's is the homo of Secretary Blaine He fonts the house , bui ho bus rofurnlshod and repainted it You outer the ground floor fiom the &troot through nn ollvo green doorway , and you flud the par lors on the second lloor The drawing room is furnished in salmon tint , and the woodwork and mantles are of pearl whlto The dining-room is on the gtound floor and Its walls uro * hung with crimson tapestry , and the chairs nro upholstered in red leather The sideboard is of old oak , and the whole house is adorned with the pictures nnd bric-a-brac which Secretary Blaine picked up In Europe This house and lot is worth now at least $100,000 and the lot would bring $50,000 under the hammer Still it was onoo sold for a jackass , and It wa9 Henry Clay who 6old It It is just across the strcot from the white house and Cluy had often refused to sell it Ono day , however , old Commodore Rogers enmo homo from the Mediterranean with his naval vessel full of livp stock which ho picked up abroad Ono of Clays hob bies was stock farming and Rogers cargo included ono fine Andolusinn jackass - Clay saw it and wanted it The commodore refused to sell , but at Inst said laughingly : You can have him for your lot oppo site the whlto house " Done , " said Clay , and the animal was shipped off to Kentucky Commodore doro Rogers built a big four-story brick on the ground In it Blaine will enter tain this winter and In it Seward dined the diplomats when ho was secretary of state Tho'Wannamakor front door is also an historical ono and this mansion has boon a cabinet house for a number of administrations It was in it that Pres ident Arthur called on Tllho Freling- huyson and gave rlso to the report that there was to bo soon a marriage in the white house It was in this that Mrs Whitney hold her grand receptions and the gorgeous paintings of her ball room have glvon place to the works of art purchased by the postmaster general This house will bo open during1 the com ing season aud it has boon so refur nished that it will bo graador than ever The statesman who calls on Secre tary Noble trots up some stops that Edwin M. Stanton used to mount every when ho came home from the war de - partment , and Stanton's house has the same flat throb-story front and the same unconventional entrance that it had when ho occupied it It now belongs to Senator Sherman , who bougbt it a few months ago for $35,000 , and who has slnco sDont something like $10,000 in putting it in order It was a boarding house Inst season and Senator Hoar lived in it , Sherman has three houses in the same block , and the trio must bo worth somewhere between $100,000 and $200- 000flo bought the first when Frank lin svuaro had no fence around it , and was used as a bail ground and a ovv pasturngo Fashionable Washing ton was then near the cnpltol , and Mrs Sherman did not like the idea of mov ing sofar out of the world Within a few years , however , the rush to the northwest came , and now the senators residence is just on the edge of the fushionablo section the best houses of the city being nearly a rnilo beyond him Senator Sherman's residence is a four-story brick with brown stone trim mings It has a wide hall and generous parlors , ever the mantle of ono of which rests a line portrait of the senator , and in the bay window there are two very pretty busts which the senator picked up at Florence last summer The senators ator's library is on the second lloor , and you find him here every ovoniug alter 7 o'clock when ho is not out dining Senator Ingalls has just changed his quarters and ho will llvo In rooms near the white house Senator Spoonor ro- malns on Capitol Hill and ha has rented a house near that of Justice Field where thp old capltol prison used to stand Senator Moody of Dakota has a brick house which faces the capitol grounds and Senator Pottigrow has furmshod a homo in the same neighborhood , Sam Randall owns a house on Capltol Hill and ho is now lying sick within it It is on a back strcot and looks as though it might have beou taken fromasocond- cluss tenement row In the