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WEDNESDAY, JULY 25. 1888.
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
Hatiomal.
For President,
BENJAMIN HARRISON,
Of Indiana.
For Vice-President,
LEVI P. MORTON,
Of New York.
CemgresaioHal.
For Representative in Congress, 3d District,
GEORGE W. F- HORSEY.
Gen. Tiios. Young died at Cincinnati
Friday.
Twenty-five lost their lives by the
floods near Wheeling.
The president still continues to run
well in England. N. Y. Tribune,
The use of machinery has been abol
ished in the penal institutions of New
York state.
The President has nominated Frank
Galbraith, of Nebraska, to be receiver
of public moneys, at Neligh.
The remains of the late Roscoe Conk
ling were removed from the receiving
vault at Utica, N. Y., on the ICth and
interred in the Forest Hill cemetery.
Gbacie Enfield, aged 11, Myrtle
Chandler, 13, and Cornie Bartlett, 13,
were drowned in the Raccoon river near
Jefferson, la., on the evpning of the 18th.
The bill for the formation and ad
mission into the Union of the territory
of Washington and part of Idaho was
under consideration in the senate on
the 18tlu
Michael Ddmiht, aged thirty-six, at
Brooklyn, on the 17th shot and killed
his brother John, aged twenty-seven, in
a drunken quarrel and then shot himself
dead. The men were peddlers.
'The steamship Erin arrived in New
York, from London, on the 16th with a
murderer in irons. Patrick Kelley, a
seaman, had stabbed to death sailors
John Penny and John Chapman.
TnE Indianapolis Journal says that
Captain Robs, of Madison, owns a re
markable parrot. It greeted the Cap
tain one morning last week with the ex
clamation, "Hurrah for Harrison."
On the 17th at Washington in the sen
ate, the bill to place John C. Fremont
on the retired list as a Major-General
of the army, after being discussed, was
passed by a vote of yeas 29, nays 21.
An explosion of a steam pipe near
Westport, Ind., on the 20th at 1:40,
caused the death of seven men of the
crew of the tug Convoy. The tug was
built last February and was owned by
Thomas Fawcett fc Sons, of Pittsburg.
The governor of Florida last week
asked assistance of the government at
Washington in suppressing yellow fever,
which he says threatens to become epi
demic at Tampa and Manatee. The
secretary sent an answer promising
help.
To prevent the spread of yellow fever
from the towns inflicted with it in Flori
da guards will be placed immediately to
prevent refugees from infecting other
places, will have to pass the usual de
tention period and have their clothes
fumigated.
The Tablet, a Catholic paper of New
York, Bays: "We warn Grover Cleveland
that not 40,000, nor 50,000, but 100,000
Irish-Americans in the Empire State will
manifest at the polls their condemnation
of his pro-British, un-American and
anti-Irish policy."
Early on the morning of the 20th, at
New York, E. P. Roe, the novelist, de
parted this life. His works have been
read by tens of thousands of people.
They met the popular demand for a
story, admirably; humanity is much the
better for his having lived.
A report went out on the 18th from
St. Joseph, Mo., that a gentleman regis
tered at the Union depot hotel as "F.
Gratz and lady." The man was recog
nized the next morning as Moore, and
finally admitted his identity. He said
Mrs. Norton was with him, but would
not talk about their affairs. They went
east on the Hannibal & St Joe railroad.
An unusually severe rain storm pre-
railed at Wheeling, W. Va., on the even
ig of the 19th, flooding everything in
the vicinity. While a number of people
weIe standing on the bridge of the Bal
tiaiore & Ohio railroad, spanning the
Wheeling river, it gave way, precipitat
ing twenty to thirty persons into the
liver. Eight persons were rescued, but
t m "feared ten or twenty persons have
gfrhjA la the lower part of the city,
jgaralriUingB were swept away and
dew persons drowned.
The Seata's Jealoasy.
"Whom the gods would destroy they
first make mad." It is plain that the
gods have fully and finally determined
upon the destruction of the democratic
party, for it has gone mad upon the
question of free trade, and the Mills bill
is sufficient evidence on which to commit
it The bill is not bad merely in that it
proposes to destroy the system which
has made this country prosperous, but
its sectionalism would condemn it if
nothing else did.
It is possible to understand why the
south might wish such a bill enacted,
but why any northern man favors it
passes comprehension. Comparatively
speaking, the south is poor. The insti
tution of slavery cursed it for nearly a
century, preventing all progress. The
war abolished slavery, but unfortunately
it did not end indolence or remove the
ideas which the slave system had firmly
established. The south has never gotten
over the idea that the blacks wore born
to toil and the whites to live upon the
results of their toil. More white men in
the south are now compelled to work
than formerly, but they do it under pro
test. They are jealous of the prosperous
north, and have deliberately set them
selves the task of destroying the basis
of such prosperity, and to build itself
upon the ruin.
But the south in its jealousy is making
a grave mistake. It may protect ite su
gar and its rice, but if it succeeds in its
present attempt it puts an end to the
development of its mineral wealth, and
thus of its agricultural resources. It is
"biting off its nose to spite its face."
