Nebraska Newspapers

    THE FRONTIER.
WRLISIIKI) KVKHY TIIUItHHAY Hy
Thic I'liosTian I’niNTtxn Co.
O'NKII.I., •> XEIHIASKA.
~ OYEB THE STATE.
The populist daily paper at ilestrlee
kn« suspended.
Omaiia and l.lncoln arc both going to
bid hiyh (or the stutu (air.
Tim new Christian church at Hlue
Hill is nearly completed.
Women of Itlair huvo naked the city
Council to close up the sporting houses.
Aiiam McI'iikuhon, of Kinersnn, aged
64, died suddenly Inst week of heart
disease.
Tiikhk is a pood deni of kicking In
many Nebraska towns these beautiful
duys. but it is mostly by boys at the
foot ball.
W.U'ha schools nre crowded and the
board finds it nccessury to employ an
other teacher for the remainder of the
achool year.
lis.Nftv Ahtnkh, a traveling salesman
for the (irnnd Island Mercantile coin
puny. in jumping from u I'nion Pacific
train fell and broke his leg.
Ui;v. (JkoHok. Ur.MMKl.l. has just
closed a successful series of revival
meetings in lilne llill, receiving thirty
converts into tho Methodist Kplscopal
church.
A WARRANT was Issued by United
States Commissioner Seymour for the
arrest of .lames Mason of llvownvllii,
on the charge of violating tho revenue
Rorkrt Dow, an old resident or Sar
py county, died at his home Inst week
after tin illness of two weeks. He was
Hi! years of ago und llrst settled In the
county March 7, 1N0I.
Sheriff llriiKiu.K of Otoe county
took l'hlllp Iterk and W. F. W illiams to
ttws penitentiary where they will pass
the next fourteen months for obtaining
money under false pretenses.
Jack Smith and Tom Ntrihling of
Fremont wore out hunting and among
the game they killed and brought home
with them was a gray wolf, which tlioy
found a few miles northeast of Fro
inunt.
K Huttkrfiki.p, living near Grand
Rapids, shot ills liand off while reload
ing n muzzle loading, double barreled
•hotgun, supposed to have been breech
burned. A physician dressed the hand,
leaving only the thumb.
A CARKFiq.l.Y pvepured statement
•'•ows gl.T.ooo spout in new buildings in
Wuusu during 1 ST4. Among the items
is a JM.OOO creamery, just completed,
which is a co-operative concern, belong
ing to the farmers of that vicinity.
liotiKRT I.v.vn late editor of tho Kn
terprise at W'ausa is a candidate for
eargeant-at-arms of the house when
the legislature convenes, lie has the
backing of Senators Saunders and
Stuefer, who will push his candiducy.
William Katal and Alex Irie of Cedar
county, wore arrested for selling liquor
contrary to law. William Katal plead
«d quilly and was fined 9100 and costs.
Alex irle's ease was continued for
thirty days, during which time ho will
•et up a defense.
Samuki. R. Irvin and his wife, Alice,
of Hastings, were arrested, chsrged
with committing an abortion on their
daughter Ktta, a girl about 17 years
«ld. The girl had become enclente
from too great familiarity with a
livery stable employe who boarded
with the family. In attempting to rid
the girl of her shame they came-wilhin
am see of taking her life.
FktehO'Rovhkk, a farmer living, near
Florence, was on his way home the
other evening. When he arrived at
the arousing of the Missouri 1‘aclfic
railway he heard the ovening express
whistle and saw it coming, but thought
he oould cross the track before it
struck him. Ills wagon was tossed
over into tho ditch, and he was picked
osrt of the wreck witli an injured side
and a bad scalp wound.
KRV. J. W. Konixsox, who for several
weeks past has been traveling through
the east soliciting aid for the drouth
sufferers of this state, says the Fremont
Tribune, returned from his trip last
evening and is stopping with his son,
J* T. Robinson. While gone he suc
ceeded in raising almost 80.000 in cash
and goods, which amount will very ma
terially aid in decreasing the suffering
among the people of that district.
