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ft rr THE JOURNAL. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 14. 1883. The real estate Bales in Chicago last week were over $700,000. The Kansas rolling mills, in the suburb of Rosedale, closed the other morning. Dave Cleaver, who left Blair with mortgaged property, comes back again in the custody of officers. Vandebbilt has secured control of the Indianapolis and St. Louis Lle for the purpose of making western connections. The Union Iron & Steel works at Chicago closed one day last week. The works were taken possession of by the United States marshal.on attachments. The officials of the City Bank of Jersey City pleaded not guilty the other day to twenty-six indictments found against them for wrecking the concern. "There has never bees .in Amer ica, FOR ANT IMPORTANT PERIOD OF TIME, AND THERE NEVER CAN BE BUCH A THING A8 A RAILROAD MONOPOLY." Omaha Hepublican. The Ulysses Dispatch, noting Sen ator Van TVyck's speech recently on the lumber tariff, remarks that the General iB doing more for Nebraska than all the senators before him put together. Nine young men were captured the other day in New York who hare for along time annoyed the city fire de partment by giving false alarms of fire and during such alarms engaging in robberies and burglaries. Two more big fires last week. One at Nashville, Tenn., and the other at Troy, N. Y. In the former city cot ton and tobacco in the Capital ware house was destroyed to the amount of $200,000. At the latter place the loss will reach $93,000. The "boy" of the Omaha Jiepubli can is still trying to read old republi cans like Senator Yan Wyck out of the party. We are somewhat aston ished at the boy's want of knowledge, when we hear him declare "We were not aware that Yan Wyck was a republican senator." The recent pension appropriation bill reported to the senate by Senator Logan contains but one amendment by the senate committee on pensions, a provision relative to the item of $10,000 for contingent expenses, by which, one-half is made immediately available. The bill appropriates $86, 575,000, and reappropriates $15,800,000 of unexpeuded balances now in the treasury, of the former appropriation. Strange as it may appear, there is a young lady iu Hastings who ha al her life refrained from eating meat and she is exceedingly healthy. Has tings Journal. Not go very strange. Schuyler has a more startling phenomena. " A man who settled in this county ten years ago, has not eaten anything for nine yeare. The only explanation given of this mystery is that the man died the year following his arrival. Probably when the Hastings girl is weaned she will come to her meat all right. Schttyler Sun. A passenger train last week, when within six miles of Crested Butte, Utah, divided, the engine going ahead to clear the track. When about four miles from where it left the coaches the engine wan struck by a snow-slide and ditched, and put under a snow drift of about twenty feet. A wreck ing engine went to the rescue, but could not get nearer than two miles of the coaches, and returned for pro visions for the starving passengers. Three bills are now pending be fore the Nebraska legislature for the organization of three new counties in this state. The first one on the list is to be called Brown. The territory composing this county lies west of Holt county, extending to range 24, and north to the boundary of the state. About 2,500 people are living now within its limits. Loup county, the next one on the list, includes six teen townships lying west of Wheeler county, and north of Custer. Cherrv' county, the last one named, will era brace a vast stretch of country west of the two above named counties. The soil in this county is said to be ouly adapted to grazing purposes. In a recent pretended discussion of the speech of Senator Van Wyck by the editor or the Omaha Hepublican, we find the following assertions: "All thin lumber talk is a tempest n a tea-pot. The western consumer wants his lumber an cheap as he can get it, ami he in not in favor of paying any particular royalty to pine-land monopolists. Hut he has uot been grumliliug." Oh, no, the western consumer has been a very patient sufferer, and no word of discontent has ever escaped his lige, in the hearing of this man, who has said that there can be no railroad monopoly in Nebraska for any important period. For stark blindn'ess and utter deafness we will match Freddie Nye against the world. Floods were reported last week at Toledo, Cleveland, Delaware; Akron, and Columbus, Ohio, destroying bridges, carrying away lumber, hous es and other property by the hundred thousa'nd dollars worth. At Cleve land the damage will be over $1,000, 000. All families in the Cuyahoga valley and the northern part of the city of Akron fled for their lives. The damage at this place will exceed $50,000. At Columbus, Ohio, the Scioto river was thirteen inches high er than ever known beore. A large portion of the city was under water. Big loss in the city. Sells Brothers' sbow headquarters were flooded. . Part of the animals were lost. Hun dreds and thousands of dollars by the floods, are