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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (April 10, 1902)
BILLIONAIRE AT 28. GEORGE MEGREVV AND HIS RISE IN THE WORLD. XJc Was a Denver dish Hoy in 1831 , -Later Hiiatlmi for u i ivin in Wasli- inulon , { > . C. , and ib Now a Partner of Andrew Carnegie. George Alegrew , fonuurly purchasing agent ot tlie carnegio Company , in fact duo ol' Cameg.e s "tluny young part ners , " has recenjy chosin Cleveland as Ills Lome. f .The old saying that "truth Is stranger * $ than lietion" was ne\er more elc.iriy proved than lu the life story of this young man. A man who , though not yet 3U years of age , is a millionaire. X A man whose eany life has been to ; atrenuous that already he is seeking to Ire-gain his health , long ago shattered by | liard work. . - , .It is not oflen that the world hears ' of a young fellow only US years old , \vho retires on an annual income of the principal ofvlncli was largely made through his owu efforts. But such u man is George Megrew. Mr. Megrew came to Cleveland a short time ago from Pittsburg. lie had often visited in this city , and decided that here was the spot that would iu time seem the most like home to him , for be it known that Mr. Mcgrew is a bachelor , and rather aloue in the world , a.b far as lelatives go , although he has Losts of friends , for he is a charming man to meet , and makes frleuds every where. After due consideration he decided to purchase a home at the corner of Euclid and Kosedale avenues. Here Mr. Megrew has made for him- -self an extremely beautiful and at the tame time a comfortable home. Mr. Megrew has always been a work er at that. His success , that has come to him so early in life , is not due to luck. Almost at the beginning of life lie has had to look out for himself , and the home he has just completed on Euclid avenue is the first "real" home lie has known since he was a tiny chap of three summers. Of course Mr. Megrew Is an Ohio man. Ho was born In Wooster , Wayne County , In the year of ' 73. When only 8 years of age he was working as cash boy In a dry goods store in Denver. At the age of 11 he was hustling for a living hi Washing ton , D. C. in the capital he sold papers and did odd jobs. One day he met a man who , after buying a paper , stopped a moment and spoke kindly to the lad. The man was Congressman McKiuley. IV lie at once took a liking to young Me- re\v and offered to secure for him a pageship In the house. This the boy re fused , for he wanted to go to school. In 1SSS Megrew's grandfather died and the lad went to Wooster to attend the funeral. Here he met II. C. Frick , * "who , taking a decided liking to Megrew just as Mr. McKinley did offered him a clerkship in his office , which was f accepted. When Frick became chair man of the Carnegie Company he trans ferred Megrew to the offices of that Concern as assistant to the cashier. Then began Mr. Megrew's career. By steady application to business he wou the respect of Ills superiors and within a short time was promoted. Soon more promotions canie to the hard-working yonih. until lu 1SOS he was given an In terest in the Carnegie Company as a Christmas gift , with the position of purchasing agent , This position carried a salary of $7,000 a year , and Mr. Megrew held It " until the fail of 1900 , at the time of the 4 vgpntroversy regarding the "ironclad $ agreement. " For several years his health had been failing , and for the past year Mr. Me grew has been seeking to regain his health. But he has not been "idling the time away" by any manner of means. lie Is interested In real estate in IMttsburg , and his Interests In the big steel corporation require much of . his time. Then , too , Mr. Megrew Is deeply Inter ested in church work , and he does a great deal of work along charitable linos , taking a particular interest in the newsboys , for this youug millionaire never forgets the days of his boyhood when he sold papers on the streets of Washington. In his beautiful new home Mr. Me grew has many mementoes of famous .men of this country who are numbered among his friends. In the hall he has . Jbanging a drawing by Chartran of the late President MeKInley , made In Can ton , besides nn Inscribed picture of the urtiet himself. Mr. Megrew has also In numerable leters of great value. One of which Mr. Megrew Is particularly fond Is from Mr. Carnegie personally , prals- jng him for bis work , and telling him of bis selection as one of the young part ners in the great gteel corporation. Cleveland Leader. CALLS LONDON SQUALID. Architect Makes Invidious Compari son * with Other Cities. A candid friend of London baa ap peared In the person of Mr. Trevail , the new president of the Society of Architects. In his presidential address at St James Hall Mr. Trevail