The south has all the elements of
prosperity possessed by the north if it
would only develop them. Take the
state of Alabama, for instance. It is an
empire of undeveloped mineral and ag
ricultural wealth. If it were possible to
replace the present imputation with New
Englanders, you might build a Chinese
wall around the state, for all the help
that would be needed from outside.
Northern judgment and energy would
narrow the cotton fields, diversify agri
culture, develop the coal and iron mines,
and in a few years the state would be
come one of the most prosperous in the
union.
The south should accept Congressman
Horr's advice and "raise less hell and
more hogs." It should make use of its
natural advantages, to catch up with the
north, instead of endeavoring to hold
the latter back. That it cannot do, and
it will onlv hurt itself by the attempt
Omaha Republican.
Republican readers are requested to
examine the following brief report from
Plattsburg, N. Y., under date of July 16,
showing how fraudulently and dishon
estly the move is being made to colonize
unlawful voters to carry certain close
state elections. There is no remedy left
to republicans but to have secret com
mittees in ever doubtful state to guard
against this fraudulent voting, commit
tees that will send the rascals to the
penitentiary and by every honest and
legal method to deter to such voters and
the shot-gun controllers of the south
until they will obey the laws. This sys
tem must in some way be attended to
and the law executed or else Grover's
luck may continue. The following is
the report:
"The arrest here by the customs au
thorities of three Chinamen on their
way from China to New York has raised
a question of great importance. Large
numbers of Chinamen have entered the
United States by the Delaware & Hud
son railroad this year, and up to the
present time all had certificates. A
party who came from China via Van
couver and the Canada Pacific railroad
boarded a train at Montreal on Friday
lxmnd for Plattsburg. The customs
officials found that all but three of them
had certificates. Of these three one had
naturalization papers showing him to be
a citizen of the United States, while the
other two had papers showing that they
had declared their intention of becom
ing citizens. The papers were made out
in the county clerk's office in Passaic
county, N. J. An examination was be
gun before the United States commis
sioner today, but was adjourned until
Thursday in order to bring the Passaic
county clerk here to testify as to the
genuineness of the papers."
The Republican Platform Condensed.
We believe in a free ballot and in hav
ing every vote counted.
We believe in protection for protec
tion's sake and we are not ashamed of it
We believe in abolishing internal tax
es created for war purposes.
We believe in the direct protection of
American labor against cheap foreign
labor.
We believe in free internal competi
tion. We believe in railroad regulation.
We believe in homesteads and good
homestead titles for citizens.
We believe in homerule for big and
intelligent territories.
We believe in double monetary stand
ard. We believe in the utmost facilities for
education as worth all they can cost
We believe in a big merchant marine
and in American ship yards.
We believe in a good navy, good coast
defenses, and good water routes for com
merce. We believe in making other nations
respect our rights and pay for all they
get from us.
We believe in protecting American
citizens against foreign interference, not
only at home, but in any part of the
world.
We believe in civil service reform
more than ever.
We believe that nothing is too good
for the soldiers who risked their lives to
save our country, and saved it New
York Press.
The New York Sun is one of the ablest
journals in the country, of whatever po
litical party. It is also democratic, but
patriotic; it is American and not Eng
lish; it is for protection and against
free-trade or a tendency toward the
same. On this issue the sun says:
"Free trade means putting all the la
boring men of the world upon one level
of competition. Protection means re
stricting the competition among laborers
to those living in our own country, and
the consequence of such restrictions is
that the wages remain at a high level;
whereas, if the competition of all the
laborers in the world were allowed to
operate here, they would steadily fall to
the lowest level. That is why the work
ingmen of this country are better paid,
are more prosperous, live in a better man
ner, are better educated, and bring up
their children with more of hope and
ambition than belongs to workingmen
in any other country. This is why the
workingmen of the United States like
the American system of protection, and
dislike the British system of free trade.
The republican party is for protection;
the democratic for free trade."
The richest lot of gold rock ever taken
out east of the Rocky mountains was
brought into Ishpeming, Mich., the
morning of the 20th, from the Lake Su
perior iron company's gold shaft The
quality of rock surpassed any thing ever
known. Over three hundred pounds of
the rock is now in the company's office.
The best chemists place the value of the
three hundred pounds of rock at 810,000,
the wonderful find has set the people
wild. The shaft is now 22 feet deep and
is about 18 inches wide at the bottom.
The Michigan gold mine, which adjoins
this shaft, has found rock in smaller
quantities of unusual richness. There
is no doubt but one of the greatest gold
mines in the world has been found at
Ishpeming.
In the house at Washington on the
16th, after the discussion in favor of the
free wool clause, WiUrins of Ohio moved
to strike wool from the free list On
division, the vote stood 93 to 122, and, as
announced, was received with applause
on the democratic side. Snowden of
Pennsylvania and Wilkins and Foran of
Ohio were the only democrats voting in
the affirmative, while Anderson of Iowa
voted in the negative. And yet this
same democratic party tells you it is not
a free trade party and asks the farmers
for their support and at the same time
would weaken or entirely destroy one of
their most important industries. The
American farmer and woriringman have
their "thinking caps" properly adjusted
this year and will be heard from in the
ides of November by casting their votes
for the men who believe in the protec
tion of their every interest Harrison
and Morton.
