Nebraska Newspapers

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NEBRASKA.
Sooth Omaha has hecn divided Sato
four election districts.
The national good roads convention
Will be held in Omaha next year.
A nkw Methodist clinrch has been
dedicated at Chambers, Holt county.
Rev. II. C. Harmon of Nebraska
City dia.s accepted a call at Lead City,
S. b.
The business men of Hastings arc
contemplating holding a series of car
nivals this fall.
Merrick county voters will this fall
settle the question whether the county
siiail issue bonds to build a new jail.
The state banking board has re
ceived the articles of incorporation of
the State bank of Liberty,Oage county.
James Conaihuty of Sidney sold his
wool clip this year for 14 cents per
pound. Nine months ago the same
grade of wool brought but 7 cents.
Ciiari.es Mentor, an old settler in
South Omaha, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the head
with a ball from a 38-caliber revolver.
Warp Hopkins says that he is of the
opinion that Dixon county has a tletter
corn crop than it has had for the past
ten years. He has a good opportunity
to know.
The llurlington A Missouri depot at
Blue Hill caught fire and would have
burned to the ground but for the quick
work of the fire department. The loss
will be small.
Thk directors of the Dawson county
fair association report that all the pre
miums and purses have been paid in
full and that there is a small surplus
in the treasury.
The lticliurdson county Sunday
school association will meet at Salem.
...» commencing on Thursday, October 14,
at 4:30 and closing on Saturday, Octo
ber 16, at 13 in. j
The county commissioners of Doug
las comity will submit a proposition to
vote $100,000 in bonds to enable the
county to participate in the Trans
Mississippi exposition.
There was stolen from James Creaa
man at Syracuse a horse, cart and har
ness.' The cart broke down and the
thief called on Judge James W. Katon
' and took a covered buggy worth 875.
Cholera is bad in Otis and Valley,
In Hamilton county. Tom Fagan lost
100 head of hogs, Hans Gibson 130 and
K. Henderson 105, Flick, just over in
York county, lost twenty in two days.
Thomas Hurley of Chadron, a brake
man on the Fremont, Klkhorn A Mis
souri Valley railroad, slipped and fell
beneath tne cars- at Douglas. Wvo.,
sustaining injuries from which he died
bn hour later.
True Ponca fair association is not
only able to pay all premiums in full
this year, but to finish paying the pre
miums of a year ago. After all such
indebtedness is wiped out thero will
still bo some money left in the treas
ury. •_
Tukre have been more cattle shipped
into Osceola during1 the last week than
in any other week since the organiza
tion of the county. About fifty car
loads have arrived and the farmers
have bought them up quickly to feed
their corn to.
Am. tiro roads in the central passen
ger committee have been notified by
Commissioner Donald to cancel all
Iiomcseckcrs’ excursions and rates to
the territory south of the Ohio river
and east of tiro Mississippi river after
after October 10.
' * S. W. W. Wilson, of Cqlumbus, who
accidentally shot himself with his own
gun, died from the effects of his
wounds, lie belonged to Uniform
rank Knights of Pythias, and was a
member of the Maccabees, carrying
about 95,000 in these two orders.
Ida C. Held asks the court for an
Injunction restraining her husband,
Julius Held, from meddling or interfer
ing with her in the management of a
■small hardware business located at
'Platte Center. The petition is filed
supplementary to an aotion for divorce.
August Droll of McCook has just
completed the delivery of a largo con
tract of wheat. Off of seventy acres
of land he threshed out 2,583 bushels
of wheat. This is a yield of almost
thirty-seven bushels per acre. This at
the lowest market price even of this
fall realized more than too market
price of the land is per acre. The
wheat averaged sixty-two pounds to
the bushel.
The barn on the f arm of U. E. "Wal
worth, six miles south of Loup City,
■ .burned to the ground. Insurance,
•8,500. The 4-year-old daughter of A.
P. Palsen, the tenant, perished in the
flames. Mr. Palsen also lost four
head of fine work horses, wagons, har
ness and nearly all of his farm imple
ments. The cause of the fire is not
known. The trunk of the child was
,-i all that was found, the head and limbs
being burned off.
Tub sale of the Union Pacific rail
way under foreclosure will be heli
November 2. That has been settlec
fually. The government, represents
tivea of which expressed some doub
as to whether Its interests were suffi
«Jently protected without further pro
oeedings and held up the sale, whicl
was originally proposed to be held tb
latter part of this month, is agreeabh
to the original terms and this date am
toe sale has bees thus arranged
The sale will take place in Omaha.
