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AJNrD NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
VOL. III.
LINCOLN, NEB., THUKSDAY, MAY 5, 1892.
NO. 47.
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IN KANSASAND OHIO
A CeMUB Bulletin Showing How the
Farmers of Ohio and Kansas are
Becoming Tenants.
How Long it will Take to Wipe Out
the Last Independent Farmer
What it Means.
"Misery loves company," but in gen
eral it does not want toe company to be
any worse off tkan itself. Kansas farm
ers fonnd out some time ago that their
.farms were rapidly slipping out of their
hands, and that a large percentage of
them were becoming renters. Because
A Kansas farmers made a clear statement
of these facts, because they possibly
spoke the truth a little too loud at
least so as to be heard to the Atlantic
seaboard they were denominated
"calamity howlers." It ought to be
remembered in this connection that
Kansas is very frank, possibly a little
demonstrative, and whether she enjoys
unusual messings, or suners unusual art
versity, she lets all the world know it
Further, she is very observing of her
own condition, ana wan a quick intelli
gence she detects variations in her for
tunes long before slower people become
aware of more marked changes in. their
conditions. Indeed, it has required a
Kansas man to bnd out and direct at
tention to the fact that in this matter of
the ownership of the farms the situation
is even worse in Ohio than in Kansas.
At the request of Senator Peffer, the
Census Bureau has prepared a table
making a comparison between agricul
tural conditions in Kansas and in Ohio.
Ten selected counties are considered.
and the conclusion is that the farmers
of Kansas are better oil' than those of
Ohio. The table is as follows:'
Percentage Percentage
of families of hired
Cocktixs: hiring farms: farms:
1890.' 1880.
Kansas (ten counties) 33.25 18.13
Chase 83.69 W.Zi
Clay 30.16 1307
Dickinson SMS 13.W
Geary 2H.B0 15.39
MePherson 32.71 10.75
Marion 89.73 17 tki
Morris , 37.fc9 10,83
Ottawa. 38,88 9.53
Kiiey 23.55 15.83
Saline 30.85 12.
Ohio (ten counties) 37.10 24 90
Adams 37.79 18.40
Brown 3.19 17.58
Butler 41.33 30.43
Clorment, 38 40 21.89
Cilmon 3H.34 2U.WJ
Greene 39.28 28.27
Hamilton 39 53 33.51
Highland 31.44 16 85
Preble 37.88 38.49
Warren 40,68 29.89
It must be noticed here that of the
total number of farmers in these ten
counties of Kansas 33.25 per cent are
renters, while 37.10 per cent of the
iarmers in ten unio counties are
rentors.
But here Is another point for consid.
. eration:
Percentage of renters in ten Kansas
counties, 180 33 25
Precentage of renters in ton Kansas
counties, 1880 13.33
Increase of percentage of Kansas
renters In ten years 20.1;
Here is the like table for Ohio:
Percentage of renters in ten Ohio
counties, 1890 37.10
Percentage of rentors In ten onto
counties, 1880 24 90
Increase of percentage in Ohio In ten
years : 13.14
If it be aisjred that these rates of in
crease of rents will continue, it requires
but little arithmetic to calculate the
time at which the independent farmer,
happily tilling his own acres, will have
disappeared from both Ohio and
Kansas. Thus in 1890, about three
eighths of the farmers in Ohio were
renters, and the increase of the number
of renters in ten years was about one
eighth of the entire number. At this
rate the year 1940 will see the last of
the happy farmers of Ohio, i In Kansas
we do everything a little more rapidly
than they are done in Ohio, and while
in Kansas about two-thirds of the far
mers are yet living on their own farms,
yet we are seeing over one-fifth of the
entire number displaced in ten years.