Quaker city and carrlod bodily to Washington It has whlto marble steps aud is a red brick of three stories and n basement It would rent for about $40 a month and its interior is ns plain as its outside Randall's workshop is filled with congressional - grossional records and reports and there is nothing but the ovidnuco of hard work in it Randall has always boon a drudge and ho has lot congres sional business boss him Ho worked at the capitol nnd at the house und his present condition is partly the result of ovonwork It used to bo that none of the south ern sonntors owned houses here They lived at the hotels far down the avenue , or in boardinir houses near the capltol This year qulto a number of thom have opened establishments in the north west Vest of Missouri Bock of Ken tucky , and Reagan of Toxa9 , lived In ono block on P street near Iowa circle , Their houses nro nice rod pressed brick , of three stories with big bow windows in rent of thom Yost's house is ( Hied with fine skins , stuffed birds and otbor trophies of the far west Reagan's par lors are very plain but comfortable und the senator does his work in a little otllco on the second iloor with his wlfo as an assistant Senator Eub- tis of Louisiana has bought a house on Rhode Islaud avenue , it is a brick with a big library in ono of the wings , Vance of North Carolina owns a very pretty houbo on Massachusetts avenue and Gonoial Walthall , who takes La mars place in the senate , is keeping house on Rhode Island avenue , just op posite the big mansion which was pre sented to General Shprldan and in which Mrs Shorldan is now living Senator Walthall has a very pretty dnughtar nnd his.accofnt > UsUcd wlfo Is with him . • < Matt Quay keeps house on I street be yond Wnnnamakor's Plumb of Kansas boards , Henry B. Pnyno occuplos a rented house on Vormotit avenue nnd just next to him Allison of Iowa lives in the house which came to him through the death of his wife Senator Mltcholl of Oregon has ranted a fine mansion on Connecticut avenue and Dolph Is living in his old quarters nonr the white house Mnndorson of Nebraska hns rented the big double brick 'vhich Far Voll of Chicago hnd last scnsoii ; Ho litis taken it foratortn of years and has furnished it to the queens taste llnrotoforo ho had lived in Hats , and ho now has ono of the best houses in Wnshlngton nnd in the most fushiona blo part of the city Just above him are two line white stone houses which be long to Congressman Bayno of PlttB- burg These houses are worth about $30,000 npleco , and Tom Bayno lives In the bigger of thom , while the smalloris rented to General Anson G. McCook of Now1 York Senator Hoar of Massachu setts is living nonr tlio whlto house McMillan of Michigan has bought a'n $80,000 mansion on Vermont avenue , und George Gruy of Delaware lives just above the Shorchnm , where Stewart of Novnda bonids All Washington is peppered with the homes of loprcsontatives Roswell P. Flower puts his portly legs under his own mahogany in a big house on 1 street near Whitney and Nathan Frank of St Louisanother rich man , has his stomnch tickolod by the Paris educated negro cook of Wormloy's hotel General al Henderson is nt Wormloys Gear of Iowa pays something like $100 per month for a bed at the Shoroham Hansborough of Dakota is at the Rlggs and Allen of the state of Washington lives with his wife in Grant plnoo near the interior department in order that ho may the better attend to the land claims of his constituents John T. Cano of Utah is trying the country air of Tukoina Park and Fred DaBoiso is living on Thirteenth street not far from the white house Judge Scney of Ohio is plotting how to catch the sonatorshlp nt the Riggs , and Judge Kelley , the farmer of the house , has a room at the same hotel , the walls of which nro hung with pictures of Lin coln nnd Stanton George Dorsoy of Nebraska is at the Portland Dalzoll of Pittsburg has a fine house on the corner of Massachusetts avenue near Morton , and George Barnes of Georgia , the fattest man In congress , is a walk ing advertisement