. Wjhlb Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Cato o
Melwm were ant driving, their teas
took fright at a brass band playini
•ear the street and mi away, throw
teg the occupants of the buggy to th
ground. Their 4-weeka-old baby hai
its leg broken and was bruised abou
toe bead. It will, however, recover.
ftMmi.M Werner, who lives south o
storting, was unceremoniously butte,
through a wire fence by a young bulL
As Willie Haunenstetn of 8L Ed
ward, who was employed in the lum
her yard of A. Powe(l A Co., wa
working about the yard a pile o
hoards about tea feet high fell on him
braking both bonce of h i* right to
wra the knee sad ankle, :■
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AOR11AT ARMED CAMP
THAT IS WHAT IS SAID OF
EUROPE.
Rm>l» Making Grant Progress — Ger
man;’* soldier* the Itcst Drilled and
Showiest — Good Words for
Prance's Troops — America
Mast Prepare.
General Miles' Observations Abroad.
; London, Oct 4.—General Kelson A.
I Allies, Mrs. Miles and aide de camp,
| Captain Maus, sailed for the United
[ States on the American line steamer
| St. Louis to-day, having been in Eu
i rope since May on a tour of military
[ observation. The general has in
spected everything of military interest
from the armies of the great powers
in field action down to “balloons and
bicycles,” as he remarked. He has
looked over fortifications, barracks,
camps and ordnance works of all
classes
In an interview before he sailed,
General Miles said: “When I left
Washington the war between Turkey
and Greece had assumed snch propor
tions that it looked as though the
neighboring provinces would be drawn
into it, and possibly one or two of the
great powers of Europe. No one real
ized at that time that Greece hod as
sumed hostilities when she was wholly
unprepared for war, nor did anyone
anticipate that Turkey would in forty
five days mobilize a great army of 000,
000 men. When I arrived at Constan
tinople an armistice had been declared
and war was practically over, al
though the armies have remained in
hostile attitudes and it has taken three
months to agree upon conditions of
peace for a war that had been fought
in five weeks.
EUROPE A GREAT ARMED CAMP.
“I have Been all the great armies of
Europe except the Spanish army and
if Spain should declare war agaiust
the United States I may possibly have
.an opportunity of seeing that. Of
something over 3,000,000 men under
arms, I have seen nearly 400,000 in
barracks and in garrison and in field
maneuvers, besides nearly 100,0'I0 men
engaged in the construction. of war
material
“What 1 have seen does not indicate
-that the millenium is at hand, when
'swords will be beaten into plough
shares/’ There never was another time
In the history or the World when such
energy. Ingenuity and wealth have
been devoted to war purposes. The
resources and industries of many poo
pies are largely devoted to maintain
ing large standing armies and formid
able navies.
AMERICA MUST BE IN TRIM.
“Fortunate are the people of the
United States that they are walled In
by two great oceans, yet this fact
would not warrant them in any other
policy than keeping a reasonable per
centage of the population fully equip
ped and instructed in modern appli
ances and methods of war.
“It so happened that Important
•events occurring in Europe this year
have contributed to my opportunity
for observation, giving me chances to
see the best of the armies of all the
great powers. The celebration oi
Queen Victoria's sixty years of reign
brought together 50,000 of her army
and 38,000 men of her navy. The field
•maneuvers In Russia were conducted
on a large scale and were exceedingly
interesting. Russia for hundreds of
years has been a great military na
tion. Her people have been accus
tomed to war and her population is so
•numerous, and she is so located geo
graphically as to be practically inde
pendent of the other powers of the
world. Though her government has
been autoeratic and her people far be
hind the age in enlightenment—only 8
per cent of the population being able
to read—the rays of intellectual en
lightenment are penetrating that vast
region and there is a great futaro for
Russia.
RUSSIA AND GERMANY.
•“What the headlight of the locomo
tive has done for our Western country
In the last generation is now to some
extent being done for that country
through a construction of the railroad
across Siberia, one of the greatest en
terprises of modern times Remark
ably enough, it is being built under
the direction of a self-made Russian
prince, who served his apprenticeship
in the machine shops of Philadelphia,
but like Peter the Great has become
master of his trade and is now con
tributing Immensely to the material
welfare of Russia. The Riuelan army
is composed of strong, hardy men and
its officers are highly educated and
skillful officials.
