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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 2, 1897)
THE FRONTIER. PUBLISHED BVPBY THURSDAY Bp To Fro ran Prihtiho Oo. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA. NEBRASKA, t*Hn swine plague is prevalent in (ome parts of Butler county. Extra men are being added to the Union Pacific shop force at North Platte. Tub Antelope' county old settlers will have their reunion at Neligh, Sep tember 10th. Ewing expects to have a bank in the near future. Eastern parties will start the institution. Tub Bennett' camp meeting by the state holiness association was the most successful that has yet been held. Tii.dsn people have subscribed al most enough stock to start a creamery and expect to raise the remainder in a few days. A sbries of religious meetings will be held at Table Rock by Evangelists Beall and Redding, commencing Sep tember 8th. Gkobgk Harlan, a Saunders county boy was seriously injured by being thrown from a Union Pacific train be tween Ames and Fremont. : Tub miscreants who have an appe tite for chickens raised by their neigh bors that there is now a law on the statutes making it burglary to break into a chicken house. Tub proposed mobilization of the federal troops and state militia at Omaha during the exposition, an en terprise of generally unsuspected mag nitude, is receiving substantial en couragement. Many farmers were in town this and last week looking for helpers, fays the Pierce Leader, but generally found all spoken for. Any one that is in the least inclined to do an honest day’s la bor need not be idle. Frederick Siiki-iikrd. receiver of the State bank of Ilavelock, baa filed his report of the bank's assets and liabil ities. He figures the total assets of the institution at 90,937.40 and the liabilities at 94,223.33, leaving an ex cess of assets of 92,714.07. An Atkinson man, while digging a post hole, unearthed about thirty pew ter coins which, when washed with the yellow metal, were, intended to be pass ed for 95 gold pieces. The question is, who could the counterfeiters have been and when was the spurious stuff planted? A nkw steam threshing engine and Separator, purchased by a syndicate-at a cost of 92,400, lies at the bottom of Omaha creek, a small stream running through Dakota county. The engine was being taken across the creek at that point when it became unmanage able, caused by an Inexperienced en gineer, crashed through the bridge and went down twenty feet to the bottom. The machine men escaped without injury, but the separator and engine are nearly a total loss. ' This stockholders of the defunct Ne braska National bank at York held a meeting the^other day and decided by a two-thirds vote to go into liquidation. The proposition from the City National bank of that city to assume the obliga tions of the Insolvent bank met with favor, and if a few depositors can be Induced to assign over all claims in the bank and accept the offer of the City National bank to pay depositors in four equal payments, at intervals of six months each, the deal will’be con summated. Louis Olnky, a colored man now of Falls City, and formerly of Tecnmseh, has applied to Deputy Land Commis sioner Nelson for an order releasing his daughter from the industrial home at Geneva. It seems that the man's wife died a few years ago and left sev eral children. The father was away and was supposed to be dead. The children were sent to the home for the friendless and afterward to' Geneva and Kearney, according to their sex. Now the father is fixed to care for them—tilling a farm—and he wanted the girl out. The order was granted. Tine republican state eonvention was held at Lincoln on the S7th. . Business was dispatched quickly and harmoni ously. Judge A. M. Post was renomi nated by acclamation for his present position on the supreme bench. C. W. Kaley of Webster county was renomi nated by acclamation for his present position on the board of regents of the University of Nebraska, and John N. Dryden was nominated for the second place before ■ the ballot was taken. There was bnt one real contest in the eonvention, and that was for the honor of presiding over it. In this good-na tured test of strength J. L. JdcPheeley ed Kearney county received forty more *otea than Ben & Baker of . Douglas county. The convention was in ses sion but a little longer than three hours. Nine hundred delegates were In attendance. Resolutions reaffirm the principles enunciated by the na tional republican convention of 1896: the recent tariff legislation is com mended, return of business confidence la hailed with satisfaction; crimes