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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 2, 1897)
THE FRONTIER ' PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY By Tb» Fro stub Printing Co. O'NEILL, NEBRASKA. NEBRASKA. The cnrfew law Is rigidly enforced at Table Rock. ' > ■- «■ Omaha and Plattsmonth are holding crysanthemum shows. Burglars visited Nelson and got away with some booty. A number of election contests are pending In Platte county. Tobias has arranged for a lecture course for fall and winter. An Omaha man is figuring on put ting in a creamery at Ashland. Henry Monroe of Lyons paid a fine of $25 for selling liquor to minors. Two Incendiary fires were started at Sutton, but timely discovery pre vented damage. me snerin-eioct oi rnayer couuiy has been bound over to answer to a case of bastardy. The town of Pickerel!, In Gage county, suffered from a series of bur glaries last week. A Webster county farmer had fifteen ' | acres of onions which averaged 400 4: bushels to the acre. The state treasurer has made a call ‘ for $27,000 general fund warrants to come In November 27. A set of swindlers Is working Ne braska, establishing agents for the ■ale of mlll3 for grinding feel. The Christian scientists of Norfolk have rented a room and will hold weekly services of song and praise. A farmers’ creamery with a capital stock of $4,000 has been set in opera tion at Newman Grove, Madison county. The safe of the Hay Springs Mill ing company was cracked recently and about $100 in cash abstracted therefrom. The state normal at Peru has now near 600 students enrolled, the larg est attendance known in the history of the institution. The business men of Stromsburg have taken hold of the creamery ques tion and propose to raise money to build one at that place. A thirteen-year-old son of J. B>. Carlstrom, living twenty miles north of Kimball, was killed by a horse kicking him in the stomach. The 240 acre farm in Burt county, a part of the estate of the late Sarah Knox, was sold last week to a man In Council Bluffs for $40 an acre. .Furnas county farmers raise con siderable broom corn and are now re ceiving good prices for it. The crop Is selling at from $40 to $70 per ton. The village of Sterling has settled its differences with an eastern fire engine company, and the company; has returned the village its warrant for |M0. The 8-year-old daughter of Gott fried Furchert, living seven miles north of West Point, was fatally burned while her parents were in the field husking corn. A representative of the Kansas City : and Omaha Railroad company was at . Clay Center and staked out the site on the right of way for a new grain elevator. Two elevators are already In operation there. Kearney has become quite a feed ing point. There are now three feed yards there, and there will probably be from 70,000 to 100,000 head of sheep and several thousand head of cattle fed before spring. Arrangements have been perfected by which the Kills: Press Drill com pany, which has been in operation at wymore, for some time past, will move their plant to Nebraska City anl . locate permanently. Joseph Bush and James Lovejoy, the parties found guilty of breaking into and robbing the Bank of Ohiowa - on the night of the 28th of May last, were sentenced to seven years at hard labor in the state penitentiary. Claude Wilson, a youth of about 20, was brought before Judge Porter*, at Bed Cloud on complaint of William Holmes, charged with disturbing the , meetings of a Christian Endeavor so ciety. He was fined $20 and costs. Complaint was filed against Joseph Haycock of Goring the other day for conducting a slaughter house in the heart of the city. Mr. Maycock acted aa his own attorney, however, and : knocked the case ont of the box in one round. Burglars broke Into the back door 5: of Garvey 4b Carmack's saloon and plundred the safe of $100 in cash and papers valued at over $1,000. The valuable papers and money drawer mere found In an outhouse adjoining ; the saloon. The city of Yoric la defending a «lo, . «00 damage suit in the district court The plaintiff la the daugater of O. W. Munson, who it is alleged, was severe ly injured in October, 1890. by a de fective street crossing, from Which the little girl became a cripple. |f . Mrs. EL P. Lotta, who conducted a anrug store at Unadilla,, was tried in the county court upon the charge of vaiawful' sale of liquor and acquitted. Suit for damages has been commenc «d by Mrs. Lotta against those who **▼« been active in prosecuting her. The cash receipts of the Shelton sta tion on the Union Pacific, during the month of October were $28,000. This, of