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ptateittftijl) FIUST YEAK PLATTS3IOUTH, NEBRASKA, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 7, 1888, NUMRER 170 v f CITY OFJICKIJS. Clerk. Treasurer, Attorney, Knglnerr, Police Judge, Marsbill, CvuocUiuea, 1st ward, " 2nd " " Jrd " 4th- " STd I J W JOHNS N, Pub.Work Chkd (ioiiur.K l II Hawks W J l HIMPMON C 11 .SMITH J II WATKUMAN llYKON Cl.AHK A MAItOI.K J H Matiikwm W II MALIUft V Wkckhach A W Will I K I 1 M .lKlt J Wm Wkhkk MB MUKPIIV 8 W Dui r N IKS (IHIVitKL, 1 I McCAi.i.r.v. Pntcs WJOIIMS t.N.CjHAIHMAN OHTH gouj'J?y oiaaGur,s. Trsssurer. - I. A. Campbrxl. lpuiy Treasurer, - - Twm. 1'oli.ock OUrk. - - Bird C'RiTCiirucLa ' Deputy Clerk. - KiiCki r"H n ki.u iUeorJer of Deeds - W. .11. 1'ool lputy KecurUer - JohnM Lkyua Clar of OLtncl Co art. W. C. Siiowaltkk bertft, - J. C. Kikrnhah Surveyor. - - - A. Madolk Attoroay. - - - Allkn Bkkson BupLof Pub. Scboola. - Mavwakd 8KIKK County J udtto. - C JtuasaiA. boibd or aurcBVisoRs. ' a. . Todd. - - ruttsmouth Louis Koltz, Cu'ip.. Weeping wter A. B. Di sox. - fc.inwood " ;. CIVIC SOGIKTJiS. -M- - W " flASS LODOK fo. 1UJ. I O. O. F.-Meets VaryTueidajr ereulnx of each week. All '. transient brothers are respectfully Invited to , i attend. . PLATTMOUTH ENCAMPMENT No. 3. I.O. O. V.. meeu every alternate Friday In Mb month In the Masonic UalL Visiting Bratbars are in Tit ad to attend. T BIO LODGE NO. 84. A. O. V. W. Meets very alternate Friday evening at K. of P. - " " kail. Transient brothers are respectf ully In ' altad to attend. F.J. Morgan.MasterWorkman ; X. 8. Baratow. Foreman ; Frank Brown. Over aaar: I. Bowen, Guide; Oeoige Housworth. ' Becorder ; 11. J. Johnson. Financier; Wah. Bmttb. Keeelver ; M. May bright. Fast M. W.; . Jack Daugherty, lualdetiuard. CASS CAMP NO. 332. MODEBN WOODMEN of America Meets seeoml and fourth Mon day evening at K. of P. ball. All transient brother are requested to meet with us. L. A. yawcomer. Venerable Consul : i. K, Nile. Worthy Adviser ; D, B. Smltn, Ex Hanker ; W. -JO. WUletU, Clerk. P LATTSMOUni IXJDOE NO. 8. A. O. V. W. Meets every alternate Friday evening at Bock wood ball at 8 o'cIock. All transient broth era are respectfully invited 10 attend. I. . Larson. M. W. ; F. Boyd. Foreman : 8. C. WUde. Kecorder ; Leouard Anderson. Overseer. MoCOMIHIE POST 43 C. A. R- BOSTKB. J. W. JoHjrsox ...Commander. O. 8. Twins Senior Vice F.A.Bates Junior .i',f Ono. Niles Adjutant. HaXBT 8TBRIOHT J. M. MaloX Dixoh Officer of the Day. Csjablks Ford " o " "ujird AhdmdOX FRY . SerKt Major. jAnoa uonb'.emav.: ..Quarter Master Sfrgt. j,. C. Curtis Post Chaplain jfeatinir .Saturday evenios TJ-A.-W OFFICE. . r arson al attention to all Business Entrust ta say care. Q XOTABYIS OFFICE. Title Examined. Ahstarct Compiled, In- j amranea Written, Keal Estate Sold. Better Facilities for making Farm Loans than Any Qttier Agency Piattsmoutli, - Nebraska. B. B. Windham, Johx A. Da vir.s. Notary Public. Notary Public. W1XDUAHAOAVIF.8, Attorneys - at - Law. Office over Bank cf Cast County. Plattsmocth, - - Nkbraska. H.LPa!mer&Son GrNEBAZ IN SUBMCE -GEHTS Represent the following time tried and fire-tested companies: American Central-St. Louis, Assets Caramerctal Union-England. M Fir Association-PniUdelpbU. Franklln-Phlladelphla, Home-New York. " las. Co. of Worth America. PhU. -LlvarpoalALondan& Globe-Eng " Berth British Jk Mercantile-Kn vorwlcb Union-England. artagfleld F. M,-Speingfleld, " $158,100 2.596.314 4.4 1578 3.117.10 7.855. V 9 8.474J63 39.781 8.8T8.T54 145.46 3.04413 Total AsseU. 143.113.774 Ussss AfjnstP.i ni Pail at this Agency VJHEII YOU VJftUT mm mm THEY WANT TO SETTLE. -OF- CALL ON En. . laarson, Cor. 12th and Granite Streets. ccirac. or cad Hnlldcr J9pt. 12-o, . Tri Burlington strlkeres Ask th Issue be 8ettled by Arbitration. Superintendent IStone Tells What He Cannot Consent What He Offer ss to Do. Chicago, 111., April 6. General Man ager Jeffreys, of the Illinois Central road, in company with Messrs. Sargent, Mana han, llogo and Murphy, called at the Chicago, Burlington & Qincy fliccs today Sargent acted as spokesman in btthalf of the late engineers and fireman of the "Q" road, and urged that the whole matter ba left to arbitration. The railroad com pany officials said that such a proposition was inaduiissable at the present time, and the situation of the new invn and the terms on which they ware engaged were fully explained. General Manager Stone urged Sargent to hare the strike called off, promising