of the late state auditor and state treas urer are eondemmed, and demand is nude that steps be taken to recover all funds by them wrongfully diverted; the present state administration is criticised for sins of omission and com mission; regret increase of freight rates to the seaboard and call upon the inter-state commerce commission t« Investigate the same; sympathy is ex pressed with the Cubans in their strug gl« for liberty, and the fidelity and efficiency of Senator Thurston and Congressmen Strode and Mercer ii commended. TP* firm of Ward, GilUfien A Towle Falls City and Tecnmseh, which hai been doing business in the formei 'M general western agents foi the Canton Bridge company of Canton Ohio, has moved its headquarters U A rown of Ord farmers, thinking dealers were not paying enough for grain, have slabbed together and will (Up their own produce. Thx barn of Peter Tankhanser near Humboldt was struck by. lightning and completely burned. Quite a large ■must of hay and gfmin was eon ' bat all the hornet, some valua 5* VV: REBELLION IN INDIA. THE OUTBREAKS ARE RAPIDLY SPREADING. Forty Thousand Soldiers Not Enough t* Check the Insurgent Hill Tribes— Encounter After Encounter Re ported — Ameer Called to Strict Account. More Troop* Needed. Simta, A tig. 30.—The British forces on the Afghan frontier are being kept in a constant state of excitement, on ing to the activity of the rebellious natives, and fight after fight has been reported during the past three days. The powerful Arakazi tribe of hillmen has joined the rebellion, and with the Afrldls and other tribes already out the situation is decidedly serious. No one would be surprised at news of a disaster to British arms at any mo ment Over 40,000 British soldiers are now In the field, but this number does not appear sufficient to cope successfully with the brave, hardy and wily hill men, and urgent calls for reinforce ments have been sent to other parts of India, while it is possible that troops may yet have to be asked for from Europe. That the India government believes that the ameer of Afghanistan has guilty knowledge of the uprising, if he'has not inspired it, is shown by the fact that a second letter has been sent to hiin calling for specific answers to certain speelfiu questions and warn ing him to avoid all generalities and protestations. < A very serious state of affairs pre vails at Quetta, Beloochiatan. There is little doubt that if the fort there is attacked the garrison will be put to death. The fortifications are practi cally worthless and the place is said to be inadequately manned. Another note of alarm, and a rather incomprehensible one in view of the gallant defense made in the cases of Forts AU-Mujld and Lundi Kotal, comes this morning from Jamrud, from which place a dispatch an nounces that the British military au thorities yesterday deemed it wise to disarm the'Khy her rifles, formifag a part of the garrison of that place. REBELS MAY BE STARVED OUT. London, Aug. 30.—It is probable that pending offensive operations by the government forces in India a blockade will be onforced against the Afridis and Arakazls, who are largely dependent upon India for their food suppliea This, it is thought, will tend to compel them to come to terms. The military authorities suggest that after the tribes have been punished tHe occupation of a single fort cfclted China, in the Bazaar valley, would re strain the Afridis forevei, since they would be obliged to pass ui.der the waits of that fort every six months when migrating from the valleys to the hills of vice versa. STATE OF TRADE. The Oonaral Situation rontlnoM to Show a Steady Improvement. Xkw Yokk, Aug. 30.—The general trade situation continues to improve, and aside from the unnecessarily pro longed strike of the soft coal miners, there is little in sight to cloud the outlook. The feature of the week is the advance in prices of almost all leading staples, beginning with an up ward movement all along the line in iron and steel. Lead, too, and soft coal arc higher, as is wheat, notwith standing one or two reactions lirad streefs points Out that "the statistical position of wheat is the strongest known since the United States became a considerable exporter, and that its price, as well as that for bread, is likely to materially exceed the present week's advances Following that for wheat, prices are higher for wheat flour, corn, oats, lard, potatoes, but ter, eggs, beans, cheese, leaf tobacco, wool and live stock. Advances for leather, hides, lumber and linseed oil are also reported. Cotton, which is up 3-10o, reports the smallest world's stock for seven years