J. T. Clark, general superintendent
of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
railroad, died July 20. He was born in
Cadiz, Ohio, April 7, 1832, and in his
railroad career started as a teamster on
a grading job, April 1, 1853, and at the
time of his death was one of the very
best railroad men in the country. Many
of onr local readers became acquainted
with him when he was superintendent
of the Union Pacific and learned to ad
mire him for his manly directness and
force, and his thorough equipment for
the business of practical railroading, in
which he perhaps had no superior in the
country. Peace to his memory.
Senator Harrison silenced Senator
Voorhees' professions of friendship to
the soldiers by a speech in which he
said: "The man who lived through the
war of the rebellion and did not make
some sacrifice for the success of the
union armies, who did not say one brave
word or do one brave thing when, with
bare and bleeding breasts, our soldiers
looked into the face of hell for their
country, can never be enshrined as the
soldiers friend." The same thing is
true of Gen. Harrison's opponent today.
It will apply to President Cleveland just
as well as to Senator Voorhees. Chica
go Inter-Ocean.
No cse getting unduly excited over
the presidential .campaign everything
is working good for the republicans.
British interests in this country are not
so important to most Americans as they
are to the British contingent Fortu
nately the contest is narrowed down so
that nobody need be deceived in regard
to it, and they are not The position
of the democracy, domineered by the old
free-trade south, is unmistakable in this
contest, and it is well that it is so. Re
publicans can rest easy, everything is
moving smoothly.
It seems that over at Council Bluffs
they have a rather queer state of affairs,
There is a blackmail charged all along
the line of the saloon people, whether it
includes houses of bad repute is not re
ported, but, more than likely, it does,
Speaking of the city attorney Sims
the Republican says: "He knew well that
the saloon men had been 'bled' at a
fearful rate by others. For years the
mayor's fine (?) of 8600 a year had been
paid. In addition to this 825 per month
had been 'anted "up' to various legal
firms by way of a retainer."
There still exists in Chicago an un
usual excitement This time about a
plot to murder two judges and the Chi
cago police inspector. By timely action,
however, Inspector Bonfield on the morn
ing of the 17th probably saved the lives
of himself and Judges Gray and Grin
nell. In a small frame building were
found twelve dynamite bombs, a revolv
er and a knife, and as the ownor of the
articles stepped to the sidewalk, he was
arrested by Bonfield in person and tak
en to the station. The men arrested
are John Hronek, "Frank Chapek and
Frank Chebowa, all Bohemians.
A bio fire was getting in its work in
Chicago on the morning of the 18th on
the upper floor of the five-story building
at 156, Washburn avenue, occupied as a
piano sale room and warehouse by Ju
lian Bauer. The fire was still burning
and up to 10 o'clock 8400,000 worth of
property had been destroyed. One man
is supposed to have been burned, and
the janitor of the building, James Ma
honing, is missing. The fire was consid
ered incendiary on all hands, and points
to a porter whom Bauer & Co. discharg
ed a short time ago.
Saoald Bay Him a Flair.
Some patriotic citizen ought to start a
5-cent subscription and raise enough
funds to buy an American flag for the
poverty-stricken democratic receiver of
the McCook land office, who claims that
he is too poor to buy one. He is work
ing foran administration that has shown
the flag but scant courtesy, and perhaps
he feared that his superiors might feel
offended if he flung the stars and stripes
to the breeze. Hastings Gazette-Journal.
It is suggested at Omaha that the
new school board are the proper author
ity for employing teachers and janitors
for the coming school year. The old
board, it seems, had selected the force.
Even if they had the legal right to do
this, it would seem hardly the proper
thing to do, seeing that the new board
would be held responsible for the good
conduct of the schools, and that this is
mainly due to the teachers placed in
charge.
The debate on the Mills tariff bill was
closed on the 21st and the final vote tak
en on the passage of the bill in the
house, resulting in yeas, 162, nays, 149.
Bnowder of Pennsylvania, Greenman
and Bliss of New York, (democrats) vot
ing against the bill, and Fitch of New
York, Nelson of Minnesota, (republicans)
voting for it The four independent
members also voted for it When the
speaker of the house announced the
passage of the bill, the democrats broke
forth with wild cheering and waving
their bandanas.
Gen. Harbison's enthusiastic friends
should keep away from his residence and
let him have the ordinary rest and quiet,
to which every honest citizen is entitled.
The future president and his wife have
been literally keeping open house to all
who came, a restaurant, so to speak,
meals at all hours. It is too much for
human endurance, and an imposition
upon good nature. Since the nomina
tion, the general's mail comes by the
wagon load.
The assertion that protection neces
sarily prohibits is nil gammon. Pro
tection is that system which prevents a
foreign nation from sending its goods to
this country upon terms which will force
a reduction of wages. The duty is so
laid that it will permit competition, but
upon the basis of American wages.
Omaha Republican.
The three prisoners, at Chicago,
Broderick, Baureisen and Goding, after
a hearing on the 19th were held and not
allowed their liberty on bail. All three
were arrested before moving a step.
State warrants were issued, the charge
being bringing dynamite into the state
contrary to law.