So that only about thirty-three years
will be required to reduce the last inde
pendent farmer to a renter, or in about
19? the landlord will demand his share
of tne product of every Kansas farmer's
toil. That the American farmers shall
be reduced to a tenant class in a very
few ye? rs uninterrupted : operations
of the causes which have produced the
above changes shown by tha census re
port is indisputable. A codtemplation
of that part of the woes of Ireland
which results directly from the
tenant system is sufficient answer to
every question as to how much the ten
dency to the tenant system in this
country is to be deplored. t
No attempt is here made to name the
causes or point out the euro for the
tendency. It is the part of statesman
ship to discover the one and to provide
the other. So widespread a movement
cannot be accidental. Thosi who say
the farmer is to blame for it are simply
begging the question.. It his been the
pride of the patriotic American citizen
that our institutions were so ifashioneci
in the interest of the common' people as
to be a bar to the deplorable tendencies
of all history, and yet unless ftatesman
ship shall exert itself to diwlover and
apjly a remedy for the marvelous re
cent growth of the landlord aid tenant
system, we shall be compelled to admit
that at least a part of our boting has
been vain. fa was Farmer. I j
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEfS.
The plumbers of Chicago arif.St. Paul
are on a strike for higher 1 iges and
shorter hours. I f
Massachusetts and Connection quarrv
men have struck for shorter hi trs arid
increased wages. I
Millie Price Dow, the act. ' a, ha3
commenced suit in a Denve jColo.,
court for an absolute divorce 1 -ni her
husband.
At Staunton, Ky., Billy Bn fey. a
negro, attempted to outrage M . IJBelle
Holley. Ho was arrested and is -tow in
jail. A lynching is threatened. ;
Masked men took Lyman Pur I, the
negro murderer, from the count jail at
Eiizabethtown, N. C, and han;. 'if him
from a limb of a tree. ;
The government has commenced
action in the Pennsylvania sWeme
court to restrain the several memjfers of
the sugar trust from completing aiTange
ments to form the combine. 1
Two hundred men on the Kentucky
Central and Louisville and Nefciville
roads at Cincinnati, O., includine trans
fer hands, switchmen, yardmen, t:tion
men and laborers, have struck c!t ac
count of a reduction in wages rom
41.35 to 11.25. I
THE ELECTRIC COMBINE. .
Tha Westinghoase Company MuLtt t
Deal That Means right.
Chicago, May 3. When the Thomson
Hone ton Electric company reached out
a few weeks ago and absorbed all its
most powerful rivals in this country,
the Westinghonse company was ignored.
It was thonght to be too weak to form a
factor in the combine. The Westing
house company has formed, a rival com
bine and will open a bitter fight on the
Thomson-Houston aggregation. The
great Siemnee-Halske firm of Berlin,'
Paris and London has joined hands with
the Westinghonse crowd. All the valu
able patents held by this company and
the services of its best electricians will
be at the disposal of the new company.
Branch offices are to be opened in all the
larger cities in this country. The prin
cipal offices will probably be in Chicago.
Benjamin Harrison, president ef 'the
United States, is credited with being a
large shareholder in the Westinghouse
concern, and the statement was made
that a number of his political friends
were also interested in the affairs of the
new company. Among these are
Stephen B. Elkins, secretary of war, and
a number of others equally as strong.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Bryan's Free Binding Twine Bill Passed
by the Honse Proceedings In
the Senate.
Washington, May 3. Being suspen
sion day several important bills were
passed under suspension of the rules,
including the bill to place binding twine
on the free list, which was called up by
Mr. Bryan of Nebraska, who rather
surprised the Republicans by bringing
the bill before the house in this way.
Among the other measures passed
were: A bill to encourage American
ship bunding, which authorizes a regis
ter to vessels of the United States to
such foreign built steamships of 8,000
tons and over sailing in an established
line from any port within tho United
States, of which not less than 90 per
cent, of the foreign capital was owned
by citizens of the United States; grant
ing a pension of S8 per month to the sur
vivors of the Black Hawk. Creek. Chero
kee and Seminole wars; to ratify and
confirm an agreement with the Indians
residing on the Colville reservation in
the state of Washington; appropriating
150,000 to carry out the stipulations re
garding the Bering sea treaty; appro
priating $100,0(Mto establish a military
post at or near Helena; to provide for
the permanent preservation and custody
of the records of the volunteer armies
and athorizing the president to appoint
a proper person as chief of the record and
pension division with rank of colonel.