course, is unusually large, and was 4ue to the fact that 200.000 sheep were unloaded there during the - month, to be fed during this month 7 and billed out in the spring. Not an idle man in town today, says the Superior Journal, unless idle from f Otoolce. Three farmers were in town between 7 and 8 o'clock inquiring for bonds. Among them they wanted six - bands, and could find but one. The number of cattle and sheep fed In this vicinity, says a Fremont dls patch, exceeds that of any previous season, it is estimated that over 80 - •00 sheep will be fattended on Dodge county corn and hay this winter. The ■umber of cattle being fed is difficult to estimate, but from the cattle feed ing mortgagee filed it is probably 20 per cent over the number fed last THE HEWS IN BRLEE. 'TEMS OF INTEREST GATHERED HERE AND THERE. Conc1eti«atlott* that Embody a Good Deal of Information Without Requiring Much spare—Foreign and Domestte Newiy Notes on All Subjects. | . I; ■% l , ' - I \'t \ . , Ifondsv, Nor. 39. Snow Is now fully three feet deep la the Klondike region. Lieut. Alfred B. Jackson, command ant of the Nebraska university battal ion, died on the 20th. Congressman Dolliver, of Iowa, call ed on the president and talked over appointments of that state. The Woman's Christian Temperance ! Union will hold their convention next i year at Los Angeles or Portland. Cuban and financial questions will be the leading questions with which the president's message will ddal. The government is actively engaged in the preparation of its case against the Central Pacific Railway company. The governor is soon to appoint a comission to look after the state's in terest at the Trans-Mississippi exposi tion. Peter Jackson, the pugilist, is likely : to secure a match with Joe Choynski, if the latter defeats Jeffries at San Franrlsrn. For the brutal murder of his para* mour, Vlnie Bell, George Weston, alia* ‘‘Devil" Winston, colored, was hanged at Paducah, Ky. Several cargoes of American cereals which recently arrived at Beuno3 Ayres, could not be sold and will be taken to Europe. At Cayuga, N. V., Mrs. Adele Sterne mnn was found guilty of the murder of her husband and sentenced to be hang ed January 20, 1898. The president has Just come out of the hands of a portrait painter, and now becomes the subject of a sculptor. Mr. Fred Lelmer, an artist of Wash ington, Is to make a bust in bronze of President McKinley. Duke Croxon, the first of the nine men who followed Mr. and Mrs. Glea son, bride and groom, out of Newport, Ky., taking the woman from her bus band at the point of a revolver and brutally outraging her, was found guilty and sentenced to twenty years’ Imprisonment. Tuesday, Nov. >S. Latest from Gladstone reports him In good health. Another case of yellow fever has developed at Pensacola. A fast mall service has been in augurated on the Santa Fe. The New York Herald has dicon tlnued the evening edition. A fire in Melbourne, Australia, de stroyed 85,000,000 worth of property. The new federal building at Omaha is expected to be ready for business by January 1, 1898. The story of that Kansas town hav ing been swallowed up was a fake pure and simple. The relief ship sent out to find Prof. Andree returned without any tidings concerning him. The monetary commission has taken a recess until December 15, when It will reassemble to revise and Bign its report. The Norwegian bark Imperator ar rived at San Francisco from Asapulco with three cases of yellow fever among the crew. Georgia’s Ironclad anti-cigarette law Is enforced by the courts. Seven tobacconists were fined for selling cigarettes to minora , At Greenfield, Mass., John O’Neill, Jr., the murdered of Mrs. Hattie E. McCloud, was sentenced to be hanged on January 7, 1898. The State, newspaper at Richmond, Va., went Into the hands of a receiver, who has decided to suspend Its publi cation for the time being. The will of the late Henry George leaves his entire estate, consisting of the home at Fort Hamilton, worth about 18,000 and the copyright of hla books, to his widow. put of 400 tests of sugar beets made at the South Dakota experiment sta tion at Brookings many give over 20 per cent sugar. Some farms give as high as 22 and 23.5 per cent. Despite the fact that stock cattle are higher than they have been for years, ranchmen on the ceded lands west of the Missouri river are putting every dollar they can raise into calves and yearlings. Horace Vos, of Westerly, R.T., who has annually sent a turkey to the president’s table since the days of Senator H. B. Anthony, of Rhode Is land, has selected a bird this year that will weigh twenty-seven