NEBRASKA NOTES.
Fremont's bonded indebtedneas is
only 825,000.
It is reported that the Nebraska City
Evening Times is no more.
Bonds for waterworks at Mason car
ried on the 21st without a dissenting
vote.
Blaine county by voting 85,000 bonds
can raise money enough to build a court
house and pay all its debts.
Samuel Lowe, charged with attempt
ing to procure an abortion on Nina Dar
rah of Florence, was bound over.
The cable and motor lines in Omaha
have settled all their controversies and
will use the disputed track jointly.
Many of the stores of Eustis on the
night of the 19th were visited by burg
lars. The post office was also rifled, the
thieves obtained about 815.
Bennett will have a mounted Harrison
and Morton club. One hundred mem
bers have been enrolled. The club ex
pect to be uniformed within ten days.
Fred Brewer, a farmer, and his hired
man, while seining fish near Bellwood
and the B. & M. railroad bridge on the
the morning of the 19th were caught in
the quicksand and both drowned.
Mr. James Donaldson brought to this
office yesterday several stalks of clover
that measured four and a half feet in
length and was grown on his farm east
of town. It will be hard to beat Pal
mer Sun.
A painter at Lincoln by the name of
Chas. A. Thompson on the 17th fell from
the dome of the capitol building, where
he was at work, to the roof on the main
building, a distance of forty-five feet.
He lived about an hour.
J. F. Madison who is confined in the
Box Butte county jail at Nonpareil on
the double charge of disposing of mort
gaged property and mortgaging projier
ty that he never owned, made an unsuc
cessful attempt to take his life by the
use of morphine.
Citizens of the Middle Loup river
country are building up a new town
which they call Mullen. They propose
to make it the capital of a new county
to be called Hooker, which they want to
carve out of Sheridan county, and all to
be done this year.
Oscar Ferguson, a boy of Hastings,
with other boys, was out hunting, each
carrying a revolver. One of Ferguson's
cartridges failed to discharge, and he
raised the revolver and looked into the
barrel. It discharged, shooting him in
the head and killing him instantly.
William Fisher and wife, an aged
couple living ten miles north of Kear
ney, while driving to the city on the
17th,in giving part of the road to anoth
er team, drove his buggy on a bank and
upset, throwing both ont and breaking
Mrs. Fisher's" femur bone just at the
socket It is believed 6ho will le a
cripple for life.
Lightning struck the barn of Presid
ing Elder Shank hist Friday evening,
setting it on fire and entirely consuming
it. We understand that it was insured.
A new frame already occupies the vacat
ed ground. The elder is determined to
have a barn at all events as this makes
the third one on this same ground.
Clark's Messenger.
Mrs. Sally Mallory, 106 years of age,
lives with her granddaughter, Elizabeth
Gillman, about four miles southeast of
Newman Grove. Mrs. Mallory is a pen
sioner of the Revolutionary war. She
seems to retain her mind pretty well and
Is in good health. Mrs. Gillman was a
hospital nurse during the war of the Re
bellion. Madison Chronicle.
A severe thunder and rain storm ac
companied by some hail visited Syra
cuse one morning last week. Lightning
struck the spire of the M. E. church,
setting it on fire. The citizonB soon
collected around and when the spire
fell they got on top of the building by
the use of ladders and put out the fire.
The heavy rain falling at the time pre
vented a total loss of the building.
Prof. Lippitt at Perue, on the night
of the 17th had a black horse stolen.
He made use of the telegraph in sending
abroad description of the horse and to
look out for him. He received notice in
a short time that the horse had been
found seven miles southwest of Peru,
tied to a fence. The telegrams perhapB
caused many questions to be put to the
thief, he became alarmed and tied the
horse up to the fence and left it.
A report comes from Plum Creek that
the farmers of that part of Dawson
county have fairly begun their wheat
harvest The yield of oats and wheat
was diminished by the one week's
drouth the first week of July, but is
still so large that everybody is good na
tured over it. The yield of wheat will
probably average fully eighteen bushels
per acre throughout Dawson county.
Other Cosntries.
Boulanger was worse on the 18th. The
doctors have been summoned to a con
sultation.
A volcanic eruption has occurred in
Japan, by which 400 persons were killed
and 1,000 injured.
Heir Schmidt, editor of the Cologne
Gazette, has been imprisoned for a
month for writing articles calumniating
Prince Heinrich of Fruess.
A German has been secretly tried and
condemned to fifteen months' imprison
ment for making remarks about tho
Dowager Empress Victoria.
In consequence of complaints from
numerous German and some British
merchants doing business in the Niger
country, the German government has
requested England to put a limit to the
encroachments of the Royal Niger com
pany, and to admonish the company to
conduct business in accordance with tho
international agreement.
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At Kilrush July 18th, a family named
Cleary, consisting of four brothers and
sisters, defended thoir home against an
evicting party until a battering ram was
brought into use and the building de
molished. Continental Europe is waiting, with a
proper amount of reverenco and with an
absorbing curiosity, for the result of the
royal visit to St Petersburg. Perhaps
no country on the continent, not except
ing Germany, is as anxious over the
event or has more reason to bo interest
ed in the outcome of the exchange of
imperial courtesies as France.