to consider applications from the old men and give as many of them as he could situations. Grand Master Sargent, after the confer ence concluded, left for his heme at Terrs Haute, leaving the local situation in the hands of Chairman Hotro, of the Burling ton grievance committee. The latter said tonight tne conference left the situa tion practically unchanged. They could not consent to having their men taken back in batches. He denied that there waj any thing in the rumor' prevalent to night to the effect that .the strike had been called off. ABOUT THE ZUNIS. The Texas Border Unprotected. El Paso, Tex., April 6. T.wenty-three employs of the El Paso CoBtura House, mostly mounted inspectors guarding the Rio Gransle border and- international boundary line between 1 Paso and Yuma, Ariz., have been discharged on account of the failure of Congress to pass the necessary appropriation bills. This leaves nearly a thousand miles of frontier line practically unprotected against smugglers, and the Mexican contrabandits who infest the line, 'not only along the northern border of Chi hauhau but also along the Sonora line, are said to be perfectly aware of the fact that no appropriation will be available before the first of July, and that until then they will have full swing. South west of Nogales, particularly, there are a few hot-beda of smuggling, which are reported as full of activity at present. They want to make hay while the sun shine. The custom officials of the dis trict are aware of these facts, but in the present crippled condition of the force are unable to to do anything. BrouBht Back to Life Nebraska Citt, Neb., April 7. A lit tle daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Swift suffering for some time with typhoid pneumonia, sank rapidly yesterday and last night was pronounced dead by the attending physician, and this position was concurred in by all present, there be in; all the appearanee of death. The grfef of the family and heart-rending cries of the mother as she clasped the body of the child seemed to awake it as from a deep sleep, for she opened her eyes, breathed and haa-beep growing rap idly better since. She is now pronounced out of danger. The case is aremarkable one and the physicians do not pretend to be able to explain it. Burned to Death by Whiskey. Wilkksbarkb, Pa., April 7. Mary Sharp, of Manemac, was engaged in the manufacture of whiskey this afternoon, when a pot containing some tipped over into the- hot fire. The fluid blazed, set ting fire to her clotniug, and she was burned to death in a few moments. Three of her children, who tried to save her, were also burned. The husband vand father, John Sharp, who was at work at the time, 14 reported to have become insane. Fight With Spaniards Madrid, April 7. Advices from Zoolos say fighting recently broke out between the Spanish garrison and Zoolo natives and tea Bpaniirds and 100 natives were killed and many wounded, includ ing a number of officers. The new viceroy general hss been instructed to enforce Spanish supremacy in the Philli pine, Caroline, Mariana and Pelew islands. A Frightful Accident- New York, April 7. Last night at the Deleware iron foundry six men while en gsged in casting a large cylinder, were precipitated into the mould together with the ladle and moulteu iron. Two of them were so fearfully burned they cannot survive, and the other four were also burned. THE INHABITED VILLAGES WHICH NOW EXIST ARE MODERN. . A Curious reople, bat Not In the Least Ingenoas. 80 smi Explorer Bay Sevan Tuuyan Village The Descent of Prop rty In the Female Line. Cosmos MendelofT has returned from Ari zona to Washington. Mendeleff, as bis name indicates, is a Russian, and he is an intelli gent and expert explorer on the stall of Ma J. John W. Powell, chie fof the bureau of eth nology. For six years ho and his older brother, Victor, have been engaged in the survey of the antique ruins of Chaco and the inhabited pueblos of Zuni and the seven vil lages of Tusayan, and together they mapped the queer habitations of those mysterious Ieople, and have made for the National mu seum models of the largest and most interest ing pueblos. Victor still lingers in Arizona to finish a portion of the work, but will arrive here in about a fortnight. Mendeleff has made some 300 photographs and a large number of free hand sketches of the strange residences of this remnant of a race. "I don't know that there is much that is really new," said Mendeleff. "It was for merly, indeed