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VOL OLE XX-NOEBER 11.
COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2& 1890.
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COLUMBUS
iTATE BANK.
COLUMBUS, NEB.
Cssh Capital - $100,000.
DIRECTORS:
.HTAXDER GEItKABD. PreVt.
GEO. W. nULST. Vice P'r.
JCUUS A.IIEED.
R. H. HENRY.
J. E. TASKER, Cashier.
Battle r DepIt, DIkhi
mad Exckaace.
Collect! Fratly Jlade
all Poiatn.
Pay Iateec Tlaae Depos
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COLUMBUS, NEB.,
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Authorized Capital of $.',00,000
Paid in Capital - HO.IHH)
OFFICERS:
C. H. SHELDON. Pres't.
H. P. II. OlILHICH. Vic- Pre-.
C. A. NEWMAN, Carrier.
DANIEL SC1IRAM. As-'t Cah.
STOCKHOLDERS:
C. H. Sheldon. J. T. Becker.
Hennan P. II. Oehlrich. Carl Kienke.
Jonas Welch. W. A. McAllister,
J. Henry WuroVman, H. M. Win-low,
fifonre W. Galley, S. f. Grey.
Frank Rorer, Arnold F. H. Oehlrich.
"Bonk of depo-it; interest allmiilan linii'
depo-its; buy and fell exchange on UnitM 'fat'-i
and Europe, and buy and s-ell available Mfrtriti-.
We shall be plikisfd to receive jour busin". We
bolicit your patronage. U;dec-7
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Traveling 5Ie.ma.
5Thes organs are first-cla-? in every par
ticalar, and so suarantevd.
SCHIFFROTH & PLATH,
DEVLEKS IX
WIND MILLS,
AND PUMPS.
Euckeye Mower, combined, Self
Binder, wire or twine.
Puraps Repaired on short notice
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COMMERCIAL I
WESTERN COTTAGE
WESTERN DEATH LIST.
THE FATALITIES OF THE LATE STORM
COMING TO LIGHT.
The Far West and North-went Literally
Buried in Snow More Bloody Work by
Pintols in Texas Various Haps and Mis
haps of the Good and Bad.
At least ten human beings and thous
ands of cattle and sheep perished in the
blizzard which befran with the year and
raged over Washington for a week. Re
ports from the ColvilJe reservation are to
the effect that cattle are dying by hand
reds from starvation and thirst, and that
the ground is covered with over two feet
cf snow on the level and in some places is
drifted mountain high. The keeper of the
fctage station twelve miles from Alma
started to walk to town, and his body was
found on the prairie only a mile from bis
heme frozen stiff. The mail carrier at
Wild Goose creek perished on the same
day, and eight cattlemen are known to have
lost their lives in the storm. Cuttlemen
estimate that they will lose one-half of
their herds this season.
Al COUNTY SEAT WAIt.
It Cauef the Frequent Explosion of Texas
Pistols
News has been received of a terrible
shooting affray at Johnson City, Ulanco
county, Ter. For about fifteen years there
has been a heated controversy over the re
moval of the county seat from Bkmco. lo
cated four miles from the countv line, to
Johnson City. Five years ao an election
was held to make Johnson City the county
seat, but it resulted in failnre. Another
election to decide the question was I eld
Monday lat amid intense excitement.
When it was known that it resulted in
favor of Johnson City there was a clash
and a fight, in which pistols were used.
Ben Cage, a prominent business man of
Blanco, got into difficulty with Zach
Lloyd, a Johnson City man, in which he
shot Lloyd through the right lung. Lloy d
will die. The shooting between the two
factious then became general and Deputy
Sheriff Crosby was mounded in the thigh.
The disturbance was finally quelled and
Cage, in charge of officers, was conveyed to
Blanco to prevent his being lynched. A
gentleman just down from Johnson says
intense excitement prevails m the connty
and he believes many men will be killed be
fore the affair ends.
IN THE NORTH -iTATE.
A Tet Case to Be .Made on the Prohibi
tion Question.
Ever since the opinion of Attorney-General
Goodwin to the effect that the sale of
liquor in North Dakota is illegal at the
present time, and that the penalty pro
vided by the territorial law is still in force,
saloon men have been in hot water, as it
has been rumored that the prohibitionists
were preparing for a general assault npon
them. Previous to the decision of the
attorney-general it was believed that the
saloons would be allowed t" run without
molestation until the new prohibition law
goes into effect. The saloonkeepers from
Northwood were brought before Justice
Cutts at Grand Forks. In order to have
the question dd iiied it was agreed to make
a test case. One pleaded guilty and was
committed to j til, the others beim; re
leased on their own recognizance. A fund
of several hundred dollars has been rai-ed
by the saloonkeepers to defray expenses,
and Attorney Tracy Bangs, who has been
retained, will go before the supreme comt.
now in session at Fargo, and Apply for a
writ of habeas corpus, which will bring up
the matter of legality in such a way as to
6ettle it for all time, and it is expected that
a decision will be reached within a few
days.