for the Metropolitan hotel Thadeus Stephens house on Capltol hill now belongs to William AValtor Phelps Houclcof Tennessee , hastakon quarters In It and ho says hoihopes that ho will got some of Stevens inspira tion from it Ho has ono attrlbuto of Stevens character already and that is in his always being different from the other follows This attrlbuto recalls the bon mot made as to Thnd Stevens con dition in a future state The story of his enemies was that when ho culled upon Pluto nnd askodfor his sent in the assembly of the regions below , that his satanic majesty emphatically told him time there was no seat for him , nmd kicking a litllobrimstono out of the fire with his cloven hoof , ho said : Here , Mr Stevens , take this and eo off and make a little hell of your own " Ex-Speaker Carlisle lately bought n house on K strcot for somothlng like $24,000. Roger Q. Mills boards at a boarding house on G strcot , and Martin has left the treacherous gas burners of a hotel and lives in a private house on Capltol hill Tom Reed Is at the Shoroham , and the other little big bugs und the big little bugs are scattered here and there all over the city FltANIC G. CATUKNTER Joys or l'rlson Lire Genrge Francis Tratn in New York Sun No bill presented odco a week By Hotel Bradley's ' Boniface , No tips to waiters ro to speak No duns allowed inside this place You are not stopped by Bunco Steer , You have no fear of now nrrest Where you are Sheriffs ' honored guest No female voice assails ono hero , Never annovod by drunkon'smell , No chance of being bored by bore , No beggar ever comes to door , , No priest or parson comes to cell No elevator accident , No lire escapes for tlieso stone walls Fireproof against nil fire event , No b db rs round ' these granite halls But blgijost joke hi court contempt , The creditor your board must pay , Colossal game ot give uway I It does not cost mo single cent I Loud cheers for Bastilo life , I say ! PEPI'BUMINT DKOPS Everything goes w > th taospendthrift A cat hns nlno lives and it ttirows thom all into its voice The revolution of the hands of an eloctno clock must bo a revolt Eyary community han its fools and some are afflicted with fool fools Lovers can hvo on love in the parlor all right , but not in the dining room The three gauges of railroad Narrow gauge , broad gauge and mortgage Dogs are very affectionate } Vchavo even seen dogs that were attached to tin cans He who would climb the ladder of fame as an orator must win round after round of applause Tiicro is a reporter on a Now York paper who lost an arm in the war llo's a short handed reporter Porhaos there is nothing so touching about a small child as Its hands after it has been mailing mud pics In Ireland it is considered unlucky to meet a balking dog As far as our experience goes , it is the siloat dog that docs the mis chief Miss Laurn What a remarkably quiet young man Mr , Tlmmons Is Yubsloy Do youthiuksot You ought to hoar him eat once There nro flvo B's now occupying the at tention of Europe Bismarck , Harnum and Boulanger are three , and Buffalo Bill is the other two His Honor What made you steal this gentleman's doormat ) Prisoner Sure , yer honor , U said Welcome on It , lu lettbers as long as your ar-r-rm. Good suggestion Editor I really dent know whether you intended to bo funny or otherwise Author ( Inspired ) Cant you use it in your puzzledopartmont then ) The weary brain will plot and plan Soma way of duty shirking Its queer how hard a lazy mau Will work to keep from working There are two social circles in Now York city McAllister's four hundred and the hand-organ grinders three hundred The luttor It would seem Is the most oxcluaivo ot the two If a man Is only a good follow ho can bo a pretty bad fellow In many respects , and still got better treatment from the world than Is accorded to many mou who have more virtue When Japan was opened to commerce her people picked up woatorn ideas so rapidly that they were calloa tha Yankees of Asia The now Brazil Is adopting now ideas so fast that her people may well