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WEDNESDAY, MAKCII 7, 1888.
Coxkltno lias declined to be a candi
date for president.
Thi: great strike has rendered sixteen
"hundred engineers and firemen idle.
At St Petersburg they slaughter cat
tle, instantaneously, by electricity.
- Tire death of Capt. Delaney, U. S. A.,
was announced at Los Angeles, Cal., on
the 28th ult.
Mrs. ZVIaiit Bnowx, a widow of Louis
ville, killed herself the other night by
taking chloroform.
A BiMiwas introduced in the house
one. day last week for the admission of
the state of "Wyoming.
A kepokt from Constantinople says
that the sarcophagus containing the
lody of Alexander the Great has been
discovered at Saidi.
Senator Paddock on the mail service
and Senator Manderson on the pensions
are giving some of their democratic op
ponents food for thought.
It was announced in London the other
day that Wildred Blant, candidate of
the liberals, had leen defeated in the
parliamentary election at Deptford.
It was reported from Berlin the other
day that Kussian securities were flat,
owing to a decline in Kussian banknotes
and rumors of failures in St. Petersburg.
Mr. Powderly s letter is a good one.
So long as the Knights of Labor have so
level-headed a man as guide they can
"feel safe to place their interests in his
aire.
Senator Man-person seems to have
placed several feathers in his cap by his
rriehds at "Washington to be the ablest
tpeech ever delivered in either house on
that subject.
Three agents of Pasteur have sailed
for New South Wales with hen cholera
microbes to inoculate and thus extermi
nate rabbits in Australia, which are a
wonderful jest.
A heiort comes from Geneva that a
tremendous avalanche descended into
the valley of Morrobia the other day,
killing ten persons and burying a large
number of horses and cattle.
At Albuquerque, N. M., on the 1st all
freight conductors and brakemen on the
Atlantic A: Paciffc road struck against a
reduction of wages. Freight traffic is
abandoned for the present.
A part of the roof of the nearly com
pleted Midland hotel building at Kansas
Citv collapsed and fell the other day.
Frank Edson. a carpenter, was killed
and a dozen others more or less injnred.
The news from Washington in regard
to the health of General Manager Potter
of the Union Pacific is that he is yet in
a critical condition, and those who have
seen him do not believe he will recover.
Frvxklix Stump, imprisoned in the
Ohio penitentiary for passing counter
feit money, was shot dead by a guard
the other morning. He refused to bo
punished, assaulting the guard with a
hammer.
A slight shock of earthquake was felt
at San Francisco, Cal., the other after
noon. A shock was also reported from
several points north where it was more
severe and caused persons to rush from
their houses in alarm.
Joe Miller, jailor at Omaha, has
brought suit against G. M. Hitchcock
and the World Publishing Co., asking
25,000 damages, alleging malicious libel
in the World's publications concerning
the condition of the Donglas county
jail.
- Proraiuyt the richest newspaper man
in the world is Mr. Abell, proprietor of
the Baltimore Sun. whose fortune is es
timated at $20,000,000. This statement
may hold out an inducement to some
poor Lazarus in the business, still to
tug away.
A recent report comes from Dublin
that Father Kennedy and eight farmers
have been convicted and sentenced to
two months' imprisonment for attending
a meeting of the suppressed branch of
"the national league at Newmarket,
county Clare.
Sexator Maxdersox has recently in
troduced two bills, one to give $100 per
soldier or sailor, his widow or orphan,
who for ono year is an inmate of a state
soldiers' home. The other bill was to
provide aid for state homes for disabled
soldiers and sailors.
A EIRE in Sioux City, la., the other
afternoon broke out in the large brick
livery stable of Kingsworth & Buxton.
The inside of the building was complete
ly destroyed at a loss of over S20,000.
Nearly all the horses were safely remov
ed, some of them so badly burned how
ever that they had to be killed.
At Duluth, Minn., on the 1st the worst
snow by far of the winter set in during
the night. A high wind is prevailing,
and the thick, whirling snow rendered
it impossible to see across the street.
jTrainsare arriving late on all roads, and
departing trains are using two engines,
with small chances of getting through.
- A statement is made at Denver that
President Head of the international
range association, who has returned
from an extended trip through southern
Colorado, New Mexico and Texas, says
the reports in circulation that the loss
of range cattle this winter will reach
from 50 to 75 per cent, are false. The
lomes he aaya will be comparativelv
Jifht
ladnstrinl.