I'unzsiitawney Trouble-.
A special from Punxsutawney says there
Ppettrte fav the Pinkerton force. A
motive, received a shower of cinders which
nearly blinded him. lie made an effort
to resent this act, when he was attacked by
the Pinkerton men and handled very
roughly. He fought in self-defense, but
the men beat the poor wretch until his
head was covered with blood. Several
others interfered, but were overpowered
by the police and taken to jail.
Notwithstanding the attitude of the leaders
of the strike, the fact is becoming appar
ent that an uprising is imminent. Five
more evictions took place at Adrian. The
sheriff, accompanied by twenty-seven
armed guards, removed the household ef
fects of the five families out of their hold
ings and turned the wretched people out
into tne cold. The homeless ones were
taken in hand by the strike committee and
given temporary shelter. Sheriff Sutler
has 100 writs of ejectment to serve at
Walston, and as that place is the tampin ;
ground of many belligerent miners, a skir
mish will probably take place when the
attempt is made to enforce tne writs.
Combine ot Vapor Stove Maker.
Arrangements have been made at Chi
cago for the consolidation of all the leading
Tapor stove manufacturers of the country.
The capital stock of the concern will be
$2,000,000, and the originator of the plan.
D. A. Dangler, of Cleveland, says that
money enough will be saved in ruuniug ex
penses alone to cay a dividend of 10 per
cent. The combination will be known as
the United Vapor Stove company.
An Eastern Simpson.
Seth B. Johnston, a lawyer and super
intendent of Sunday-school in Brooklyn,
has been arrested on indictments charging
him with forging a SI, 599 note on the Chi
nese Sixtn society, and also a $759 note on
a Chinese firm in llott street. He gave
bail in $o.000. The arrest grows out of
Johnston's connection with the Chinese
former Cha Fong, one of his Sunday
school scholars, who is in prison on
charges of swindling his countrymen out of
$40,000 by forged notes.
Bettered to lie Buried.
Grave fears are entertained regarding the
probable fate of the Howard Atheneum
company of variety artists who are in the
snow blockade on the Central Pacific.
Nothing definite can be learned. Advices
from Utah points say the road may not be
opened in three weeks. A train with the
theater troupe on board is believed to be
j buried nnder demolished snow sheds be
tween Beno and Truckee. It is a question
whether the entombed passengers can he
rescued before they perish of hunger and ,
cold. The mercary ta 30 to 40 beloT eat ,
JOII: Kl'SKIS'S CONDITION".
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1 (t is Said to u Hopeless A Great Mind
Clouded.
' John Buskin, the gnat leader in English
.iterature, has become hopelessly insane.
Mr. Raskin's mind has been gradually fail
ug for seven or eiht years. The first
Dublic su-picion of the fact occurred in
Oxford m 1SSC, when, alter delivering sev
eral lectures of a series, he broke down
luring the delivery of one, became inco
herent on the platform and greatly exer
cised the feelings of the sympathetic audi
jnce. He delivered no more lectures there
md the matter was hushed up. Of his
recent life at Brentwood very little is
known. In July last, however. Hiss Kate
Greenaway went on a visit to him, but her
stay was brought to a sudden termination.
In company with' Mr. Euskiu she
went out to make some water
:olor sketches. In the midst of her
work she noticed her companion was
icting and looking strangely and talkk g
incoherently. Suddenly he seized her col
ors and large brush and angrily daubed
paint of all kinds all over her sketches.
Since that time Mr. Buskin has been
necessarily confined to his own house. No
one outside of Brentwood people has seen
him since August. In November the re
port reached London of his having had a
violent paroxysm during which he broke all
the windows in his room. Since that time
he has lain in bed continuously. He re
fused all except liquid food and manifested
no desire to get up. He is steadily grow
ing weaker, and the probability is that if
he ever leaves his bed at all events he will
never go out of the house again.
sELF-sL'UliKXDEUKD.
A Thief of !10,000 trout the Government '
Invites Arrest.
After a little more than two years of
misery and degredation Henry Marl in
Jackson, who on October 22, 1SS7, stole .