recently, thought that the pueblos were very ancient the same in which this half civilized race lived at the time of the Spanish conquest but we now know better. The inhabited villages which exist today are all modern. It was formerly supposed that the Tusayan Indians never changed their place of abode, but held to the same site from generation to generation. It is now known that they have been in the habit of abandon ing their old houses and building new. In early days the villages were mostly in the lowlands, and they were gradually crowded up or climbed np to the practically inacces sible mesas sharp cliffs, easily . defensible. The reasons for an abandonment of villages and the building of others ore many, some times military, but often rooted in some superstition. r "The builders of these pueblos bad very meager architectural attainments. Their houses are poor piles of stone and mud. Their ingenuity was puerile. The. element of skill is almost wholly lacking. These curious ruins are simply an evidence of the existence of a race with unlimited time at their dis posal and unlimited material at hand. very whore is showns lamentable lack of con structive ability. They did not know how to make a square room, or how to rear .one wall at right angles, or how to build a wall plumb to another, or how to make a circle or even a straight line." SXVKX TUSATAJf VILLAGER. Mr. Mendeleff has comprehensive photo graphs of the seven Tusayan villages. Each village consists of fifteen or twenty houses and each house of several residences. The house is a series of terraces, receding as they rise. The first story is about seven feet high, and is approached from without only by a ladder, which leads to a hole in the roof. In war times the ladder is always pulled up. From the rear of this story rises the second story, seven feet Lgher, mounted also by a ladder, and other ladders lead to a third and perhaps fourth story. Of course, the first story under this arrangement is of much the largest and the upper story of much the smallest area, and as the latter is the light est, the best ventilated and the safest, being deofensible from all the roofs below, it is the favorite habitation, and usually occupied by the officers and the aristocracy. It is esti mated that in all the seven .Tusayan villages there ore 2,000 persona. They live mainly on Indian corn, squashes and beans. They are under Mormon influence, and will not per mit a census or hold much intercourse with Americans. .CoL and Mrs. Stevenson had trouble with them, and were compelled to de part. Mr. Mendeleff and bis party were treated remarkably well, and are puzzled in trying to account for it. "Perhaps the oddest thing,", added Mr. Mendeleff, after s moment's pause, "is the status of woman in these queer communities. She owns all the houses and most of the property. The man owns the crop in the field, but as soon as it is harvested it belongs to his wife. She controls the house and all that is in it. She works steadily and con stantly in the duties of the household, but she does no field work, and, taking it all together, her condition compares favorably With that of the American farmer's wife. The descent of all property is in the female line and through the mother; it is she who makes the will and provides for the offspring. "What does the man own, then?" I asked. 'The donkeys, perhaps," he said; "but I am not sure about that." "And the land!" "Jxo, the land is not owned individually, Erer since before historie time land has been owned by the whole nation, on the Henry George plan. If an Indian goes ont and takes up some land not in use and cultivates it nobody can take it from him. ' But if he stops using it anybody else can jump it. It belongs to the fellow that can use it." iHow does that workp "There are no millionaires. There is about the same degree of comfort tha there is among very poor people anywhere. As to land, the shrewdest and smartest Indian manages to get the best, the same as under anv system." Washington Cor. New York The vyomen Sworn In, Oskaloosa, Ean., April ft.The ladies whose election to the office of mayor and council has brought in a deluge of tele-, grams and special reporters, took the oath of office today, and will at once assume tbpjr official duties. They declare for law and order and public Improvement. The Moorish Difficulty LoKDOir, April 7. A dispatch from Tnngiers says everything remain quiet. It is generally expected a satisfactory settlebieat of the differences