Trade at the great centers is enlarg
ing, notably in the west, Denver, Kansas
City, St Louis, Chicago.
Heavy rains have checked business in
Texas and interfered with planting ope
rations in Louisiana.
The government's gross receipts for
last week were $7,065,851, an increase
over previous week of nearly $280,000.
There is a disposition in Wall street
to attribute the unsatisfactory condition
of the New York stock market to the
delay and uncertainty surrounding con
gressional action on the national finan
ces. Bonds are dull and inquiry de
creasing. Exports of iron and steel from the
United Kingdom to tho United States
during January were but 52.311 tons,
42,326 less than in January, 1887, a de
cline of nearly one-half.
A specially prepared comparison of
earnings, expenses and net earnings of
fifty-five railroads for 1887 and three
preceding years, shows a gain in aggre
gate net earnings for 1887 over 1886 of 13
per cent, against gains of 22 per cent
and 21 per cent over 1885 and' '84, re
spectively. Since 1884 the mileage is 13
per cent greater. Tho net earnings per
mile for the four years are: 1887, $3,188;
'86, $2,910; '85, $267, and '84, $2,969.
The total shipment, from both coasts,
of wheat and flour, July 1, 1887 to date,
equals 90,000,000 -bushels.
The winter hog packing season, nearly
ended, promises a total pack of less than
6,000,000 hogs, the total to date being
about 5,700,000 hogs, against nearly 6,
440,000 hogs in the season of 1886-87.
Exports of hog products November 1 to
February 18 are 85,581,000 pounds less
than in 1886-87, or about 52,199,000
pounds of meats and 33,382,000 pounds
of lard.
Wool has sold more freely at steady
prices. Mr. Lynch's annual estimate of
the domestic clip is 333,500,000 pounds,
heavily in excess of previous statements,
a larger product than ever before except
1884. This heavy crop may help explain
the depression in wool prices. Dry
goods prices east are steady with agents,
except for print cloths, which are slight
ly easier. Condensed fromBradstreet's.
Canning Factory Note.
Mr. A. Bird, the proprietor of the Fre
mont canning factory, was in the city
during tho pnst week, in conference
with the gentlemen who aro at the head
of our canning factory project. As many
of our readers are interested in this
matter just now, we secured from Mr.
Bird the following facts and figures in
regard to the amount of vegetables that
can be raised on one acre, and the price
paid for tho same: Corn, snapped, brings
$5 per ton delivered at the factory, and
as three to five tons can be raised on an
acre of ground this would make an acre
worth $15 to $25, which would seem to
us to bo a good fair prico for that article.
Tho corn should not all bo planted at
ono time, but a farmer could plant from
the last of April to the first of June, and
by thus doing could have tho crop ready
for market from the middle of July to
the first of October. Mr. Bird informs
us that tho seed is usually furnished
and the factory contracts to take the
entire crop. In regard to tomatoes, the
gentleman tells us that an average crop
is from 250 to 400 bushels per acre,
which are worth 25 cents per bushel at
the factory. They should be planted
six feet apart and cultivated the same as
corn, and are regarded as sure a crop as
any crop raised in this country and will
stand wet or dry weather. The plants
should le set ont as early as tho season
would permit, and it requires nu more
labor to raise tomatoes than it does to
raise corn. Tho factories usually fur
nish seed and contract to take all tho
crop raised. The price of the seed is de
ducted when the crop is delivered at the
factory. These figures will give our
farmers an idea of the benefits derived
from the establishment of a canning
factory here. Tecumseh Journal.
TnE public will not approve the action
of B. & M. authorities in employing
"Pinkerton soldiers," the impression to
be created that there is danger to life at
the hands of the striking engineers. The
police force of tho cities and the militia
of Nebraska are abundantly strong
against any emergency that may possibly
arise, but when there is not a particle of
danger it looks silly to import armed
details from a detective bureau, or to
command the ordinary employes of the
company to arm themselves. The present
contest is not very unlike many that
have preceded it a difference of opinion
between employer and employes, organ
ized capital and organized labor. The
public believe that the engineers, in this
case, are in the right, and, whether they
are exactly or not, there should be no
violence, and no attempt on the part of
the railroad company to create tho im
pression abroad that there is violence
against them by tho striking engineers,
or that the public peace has been threat
ened by tho laborers. Such is not nor
has not been the case, even in the face
of the employment of an armed detail
from a detective agency, which has lat
terly made a special business of furnish
ing soldiers for private corporations,
ostensibly to protect property, presuma
bly to overawo those who object to their
rough-shod way of dealing with men and
interests that stand in tho way of tho
satisfaction of their swinish greed for
gold.