past at this period, an improved tone and higher prices for the manu factured product, (.OVERS LSAr* Tu DEATH. A Doable Sa'.rlale la a Itearit-ltarte.l i * 1'arent’e l’rmenoe. : 1Nashvii.i.K, Tenn., Aug. 31. —Carl French, who was scarcely out of his teens, came here from Indianapolis, ,nd, three months ago to sp-nd hi> vacation in the mountains, where he fell in love with the pretty daughter of Allen Hunt, a miner. When his father heard of the affair lie came to .take him back home, but the boy secured permission for a farewell 'meeting, which took place on th>* brink of a precipice. In the elder Frenoh’s presence the lovers embraced and leaped 100 fret to death. The K'.omti it l'rl»<i«i«tr% (;«*»! Xiamn. Cedar Rapid*. Iowa. Aug. so. — William Smith: the mnn being brought from Alaska on the steam -r Portland as a prisoner, is apparently Frar.lt Novak, a storekeeper at Wulford. Tin man supposed to have been murdered by him was Edward Murray. Novak1. relatives claimed the body was that oi Nova!:. Thomas H assay, -tho Ulnar, Doatl. Saw York, Aug. HO. —Thomas Hus *«y. the aged citizen of Montgomery, Ala., who was arrested last week in a dazed condition with S30.003 in money and securitiez in his pockets, died yes terday. He was 8-1 years old. Judge Smith Itenomlaated. Com, Kan., Aug. 3a—At the Re publican convention of the Thirty fourth judicial district the present judge, Charles W. Smith, of Stockton, was renominated to that office by ao • dentation. NINE HUNDRED KILLED. Appalling Ion of Lift l>ao to VotcMte Kraptlon la Iht Philippines. Tacoma, Wash., Aug. 30. —Five more towns have been wiped out and not less than 400 people killed since last reports were received here by the eruption of Mayon volcano, in Lucon Island, one of the Philippine group. Widespread devastation and rain have resulted in towns and villages situ ated around the base of Mayon for fifty miles. The latest towns de stroyed are Santo Nino, San Roque, Misericordia, San Antonio and Sanisa dor. The last two named towns are suburbs of Lifog, the destruction of which was announced several weeks ago. n tern Die sigot greets toe eye* of visitors at Llbbat. El fog and 115 in habitants are bnried in ruins. All surrounding hemp plantations, fields and cattle have been destroyed. Two hundred inhabitants perished when San Antonio, San Roque and Misericordla were destroyed, and an other 200 met death under ashes and lava in or near the other, towns named. Cascades of red-hot lava pouring over Mayon's sides, together with dense showers of ashes from the first eruption, buried 600 human beings be fore they could flee to places of refuge. Gradually the eruption increased in violence, until lava was flowing into the sea, forty miles from the crater, and the tremendous rain of ashes and sand reached Nenva, fifty miles away. Villages were thus destroyed which were thought to be safe when the eruption began, and the number of known dead was increased to at least 900. _ FRANCE TO CELEBRATE. President Fanre’s Return From' Rossis Will Be Notably Commemorated. Paris, Aug. 30. —The French gov ernment has proclaimed uext Tues day a public holiday, and it is expect ed that an imposing military display will be made to welcome President Faure on his return from Russia. The French squadron will stop for ten hours at Copenhagen, which will en able President Faure to visit King Oscar. The newspapers continue printing exultant articles on the al liance between France and Rnssia. EXPLORERS RETURN. Tlie Members of the Jackson-Barms worth Expedition Safa and Well. Loxnox, Aug. 30.—The British steamer Windward; which left Eng land June 10 last for Franz Josef land to bring back from the Arctic regions .the members of the Jaclcson-Harms worth expedition, who have spent three winters near Cape Flora, passed Aberdeen to-day on its return trip and signalei tbat all were well on board. Gigantic Irrigation System. San Diego, Cal., Aug. 30.—One of the greatest water distributing sys tems in the west is being established in San Diego county by the Southern California Mountain Water company. T|>e system when completed will com prise three reservoirs, the Otay, Mo rena and Barrett’s, holding an aggre gate of over 51,000,000,000 gallons of water, enough to irrigate 300,000 acres. The Otay dam is just completed. Its height is 13o feet abovo the foundation of 33 feet above bed rock. It is 500 feet long at the top, 400 feet thick at the bottom and 16 feet at the top Its impounding capacity is over 13,000, 700,000 gallons, and it floods over 1,000 acres. Farmer*' Fabulous Revenue Washington, Aug. 30.