between the American and Moorish governments will be effected through the mediation of the British, Frrnclwand Italian .ministers. Fire Insurance written fn the AEtna, Phoenix and Hartford, by Windham 4t Davles. There are 21 reasons why you should purchase lots in South park, pee page A. fOtf SELLING BY PHOTO. THE CAUSE OF THE DECLINE OF THE DRUMMER'S GRIP. Bulky Samples Have Given Way to Photo graph Colored rrMDtmDU of Doll rate Wares and Intricate MccbanUnts. Employment for Women. The commercial tourist is being divorced from his traveling bags, or, to speak nioro tersely, the drummer is dropping his "grips." Tho only infallible mark of tho drummer will now be tho pockets which bulgo with paper covered novels. The cause of the de cline of the gripsack is'tbe colored photo graph. The bulky samples that the travel ing man used to bear from place to place, and which were, so to speak, his badge of office, he has replaced with counterfeit pre sentments of the same. Delicate, true, light and compact, these pictures, carried about in the pocket, can represent an immense quantity of goods in such a manner that there is no mistaking tint, quality, texture or f Tcj' ivvc sent everything from machinery to bric-a-brac and from kitchen stoves to ladies' slip pers. Those which need no coloring like the stoves and machinery are simply pho tographed in black and white. But the pho tographs are the very best of their kind, and set forth each part with a faithfulness that is remarkable. In the most intricate ma chinery every bit of belting, every wheel, cog, arm and elbow is mott understandably produced from every point of view. ' But the inviting alburns ore those which contain tte colored photographs. These are used in particularly large quantities by the crockery and the furniture houses. The for mer find use for them because their wares ore so fragile; the latter because they are so cumbersome. The pictures of the bric-a-brac and the fine china are wonderfully delicate, and it is a surprise to learn that the micro scope is never used in the painting of them. Tho work is done entirely by young women. One photographer keeps eight or ten quite steadily employed. The work is taken to the houses of the artists, and done there as a usual thing. It requires mueH more art than the ordinary painter of photographs uses in putting a touch of carmine on the cheeks or a dash of azure on the eyes of a portrait. The painting of texture is several degrees above this, and this must be thoroughly understood. The soft satin wear, the Worcester and royal Dresden, the queen and Bohemian, the clays and porcelains, all have a very different fin ish, which must be preserved in the photo graph if it is to be of any value. It needs not only accurate but strong eyes, a steady and delicate touch, and a most painstaking patience. Young women are the very ones out of all the world in whom all of these qualities are combined, and that is tho reason that this pretty toil is given them so universally. But there is another reason an old, famil iar reason. A man could not make enough to keep him. The work must ba done by girls who have homes. To be sure, one can moke $2.50 a day at the coloring of the photo graphs of china or bric-a-brac, and now and then Dy working over hours and very stead ily it might be possible to make $4. Such arduous work could hardly . be repeated on two successive days, however. But, though this wage is not bad, it has the drawback of being fluctuating and unreliable. Ono week there may be quantities of work, the next week none at alL One of tho conditions of successful photo graph painting of this fine nature is absolute silence. A positive concentration of the faculties is needed, and most of the girls who do the work have little studios where tbey can quietly work by themselves. Here, with big aprons protecting their dresses, their photographs set on a little inclined board before them, and their case of liquid paints close at hand, they patiently strain their young eyes over the almost in finitesimal figures which they are coloring. It is very confining, and no doubt the spas modic demands are blessings in disguise, for continued application to it would bs apt to tell seriously upon the nervous system. The tinting of the photographs of furni ture is simpler on the whole, although, many wholesale houses have their furniture up holstered, fn cretonne before it is photo graphed. Cretonne, of course, admits of coloring, which plush does not. The