Well, well, well!! Whatever will be
como of old England, and what is this
world coming to! Just think of it!
In England, Ireland and Scotland hun
dreds of thousands of acres of land are
kept as game preserves, in which the
landed proprietor and his coterie of
friends annually enjoy a few weeks'
shooting, instead of being used for rais
ing crops. Heretofore these preserves
have been held very sacred in the eyes
of the law and a poor man who was
found poaching was very summarily
dealt with and often very severely pun
ished. A cablegram from London an
nounces the intelligence that if a bomb
had suddenly exploded in the midst of
the landed aristocracy it could hardly
have been productive of more commo
tion than has been aroused by the dec
laration of Judge Denman last week
that poaching is only a misdemeanor
and that keeperejhave ncrright to arrest
and hunt them as they would wild
beasts.
A special from Washington to the
Lincoln State Journal says: Laird is
getting in a great deal of solid work, ex
pecting to save the government over
fifty thousand dollars under his Ft
Brows resolution, which calls for an in
vestigation into a steal of one hundred
and sixty thousand dollars. He has also
appeared before an Indian affairs com- J
nnttee making a forcible appeal lor some
legislation in behalf of Nebraska depre
dations claimed. He is promised a fa
vorable report from the house judiciary
on his bill to compel the publication of
real estate sales under decrees of United
States courts in county papers where
the property is situated, the sale also to
tike place at the county seat This is a
very important bill for Nebraska. The
house sub-committee has likewise agreed
to report Laird's bill favorably providing
for national aid to the Nebraska and
other state homes for disabled veterans.
This is substantially the same bill offer
ed by Manderson in tho senate.
The other night at J. Darst's saloon,
in Omaha, were closeted in a wine room,
Frank Ryan and Mrs. Helen Howard.
In a short time after they entered the
saloon, the report of a pistol was heard
and Helen Howard rushed out into the
hall-way, screaming, "O, God, I am shot,"
and fell full length on the floor, where
she expired in two ininutea Ryan fol
lowed her, and as she fell, exclaimed, "I
shot her accidentally.'' At the same
time he handed his weapon to Joe Black
well, a colored bar keeper, and started
toward tho door, with the remark that
he would go after a doctor. He was
stopped and not permitted to leave the
place. He was arrested and locked up
in prison, but subsequently made a full
statement showing that the shot which
took the life of Mrs. Howard was acci
dental. Monday afternoon County At
torney Simeral filed n complaint against
Ryan charging him with murder in the
first degree.
White Corn.
To the farmers of Nebraska, greeting:
Raise whito corn. -Lately the southern
market has been open to Nebraska and
that market wants white corn, paying
three or four cents more per bushel for
white corn than for mixed. Buyers in
this state are now offering three cents
more for good and pure white corn than
for mixed. All the South Platte surplus
corn is now going to the southern states,
and it should continue to go there. The
farmer will make money by planting
whito corn for his surplus. Southern
Kansas has had access to tho southern
market for several years and tho result
is that the farmers down there have
gone almost exclusively into white corn.
Brethren of the press, pass it around.
- (Lincoln Democrat.
We will havo to hold a republican
convention this spring, probably in May,
to elect two delegates to the republican
national convention to Imj held in Chica
go -in June. Now why wouldn't it be
well enough to nominate ono republican
candidate for congress at the same time.
It would save the trouble and expense of
holding two district conventions. We
just throw this out :is a hint. Let us
hear from our republican contemporaries
on the question. (Madison Chronicle.
A report conies from Clinton, Hick
man county, Ky., that a body of armed
men collected and smashed in the doors
of the jail at Clinton, took ont Sam
price, who murdered Sheriff Winter, of
Hickman county, and William Reamus,
who killed J. H. Jackson when caught
robbing Jackson's hen roost, and put
ropes about their necks and led them to
a treo adjacent to the jail, where they
were hanged. The bodies wero left
hanging to the limbs until after day
light. a
Frank Gibson lives on a farm not
many miles from Chattanooga, Tenn.;
the other day a shell which had been
lying in the field ever since the war, was
carried home by him. Mrs. Gibson
used the shell for an andiron. She put
it on the stove and went about her
work, when suddenly it exploded, blow
ing Mrs. Gibson across the room and
inflicting injuries which will prove fa
tal. One of her eyes was torn out, her
right leg badly mangled and a terrible
wound made in her side.