said : "The impression that always palls upon one when returning from either the European or American continents to London Is the wretchedly narrow and Insignificant-looking streets , with their low , mean , small shops and dwell ings by contrast with what we have 1 Just left behind us. It Is of little Inter est to be told how many hundreds of miles of the same sort of thing Lon don contains , more than does any other .metropolis lu Christendom or elsewhere. "Te fact still remalni in your mind sense 'tbat Loodaa looks squalid and miserable by comparison , and < hat feeling affects one for days , until he once more gets seasoned into the old haunts and relapses Into that comfortable frame of mind that aftei all even the Strand and Chancery Lan 1 or Fleet street and Ludgate Circus , with all their advertising abominations , look at least familiar and homely ! "Tsike the city of London. It may I have some of the finest commercial ; palac-f.s in the world , rivaling those ot old Ver.ice herself ; but look how they are huddlt-d together ! There is posi tively not the space to appreciate their de-sign , their proportions or their detail. Compare the Champs Elysees. Place de la Concorde , or the boulevards of Paris with our best streets and squares , and I where are we ? "Or , say , the Hingstrasse of Vienna , or the Boulevard Andrassy at Buda pest , or. carrying our thoughts across 1 the Atlantic , to Broadway , Fifth ave- ' nue. Riverside , and Central Park , New York ; the Commonwealth avenue , Boston ; Victoria square , Montreal ; East avenue. Rochester ; Delaware ave nue. Buffalo ; Drexel boulevard. Wash ington boulevard , or State street , Chi cago ; Pennsylvania avenue , Washing ton , or dozens of ft hers that might be named. Alongside of these our Strand , our Whitehall , our Victoria streets , Re gent street , Picadilly. Park lane , Ox- j ford street , etc. , are but wretched apol ogies for what leading streets and thor oughfares should be. "If we except the Thames embank ment. Shaftesbury avenue , and the new thoroughfare that Is about to be made between the Strand and Ilolbom , " said Mr. Trevail , according to the London Mail , "nothing of an adequate scale to the size and Importance of this metrop olis has yet been attempted. With the dilapidated , rickety , old ramshackle properties that WP see in some of the best and most central parts of London , what is wanted Is a general rebuilding and Improvement scheme fixed after mature deliberation by a competent central authority specially constituted by parliament , after consultation with [ the chief local authorities and perhaps j the representative societies of architec ture , sculpture and engineering , with a' ' special regard to its qualifications and fitness for the purpose. j ' "This would be merely following the' example that has been set in such capi tals as Paris , Vienna and Washington. " A bee will carry twice Its own weight In honey or wax. " j The thirty-four biggest estates In Britain average 183.000 acres apiece. . Champagne has 12.2 per cent of alco hol and gooseberry wine 11.8 per ceat. Italy owns the three largest churches In the world SL Peter's. Rome , the Duonio , Milan , and St. Paul's , at Rome. riau Railway , a distance of 032 miles , there is only one town deserving the name Krasnoairs with a population of 2S.OOO. | Wasps may often be observed detach ing from fences , boards or any old wood the fibres which they afterward manufacture into papier mache. , Fire losses in England amount to & 2Y2 per cent of all premiumspaid. . An India rubber tree gatherer In Bra zil averages sixteen pounds of juice dally. , , Since the foundation of the Alpine Club the death rate from mountain ac cidents has averaged less than 4 par cent a year out of five hundred niem hers. The Chinese pen from time Imi i memorial has been a brush made of some soft hair and used to paint the curiously formed letters of the Chinese alphabet. Brine springs flow under the town of Norwich , England. They have been there for centuries , and were used for the production of salt long before the Christian era. Greenland and Iceland have the bet ter of us In the way of trade. Last year we Imported goods from those two From Tomsk to Irkutsk , on the Si he- countries to the value of $82,533 and sold them only $520 worth In return. A French explorer has discovered on the west coast of Africa what he re gards as the vainest people. They are the Pahoulns , a warlike tribe , whose main employment Is the adornment of | their persons , chiefly by means of tat tooing. No Judge of Art. The seller of pot-boilers came Into the office of the shrewd broker with the air of one who Is about to sacrifice a price less treasure. It was a seascape ; a trou bled sea beat upon purple rocks , and , wind-driven