—The wheat crop of the country for 1807 is estima ted at 430,000,000 to 530,000,000 bush els. With wheat selling at $1 per bushel the value of the crop is from #430.000.000 to #530,000,000. The total amount of last year’s crop was 4J7, 634.340 bushels, and its total value was #310,603.339, so that even estimat ing the wheat crop of 1897 at the low est figure given by any of those per sons acquainted with crop conditions, the farmers of the United States will have #170,000,000 more revenue from their wheat crop this year than they did last year. Two Aeronauts Fatnllr Hurt. Toi,kix), Ohio, Aug. 30.—Two aero nauts were fatally hurt at the fair grounds yesterday afternoon. Walter Steele of Columbus, Ohio, had his back broken and several ribs crushed by a fall, due to the failure of his para chute to work, and Lcrov Northcott was frightfully burned while inside a balloon which took fire while being inflated. _■_ A lUHtourl Pastor a Mulct Is. Paris, Mo., Aug. 30.—The Rev. J. R. Green.of the Monroe City Baptist church was found in his room yester day morninir with three evidently self-inflicted gashes in his throat, and to-day he died. His wife said that he had complained of pains in his head and had been occasionally delirious several days, but that she had appre hended nothing serious. A T*ritT A'r ib>4ti5 4 ruu<thlft Washington, Aug. 30.—It is pretty generally believed that there will be a Congressional investigation into the way section 33. known as the “dis criminating clause,” got into the Ding lev tariff bill. Oceanic StaamOilp Sham Rials*. 8an Francisco, Aug. 30.—Within ten days the stock of the Oceanic steamship company has risen from #30 to #36 per share. The present atti . tude of the Pacific Steamship com pany, in its not as yet successful fight for Hawaiian charters for some of its big ships, is partly responsible for the advance, but the chief cause is the ten per cent discriminating clause in the newly adopted tariff, and which If en forced will give the Oceanic Steam ship company a monopoly of the trade I between Honolulu and this pork BOOM FOR NEBRASKA ALL BYES TURNED ON THIS GREAT STATE. Immigration Reviving to en Extent that Recall! Early Dave—Splendid Crops Start the Farmers of the East This Way to Seek Oat Bet ter Locations for Homes. Ntkniki the Cjnoiare. '‘There is bound to be a {greater movement of immigration into Ne braska this fall than for many years past,” said John Francis, general pas senger agent' of the B. & M., to an Omaha Bee reporter. “There is al ready a marked increase in the atten tion that is being turned toward this state. Our last homeseekers’ excur sion went out from here for various poin ts in the state so large that the train had to be run in two sections. We haven’t had to divide a train of homeseekers for a number of years past. And the good thing about it is that a greater portion of these home seekers are very apt -to locate perma nently in Nebraska.” General Passenger A'gent Francis has just returned from a week’s trip through the state. He and General Passenger Agent Eustisof the Burling ton were the conductors of a large party of real estate men and farmers from Indiana, Illinois and Ohio. Most of the visitors were from Illinois. At \ all points in the state they were most 1 cordially received, and the visitors were forcibly impressed with the real i evidences of the return of prosperity to this commonwealth. The railroad men believe that a good amount of immigration will be the result of this trip. General Manager Holdrege of the B. & M. and Dickinson of the Union Pap eifle have just returned from trips across Nebraska. Both are enthusias tic in their declarations that Nebraska never saw better days. They point to the splendid crops all along their re spective lines of railway and to the ex cellent prices the farmers are receiv ing, in support of their opinions. The Union Pacific is advertising the state throughout the east by the exten- ’ sive circulation of a valuable book on Nebraska just issued. It gives accu- j rate reports of recent date of the agri- | cultural conditions existing along the ! line of the Union Pacific in Nebraska, i and devotes considerable space to an admirable discussion of the cultivation of the sugar beet. President Allen’s address before the beet sugar asso ciation in this state is printed in full. A number of the railroads are also ad vertising the state by sending ont sev eral thousand copies of the Saturday’s issue of the Bee, containing, what rail- • road men declare to be the most re- 1 liable and exhaustive statement re garding Nebraska crops that has yet j appeared. Another means of adver tising Nebraska that is being