D. M. Evans, who lives at Hazelton,
Pa., and who is a practical minor, was
examined the other day by the congres
sional committee,rand said that tho con
dition of the men in this region is piti
able. They could not under the short
system and the rates paid, get enough
to eat and wear. Some of the miners
never saw a dollar in cash. Other wit
nesses testified as to the manner in
which the miners were lield at tho mer
cy of the companies.
- A new political party was formed tho
other day in Washington City, and the
name given it by the twenty or thirty
men present was "Industrial Reform
Party." They nominated for president,
A. E. Redstone of California. Their
platform demands that tho government
Bhall issue legal tender money sufficient
in volume to meet all tho wants of the
people: that all interest-bearing bonds
shall be redeemed, and that all bonds
shall bo abolished.
The westbound train on the Southern
Pacific was Iwarded tho other night by
two masked men at Stein's pass. They
cut tho express and mail car loose and
had it run down the track some distance.
They forced the messenger to open the
car, which they robbed of all its valu
ables, but without disturbing the mail.
The express loss iB said to le heavy.
The engineer was then ordered back to
the train and the robbers disappeared.
TnE Omaha World thinks that "on
the basi6 of. his character, ability and
availability Senator Manderson may bo
nominated for vico president if his
friends shall take advantage of an ob
vious opportunity." If Allison of Iowa
is nominated for president, as 6eems
somewhat probablo, Mr. Manderson
would hardly do. If Evarts of New
York, then Manderson would do very
well. Hurrah for Manderson, anyhow!
A speclvl to the Bee of March 1 from
Orange City, la., says that last Saturday
near Hull, in Sioux county, Mrs. James
Lester died. She was buried Sunday,
but yesterday her father, suspecting
foul play,had the body exhumed. Today
a coroner's jury found that her neck had
been broken. Her husband says he was
in the barn shelling corn at the time of
her death. He will be arrested.
A man named Magrauder was fatally
shot the other afternoon at Covington,
opposite Sioux City. It is believed the
keeper of the saloon fired the shot,
though sevral other persons hare been
arrested.
A report comes from Warsaw that
large quantities of biscuit are being
manufactured atDubro. The railway
depots between Doloessk and Odessa
contain 10,000,000 pounds of corn and
7,000,000 pounds of sugar, which it is
impossible to forward because troops
are using the transport service. This
indicates that Russia is making some
preparations for war.
Combinations of business interests
beget counter combinations, which is, of
course, all right enough if all are held
thoroughly subordinated in their meth
ods and objects to the general welfare
but if any of them are allowed to ride
rough shod over the interests of others
and without regard to justice, a reckon
ing must be had and an accounting
made, for the general welfare.
Mrs. Heaton Manice, who arrived the
other day in Chicago from New York
and registered at the Leland hotel, shot
herself through the heart in a room at
the hotel at 1 o'clock a. m. The case is
sensational and mysterious. She was an
actress and married young Manice a
year ago while the latter was traveling
in charge of a tutor.
The president the other morning sent
the following nominations to tho senate:
John -E. Garland, of Dakota, to be asso
ciate justice of the supreme court of
Dakota Ty.; Moses J. Liddell, of Louisi
ana, to be associate justice of the su
preme court of Montana Ty.; Lucius B.
Nash, of Washington Ty., to be associate
of the suprome court of that territory.
Shortly after 1 o'clock the other
morning in New York City a big fire had
extended to the Union Square theater,
which soon became a mass of flames.
The theater with all its contents was
totally destroyed. The damage done to
other property and the theater will
amount to little less than the third of a
million dollars.
News conies from Dublin that tho
plan of campaign victory near Loughrea
was celebrated recently. Sir Henry
Burke has granted a 25 per cent, reduc
tion, pays legal costs, reinstates the
evicted tenants and pays the cost of
their mainteinance since eviction. Mc
Carlan has granted a reduction of 55
per cent. '
NEBKASKA NOTES.
Fremont Hoy is building an addition
to his residence sit Silver Creek.
Kearney has just completed a census,
and claims a imputation of 7,891.
Miss Mary C. Ballantyne, af Syracuse
has been nominated by the president for
postmaster.
Tho next reunion of tho Grand Army
has been located at Norfolk for the last
week in August
The Omaha appropriation bill for a
site passed the house last week, being
first reduced to $400,000.
Governor Thayer ibsued his proclama
tion the other afternoon, Staking Kear
ney a city of the second class.
