SIOUX COUNTY JOURNAL
W. E- PATTB0!, E4lcor.
H4BRISON.
KEB.
OVER THE STATE
A Ufttlittv Estiasas.
Hie report of the auditor of pnblic ae
eonnts givee the following list of depart
ments and their demands oa the legisla
tors for appropriations for the ensuing
biennial period:
Lwum t MO.
Qonraor ls.Ss
Adjntaat-gcmral S,iM
ConnniMioBer at labor.-- 4.3SS
fiecrrtarr of atnta U.10S
aaditor of abOc accounts... 31.1SS
frHfVfr 12,
aoperintendeat of paulle iaatractioa IMS
Attorney general ItSSS
CommiarioMr oi piblM lands ana bslM-
llB. -
Board of pabtfc lands aad boildloirs...... SS.SM
Board of adaeatioa laada and fuBtia s,N
Board of oarcaaaa aad iuddUm MS
Sopmn court. ....... .... 4M10
Btat library V.Mt
Normal seaoel . . SS.1M
District eoort. ,. U2.J1I
Penitentiary 1S7.728
Hospital for insane, at Lincoln K3.M0
HooDital for lneane, at Norfolk 170.M1
Asylum for insane, at Hastings 1,'
ladaatrial acbool . . 21,39S
Institute for blind... 43.
iastitnte tor 41 aad d mb , .. 73. US
H otne lor t be friendless . SS.50
Industrial borne. f.t
Soldiers' aad aallora' home .. 160,100
Institute for the feeble minded .. 14S.WJ
Lire stock sanitary eoraniieeion... .... 5,790
State board of transportation U.4S0
Flab eommteelon..... ........ 16,000
State board of pharmacy .............. 704
8tate university 525,000
attaceUaneotw Itema:
Insurance S5.000
Ravenna books and blanka 20,000
Aba tract of landa from United States
land office 3.500
KnlOTClDK criminal laws 3-j.OM)
County treasurers' f-s nod expenses 1IJ5.000
Pros ntjia; nnantborUed Insurance
companies 1,000
Advertising for bide for printing ..... 500
Laws, jonrnaia and other printing. 35.000
State board of agriculture . .... 4.000
State horticultural society 2,000
State historical society . 1.000
Reports of historical society 1,500
State taxes erroneously paid . 1,000
Bute taiea Illegally levied .. 6,000
Total 2,80.4
The appropriations of the last legisla
ture aggregated 82,739,155.
STATE JOTTINGS IN BRIEF.
Representative McBride has intro
duced a bill providing that the governor
may appoint a brigadier general and
chief of staff with the understanding
that the position, if the bill passes, will
be tendered to Hon. W. P. Cody, "Buf
falo Bill."
George Parkin, a farmer living four
miles treat of Norfolk, was arrested last
week. Mrs. Parkis' confession to the
officer revealed a startling state of af
fairs in that family. She stated that
Parkis has been criminally intimate
with his fourteen-year-old stepdanghter,
Sarah Baxter, for several months. Sa
rah's sister, aged ten, said that Parkis
had attempted i-ntereonrse with her.
Both girls said that he had used a whip
to intimidate them.
-The Nebraska press association re
cently in session at Lincoln elected of
ficers for the ensuing year as follows:
President, H. M. Bushnell; first vice
president, T. J. Pickett, jr. ; second vice
president, F. M. Kimmel; third vice
resident, Judson Graves: secretary,
'. G. Simmons; treasurer, W. W. Has
kell A. generously inclined Beatrice lady
for several weeks furbished an indigent
family with the skim milk of several
oows presuming that they used it as
food for themselves. She discovered
recently that the milk was being fed to
four litters of pnppies. The charity has
been discontinued.
The Reporter says Madison needs
more and better railroad facilities, and
believes that the time is at hand for do
ing something in the direction of getting
them.
The auditor's report shows that six
ty assurance companies were admitted
to do business in the state during the
last biennial period, and he wants an
other deputy to take special charge of
the insurance business of the depart
ment. There are now 1G9 companies in
the state.
By some mistake two acts were
passed by the last legislature to prohibit
non-resident aliens from acquiring title
to real estate in Nebraska. House roll
No. 3, which passed recently, repeals
one of these laws. While both remained
on the statnte books they neutralized
each other.