actively pushed by one of the railroads, the Burlington, is the display of Nebraska agricultural products at the county fairs of Indiana, Illinois and Ohio this fall. Arrangements for sending these exhibits east this month and through out September have recently been com pleted, and each will be in charge of a competent Nebraskan. Nebraska Prod nets In Illinois. Schuyler dispatch: Gilbert Faber has been paying attention during the entire summer to the collection and ' preparation of an assortment of grains and grasses from Colfax county to be sent to C. J. Ernst, assistant land com missioner of the B. & M. at Lincoln, who has the supervision of the arrang ment of .an exhibit from the entire state to be taken by the B. & M. peo ple to the state fair in Illinois. The collection consists of wheat, spring and winter; oats, some of the stalks be ing fifty-eight inches in length; barley, timothy, blue grass, stems three and one-half feet long; clover, blue stem and alfalfa; in all a collection that will be impressive among the best that can be found. Mr. Faber is an enthusiast in this sort of work. He says the Trans-Mississippi exposition manage ment ought to see to the collection of ! grains this year for exhibition at the opening, as at that time the grains of 1898 will not be ready. Farmers Bin Been tha Land. The party of forty-three farmers 'from Illinois, Indiana and Ohio brought out to see Nebraska have re turned home. They were all more than pleased with what they saw. They were successful farmers in their own states, and the idea was not to induce them to buy here, but that they might speak of their own knowledge what the state was raising, and among neighbors who sought to get new farms or tenants who proposed to buy for themselves. Most were well informed by report already of the resources of the state. There was one notable ex ception, a farmer from Illinois, who could not be convinced even uutil sometime after he left Omaha that there was “anything in Nebraska.” He changed his mind before going home, and bought a quarter of a sec tion and made an offer for 1,700 acres for a ranch. Opening: Hid* for tli* N«*w Wine* The board of public lands and build ings met today and opened bids for the construction oE the wing of the asylum at Norfolk, the legisla ture. having appropriated $33,000 for the addition The successful bidders were: Omaha building and construc tion oompany. $138,787. for the comple tion of the wing according to specifi cations,* except the plnmbing and electric wiring; F. W. Barclay of Be atrice, $3,800 for the plumbing and steam-heating apparatus; the Western electric supply company of Omaha, $193. for the electric wiring for fifty sixteen-candle power lights. This makes the total cost of the wing $3,180 less than the appropriation. H«ga l»lr of a Krw liimw. Columbus dispatch: Several farmer! near the city have lost a great many hogs recently. Matt Oottbcrg reported today that he had lost sixteen in one night. J. F. Dineen has also lost a number. C. M. Tomlin is also a heavy loser—nearly all he had having died with the strange disease. It is said by those who pretend to know that it U not the old fashioned hog cholera, but they do not pretend to name the disease. _ All the gold mined on the Klondike would not buy a one-fourth interest in this year’s Nebraska crops. WHEAT* SHORTAGE. VUlbla Sonplf Of Wheat 70,000,000 ItiuheU Short of the Demand. TVasiiixgtos, Aug. 26.—For several weeks the department of agriculture has been busy gathering information concerning tho wheat crop of the world. The results, obtained from both official and unofficial sources, show that, from present indications, the world must go hungry or eat something besides flour. The United States will be unable to furnish all the wheat that will be needed by foreign countries to supply the deficit, even though the price Jumped to *1.50 a bushel. It simply has not the grain. England will need 180,000,000 bushels of wheat, accord ing to the latest estimates; France, 48,'>00,000 bushels; Belgium, Holland and Germany, 88,000,000 bushels; Spain and Portugal, 10,000.000 bushels; Italy, 28,000,000 bushels; the West Indies, China and Brazil, 33,000.OOfi bushels, or » total of 412,000,000 busnela To meet this demand an increased weekly importation into Europe of 720,000 bushels over the imports of last year will be required. During the last cereal year the wheat growing countries of the world exported to all countries 45,000,000 bushels less that the estimated requirements for the next eleven months. To supply this increase of 720,000 bushels a week a heavy demand will be made on the