A little son four years old of James
Porter of Lincoln, choked to death the
other day while eating his supper.
A bill has been reported and filed in
the senate abolishing the office of sur
veyor general for the district of Ne
braska and Iowa.
Later news from Oakland states that
the body of yonng R. Klaiber was found
in Logan creek where he had drowned
in attempting to recross the stream on
his return home.
On the 29th nit, tho residence of A. D.
Burr, at Lincoln, was badly damaged by
lire. Loss on building from three to
four thousand dollars; on furniture and
carpets, about two thousand.
A series or Methodist protracted meet
ings will be held in the Congregational
church at Silver Creek, commencing
next Wednesday evening. Revs. Powers
of Columbus, and Pierce of Clarks, will
be present.
The citizens of Tecumseh wero re
joicing one night laBt week over the
election of waterworks bonds, tho result
being 278 for, to six against. The boys
had a jolly good time with bonfires,
brass bands, etc.
North Platte wants to have a hand in
fixing up a place for holding the United
States court. She will send in her claim
to congress and request that the bill be
amended so as to include North Platte.
Why not Columbus, nlso?
Ben Harrison of Indiana, W. P. Hep
burn and J. P. Dolliver of Iowa, Stephen
A. Douglas and Richard Yates of Illi
nois will be among tho speakers sit the
bsinquot March 15th at Omaha of the
Young Men's Republican Club.
A fire ocenrred the other night at
Nelson in the office of the-Nelsonian,
but the prompt action of the citizens
saved the building from a very heavy
loss, sis the damage will not exceed $75.
The cause of the fire is not known.
Eleven csirs of sheep were shipped
from Silver Creek on Wednesday. The
drove numbered 1,150, and wero a fine
lot. They are tho property of E. H.
Thornton, and during the psist winter
have been under the care of Alex. Mc
Queen, who accompanied them to Chi
cago. There is probably no better place
on tho footstool for mixed farming and
stockrsusing and the industries and
business that naturally go with these.
Let every man who desires to see the
rapid development of our natural re
sources put his Bhoulder to tho wheel
this season.
Twenty Pinkerton men are stationed
at Plattsmouth.One of them was arrested
on a charge of assault and battery, pre
ferred by Frank Zeinn, a butcher. Zeinn
claims that ho was beaten and driven
from the yards while trying to send a
message. The case was not tried, but
continued over for a day.
On tho arrival of the west-bound pas
senger train at Indianola on the 1st,
Sheriff McCool arrested four strikiug
engineers and took them before Judge
Keys upon a charge of rioting at Mc
Cook. They pleaded guilty and were
fined $100 and costs. Public sentiment
is divided, but mostly in favor of the
company.
Farmers having a patch of very sandy
land cannot do better than plant it to
peanuts. This crop grows remarkably
well here and is very profitable. An acre
of peanuts can be cultivated with the
other work on the farm and they will be
found a great assistance in filling ont
the yearly income. (Madison Chronicle.
The Hon. John Kehoe, of Platte Cen
ter, Platte county, is spoken of as a can
didate for United States marshal. Mr.
Kehoe is a man of no small ability and
one that would fill the office of marshal
with credit to himself and the party of
which he is a prominent member. Noth
ing would please us better than to see
Mr. Kehoe secure the appointment.
(Schuyler Herald.
Last Thursday the sheriff, armed with
a search warrant, went to the house of
Luther Brown of Central City, where
they found no one but a child who
showed them a keg of powder in a trunk.
When asked where it came from she
said. ''Pupa brought it home at night
Papa brings home lots of things after
night." A gang of thieves have been at
work for some time sit Central City.
The News favors the nomination of a
congressman for this district and the
election of delegates to the national re
publican convention both at the same
convention. Tho district is very targe,
and many delegates will have to travel
hundreds of miles to sittend the conven
tion, aud there is no use in holding two
conventions to accomplish the work that
one can do as woll.Should but one conven
tion bo hold, every county in the district
would be fully represented, and a lietter
expression of the will of the republican
voters of tho district could be secured
thsm at two more sparsely attended con
ventions. (Norfolk News.
Altogether things look very bright for
Nebraska this year. The exceptionally
fine crop we raised last year is attracting
attention to the state; the development
of the Black Hills country is to be of
great benefit to us; the recent location
of extensive packeries within our borders,
the marvelons growth of Omaha and
other cities within our borders, all these
facts havo so advertised the stsite abroad
that the gaze of the whole country has
been turned this way. This year we are
going to reap the benefits of this by such
an inpouring of homo-seekers as the
state has never before witnessed. Let
them come; there is room for millions
more in tho great state of Nebraska.