Jacob Savely, who gome time ago
absconded from Crete after mortgaging
a team, wagon and harness belonging
to his brother, and perpetrating other
f rands, was arrested at Warsaw, Ind.,
and held there till an officer witli the
proper papers arrived to escort him back
to Crete.
A special sent from Madison stating
that charges had been preferred against
the sheriff was somewhat premature,
although the special Was sent on the
authority of one of the supervisors Hint
it is contemplated. No charges have
been filed as yet
The Economic Fence Machine com
pany and the South Omaha Elcctrio
Light, Heat and Power company signi
fied their intention of transacting busi
ness under the corporation laws of the
tate, by filial articles of incorporation
in the office of tbs secretary of state.
Both companies designate Omaha to
be their principal place of business.
Last weak P.,nl Colbine, a beef
dresser at Swift Co. 's packing house
in Sooth Omslia, received a painful and
eriow eat with a knife in the hand at
fellow workman. Patrick Shea and
mx. UDiDine were cutting the hind oner-
-Ja aa. 1 .at t. 1 J I . 7 .
" " "W aak aaiamv "1 puv aaantflV
nf Hr. Rham alirmail aa lf ruth;..
town sad struck Mr. Colbine on the
xnae oi we noes, cutting; a lour,
nan and aari -
-Fifteen' Omaha Methodist psreon
!J a meeting last week aad passed
latioas m opposition to dsncint-.
tenlariy in connection with insula
'mI mMm 9t the) United
TJsioaAMUta fa eqeippinf all
eaiuee wtiii Ike
nmtmlmtamVSi
ietCOfer aitttv
A Schuyler dispatch says: The
sheriff kept a guard stationed about the
jail all last night and patrol on the street
to guard against any demonstration to
lynch Hagerman, the incendiary aud
horse thief, whose preliminary hearing
was had yesterday and who was bound
over in the sum of t2,500 for the burn
in.; of John Craig's barn and 180 head
of stock January 8. A mob was organ
ized and skirmished slightly about the
court house. Two shots were fired, ana
the attempt was abandoned for the tune.
The sheriff will remove his prisoner to
some distant point, as the only way to
avoid trouble.
The county seat election in Scotts
Bluffs connty resulted: Gering 288,
Mikhail 172. Mills 109. A second elec
tion will be required to settle the ques
tion. At Beatrice W. V. A. Dodds, an at
torney, saw a man enter the house of
bis neighbor, L. E. Spencer. Knowing
Mr. Spencer was not at home Dodds
followed and found the fellow rnmmag
inu among the silver plate in the dimug
room. The fellow said he was looking
for something to eat. He was taken to
jeil- . - 3
Waterworks bonds were c amed a
Yalentine in the vote on the 12th.
Sneak thieves are so thick at Wood
River that merchants dare not place
samples of their wares in front of their
stores.
A United Workman lodge will be
organized shortly at Ohiowa.
Fire at Omaha last week destroyed
$50,000 worth of property.
An effort is to be made to organize
a Grand Army post " Sutlj Omaha.
Cyrus Clurry, a Beatrice house
breaker, has been bound over to the
district court It is quite likely he will
do a term at the state institution.
The frisky daughter of an Omaha
brewer last week eloped with her
father's driver, forsaking a lover to
whom she was engaged.
In a railroad wreck near Omaha the
other day, J. G. Couuors, a brakeman,
was killed,
An opium joint in Omaha was
broken up last week by the arrest of
four Chinamen.
The color line agitated by the col
ored citizens of Nebraska City, in le
gard to school affairs has been taken
into court,
It is reported that William Spiker
and J. Y. Alexander, middleweights of
(irand Island, will indulge in a fight to
a finish in the near fntnre.
The legislature holds for sixty days,
members receiving $3 per day.
The Nebraska woman suffragists
have not given up the fight. They have
applied to the supreme court for an
opinion on the constitutionality of mu
nicipal suffrage and have introduced
new bills iu both houses to confer on
women this privilege.
The Bed Cloud National bank of
Red Cloud, which has been iu the hands
of Bank Examiner Griffiths for the past
three weeks, opened its doors on the
23d, under the new management, with
L. P. Albright cashier. Judge lik'h, of
Chicago, and Hicbard Gentry, of Kan
sas City are among the new stockhold
ers and directors.