United States and Canada. At least 240,000,000 bushels will be called for. Canada can supply the 40,000,000 and the remainder falls to the United States. The crop in this country will, it is thought, be about 500,000,000 bushela For home consumption and for seed purposes 275,000,000 are re quired. This leaves but 125,000,000 bushels to meet the demand for 200, 000,000 bushela The department of agriculture will soon make public its figures on this year's wheat crop of the globe. It will say in part that, taking one coun try with another, the deflcienoy, as compared with an average crop, will be very large. Such importing coun tries as Great Britain, France, Ger many and Austria will have occasion to import much more than usual,while the exporting countries, outside of the United States, will be able to con tribute much less than their usual’ supply. Russia, Hungary and the Dan ubian and Balkan principalities have all less ■ than average . crops, the deficiency being very large in the principalities named. The ’ Indian crop, harvested last spring, was nearly 24 per cent below the average, and though high prices may draw away a part of the scanty supply, the con tribution from this source must neces sarily be small. The wheat exporting countries of the Southern Hemisphere have less than usual, and their next harvest is several months away. FOREIGNERS BUY AGAIN. European Demand for Wheat Pate the Prices Up. Chicago, Aug. 25.—Foreigners were in the markets buying wheat again to-day, and prices advanced about as quickly as they went down yesterday. The Chicago December price was up a cent at the opening and advanced 3 cents farther later in the day, sell ing between 91c and 94%c. There was a sharp break of 2 cents shortly after noon, but prices turned up again. The close, 9314c, was 3c higher. than yesterday. Nearly all the spec ulation was in December. Foreign markets were lower all around, but the decline there was not as great as the drop in this country yesterday, and the margin for export sales was 2 cents more than it was when wheat was at top prices Satur day. The day’s clearances were very large, amounting to nearly a million bushela Foreign crop news was bull ish. Cash prices at Kansas City very quickly followed the Chicago advance. Hard wheat was four cents higher than yesterday—in some cases more— and there was an active demand from all sources Exporters who have been out of the market for some days were buyers The offerings were large, aud the country movement shows no sign of fallinsr off. Hor« Veueld for the North* Seatti.e, Wash., Aug. 26.—The steamer Hosalle has departed for Skaguay with about 100 passengers and a full load of horses and supplies for miners. She also took a number of wagons to break the famine at the pass. The schooner Moonlight had most of her deckload of lumber re moved and will get away with her sixty passengers sometime to-day. Silver Mines Will Not Rein me. Denver, Col., Aug. 26.—The owners of the downtown mines in Leadville, which were allowed to fill with water during the great miners' strike, and have not been operated since, decided at a conference in this city to defer the nnwaterlng of the mines nntll the silver market became more settled. An Illinois Town Oat of Cool SpRiNortKi.n, 111., Aug. 36.—The electric light works have closed at Carlinville because no coni is obtain* able and the city streets are in dark ness. The merchants who used elec tric lights are burning coal oil lamps. The water works are kept in operation by using wood for fueL Party of Right Mlsslmn West Superior, Wis., Aug. SO.—A party of eight men and women left last Friday in a small sailboat to go after bass along the south side of Lake Superior, intending to return Sunday. Nothing has been heard of them, but the captain of the steamer Gilbert reports passing a capsized sail boat a few mile* out_ Chief Coni In ■•tires. New Tore, Aug. 26.—Chief of Polio* Peter Conlin was retired to-day by lh« police commissioners on his own ap plication. He will reoeive a pension •f tt.OOO a year. Farmers Will Have Millions for Frorementa—Laborers Will FroCU^ Washington, Aug1. 2S. —Assist Secretary Brigham of the Agricultur al department to-day expressed the opinion that the American farmers this year would receive in the aggre gate from four to five hundred million dollars in excess of the amount re ceived last year for their wheat. Colonel Brigham also predicted that the increase in the price of farm pro ducts would benefit the laboring ele ment nig Importation of Goto. San Francisco, Cal., Aug. so. —The steamer Mariposa, which arrived to day from Sydney, via Honolulu, brought a consignment of $2,250,00!) in English sovereigns, in ninety-four treasnre boxes, for the Anglo-Califor nian and London, Paris and American, banks of this city. Italy Threatens Moroccos Rome, Aug. 38. —Italy has wired to Morocco threatening to dispatch a man-of-war to Tangier unless the crew of the Italian brig Fiducia is released. Moorish pirates recently attacked and plundered the Fiducia and detained, the crew. Heavy Peach shipments Warrensbubg, Mo., Aug. 2S.