reported from Pittsburg, Parkers, Freeport, EmlentOB, Fox burg, Kittaning and Bradford, Pean. I WaaM fHra. CL m. Taa W vclf. m .leb lea. te the Beamte the Valteel State. The Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, resumed the consideration of the bill (If. B. 653i) to reduce iaterail-rcv-eaue taxation Mr. VAN WYCK said : Mr. President: Although toil it a very important interest, 1 fiad the commiMiOBera in weir report ireai u very summarily. I did suppose that probably here was a very fine opportunity w uuu iwimuku w. what ha1 h)n heralded with 10 much noise and flourish of trumpets, that the Tariff Commission naa-so iar dis charged their duty as to be able to make a reasonable concession to the popular demand of this nation and ifiiik a? ik. kttMilAMa lava. reauce a mum m uuruou ,, ..-.-tion by reducing the customs duties. I have not been able as yet to find that that hope has been realized, that :fiei. in tnn runort of the commission or .a the bill of the Finance Commit tee the people of this nation have thus Wp nv riarht to hone that there shall be some redress from taxation. When they reach this branch of the case this commission content themselves with some four or five lines. They tell ns : ScsntDULX D. Woods. The duties in this ichedulc have not been changed. The following table in cludes the anaual product of lumber, as well as the several branches of wood manufactures, sad illustrates the import ance and progress of this industry in the United States. And then they give a table. These fsntlemen, if they obtained the facts, new that this important industry, the manufacture of lumber, bad near ly vanished in the United 8tates. This idea of support to the different indus tries, notably that of glass, which was mentioned just now, was that they were in their infancy, that they need ed encouragement and support, when the fact is notorious that the lumber interest of this country has nearly vanished. If the census reports of that branch, obtained at so much ex- Eense to the Government are true, we ave but eight years' supply now in this nation from its pineries. They will be exhausted in eight years, and there will be the end. Will gentlemen tell us this commis sion could not have paused long enough to have thrown in a fact, to have introduced an argument where by this tariff duty should still be retained? My friend from Wiscon sin, who I see is listening to me, of course has a natural feeling in this matter Two or three States contain all the' pineries of any account in the United States, and these, large as they seem to be to-day, have been dimin ishing so rapidly that if the supply in the future continues as it is sow eight years will find a termination of it. Then will gentlemen tell us why this commission has recommended that this duty should be continued upon the American people? Is there any reason ? This industry is developed ; the pineries of this nation are in the hands of a few holders. If we put these articles upon the free-list and open competition with Canada, the owners of American pineries, the manufacturers of lumber in this coun try have the advantage, because those who purchase pine lands in Canada purchase at higher rates than they would purchase the pine lands here of the United States Government. Those who manufacture in Canada probably manufacture at higher rates than the manufacturers of lumber in the United States, because they prob ably have not the opportunity of machinery tbat we nave, rney must transport their lumber to market from Canada, and have an increased expenditure in that way. So there is no reason why another advantage in the way of a tariff of from $1 to $3 a thousand should be given. These are the facts as far as the manufacture is concerned; and yet millions are required to use lumber, the price of which has continually been growing from year to year until soon it will be beyond the reach of even persons of ordinary ability to construct houses entirely of pine. Why this duty should be continued we have no reason given in the Tariff Commission report, and we have bad no reason assigned here except it be the tact tbat every industry of this country, it is claimed by some gentle men, needs some protection from the Government. When my friends were arguing a while ago on the civil-service bill and were endeavoring to find what the people meant, there was a vast deal of examination and philosophy in dulged in as to what the people meant and a vast deal of willingness manifested on the part of certain gen tlemen to bow meekly to what the decree of the American people had beeu. That was their anxiety and they thought they bad found it in the erection of a civil-service tribunal. I beg gentlemen not to stop there. The American people desire some relief from taxation, and that was the voice they spoke in no uncertain sound. They could see no reason why certain industries in this country should be protected at the expense of others. I ask gentlemen whose con stituencies are required to build houses above their heads, to make feSces around their farms, to make barns to houpe their cattle in winter time, if they can give a satisfactory reason to