gulls wheeled in wild cir cles above.the familiar pot-boiler ship. The seller of pot-boilers looked upon the treasure long and yearningly. It could be seen that a grievous struggle be tween art and appetite was raging within him. "How much do you want for It ? " demanded the shrewd broker. "One hundred dollars , " said the pot boiler man ; "It's giving it away. " "Give you three for it , " said the shrewd brok er. "It's , yours , " said the pot-boiler man. "That fellow across the way only offered me 5 cents , but he ain't no judge of art" New York Evening Post Certain Sounds Lacking. The Aztec language. In use In Mex- ! Ico at the discovery of America , lacked the sounds Indicated by our letters b. ' d , f , g , r , I. J and v. j A straight ticket doesn't necessarily Indicate that all the candidates are straight. Usually when * a man. starts on tbe i downward road ths beaks refuses ( t ' work. . T DIES ALONE ON STREET WOMAN OF SEWARD SUCCUMBS TO COLD AND WEAKNESS Seward , Neb. , April 2. The news spread rapidly over the city about 7 o'clock this morning that the dead budy of a woman had been found in the south part of town. A good many at first thought it was a first of April joke started by somebody , but it was soon discovered to he a real ity. The body proved to be that of Mrs. Skeede , wife of Dr. T. P. Skeede. Several of the neiuhbors in tne vicinity who first reached the body did not recognize it as that of Mrs. Skeede , but her husband having missed her started out in search of her , and recognized the body as that of his wife. The body was picked up and carried to the family home nearby. Dr. and Mrs. Skeede ha\e both been in poor health for several months. Mrs. Skeele only partially recovering from a recent severe spell of sickness , and she was still in a very feeble condition. She had evidently left the house sometime in the night and gone to the river a few blocks away with the intention I of drowning herself as her clothing plainly indicated that she had been in the water , and failing , for some reason to accomplish her purpose , she attempted to return home. Be ing no doubt benumbed by the cold she became exhausted and lay down in the street within about a block of home and died. It is not known at what time she left home , as her hus band did not miss her until morning , but some of the neighbors think they heard some one calling about 1 o'clock in the night. MrSkeede leaves a husband and two little daughters , the oldest being thirteen years of age. She was a si - ter to Dr. Skeede's former wife. H p maideu name was Holmes.and she r - sided at Tecuinseh previous to h r marriage. She was a most cstimab e lady and had many friends ID Sew. ard. GEORGE GOULD GOES FREE- District Judge Good Finds no Evidence st Him. David City , ? Jeb. , April 2. Some time ago George Gould was arrested on the charge of aiding and abetting Amos n. Gould in forging notes and mortgages which resulted in the wrecking of the Platte Valley State bank at Bellwood. The preliminary hearing was held before County Judge Skiles and Gould was held to the district court under bonds in the sum of $2,000. Gould's attorneys immediately made applictaion to Judge Good of W.ihoo for a writ of habeas corpus. Judge Good passed on the application last night. In an exhaustive opin ion , in which the judge carefully re viewed all the evidence introduced befnre County Judge Skiles at the preliminary examination and on which Judge Skiles held Gould to the district court for trial , the judge held that there was not sutricient compe tent evidence showing that any one had aided , abetted , or counseled Amos II. Gould in the ctmrai-sSon of the forgeries charged in the comp laint upon which the examination was held , and that there was no sufficient competent evidence in troduced before the county judge to show that George Gould by any act , aided , abetted or counseled Amos E. Gould either in the forgery or issu ing of forged paper. The evidence being insufficient to justify the detention of Gould the judge ordered that he De discharged from custody of the sheriff. The judge , in the opinion filed , sustains the contention of Gould's attorneys , A. J. Evans and L. S. Hastings in every particular. The decision of the judge meets the approval of all persons who know anything about the evidence upon which Gould was held. In the opin ion of the judge generally it would havre been an expensive farce to the county to put Gou'd upon trial on the evidence which the state had against him. PENITENTIARY FOR A YEAR. 607 Who Wrote Blackmailing tetter Sentenced at Ilunhvllle. Rushville , Neb. , April 2.Fred Reno , who was found guilty of send ing through tLe mail a letter threat ening to wipe one of bis neighbors off the face of the earth , was senten ced to tbe penitentiary