$10,000 from the sub-treasurv, where he was
paying teller, has been captured, and he is
now in the Ludlow street jul. Jackson
erved under three different cashiers as as
sistant paying teller and afterward went to .
the paying teller's window. His salary
was $a,000. He was noted for quickness
and remarkable coolness and was con
sidered thoroughly trustworthy. On
Oct. 13 and again on Oct. 17,
187. Jackson's cash was counted un
der the system that prevailed of taking a
man unawares an I examining things to see
that they were straight. His money was
right to a cent. It is believed th it he ,
came to the determination to steal and run
away on Satnrday, Oct. 22. It is likely
that he took the $10,000 just before turn
ing the rest of the money over to the vanlt.
He turned up at a third-rate hottl in New
York and sent a note to a friend in the
sub-treasury. He was at once arrested.
He has pissed most of his time at Glas
gow, but has also been in Manitoba aud
all ovei Europe. He shows the effects of
hard drinking. Jaekson is the son of
Lewis E. Jackson, who was secretary of
the New York City Mission and Tract so
ciety. The father was completely crushed
by the revelation of his son's guilt and has
since died.
-V BAD KAN'sAX.
He Deserts a Iie;ititiiiil Wife for an
Ad-
vcutitress.
H. A. Plavle is in partnership with his
father-in-law in the clothing business at
Atchison. Kan., the firm name being f.
Weber tfc Co. One Miss Lou Hopkins
figures with him in a sensational affair,
which is supposed to have terminated in an
elopement. Undue intimacy sprang up
between tho two while Miss Hopkins was
visiting at his own house. Stories of
stolen visits -y the pair to drinking places
are told, and of shocking conduct beneath
the injured wife's roof. The illicit love
was known by Mrs. Plavle some time
before she ordered the pair out of her
house. She hoped to quietly get rid of
the Hopkins girl without candal and
thus restore happiness in her household.
In this she failed, and Mr. H. A. Plavle
wntes his father-in-law that he is at pres
ent in Chicago and will go from there to
visit his parents, who are spending the
winter in the south of France. Lon Hop
kins is snpposed to be with him. She
went to her home in Topeka but left there
the next day and her friends cannot locate
her. "When she left Topeka she said he
was going on a visit to friends in Daven
port and Le Claire. Iowa. These friends
have been telegraphed and reply that they
have not seen her. As Plavle went to
Kansas City and from Kansas City to
Chicago, the presumption is that he met
the young woman at the Kansas City
union depot and that together they jour
neyed to Chicago.
-Makinir Scalx of Chinamen.
There have just passed through Pitts
burg nine Chinamen en route from the
Pacific coast to New York city. The China
men were m charge of a party who speaks
English and resides in New York. He
stated that a firm of contractors in New
York had sent him west for the purpose of
securing the Chinamen, who arc to be put
at work as hod carriers, laborers, etc. If
it is found that the Chinamen can perform
the duties required others will be brought
out. The informant stated that it was the
intention of his employers to thus protect
their interests in case there is a general j
strike among the building trades, laborers, '
etc.. for the eight our rnle next May. j
Killed by Danites.
A telegram from Fort Duchesne. Utah,
says William Whitney Seymour, a prom
inent gentile ranchman in the Ashley val- I
ley, was found dead in bed, where he evi
dently had been shot while asleep. It is
believed the murder was committed by ,
Danites. Seymour went to Utah in 1SS2
from Michigan and was a post trader at I
om rorx vv ornourger.
A Wheat Estimate.
The secretary of the Kansas agricultural
department estimates the next winter wheat
crop of the state at 45,000,000 bushels.
Patent 3Iedicine Did It.
The coroner's jury which investigated
the canse of the death of Henry Schoen,
who while crazy ran naked into the storm
at Atchison and perished with cold, has re
turned a verdict laying the blame upon the
manufacturers of a certain patsnt medicine
who do business in New York citv. Schoen
had been troubled with a throat affection
which local physicians could not cu.e and
he sent for a patent medicine which he aw
advertised. This he used according to di
rections and he imrnecialelv began to show
sigcs of insanity, finally becoming a ma
nii:. The state authorities will he ar-
pealea to to investigate the ew Yors
qcacka
THE SILVER QUESTION.
REVIVED rTEKEST IX IT OX EG
LAXD'.S ACCOUNT.
Po4lutIity that the Bank f England Will
Virtually Kenionetizo the Metal There
Other Matters of (General Interest Far and
Xear.