their constituents why this tax should continue to be imposed upon them? One thing is evident; the manufacturing industry of wood in this country dues not need it; it is not in the suffering condition which the glass interest was mentioned as occupying. There is uo pretense of tbat kind. Then I say to my friends who are so anxiously lookiug for the verdict of the American people and desire to know what it meant and who sup posed they were yielding a little to that demand, that it was published throughout the length and breadth of the land that the Tariff Commission bad so bowed to that decree as to lower the duties upon articles, and yet we have failed to find it within their report; we have failed to find it in the discussion on this question upon this floor. If it be so, then it is so small that it requires a microscopic vision to find it. But I request gen tlemen to pause just a moment in the condition of the lumber trade of this country to consider the wants of those who require the use of the products of this industry, and ask themselves because their people at home, understand it whether there be any ..necessity to protect this in dustry. " h. We were promised during the last session' of Congress tbat we were to have a tariff so simplified that be who ran might read and understand it, bat it seems that this same old thing must be continued ; we must have a tariff here which it requires an expert to explain and a lawyer to fully under stand. I understand this theory of the protection of labor ; but will the gentleman tell me when he is pro tecting a few thousand men in con verting sawed logs in Michigan er Wisconsin into lumber and imposes a tax of $3 per thousand upon lamber, how many laboring men in this nation does he strike and draw a tax of that amount-out of their pockets? There are laborers on the other side of the i question who unfortunately are not considered here ; thousands upon the plains of tbo West and in the East also, who are under the necessity of purchasing lumber. Do you say tbat to protect American labor from one to three dollars shall be taken out of the pocket of a man in the West and placed in the pockets of the owners of an industry that needs no protection in this land, an industry which has grown to its full strength, and which, as far as the material is concerned, must soon pass away ? The difficulty here is that every single laborer, as you call him, must combine to pro tect one another, and against the peo ple who suffer from the exactions on them ; and hence it is you find your glass interests, when suffering, are compelled to come up and push up the cart of the owners of pineries whose interests are not suffering. That is the difficulty with all these interests that come here to seek pro tection as against the people. There can be no sort of reason or argument- to sustain this tax upon lumber to-day. You say you admit the log free. I can awing around the other part of the circle and point to gentlemen and ask them if tbey can explain that matter to their constit uents at home. Is it any answer when a man iB required to pay $3 a thousand tax on lumber to tell him, "Yes ; you can go to Canada and buy the lumber in the log and roll the log over to your home?" Mr. CONGER. The Senator's speech undoubtedly will go into history. Mr. VAN WYCK. With the Sen ator from Michigan's. Mr. CONGER. Therefore I desire tbat he should not say $3 a thousand. The highest rate in this bill is $2 a thousand. Mr. VAN WYCK. I think it is as high as $3 50, but the bill will show. I will accept the proposition at $2. Mr. CONGER. So many people would take the gentleman's speech instead of the bill that I wished him, if possible, to be correct. Mr. VAN WYCK. I am obliged to the Senator. I will put it at $2, and then propound the same question and let tbat go into history. Mr. CONGER. I will answer It. Mr. VAN WYCK. I hope so. I hope the Senator will tell me why with the pineries in his State increas ing in value from year to year you strike for this duty which will protect the owners of pineries at the expeuse of the millions whose necessities re quire them to purchase lumber, and then will explain why it is necessary to impose a tax of $2 a thousand on lumber. Mr. CONGER. If the gentleman wishes, I will tell him. Mr. VAN WYCK. It is in viola tion of all the principles upen which these taxes are imposed, as I under stand. The ground has been the necessity to protect the infant indus tries of this nation. That is the pre tense, and yet, as I have before stated, here is an industry which has grown to its fnll manhood, an industry which has been growing in value from year to year. I ask the Senator if he does not know the fact that even in Michigan the American manufacturer of lum ber can compete without any duty with the manufacturer of lumber in Canada. The manufacturer of Amer ican lumber can stand upon that foot ing and be successful. It docs not amuse anybody or please anybody, if only $2 a thousand is ex acted, to tell him the log is free. Is not that a strange position to take ? The man that buys 1,000 feet of lum ber, and can hardly buy that, to build him a cabin on the plains of the West, is told that the log is free, and there fore his right has been recognized to have taxation reduced in a measure. 