Lyon post, at Grand Island, will
submit a proposition to the Kearney
encampment to have a reunion of the
old soldiers located at Grand Island per
manently. An Omaha woman who went mas
querading in men's clothes was detected
by a copper and jailed The judge let
her off with a fine of $12.50 end costs.
The bank of Elm Creek will soon
merge into a national bank with a circu
lating medium of 100,000.
The citizens of Hubbell have de
cided to renew their efforts to determine
whether or not coal exists in that vicin
ity. A board of pension examiners has
established headquarters at Orleans.
The property parceled ont to Mrs.
Cleveland, in Omaha, as her share of
the Folsom estate, is appraised at S1S0,
000. The citizens of Pender want their
town to be the seat of government of a
new county and havu sent a delegation
to Lincoln to urge the passage of a bill
creating a county to be called Blackbird.
Mr. Birnio, the live stock arrant
has received several petitions from dif-1
ferent counties asking the members of
the legislature to continno the present
law relating to the live stock interests
of the state and to make an adequate
Appropriation for the maintenance of
the live stock commission.
Fire at Long Pine burned the cloth
ing store of T. P. Renshaw. Most of
the goods were got out,
The city of iork has recently in
creased her water facilities by the put
ting in of several miles of new mains.
A farmer living five miles from
Blooraington offers to give $100 toward
establishing a cheese factory in that
town.
The Grand Army jost of Ainsworth
have taken stens toward starting a war
library. Several volumes have already
been collected.
The legislature holds for sixty days,
twenty days longer than former sessions.
The bill to enable Fi smont to vote
bonds to aid in the construction of the
court honse has passed the senate. It
will also pass the house without any
trouble.
Tessie, the two-year-old daughter
of J. 8. Grable, of Beatrice, got the fin
gers of one of her hands caugdit in the
eog wheels of a clothes wringer, pro
ducing; a painful, though fortunately not
lerioos injury.
At the meetinc of the Tnmver.ln
association of Nebraska held at Platte
month it was decided to bold the first
annual tnrnfeat at Fremont in Aiinst.
-The spacious dwelling, of W. B.
McNeill, two miles from Utioa. waa tha
tosne of a gathering of too people lest
wek, the occamon being the iM Urth
day of bfa wife. It wV omTottL
pawn in wag ipM,
-mm neatrioo bpmirnCMii
''. niwiKsnee avaer iala
mtt&v of
THE IIEIIUM ETE "D Mt-
In the senate on the 19th. Senator
Raymond introduced a joint resolution
in reference to the loss to the state of
school lands owing to the ruling of Com
missioner Sparks that indemnity lands
must be taken from the district where
thev were lost, and not in some other
district Bills were mtroducnl as follows-
A bill for an act to amend section
23, of chapter 26, compiled statutes of
the state of Nebraska of 1W, entitled
"Elections," and to repeal iw j
t.i,.. -.noiatini A bill for an act
to amend section U, suMivmon 14, oi
chapter 79, of the compuea suw
Nebraska entitled "Schools. Mr.
Howe introduced a bill for the purpose
of providing a new and improved style
of ballot boxes. Following is the text
of this bill: Section 1. That section 23
of chapter 26 of the compiled statutes of
;he state of Nebraska, HS7, le amended
so as to read as follows: The county
board of each county shall provide a
sufficient number of ballot boxes, which
said ballot boxes shall be made of
glass, at the expense of the coun
ty, for the several precincts or dis
tricts; each of said ballot lioxes shall be
circular form with a small opening at
the top thereof and enclosed in a square
wooden frame, with a lid to !e fastened
with three looks, no two of which can be
opened by the same key; said ballot
boxes to le uniform iu their construc
tion and shall be selected for adoption
by the secretary of stato, auditor of pub-
.nt. ar,1 ainta rttfLK!irer. Of IDV
two of them, and each ballot box, with all
of the keys thereto belonging, at the
close of each election, shall !e deios
ited withone of the judges of election,
who shall take charge of the same and
be responsible for its safo keeping; and
he shall convey said ballot box, or cause
it to be conveyed, to the place of hold
ing elections in his precinct, township
or ward at the next general or social
election and deliver, or cause to le de
livered, to one of the judges of said elec
tion. Section 1. That section 23, as
heretofore existing, be and the same is
hereby repealed.