at bard labor for one year by Judge Harrington. This is the first conviction in this judicial district under the black mailing law passed by tbe last legis lature. ' Dlea from Poison in Bfilk. Nelson , Neb. , April 2. The three year-old , daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N.L. A damson , living near this place , died Thurdsay as a result of poison in milk. A five-year old son and botb parents are in a critical condi tion. It is believed that tbe poison came from a weed called "old maid's eyes"which grew near a straw stack. The straw absorbed tbe poison and * fc was then eaten by tb oowi MAKE WATER HAUL BURLINGTON TRAIN IS HELD UP NEAR ST. JOSFPH. MO. FOUR BANDITS IN THE MOB SHOOT A l-'KW TIMES , IH'T DO > UltKAT GAIN NOTHING BY ATTEMPT Soeur ' < l , According to the Com pany OllU'Jaln. Scene ol" Holdup Luuii- llar One to Trainmen. St. Joseph , Mo. , April 4. Trai ' No. ij : , on the Burlington route , which lelt St. Joseph fur the north at 11 : 0 o'clock Jast night , was held up three miles north of the city lim its b } four masked men. Hail road uithurities asserD that the robber i rot nothing , although on this point 'joullictiug reputrs are in circulation. The attemped lobbery occurred fifteen minutes after the train had [ lulled out of the Francis street sta tion in this city. The scene is very n 'ar the place where on the night of September 24 , ] 893 , four young men of this city made a futile attempt to rob a Burlington train , two of the party being shot down. On that oc- iasiou the railioad authorities , under the leadership ofV. . C. Brown , then general manager of the Burlington's Missouri lines , ran a dummy train loaded with policemen and deputy -.herilfs , and the robbers were taken by surprise , their plans havng been tipped oil by a treacherous confeder ate. FOUR MEN CONCERNED. The leader of the robbers is de scribed by the trainmen as being about thirty-live years old , live feet ten inches tall , weight ICO pounds , voice loud and clear. Pie wore a long mask of cloth , covering his face from the forehead down and falling below his chin. When he gave orders to the trainmen or to the other robbers every word he said could be heard distinctly. Some of the officers and railroad men say today that his irn- p rfect descripion may be that of Pat Crowe , who is known to have a .trudge against the Burlington arid who has made threats against that road. The second robber is forty years old , rive feet nine inches tall , weight 140 pounds. lie wore a black stitt hat and a daik red false beard. Tbe i bird rotber is between twenty-six and twenty-eight years old , weight 150 pounds. lie wore a long black mask , like the leader. Height not . 'iven. The fourth man is between twenty-two and twenty-four years old , five feet seven inches tall , weight about 355 pounds. lie wore a long black mask. STOKY OF HOLD UP. The story of the holdup , as told by Conductor Cox , who was recalled this morning and arrived at 9:40. is as follow : "I was riding in the chair car when I felt the air brakes applied , and the train soon stopped. I raised a window on the west side of the coah and looked out , but could see uothjug. I then heard three or four shots , as if from revolvers. I rushed to the head end of the car and reach ing tbfi pla ! form , opened the coach d 'Or and looked out on the east side. As I did so I saw three or four men standing near the engine. One of them turned toward me and yelled : "Take your d d head in or i will blow it off ! ! : With that remark he tired toward me , but I do not think he intended to hit me. I p illed my head in and shut the plat form door , and then started toward the front of the train. I met Jesse Gaul , my brakeman , coming from the smoker. "Guess we're in for it,5 I said to him. We then returned to the pas senger coaches , where I notified the passengers what was taking place , and told them to hide their vlauables , for I didn't know but that tbe rob bers would go through the cars. I turned the lights out in tbe sleeper and locked the door. ENGINEER BROUGHT TO TIME. The robbers placed a red lantern beside the track in front of the brain , and when it began to slow up , Engineer Kerst saw masked men be side the tiack. He attempted to run the train through , but Just at that moment one of the robbers swung himself into the cab and held a re- volyer to tbe engineers head. rJi < en Engineer Kerst and Fireman Samuels realized that it was a genu ine holdup , and that they were pow erless. A Swift Ostrich. Oliver . , according to the Ameri can Boy , is the name of an ostrich which spends its summers at Sara toga and its winters in Florida , and has tbe distinction of being one of the very few ostricbes of tbe country iroken to harness. It is ten feet high and weighs over tbree