West Point Republican.
The first caisson of tho new bridge be
tween Omaha and Council Bluffs is be
ing put into pliico. The bridge will be
ready for travel aliout August 1, and
that almost all tho material for the sub
structure is on the ground. Of the
super-structure, one 400 feet span, aud
ono 300 feet spsin have been received
from the Edgremoor works in Delaware,
andabout three cars from Oil City will
complete whsit is necesssiry for the sub
structure. At present the firm is mak
ing every effort to utilize the facilities
siffonled by the ice bridge, and havo a
railroad track running out to the caisson
where the men are at work. The iron
shell of this structure weighs 109,000
pounds and at present containing 500,000
pounds weight of concrete. No time is
Inst in handling the material when it
comes and it is safe to say sis the con
tractors say -that ciliens of Council
Bluffs and Omaha may exchange visits
over the new bridge on August 1. Bee.
Capt. W. C. Henry of Fairmont was
elected department commander G. A. R.
at their recent encampment. The re
maining officers of tho department
elected were: M. V. Allen, Madison, se
nior vico commander; E. C Parkinson,
Seward, junior vice commander; Rev. S.
P. Dillon, Litchfield, chaplain; Dr. M.W.
Stone, surgeon. Commander Henry ap
pointed for assistant adjutant general
J. W. Liveringhouse, Grand Island, and
for qusirtermstster general, L. O. Wash
burn of Norfolk. Tne following dele
gates were elected to the national en
campment at Columbus, O.: Semitor
Manderson. Judge Amasa Cobb, M. J.
Hall, A. Holmes, C. J. Dilworth, J. H.
Culver, A. II. Church, John L. Moore.
Alternates: H. G. Wolcott, J. E. Hill, A.
S. Cole, John Barnsby. J. M. Lee, John
Fitzpatrick, H. E. Paine. The council
of administration is composed of S. H.
Morrison, Nebrasksi City; A. Roberts,
Omaha; L. D. Richards, Fremont; John
C. Bonnell, Lincoln; H. O. Paine, Ains
worth. A long list of resolutions on
Grand army matters were adopted.
The Woman's Relief corps elect the
following officers for the ensuing year:
Mrs. E. Manchester, Lincoln, president;
Mrs. Sarah Sweet, Creighton senior vice;
Mrs. M. A. Swallow, Harvard, junior
vice; Mrs. Helen Applegate, Tecumseh,
chaplain; Mrs. Woodward, Weeping
Water, treasurer.
Innp Water Power.
Editor Journal: Thinking of my
former residence near your town and
reading your interesting Journal sug
gested tho few lines I will writo you.
Wo of South Omaha are about in the
usual hesilth and as the signs of spring
"multiply it is evident the boom is on.
No backward stops seem likely to be
taken by this town yet awhile. Prepa
rations for grading are already begun
and the contractor is girding up his
loins for new grades and dollars. Real
estate is high in price and on boot legs,
everjipedestrian carries enough of it to
make him solid, and he becomes very
much attached to it.
It is very commonly talked here that
South Omaha is a better market for
stockmen than Chicago, all things con
sidered, and we expect a great increase
in the business this year and seversd
other largo manufacturing firms are in
prospect which reminds me of the Loup
talk in your paper. Some one, I see,
suggests damming the whole river,which
I suppose is not intended profanely.
My idea is that owing to tho amount of
transitory sand in solution in the Platte,
Loup and Missouri rivers, the amount of
which seemB unlimited, and which quick
ly separates when the water is at rest,
and as a dam of any dimensions has a
limited area, it would in a very short
time become nothing more or less than a
6and-bar with a channel somewhere in it
or on top of it I think to make it avail
able your supply pipe or flume, as your
soil will not admit of a ditch, must be
entered below the present bed of the
river, must be smooth on Bides and bot
tom, and with no place where the water
is at rest for a long space of time, with
out sufficient pressure to move any sedi
ment which may collect, and with suffi
cient outlet to make the water do its
own dredging at any time and your
whole main and branches would not be
one-half the cost of the dam, after which
you would still have to supply as a con
duit to a distance to get sufficient fall.
More anon. With regards.
South Omaha, Feb. 26. d. d. h.
ADDITIONAL LOCAL.
District 44 and Vicinity.