Tine governor honored the requisition
of Governor Altgold of Illinois for one
William Ranks, alias tirahara, under
arrest at Omaha. On March 1 Hanks,
in couvpauy with John Dutton, William
McOowun and King William, alias
Black Hussar, made an assault.upon
Policeman Cass Smith in Chicago, and
robbed him of his star, revolver and
pouch for the same. The gang was in
dicted, tried and convicted in Cook
county. Hanks -subsequently escaped.
Frank WAi.i.imtnoK, of Nebraska
City, aged about 15. together with his
brother and a companion, was out
hunting about three miles west of that
city. \\hile sitting down under a tree
resting the gun in Frank's hands acci
dentally exploded, the charge passing
through his left hand, lacerating it in
a horrible manner. A number of shot
lodged in his shoulder and arm. A
portion of the charge passed so dose to
, his brother s head as to render him un
conscious fora time.
Thk man who gave the tip which re
sulted in the arrest of Seeley, the New
York bank cashier who did his bank
for 9350,000, was formerly a resident of
Lincoln, and is remembered there as a
young man of bibulous propensities,
which kept him in hard lines. Herman
McFarland, the man in question, it is
•aid. got into the good graces of Seeley
without knowing who he was, and was
helping him to spend his cash in great
style when the latter told him in a mo
ment of confidence who he was.
Says the Fremont Tribune: Six head
of homes belonging to li. F. Mcllenrv
were sold on foreclosure of a chattel
mortgage. A standard bred mare
brought the highest price, being sold
for $5.50, two others sold for 81 each
and one for 75 cents Who says these
are not hard times?
„ About 200 men and teams are now at
work on the irrigation ditch between
Arcadia and Loup City. A large part
-iV of the ditch is already completed, and
if the weather continues favorable the
earthwork will be done by January 1.
About 20,000 acres of as good land as
ean be found in Nebraska will be
placed under irrigation by this ditch, j
The next meeting of the North Ne
braska Teachers’ association will be
held ut Norfolk on April 4, 4 and 5,
|KU5. A good prog rum is being arrang
ed and will be announced early. Re
duced rales on all railroads and at
hotels. A large attendance is expected.
lx the irrigation convention at Kear
ney John Rowers read a paper advocat
ing a canal for irrigation and naviga
tion from North Dakota to the Mexican
line, to be owned by the government,
lie was informed thutthe plan was not
feasible, but believed that it was. Rev.
A. K. Wright of David City, formerly
of Colorado, in a talk ou irrigation in
Colorado, said he did not believe long
irrigation ditches would prove success
ful, as the water would soak away and
evaporate before it reached the lower
end. lie udvocated small furms of
from tea to twenty acres, and did not
believe large farms could tie irrigated
profitably for the raising of corn, wheat
or oats.
i>. ft. i ami'hkm,, Mum librarian, iius
completed Ills biennial report and snli
mit tod it to the governor. In this re
port t-be libruriun, by means of tables,
shows in detail the number of boohs on
on hand at the present time and the
number which have been acquired
during the last two years. The library
now contains 32,088 volumes, and of
this number 4,088 have been added
during the years 1803 and 1801. The
muuner in which the library bus been
growing is described in detail, and itis
shown that in the law division, besides
Hie current reports of other status und
the federal courts, which have been
obtained by exchange, many valuable
additions have been made by purchase.
TnK Norfolh sugar factory will finish
working the season’s crop of beets the
hitter part of the present month, when
U will have converted about 33,00(1 tons
into sugar, for which the total sum of
8133,000 has been paid out to the farm
ms who raised the beets. The factory
lias been in constant operation day and
night since the beginning of the "cam
ps ign’’und 350 tons of beets aie put
through every twenty-four hours,
which will produce fifty-live to sixty
thousand pounds of fine sugar. One
hundred and ten men tire working on
the night shift, unequal nuniberon the
day shift with theuddition of ubont
eighty helpers, making in alt some 30U
men who find employment in the huge
concern.
Till; Fremont Tribune says that no
opinion in the Curleton murd»r ease
will be handed down iiy the supreme
court during the present month, as was
anticipated. The court at its last sit
ting adjourned until January and there
will be no opinion filed until the court
meets again next month, Curletou’s
attorneys, Messrs. Frick A. Dolezul.
have raised some pretty knotty ques
tions for the court to decide aud that
honorable body of distinguished jurisis
is taking its time to sifting the legal
phases of it very finely. Curleton is
getting used to life in the county jail
and keeps up his spirits in a remark
aide manuer. lie expresses perfect
confidence that he will get a new trial
on error und a final acquittal.