There is a rumor on Wall street which,
considering the discussion of Secretary
WinTlom's silver proposition, occasions
considerable comment. Alessrs. Zimmer
man & Forshav announced that they had
received advices from London to the effect
that tho Bank of England is about to ex
ercise its right, never hitherto averted, to
use silver to the extent of one-third of its
reserve, and issue 1 notes in silver against
it. The dispatches also said that the
bank had purchased i3,000,0C0 of silver
bullion in expectation of this action. There
has been a great deal of silver talk for the
last few days, which with the recent heavy
shipments of bullion to England, and the
advance in price has occasioned more or
less speculation. The large foreign firms
in the street, while they declared they had
received nothing confirming the rumored
action of the Bank of England, said that
such a step was by no means unlikely; on
the contrary, that there were many reasons
why such an issue would be advantageous
to England. One banker went so far as to
say that if the Bank of England should ex
ercise this right there would be such a
period of speculation and general inflation
in the country as has not been experienced
since the discovery of gold in California.
The London View of the Matter.
Nothing has been published in London
in regard to the report that the Bank of
England has recently been a heavy pur
chaserof silver bullion, and is contemplat
ing the issue of ill notes, redeemable in
silver. During tho parliamentary Teces.
it is learned, the treasury authorities have
had frequent conferences with the leading
bankers of the metropolis touching the ad
visability of authorizing the is3ue of notes
in small denominations. In these confer
ences the qnestion cf issuing notes of the
value of lfls as well as of i'l has been
under discussion and the understanding is
that in case such notes are issued they are
to be made redeemable in silver com. An
other significant fact is that in view of the
likelihood of legislation of the character
indicated the mint has greatly reduced the
coinage of gold 10s pieces.
A ChiefKeutnved tor Cause.
The congressmen from North Dakota,
Montana and Washington have the scalp
of a division chief dangling at their belts.
John A. Parsons, chief of the surveying di
vision of the general land office, is the vic
tim. He has been removed bec.mse of
complications growing out of one of the
orders of Mr. Sparks, the land commis
sioner of the last administration. Under
that official's order four inspectors were ap
pointed to examine Gurveys and ceitify to
the general land office as to to their pay for
services. They could not keep up with the
work and the claims of surveyors werehnng
up, some of them apparently lost forever.
In several instances the appropriations
lapsed before the settlement came and the
money was carried back into the treasury.
That left no pay for work done, except by
the presentation to congress of a claim
and the tedious grind that followed. Com
plaints have been coming in from all the
states where public lands to any great ex
tent were located. The land department
has been investigating, and found that Mr.
Parsons was so wedded to the ystem that
he could not get away from it. One claim
from Washington was held in his ofiice
seveial weeks after it was ready for settle
ment for no reason whatever, so far as
could be learned, and this was he imme
diate cause of his dismissal. There have
been many complaints from Colorado,
Nebraska, the two Dakotas. Montana and
Washington, and in the interests of those
who take up lands Mr. Parsons was let
out.
A Prominent Westerner Dead.
John X. Beidler died at the Pacific hotel
in Helena, of heart failure, aged 55 years.
Beidler, as he was called, was an histori
cal character. Ha was deputy United
States marshal in Montana in the early
days, and was an active member of the vig
ilantes and probably more than any one
man helped to put down the desperadoes
who infested this country at that time.
Beidler was generally the hangman when
executions took place, and pulled the ropes
that sent scores of desperadoes to their
last account. His valuable services have
been at various times acknowledged by the
state, although he never got the appropri
ation he asked of the legislature. His life
in Montana covered the most eventful pe
riod of her history, and his adventures are
not parlleled outside of works of fiction.
He was a hero in his way, and was one of
the most remarkable characters in the west.
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He leaves two brothers in the east, one an
editor at Mount Pulaski, 111.
floes Up for Sii Years.
Henry M. Jackson, the former paying
teller in the sub-treasury, who ran away to
Canada with $10,000. and who pleaded
guilty to the charge of the embezzlement a
few days ago, was sentenced by Judge
Benedict, in the United States circuit
court at New York, to six years' imprison
ment in the Erie county penitentiary, and
to pay a fine of $10,000, the amount he
embezzled.
Short Several Thousand Dollars.
An El Paso, Tex., special says: F. W.
Burkes, er-cashier of the Atchison, To
peka &, Santa Fe railroad, left town two
days ago and his accounts ?how a shortage
of several thousand dollars. His wife's
heart is broken over bis sudden disappear
ance and the disclosures made.
The Contractor Exonerated.
The coroner's jury has returned a verdict
in the case of the fourteen men drowned
in the Louisville bridge caisson Jan. 'J.
Smith & Co., the contractors, are exoner
sted from all blame.
More Boilers Explode. '
At Scranton the engines and boiler house ;
of the Mount Jessep Coal company were
blown to pieces by the explosion of four of
the boilers. Fireman Munley, of Archi
bald, was instantly killed, and several Ger
man laborers fatally injured. .
He Wants to Die.