A. C. Pickett was in the city several
days last week having plana and specifi
cations perfected for the construction of
a new house on his farm northeast of
Columbus.
Ed. Hamer, a boy about 18 years old,
(from the city), has engaged to assist
Mr. Pickett in farming this summer,
commencing last Monday.
About 1 o'clock Tuesday morning of
laBt week some person or persons, who
were fit subjects for mammon, backed a
team and wagon up to the hog pen of
Henry Lusclie, who lives about five
miles east of the city, and loaded into
their wagon four (out of eight) large fat
hogs. Mrs. Lnsche, on hearing the dog
bark, rose and went to tho window, saw
some object by the pig pen, but thought
it was only cattle. In the morning the
wagon tracks were very plain to be seen
at the very place that she located the
object in the night; Mr. Lusche tracked
the wagon toward Columbus until nesir
the hospital, where it went upon the
prairie and was no longer visible.
Julia Johnson of Ohio, Ills., sister of
our Tom, and who has spent the winter
with Mrs. T. Johnson, took tho train last
Wednesday for her eastern homo.
The Platte river has been booming
wild for two weeks. The prevailing
northwest wind in the early and middle
part of February brought the balmy
breeze from the Japanese current of the
Pacific ocean to besir upon the snow and
ice in the mountains, which, we think, is
the cause of its overflow at this unusual
season.
Bismarck Township.
Winter does not leave us yet.
The earth has agstin taken on a white
mantle.
Although rathor slippery, the roads
aro much improved since the late storm.
George Hodel has been hauling his
hay home which he purchased of Steve
Burke.
Matthew Fulz lost a fine colt last
week. It is from Matt's blooded mare
and is quite a loss.
T. M. Wilson butchered two fat hogs
on Saturday last, so we conclude he is
preparing for somo great event.
Wo learn that a painful accident oc
curred to tho youngest child of Frank
Luchsinger. While playing about the
house it climbed upon the fence and
falling over, it became ruptured. Wo
are unable to state its present condition.
The following pupils of the Academy,
averaged alrove 85 per cent in their
studies, during the month of February:
Jos. Hodel, Martha Craun, Otto Heiden,
C. D. Wilson, Robt Powers, Forrest
Butler, Jos. Vanwil, John Nauenbnrg,
Theo. Krumland, George Schwank, Em
ma Wilson, Maude Mooro. Charles.
Net a California Bear.
Anybody csin catch si cold this kind of
weather.- We advise our readers to pur-
chsiso of Dowty & Becher a bottle of
SANTA ABIE, the California King of
Consumption, Asthma, Bronchitis,
Coughs sind Croup Cures, and keep it
handy. Tis pleasing to the taste :ind
desith to the above complaints. Sold at
$1.00 a bottle or 3 for 32.50. CALIFOR
NIA CAT-R-CURE gives immediate re
lief. The catarrh virus is soon displaced
by its healing and penetrating nature.
Give it a trial. Six months treatment
$1.00, sent by mail $1.10.
The first Chinaman in Kansas applied
for citizenship Wednesday last at Wich
itsi and was refused.
An Absolute t'ure.
The ORIGINAL ABIETINE OINT
MENT is only put up in large two ounce
tin boxes, and is an absolute cure for
old sores, burns, wounds, chapped hands
and sill kinds of skin eruptions. Will
positively cure all kinds of piles. Aak for
the ORIGINAL ABITINE OINTMENT
Sold by Dowty & Becher at 25 cents per
Imx bv mail 30 cents. mar7v
SHERIFFS SALE.
By virtue of two order of wile irwued by (. Jl
Speice, clerk of the district court of Platte
county, Nebraska, upon judmenti rendered in
mid court in favor of Keid, .M unlock & Fischer
itsain.it Edward J. linker and Her Johnson, and
alito in favor of Fairbanks &. Co. against Kdvtard
J. Baker.'and Ivor Johnson, I have levied upon
the following real estate as the property of Raid
Kdward J. Baker and lver Johnnon. to wit: So
much of lota five, ix. neen and eiht in block
eichty-two. oh id not included in the depot
croundriof the U. P. B. B. in the city of Colum
bus; ju-irts of lots neen and eight in block
fifty-even: cominencinK at the sonthwent corner
of lot eight, running thence eighty-eight feet
north, thence, eight feet eat, thence eighty-eight
feet south, thence eight feet went to the Kint of
xtarting; the north half of the Houth half of the
southeast quarter of the northwest quarter of
M-ction t went j -four, township seventeen north,
range one wett; lot nix in block three, lot three
in block fifteen, Stevens Addition to tho city of
ColMAibus, Nebraska; lot number nine in Hoi.
man's out-Iota to the city of Columbus, Nebraska.