In tho chamber of depnties, Paris, a
crodit of 2,680,000 for port defenses was
discussed. In replying to somo objec
tions to the sums assigned to the work
of extending the moles in tho harbor of
Cherbourg, Admiral Krantz, minister of
marine, said in the occasion of war any
great maritine power could blockade
Cherlxmrg and place torpedoes in the
roadstead. Tho navy, he said, did not
fear a call to fight at any time, but the
necessity was urgent for the refitting of
ports to le placed in security. A demand
for urgency on the question was rejected
by a vote of :M1 to 143.
Washington Letter.
From our regular correspondent.
Senator Edmunds has introduced a
bill, which, if passed, will be of great
benefit to the government, to say noth
ing of the thousands of dollars it will
save for Uncle Sam. It provides for
the establishment of a Council of Ord
nance, to consist of three officers from
the army, three officers from the navy,
and three civilians. The duty of this
council shall be to conduct examina
tions into all such questions relating to
fabrication and use of ordnance, pro
jectiles and explosives, as may bo refer
red to it by congress or the war or navy
department. No money shall bo spent
by any department, until this council
shall have examined and reported on
the feasibility of the methods proposed
to be adopted. In view of the fact that
during the next ten years this govern
ment will in all probability spend mil
lions of dollars for ordnance, this bill is
practically apropos.
The democratic house has again
refused to accept the senate amend
ment to the post office appropriation
bill to increase the mail facilities be
tween the United States and Central
South America. The law under which
the mails are forwarded to these coun
tries was formed in 1858 thirty years
ago. Since that time great progress has
been made by these countries, as well
as by the United States. The republi
cans of tho senate wish "to put tho mail
facilities in a line with 18S8, but the
democrats decide to keep it with 185S.
Well, this will not last always, the peo
ple will elect a republican house as well
as president this year.
Senators Hoar and Rolph made strong
arguments against tho ratification of the
fisheries treaty in the senate last weok.
Dan Lamont has gone to New York,
ostensibly to seo his family, but in
reality to finish the political deal that
Cleveland is making with the thrifty
democratic politicians of that state.
Lamont's visit will settle the doubt as
to who will bo tho democratic nominee
for governor of that state.
Quite a number of the republican sen
ators are opposed to the senate remain
ing in session long enough to pass a
tariff bill as a substitute for tho Mills
bill. They say that when the Mills bill
is received by the senate, all that will bo
necessary will be to formulate a siib
stitnte therefor, report it, place it on
the calendar, and then let it remain un
til the next session. They argue that
this substitute, as soon as reported,
will go before the country as the repub
lican tariff bill, and that it will have
just as much effect as if they remained
hero to formally pass it
On Friday Senator Dawes presented
to the senate a numerously signed re
monstrance of the wool manufacturers
and wool dealers, against tho legislation
proposed in tho Mills bill. As usual,
tho republican senate will protect our
business interests.
Senator Blair is known as a meek and
peaceable sort of a man. Perhaps it was
for that reason that fire-eating Butler,
of South Carolina, ex-leader of a red
shirt company of bull dozers, jumped on
him with both feet, to use the language
of the small boy, during the discussion
of the president's vetoes of private pen
sion bills, on Thursday. Mr. Blair dared
to Bay that in his opinion the vetoed
cases taken as a whole were cases of ab
solute merit, and the vetoes were out
rages on the rights of American citizens.
That was enough. Mr. Butler in his re
ply said that Mr. Blair was not a gentle
man, that he and the measures intro
duced by him, were incumbrances on
the senate, and among other things, he
tried to imply that Mr. Blair lacked
manly courage. Mr. Blair in a very
dignified manner replied saying that
whatever he was he had never been a
traitor to his country, and that while
he claimed no excess of courage,
and never expected to be called upon to
exhibit even the ordinary courage of a
civilian, he would not shrink from any
test to which the senator from South
Carolina might seek to subject him. I
have never before thought so much of
Senator Blair as I did at that moment,
when by quiet dignity he had silenced
the man who had insulted him.
Mr. Samuel J. Randall, tho brainy
Pennsylvania representative, is lying
very ill at his residence in this city. The
hemorrhages. Hopes of his recovery
are entertained, but the worst is feared.
Howell.
trespottfeiKe.
In this department the people talk, and not
the editor. Lach writer must hold himself ready
to defend his principle and his statements of
facts. "In the multitude of counsel there is
wisdom." Ed. Journal. 1
Opening Streets.
Ed. Journal: Ab this extending
Fourteenth street has become somewhat
personal to me, I may be excused for
calling the attention of the people to
the street subject in general.