'Mr. President, I desired only to call the attention of the Senate to this matter. I desired especially the at tention of some of my friends on this side of the House, who were looking so anxiously to find the meaning of the verdict of the American people. I want to call their attention to the fact that they can find it right here. We haye been amused in the months gone by with the assertion that there was to be some reduction of taxes, some lifting of the load which rested on the American people ; that we bad millions on millions in the Treasury we did not know what to do with, and we were hunting around to find where we could unload a little, where we could relieve burdens. This body during the last session and now are wrestling with the great proposition how can we get less money in the Treasury ? That notoriously was the position taken. Some gentlemen are bo anxious to prevent monej being poured into the Treasury tbat they would take the taxes off tobacco and whiskey. The enormities of the internal revenue just begin to glare upon the minds of some gentlemen, and the enormity of this internal revenue is so terrible that it must all be wiped out. That is the theory of some. We are getting too much money in the Treasury ; that is corrupting, demoralizing, dangerous. First you put the money there by taxes, and the great absorbing quest ion seems to be how to get money out of the pockets of the people, and then how to spend it after it is got out. This great problem is to be solved by taking less money from the people and putting less into the Treasury of the United States. Fifty million doll ars too much we collect.and the nation can not be safe,true political principles can not be sate in this nation unless we collect fifty millions less out of the pockets of the people ; and yet when we come right down to this simple matter of lumber, where there Is no pretense tbat any injustice or wrong will be done, or that there will be even any sensible diminution of the fortuues of ths owners of the great forests in this country by putting lum ber on the free-list, gentlemen stand np and refuse to aid, to assist the American people in this very point where tbey could render them a little assistance and relieve a little of the burdens of taxation which rest upon them. Mr. President, I would not feel it my duty to say anything further on this subject except lor some state ments which the Senator from Michi gan Mr. Conger has seen fit to make in regard to this question. The effect of the duty, my friend says, would be to keep out Canadian lum ber, and that is sought to be accom plished by the bill in this connection, to prevent Canadian lumbermen from competing successfully with the American manufacturers in this coun try. When I said I conld see no reason why those desiring the use of this lumber should pay $3 per thou sand feet as a tax my friend immedi ately interposed and declared tbat such was not the case, that the tax did not exceed $2 per thousand feet. My friend was very anxious that tbat fact should go down correctly to his tory. I supposed at the time that the gentlemen who framed the bill, in their benignity and in their consider ations of other laborers besides those who cat and saw pine logs in Michi fan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, had probablyaiade some reduction of the rate fixed in the previous tariff; but I find such is not the case, and therefore it is that there is a class of lumber taxed at $3 a thousand. Mr. CONGER. Manufactured? Mr. VAN WYCK. Mauufacturcd. Mr. CONGER. Plaued and dress ed. Mr. VAN WYCK. Certainly, planed and dressed. Mr. CONGER. I was speaking of the article of lumber. Mr. VAN WYCK. I am speaking of the article of lumber.and I say there is no good reason why it should pay $3 per thousand. Mr. CONGER. I spoke of lumber. The Senator is discussing another thing. Mr. McMILLan. Lumber, not manufactured lumber. Mr. VAN WYCK. I was speaking of those kinds of lumber the duty on which ranges from $1 to $3.50. It is true. My friend from Michigan now admits it to be true. Mr. CONGER. No, I do not. Mr. VAN WYCK. Does not the Senator admit the fact tbat the duty on lumber ranges from $1 to $3.50. Mr. CONGER. No ; the tax is $1 on a certain kind and $2 on another. Mr. VAN WYCK. And $3 and $3.50 on other kinds. Mr. CONGER. When you come to describe another article.wbether made into blinds or sawed into flooring, or ornamental in some way, there is a rate for that; but lumber is lumber, and can not be changed by any such process into some manufacture of planed lumber, boards, or sash or any thing else. Mr. VAN WYCK. I say the duty here fixed is ?3 and $3 50 on manufac tured lumber. Lumber planed is one description of lumber; lumber un planed is another description of lum ber; lumber planed, tongued and grooved is another description of lumber. I said on Saturday that the tax to be paid was from $1 to $8, but upon examination I find it ranges from $1 to $3.50. Limber in different stages is taxed differently lumber planed and