And 1 will, on the
31st Dy of Mrcu. 1388,
at 2 o'clock of said day, at the front door of the
court house of said couuty, in Columbus, sell
said real estate at public auction to the highest
bidder for rash, to satisfy said orders of nle. to
the amount due thereon in the aggregate, being
the sum of $3,Ut..r0 and $81.SU costs, and accru
ing costs. M. C. Blokdorn,
Sheriff of Platte Co., Neb.
Dated Columbus, Feb. 23d, 1388. 'JftfebTit
LEGAL NOTICK.
In the District Court of Platte county, Nebraska.
Notice to take Depositions.
Levi M. Lvxoill,
T8.
Emixy Lanoill.
The above-named defendant will take notice
that on the 27th day of March, A. 1)., 1888. be
tween the hours of ten o'clock, a. m., and six
o'clock", p. m., at tho office of Wm. D. Wood, in
the First National Bank in Seattle. King county.
Washington Territory, the plaintiff above-nanied
will take the testimony of M. H.Snow, Mrs. M.
A. C. Snow, witnesses in this action; to be used
as evidence on the trial of the above-entitled
cauNj, with authority to adjourn from day to day.
until such deiiositions shall have been taken and
completed. Levi M. Linoill,
Plaintiff.
By Allen & Kobinson hit attorneys. StfebSt
PKOBATK NOTICE.
In the matter of the estate of Mathias Engle,
dcea!ed.
Notice is hereby given that the creditors of the
mid decea'ied will meet the oxecutor of said
estate before me. County Judge of Platte county,
Nebraska, at the county court room in said
county, on the 21th day of April. 188, on the lth.
day of June, 1888, and on the 11th day of August,
1888, at 10 o'clock a. m. each da, for the purpose
of presenting their claims for examination,
adjustment and allowance. Six month are
allowed for creditors to present their claims, and
nine months for tho executor to sottle said
estate from the 28th daj of January, 1388.
Dated February 2d. A. D. lft.
II. J. Hudson,
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ERNST & SCHWARZ.
44-2t
G-ALLEY BEOS.
What better than a good warm coat for your
wife or daughter? Bargains will be given for
the next THIRTY DAYS, to close them out be
fore invoicing.
Rye Hundred Suits !
Of men's, boys' and children's clothing to close
out. On account of the open winter we will close
out over 200 overcoats cheaper than ever known
in Columbus.
Do not fail to see Galley Bros.' bargains be
fore buying. Remember these bargains will not
last long, we mean to close them out, so take ad
vantage 01 tne bargains
GALLEY
Before we
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Have u Fine Line of Stnplo nml Fanov
GROCERIES
Crtckiry and Gluswart, .
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Eleventh
Mckinley &
MOtTG.lGt:
COLUMBUS, NEB.
Money to loan on improved farms in this and adjoining
counties, at current rates. We are prepared to close loans
promptiy, in all cases where title and security are satisfactory.
Office up-stairs in Henry Building, corner of Olive and
Eleventh streets. juiyir;tr
SPETCE & NOKTH,
Cleitft til Aijentsfor the sale of '
E-IL
Union Pacific and .Midland Pacitic It. K. Land
oronhveortn )eant time, in annual iwymeuts to
lot of other land, improved and unimiroyvd, for
bUrtinesand rfddence lis in tho city. V ktt
Plat Countj .
COLUMBUS.
W. T. RICKLY& BRO.
Wholesale and
JTxesOzL Sa.lt lveats;
Game, Poultry, ai9 Fresh Fisk. All Kiids of Saisage a Specialty..
3PCuh paid for Ride. Peltd. Tfcllow. Highest market price paid for fat cattla.B
. Oltoa trt, aacond door north of First Vatlonml Baak.
GARLAND
STOVES AND
RANGES
ALWAYS FOB SALE AT
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we shall oner at -
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invoice.
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Which wero bought cheap for cash, anl will he suhl
at very low prices.
Street, Columbus. Nebraska.
novlfMf
carnahan,
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for ale at from 1.00 to $10.00 per acre for cash
suit purchasers. Wehatealsoa lare and choice
nale nt low price and on reasonable terms. Also
a complete abet met of title to all rral estate iu
NEBRASKA.
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