“Germany is one vast military camp.
It is geographically in such a position
that It is compelled to maintain a
great military force. On one side is Aus
tria, that they have overrun and France
that has been conquered and a part of
her territory taken away, by fighting
her when she was at a great disad
vantage. On the other side stands
the great Russian bear and between
these two Germany finds it necessary
to keep her powder dry. The German
army U kept under rigid discipline, it
is well drilled, makes the finest ap
I pearaoce on parade, but its flghtlna
qualities are no better than the Eng
bah, Russian or French armies.
L THE FRENCH ARMY.
I “I part of the. French manenv
“ear St. Quentin. The Frenel
army u sot spucuicuiar in appear
anee; yet It has a solidity und earnest
ness qf purpose which indicate that ii
is well equipped for war.' Its uni
. forms are not so handsome as those o
the German army, but are serviceable,
while its officers are skillful and in
tensely in earnest. There were TO.OOt
well equipped, well disciplined troop*
and the review by the president wa:
one of the finest dtsnlays I have evei
| Witnessed. The army of io.ooo passed
the reviewing stand In n. little more
than two hours’ time, and the entire
body of cavalry, 10,000 strong', charged
across the field in ODe solid mass and
halted but a few yards from the presi
dent in almost perfect liue and splen
did order.”
POWER OF THIS COUNTRY. ,
To the question as to whether the
United States, under its prescht mili
tary policy, would be able to copo
with a European power. General Miles
replied: ‘Tn any population, it is esti
mated, one man out of fivo is capablo
of bearing arms. That would give us
an army of 12,000,000. Our people are
j strong physically and generally Intel
| lipent and well informed. Besides
| that, each citizen is a sovereign and
| personally interested in the welfare
of his government and serves volun
tarily without being forced into service
by a military despotism. We have many
thousands of men still living who
have seen more war, participated in
more battles, than any map in Europe.
Rubit is another thing to equip an
army with modern appliances for the
defense of a coast where we would
have to use high power^gnns and mod
ern projectiles, which it takes years to
construct, while smalt arms are not to
be made in .a few days or even weeks.
Modern rifles are different from the
squirrel guns, which our revolution
ary fathers went to war. The range
of modern arms is very great and pro
jectiles weigh 700 pounds to a ton of
steel. The rapidity of the rapid fire
machine guns, the Maxim and Gatling,
is 400 to 000 shots a minute. Although
these are American inventions these
are largely used in the European serv
ice. ”
THE UNION PACIFIC.
Ail Arrangements Completed fee the
Sale,
Washington, Oct. 4.—Ex-Governor
Hoadlcy, counsel for the United States
in the matter of tho Union Pacific
foreclosure sale, spent several hours
to-day in . conference with. Attorney
General McKenna, arranging the de
tails of the sale, November 1, and the
subsequent transfer of the govern
ment’s interest in the property to tho
highest bidder.
So fAr as cun be learned the reor
ganization committee will be the only
bidder at the sale and in all probabil
ity the, transfer wil^ be consummated
by the payment of the purchase price
by December 1 or very hood thereafter.
Treasury ofiiclals recognize the fact
that the withdrawal from circulation'
of ?45,000,OW in cash at one time
might have a very serious effect on tho
money market, and in consequence are
devising a plan by which the force of
the shock may be reduced to the mini
mum. No determination of the ques
tion has yet been reached, but it seems
probable that at least 330,000,000 of
the amount may be placed on deposit I
with government depository banks
until January 1, when it will be !
needed for the redemption of the 6
per cent subsidy bonds maturing on
that date. The remainder of the pur
chase money, it is thought, may be
safely transferred to the treasury.
CHECK IN THE BOOM.
lltulUMS Record Not Quite So Edcour
•gins Tbl* Week.
Nrcw York, Oct. 4.— Bradstreet’s
says: “General trade is marked by
increased activity in wool, hides, iron
and steel and their manufactured
products, but business in the quaran- I
tined districts remains at a standstill, I
and at all except a few Northwestern i
distributing centers, in spring wheat
states, where business is relatively I
more active, there is a check to the
demand for dry goods, hats and cloth- |
ing. Favorable reports come from a
region extending from Knoxville to .