pounds. WtdiMtajr, Rot. 94. Cashier Walker, of the government of Chile, has disappeared with 600,000 pesos. H. Wiswall, a Boston capitalist, died at Atlanta, from injuries sustained a week ago in a fall. Judge Cedi Scott, for many years one of the most conspicuous members of tne St Louis bar, is dead. Dr. Julius A. Skilton is dead at his home in Brooklyn, aged 64 years. He performed distinguished service as a surgeon during the war. Senator Burrows of Michigan ex presses the opinion that there will be a protracted discussion of the cur rency question in the approaching ses sion of congress. - Dick O'Brien, the Boston middle weight, has signed articles with Dick Burge to box twenty rounds tor £1,650 ($7,760) in London on December 21 next The Kev. Dr. Luke Dorland of Hot Springs, N. C., founder of Dorland uni versity, Hot Springs, died at the home of his son. Charles J. Dorland. in Springfield, 111., aged 83 years. As a result of the fire in Melbourne, Australia, which destroyed an entire block of bildings, the insurance com panies lose £3.660,000, of which about £500,000 will fall on British companies. Australian companies will lose the re mainder. ( }mr«<l»T, Nov. 25. t' Mr. Bryan’s visit tc Mexico is for the purpose of studying the silver question. Governor Tanner of Illinois will probably call an extra session of the' legislature. New York reports that prices of green and roasted coffee are now lower than ever before. The steamer Mona, which has sail* ed from Sydney, N. S. W., for San Francisco, took $275,000 in gold. The countess of Latham, England, while returning from a shooting party was thrown out of a trap and killed. Ferry hall, one of the largest build ings of the Washington state agricul ture college, at Pullman, was destroy ed by fire. Governor Jones of Arkansas has of fered $500 for the arrest and convic tion of the murderer of J. M. Clayton, November, 1889. By an explosion in the fireworks factory at Schoenhauser-Allee, Ger many, one man and two girls wero killed and seven others injured. Secretary of the Treasury Gage was the guest of honor and made the principal address at the annual din ner of the New York chamber of commerce. The entire party who has been en gaged In cutting timber on govern ment land on the bottoms east of Calhoun, Neb., are now under arrest U V/UiU-UUn Chairman W. D. Bynum of the na tional democratic committee issued an address to the gold democrats exhort ing them to greater efforts, finding encouragement In the late election. Jack McCleland of Pittsburg fought Joe Bernstein of New York eight rounds to a draw at Pittsburg before a large audience. The bout was one of the best seen here for a long time. The report that the Arbuckles and the Havemeyers have come to an agreement regarding the price of sugar and coffee was denied at the New York offices of both the com panies concerned. Topeka (Kansas) police have ar rested Rev. A. E. Morlson, Methodist, of Panhandle, Tex., and are holding him on suspicion of murder of his wife until the sheriff can arrive from Panhandle and take him home for trial. -— Friday, Nov. 80. James C. Scott was tortured and robbed by tramps near Carthuersville, Mo. He may die. James S. Page has been appointed a watchman-fireman in the public build ing at Des Moines, at $720 per anumn. Frank Kueton, a Chicago Bohemian shoemaker, fatally shot his wife and himself through Jealousy. - Thomas McKean of Philadelphia, has donated $100,000 to the University of Pennsylvania toward the cost of the new law school. R. H. Willets, missing cashier of the closed bank at English, Ind., has of fered to return and refund providing he is not prosecuted. ( Canadian Pacific railway earning"! for the week ending November 21 were $554,000; Bame period last year, $424,000; increase, $129,000. According to a dispatch from Buenos Ayres the damage to the crops from frost having been estimated, it is now expected that 1,000,000 tons of wheat will be available for export. The Russian newspapers urge-4 hat Russia, France and Great Britain should occupy points In China, to counterbalance the German occupation of Kiao-Chou bay, - Shan-Tung penin sula. Mrs. Margaret Delvin, aged 90 years, died at Lambertvllle, N. J., supposedly of old age. On the strength of an anonymous letter her body was dis interred, when it was found,she had been shot, George A, Taylor, the convicted cashier of the defunct Argentine, Kan., bank, has been taken to the state penitentiary to serve his two years’ sentence for wrecking the bank. The secretary of state has been in formed that Captain Henry B. Jack son, royal navy, has been appointed naval attache at the