The honse then continued the discussion
of the diplomatic and consular bill.
Senate.
Washington, May 3. The senate laid
aside the conference report on the
Chinese exclusion bill and gave the floor
to Mr. Kyle, of South Dakota, who de
livered a speech on the silver question.
Old Soldiers Incensed.
Indianapolis, Ind., May 3. The invi
tation to Dr. Wyeth, who wrote the
Century Camp Morton article, alleged to
misrepresent the treatment of rebel
prisoners in this city, to address the
State Medical society, has aroused great
indignation among the tirand Army
men. George H. Chapman post adopted
resolutions denouncing it and calling a
puoiic meeting "to take action as our
honor demands." The old soldiers are
incensed.
Suit Brings on a Shot.
Hartford City, Ind., May 3. Will
iam Randolph shot J. J. Maddox. The
bullet passed through the right arm.
After shooting Maddox, Randolph went
home, got on his horse, and rode down
Washington street at a breakneck speed,
flourishing a big revolver and firing at
random. Maddox is the Republican
nominee for representative. Tuesday
he sued Randolph on a note. Randolph
seryed a term in the penitentiary about
five years ago. Officers are after him.
Fire Kecord
Cincinnati, May 3. The Crane Lum
ber company's stable, Kloke's saloon and
dwelling, Smith's dwelling and 6aloon,
Dugan's planing mill and over 500,000
feet of lumber belonging to Crane &
Co., was burned, entailing a loss of
$30,000; fully covered by insurance.
Carson, Nev., May 3. The Eureka
quartz mill on the Carson river was des
troyed by fire. Loss, $100,000.
Mobbed an Umpire.
Birmingham, Ala., May 3. When the
ba?l game was over here an indignant
crowd who had hissed the umpire, Wil
son, for his decisions, rushed on him
and mobbed him. He showed fight, but
was severely beaten and would have
been killed had not the police protected
him. The mob followed him to his
hotel and threatened his life. Excite
ment runs high.
Found Drowned.
New Ulm, Minn., May 8. Louis
Schmelz, sheriff of Brown county, was
found dead in the Minnesota river,
about three miles below New Ulm. He
had been missing for several days. On
Thursday his overcoat was found hang
ing to a tree near the place, where he
was drowned. For several weeks
Schmelz had been despondent.
Paige Pleads Guilty.
Cleveland. Mav 3. Ralnh K. Paice.
treasurer of the Painesvillo bank that
failed recently, pleaded guilty before
Tnrlcfl TTnnrnlfnTi tn ViQvinrr fnrorod tmit
notes of $3,000 and $a,0lK)' respectively.
TJrt l 1 1 . j. -l j "i i
iic nna uicu leuiauueu to jail aim will
oe sentenced to the penitentiary in a
few days.
Parsons Acquitted. i
West Plains, Mo., May 3. Theodore
Parsons, who has been on trial in the
Howell county circuit court for the al
leged killing of an old man and his son
in Shannon county, a year ago, was ac
quitted, uotn sides made a stubborn
fight. He was immediately arrested on
an old indictment for arson
Iowa Guard's Mew Officers.
Des Moines, Iowa, May 3. The Iowa
National guard elected the following
colonels: First regiment, F. H. Mahin;
Clinton; Second, P. W. McManns,
Davenport; Third, C. W. Mount Shen
andoah; Fourth, C. E. Foster, Sioux
City.
Cullora Will Trobably Read a Dele
gatioa in Favor of Harrison.
GORMAN'S BOOM GROWING.
Ha Is Second Choice la tha Booth and
Has Similar Hopes In tha West Cleve
land Making Inroads on HUl's
Strongholds Political Newt.