St. Paul and from Omaha to Mil wan- I
kee. The tendency is to increase es
timates of the wheat crops and in
crease the probable yield of cotton. '
The prices movement shows a long
list of unchanged quotations this
week. Potatoes have reacted frpm
the extremely high prices at the West
and cotton is off further. Lead is
lowor, ns are corn, oats and flour, in
sympathy with wheat, which dropped
3 cents on Brodstreet’s reported in- I
crease of nearly 10,000,000 in the
world’s visible stocks.”
PAYS $4,000 FOR HUSBAND
M. Loot* Woman Ulves Cash for Cob
doctor Truitt.
St. Louis, Ma, Oct 4.—John A.
Truitt, n conductor on the Northern,
Central Electric street car line, was
sold yesterday by his wife for 84,000
to a woman who declares that she
loves the man more than his wife does.
The deal was the sequel to the follow
ing remarkable statement made to
Mrs. Truitt by Mrs. Stephens, who
lives in this city with her father:
“Mrs. Truitt, 1 love your husband
and 1 want him. I have traveled the
world over and he is the first- man I
ever loved. I will give yon 84,000
cash for him if you will give him up.”
Truitt, who is the father of four
children, seems to agree to the deal.
It is stated that last Tuesday Mrs. -
Truitt, knowing that her husband
loved another, attempted to take her
life by swallowing a big dose of mor
phine.
NEW PACING RECORD.
Star Pointer Travels the Fastest MUe
Ever Mode In a Rene.
Spri.nofiki.d. 111., Oct 4.—-In a race
that was witnessed by at least 65,no0
people. Star Pointer, on the Illinois
state fair grounds, yesterday after
noon, not only maintained his reputa
tion as tlie king of pacers by beating
Joe l'atchen, bat he also lowered the
world's pacing record in a race by half
a second, making the mile in 3:OOX,
the record in a race having been 2:01,
which Star Pointer made on Saturday.
I September 18, at Indianapolis, when
! be defeated Joe Patchen,
TURN ON THE WATER.
NEBRASKA SOIL IS * ALL RIGHT
WHEN WET.
A Great and Growing question That the
National Irrigation Congress Will
Dlscnss—The First Day’s Meet*
Ing—Gov. Holcomb’s Address
—WUat Other speakers
Said.
National Irrigation Congress.
The sixth annual session of the na
tional irrigation congress met in Lin
coln on the 28th of September. It was
called to order by President C. B. Booth
of Los Angeles, California.
The call of the congress was read by
National Secretary ileintz, after which
Governor Holcomb was introduced for
an address of welcome
Governor Holcomb said that the mat
ter of irrigation was of vast impor
tance to the people of Nebraska and
the entire western country, and he was
glad to welcome the representatives of
the irrigation interests of the country I
to the state. He promised them a |
pleasant stay and royal entertainment
in the capital city. Ho made extend- j
ed reference to the products of Nebras
ka, calling attention to the immense
crops of wheat and corn and to the
sugar and chicory factories. He said
the matter of irrigation a few years
ago was only mentioned in whispers,
now the matter of irrigation is attract
ing widespread attention. The theory
that the rainfall was growing heavier
in the semi-arid regions had been ex
ploded, and the people were looking
forwrad more and more to plans for
furnishing artificial watering plants.
He cordially invited delegates to visit
the state capitol “over which he had
the honor to preside,” and promised
that “no extra guards would be sta
tioned about the building.”
Chancellor MacLean of the universi
ty also made a happy speech of wel
come, calling attention in particular to
the university and its high place among
the educational institutions of the
United States. He desired that the
delegates would spare time to visit the
state farm and view the experimental
station, irrigation plant and other fea
tures of this important addition to the
university work.
On behalf of the congress Judge J.
S. Emery of Lawrence, Lan., with an
international reputation as an author
ity on irrigational subjects, responded
to the addresses of welcome by the
governor and chancellor. His speech
was a happv mixture of humor and an
exposition of the question which called
the congress together. So deep and
abiding was his faith in irrigation for
soil culture, said Judge Emery, that he
with other Kansans had come to re
gard that method of farm moisture as
the natural one, rainfall as a second
ary element, ne congratulated the
University of Nebraska on being one
of the first, if not the first, educational
institutions in the country to take up
the study of the irrigation subject.
The virgin soil was the source of all
wealth and when the people learned to
so regard it and by scientific means
aided nature in supplying the deficient
moisture it would mean regeneration
not only of the west, but of the sister
hood of states.