hundred pounds and makes a mile in 2:02. equaling tbe time of Cresceus and Abbott.Jbhe.Jjwo fastest horses. V MANY LOST IN FlGriT. ItlTCHENKIl TELLS OF VICTORY A3 A UE.iVY COsT. London , April 5. There was severe Hunting all day long on March 31 in i he neighborhood of Hart's river , in the south western extremity of the Transvaal , between part or General Kitchener's forces and the forces of Generals Delarey and Kemp , resulting in the repulsejof ihe Boers after hea\y looses on both sides. The Canadian UiJles especially distinguish * d them selves , one party , commanded by Lieu tenant Bruce Carruiherr * , holding its post until every man was killed or wounded. Lord Kit chenr r's official report says : ' 'General Kitchener ( Lord Kitchen er's brother ) Kent Colone s Keir and Cookson Irjm Vriekuil , western Trans vaal , March 31 , to reconoiter toward Hart's river. They soon struck the track of guns and car ied on a running tk'hD for eiL'ht miles , following the track through the bu h. Emerging on a plain , large Boer reinforcements advanced against heir ilmks , forcing the British troops to lake up a defen sive position , which they hastily en trenched. Fghtinir ensued at close quarters till the Boers were repulsed on all sides. Delarey , Kemp and other leakers vainly attempted to persuade their men to renew the action. Fif teen hundred Boers participated in th s engagement , but they suffered too heavily and cleared away to ihe north west and south. The British looses also were severe. The Canadian Hides especially distinguished themselves , on party , commanded by Lieutenant Bruce Carruthers , holding its po > t r.ill every man was killed or wounded. Others of the forces showed great steadiness , allowing the Boers to ad vance within 200 yards of them and repelling them with a steady rifle tire. " JUSTIFY EXECUTIONS. I I The war office this afternoon Issued an official statement of the facts in regard to the Australians sentenced for murdering Boer prisoners , as fol lows : { i * 'The Bush veldt carabineer , who recruited in South Africa , but includ- id other colonials , were employed in July and August in the wildest part of the Transvaal , eighty miles north east of Pietersburg , and took a certain number of prisoners. Grave irregu larities on the part of certain officers ol the corps came to the knowledge of the military authorities in October , and an exhaustive investigation was ordered by I ord Kitchener. "As a. result of the inquiry five offi cers were tried by court martial at Pietersburg in January , 1902 , and were found guiliy , as principals or accessor ies , to twelve munleis. Lieutenants Hancock and Morant were sentenced to death , which was carried out. These olliceis were also charged with the.munier of Rev. C. Hesse. Al though there was strong suspsion that they committed the murder the evidence was not considered sufficient to justify their conviction. Lieuten ant Walton was found guilty of mur der and was sentenced to death , bub tnere were mii.iga.ting circumstances" and the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment at penal servitude. Lieutenant Picton was found guilty of manslaughter and was cashiered. Ma jor Lenuhan , commanding the carabi neers , who became aware of the crimes substquent to their committal , was convicted of culpably neglecting to re port them and was ordered home to Australia , his dismissal being unneces sary , owing to the disbaudmeut of the corps. "No doubt exists as to the guilt of the accused , whose plea , in extenua tion , that a number of their corps were ill-treated by the Boers , was not sustained by the evidence at the trial. | The sentences were such as would h.ive been inflicted on any officers sim ilarly guilty. " . CARTER'S CASE IS SERIOUS. imprisoned Army Captain Has Typhoid Aansaa City , Mo. , April 5. Accord- ing to a telephone message from b\irt Leven worth , Kas. , early today , the condition of Oberlin M. Carter , ex- captain of engineers , is unchanged Car er pazsed a fairly good night and was resting easy this morning , when his temperature was reported at 10. } . Warden McClaughry said ; "If. is a straight case of typhoid fever. It is too early to determine the result , but the case looks serious. " H. G. Stone , Carter's attorney in tbe government's case againsr him , will arrive at tbe sick man's bedside today from Chicago. Mr. Stone was tele graphed for yesterday , Carter , it is said desiring to sign certain papers in tbe case before the disease might take a serious turn. Seven Teura in Penitentiary. Atwood , Kas. , April 5 M. A. Wil son , who was found guilty of grand larceny and robbery in the second de-1 gree , was today sentenced by Judge * Hamilton to sev n years in tbe peni I ' tentiary. Attorney Hes en of Man- batten , who was Wilson's