Springfield, Ilia,, May 3. The Re
publican state convention meets today,
As far as the governorship is concerned
Fifer's renomination is generally con
ceded by all bnt his competitors and
their friends. Hunt has withdrawn
with grace, and it is believed that Col
lins will withdraw. For lieutenant gov
ernor the present incumbent, Ray, seems
practically sure of the nomination, al
though Carter of Quincy and Fowler of
Williamson are also in the race. Secre
tary of State Pearson will doubtless be
renominated by acclamation. Senator
Bassett of Peoria and Coroner Hertz of
Chicago are lively competitors for the
state treasurership. "' '
As to the presidential question, tha
friends of Senator Cullom, seconded by
thaom.ee holders of the administration.
are generally in favor of a delegation to
the national convention -headed by
Cullom himself and instructed to vote
for the renomination of Harrison. Thev
will, however, be strong in their opposi
tion to a delegation being instructed for
any presidental candidate, and there are
indications that the selection of Cullom
to headthe delegation will be vigorously
contested by the friends of Governor
Fifer, whose renomination Cullom is
said to have opposed.
Grover and David. .
Teot, N. Y., May 3. The Cleveland
movement, which is rapidly developing
in this strong Hill city, is causing alarm
among Hill's followers. Cleveland is
developing strength among the rank and
file of Democrats here. The conference
Saturday of the Cleveland Democrats
was enthusiastic, and, judging from the
character of the men who participated
in it, they mean what they say. They
will certainly make deep inroads into the
Hill ranks. The Hill-Murphy organ of
this city, The Observer, is much alarmed
over the movement. It says:
We hare every respect for the gentle
men who met in conference at the Troy
house to boom the interests of Mr. Cleve
land, but we would remind them that
when they attempt to throw cold water on
the candidacy of David B. Hill , they
Bhould select some solid Democratic tim
ber for their purpose. No half-baked
candidate can fill the bill against one of
the calibre which is furnished in the per
son of the rockribbed statesman from
Chemung.
Gorman's Boom Growing.
Baltimore, May 3. The Gorman
movement is growing rapidly, said a
friend of the senator, who recently re
turned from a political missionary tour
in the sonth. If not the first he will be
the second choice of every southern dele
gation, said the missionary, with the
same chances in many of the western
delegations. Eugene Higgins, the no
torious lobbyist and machine worker
whom Cleveland, at Gorman's solicita
tion made appointment clerk in the
treasury department, and thereby raised
the indignation of his mugwump frionds,
recently disappeared from his old
haunts, and it is learned that he has
gone out west in company with two
other lieutenants of Gorman to do mis
sionary work for the senator. Higgins
is a good talker and Gorman can de
pend upon him.
College Republican.
Ann Ardou, Mich., May 3. The con
vention and banquet of the college Re
publicans of the country, to be held here
on the 17th inst., under the auspices of
the University of Michigan Republican
club, promises to be a brilliant
affair. More than twenty prominent
clubs will be represented. Among the
prominent Republicans who have indi
cated their acceptance of tho invitation
to be present and speak are the follow
ing: Governor William McKinley of
Ohio, Hon. John M. Thurston of Ouiaha,
General Russell A. Alger, Hon, J. S.
Clarkson. Hon. M. M. Estee of Califor
nia and Congressman Burrows of Mich
igan. Harrison's Strength.
New York, May 3. A Washington
special says that according to a tab of
delegates to the Minneapolis convention
kept at administration headquarters,
225 delegates have already been in
structed for Harrison. This is one more
than enough to nominate him on the
first ballot, not to mention the large
number of uiiinstructed delegates who,
it is known, will vote for him.
The Actors' Fund Fair.
New York, May 3. A fair for tho
benefit of the actors' fnnd opened in
Madison Square Garden. Veteran Co
median Joseph Jefferson opened tho fair
officially. A. M. Palmer made a brief
address on the work and objects of the
fund. Jefferson and Booth then made
addresses. It is said that fully 10.000
people visited the Garden, The sales
were 11,800.
Hound to Crush the Combine.
Trenton, N. J., May 3. The attorney
general, under the direction of the gov
ernor, is searching for the best means of
crushing the Reading combine. If no
law can be found to met the case a
special session of the legislature will
probably be called to enact one.
No Design to Evade the Modus.