In reference to the adoption of agri
culture as one of the branches of learn
ing, he said that when the people went
back to original conditions and got
their living more from the land, the
wave of unrest that is now disturbing
the land would pass away. “When
our young men and girls get married
and start anew the race of life, we
want them to go back and get their
living from the soil, instead of going
to Chicago to be somebody’s hired
man.”
Judge Emory F. Best, assistant com
missioner of the general land office at
Washington, also made a response to
the address of welcome. He said that
from what he had heard of Lincoln he
had got the impression that it was a
city of orators. He had once heard a
Lincoln man make a speech, and, on
account of his eloquence, he “almost
believed what the orator said.”
Prof. Elwood Mead, state engineer
of Wyoming was introduced. In re
ferring to Governor Holcomb’s address
of welcome he said he agreed to what
had been said about Nebraska corn,
bqt wanted to raise some exceptions to
“her cattle on a thousand hills.” Many
of those hills were over across the bor
der in Wyoming.
The following were appointed as the
eommittee on credentials: A. L. Kel
logg, Colorado; George Leis, Kansas;
Dr. S. B. Young, Utah; G. M. Knox,
Illinois; D. W. Ross, Idaho; H. E.
Heath, Nebraska.
President Booth delivered his annual
address, in which be reviewed the his
tory of irrigation in ancient times, and
told of its progress in this country.
He believed that the prosperity and
adversity of the great west would run
parallel with the care or neglect of the
irrigation systems. Already in the
states of Kansas and Nebraska there
were many instances where during
drouth seasons five-acre tracts under
irrigation had saved whole farms from
being swept into the vortex of debt.
E. R. Moses of Great Bend, Kan.,
chairman of the national executive
committee, read a paper on the irriga
tion problems. He reviewed the irri
gation bill now pending in congress,
and advocated the forming of the irri
grtion congress into a thorough busi
ness organization, which would aid in
bringing about legislation to reclaim
the arid lands.
I '
Bad Money to Born.
"Come up and have something, boys!
I've got money to burn!”
“Oh, er—lend me a ten, old fellow,
will you?”
"1 said I had money to barn."
Claims It Was Invalid,
During the progress of a hearing on
' an application for the release of Henry
Bluchowitz from the asylum for the
Insane one of the attorneys, R. J.
Greene, dug into the history of the
statute providing for the qualifications
of the superintendent of the asylum,
and unearthed an interesting piece of
information. This is that the amend
ment to the s\a tute made in 1S7-3-pro
, viding that the superintendent shall
| “be a graduate of a regular medical
i college” is invalid, because the rule
' which the courts have laid down as
' to the amendments was not follow
i ed by the legislature.
IRRIGATION CONGRESS.
Bln. Hooth-Tncker and Other* Aildren
tin Assembly*
At the National irrigation congress
in Lincoln, among others who made
addresses was Mrs. Booth-Tucker of
the Salvation army, who spoke on the
colonization scheme. She apologized
for the absence of her husband, whom
she said was detained in Colorado on
business connected with the Salvation
army colonization scheme. She ac
knowledged her inability to handle the
question in its technical terms, but she
would give a short sketch of the plan
to help the poor of the country by col
onization in districts available to irri
gation. She gave a description of the
poverty and pitiable condition of the
poor of the old country and especially
of India, and said that America is in
deed fortunate in comparison with the
old world. But the poor' of the cities
of this country also need help. A re
view of the work of the Salvation army
among the poor of the cities followed.
She said that the colonization scheme
was to put the people that are out of
work upon the land that is out of use,
and thus furnish them with work and
homes, taking due care in the selection
of the colonists from among those who
are Willing to work. ' The further pur
pose is to loan them machinery, and,
where necessary, small amounts of
money, until 'they are able to make
their own way and, in the end, own
their own homes. The first colony
would probably be in Colorado, al
though the army had received offers of
money from twenty-three different
states, in tracts in some cases as large
as 100,000 acres.
A small experimental colony had al
ready been started at San Francisco,
at which 300 people were employed
and satisfied . to join the permanent
colony. It was the experience of the
army people that the poor would work
if given an opportunity. The question
of discipline was not hard to solve.
They had no trouble in that direction.
At one place they had 150 ex-convicts
at work and they were quiet and in
dustrious. The proportion of really
worthless people was small. The
speaker was confident that the colo
nies would succeed in a financial way,
and promised that before the sword
was laid down a colony would be es
tablished in Nebraska.
“Agricultural Problems of the Arid
Regions,” by Dr. Clarke Capen of Chi
cago. He related some of the expe
riences of a company that is carrying
on irrigation experiments in Illinois.