bo called the Japanese of America A cook , who had burned up a niece pt veal weighing four pounds , threw it away , and afterward explained to her mistress that the cat had eaten the meat Very well , ' ' sala the lady , "wo will sea that directly , " So saying , she took the cat , put it on the scales , and found that it weighed exactly four pounds There , Frederick , " buo said , are the four pounds ot meat but where is the call There are many nccldonts and dis eases which affect stock and cause se rious inconvenience and loss to the farmer in his work , which may bo auiokly romedled by the ufo ' of Dr J , H. McLean's Volcanic Oil LinimonU ONE OF TBR.TOT'SWONDERS ' , ldd • ill oil _ , , I , 0 . The City of Salt Lake and ItB Won AorfUl Growth , SHE HAS ALL THE ELEMENTS , nun KvorytlitncNpcr-ssnry to fttnko Utah's Metropolian Plnco oTa Hundred ' Tliousaiiol in 1805 to bo lfotm l There Su/r Lake Cur , Utah , Doc 27. [ Special to The Bkb ] To sy that Salt Lake City is booming Is , to say the least , putting it very mild , For SOU miles to the north nnd south and GOO mites to tlio east and west Salt Lauo City ( commercially ) stands pro-omlnontly king of this vast urea of rich , productive , agricultural , mineral and stock raising coun try , second in wealth aud g cncrnl resources to none in tlio world The shipments or outnut ot 200,000 , head of cattle , 500,000 head of biooi ) > annually , a distance of atluflst a thousand miles to the nearest market is certainly suUlcient induce ment for the establishment of largo packing houses , tanneries , and woolen mnnufnotorlos at that point Nothing can prevent the natural trona nnd result in this direction Puckers nrc already looking for suitable lo cations and within n period of three joars time Salt Lake City will command the ontlro packing and manufacturing inter ests of the Intermountain terri tory nbovo montioncd Butte , Helena , Portland , western Nevada , southern Utah , northern Arizonn western Colorado nnd Wyoming will all bo tributary to her market 'llin following data of the rcportor of the Salt Lake chamber of commerce will bo found of interest 'Iho number and value of llvo stock is given by the agricultural department as fol lows : Horses , 132,701 , nt3415 $ 4,531,353 Mules 4,055 , nt$47.7 10J.303 Milch cows , 51,8.3 , at * 20.10 1,353,710 Oxen nnd ether cuttle , 421,050 , at S1541 0,501,103 Sheep , 1,103,500 , at Sl.OO a,70'i74 ( ! Hogs , 50,148 , ut fS.03. 432 , J < J Total 515.S03.140 The yearly Increase upon this at 30 per cent would bo about $5,003,000. Thousands of carloads of cattle and sheep are yoarlv shlpped'to outside markets The wool clip of the uresent year will bo about 9,000,000 pounds Fleeces average about six pounds In no part of the union are nil sorts of minerals found In greater variety and nbundanco than in Utah Coal is mined on both fronts of the Wusatch and of tbo High plateaus from the Unltas to the Colorado river The yearly output exceeds 250,000 tons nnd might as well bo ten times that Our coal bed * are sufficient to supply Utah and all the region west to the i'aciflc for generations That market nnd oven Utah is now largely supplied from Wvonnug , because the coal lands of the through I'aciflc roads are In that territory Utah Coal is superior in quality to Wyoming coal nnd'wlll ' bo diawn upou long after the Wyoming coal llelds nro exhausted trad forgotten From a vein exposed by Price river wltblirbno hundred aud twenty llve miles of Silt ; Lake , a coke is m ido which is scarcely inferior to the best Bug llsh coke Uetnarkahlo bbdlos of Iron ores occur in Iron county , nnd ordinary deposits iu suuday localities , some pf them as analyses indicate Bessemer ores ' " - • ' There are urnctlcallv uiimitaoto news of brimstone , ledge of rock salt , antimony and cinnabar mines , , and in Great Salt Lake an inexhaustible stbrehouso of salts and c' .iom- icals There aio indications of oil and gas in Gieen Kiver valley , reefs of sandstone sat urated with asphalt , veins of black pitch ( gilsonito ) , Rtrihgors and bunches of