James Fortner, the defaulting treasurer
of Rilsr county. Kan., announces his in- j
tention of committing snicide in a novel
manner. He prefers death, he says, to the
punishment for hU crime, asd ha has re
8olTd tc die of stamtioa.
STILL IIUXG UP.
Some Kcasons Cropping Out for Dehiviilij
the Sioux Opening
Bishop Hare, of South Dakota, has
taken ground against the opening of the
Sious Indian reservation until congress
has pissed a bill which gives the Indians
certain things not called for in the original
act under which negotiations were made.
He has written a letter o Herbert Welch,
of Pennsylvania, in which he states his
position emphatically. Mr. Welch is sec
retary of the National Indian Eights asso
ciation, and has, it is understood, laid the
bisnop'a letter before influential members
of both houses of congress. The bishop's
position is that the commission made
promises to the Sioux which they were not
authorized to make under tho bill, and
which the Indians regard as a part of the
con itions under which they give up their
lands. He holds that unless these
promises are carried out faith
is broken, and the Indians will Lave
just causa to complain of their
treatment at the government's hands.
Tiishop.Hare is familiar with the situation
m the lands of the Sionx. Ha has a wide
acquaintance with the Indians, and last
summer took a deep interest in the work of
the commission. He was said to be op
posed to the cession by the Indians. It is
not known just who have seen copies of
his letter, but a senator told a correspond
ent that this letter might be one reason for
delay in issuing the proclamation. Bepre
sentative Pickler. of South Dakota, has
just had an interview with the president on
this subject. The president told him that
he had net had time to examine the report
of the commission as fully as he wanted to
before issuing the proclamation. He asked
Maj Piciiler many questions abont the
probable condition in which settlers would
find themselves if they were to rush m
there in considerable numbers at this sea
son of the year, and from the tone of his
talk gave the inference th it he was dis
posed to act a soon as the press of bni
ucss allowed him to do so with a full
understanding of the situation.
PEPPERY POUTUOAL.
Lin'muites Assemble to Prepare
the
inevv s of War.
A large meeting was held in Trinity
theater, Lisbon, to itart a fund for the
national defense. The Duke of Pomaro
presided. A committee of 120 consisting
of leading citizens and naval and inihtary
officers, was appointed to solicit sub
scriptions to the fund. A number of
speeches were made in which England
was bitterly assailed for the course she has
followed in the dispute with Portugal, and
the French and Spanish were lauded for
their sympathy with the Portuguese. A
number of subscriptiuns were made to the
fund by persons present at the meeting.
Parents Killed While Attending Their
Child's Funeral.
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Payne, and Mrs.
Br-progal while being driven to the funenil
of Payne's child by Hackman Simeon An
derson, met with a fatal accident. Just as
the carriage had reached the gate of Rose
Hill cemeterv. where the road cros-es the
railway track, an in-bound Chicago ex
press on the Notthwestern road dashed
upon it, utterly wrecking it. and throwing
the nnfortunata victims ten feet away.
The !) year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Payne miraculously escaped with a slight
scalp wound. The driver and engineer are
each censured for lack of caution, but the
absence of a flagman at the crossing seems
to have been the principal cane of the
horror, as the view of both engineer and
carriage driver is mostly shut off by the
Hose Hill railroad station and a group of
siloous.
Eugineer Mahonev, of the train which
rau into the fnneral procession at Bo-e
Hill, killing four persons, was arrested
after the accident. Two charges were
preferred against him. One that
of criminal carelessness, and the other one
of violating the city ordinance. On one
he was held in $1.0f0 and the other $200
bail.
Profitable Profit .Shariiiir.
Rogers, Peet & Co. took their 350 em -ployes
to the People's theater the other
night, and after the remainder of the au
dience had departed one of the members of
the firm took the stage and announced thr.t
the annual dividend to employes for last
year was 5 per cent, on their salaries. The
total sum thus distributed amounts to
$1j,0i'H. The profit sharing system .vas
inaugurated by the firm four years ng-.
Under it a certain percentage of the profits
is set aside for the employes, and at the
end cf each year it is divided among them
in the shapeof a dividend of a certain per
cent, on tneir salaries. Both members of
the firm sanl that they were heartily satis
fied with the way the system had worked.
Their bnsiness had been benefited by the
lacreased efficiency of the employes enough
to amply compensate them for the annual
dividend, while they were now able to take
their pick from the men seeking work in
every department of their business.
A Hail -Michigan K.-aId.
A shocking accident occurred at tho
Grand Rapids veneer works. John Gilson
fell into a tank filled with logs and boiling
water. Andrew Killian and George
Kingsworth went to his rescne
and also fell into the vat. All three men
were taken out with difficulty. Gibson
died shortly after his rescue, and the two
other men are fatallv scalded.