That company had found that by ad
ding water to supplement the rainfall
so that the annual water supply should
reach thirty inches brought about the
best results and that this supplemen
tary irrigation would be a success in
his state. It was his belief that in the
territory west of the Missouri river
what the farmer needed was to learn
how to properly handle his land crops
in order to make it the most produc
tive and prosoerous country in the
world. There should not be total de
pendence on the rainfall, as experience
had shown that it was too irregular for
sure crops every year, and the idea of
causing rainfall would not succeed, be
cause to bring rain there must first be
moisture in the air. Dr. Capen also
advocated the extensive use of silos by
the farmers in the semi-arid region, as
a means of utilizing crops and of equal
izing the supply of stock fed from year
to year.
lion. W. J. Bryan made a ten min
utes address. He was glad to talk to
the irrigation people, although the
subject was a new one to him. All he
knew of the question was from obser
vation during the last four years. He
had noticed that the matter of irriga
tion was being taken up in Illinois, as
well as in the west. It would be a
good idea for each farmer to water
four or five acres of land, even in the
territory where there was considered
to be an abundant rainfall. The mat
ter of regulation of the use of water
was an important question. It should
be so that when a man buys irrigated
land he also buys water, so that he is
sure that his right to that water might
not be cut off. The system of irriga
tion would increase the number of
small holders of land and would enable
the farmer to make a living on a small
farm. This thickening of the popula
tion would enable farmers to have
their schools and trading prints nearer
at hand. He believed that the holding
of this congress at Lincoln would
awaken the interest of our home people
in the suject of irrigation and would
stimulate many of them to investigate,
or engage in the enterprise.
Three Children Burned to Death.
The farm house of A. L. Gordon,
eight miles north of Alma, was con
sumed by fire, destroying the entire
contents and ending the lives of his
three small children, aged 7, 9 and 11,
the eldest being a girl.
The mother of the children died two
years ago, since which time the father
and little ones have lived together in
the house. After putting the children
to bed Mr. Gordon went to the barn to
look after a sick horse. Returning to
the house in about twenty minutes he
found the interior a mass of flames.
He made a desperate effort to save the
children, rushing into the burning
structure, only to be driven out by the
intense heat. He was unable to reach
any of them. The little ones were
asleep at the time the father left the
house. The supposition is that the ex
plosion ef a lamp which was left burn
ing in the house was the cause of the
fire. The father grew frantic over the
ghastly affair and is in a very critical
condition from the effects of inhaling
the flames in an effort to save the child
ren from their sad fate.
Explosives In England.
More than 10,000 persons are engaged
in the manufacture of explosives in
England. Last year forty persons in
the business were killed and 1S7 in
' lured by accidents.
Burt County's Product.
The following estimated yield of
staple crops in Burt county shows a
prosperous condition of agriculture in
that county: Wheat, 340,614 bushels;
corn, 3,130,170 bushels; oats, 1,030,730
bushels; barley, 59,700 bushels; rve,
39.330 bushels; hay, 68,767 tons. The
value of this grain at present prices
shows a gain in the county over the
prices that prevailed at the samu time
in 1896 of $397,533. Add to this the in
creased value of live stock in the farm
ers’ hands and it shows an increase in
value of agricultural products amount
i ing to over $800,000. 1
Dcdcrti thd Silver C ause.
Locisviixe, Ky., Oct 2.—John W.
Caldwell of Russellville, for several
years a member of Congress and prob
ably one of the most consistent advo
vates of the free coinage of silver in
Kentucky, has deserted the Chicago
platform and will henceforth vote the
ticket represented by the gold Demo
crats. In a letter to the Courier-Jour
nal Mr. Caldwell fully states his posi
tion. He maintains that he is still '
I theoretically a silver man, but he as
I sorts with positiveness that the silver
issue is dead.
Drew a Pistol In Court.
. Launkd, Kan., Oct 2.—In the Puw
: nee county district court here yester
day, during the trial of a suit against
a divorced woman about a cow, G. l’olk
Cline, representing the plaintiff, re
sorted to personalities against the
opposing lawyer, T. S. Haun, and v. as
called a liar by Haun, when he
I drew a revolver and would have shot
Haun hut for Judge Andrews’ promp
tness in having the court room cleared
! and the men led away.
Bis Steel Work* for Colorado.