unplaned, lumber planed on one side or planed on both sides, lumber planed on one side and ton gued or grooved; or lumber planed on both sides and tongued and groov ed; it is the description of lumber which X refer Mr. MoMILLAN. If the Senator from Nebraska will look at the bill he will find the correct use of terms to express his idea. At the head of this schedule he will find the words, "Wood and wooden-wares." That would embrace the items that the Sen ator refers to. When we speak of lum ber it is a well understood article; it is the product of the tree standing. Mr. VAN WYCK. Now, let us see who is right. I do not confess to a great deal of knowledge. My friend from Michigan does, and I concede it. My friend said he knew all about lumber. I concede it. He said he knew all about the tariff on lumber. I concede it ; but if he knows all about the tariff, he is more fortunate than a good many other men. Mr. CONGER. I did not say I knew all about the tariff. Mr. VAN WYCK. My friend con vinced me tbat be knew all about it. Mr. CONGER. I did not say I knew all about. Still the Senator ftfiflGrtfl it Mr. VAN WYCK. I assert it be cause the Senator said so, 1 think, I concede that he does know all about the tariff. I will read the language here, beginning in line 852 : Sawed boards, plank, deals, and other lumber of hemlock, white wood, syca more, and bass wood, $1 par 1,000 feet, board measure: all other articles of sawed lumber, $2 per 1,000 feet, board measure. But when lumber of any sort is planed or finished, in addition to the rates herein provided, there shall be levied and paid for each side so planed or finished, 50 cents per 1,000 feet, board measure. And if planed on one side and tongued aud groved, $1 per 1,000 feet, board meas ure. That makes it $3 per 1,000 feet. And if planed on two sides, and tou- gued and grooved, $1.50 per 1,000 feet, ourd measure. Making $3.50 per thousand feet for lumber, characterized and called lum ber in this very schedule. Therefore, if there is any force iu the statement I made, the fact is established that the tax to be paid iB from $1 to $3.50 per thousand feet upon lumber in the diff erent conditions in which it is thrown upon the market, but it is still lumber and we do not call it anything else ; it can not be called anything else. The fact is established, I take it. I undertook to sbow tbat lumber could be furnished about as cheaply in the United States as in Canada. I said first tbat stumpage is no more in the United States than it is in Canada. I said the probable cost of the manu facture is no more in the United States than it is in Canada. I said tbat the cost of transportation iB probably greater in Canada than it is in the United States. My friend takes issue with me upon these questions. What I said was that the Government of Cauada wsb not so liberal to those who purchased its pine forests as the Government of the United States, and I think tbat the facts establish it. In the United States this timber land was purchased, aB my friend admits, for $1.25 per acre, some of it for $2 50 an acre. That is all the Government re ceived, no more. Therefore, when I undertake to estimate the amount of stumpage paid to the Government by the purchasers, I take the price which they paid for the land, which is $1.25 or $2 50, as the case may be. Tbat is one proposition. The question is not what the gentle men who have bought all the pine forests in the United States choose to fix as their price upon the land. That waa uot the question under discussion at that moment. I say again that the stumpage of the Government is great er in Canada than it is in the United States. Taking the price as $2.50 per acre, if you please, it can readily be computed, the product being 5,000 feet, which is small, for it is generally double tbat quantity ; but at 5.000 feet per acre, the Senator can readily esti mate the amount of the stumpage. It is not the $150 that the owners of pine forests exact when they sell to other persons who may choose to go and plant their saw-mills and convert the trees into lumber. When we talk ot stumpage, 1 take it we talk of what the governments do in both cases, and in the United States the Government has sold to these -men at $1.25 and $2.50 an acre. In Canada the stum page is more than that, because here is my friend's admission that the gen tlemen here who buy at $1.25 and $2.50 per acre buy the title to the soil, and after the land is deuuded of its trees they can sell it and do, I pre sume, as agricultural land, for a price equal to tbat which they paid the Government. So the stumpage on tbat basis must be substantially noth ing. But in Canada, as my friend says, in the first place the privilege to enter upon the public domain and cut is auctioned off. The title is not sold, but the privilege to enter is given, and that is auctioned off. That brings 35 cents a thousand. In addition to that there are certain other conditions im posed by the Canadian Government, amounting to abont 75 cents a thous and. Then there is no title to the land. So I claim that the fact is es tablished that when you speak of stumpage in connection with the cost from the