The senate held a short and nnimior
tant session on the 21st. The following
bills were introduced: Ceding to the
government jurisdiction over Fort Rob
inson aud Fort Niobrara reservations;
limiting application of the reform school
law to children ::ndcr sixteen years in
stead of eighteen; allowing district
judges to order jurors to appear wlien
needed, instead of having the sheriff
compel them to bo present on the first
dav of court; extending to January,
1900, the payment of "notes given for
payment on school lands on payment of
interest aud taxes iu full. In the house
a petition from 217 citizens of Cuming
county, askins that an amendment to
the state constitution be submitted pro
viding that all fees for liquor licenses be
npxrtioned among the various school
districts. w,-is presented by Mr. O'Snlli
van. Gilbert's bill to so amend the code
o' civil procedure relating to replevin
innt the defendant my keep possession
of property in dispute by executing a
bond for the costs, was taken up on
third reading and passed, House roll
71 was also passed. It reads as follows:
That section 19 of subdivision 17 of
chapter 79 of the compiled statutes of
1837, entitled, "Schools," be so amended
as to read as . follows: That fill
accounts shall bo audited by the
secretary, approved by a committee to
bo styled the committee on claims, and
no expenditure greater than two hun
dred dollars shall be voted by the board,
except in accordance with the provision
of a written contract, nor shall any
money be appropriated ont of the school
fund, except on a recorded affirmative
vole of n majority of all members of the
board, and siid accounts anil the records
of s iid board in ail metropolitan cities
shall at all times bo subject to the in
section and examination of the comp
troller of such city, whoso duty it shall
bo each month to examine snid records
and check said accounts, and from time
to time as may be required by ordinance
or resolution of the city council, reort
to said council the nature and state of
said accounts, and nnv facts.
In the senate tiio Keckly bill remov
ing the $5,009 limit of damages for the
life of a man killed through the negli
gence of his employer went over one
day. Bills were introduced: Vesting
the fire and police commission in met
ropolitan cities with the power of is
suing liquor licenses', also authoriz
ing the mayor and council of such city
to impose a license on pawnbrokers,
hawers, architects, sellers of bankrupt
stock, etc. Providing the manner of
decidingttievoteein elections In cities of
the second class and villages. Empow
ering nine jurors ont of twelve to find a
verdict in civil actions before the dis
trict court Robinson's attorney fee bill
provoked a long discussion. It directs
the court to give the successful nlaintiflf
an attorney's fee when he is s clerk or
a laborer suing lor wages, and also
in actions for the foreclosure of
mortgages if an asreemeut baa
neen made to pay an attorney fee.
lhe bill was indefinitely postponed. In
the house about twenty bills were in
troduced, among them the followim?:
Appropriating :il,O0O for completion of
j no i-.rnng iiomnns liefnge at Milford.
To cede the jurisdiction by the United
States over the military reservation
known as Tort Sidney. To confer upon
nuiuen me ngiit oi tne elective fran
chise at municipal elections. To legal
ize tne State JJairymen s association and
make an annnal appropriation for the
same. Ballard's anti-trust bill was re
commended for passage. The commit
tee on county ana township organiza-
". , . i""wu m iaror oi we bin pro
viding that the countv board ah II nrn.
cure a copy of the original surveys of
the county from the national laud office.
J lie committee on agriculture recom
Mended that house roll 8.1, Truesdell'a
bill requiring all parties owning or oc
cupying land to destroy noxious weeds,
do pass.
Senate file No. M, providing for the
submission of sn amendment to the con-
stitntion regarding the collection and
disposal of liquor lioense moneys wss
indefinitely postponed on the 23d.
Among bilh, introduced were the follow-
IHflii .'1 ,or t to prevent le
rctioe of deception and frindl by now
1 chatr. JUvmood's elrUve board of
S rt.tlim bill was re.-rted. wiUi
tranhtnaii"" - - ;. . .,.,..
the reeoujuK-naniioa i -
and, as a result, the bill was placed on
general file. Senate file No. 15. b-T.