Mn. I). II. NtkaUN’s, of Omaha, man
ager of agencies for the Stearns Fruit
und hand company, received a letter
dated December 14, at Dortlund, Ore.,
from Mr. F. 1C. Arnold, president ol
that company, in which Mr. Arnold
says: "1 brought the matter of Ne
braska relief before the Chamber of
Commerce Monday afternoon and had
a committee of five appointed. We
went out yesterday afternoon and in
less tlrau two hours got a carload of
potatoes on Front street and ten cases
of salmon from tleoigc T. Myers. 1
wired (Jovemor Cronnse that we would
shipa carload Nalurduy und follow
with other donations. All the mem
bers of the committee took hold with
energy and realized fully the vast im
portance of what we have undertaken.”
Nebraska llnlrjr Interests.
The first session at tlio tenth annual
meeting of tho Nebraska Dairymen's
association convened in Lincoln on the
lHth. The address of welcome was de
livered by Chaucellor James It. Can
field. The response was by Hon. D. 1’.
Ashburn.
In the opening of his report the sec
retary called attention to the fact that
the passing year had witnessed the
most disastrous crop failure in the his
tory of the state, a failure so complete
in many counties that on hundreds and
thousands of well tilled Nebraska farms
•they did not raise a bushel of grain and
not a ton of hay. fin these farms live
-stock had almost ceased to have a
value, the dairy cow ulone remained,
she being the only one who. in a crisis
like the present, will pay for her keep
ing and something beside.
The subject of oleo was touched upon
and that urticle vigorously denounced.
I t was termed the greatest ouomy of
the dairy industry. Of the 33,894*881
pounds of butter manufactured in this
state in 1891, 27,818,078,-or 82 percent
were made on the farms. These farm
er dairymen are met in greater num
bers at farmers’ institutes than at any
other meetings of like nature, and
there was no question that much good
had been done the dairy industry in
this state in localities where such in
stitutes had been held.
Right, justice and a due regard for
the health of the people demanded cer
tain legislation at the hands of the in
coming members of the state legisla
ture. Nebraska has no law relating to
the sale of impure or adulterated milk
worthy the name. Omaha has attemp
ted by municipal regulation to prevent
the sale of impure milk, but a visit to
the office of the official charged with
.the enforcement of the ordinance
showed that over 80 per cent of the
samples were from milk which had
been adulterated either by a removal
of a portion of the butter fat or by the
addition of water. The receipts of the
association for the year had been 82,
383.U9: expenditures, 81,077.47, leaving
a balance of 8707.02.
The attendance this year is the larg-.
est in the history of the association.
Fbkmont Lodge No. 23, A. Ot l\ \V.
sent a large box tilled with clothing,1
bedding, etc., to the drouth stricken;
peeople of western Nebraska. In a few !
days a purse containing between S5i
and 8100 will also be sent
I r is the understanding among inter
ested persons that the adjournment oi
the federal grand jury at Omaha noe
not end the inquiry of the Capital Na
tional bank failure, but on the contract
tbe matter is to be probed further with
a view to indicting officials of the ban.;
There is a rumor to the effect that
funds are now available and the grand
jury will probably convene again abou
the first of the year.
i mi nu am
THE CARLISLE BILL IS TO BE
WITHDRAWN.
TO BE REPLACED BY A SUBSTITUTE.
ImporUit Mi a it s»ii In llogHrd to 11»**
Hand Matter find tlie I lability of
Hank* for line Another A treed
I’lion-The Hill Hein* Made
Heady Komi It of a Deni*
orrutlr I'aucus.
TVasiiinoton, Itec. 33. —The Carlisle
currency bill, now before the house
of representatives, will be wit Ini raw n
and a substitute presented. The de
cision was reached after a caucus of
the Democratic members of the bank
ing and currency committee quietly
held last night, followed by a confer
ence between Secretary Carlisle and
Chairman Springer. The substitute
will be offered to the house before
the holiday recess, as the desire of all
concerned is to get it before the coun
try prior to the adjournment.