British em bassy here In place of Captain Lewis Wints. The secretary of the interior hss ap proved clear list No. 11, containing 8,182.41 acres situated In the Evanston land district of Wyoming, for the use of charitable,, educational, penal and reformatory uses. Consul Stephan at Annaberg, Ger many, reports to the state department that he is Informed from British sources that the Germans are making progress In their trade with Nicara gua. This Is probably on account of the demand of German residents In Nicaragua, who prefer goods made in their old homes. ?atnr<Ta-, Hot. *7 By his aunt’s will Cawthra Mulock, of Toronto, Inherits about $5,000,000, The president, In his message, will, It is expected, devote more attention to Alaska than has been given here tofore. Dr Minor Raymond, one of the founders of the Northwestern univer sity, Evanston, died at Chicago, aged 70 years. Captain Herring of the revenue cut ter Corwin, now at San Diego. Cal... has received Instruction to have her ready for sea as soon as possible. Marshall E. Cook, deputy collector at Evansville, Ind.. is In custodv there. His friends will try to refund his shortage and prevent prosecution. A cal has been made to all Ger man-Amerlcans to begin an agitation against the bill to come before con gress for the restriction of Immigra tion. Fran'cois Mons, of Paris, a play wright and translator of French plays into English, for production In the United States, has commlttid suicide, with his mistress, by Inhaling charcoal fumes. Mons latterly has been in financial straits. Joseph Kohler, who has been hostler in a fourth class hotel in Peoria for thirty years, has been taken to a hos pital. Before he was removed he caused an ash barrel in his room to be searched and several thousand dollars in gold was found therein. I NEEDS OF THE NAVY DOCKS ARB NEEDED MORE THAN SHIPS. What Secretary Lone Baa to Offer in Hia Animal Report—A Suggestion That Steps Be Taken to Increase the Nam. her of Enlisted Hen—Other Needs. Cncle Sam’s Nary. WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—The first report of Secretary of the Navy Long, has been made public. It recommends against the further enlargement of the navy proper, so far as snips are con cerned. Secretary Long takes the ground that there are enough ships now in use and in building, and that what are needed more than anything else are the following: ' Dnrka. Ammunition and munition. Better equipment of yards. increase in enlisted men. The secretary recommends that congress authorize the construction of but one warship and a few torpedo boats and torpedo boat de stroyers. But it is urged to make plans for the maintenance of the navy in good form, a cost which is bound to constantly Increase . and which amounted in 1896 and 1897, fiscal years, to $17,614,231.13. Five battleships, one gunboat and seventeen torpedo boats are now building, all to be done the coming year, except the ships, which will be done the latter part of 1898. During the past year two ships, nine gunboats, a torpedo boat and one or two other vessels were added to the fleet. The principal care of the depart ment is in the maintenance of the service. Secretary Long has adopted the policy of placing ships in reserve in order to lessen the expense, and also on account of the lack of men. He urges that some means be provided to permit the stowage of the torpedo boats at the navy yards ready for immediate service, but in dry dock. As the navy grows, it will be proper to keep more and more of the vessels in reserve, but it is necessary to have them ready for instant use. The secretary’s special plea, how ever, in his report, is for adequate dockage. There are nine government docks on the Atlantic coast, and two on the Pacific. But one is accessible for modern battleships, and that is in Puget Sound, twenty miles inland, and one side of which belongs to England. Moreover, it is 900 miles from San Francisco. Secretary Long, therefore, endorses the recommendation of a special board appointed to investigate the needs of the navy in a docking line. The board recommended the construction of steel, stone or concrete dock suitable for the largest naval vessels at the follow ing pointB: Boston, New York, Norfolk, Port Royal. New Orleans Mare Island. These docks are recommended to answer the requirements of the seven strategetic divisions of the coast line of the United States which are. The northern, for which the dock at Puget sound will answer; the south Pacific, the gulf coast, the line from Cape Sable to Cape Henry; from Cape Henry to Sandy Hook; from Sandy Hook to Cape Cod, and from Cape Cod to the