Ottawa, Out.. May 3. The customs
department knows nothing of the al
leged design of a number of British
Columbian sealers to register under
foreign flags to evade the provisions of
the modus Vivendi.
Baron Fava Starts for America.
Rome, May it. Baron Fava, Italian
minister to the United States, has started
on his way to Washington. He will be
a passenger on the steamer Normania,
which leaves Southampton on May 7.
SCENE AT A CHURCH.
Ferdinand Schaltee, a Religious Craak,
Creates aa Cnpleesaat Diversion.
Chicago, May 3. The people who
worship at St. Anne's Catholic church
were treated to something a little ont of
the ordinary. Services were over and
the people were discussing an eloquent
sermon by Rev. Father Reynolds, when
suddenly a colored man, wearing the
garo oi priest, a long buck gown and
crucifix, with a peculiar shaped
nat, surmounrea oy a cross,
walked to the sidewalk in
front of the church, and in a lond voice
said that he was David andconseanentlv
a son of God. He at once commenced a
sermon, saying that he had been sent
there to save the people of the church
from the torments of bell, that thay
must listen and do as he bid them, for
his word was law. The harrangue was
cut short when a police officer pushed
his way through the crowd and seized
the man. Protesting vigorously against
such treatment, he was sent to the
Englewood police" station. There he
give his name aa Ferdinand Schultee.
e insisted that he had been created for
the purpose of bringing man and woman
to a proper realization of things.
NEBRASKA AT THE FAIR
Description of tha Building Selected by
the State World's Columbian Ex-
position Commissioners.
Omaha, May 8. Architect Henry Voss
has completed the drawings for the
Nebraska building at the world's Colum
bian exposition, and has received from
Supervising Architect Burnham the
complimentary notification that his
drawings are among the best that have
been submitted, the building is nurelv
classic in style, 100 feet long by 60 feet
deep and two stories or 40 feet high. It
will occupy, the center of terraced
grounds on one of tho best corners, with
three sides open and the lake in the rear.
It will present a stone finish and on each
end are handsome porticos supported by
four corinthian columns. In the carved
gables of these will appear the legend
"United States, Nebraska, 1893." Three
fine doors on each aide furnish the modes
of entrance and exit. :
The interior arrangement of the first
floor provides for a large exhibition
room, a reception . room, general and
private offices for- the commissioners,
toilet rooms and two broad stair wavs
leading to the upper floor. The second
noor is similar to it having an exhibi
tion room, ladies' parlors, reading room
and a smoking room. The whole in
terior will be finished In chaste classi
cal simplicity and when provided with
the necessary lights and filled with the
varied agricultural and horticultural ex
hibits which the state is able to furnish
it will prove one of the iuost attractive
of the state buildings. The cost of
completing tne building according to the
designs will exceed ti e flb.OOO appro
priation by nearly 15,000.'
A Bogus Detective.
Ottumwa, la., May 8. Van Buren
county farmers very much want an un
known character who has been posing as
a United States detective. Thomas
Robbis a prominent farmer in that
county, and Saturday when he drove
home from Keosauqua, a stranger ac
costed him at his honse, asking him if
he had a daughter named Bertha. On
being answered in the affirmative he
said he desired to see her, and both men
went inside the Kobb bouse. The
stranger then announced himself a
United States detective, declaring he
must see the girl alone, as he wanted her
to sign certain papers. Robb refused
the demand, whereupon the alleged
detective declared the girl was wanted
for passing counterfeit money, and he
had a warrant for her arrest. Tho father
proposed to protect the girl, and the
detective flourished a revolver and en
deavored to make the father and daugh
ter captive by a pair of handcuffs. Fail
ing in this he left with his team of
horses, saying he would go to Keosau
qua for assistance. The officers at that
place were notified of the affair by Mr.
Robb, and are searching for ths stranger
with a posse of vigilantes. He, is yet at
large. It has been ascertained that he
endeavored to arrest the daughter of an
other farmer on the same pretext.