attorney , made a great effort to get a new trial , wbicb mas denied bv tbe jud e. He was charged witb robbing the count } treasury of about two thousand dol lars December 21 last. .NE15ICA KA JSOTK5 Buffalo county is p-iying much ai tention to the cultivation of alfalft. and sugar beets. f George Gould of Bellwood , chargedj with complicity in the forgeries of the Platte Valley bank , was cleared after a hearing before Judge GoodL * Edward Meradith , a fanner eignt miles southwest of Nebraska City , . was kicked in the head by a bors . and itis ; thought he will lose the left , eye. He was taken to the new K braska City hospital for treatment Fred Reno , of Kushville , who found guilty of sending through lb - iiiail a letter threatening to wipe oc of his neighbors off the face of tLu. earth , was sentenced to the peniten tiary at hard labor for one year hjs Judge Harrington. A new Corliss engine ordered ; by- the Kearney Electric compm'J ? months aj o , arrived and will be putv in place at the power house as soon aa the old engine can be reniovcdL The new engine is of the most modern type , and of 250-horse power. Mr. J. W. Weaver of Shelton. ber little son and her granddaughter , were painfully injured by the over turning of their buggy in a runaway. , Mra. Weaver sustained a fracture- of the nose and a deep gash on tbe head. The others were badl * bruised. As a result of the recent raise int the price of chicory , the directors ot the Nebraska Chicory factory met at Schuyler to discuss the advisability of re-opening the local chicory fao- tory. The instiution was closed down two years ago , owing to th * low price of chicory. Benjamin Anderson , 16 years oM , committed suicide by hanging him self from the rafters , of tbe barn o * his father's farm. George Audersor , the father , discovered the boy wbc he went to water the stock. Tl. boy was popular with his matwt He was graduated from the bigk school last year. John Henderson , who arrived frc Omaha about six weeks ago as blacksmith in the employ of the Union Pud He , at North Platte. slot himself through the head and * SIt die. He has been complaining of se vere pains in the head for several flays , which probably caused h's rush act. lie leaves a wife and three children. While A. Spelts of Bellwood , was zrinding feed he got caught by the belt. His left arm was broken in two places above the elbow. A gash was also cut under his chin and he was otherwise hurt internally. He. was conveyed to his home on a stretcher. IIis wife was at David City at the time the accident oc curred , but was notified by tele phone. Henry Burritt , a merchant of Shel by , was accidentally shot last oighfc at C. C. Deleat's seven miles south west of Rising City , by Levi Miller and seriously wounded in both legs near the knees while engaged in charivaring Frank Schcsling r and a [ laugher of Mr. Deleat , newly mar ried. Mr. Burritt is said to be in n jeiious danger unless blood poisog should set in. The body of Mrs. T. F. Skeed was found in South Seward. The clothing was water soaked and it is presumed that the woman tried to commit suicide , but the chill of the water drove her out , and afterward , while g.n'ng home , she succumbed to the effect of the exposure. Trac&a were found on the river bank that showed where she had waded in. Mrs. Skeede had been in poor health. Notwithstanding the cold snap , the army worm has made its appeararv-fc in the locality of Cullaway , and t is said , is doing great damage to rye and winter wheat. One farmer , who thought his rye was winter killed , was told to examine it , and upon examination he found tbe field to be alive with the army vorm. He pulled up one bunch of rye and counted twenty-two of the worms OB the roots of the one bunch. such force and noise that all tbe horses working on tbe drill became frightened and ran away , tearimr and breaking the machinery. Tbe flow continued so that it was difficult for the men to continue the work , but the vein was finally drilled and cased through , arid tbe flow wat stopped. After drilling several hun dred feet further for water the well was abandoned It is rumored that a pipe line will be run from tbe lo cality of the gas well to this town , where there is an abundance of good water. Certain movements of rail way officials would indicate that there are good grounds for tbe rumor. A petition is being circulated bi prominent citzens of Alliance for tbt extension of tbe coroprate limits ol the city anfl will no doubt he effected. Such an addition will include a scort or more of blocks and add 1,000 soul * to the population of the city proper , which will be then about 40.00. An Omaha backman , who die1 ot starvation , because of bis miserly disposition , is said to have kffc. 165,000 worth of property. " ' _ _ y