Government of each nation the American purchaser of pine land has an advantage over the Canadian purchaser from the Canadian Gov ernment. I further said that it cost in Canada nearly as much, or probably fully as much, to convert into lumber as it did in the United States, and my friend took issue with that and said that possibly could not be so. He said that tbey bad the same facilities for manufacturing that we had here. My friend said tbat wages were a little more here, and he pictured beauti lul scene in midwinter of 5,000 Cana dians coming through (he enow, with their axea strapped upon their backs, to obtain the better wages which they could get upon American soil, and they upend their winters in American forests returning in the spring-time to their own country. That being bo, the object, then, is to benefit' Canadian labor,. to allow it to come over here and absorb the benefit of our high wages. "It that be so and I presume it is then necessarily the Canadian manufacturer of lumber, living so near to us as he is, if the best of the laborers can be induced to come from Canada into American pineries, must pay the same or nearly the same wages which can be obtained by cross ing the line. Now, as to the fact of their using machinery, I presume my friend will not question anything in the report of the Tariff Commission, and they have given us some very good suggestions upon this matter, which if repeated by some one in opposition to my friend I suppose he would stigmatize as a free-rade notion ; and yet my position to-day iB just the position declared in the sentiments of the report. Had they carried into effect the sentiments of the report, or had the Finance Com mittee done so, there would be less objection to this bill. But I will say to my friend that I take the position I do because it is good, sound Repub lican doctrine, and has been for twen ty years. My doctrine is a tariff for revenue, with incidental protection. That position as a Republican party we have occupied for years. We have substantially declared it in every Re publican platform from 1872 to the present time. I occupied that posi tion with one other on this side of the Chamber when we voted against the appointment of a Tariff Commission. We felt then that the Tariff Com mission was, as expressed by a gen tleman on this side of the House, a makeshift, that it was intended to do just what it is doing, to mystify still more this question of the tariff', and to make no substantial reduction of the tariff which the people see or feel or understand. When these gentlemen proclaim the doctrine as to revenue reform that I stand on, I am not to be arraigned ; nor am I to be arraigned because I stood where the Republican party has planted us for the last twelve years. When I felt it my duty to raise my voice at the last session and object to the constitution of the commission, it was perfectly evident then, as it appears more evident now, that gentlemen would be placed on that commission to protect the inter ests which they represented, rather than to consider the prosperity of the country which it was supposed they were intended to serve. The result has shown it; the report has shown it; the bill they have presented has shown it. The bill clearly establishes that fact. They say they propose to reduce duties ; they arguo the neces sity of it in this report ; yet on the small matter of lumber, where there is as much necessity and more reason than on any other article for a reduc tion, these gentlemen pass it by and never propose the simplest reduction. To be continued. Fires. A recent fire in Moffat's building, N. Y. caused a loss of $40,000. The Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern freight depot burned the other morning, with about one thous and dollars worth of freight. All the books and papers were destroyed. The loss will reach $3,000. It is thought the fire was the work of an incendiary. The fire at Gibson City, Iowa, was more disastrous than at first suppos ed. Six firms were burned out. Lobs $40,000. The East Florida Seminary burned the other night. No lives lost. The farm house of A. D. Stage, near Dessee, Minn., burned the other night. Four children perished in the flames. Leonard, Cook & Co.'s cracker fac tory and the Kansas City bag factory burned one night last week. Lobs $15,000. Hotice of Sale Under Chattel Mort gage. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that by virtue of a chattel mortgage dated on the 25th day of April, A. D., 1878, and duly filed and recorded In the bttice of the County Clerk of Platte county, Ne braska, on the 3d day of May, A. D.v 1878, at 8:40 o'clock, a. m., and recorded in book C, of mortgages, paes 190, 197, 198, and executed by Charles Sump to Peter F. Oburg. to secure the payment of the sum of sixty dollars, and upon which there is now due the sum of sixty dol lars and interest, and costs, default hav ing been made in the payment of said sum; therefore I will sell the property therein described, viz: One set of blacksmith tools consisting of the following tools: one anvil, weight 112 lbs., one bellows, one vise, three hammers, one screw plate, one drill, two