The Carrlzo Mountain Expedition. '
Santa Fe, N. M., May 3. Prepara
tions are being made at Fort Wingate
for the expedition which will start May
10 to accompany the commission to ex
amine the Carrizo mountain country and
to report on its character, whether or
not it contains mineral and precious
ores, and, if so, to treat with
the Navnjos for its transfer to
the United States. The commission con
sists of Brigadier General McCook, com
manding tne nepartment or Ari
zona, and John Bnrstow, Shelburne.Vt..
special disbursing agent, Mr. J. H.
iiaminond or ban trancisce has resigned
as a member of the commission, and his
place will be filled in a few days. The
escort will consist of Captain J. Mc
Clernand's troop of the Twenty-second
cavalry and Troop L, Second cavalry.
This latter is an Indian troop, and wili
be used cbiefly for courier duty. Six
weeks' rations and camp equipage will
be taken along, and the expedition is ex
pected to return to Fort Wingate about
June 23.
A Defaulter Caught.
QriNCY, Ills., May 3. The defaulting
Adams county supervisor, who left this
city about a year ago, and who has since
been as completely hidden as if swal
lowed up by the earth, was heard from
a few days since in the role of a pencil
peddler nlong the corridors of the lead
ing hotels in Saa Jose. Cal. He was a
defaulter for about $3,000. but
as this amount was made good by
the bondsmen, who were his relatives,
and inasmuch as he is an old man and a
cripple.it was thought there would be
no prosecution. A constable in Salinos
City, Monterey county, Cal., however,
wired here that he had made the arrest,
and he was instructed by the sheriff of
Adams county to hold the prisoner. A
requisition was obtained from Governor
Fifer and an officer started for the
fngiiive from justice.
Striking Sedalia Prisoners.
Sedalia, Mo., May 3. Seventeen
prisoners confined in the citv calaboose
went on a strike against breaking rock
in the work house, and are still holding
out. Marshal Delong is determined
that he will bring them to time, and
diet of plain bread and water will be
dished ont to them until they make an
unconditional surrender.
NOHEDDCiIONffl
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Chairman Walker. Eefuscs to Ec
duce Cattle Bates to Omaha.
OFFICIALS OUT OF JOBS.
Tha Seattle, lake Shore and Eastern Ab
sorbed by the Northern Paclfle lewa
Boads Will Transfer Their Own
Freight Spatters Make Trouble.
Chicago, May 8. The demands of
Omaha dealers for a redaction in cattle
rates to that city from Indian Territory
points were denied by the Western
Traffic commissioners. At present, all
cattle from that territory, except via the
Rock Island, are shipped via Kansas
City, and the local rate, of (20.00 a
car, Kansas City to Omaha, is charged.
The petitioners wanted this differential
against them reduced to $12. Chairman
Walker for the commissioners, eays the
reduction would affect the Rock Island
only slightly, but wouH reduce the tar
iffs of the Santa Fe, Missouri, Kansas
and Texas, Missouri Pacific and other
roads $i.50 a car from all Indian Terri
tory points. Moreover, Kansas City
would oppose the reduction and might
stir up a row. Again this subject in
reference to rates to Omaha from Texa
is pending before the executive
committee of the Southwestern
Railway and Steamship association, and
to grant a reduction from the Indian
Territory might embarrass the above ex
ecutive committee.
Officials Out of Jobs.
St. Paul, May 8. The Seattle, Lake
Shore and Eastern has been merged
into the Pacific division of the Northern
Pacific system. The road runs from
Seattle north to the boundary line and
has 170 miles of track. Although tnis
road was acquired by the Northern
Pacific company some time ago it has
never been consolidated with the main
system, bnt has been operated as an in
dependent line. The consolidation has
caused certain changes in the manage
ment and working force of the road.
The majority of the officials of tho
beattle, Lake shore and .bastern found
their old occupations gone. Until the
consolidation took place tho Seattle,
Liaue bnore ana Eastern continued to
possess a full complement of offices and
officers. With the absorption of the
roan these offices were necessarily
abolished.
- Spotters Likely to Make Trouble.