KeTklv. providing ft the addition of
three "rail f commissioners to the e
IcuUve dcJrtment of thesUte. under-
. -,va There was in-
rod ncVl . bill to amend section.
K 'l clptr W of the enm
1 code of the eompiled statu tee. of
Nebraska, entitled, 'Offense relating
to domestic
animals. auu
peal said original sections. Also S
bill for an act to amend section 2, chap
ter 27, of the compiled statutes of Ne
braska of 1887, eniuicu, wuij .
the house the most interesting business
of the morning session was the discus
sion of the bill creating "Labor Pay.
The usual numlwr of bills were intro
duced, reports of standing committees
were read, and resolutions introduced.
It was moved the committee on constitu
tional amendments be instructed to re
port house roll No. 1. The vote-yeas
58 nays 59-iudieates in a meawire the
rriative strength of the submission and
auti -submission parties. Among bills
introduced were the following: A bill
for an act to amend swtion 4 of chapter
36 of the compiled statutes of Nebraska,
entitled "Homesteads," and to repeal
said original section. A bill for an act
for the protection of game in the state
r,f 'lirajika. The committee on mines
and minerals recommended the parage
of house roll No. 2. Honse rolls 78 and
162 were favorably reported.
In the senate on the 24th the Ray
mond bill to snbmit an amendment for
an elective railroad commission of three
members passed the committee of the
nhole bv a vote of 14 to 3. Lindsays
bill for submission, senate file 81, bed
been held by the committee several
days awaiting a lavoraulo opKrinniiy
f,.r ifa return. It came this morning
and Chairman Lindsay reorted the
bill with a recommendation that it pass.
Kaiisom and Beardslcy made a minor
ity reort for indefinite postronement,
mid Hansom moved its substitution for
the majority report It was lost by a
vote of It to 23. After defeating amo
tion by Wolbach to adjourn, the senate,
hy a vote OI 11 to H, weiu 11110 connim-t-e
of the whole to consider the bill,
with Linn in the chair. Lindsay moved
that when the committee arise it report
the bill to the senate with a recommend
ation that it do jiass. Paulsen moved a
mstioiien)flnt 01 iurtlier consideration
-ntil Fridav afternoon. Adopted. The
Lindsay bill nrovides for the submission
at the November election of the follow
ing amendment: "The manufacture,
sale, and keeping for sale, of intoxicat
ing liipior as a beverage are forever pro
hibited in this state, and the legislature
shall provide by law for the enforce
ment of this provision." In the house
the morning session was largely taken
up with reiortfl of committees. The
committee on revenue and taxation re
ported that house roll 30, Corbiu's bill
to punish n'acssors for undervaluation
of property, bo passed as amended.
I he committee on constitutional amend
ments reported that house roll 131, pro
viding lor the submission 01 a lujxii li
cense amendment to the constitution,
be placed on the general file for consid
eration. Itompster moved that the bill
be indefinitely postponed, but finally
withdrew the motion and the recom -nnSndntion
of the committee was adopt
ed. House roll 54, Towle's bill, giving
the party keeping stock for hiro a lieu
on the animals, wa passed. A bill to
prevent thf forming of any counties of
less than 570 sutiare miles in extent was
recommended for passage. Bills were
introduced: A bill for an act to estab
lish, locate and maintain a normal
school at or near Superior, Nuckolls
county, Neb., and making an appropri
ation thrrtrfor. A bill for an act to pro
vide for the sale and leasing of the sa
line lands belonging to the state of Ne
braska.
In the senate on the 23th senate tile
Nos. 4, 12, 1!) and 4H were read the third
time and passed. The snate then went
into committee of the whole, on Keek
ley's bill, senate file No. 14, prohibiting
railroad iwiola. The matter was not dis
posed of, the committee asking to sit
again. At 2:80 the senate took' tin for
consideration the bill of Senator Lind
say to submit the prohibition question
to a popular vote as per tho resolution
making it a special order for tho after
noon. The news that the submission
question would be under discussion had
become generally known, and hmg be
fore the time for tho senate to como to
order the gallery was tilled with
anxious spectator.. .There was but lit
tle disposition to waste wind, and the
mattvr was brought to a fwiw by Itan
Rf!i,i' motion to indefinitely postpone.