files, three punches, two cold chisels, and one shoeing box, at pub lic auction in the town of Humphrey, Platte county, State of Nebraska, on the 24, tk day f Fetraary, A. D., 1883, at three o'clock p. m. of said day . JULIUS KREUGElt, Constable. February 1, 1883. j2A PBOBATE HOTICE. The State of Nebraska, County or Platte. Ss. In the County Court, in aud for baid county. In the matter of the es tate of John Eyinan, deceased, late of said county. AT A SESSION of the County Court for said county, holden at tbo Coun ty Judge's office in Coluinbus, in said county on the 9th day of February, a. d., 181, present, John G. Higgins, County Judge. On reading and tiling the duly verified petition of Henry II. Eyman praying that letters of administration be issued to him on the estate of said dece dent. Thereupon, it is ordered that the 8th day of March, a. p., 1883, at one o'clock, p. m.. be assigned for the hearing of said petition at the County Judge's office iu aid county. And it is further ordered, tbat due le gal notice be given of the pendency and bearing of said petition by publication in Tiik Columbus Journal for three con secutive weeks. (A true copy of the order). Dated, Columbus, Neb., Feb. 9, 8S. " JOHN G. HIGGINS, 42-3 County Judge. LEGAL HOTICE. The State of Nebraska, Platte County, ss. In the County Court for said coun ty. In the matter of the adoption of a minor, known as Frank Clayton. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on the 19th day of November, 1881, Ole Olson, as guardian of a minor known at Frank Clayton, and Levi Gutru, both of Baid county, filed in said Court their sev eral statements in writing in due form, to the end that said minor may be fully adopted by the said Levi Gutru, and thereupon it was ordered by the said Court tbat Thursday, the 8th day of 3Iarcb, 1883, at 2 o'clock: p. m., at tne County Judge's office in said county, be fixed as the time and place of bear ing ia said matter, and that due legal notice of the time and place of said hear ing be given by publication in Ths Columbus Joubval. Dated February 12, 1883. JOHN G. BIGGINS, 42-3 County Judge. Columbus KRAU8E,LUBKEK&C0. NEW GOODS! BEST GOODS! LOWEST PRICES! AT USE, LUBKER & CO.'S, )PKALKKS IX( HARDWARE! STOVES, TINWARE, CUTLERY, AND A FULL LINE OF FARM IMPLEMENTS. Pan aad Wiad Will-. :u-tf STATEMENT OF 11 MUTUAL M INSURANCE GO. OF NEW Y01. r. 8. WINSTON, President. For the year ending December 31et, 1882. ASSETS - 97,901,317.72. Annuity No. Ann.Pay'ts. No. Ann.PaVt. Annuities in force. Jan. Annuities in force, Jan. 1st, 1SS3 .W $21,130 81 1st, 18: fiS l,2fl0 !M Premium Annuities .... 4,339 20 Premium A nullities. . 3,712 44 Annuities Issued 2 430 CS Annuities Terminated. . ." 3,0.l 31 CO $2.-1,9.18 69 M 2j,1."i8 till Insurance No. Amount. $3ir,900,13; Policies in force, Jan. 1st, 1SS2 101.400 Risks Assumed. ... 11,410, 37,234,458 112,906 $3.VJ,134,.-i9r Dr. Revenue To balance from last acc't PremiumVrecelved ' Interest and Rents. . $89,018,413 5)7 12.8I5..VJ2 SO fi.07S,705 79 $107.fi42,772 02i Dr. Balance To Reserve at four per cent $92,409,0.-9 00 T Claims bv death not vet due i-r.0,120 00' To premiums paid in advance r.,i9. To Agents' Balances 10.92S 31 To Surplus and Contingent Guarantee Fund 4,011,414 80, $97,901,317 71 NOTE If the New York Standard of four and a half per cent, interest be used, the surplus is over $12,000,000. ,--,,., From the Surplus, as appears in the balance sheet, a dividend will be apportion ed to each participating Tolicy which shall be in force at its anniversary iu 1883. THB PREMIUM KATES CUAKGKD FOR INSURANCE IN THIS COMPANY WKRK KKDUCKD IN 1879 ABOUT 15 PER CENT ON ORDINARY LIKE POLICIES. ASSETS $97,961,317 72 New York, January 18, 1S83. BOARD OF Fred'ck S Winston, Samuel E Sproulls. S L Husted, Oliver H Palmer, R A McCurdy, James C Holden, H C Von Post, Geo C Richardson, Alex II Rice, Wm F Babcock, F R Starr, Lucius Robinson, Samuel D Ilabcock, Wm Smith Brown, Henry A Smythe, Illiam E Dode, George S Coe, John E Develin, ARET1 Fill BEA5 SLICK18 WATEB HOOF COATS. TWKBS FIS1 BIAHB RLICKEBS WILL NOT STICK or PEEL TOWEB'S FI8K BBllfB SUCKEBS iM DD BT KT HIT HORSEMAN FARMER WHO ETEK CATS TXSM X TBIL. Nom (ramla wltboat Ul trtd mtk. A. J. TO WEK, Sole Mfr. 22 - U-w SjSmSo: W V "X. A. X f X.vV TV AftWEPo V iJvee w !i C o - 2 S IIHI eBRRRRRRRRRRRRW 5. 1' II II I H"P"W- 1st 111 1 . aftU .-HII I m 1 k r . a K K HOT I .11 VvAx ciirirroQ rPt VT.:iW JWwnwiQ'i wa v. o j sas vPfino S a7 j JaaaBaai M aVaaTaBRaP Va 8b aaaBRaBaab W -' BaBafikaBaBaBlv' f"RL aaVBRRaBaBaBaBaaaaRa aBaWaBaPBRfi F' All those m want of any thing in that line, will consult tlieir own interests by giving him a call. Remem ber, he warrants every pair. Has also a, First -Class Boot and Shoe Store in Connection tar Repairing Neatly Done. Don't forget the Place, Thirteenth Street, one door west of Marshall Smith's. THE REVOLUTION Dry Goods and Clothing Store Hat on hand a splendid atook of Ready-made Clothing, Dry G-oods, Carpets, Hats, Caps, Etc., Etc., At prices Mt fere never H of More in GoHns. -o- I bay bit goodi strictly for cash and will girt y customers tha bemeflt, of it. Give Me a call and covince yourself of the facts WM. BECKER, : STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES ! PRorrsiojvs. rmmammsi rauirs, -also,- Ohoicest Varieties in China, Glass and Crockery WARE. 34-tf Account. Account. No.j Amount. Policies in force, Jan. 1st, INS! 100.214, $:t20,fMl,174 Risks Terminated .. 