natural parafllno ( ozokerite , mineral re3inand other rare and cunous'hS dro carbons Tuoyenrly output of our lead-silver mines Is about ono hundred and sixty-live thou sand tons of ore , four-Bfths of which is re duced in our own mills und furnaces ; the product is worth at Reaboaid prices about $10,000,000. All ever the territory are found the best of structural , abrasive and fertiliz ing materials Nolhlug but capital is needed to double our mineral output both in value and variety Park City is ono of the most flourishing mining towns tributary to Salt Luke The vearly output of tbo mines about Park City is from 70,000 to 80,000 tons of silvon ore , worth in jross $3OOJ,000 , and this out put with sufficient capital might bo doublea Two of tbo mines have driven drain tuunols 0,000 feet , and in l&SS tbo Ontario broke ground tor a tunnel of thrco miles , which will drain the mine to a depth of 1,500 feet Contlnuod two or thrco miles further as it assuredly will bo this tunnel will drain a largo mining district to a depth of 3,000 feet feet.At Coalville on the Weber river about twenty miles north of Park City , and on Grass creek and Chalk creek , tributaries coming in from the east , there is a coal basin covering fifty square miles , from which Park City und tbo mines got their fuel In former times this coal was wagoned ever the mountains nearly fifty miles to Salt Like A comnany has been formed to build a railway from these coal measured directly over the Wasatch to tno city There is no great dif ficulty in doing this and without doubt it will bo done Tbeso roads coming into the valley out of Parleys canon and Emigration canon respectively bring to the city red brick ciuys trachyte shales for street macadamizing and good building and flagging stone in great varloty These articles will bo in great demand In the city , during the next flvo years as it is safely estimated there will be ever three millions in public improve ments made in Salt Luke City in that period and the population will unquostlonubly reach 100,000 by January 1 , ls'J5. ' rJovor was there a titno Iu the history of any of the magic cities of the continent whoa there waB a tirmor feoliug of future greutness , a stronger market for realty , a greater build ing activity , und a larger official record ot real estate transfers than in Salt Lake Ci'y at the present lime In the month of No vember last , the following firms who are considered the heaviest real estate dealers in Suit Lake City rooordod be tween two and thrco million dollars worth of transfers : Shlloy Grosholl & Company A H. . ivlayno , C. E. Wantland , The Midland Investment company , -P. A. Wlcklnham , Soars & Co , W. H. II Spafford & Co , Angell & Pomes , h. F. Kalluk and Wnittomore & Co The transactions of the same firms last week alouo will nuiount to nearly or qulto a million dollars Iho phenomenal advantngo offered by Salt Lake City for inyqstmont or as a phico of per manent residence may to a stranger seem a lit tle overdrawn , juitttmcb Is not tbo case She lias nil the attractions that go to make up a metropolitan city , ( , fc > uo is notably and nat urally ono of the most beautiful cities on the American continent today , and her present progress and prosperity Is not due to any ar tificial conditiofisttmt the national demands of a large , prosi > eroui and growing country tributary to her markets for supply and trade . . . Watch the bow , buy the genuine Red Cross Cough Dtrgps , 5 con Is per box TiiE i'itioAL ' M > n < ; j. The Pattl adwapco sales iu Chicago footed up f 120,000. ) A. The German theater at Pesth , Germany , was destroyed by lira Monday night It D. McLean has paid the John McCul- lough estate $6,000for manuscript and scones \V. H. Crauo will probably claar close to sixty thousand dollars this season with The Senator " Joseph Jefferson and W. J. Florence con tinue to meet with very great success In The Rivals " Lately the Howard Burlosquers were rottonegged by un indignant audionca at Johnstown , Pa YerdI is stopping for tbo wintnr In a hotel at