Tin- caucus of the bunking and cur
rency committee Democrats, at which
the decision was reached, was held at
the committee room, the following
members being present: Messrs.
Springer, Cox, Culberson, Sperry,
Warner, Cobb of Alabama and Mil is.
The absentees were: Messrs. Cobb
ami llall of Missouri, and Johnson of
Ohio. The discussion took a wide
range and the sentiment was general
that, the bill would have to bo mater
ially changed in order to meet the ob
jections and command a support
which would secure its passage. The
needed amendments were formulated
and it was arranged that Mr. Springer
should see Secretary Carlisle to-day
and submit, the contemplated changes.
When Secretary Carlisle and Mr.
Springer met to-day it was deter
mined that the better plan would be
to frame a new measure in the shape
of a substitute instead of mutilating
the bill with many amendments which
went to its vital principles. Accord
ingly, the substitute was agreed on in
full and, as soon as it cuu be copied
and put, into proper form, it will be
presented to the house and will
thenceforth be the bill on which the
currency debate is to proceed.
TWO 1MPOIITANT ( IIANOKM.
Two very important features make
their appearance for the first time in
the substitute. The main one will
have the effect of allowing the na
tional banking system to run along
without an arbitrary provision that
banks must, organize under the new
system. The original Carlisle bill
contemplating that all national banks
must reorganize under the new plan.
This would have forced them to sur
render the government bonds which
now constitute the basis of their cir
culation. Under the substitute, if
national bunks wish to continuo to
hold their United States bonds and
issue circulation thereon, they muy
do so. It is felt tliut they will soon
discover the advantages of the new
system and will therefore adopt it
voluntarily.
The other important feature is
that it does away with the unknown
liability of bunks to guarantee the
notes of all other banks. This feature
of.the original bill has been much
criticised. It contemplated that if
a national bunk failed its notes would
be paid out of its assets, and the
deficit made out of the “general
safety fund," and if this should not
be enough to pay the notes of the
fuiled bunk, then the comptroller of
the currency should make a pro rata
assessment on all the banks of
the country. Tho bunkers said
that this plan placed before them
an uuknown risk. In effect it
made them supply insurance on
all the notes of banks in
which they had no concern. In view
of these criticisms the substitute will
do away with tho assessment plan.
The “safety fund” will be the limit
of joint liability of all the banks for
the failure of individual banks. They
will, however, bo compelled to keep
up this safety fund by more rigid pro
visions than appeared in the original
bill, besides these two main changes,
there are many lesser ones. °
CHINA ANXIOUS FOR PEACE.
Two Co 111 in ■>« Inner' Appointed to Make
Term* With Japan.
Washington, Doe. 22. _ Minister
Ben by cabled the state de
partment to-day that the Chinese
government has appointed two
peace commissioners. Chang Yin Huan
and Fhao, who will proceed at once
on their mission from Pekin to the
Japanese capital.
Shanghai, Bee. 21.—it is reported
this eveuing on good authority that
direct peace negotiations are proceed
ing between Pekin and Tokio.
Dynamiters May H« Keleascd.
1,1 vkrpooi.. Bee. 22.—The Post says
that arrangements have been con
cluded between the liedmondites and
the government for the release of’
certain of the prisoners confined for
participation in the dynamite out
rages. It is added that among those
who will be released is John Daly.
The Amnesty association decided in
April last to nominate Daly to stand
for election for parliament in 1 iln
erick.
A I*n«tmaster Short.
Bi uango. Col.. Bee. 22.— Postoffiet
inspector Williams has found a short
age of Sl.sOO in the accounts of Post
master Stearns of Bm-ango. Col., and
hu bondsmen have taken charge of
the office. Stearns admits his guilt
and says he lost the money in '"■am
bling, °
Murdered , n u labile ltoad.
liosHKN*, Ind., Bee. 22. - Jonathan
Crnmbaeker, an aged farmer, was last
night murdered by unknown high
waymen on the public road half a
mile from his residence and robbed of
ffJa end u silver watch.