As a matter of financial interest to our
city the streets in this end of town call
for some attention, when I state that in
this addition there are five streets run
ning east and west, that on four of them
there is no possible outlet to the west
farther than the railroad, that on the
' fifth the mud has been bo deep as to
make it impossible for a team to Irani a
reasonable load in or out of town for the
larger part of this year, and then add
that seventy-five dollars will cover every
dollar's worth of work that has been
done, up to the time of opening fence,
west of tho meridian for twenty
five years and if you would change the
place of tho years and dollars making it
825 dollars for 75 years it would be
judged a fair statement by most people
familiar with the subject You can
form somo idea of how well tho council
and mayor and street commissioner run
things. No farmer comes from the west
with any load, without a dread of this
part of the Columbus streets. Now add
to this that I, personally, have called
the attention of the street commissioner
to this state of things renj often, this
spring and summer, and asked him to
report it and yet one street Jived, have
also called the attention of the mayor to
the matter, others probably. Then add
to this that Meridian street was graded
to the south side of this addition by
private parties, and, that tho city has
never had a crossing put in over the
railroad, so that it is iinjossiblo to go
south without turning from the road
and across lots. To any reasonable man
it would look as though there might
have been room for the expenditure of a
few dollars, to make tho streets that we
have fit to travel, instead of hunting up
a law suit by cutting a fence across an
imaginary road that is not jntssable and
cannot be made so without expending
as much money as tho city has extended
west of the meridian for two years,
(though that should figure up to 81.75).
And then could onlv accommodate a
few passers, whilst the roads by which
all the travel from the west must come
to the city remain knee deep in mud
near the fish pond every time it rains.
Is it not about timo that this toiu
monkey business came to an end, and
the city council take measures to enable
people to get to Columbus business
streets after striking her limits? I
heard of an old lady expressing herself
like this: "wat dem mans know bout
council any way? Don't know so much
like my plack cat, bout council." Now,
I submit that I have heard of taking
cats by the back of the neck to teach
them their responsibility, but then our
city officials are not cats, probably the
mud holes, etc., must remain, and I
must law the railroad and spend the
value of my cow to get pay for her,
whilst our city officials ride on with
high heads and no eyes for the good of
the city or a common-sense way of doing
business in the matter of bad streets,
bad houses, or other matters confined to
their keeping.
E. A. Gerhard.
Ed. Journal: I don't profess to know
much about county affairs; I know but
little, and I think that a good many
people are like me. Perhaps this is one
of the reasons why the supervisors are
requiring the treasurer, sheriff and clerk
to publish statements. (By the way, it
looks as though they ought to require
all the other officials to do the same
thing. Everybody knows they don't
get so much, but still it is something.)
But, when the publications are made,
how much more do tho common run of
people know about it than they did
boforo? They see tho figures, they read
what is set before them, and it may be
all right, too, but it seems to mo that if
the supervisors mean this thing to take
the place of a report by an expert they
aro altogether wrong in reckoning the
feeling of tho people.
I wish somebody who understands it a
little would look into matters sufficient
ly to convince tho supervisors that an
expert's work is needed. It is bound to
come before very long; there is no use
staving it off much longer, and the tax
payers would like to know all the par
ticulars.
Dollar.
Abftlrnrt of Awft-iaent,
In l'l.it te county, Nebraska, for the year,
livsx:
I'KKSONAI. l'KOl'KKTY. Xt.
Horcn 7.802
t'attle 2S.2IH
Mules and Asses 393
Sheep n.74;
llf"t rili:
Steam engines and boilers.... 17
Fire and burglar proof safe 91
liilliard.pigcouliule bagatelle
or other si mllar tables 17
Carriages and wagons- 3.02.1
Watcliesand clocks l.firai
Sewing & knitting machines l,377
1'lano fortes . 7t
3Ielodians -J 10
Value.
" i.w.nsT.110
153.ftll.00
JWMO
3.374.00
13.CS1.M)
2.7t.l
1,0110.(10
187.00
11,415.10
2.97C.II0
4.45S.OO
l.K5T 00
1,7.0.(0
5.00
10.00
C2.172.00
701.00
F ran eh ises . -.. 1
Patent rights 3
Merchandise on hand .
Material & manufactured articles
Manufacturer's tools, implements
and machinery, other than
boilers and engines
Agricultural tools, imp. & ntchrv-
Gold and silver plate and plated
ware
Diamonds and jewelry ...
Moneys of bank, banker, broker or
stockjobber
Credits of bank, banker, broker or
stock Jobber -
Moneys other than of bank. banker
broker or stock Jobber.
Credits other than ofbank.baiiker
broker or stock jobber.
Bonds, stocks and warrants and
municipal securities or any kind
whatever.
Shares of capital stock of compan
ies and associations not incor
Mrated under the state laws,
except shares National Hanks...
Property or companies and cor
porations other than hereinafter
enumerated
Saloons and eating houses
Household and offlce furniture
Investments In real estate and
improvements thereon ..
Amount of railroad proiterty:
F. E. & M. V., 32 .29 miles ..
Union Pacific, 19.43 " ..
1,789.00
19,158.00
322.00
47.00
8,3SA.IlO
3,011
C.4.5.00
1.W.I1)
1.070.00
150.00
47,183.00
25.00
21 ,505.00
12,008.00
151.763.00
222,279.00
191.100.00
30,j7C.OO
G.259.00
0,625.00
u. & u. v., 39.03 " .
I. & N W.. 6.37 "
Telegraph property:
19.10 miles. 8 wires j
71.18 " 1 " f
All other proierty .
XUI4I1
ItEAL K.STATK.
lftooo acres improved land
:2(,945 " unimproved land....