Bay of Fundy. There can easily be made a serviceable dock at Newport News, which the Newport News com pany will build, and the International company of New York will build the dock there while the dock at Norfolk needs but to be enlarged and only a wharf needed at,Port Royal. For the work of construction and re pairs of this nature the department estimates an expenditure necessary of $8,000,000. The secretary recommeds that the government establish its own powder factory. The cost of ammunition for the entire list of naval vessels com pleted and yet in hand would amount to $6,621,985. The cost of ammunition for one battle ship is $383,197. The de partment also recommends that ar rangements be made for suitable mag azines. In concluding his report the secre tary, discussing an enlargement of the navy, says: “Our remoteness from for eign powers, the genius of our institu-, tions and the devotion of our people to education, commerce and industry, rather than to any policy that in volves military entanglements, make war to be thought only as a last re sort in defense of our rights, and our military and naval establishments as a police force for the preservation of order and never for aggression. While all this is, therefore, an earnest of peace as the normal condition of our national life, there is no question of the necessity, the wisdom and the economy to the same end, of an ef fective navy, in view of the vast ex tent of our coast and the possibility of attack from the sea upon our great cities, where the concentration of pop ulation and property is enormous. "The country is committeed to the increase of the navy by a declaration of our people and the action of their representatives. The very fact that we are capable of manufacturing armor and guns, powder and projectiles, and to construct ships which are the equals of those built anywhere else, is in itself a source of great naval power and our present resources in this respect should, not be impaired. We should preserve and maintain these resources and the ability not only to continue the work already so well advanced, but to improve upon it as the science of naval construction, as it is sure to do, develoDs the new “°ie!8_an(l methods which at this age Progress so rapidly replace the best of today with the better of tomorrow.” An Alrahlptn Klondike. SAN FRANCISCO,, Nov. 27.—H. S. «fa*»|mA»iUpeZinten<lent of construction of the Atlantic and Pacific Aerial Nav igation company, announces that the company has under construction an air ship in which they expect to carry a iriL,^n.Pr°X!flon8 and Passengers to Klondike. The vessel Is supported by a cylndrlcal gas bak and riven by a ®“ph^a engine. It is expected to at tain 100 miles an hour. Lieutenant Jarvis, who is to lead the Overland expedition for the relief of the Imprisoned whalers, has arrived at Seattle, Wash. CUBA AND CURRENCY. Will He the X4»adlng Topics In.the President’s Mepsitgc. NEW YORK, Nov. 27.—A dispatch to the Tribune from Washington says: Cuba and the curreny will be the leading topics in the president’3 message. It is understood that the discussion of the Cuban situation will be comprehensive. It has already been explained what the state de partment has prepared in reply to the Spanish note regarding filibustering. Whether the president will incorpor ate the substance of this in his mes sage or leave it to go in as part of the regular diplomatic correspondence may be determined later, but the mes sage will define the Cuban policy of the administration affirmatively. Mem bers of congress with whom the pres ident has talked freely on the subject have almost without exception urged that this be done, and Mr. McKinley apparently has agreed with them. The reason given for this course Is apparaent. While a sincere hope is en tertained that the Sagasta ministry may end the war at an early date, the possibility of its failure cannot be overlooked. In that event it is desir able for the policy of this country to be known. A strong Intimation is giv en that in the failure of an end to the present conditions in Cuba at an early date, no hesitation will be shown in lur uuiicu cnaica ixaniu^ ua position of ultimate Intervention. Hu manity and commerce may both be the ground for this action. The belief is that the Cuban problem will be solv ed without danger of ’war between Spain and the United States, and will be solved through the good offices of this country, but the expectation is that these good offices will be exerted within a reasonable time after .'con gress meets and after the prospects of the Insurgents accepting or< rejecting autonomy are known beyond