Milan , wboro ho Is engaged la making notes for a now opera Marcus It Mayor started for Moilco on Friday night to complete arraugoments for the Abboy-Patti opera troupe Joseph Anderson , the binther of Our Mary , " and the son-in-law of Lawrence Bar lott , has decided to give up the stage I A new opera Is being composed for 1893 , during the Columbus celebration at Genoa ) the opera is to bd entitled "Chrlstoforo Co lombo , " Gottbod has proihlsod to wrlto ft mass for the opening of the now oronn nt St , Peters Four thousand singers will tnko part In the coremolilos , Blzot's "Carmen" Is having n run at the Toatro Kossl , In Vonlco Much of Its success is duo to the tenor , Hcrr Wnrmuth , a former pupil of the Vienna conservatory Mrs Lungtry has engaged Chnrlos Sugdcn for a lending part in the new piny by Baddon Chambers , ' with which she proposes to reopen - open the London St Tames theater Mme Fursch-Mndi has boon singing at the LatnoUrcux concerts in Paris and with von Uulow in London ; she will probably return to"tho United States tor some winter ongngo- monts Manngor John Stetson of Bo ton , will have two "Oondollcft" companies in Now England and Mnuagor llcndcison of Chicago , will cover the northwostcrn' territory with the now opcrn Mr Prank vnn dor Stuckon , the American composer and conductor , has rccoivod n cnblo despatch from Paris announcing his nomination ns Ofllcor d'Academio by the French Rovornmont Mr Leo Goldmark , who represents In this country the boirs of Wagner , has acquired from Frnu Coslma Wngnor the solo right ot production of nil the composers works for Great Britain aud its colonies The lutelllponco that tlio surgical opera tion recently performed upou the neck of Mr Lawrence Barrett will result In n perfect foct recovery Is most welcome , as Is tlio re- > rt that ho will co-opornto with Edwin K ooth next season Edwin Booth nud Mme ModJc3ka nro tak ing a two uocks' vacntion They resume tholr tour January 0 in Providence , II I , , and nro to itppoar iu Fall liivor , Alas * . , Jan uary 13 , llolyoko 14 , Sprlngllold 15 , New Ilnvcn 10 , Hartford 17-lS , reaching the Bos ton theater January 20. Brandon Thomas The Gold Craze , " pro duced nt the London Princess's theater , np- pears to hnvo been n failure of the most ir- rodcomablo kind , us was The Spy , " a story of the American civil war which was plnjcd by Goorpo Turner , an American uctor , at the London Novelty theater The women of Now York hnvo a now Idol This time it is Sarasatc , a great musician , who is taking the metropolis by storm The admiration for IColcoy , Dixoy , Bellow nnd other mashers sink iuto Insignificance when compared to that showered upon Sarnsato Unilko the mashing strlpo of actors , he is In different to the sensntlon which ho creates After the Bocond net of Faust nt Minors Newark ( N , J. ) theater on Wednesday con stables attached the property of Emma Juchs English opera company at the in stance of Manager H. C. Miner to satisfy a claim of $3,000 loaned by him to orgnnlzo the company The matter was subsequently compromised by a transfer of $2,300 , amount of ndvanco sales at Pittsburg , where the company will pldy next week Sarah licrnhardt has made up her mind to play Joan of Arc in the play of Jutes Bar bier , " and that play will bo produced upon nn olnbornto scnlo at Christmas in tlio Porto St Martin , Paris The actress resents the imputation that her triumphs nro duo in part to the Impropriety ot thoplavs In which she appears and she has tosolvedto demonstrate that her art Is cqunl to the representation of the purest and most elevated oharacters A cable despatch from London says that tlio Australian actress Myra Kemblo made a favorable impression in Kobort lluchanan's play Alan and the Woman , " which was given at a matinee performance at the Lon don Criterion , The story is that of no un happy wife , who , bollovinu herself a widow , is about to marry the man whom she loves , when her husband , a cruel and cowardly vllhan of the polisned kind , unexpectedly turns up and Insists on her