;Ti ~iin»niT"irT r~-irf W :<u» .i:*. . .
PRIVATE BILLS BLOCKED.
Mr. KnfttUh rr«v«ntf» Mmli Action—The
rurrrncy Debate Kfltumed.
Washinoto.v, Deo. — At least
twenty members crowded into tlie
area in (rout of the speaker's rostrmn
today in an effort, to secure the pas
sage by congress of bills of local im
portance, but Mr. Knglish of New
Jersey, who has inaugurated a war
of retaliation against unanimous con
sent legislation until a measure of his
should be passed, was on guard and
obdurate. lie relented in two in
tanecs, however, allowing a senate
bill and a joint resolution offered by
Mr. Livingstone of (leorgia to go
through, providing for the entrance
of foreign exhibits to the cotton states
international exposition to be held at
Atlanta next year.
Of the latter, .Mr. Wilson, of Wash
ington said: “This bill, I understand,
involves the admission of contract la
bor. 1 want to remind the gentle
man that but a short time ago the
country was in a furore over the ad
mission of a single coachman. Does
this bill provide for the admission of
an Knglish coachman'.1”
"It does not,” replied Mr. Livings
ton, amid laughter.
Mr. De Arniond of Missouri, ob
jected to a bill offered by Mr. Coombs
of New York, granting a pension of
$100 a mouth to the widow of the late
Major (leneral Abner Dubleday.
Mr. Knglish finally demanded the
regular order and the joint resolution
providing for a holiday recess from
to-morrow to Thursday, January 3,
was adopted.
i lie iionse men, on Air. rspringer s
motion, went into committee of the
whole, for the further eonsltleration
of the currency bill, anil Mr. Pendle
ton of West Virginia was recognized
by the chairman, but before lie eonUl
proceed Mr. Johnson of Indiana arose
for the purpose, as he stated, of pro
pounding nil in<iniry to the chairman
of the banking committee, (Mr.
Springer). -‘I understand,” said he,
"that at a meeting of the Democratic
members of the banking committee
i last night it was decided to offer a
| substitute to the pending measure
[ and that consent of the secretary of
| the treasury was obtained. Is my in
| formation correct? If so, I suggest
that the substitute be now offered in
order that we can proceed intelli
gently.”
"Sometime during the afternoon,”
replied Mr. Springer. “I will say it is
my intention to introduce a substitute
for the pending bill."
Mr. Springer, however, denied that
the “consent" of the secretary of the
treasury had been asked or obtained.
The Democratic members of the com
mittee, he declared, were responsible
for the substitute.
Mr. Pendleton inveighed against
the disposition manifested on the Re
publican side to oppose anything in
the shape of financial legislation pro
posed from the Democratic side
and appealed to his party opponents
to patriotically join in perfecting
a measure that would relieve the
treasury and inure to the welfare of
the .country, lie declared, with an
emphasis that provoked a howl of de
rision from the Republican side, that
at this time the Republican party
“stood by, supinely flat upon its
back,” while the Democratic party
was trying to save the country.
Mr. Russell of Connecticut followed
Mr. Pendleton with an argument in
opposition to a measure which pro
posed, he said, to destroy a national
banking system that had stood the
test of thirty years.
ARRAICNED AT A FUNERAL.
Sensational Sermon Over the liody or
Hank Clerk Huntington.
Council. Bluffs, Iowa, Dec. 22.—At
the funeral of John Huntington, the
young bank clerk who killed himself
after shooting two examiners of the
Fidelity and Causality company on
Sunday, at the First Presbyterian
church yesterday. Dr. Stephen Phelps,
the pastor, said: “If there is any
money missing—and that it is missing
has not yet been proved—the hand
lying at my feet grasping that nose
guy of flowers did not take it. Hunt
ington was sensitive to evil or impu
tation of evil. The shooting was not
planned beforehand —■ it was born
of frenzy. Who is responsible for
that frenzy God in His own good time
will answer. Why is it that business
has come to the point where they
must hunt our young men down?
Responsibility demands a suita
ble return. Where thousands of
dollars pass through a young
man’s hands, with every temp
tation to crookedness held out
before him, how can there be anv
justiee in paying him $45 a month?