1,840 improved lots ,
2,530 unimproved lots
Sl,ll,42y.0U
575.079.00
516,770 00
'.227,130.00
4CMBJDO
Total value of all property 82 JC4,731.00
LAND UNDER CULLIVATIOX.
Xo acres in wheat 19,40(5
" " " corn ,580
.. . jjjjjg 31,860
" " "barley ... 3,004
' " ' meadow 4,ico
' " H:ix "inn
" fruit trees 29,145
" forest " 3,20t;,m
" grape vines 12,125
VALUATION BY TOWNSHIPS.
The county levy for 1888 is, county general
fund, 9 mills; county road. Hi mills; county
bridge, 4 mills; lor payment of interest on
510",000 Ii. & Jf . W. Ity. bonds, 3tf mills, total
13 mills. Tbe valuation of real and personal
property by townships Is as follows:
PERSONAL. HEAL ESTATE.
City Of Columbus 148,337 30,537.
Columbus Twp 185.491 Ifil.lCS.
Ulsmark 35,470 ra,878.
Sherman 27,900 08,171.
Cretoii 59,501 rOt.
lllltler 13U.6H 43,213.
Loup 15.C04 23 .533.
Shell Creek 21.483 C0.778.
Grand Prairie 2i701 o.039.
Humphrey 79,770 invwo.
Lost Creek 139.504 H.v.015.
Burrows .. 49.313 51.233.
Granville.., . . 99.119 C5.550-
Monroe 51,829 74.52.1'.
Jolliet . , 18,901 M,349,
St. Bernard 59.3W 58,799.
WoodvIUe 19.419 52.9911.
Walker 4C.1M 80,399.
ESTRAY NOTICE.
Taken np by the subscriber on his enclosed
land in Sherman township, in Platte county,
Nebraska, on the 18th day of June, 1888,
THREE DARK RED HEIFEK8.
Said heifers are supposed to be one year old past.
The owner is requested to prove property, pay
charges and take them away.
4jol5t Joss Wibk.
SPEAKS
Tla-e luie
A M. Gould, Esq., Genoral Aont Minneapolis Harvester Co., Omaha, Nob.,
Dear Sin -It is being reported throughout this and adjoining counties that tho
Minneapolis Harvester Co. had sold their shops and wore going to discontinue
the mannfactuno of their machines.
When we lirt heard of this we paid very little attention to the report, think
ing it came from some unprincipled machine agont who could not sell a machino
of his own any other way than by lying, but when so many of our customers came
and asked us about the matter, men to whom we expect to sell machines this
coming harvest, we are compelled to inquire into tho matter. We have denied
the stones all the time, and denounced them as lies and thought we were right in
doing so. Now w. want the facts: if it is true, wo want to know it, and if it is a
he, we want to nail it. Please let us hear Troiii von at once, as we want vour letter
for publication. Very truly yours,
Ernst ,t Scuwarz.
Messrs. Ernst .t Somv vrz. Columbus, Nob., (huts.: T received yours todnv.
That reiort is entirely unfounded. I enclose copy or a letter received from the
Company.
You see it is a trick of men who can not hold their way against us, only by
trying to scare a farmer not to buy the " Minnie," hoping thereby to get a chance
to sell ono of their own. Fanners need not fear. havu no doubt they can take
your word, as well as that of a competitor.
If they lie about our machine, is it not probable they would lie again to sell
their own?
I will have a man there shortly. Do your best and I will help all can.
Yours very truly,
Wm. Gould, G. A.
Wm. Gould, Esq., General Agent, Omaha, Nob., Dear Sir: Answering yours
relative to the rumors in Nebraska that the Miuneaolis Harvester Works had
sold their shops and grounds and were going out or the business, we have to say
there is not one word of truth in thein. They have not sold their shops or
grounds and are not going out of the business, and you can so inform all parties
making inquiries regarding this matter. Yours truly,
Signed E. K. Lincoln, Snp't .f Agencies.
Farmers Look to Tour Interests
AND GET THE BEST, OF
ERNST &SCHWARZ.
Mckinley
wm BBS,
COLUMBUS, NEB.
Money to loan on improved farms in this and adjoining
counties, at current rates. We are prepared to close loans
promptly, in all cases where title and security are satisfactory.
Office up-stairs in Henry Building, corner of Olive and
Eleventh streets. juiymutr
BETTCHER & KERSENBROCK,
DEALERS IN HEAVY AND SHELF
Stoves and Tinware,
Pumps, Guns & Ammunition.
The Celebrated Moline Wagon Sold Hero.
Sept. 2? t'
SPEICE
General Agents
fcrtf li rjLj
Union Pacific and Midland Pacific R. It. Lands for tale at from J3.00 to $10.00 per acre for cant
or on five or ten years time, in """' paymeotn to snit purchasers. vVe have ul a large ami choice
lot of other lands, improved and unimproved, for sale at low price and on reasonable ttrum. AIm
busineos and resilience lots in the city. We keep a complete abstract of title to all real tutr.to it
Platte County.
COLUMBUS,
W. T. RICKLY& BRO.
Wholesale and
Fxesls. Sa.lt HEects.
Gaee, Poultry, and Fresh Fish. AH Kiids of Saisage a Specialty.