fulfilling her wifolv duties It is unnecessary perhaps to add that ha is killed havonn all fear of ro suhtlcation before the final fall of the cur tain , Insist on having the genuine Rod Cross Cough Drops , 5 cts a box Sold cvorywhoro AT XMK Exp.osrrioNzzz : mzUfflVERSELLE , PARIS , 1559 , The Highest Possible Premium , THE • ONLY * GMHD PRIZE FOR SEWING MACHINES , WAS AWARDED TO WHEELED &WU 16 , CO , * AND THE * < GR6SS 0F THE * * LEQION OF HONOR , WAS CONFERRED UPON NATHANIEL WHEELER , The President of the Company WHEELER & WILSON MFG CO , 185-187 WnlinMi Avf , Clilcapo SOM > BY P. E. FLODMAN & Co 220 X. , Kllli St , Oiiialm , Neb tniKERTiflL PRACTICAL FURRIERS 114 South 15th St , Next to P. 0. OMAHA , - NEB Manufacturers of Sealskin andFur , Garments Dons , Muffs , Gloves , Cups , ItohoB , Muts , otc , always oil hand , Old Seal Garments rodyod , refitted and rollned Plush Clonics roputrcd Hltrhest prices paid for ( ur skins SPENCER OTIS a DoS „ , Mecliaiifcnl KiiBlnaer sad Draflimtn , Complete limwloi : ' , KpiMlllcatlom and buiwlulcndunce , lor 1'lorutora. Mllll * . I aclorlc , or Hpoclul Mucblocrr , a'ruclutf , , ana uluo I'rluU furnltlied LATENT OUTICIS WOUK A BVECIMCT , SET OF TEETH ON RUBBER I For Five Dollars DR R. W. BAILEY , Dentist , Paxtoii Block , 16tli aud Farnaui Streets M Wp Aiip TTp-PA fn CSfo-rr and hnvlna within the past two H We JlltJELtJltJ LU fDbi&y months lnrrjoly Incrensod our H office room , are now bettor proparocl to turn out the bostclnssof - H work , and much moro rapidly than heretofore "We ranks a full set HB orteeth on rubber for FIVE DOLLARS , guaranteed to be as wol J Ki made as plates sent out of any dental offlco in this country Do not n let others influence you not to come , but make us a call and sec for | H | yourself H Teeth extracted WITHOUT PAIN , and without using chloroform B gas , ether or electricity Filling nt lowest rates Remember the lo- M cation DR BAILEY , Dentist , Paxton Block M Open evenings until 8 o'clock Take , clovntor ou IGLli street ICtli nud laruimi H . CuttlilB out Mention tlilspipor H i H L. M. PICCARD , I $4.00 ipflll $4.00 $ I Best Gold Spectacles Reduced I $4.00 I X&amge Block , Corner 15th and Harney Streets , fl | Omaha M Dewey & Stone , I Furniture Company I A magnilicent display or everything useful and ornamental In the M furniture makers art at reasonable prices H - Sure C-cuze or IbTo SPeu I V AXI > B NOT A PATCHING UP I We olimlnato nil syphilitic poison from the system so that thcro can never ho R a return of the disenso in any form As ono of our patients puts it , after a low | days treatment with us , that sUeleton will bo hiuiishod f rom your closotforovor " h > If they will follow our directions closely , parties cun ho troiucrt ut homo just m as well as hero , ( for the same price and under the same guaranty ) , hut with these H who prefer to como here , wo will contract to euro Syphilis or rotund all money H | ' and pay entire expense of coining : , railroad bills , hotel bills , otc H WE HAVE NEVER FAILED M to euro the most obstinate eases in less than one short month Ton days in recent j H cases does the work It is the old chronic , deooseatod ensos Unit wo solicit Wo < V hnvo cured hundreds who have boon abandoned by physicians nnd pronounced i V incurable , and wo challenge the world to bring us a case that wo will not euro in H less ttan a month m Since the history of medicine a true specific for Syphilis hns been sought lor ft but never found until our K MAGIC REMEDY I was discovered , and wo nro justified in s.iying it is the only lomcdy in the world M that will positively euro , ber.iuso the latest medical works , published by the best H known authorities , say there never was a true bpociflc heforo Our reputation as H business men , the company's llimncinl standing , together with the character , M reputation and skill of our nhyslclnns will hour the most rigid investigation , und 1 the result will justify anyone nillictcd with Syphilis in placing themselves in our , B hundb All ciassosof uoople may consult