If the young man had not been break
ing the Sabbath under compulsion of
his employers this shooting would not
have taken place. Employers should
stand by when their men are in trou
ble and not leave them to merciless
people who hold their positions be
cause they are experts in the art of
treading on the feelings of their fel
low men.”
The **v»y Mack” Murder Casev.
Washington, Dec. 22. —It is said at
the department of justice that it is
quite possible and even likely that
indictments have been returned at
the instance of the district attorney
for Northern Texas in the “hay
stack" murder cases of Southwestern
Kansas and No Man's Land. Attorney
General Olney’s recent statement was
meant to indicate, it is explained,
simply that the department had not
ordered the cases to be reopened.
Craxed by tlie Council HluIN Tragedy.
Qcincv. 111., Dec. 20.— Trank Trum
bull. an attorney of Council Bluffs,
who was present at the recent triple
shooting affair in the Council Bluffs
bank, in which Clerk Huntington shot
two security officers and himself, has
become insnne here. It is thought
his mind was shattered by the scene
at the bank.
Burglars I oot an Illinois Bank.
Champaign, III.. Dec. 22.—The safe
in the state bank at Mansfield, 111.,
was blown open by burglars last
night and completely wrecked. The
loss is several thousand dollars.
A Colored Methodist Bishop Bead.
Nf.w UK kg, N. Y., Dec. 22.—Bishop
Joseph Thompson of the African 1
Methodist Episcopal Zion church 1
lied here to-day, aged 76 years, ’
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TALK ON IRRIGATION
THE ALL ABSORBING QUESTION
IN THE WEST.
Wbot W»i Brought Oat by 8oma of th«
Speakers In the Convention at Kearney
— Hoar Irrigation Interest lias Grown
In the West—-Haw the Soil Will Pro
duce If Moisture Is Present—What the
Legislature Will be Asked to Do In
Fostering the Interests of Irrigation—
Election of Officers for the Ensuing
Year.
The Irrigation Conference.
Keabney, Neb., December 21.—At
the irrigation conference William Staf
ford of Julesburg gave his experience
with irrigation by means of windmills
and reservoirs. A good reservoir can
be built by banking up the sod, turn
ing in the water and allowing stock to
tramp down the wet ground. It will
soon hold water as well as if cemented.
He did not think water could be pump
ed with profit if raised more than fifty
feet, and he believed that pumping wa
ter was too expensive for practical
farming of more than ten or twenty
acres. All kinds of soil cannot be
handled the same way, and each man
must determine for himself how his
land should be treated. In raising po
tatoes the water should be run by the
side of and below the potato, rather
than on top of them.
Mr. Ilenson of McCook said he had
had a great deal of experience with al
falfa, and had raised hundreds of acres
with irrigation, but with only ten to
thirty feet of water. He cautioned
people not to sow more than an acre
the first year as an experiment.
W. K. Akers of Seotts liluffs county
said alfalfa and stock were the most
profitable things a farmer could raise,
and would not sow over fifteen pounds
Silas Clark of Cottonwood Spring's
spoke on ••Construction of Canals by
Farmers and Farmers' Companies” lie
said the farmers were digging a ditch
in his neighborhood and had organized
with a capital of 8100,000. Farmers
had the privilege of subscribing for
stock in amounts not to exceed S.'.OO,
but must work that out before getting
any more. That stock represents noth
ing but water, and all the work is paid
for in stock. Excavation is let at 10
cents per yard. The canal will irrigate
28,000 acres.
W. R. Akers, senator-elect from
Scotts Bluff county, showed how the
subject had grown in favor in Nebraska
and emphasized the fact tliai there was
an abundant water supply to irrigate
the whole state, and it could be utilized
much better than in the states of Col
orado or Wyoming. lie also spoke
strongly in favor of farmers building
and Owning their own ditches, instead
of turning the work over to a syndicate
of capitalists. Akers has been drafting
a bill which he proposes to introduce in
the senate this winter, and outlined it
to the convention. It has some features
of the Wyoming irrigation law and
some of California. He said there were
two kinds of irrigation necessary. One
was known as flooding and the other as
furrow. The first was for small grain
and the last for potatoes and crops
planted in rows. No general rule could
be applied to irrigation, as it depended
on the soil, slope of the land, and crops,
but each man would have to experi
ment and determine what was best for
his own case.