TOLD IX A MIXC'ITE.
A sensation was created in the Vir
ginia house of delegates by the introduc
tion of a resolution asking Virginia con
gr ssmen to favor an appropriation to en
courage negro emigration to the northern
republican states, where they might enjoy
the political rights which they claim to be
deprived of in the south.
A. W. Moreis & Bros." cordase works
of Montreal, have assigned at the demand
of Bushnell & Co., with liabilities amount
ing to $o9,000.
Leadug tobacco and cigarette manu
facturers, who have organized the Ameri
can Tobacco company, held a meeting in
Newark. N. J. Factories will be estab
lished in all the states and Canada.
Dos-AiD McCabtht, M. P.. has
brought into the Canadian parliament his
long-promised measure for the abolish
ment of French as the official language in
the Northwet territories.
The, supreme court of Ottawa has af
firmed the decision of the lower court un
seating Mr. Cclter. member of parliament
for Haldimand. on scceqnt of bricery on
the part of hi8 aseot.
MEOKLAllOJLlFJUUDS.XEWs from -Nebraska tow.ns.
THEY APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN XC
3!EROl'S AXD GLARIXO.
favoritism Wa the Ruling Fore-An
Orauinl Inquiry that May He Far-Rech-i:i?
in Results Xew of Other Sort from
Various Point.
Cornelius McBrule, the special inspector
who was sent to Oklahoma by Secretary
Noble, talked freely regarding his investi
gation. He said when he first entered the
territory, and before the opening procla
mation took effect, he was surprised to
find the indicated troubles between the
various bauds of settlers and boomers un
warranted. He had not b.en there long
before he discovered it was not bloodshed
but rascality the depirtment h id to fear.
He further said: '-Secretary Noble tele
graphed me to look after the score of
deputy United States marshals who had
gone into the territory. I telegraphed Mr.
Noble that it was not tho
deputy marshals who were to
blame, but bihr ofSchils. I found
that John I. Dille, land register, and C. M.
Barnes, receiver, had connived to allow
their friendsand rel itives to com into the
territory before they had any right to, and
enter the choicest land. Geu. W. H. City
ton, a fellow townsman of Ba-nc. went to
Guthrie the Saturday before the opening,
and Sunday surveyed the sectio.i of land
laid out for the town site of G-Uhne and
made the plat. Mark S. Cohn was s I cd
to enter the plat, he, too, wis i i th? t r
ritory before he had any right. John E.
Dille, brother of the land r-gistt r. was also
on the ground, and by the grac. of hi
brother Dille and Cohn were s lected to
make the first entries. Three friends of
Dille and Barnes were select -il a-i I up
pointed deputy marshals to gnaid t e door
of the land office on the mtrnirg of the
opening. D. P. Dyer, of Kaasis City, ex
pected to be the first mu to m ke an en
try, and in realitv would have beet were
it not for the preconccrttd pi in. V.'ton
the door was opened at noon the three
deputies mentioned above shove I Djer aside
and permitted Dillie and Cohn io go in.
When they had finished entering the ha 1
filed claims for every section of iin 1 wL. ca
touched the sect on set apart for G-ithri-.
excepting the one which was 1 eld by a
lawyer named Walton, a brotheer to Se la
ter Walton, ot Colorado. Thi fi'i.1 a'so
included the Clavton's plat of Guthrie.'
McBnde says he reeomni3Ldil the re
moval from office of Register Didc, Re
ceiver Barnes and Marhtl Jon- s. of Kan
sas. Jones is the only in a h.) h-is b-eu
removed up to the present tiai'. Mc Bride
further said before the opmiig Ci.itoi
'came to him and told him nn'e; the town
site plat made by him (.Clayton) was al
lowed to be entered bloo I wj ild ll w in
the streets of Guthrie. The a-:tiju of
United States Marshal Needles. s.ivs Mc
Bride, were those of au houe-t man. Ther.
were many huudred blink appointment
of deputy marshals printed and many of
these were tilled out and eed'e' nanie
forged to them.
A Political Coalition Aimed At.
Under authority given at th ""national
reform conference" Iat Novemb r a cll
has been issued for a nniou oiganizmg
convention of reformers from a'l part.es"
to be held in St. Locis sept. :. The pnr
pose stated in the call is to adopt a national
platform and appoint a national ox 'cutive
committee whose duty it shill be 1 1 place
in the field in 1692 a "reform pa.ty" in all
the states and territories. The id-a is to
bring about, if possible, a po jiing of issues
bv th prohibition, union labor, green
backers, Knights of Lab r. farmers' al
liance and industrial nni-m organizations.