I he v.to 011 this motion was as follows:
leas -Item, iiams, Jfaher, Panlsn,
I ax ton, Pope, Ransom, Raymond, Wol
bach. Naj-j-Beardhlcy, Button, (Vrtmer,
ir"'"'11;, ,-GalWly, Howvrsr,
Howe. Hard, Jcwelt, Keckley, Lindsay,
liiin, Jhuitimg, Nesbitt, Norvul, Pick
ctt Robinson, Roche, Slmnrier, Suther
land, Taggart . Wctlierald. A motion
was made to adopt the majority report
of the committee. On this the yeas and
nays were not called for and the motion
was earned viva voce, and tho bill was
ordered engrossed. After ft recess of
live minutes the senate again assembled
and the bill was read the third time and
pissed by a vote of ttteuly one to
eleven. Mr. Burton introduced a bill
Jo mneud section 13, article 2, chapter
J4 of the compiled statutes of mi re
lating to cities of second class bavins
over 5,000 inhabitants, entitled, " rlaf
irSi, J"il1 10 T'T' mU inconsistent.
41 . hanm 1,1118 wcro introduced
A bill for an act to emitower cities ad
Vll aues to nM.nro ,..i , ... 4
1 .:: rr . ".'." oy gut or
fnr VL '""' nl imwio grounds and
lor tlie. nrotectmn ,.t .., . ......
LI lLin 801 , re1,,ira inenranee
compameg organized under the laws of
other states, and di..ff 1,,,.:.."! . ?1 l,0t
braska to pay a duty or rate for the
niawrt of fira c,,m,Hinie.compoin"ths
t,!I . Pf?Tid 'or the con-
rennqtlisiiing of titles
DSi Wl,er.n. eitller knabind i
re".. .statTw. r 2 ?'
wite 1. UVT' .. oana or
IU 1 M inn i . . . . !. OS. 29. 1,
iou , ' ""'. M' w' 82. 8'. I and
.!wi Us h'onhly reporte.1. Nos M
,, 1JW va ,M g!J g
ami iToT Uv0nhly "Ported.
"I'oriea not to pass, snd
Nos. S.r.J T ?i-rWM ' rtty report.
Michael Carney, the oldest ma ii
Mew Haven, Conn., died oa Wedaeeda
et the ace of 108. He waboral.fWW
THE 9UEITIM OF llflMlU IMWMTMHi
u u rw r 'i 'aiaiisi mm,
wa mod rUur-
The recent election furnishes, in the
popular vote, dats that, Ukeri in eon
junction with previous elections, with
the United States census cf 1W, and
with various state and territorial enum
erations, enable us to determine with
reasonable exactness the present isopula
tion of almost any given state or terri
tory, and anion? others of those which
still hold out to the intending settler, if
not the inducement of a aliceof tho pnb
lic domain, at least that of almost equal
ly cheap land, free from irksome obliga
tions and restrictions. These latter,
thirteen in number, would appear to
have an aggregate population of 9,781,
Mfi, or 4,289,923 in excess of their popu
lation of lhe United States census of
Their nstnral incrxase during tlrst
period being but 913,274, according to
the growth of such northern states as
have been least affected by movements
of population, either one way or the
other, it follows that upwards of three
and one-third million ole have, dur
ing the last eight years, croswd the Mis
sissippi river from east to west with the
object of bettering their condition. Of
this enormous nnmlx-r Dakota appears
to have attracted 6I7.8W, Texas 406,62!,
Kansas 474,143, Minnesota iK.W, Ne
braska 422,500, California 311,7S6, and so
on down to Oregon and Wyoming, which
stand at the foot of the list with 61,344
and 60,701, resectively.