—OrerV 3,000 crates of flue peaches have bttiM shipped from Warrensburg this weekly The crop la Johnson county is unnso* ally large and the orchards are still, laden with the fruit Old Inventions. 8 T ran Three mechanical movements ara herewith shown, relating to that class known as escapements. In the first is shown a pendulum movement known as a repose or dead-beat escapement wherein the central escapement wheel is alternately engaged upon opposite sides by’ the pendulum projections. The central movement is known as a detached escapement, in that the pen dulum swings free of the star-shaped escapement wheel, except at the time of receiving the impulse and unlocking the wheel. The pendulum rides ldead' in returning as the click works bn a pivot to escape the depending bar. The third illustration shows a single pin escapement, in which the pin escapes the vertical faces within the pendulum. The circuit court in a patent case re cently decided that a patent, in orQer to give full protection, must indnde claims for all tne novel features. What is not covered is held as being dedi cated to the public, and so is lost to the inventor. Free information relat ing to patents may be obtained in ad dressing Sues «fc Co., patent e Bee Building, Omaha, Neb. 1 T Iowa Patent Office lie port. Every puff of steam that escapes from a steam engine is a waste of power that in the aggregate is enor mous. To utilize the expansive force of steam and reduce the minimum at .vasted energy and the friction and wear of operative parts, has been the efforts of inventors. A patent has been allowed to A. Watkins, Des Moines, for a compound rotary engine in which the steam passes through a plurality of chambers, in which all ex pansive force is utilized so that practi cally there is no lose of power through the exhaust ports, and all the operative parts work in concert to produce con tinuous rotary motion that can be ap plied to extraneous machinery. Mr. W. manifests his appreciation of oar services in the following manner: Gf.nti.emkx—I write to acknowledge indebtedness to you for the kindness and promptitude with which you at tended to the business connected with the granting of iny patent. I also wish to express my admiration of and. appreciation for your mechanical gen ius, and the keen insight which enables, you to grasp in detail anything in the line of intricate mechanism. I dear sir, yours truly. A. Watkins. Valuable information about obtain ing, valuing and selling patents sent, free to any address. Printed copies of the drawings and. specifications of any United States- - patent sent upon receipt of 25 cents. Our.practice is not confined to Iowa. Inventors in other states can have oar* services upon the same terms asr Hawkeyes. Taos. G. and .T. Eat.pji Obwig, Solicitors of Patents. Des Moines, la., Aug. 25, 1897. ? \ LIVE STOCK AND PRODUCE MAftKKT. Quotations From New York, t'Nwga St-. Louis, Omaha and Elsewher*. OMAHA. Butter—Creamery separator... Butter—Choice fancy country Revs—Fresh Spring Chickens—Per lb.. Hens—per lb. Pigeons—LI ve lemons-Choice Messlnos.S 50 Honey—Choice, per lb. 14 - ‘ irbu .. 85 * \ t» > I 1 M Onions—perbu . 85 © ] Beans—Handpicked Navy. lit (M Potatoes—perbu....... 43 © 5* Broom Corn—Choice Green. 3 © Sffc Oranges-per box. *W ©3 75 Apples—Per bbl. 1 85 © 8 » Hay—Upland, perton. 4 50 © 5 OS SOUTH OMAHA STOCK MARKET. Hogs—Choice light. 3 8S © 3 W» Hogs—Heavy weights. 3 85 Beef steers.3 75 Bulls.. 3 to “Stags.. 3 35 Calves. 5 00 Western Feeders.:t *5 ' 'ova.a 00 Heifers. 3 JB Hockers and Feeders. 3 35 ■sheep—Western Lambs.. 4 on -taeep. Western—Grassers. 3 33 CHICAGO. Wheat—No. 2 spring . OK-x© l Oom—perbu. 30VI© 3SK. Oats—per bu. tkSU'B 10 Barley—No. 2. 37 © 4* Bye—No. 2. 50 © A2*£ Pork . 8 53 © K — Lard—per 100 lbs.. Cattle—Native 1km Cattle—Stockers and Hogs -Prime light sheop—Lambs ... Aheep—Westerns NEW YORK. Wheat—No. 2. red. Winter. 1 or, Corn—No. 8. 50 Oats—No. 2. 31 "osic. JO no Lard. 5 » KANSAS CITY. Wheat—No. 2. spring. so •torn—No. 2. THA'is Oats—No. 2. 30 © Cuttle—Stockers and Feeders... 3 oo A t it Hoge—Mixed.3 MS © « Sheep—Muttons.3 © ,©,4 « 1 as Y X ;i* S *•* All m ©523 £