business is one which is likely to in crease steadily and to extend to many branches of commerce which have not yet investigated it. This fact has been recognized by the deo, mute school on the west aide, and the artel coloring commercial photographs is among the. industries in which the pupils are being instructed. The abnormal development of sight and touch which all deaf mutes possess makes them especially fitted for this work. A woman who was one of the first to advise teaching artistic branches in this school said the other day: "Jo one who has not watched the development cf these ehil? drn can imagine what a difference the introduction of the light arts has made in their lives. They have gained in self-respect, as well as in enjoyment of life. Many of them had been regarded as little less than im becile in their own homes, and some had. been the recipients of all the cuffs and kicks that that an ill-natured household chose o bestow upon thm. At the very best they were con sidered a great cross. "In the school, after a thorough system of communication had been established, we in structed them in the common branches ami then gave them an industrial course, Th? girls were taught dressmaking, the boys car- -j penterjng. put seemed to us finally that ice were making a mistake in putting them in competition with such a great number as overcrowd those trades. As an experiment. we put a teacher in modeling in the school. You wo imagine nothing more touching than the scekie the firdt morning wegave them the clay. Tbey took to it as ducka do to water, There was nothing of the awkwardness in Mndlmi it which most children show at first. Why, they began making things of their own accord immediately, and some of the faces which had always been as . blank as a wall previously were lit up with a sudden vivacity, It was the same with drawing, for which we engaged a teacher from the Art institute. CTqm these experiments we gathered courage. We perceived that we could make engravers. designers, wood carvers, architects and decQ. rators out of our poor unfortunate children, and in time we shall try tn do, e,U that.tW Cbicacs Tuna?, Tho I)iyliglt Store. Just after our inventory, we reduce prices to sell the goods rather than to carry over. We ure willing to sell our entire Winter Goods at cost. Staples we have a largo quantity and offer them very low. Cnlicos 3 to 5 cents per yard, making the In-ht standard of thcin at 20 yards for $1.00. Gingham best dress styles 10 cents per yard. Dress gtoda ull kinds at the very lowent prices, from 5 cents per yard upward. Woolen hose wo offer at cost, extra fnc. Ladies cath inere hose, worth $1.00, now 75 cents, fine heavy wool 40 cents, now 2"i child ren's line ribbed worth 50, now fo. Un der wear must go at low prices, as wo will not keep them over. Our Gents Silver Grey Merino Shirts nn 1 'l-iw-r r-v. v j-:ic s 50 now 3.1. Our Gcuts'bJlver grey marino shirts and drawers, extra quality 75 now 50. Our Scarlet all wool shirts and draw ers fine quality $1.00 now 75 cents. Our scarlet all-wool shirts and draw ers, fine quality $1.25 now 1.00. Our scarlet all-wool shirts and draw ers, fine quality $1.75 now 1,25. O.ir scarlet all-wool shirts and draw ers, fine quality $2.00 now 1.40. liJKlies' - Underwear, EQUALLY AS CHEAP. Our 25 per cent, discount on cloaks, is still good. We are determined to close out our entire stock and never before has such an opportunity been offered to economical buyers to purchase the best qualities for so little money. Joseph V. Wcckbach. I Solomon & - Haitian. 1 S - : III NOTICE. As per previous announcement, we had fully determined to discontinue business in Piattsmoutli and so advertised accordingly and now, as satisfactory arrangements have been perfected for the continuance ot same under the management of Mr. J. Finley and Ji. F. Iiuff nei as book-keeper and cashier, we herewith notify our friends and patrons of our final de cision and kindly solicit a continuance of your kind patronage, so freely extended during the past sixteen years, by the addition of compe tent clerical force. On account of Mr. Solomon leaving the city and by the adoption of the strictly One-Price System, Courteous treatment, and an elegant new Spring - Stock Bed-Rock Prices, "We trust to merit your good will and patron age. VERir RESPECTFULLY, Solomon yiatfia n, The New PhotographGaNery - Will be open January 24th, at the OIxD STSB OF F. . C&lUTlf All work warranted first-class. W"- IE. CTJTLE3 is 4: f A - . (