St. Joseph, Mo., May 8. There is
trouble brewing on the St. Joe and
Council Bluffs road, aa a result of spot
ters, who have juBt completed a tour
over the entire system. In consequence
three conductors were dropped from the
ay rolls the past tour days and some
alf dozen more will go this week. The
Burlington people are dropping them
out quietly to avoid creating talk.
Will Transfer Their Own Freight.
Council Bluefs, la., May 3. Iowa
trunk lines, the Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific, Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy, and Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul railways, have canceled their
freight transfer contracts with the
Union Pacific railroad, having decided
that it will be advantageous to trans
fer their own freight instead of turning
it over to the latter road.
Clark's Successor.
St. Louis, May 8. It has been givon
out that George C. Smith, assistant gen
eral manager of the Missouri Pacific
railroad, will succeed S. H. H. Clark,
first vice president and general manager,
when the latter resigns, which he will
do in a few days, to take charge of the
Union Pacific system as president.
DRIVEN OUT OF CHURCH.
Father Tracy Wields a Revolver for a
Queer Reason. ,
Philadelphia, May 3. Father Tracy
drove Matthew Gaynor out of St. Paul's
Roman Catholic church at Burlington
because Gaynor permitted his daughter
to receive attentions from a Protestant.
When Gaynor refused to leave the
church the priest produced a revolver
and threatened to shoot, but was satis
fied when the parishioner made no re
sistance.
Receiver Refused.
Dubuque, la., May 3. Judge Shiras
of the United States court, denied the
application of the Thompson-Houston
company for a receiver for the Dubuque
iilectrio Baiiway, JUigbt ana i'ower
company. The Judge said that the
complainant had not made such a show
ing as would justify tho appointment of
a reeeiver. There was no evidence that
the road would be better operated bv a re
ceiver than it is now. The complainants
will make another application with an
amended petition.
Des Moines Seeks a Great Race.
Des Moines, la., May 8. Final ar
rangements for the August meeting of
the Des Moines Driving Park association
were made. There will be $00,000 in
purses. Allerton, Dolmarch and Palo
Alto will trot for a f 10,OIK) purse. Arion
and Stambonl will also be secured if
money can induce them to come. A
progressive futurity stake of $10,000 for
1804 was Jecided upon.
A Tail-End Collision.
Guthp-IE, O. T., May 3. One freight
train ran into the rear of a cattle train
near Britton, O. T. Conductor Nathan
Robinson of Arkansas City, Kan., was
killed and Fireman William Brown in
jured. Half a dozen cars of cattle were
demolished and a great number of ani
mals killed.
Looted by Pirates.
Gibraltar, May 3. A Spanish sailing
vessel bound for Alhuclemas, a Spanish
prison settlement in the Mediterranean,
becalmed off the coast of Morocco, was
boarded and looted by a number of
pirates.
Fire Losses at Winnipeg.
Winnipeg, Man., May 3. Tie loss by
fire is $123,000. Four blocks were
burned over.
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Steel Harvesters and Mowers.
When D. M. Osborne built the first all steel Harvester and Binder in 1885 it
marked a new departure that left all our competitors far in the rear. They hav
all complimented us by imitation. -
The New Osborne placed upon the market this year is -mbo a long stride in
advance that places us at the head and proclaims us the leaders in all that per
tains to cutting and binding grain. N
THE NEW OSBORNE
IS THE . . ".
Lightest Strongest and Simplest Machine Made.
WHY?
BECAUSE its frame is all made of
bolts. No round or sauare.iron niDe about it.
BECAUSE it has the Steeocst deck,
packers, and avoiding all trouble from
BECAUSE il has the widest drive
thus avoiding all danger cf sliding in dry
BECAUSE you don't have to elevate
BECAUSE all its parts are steel and
the strength at half the weight of cast
iron.
BECAUSE Its chain drive, front cut
direct. No lost motion'
BECAUSE, it Is the easiest adiustnd.
on earth. Don't buy a machine until
norsea can nanaie it. its use on a farm
Osborne N?4. ' .