Now, had Nebraska had less to say in
her own Ix hslf than she sctnallyhas,
the fact that for at b ast eight years prut
she has been attracting to Ecr fertile
fields and far extending plains an aver
age of 1.000 people a week from older
states and still older lands constituting
in the aggregate a magnificent amiliary
army over 4'K),000 strong, which is now
assisting in the development of her vast
and varied resources-such a fact would
Ite a matter for congratulation to all
who are in any way interested in her
growth and prosperity. lint in view of
the immenso advantages over all other
agricultural states, which she derives
from her geographical position, it is
surely not altogether satisfactory that
she occupies only tho fifth place in tho
alwve list, and that she succeeds in in
ducing only one new western set tier out
of every eight to locate tuthin her bor
ders. Is it reasonable to suppose that any
thing like the whole of tlie 517,884 peo
ple who have settled in Dakota during
the period referred to would have pre
ferred that territory to Nebraska, had
they fully realiy-ed the extraordinary
disparity existing between the two rn
gion in the matter of adaptation to di
versified fanning, or been aware of the
sigmflaint fact that tho average grow
ing season is feny-sovon days longer in
Nebraska than in central Dakota, and
fifty-four davs longer than in north Da
kota, including the best portion of the
Iteil river valley, on loth aides of the
river? Is it likely that Kansas would
have gained quite so large an accwion
to her population had it been generally
known that there is not sn important
crop raised in the west the average yield
of which to the acre is not buiher in
Nebraska than it is in Kan? Con
sidering the well known partiality of
average American farmers for corn hind,
is it conceivable that mi of every hun
dred of his claws migrating to the west,
eighty-seven would deliberately ignore
the advantages of a state whose corn
crops average a greater yield per acre
than those of any other of tho great corn
producing states, show a larger huiuIkt
of bushels per capita, either of tho&e
employed in raising them or of tho en
tire population of tho state than those
of any other state or territory, snd,
most of all, have a larger tM:rcentago of
a merchantable standard than have the
crops f even tho foremost of its rivalsl
lu view of the unquestionable advant
ages enjoyed by the Nebraska farmer
over the aottlcfsia any other state or
territory, the state otu'ht by this time to
bo fully settled np. That it is not so is
dun entirely to the "masterly inactivity"
of our state legislature, which, with tlie
fxoeption of the statu exhibit at New
Orleans, admirably mnnnged by ox-Uov,
Furnas, and parsimoniomsiy and ungra
ciously sustained by those at home, has
done absolutely nothing towards com
peting with other state for n share of
that immense tide of immigration which
has so long been fbming west ward.
While Dakota 1ms had its department of
immigration and statistics, with a well
paid commisHuner at its head, employed
in the freo dintrihtition of tin exceed
ingly attractive and marvellously com
prehensive volume of V.m pages, treat
ing of the resource of tho territory,
tadh general and local, and Minnesota
bus hud its state board of immigration
similarly employed, with an appropria
tion of $14,321 f,,r two year' work,
while Kansas has been engaged in a like
eamixiign through iu state )ard of
agriculture, which had appropriations
nmoitnijuj, to 17,872 for the last legis
lative term (all these various appropri
ations appearing to be independent of
printing). Nebraska, as a state, has
done absolutely nothing, simply allow
ing judgment to go against her bv de
fault. Certainly hrt has been adver
tised by her railroad, but so havo till
ber competitors by theirs, so she is still
t mi enormous disadvantage. Kail
rood advertising, moreover, may sup
p fluent, but it can never take the
piaco of official state work, for no matter
now carefully and conscientiously it is
Jtrepared, its statements are always sub
jected to a moro or less liberal discount,
1 He railroad advertising of Nebraska,
wo, is rendered ranch more difficult and
much his, effective than it would other
wise be by the half starved condition of
omo of our slate institutions. The
state board of agriculture has to do its
work on an appropriation little more
than one-fourth the sue of that granted
to the Kansas state Ixmrd and only one
half of what is considered necessary in
winneaota, independently of the state
Hyj' 'iigration. Our hortic.il
'e 11,000 a year doled
out to them, auainstan average of 1.700
a year In MinncsnU and Knmin Kan.
Js, according to the last reiorte. While
the Minnesota legislature is wisely foe-
r,J'8.?,wl'iL4nlr,'u of that state,
PPropriating 18,500 to the nee of the
rmlld!irj.00ll!mU,-on kindred
aIIT, ,0t lwo JMin- Nebraska
.m Tful7 "oeietion. an Import
"J" Mns; valuable work for the
E a0?"?' oot state iwcocni
"oa. aad is, I am informed, akorii to
1' JPnfeTai, for some triffng
-"wwassuaMn alive to the