or correspond with uh with the utmost H safety as regards exposure iu any way All correspondence sent sealed in unprlut- B ed envelopes H "We Guarantee to Oixre H IkZX - . L JLZJL , oJL , , „ 1 B-JL.SZ3 M Whether Contracted or Hereditary , M Why wnsto your time and money with patent medicines that never had vir M tuo , or doctor with physicians that cannot euro you ? You that have tried every M thing else should como to us and got porinaiiont rohcl You never cangct It 1 elsewhere Marl ; what wo say , in the end you must take Our Remedy or never M rcco\or , and you who have been allhetcd but a short time should by all means H como to us now These who have boon ulllictcd a long tlnio do notgonornlly H bollevo whnt wo say , but wo make written contracts to do just what wo say , nud M our financial standing exceeds $ ; M)0.000 ) enough to satisfy the most skeptical M RurKltKNCKs : R. O. Dun ic Co . or Bmdstroet Co , the Omaha Ileo , the MorH chants'Union Credit Co , or any of the olllcors of the Western Newspaper Union H nt Denver , Cole , Dallas , Texas , Detroit , Mich , St Louis , Mo , Dos MoinesIowa , H Omaha Neb , nnd New York , N. Y. H Address H THE COOK REMEDY CO , Omaha , Nebraska H HEAD TUT FOLLOWING M and wrlto to us for the names and addresses of the patients wo have cured who H have glvon us permission to refer to thom , . H CiiiCAdO , 111. , Oct 8,1889. M The Coo1fmincdu Co , Omalia , Kcb , H Gentlemen : I might very properly question my ability toclonrly comprehend H the simplest proposition aid I rcsibt the convictions and practical demonstrations m of the use of your remedy , nnd can dlscovor no reasons ether than purely skeptical B ones for longer doubting the permnnonoy of my miraculous euro I have this ns- H suranco intuitively supported nnd confirmed nbsolutoly by every ono of my flvo H souses could the rankest pessimist challenge or insult his reasoning faculties by H demanding moro Prior to my happy experiment , the oxorclBo of any ono of my M functions , physical or mental , seemed to romlnd mo of my nbnormal und pitiful M condition Uow , do I eat.drink , sraoko or sloop , or think , it is withnblissful boiiso M of pleasure , satisfaction nnd comfort , to whioh I was for so many suffering , miser m able years asttungor that a thousand times ouch day Jam lost in blissful contain * H plation of the now llfo and hope ; of the incnlculahlo nnd priceless trousuro I have B purchased for a paltry $ . . . . Two months slnco , could I have known the posslbill- B ties , und had you dommidod in payment ton yours of my now lifo for the mngio K pellets , I uould gladly have yielded consent To my thinking , the intrinsic % aluo M of the Bpoclflo can not bo computed the transition from a living death ; from a B mental condition which Danto's visions of hall could not aggravate ib nota thing upon which a price may bo sot You may fool rlohar ton thousand times In the M gratltudo und happiness of your pations than in their dollnrs M Yours slncoroly , J. H. H Om A HA , Nun , , Nov 14,1880. , ' The Cook licmedy Co , Omaha , Neb , M Gentlemen : In reply to your request for a Btatomont of my oxoorlonco In H treating with the Cook Remedy Co I deslro to stuto that I contrnoted syphilis about six years ago At the time of going to you the symptoms present were ulcers in the mouth and running soros-on thu body , although I had boon constantly H treating with the best phyaiclans for mora than two years , during which time It was utterly impossible tor mo to use tobacco in any form , I also had a soranoss H and stiffness in the limbs and joints , which was almost uubonrablo I thou appllod ( to the Cook Remedy Co , undiit the end ot only Uftoou days treatment I was as < K sound ns adollar It has how boon mora than three yours slnco you troutod mo , \ M und I have never felt Iho rotum of any symptom whatoyor I know that I am cured permanently , and you are at llborty to refer any parties to mo ; Yours truly , Hoiskkt SiAilL , Cut this ad out You will have to como to us before you are pormanoutly | H cured M