No. 4 MOWER.
The Number Four Mowers; 41, B and 6 feet cut stands at the head of the list.
Ask any one of its hundred thousand users and the same reply will be made. "It
is good enough for me."
AN ALL STEEL RAKE can only be bought of an Osborne agent. Farmers,
the best is none top good for you.
'ME ARE NOW lighting the Harrow trust on your behalf.
BINDING TWINE. We offer you all the best grades of Binding Twine at
fair prices, and are not in any way interested in the great Twine Monopoly that
is trying to squeeze the last cent from the already overburdened farmer.
For terms, prices, etc., address
CEO. YULE, Lincoln, Neb.
T. J. ROSS, Ormha, Neb.
D.M. OSBORNE CO., Chicago, Illinois
WILL PAY FORA PRESENT
Why Choctaw Indians Are Willing
U Give Away a Fortune.
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
Flagrant A1use of the Law Iteportei
From Kentucky A Bill to Protect
the Silver Industry Tho Tele
phone Centest Ended.
Washisoton, May 3. Of the 14,000
bills introduced in the last honse about
one-balf were private pension or claim
biBte. Of the 8,500 introduced so far in
the present house 5,000 are claim or pri
vate pension bills. The enormous in
crease in recent years in this kind of
lffi.'ation is due to the activity of the
Washington claim aprents, who solicit
this kind of business from all parts of
the country. Some of these agents have
grown enormously wealthy. One of
them who started in as a " rjoor clerk.
and afterwards became a claim
agent, is now rated to be worth
over a million dollars, and is said to be
in receipt of an income of $2,500 a
week. But if the resolution before the
senate in regard to the payment to the
Choctaw and Chickasaw nations for
nieir interest in certain land eoea
through Congress it will make million
aires of three other claim agents. The
amount involved in the claim is $10,
000,000 and the three claim agents will
pet 23 per cent of the amount, or a fee
of $3,500TOOO. The Choctaw nation are
the richest agricultural people on the
face of the globe within the area that
they inhabit. They are intelligent and
well educated and have shown
themselves thoroughly able to look
after their own interests. , It may
well be asked why they have agreed
I!
anala Meal and nut tno-nthnr with stnnl
thin Insnrinir a nulnk dnllvprv tn tha
packing and choking.
wheel, betas- over 10 Inrhpa nn tho fur
or sinking in wet weather.
the grain so high.
malleable iron, thus insuring fonr time
and straight nitman annlv their Dower
easiest handled, and best built machine
you have seen the New Osborne. Two
is proof of an intelligent farmer.
to pay this enormous fee to the claim
agents. Mr. Allison, chairman of the
committee of appropriations, whose
honesty, firmness, and knowledge of
public affairs wili not be questioned,
explains it easily enough by saying that
the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations do
not own this land, and recognizing that
thev can well afford to pay a fee of $2,500,
000' to get $7,500,000 which does not
bsiong to them. That is the whole story.
MONITORS VERSUS BATTLESHIPS-
A Repetition of Last Year's Fight by tha
Advocates of Each.
Washington, May 3. A repetition of
last year's fight between the advocates
respectively of the monitor and the
battleship may be looked for in the
senate daring the present week when
the navy appropriation bill comes up for
consideration. Senators Chandler and
MePherson will cjiampion the
monitor type even more earnestly
than they ' did last year. These two
Senators have recently made a personal
inspection of the Miantonomoh at New
York, and after talking with tho of
ficers have become convinced that the
monitor type is the ideal coast defender.
They will argue that the versel has met
every condition contemplated by the
designers and that the eysteni which it
represents should be definitely decided
upon as the standard coast defenders.
Continuation of Yesterday's Wrangle
Over Seats.
Omaha, May 8. The Methodist con
ference consumed most of its time in a
continuation of yesterday's wrangle over
seats. The presiding officers broke three
gavels in attempting to preserve order,
bnt the confusion only ceased temporari
ly and then broke ont afresh. The read
ing of the address from the bishops went
over until tomorrow on account of the
disorder.