Mr. Reese of Falls City gave his ex
pedience with irrigation in the south
eastern part of the state, and said he
was satisfied there was plenty of water
under the surface of Nebraska to irri
gate the whole state, and man has ac
complished many greater difficulties
than reclaiming this land. He also ex
tended a cordial invitation from the
city council of Falls City for the next
meeting of the state irrigation conven
tion with them. He hoped the next
legislature would appoint a special com
mittee to investigate and draft suitable
laws. In his opinion prairie fires were
a great damage to the soil, and advoca
ted turning over the buffalo sod and
damming up the drains, as this would
all help to moisten the atmosphere and
produce rainfall. Windmills can be
used successfully if allowed to run all
day and night, and he had known one
man to irrigate twenty acres in this
manner, but the best and most satis
factory way was by means of reservoirs
or ditches. A good plan would be for
certain days to be set aside by a com
munity for plowing days, or, as he
called it, ‘‘damming days.”
Judge Emory, national lecturer, said
that this semi-arrid region needed irri
gation as much as the arrid regions far
ther west, as there was just rainfall
enough here to bring farmers to this
state, biit not enough to make crops a
sure thing, hence the suffering and
failures which we are now experienc
ing. ith irrigation and small tracts
of say twenty to forty acres, more peo
ple could be accommodated and better
success would result. In fact, the ten
or of those most familiar with irriga
tion is to the fact that it is more prac
tical for small tracts than for large
ones.
E. R. Moses of Great Bend, Kansas,
related some of his experiences with
irrigation and cited several instances
where poor men had come out west and
with irrigation and small tracts of land
had accumulated a competency.
1 he convention closed this evening
with an address by President Fort, re
marks by D. W. Campbell of Denver
Representative John Itrady, and an in
formal questioning of different speak
ers. President Fort spoke of the
abundant and unfailing supply of water
commonly called the underflow and
said that it was sufficient to irrigate at
least three-fourths of the entire state;
that all kinds of soil, except heavy
clay, and all kinds of farm crops could
be irrigated with profit The conven
tion passed resolutions thanking Mr.
Fort for the manner in which he had
prepared and conducted the convention
ind to the citizens of Kearney for their
hospitable entertainment.
, '1 lie following oflicers were elected
or the ensuing year: President, I. A.
■?rt> North Platte: secretary. A. ii.
A olfenbarger, Lincoln: treasurer, Jas.
d hitehead, Custer county, and M. Uer
ng of tiering, C. li. Savage, Sargeant;
_saae Ledoyt, Hastings; R. It Powell.
)maha, and E. L. Iving% Culbertson,
•xecutive committee. A vice president
vas elected from each county rcpre
cnted.
STILL TALKING OF THE
The Senate Passe* Several Ml
and Listen* to > leeragas Art '*1
Washington, Pec.
upon the convening of the seniJ
day the vice president prcie.'
letter from the secretary 0f tit.1*
transmitting the report of ,vi'
Walker on the subject of h’
Both were referred, without
sion, to the committee on for. '
lations. '"=*
A senate bill was introduce
passed amending the act of v
1894, giving permission to cons n
bridge over the Missouri riv„!J
Jefferson City, Mo.. so as to ch a
the specifications as to thedra,,.*
of tlie bridge. '
A resolution was introduced k,
Allen of Nebraska providing
appointment of a select commi'i,
investigate political affairs in,
bums. This, at his request, « J
on the table in order that hen
submit some remarks on it T
He also introduced a resolmio.
the appointment of a commi t
five senators to investigate the,
ate's restaurant He was about
speak on this matter when >|r i
of Maine interposed objection t
immediate consideration and i*
nvof 1
Mr. Bate of Tennessee then o«
up the bill to establish a ny,
military park at the battirji;
Shiloh. The bill was read in j
passed.