6.092! 23.:5.42l U2,90G $3."3.134,f.9.- Account. Cr. Bv paid Death Claims.. : " Matured Endow ments Total claims $0,031,913 20 " Annuities " " Dividonds ' " Surrendered Poli cies a Additions., lotal paid Policy, holders 112,848,83.-. 24 " ' Commissions (pay ment of current and extinguish ment of future) . " Contingent Guar antee account ' " Taxes and assess ments " " Expenses " " Balance to New Ac count $4,743,lf3 40 l,2s,7.r9 CO 21.IM0 .V. 3,139,320 3 3,053,o54 CG S12.322 91 29,703 77 243,059 06 ,7Ki.86."i fiO 92,782,930 08 ? 107,542,772 62 Sheet. Cr. By bonds secured bv Mort gages on Real Estate .. $t7,3.-0,317 82 By U. S. and other bonds . 2,01$,033 00 By Loans on Collaterals ... 17,99,960 00 Bv Real Estate 7.fO!..".16 39 I By Cash in Banks and Trust Companies at interest ... ,.-j:,.kh a By Interest accrued 1.230,731 03 By Premiums deferred, quar terly and isemi-anmul 99,242 61 By Premiums in transit, prin cipally (or December 113,527 40 $97,901,317 72 TRUSTEES. Fred'ck II Cossitt. Lewis May", Oliver Harriman, Thomas Dickson, Henry W Smith, John H Sherwood, Geo II Andrews, Robert Olyphant, George F Baker, Benj B Sherman, Jos Thompson, Dudley Olcott, Anson Stager, Fred'ck Cromwell, JuIieuTDavie, Robert Sewell, W. F. ALLEN, General Agent, Omaha, Neb. mm? TOWER'S Flsk Brand Slickers IX THS IIAXDE3T STORM WILL KEEP TOD BBT. TOWER'S FISH BBAHB 8LICEEB3 are the air Cata we with Wlrc-Faat ac4 Metallic Battoaa. EVERY COAT WARRANTED. For sale everywhere. AC Wholesale y all flrst rlasa Jobbers. m kW ' M "V XXX '-- ArM $30r NEW STORE! NEW GOODS! JUST OPENED BY A large and complete assortment of Uen's, Womm's andChildren'sBoots and Sl.o3. Vf niCU HE PROPOSES TO SELL AT BED-ROCK PRICES! I. OIUOK. oomingr! HAKD AND SOFf COAL! BOSS COAX 16.50. TAYLOR, SCHUTTE& CO. 34-tf JACOB SCHRAM, )DKALER IX( DRY GOODS ! Boots & Shoes, Hats & Caps, FUBRISHng GOODS AXD NOW. LOW TRICES FOR CASH. s-tt COLUMBUS STATE BANK! 8i::ttHMt3 Oirrirl Sul sal Tuatr a Hilit. COLUMBUS, NEB. CA SH CAPI TA L, - $50,000 DIRECTORS: Leavper Gekraro, Pres'i. Geo. W. Hulst. Vice Pres't. Julius A. Kefi. Edvtauh A. Gerhard. Abver Turntfr, Cashier. Raak or Deposit, Dlicouat mad EtchaaKe. CotlectioMN Promptly .tired om all Polmtw. Pay latereMt on Time Iepo itm. 274 JOHN HEITKEMPEK, Eleventh St., one door west of Gallev Bro.s.. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, Hh on hand a full assortment of GROCERIES! PROVISIONS, CROCKERY & GLASSWARE, Pipes, Cigars and Tobacco. Highest price paid for Country Produce. Goods delivered in citv. GIVE ME A CALL! JOII-V HElTKEnPEK. 31-y HENRY G-ASS, TJISTDERTAJKER ! COFFINS AND METALLIC CASES ! AND DKALKIt IN Furniture, Chairs, Bedsteads, Bu reaus.. Tables, Safes. Lounges, Ac, Picture Frames and Mouldings. J3"epairinj of nil kinds of Upholstery Goods. 6-tf COLUMBUS, NEB. FINAI, PROOF. Land Office at Grand Island, Neb. ) J:in. 17th, 1883. NOTICfc in hereby Riven that the fol lowing named 9ettler has Hied notice of his intention to make final proof lu support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Clerk of the Dis trict Coiirt at. I'nlllml.MLi -vv.i Thursday, March 1st, !& vi.: luuiaz lorcan. Homestead No. (JtH!) for the W. X N W.jf Section 28. Town! ship 1 norm or Range 2 west. 1L- n ames the following witnesses to prove his con tinuous residence upon, and cultivation ofsaid land, viz: George Mitchell. Hen ry Greisen, Bartefc Bogus and John Greiscn, all of Platte Center, Platte Co., a)-". 3I.B.1IOXIE, Register. FI3IAI, PROOF. Land Oflice atGrand Island, Xeb. Feb. 9, itW3. ': NOTICE is hereby giv'en that the following-named settler has filed notice of his intention to make tinil proof in support of his claim.and that said proof will be made before C. A. Newman Clerk of the District Court at ColumI bus, Nefe., on March 20th, 183. viz: John Nelson, Homestead No. 9391, for tlje : N. E. i Section 4, Township 13 north or Rnge 4 west. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous resit dence upon, and cultivation of, said land viz: John Swygert and John Koop. of St. Edward 1. a, Boone Co., Neb., and C. Koch and N. Koch, or West Hill p. o Platte Co., Neb. v ' '' 42-4 m: B. HOXIE, Register. F1XAI PROOF. Land Office at Grand Island, Neb I Feb. , 1883. f NOTICE is hereby given that the Vol. lowing-named settler has filed notice ot bis intention to make final proof in support or his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Clerk of the Dis trict Court, at Columbus, Neb., on Thurs day, March 22, 1883. viz: John Von Bergen, Homestead No. ilC2 for the M. yt of S. E. X of Sec. 10. T'p 10, Range 1 west. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous resit dence upon, and cultivation of, said land, viz : Wm. Hoefelman, of Columbus, Neb., and Henry T. Spoerry, Franz English and Jacob Maurer, or Humphrey, Platte County, Neb. 42-W5 M. B. HOXIE, Register. aaMBBBBJEBSSSi i X -Jw .