question. If Cuba is actually pacified and indus try and trade are resumed that con dition is expected to speak for Itself. The refusal of a few insurgent leaders to lay down their arms and the con tinuance of a sort of bandit warfare would not be interpreted Ay the ad ministration as the failure of auton omy. On the other hand, the -continu ance of the present conditions would hardly be accepted as evidence that the island is pacified. Some misunderstanding is said to exist in Spanish official circles regard ing the position of the administration when the decree of autonomy is ga zetted. The administration would not under any circumstances agree to take autonomy. This would be making it self responsible for the colonial' gov ernment of Cuba to the ’Spanish au thorities. But the president’s good offices are exerted to giving the policy of autonomy a fair trial. The message is expected to make this point clear heyond the possibility of misunder standing. It is the confident belief that the president’s discussion of the Cuban situation will tend to strengthen the feeling that the administration will be able to meet every phase of it in a manner to satisfy the conservative business interests of the country and discourage radical or participate action. WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—It is un derstood that the president in his mes sage wil lsuggest to congress that It would be Inadvisable at present to take action which would complicate the situation In Cuba. It is said that he will suggest that the passage of resolutions recognizing the belliger ency or independence would be inex pedient while the measures of reform proposed by Spain and to he carried out hv General Blanco are being intro duced. The release of the Competi tor and other American prisoners will he referred to as gratifying and as re lieving the United States from the ne cessity of intervention upon the ground, of protection of American life and property. A Town n«<troyed by T>yn»mlto. LOUISVILLE, Nov. 27—A special from Anderson, Ind., to the Evening Post says: Chesterfield, Ind., was al most wiped off the map at an early hour this morning by the explosion of eighty quarts of nitro-glycerine, which had been brought overland from Montpelier and placed in an open filed, a half mile from town. Marion Man sey and Sam McGuire were working at a gas well near by when the explosion occurred. Mansey was thrown fifty feet, but not fatally injured. Maguire was also thrown 100 feet in the air and badly lacerated, but will recover. James Gold’s house, 300 yards distant, was torn to pieces. The explosion tore a hole in the ground down to the water line, and so far as is learned it was spontaneous. A three-ton engine was torn to fragments and every living animal near it was killed instantly. The lit tle town of Chesterfield is a mass of ruins, every house was moved from its foundation, windows shattered, doors smashed in, every light put out and the plastering shaken from the walls. Several people were shaken out of bed. At Dalesville, two miles away, and at Vorktown, five miles distant, the dam age was almost as great. Many people were injured and it is a miracle that none were killed outright. Fefd the Starving. HAVANA, Nov. 27.—Peremptory or ders were sent today to the author ities at Mantanzas and Sagua to cor rect abuses and feed reconcentrados. Some delay is anticipated. From San ta Clara Governor Garcia and the mayor of the city have sent word that the army food there is in a very bad condition. They request fresh rations. These, the government says, will be sent at once. The government expects to distribute the $100,000 ordered by Blanco. Garry Accepts the Task. Judge Joseph E. Gary, who presided over the Haymarket anarchist trial, has definitely announced his accept ance of the task of trial judge in the retrial of Adolph Leutgert for murder of his wife. The hearing will be giv en next Monday. Approve the Treaty. RIO JANEIRO, Nov .27.