(7" Cash paid for Hides, Pelts, Tallow. Highest market price paid for fat cattle."
Olive Street, two Doors North of the First Natioial Bank.
SHERIFFS SALK.
By virtue of an execution directed to me from
the district court of Platte county, Nebraska, on
a judgment obtained before H. J. Hudson,
county judge in and forPlatte county, Nebraska,
on the 3d day of July, 1SS8. a certified transcript
of same was tiled in the office of the clerkof the
district court in anil for Platte county, Nebras
ka, in favor of George W. Galley as plaintiff,
and against Mary Plant anil Peter Plant iih
defendant, for the sum of $tf7l.0l, and conts
taxed at $7.15 and accruing costs, I have levied
upon the following real estato taken as tho
property of said defendants, to satisfy said exe
cution, towit: Tho northwest (junrter of the
southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of
section thirteen (13), township seventeen (17),
north of ran go one (1) west, excepting thirty (30)
feet off of the north line of said tract in Platte
county, state of Nebraska, and will offer the
same for sale to the highest bidder, for c-ish in
hand, on the lMh day of Angnst, A. D. 1SR3, in
front of the court house in loiumuus, naue
county. Nebraska, that being the building
wlierein the last term of court was held, at the
hour of 2 o'clock p. m. of said day, when and
where duo attendance will lie given by tho un
dersigned. Dated Columbus. July 11th, 1888.
31. ('. IlLOEDOnN,
18juI5t Sheriff of said County.
PROPOSALS FOR A "POOR FARM."
Notice is hereby given that sealed proosals
will he received up to 12 o'clock noon of Tues
day. Octolier 2d, 189, at the office of the county
clerk of Platte county, for not less than one
hnndred and sixty (1(50) acres of land situated
within the limits of said county, and suitable
for a "poor farm."
Bidders will explicitly define tho location of
land tendered, by section, township and rang?,
also general improvements, number of acres
under cultivation, trees, fences, etc.
Tho Board reserve the right to reject any or all
bide.
Done by order of the Board of Supervisors.
Dated Columbus, Neb.. July Mth. ls.
JohnStcfft.ii,
18jul County Clerk.
LEGAL NOTICE.
To all whom it may concern:
Tho Board of Supervisors Iiave thii day declar
ed the following section lines own as public
roads, viz: commeicing at the SW corner of
section 7, Town 19. Range 3. west, thence running
north on section line three (3) miles, anil termi
nating at the NW corner of section 31. Town 20
Ifange 3, west, and to be known us the "Edwards
road.
Now all objections thereto, or claims for dam
ages caused by the location thereof, must he filed
in tho County Clerk's office on or before joon of
September 11th. 1888, r the location will be
made withont reference thereto.
Dated, Columbus, Neb., June 21st, 1S88.
John STAcrrzB,
jolyU-4 County Clerk.
1 ITSELF !
Ta-iled. to
41-2t
& garnahan,
& ISTOKTH,
for the sale of
EST
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NEBRASKA.
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Retail Dealers in
STATEMENT OF THE
RECEIPTS & EXPENDITURES,
Iiy J01IX STA UFFKK. fhiuiti Clerk, froili
January ith, to July Ztt, 1888.
KlltST tiUAHTRR. .
Fees for recording 141 mortgages S
" " " 202 deeds
" " " C9 releases
" " 9 assignments..
" " ' 8 US receipts
" ' " 9 leases
" " " 12 m'chnic's liens
" " " 2 physician's
...statements
Fees for recording 5 notarial com-
....... -..nilssiniis
Fees for recording 4 statements Amis
... ...............and associations
r'ecs for recording 2 art. of incorjmr-
...... - .till Oil
Fees for filing 261 chattel mortgages
11 bills of sale, con-
-. tracts etc
Fees for filing 4 estrav notices
" ' certified copy or record
" " marginal mortgage caucel-
.Iatious
Fees for certificates
" from miscellaneous records
211 50
vn no
C2 10
9 no
520
9 in)
13 20
1 CO
loon
3 00
200
52 81'
2 75
1 (xt
11 10
5 00
1 On
7 05
9CI 15
5'-'5 00
Paid salary of deputy and assistants
SECOND QUARTER.
Fees for recording 149 mortgages -..
19G deeds
" " " 55 releases
" " " 11 U S receipts
K assignments
7 m'chnic's liens
' 1 physician's
4 statement
Fees lor recording 4 notoial commis-
...... -... ................ Mons
Fees for recording 1 firms and asso-
- ciations
Fees for recording 5 art. of incorpor
.................. ....... .........at ion
Fees (or recording 1 dentist's statem't
" " tiling 213 chattels .
1U bills of sale, con"-
. -.........-....tracts, etc
tees for cert, copy of record
' " certificates ...
" " marginal mortlgagVcancella"
223 50
25G 40
49 50
7 15
e 00
700
300
75
5 00
75
48 GO
4 00
625
1 25
4 25
150
75
720
Fees far tiling estray notices
" " " 1 stck brand
" from miscellaneous records....
... -uons
&33 GO
Paid deputy and assistants.
525 00
I c
ertify tbe above to te true and correct.
County Cleric
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