The committee suggests the p'acing of a
plank in the partj platform favjriug a
provision of law under whit-h the peop'e
may vote periodica'Iy npon doctrines and
policies without the intervention of parties
or candidates, the result of these elections
to be consideied as instructions to the leg
islative servants of tho people.
A Mississippi River JINhap.
The steamboat Katie Bobbins collide 1
near Vicksburg with a barge towed by
the steamer Josie Barkius. The barge
capsized and sank. The Katie Robbiu
hull was crushed in on the starboard sule
just forward of the furnace doors and she
sank to the hurricane deck. Four of the
deck crew are missing, and are undoubt
edly loss. Three ladies and Eeveral gen
tlemen passengers were aroused from
sleep when the boat struck and got ont
withont dressing, bnt lost their baggage.
A Renewed Sensation from Vienna.
A very sensational and improbable ver
sion of tne Meyerling tragedy has just been
published in the Vienna papers. It is that
Archdnke Rudolf and the Toung Baronnes
Vetiera were brother and sister. Th
rumcr rests on the report that Emporor
Francis Josef, vears ago, made love to
Barocness Vetsera and the heroine of the
Meyerling tragedy was born to them: and
when the facts wtre told to Archdnke Ru
dolf, he was so affected by the revelation
of the horrible secret that he suicided.
The only bais for the rtory seems to be
the report that when the news of his sou's
death first reached the emporer he ex
claimed. "My son, my daughter." The
story has recalled and renewed mnch
gossip.
Was "ot Edna Wilson's Holy.
The female body recc it!y discovered in
the Big Horn Basin. Wyo., proves not to
have been that of the missing Edna Wil
son. A portion of the dress fonnd on the
corpse and a description of the rings worn
were sent to the girl's mother aDl she says
tbey have no connection with her missing
daughter. Tnere is little doubt, however,
that a murder has been committed and an
attempt will be made to investigate the af
fair. Last June a headless torse and a
woman's saddle were washed ai-hore from
the Big Horn river, fifteen miles below
where the bedv was found.
Kediicuijr Georgia's Census.
DeFonst Aigood, president of the
Twine factory, one of the wealthiest insti
tutions of north Geo-gia, was shot and m-s'-iutly
killed by Dr. J B. Holme?, hia
brother-m law. and one cf the mot promi
nent and popular of Georgia's physicians.
lcood hid a long cherished ill-will to
Tiird Holmes for bn-inass matters between
them, ant bad freqnectlv threatened his
'if-". Holmes h"d amide him. butA'eood
- mt to tj'.-n and es in Kolm? s cfice.
"A'ten the do tor cam- in is. ccirpany with
: ?vfinac. A!o i aivjjijort -it'i 4 lran
!lo" ami Iln'iti- - -!.yt h m dead.
Tlld Railroads Won't Klnc.
The memorial cf Governor Thayer, of
Nebraska, to the railroirf entering be
state, requesting them to redtv their
grain rates as given at least 5 cents per 10
pounds, is cot likely to hare any effect.
Interviews have been had in Chicago with
the officials of some of the roads interes ed
in Nebraska traffic and they all declare that
to comply with the request would be ont of
the question. H. G. Burt, general man
ager of the Fremont, Elkhora & Missouri
Valley road, said he had seen Governor
Thayer since the memorial was issued, and
had endeavored to satisfy him that rates on
grain from Nebraska points are as low as
tho roads can reasonably ba expected to .
makithem. The nresent rate on irram v
make them. The present rate on gram
from central Nebraska points is 22 cents to
Chicago and 17 cents to St. Louis, which
is mnch lower than it has been for years.
Governor Thayer's request was made at
the instance of tha Nebraska grangers,
who complain that the transportation
charges are out of proportion to the price
paid for cereals in the eastern markets.
While admitting that the farmers have
cause to complain of the low price of grain,
tho railroads insist that tney do not sea
their way clear to reducing rates below
their present basis.
Nebraska Census Di.strh-t.
Bulletin No. 1 of the census bureau, just
issued by Superintendent Porter, gives the.
following census districts for the state of
Nebraska:
First District Adams, Butler, Chase.
Clay. Dundy, Fillmore, Franklin, Fron
tier Furnas," Gosper. Hamilton, Harlan,
Haves, Hitchcock, Jefferson. Kearney,
Nuckolls, Thelps. Polk. Bed Willow. Sa
line. Seward, Thayer, Webster and York
counties.