—The Chamber of Deputies today approved the Franco-Brazillan arbitration treaty within the terms of which will fall the boundary disputes between France and Brazil, and particularly the set tlement of the Amapa question. foreign notes by gable A dispatch from Tarbes, Capital of the department of Haute-Pyrenees, announces that a ballast train over took a passenger train during a fog at" the Tournay railroad station. The shock is described as having been ter rific. Several cars were ground into splinters, twelve persons killed and nine people injured. v The Constantinople correspondent of (he London Standard learns that the trade on the subject of the much dis cussed plans of Turkey commands the minister of marine, Hassen Pasha, to contract with Herr Krupp to build four new ironclads, but gives no instruc tions as to the repairs of the old ves sels. He says: "If this be true it is probable that Germany has induced Russia to consent. « l: saia to be the present Inten tion Oi President McKinley to incor porate the recent Spanish correspon dence in his annual message to con gress. He does not deem it compatible with the public interest to publish the full text of the notes, pending fur ther correspondence and the carrying out of the promises made by the Spanish government. Josiah L. Pearck, who has been the United States consul at Colon, Colom bia, for four years, has turned his of fice over to his successor and sailed for New York on the steamship Alli ance. During his term of service the dignity of the stars and strips has been religiously upheld and he has distinguished himself by his firmness, promptness and courtesy. The local press extols him and all classes of Americans regret his departure. He has set a brilliant example to other foreign representatives. , Iowa Patent Office Report. At the close of business on the 9th of November eleven thousand one hun dred and fifty-one (11,151) applications for patent in the United States patent office were awaiting action. Some of the examiners were in arrears under one month, some between one and two months, some between two and three months, some between three and four months, some between four and five months and some between five and six months. Inventors should there fore be patient with their attorneys when reports on the merits of their inventions arp not forwarded to them as early as expected. A patent has been allowed to E. Edwards, of Webster City, Iowa, for an egg-separator and candler that can be placed in a store and eggs packed with oats, chaff etc., in baskets emp tied into the separator and retained upon a wire screen and the packing material dropped into receptacle and the eggs made transparent by means of a lighted lamp under the »eggs and a cover over them as required to see whether the eggs are good or not. Valuable information about obtaining, valuing and selling patents sent free to any address. Thomas G. & J. Ralph Orwig. Solicitors of patents. Dee'Moines, Iowa. Nov. 24. ’97. A Simple Invention, A Council Bluffs Inventor last week obtained a patent through Sues & Co., Omaha Patent Solicitors, for one of the simplest Inventions that has ever been issued out of the patent office and the inventor Is working day and night in order to fill orders. The in ventions comprises a sounding toy and is nothing more or less than a simple piece of round sheet metal which is stamped with a series of rings and provided with a border, but which if placed in the palm of the hand and vibrated emits a lound sound similar to a telegraph sounder, the invention being known as the cracket jack tele graph. The inventor last week was 2,000 gross behind in orders. Free samples of this invention may be had by addressing Sues & Co., Bee build ing, Omaha, Neb. We show above three copyrighted cuts of Inventions which brought their originators fame if not fortune. LIVE STOCK AND PRODUCE MARKETS Quotations Prom Now Yprk, Chicago, St. Louis, Omaha and Elsewhere. OMAHA. Butter—Creamery separator... 21 Butter—Choice fancy country.. 15 Errs—Fresh. 18 Spring Chickens—Per lb. 4 Turkeys,per lb,. 8 Ducks, per lb..'. 6 Pigeons—Live. 75 Lemons—Choice Messlnas. 3 75 Honey—Choice, per lb. 12 Onions—per bu. f.0 Cranberries, Cape Cod, per bbl 6 50 Beans—Handpicked Navy. 1 40 Potatoes—per bu. 40 Sweet potatores—Per bbl. 2 25 & 3 i Oranges—Per box. 4 00 0 4 1 Apples—Western stock, per bbl 2 00 0 3 1 Hay—Upland, per ton. 4 00 0 5 1 SOUTH OMAHA STOCK MARKET. 3 35 3 28 Hogs—Choice light. Hogs—Heavy weights. Beef steers. 3 85 Bulls. 1 85 Stags. 2 00 Calves.. 5 00 Western Feeders. 2 65 Cows. 2 00 Heifers. 3 20 Stockers and Feeders. 3 30 Sheep—Western Lambs. 5 00 Sheep—Native wethers. 3 00 CHICAGO. Wheat—No. 2 spring. 88J4® Corn—per bu.. 28 Oats—per bu. 20 Barley—No. 2. 26 Rye—No.2......„. 47 Timothy seed— Prime per bu.. 2 65 Pork . 7 40 Lard—per 100 lbs.4 40 . IT Cattle—Choice beef steers. 5 40 Cattle—Western rangers. 3 50 Hogs—Prime light. 3 40 Sheep—Native Lambs.*4 00 NEW YOJtK MARKET. Wheat—No. 2, red. Winter. « Corn—No. 2. 34 Oats—No. 2. 24 Pork..8 00 Lard. 4 75 KANSAS CITY. Wheat—No.2, spring.... 88 Corn—No. 2. 23 Oats—No 2. 2044 Hogs—Mixed.-. 3 00 Sheep—Muttons. 3 25 Cattle—Stockers and feeders... 2 50 44® 1 0044 l & 3114 © 251? if50 85 7 s* 4714 . 2 67 i 7 45 > 4 50 , 5 50 4 00 i 3 50 > 5 50 if