Denvbb, Col., Oct 2.—The Colorado
Fuel and Iron company will build an
addition to the plant at Pueblo, to
cost 8500,00i), for the purpose of manu
facturing structural, sheet and bar
steel. President Osgood and General
Manager Kebler are now in the Hast
for the purpose of completing arrange
ments. The new plant will he in.
operation next spring.
IOWA PATENT OFFICE REPORT.
_
Des Moines, Sept. 29.—During the
current week applications for United
States letters patent have been allowed
to Iowa inventors as follows: To
Peter J. Quirk, of Des Moines, for an
apparatus for weighing and dumping
coal. This machine is constructed to
receive a quantity of coal as it is
dumped from the mine elevator, to
automatically weigh the coal thus
received and held, to indicate the
weight upon a suitable dial, and to
provide simple, convenient and easily
operated means whereby the coal thus
held and weighed may bo discharged
into a car or a wagon. To Matthew
Kehoe, of Cushing, for a two-hoi-so
evener, the object of which as des
cribed in his specification is “to
relieve the single trees pivotally con
nected with the ends of the double
tree from tortional strain, and to
avoid the dangers and accidents)
incident to the ordinary manner of
connecting and using double trees and
single trees on a two-horse evener.”
To Uurton A. Walrath, of Lehigh, on
a mechanical movement. This inven
tion is designed for use in governing
the motion of an engine as it is im
parted to other machinery, and is so
constructed that the motion of the
driven shaft may he reversed or held
stationary while the driving siiaft of
the engine is continually rotated in
the same direction.
Valuable information about obtain- —■
ing, valuing and selling patents sent
free to any address.
Thomas G. and J. Ralph Ouwig, :
Solicitors of Patents.
fines* Machine Movements—Copyrighted,
1807.
We herewith show a sketch of a fa
mous invention which netted the in
ventor a fortune, the device being the
now well known and universally used
lazy-tong gate. The patent expired
some time ago, and every one may now
use this deviee. We further show an
internal grooved mangle wheel, by
means of which an irregular movement
is imparted to a small pinion. The re
maining figure shows a crown and pin
ion tlu'ough which a variable speed
may be imparted to the crown gear by
virtue of the shaft being eccentrically
secured thereto. Inventors and manu
facturers desiring free information as
to patents may obtain the same in ad
dressing Sues & Co., patent experts
and lawyers, Bee Building, Omaha,
Nebraska.
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OMAHA.
Butter—Creamery separator... IS
Butter—Choice fancy country.. 10
Eggs—Fresh . 12
Spring Chickens—Per lb.. 7
Hens—per lb..
Turkeys, perlb...
Pigeons—Live. 75
Lemons—Cboico Messlnas.* 25
Honey—Choice, per lb.. 12
Onions—per bn . 50
Cranlierrles. Cape Cod, per bbl. 6 00
Beans—Handpicked Navy. 1 60
Potatoes—per bu. 60
Broom Corn—Choice Green. 2
Oranges— per box.4 25
Apples—Per bbl. 208
Hay—Upland, per ton.4 00
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Hogs-Cholce light. 3 80
Hogs—Heavy weights. 3 75
Beef steers.4 00
Bulls. .... 2 75
Stags. 3 75
Calves.;...4 80
Western Feeders. 3 30
-lows. 1 50
Heifers. a K) ©
Stockers and Feeders.. 275 ©
Sheep—Western Lambs. 4 £> ©
Sheep—Native ewes. 2 75 ®
CHICAGO.
Wheat—No. 2 spring. 87
Corn—per bu. 27 ©
Oats—per bu. 19 ©
Barley—No. 2. 40 ©
Bye—No. 2. 45 ©
Pork . 820 n
Lard—per 100 lbs. 4 50 inj
Cattle—Choice beef steers. 6 25 ®
Cattle—Stockers and feeders... 4b) M
Hogs—Prtmo light.4 30 ©
Sheep—Native Lambs. 4 00 ®
NEW YORK.
Wheat—No. 2, red. Winter. 91 ©
Corn—No. 3. ill ©
Oats—No. 2. 21 ©
Pork.11 5) ®l
Lard. 4 00 ©
KANSAS OITY.
Wheat—No. 2, spring. 82 fa
Corn—Nix 2. 25 ©
Oats—No. 2. 10
Cattle—Stockers and Feeders... 2 50 64
Hogs—Mixed.3 Ml ®
Sheep—Muttons...,. 2 88 ©
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