The resolution offered by Mr h
calling on the president for n
spondence in the Ezeta exti-adi
ease was passed without division
Tbs senate then took up tliet
raguan canal bill and Mr. T-.
who had the floor yielded it t,
Cullom, who desired to make s
remarks on the subject. It w#
markable, Mr. Cullom thought, i
the world had submitted t> sj
long1 delay in the construct, a,
canal, the building of which
garded as a commercial neccM t,
FRESH HORRORS IN ARMS!
Twenty-Three More Tillages lain
and Forty Priests HamrrM.
Berlin, Dec. 20.—The ui
Gazette to-day publishes a letter!
Armenia, telling of fresh hoi
there, including twenty-three vilii
laid in ashes, eleven others pi!;
and forty priests massacred.
Kansan Law and 1 otterie*.
TorEKA, ICan., Dec. 20.—IV-a
afternoon the supreme court yn
a preliminary writ of habeas >
in the case of Joseph l’crry s
wlto is held in IVyandotte count
the charge of running a lutto:
violation of law. The defendant
released on bail, and the hearts,
for January 4. It isexpected tin
court's decision will settle tin
put.ed question whether lotteryj
bling may be reached by law is
.as,
Folsoned by Ked Stocking*.
Boston, Ind., Dec. 20.—Both it
Miss Era Dooly were amputate
the knee last night. The ampa
was made necessary' by the p>:«
condition of her limbs resultin,'!
the wearing of red stockings.
A Railroad lip the Yungfna
Beene, Switzerland, Dec.
council of state has granted the
cession asked for to build a rs
up the Yungfrau mountain. Ci
has been subscribed in Amera
in England.
Another Victim of Foot in,
Phii.adei.phia, Dec. SO. —(Jeot?
Young, who played right guti
the Frankfort foot ball elecn
who was injured November*
game with another local eie«
LIVE STOCK AND PRODUCE M*1
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Quotations from New York, Chin
Louis, Omaha and Elsewh«*|
OMAHA
Butter—Creamery print.
Butter—Fair to good country.
Eggs—Fresh.
Honey—Per lb.
Poultry—Old hens, per lb.
Chickens—Spring, per .
Turkeys—Per lb.
Geese—Per lb. . ..
Ducks—Per lb. r> *■
Cheese—Neb. & la. full cream
Lemons—Choice Messinas.
Oranges—Messinos,per box...
Potatoes. .1
Sweet potatoes, pep bbl. *|
Beans—Navy, hand-picked, bu
•Hay—Upland, per ton. ■! ', *,
Hav—Midland and lowland • *'
Onions—Per bu.
Beets—Per bbl.
Turnips—! er bu.
Carrots—Per bbl.
Parsnips—Per bu .
Cranberrries—Cape Cod ....
Apples - Per bbl.
Hogs—Mixed packing.
Hogs—Heavy weights. \
Beeves—Prime steers.
Beeves-Stockers and feeders. - •
Bulls. > ,«|
Calves. *
Steers—Fair to good. * r
Heifers . 1
Western Cattle..:
Sheep—Lambs..
Sheep—Fair to good natives.
NEW YOBlv.
Wheat, No. 2, red winter.
Corn—No. ..
Oats—No. 2.
Pork.
Lard.
CHICAGO.
Wheat—No. 2, spring.
Corn—Per bu.
Oats—t er bu.
Pork.
Lard.
Hogs—Packers and mixed..
Cattle—Com. steers to extra
Sheep—Lambs.
Sheep—Inferior to choice
ST. LOl’13
Wheat—No 2 red, cash. T,
Corn—Per bu. -d !l
Oats—Per bu . 4
Hogs—Mixed packing.
Cattle—Native steers..
Sheep—Mixed natives.; *
KANSAS CUV
Wheat—No. 2 hard.
Corn—No. ..
Oats—No. 2.. . .;”’ *
C at tie—Stockers and feeders- *
Hogs—Mixed packers . ,
Sheep—Choice western.
,.r.
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teayenworth Military
A8HIXGTOX, Dec. ^"V:.
mittee on military * ,
rable action upon a ’* M
Leavenworth, ^aD' J
>n a United States P^;; I
he bill becomes a ’ eC4
be to concentrate at l*. : J
if the criminals
ed States courts
itry whose sentences
i one year’s duration.
es now uses the pe ^
various states for tn .J
s convicts and Fa.'s