Second District Antelope. Arthur. Ban
ner, Blaine. Boone. Box Butte. Brown,
Buffalo, Burt, Cedar, Cherry, Cheyenne, I
Colfax, Cuming. Custer, Dakota. Dawes, j
Dawson. Deuel. Dixon. Dodge, Garfield, i
Grant. Greeley, Hall. Holt, Hooker, How- I
ard, Keith, Keya Paha, Kimball, Knot, j
Lincoln. Logan, Loup. McPherson, Mad
ison. Merrick. Nance. Perkins, Pierce, '
Platte. Rock, Scotts Bluff. Sheridan,
Sherman, Sioux. Stanton. Thomas. Thur
ston, Valley, Washington. Wayne and
Wheeler counties.
Third District Cass, Dunglas. Gage,
Johnson. Lancaster. Nemaha, Otoe. Paw
nee, Richardson, Sarpy and Saunders
counties.
o Hones Were Hrokeiu
While feeding a corn shelter at the farm
of Wni. Beck, near Blue Springs, Frank
llice met with a painful accident. His
hand caught in the wheels and his arm was
drawn in until it stopped the machinery
and necessitated the unbelting and partial
taking apart of the michine in order to get
it out. He was taken to Bine Springs
where a doctor examined the wound and
fouu I that though the desh was badly lac
erated there were no bones broken.
A Fireman Killed.
A Burlington engine left the trick near
Seward and running down tho bank, in
stantly killed fireman Frank Scha;fer.
Deceased was abont 23 years old and was
poon to have ied to the altar Miss Minnie
Landanrer, a handsome and accomplished
young lady of Lincoln. His remains were
taken to Central City for bnrial.
'evv IVistmastern Appointed.
Tobias. Saline county, E. E. JJntler;
Genoa. Nance county, B. A. Demony; Ka
wanda, Deuel connty, A. G. Pickering;
Mead, Saunders connty, D. Steams.
Told in a Few Lines. .
Gage connty supports sixteen newspa- ,
pers. ,
The ladies of l'erdon have organized a t
brass band.
Citizens of Scotia chew $7,t0t) worth '
i
of tobacco a year. i
Battle CREEK supports both German j
and English schools. j
Five convicts in the Lincoln peniten- ,
tiary were pardoned last year.
Between" lo.OOO and 20,000 bushels of '
corn is dumped on the ground near one of (
the Ulysses elevators and is being loa led
into cars for shipment as fast as possible.
While on his way home from Rivertou
Elmer Beady overturned his wagon, throw
ing Mrs. Matthew Murphy out and Ire ik
ing her arm in two places. The cause of ,
the acci lent is laid to the fact that Ilea ly
had imbibed too much fluid extract of Ne- '
braska City.
The editor of the Friend Telnjruph has
a wife who is a veritable helpmeet. The
other day she wanted rabbit for dinner and
when she saw one of the desirpd animals
hopping across her front yard she took
down a target rill-j and popped over the
game at the first snot.
Fked WoODhON and Miss Ophelia Lee, '
both' society leaders at Plattsniou'h,
eloped and were married at Glenwooi,
Iowa, by a justice of the peace. Their
parents "objected to the mateh. bnt when f
the conple returned they were lecehed !
with open arms by the old folks. j
E. W. Giles, the Oxford gentleman
who is fasting to r3duce bis flesh, lost just (
twenty-Reven pounds m weight in fourteen I
days." He now confines himself to a diet j
of two mouthfnls of beefsteak and a half a
cracker once instead of twice a day. He ,
proposes to continue tnis diet ror tniny
days at least.
John C. Sullivan has just died at tha
Norfolk insane asylum. Mr. Sullivan was
an old army telegraph operator and served
with credit under Grant. Sherman and
others.
The large barn of J. Thompson, five
miles north of Grind Island, was burned.
A number of horses ard cattle perished
in the flames. Loss, S."i,WJ; insurance
$1,300.
The mysterious disappearance of stamps
from the Filley postofSce has been ac
counted for by the finding of a mouse's
nest in a rubber boot, lined with the
missing stamps.
The county judge of Furnas county was
obliged to recall a marriage license which
he recently issued, because the would-be
nusband had not been divorced sir months,
as required by law.
A FBACD, claiming to be a represent
ative of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly,
got the people of Lexington to give up
considerable money for an illustrated
write-up of the town, and tnen skipped
out and has not since been beard of.
Bobeet Ashley ha3 been confirmed as
Indian agent of the Omaha and Winnebago
agency.
Habvet Hebadon, a Wymore boy, had
hi leg broken while attempting to board a
moving train.
The gold excitement at Norden still con
tinues, and a shaft is being sunk as rapidly
as possible.
A mad dog bit two children and a num
ber of animals at Octavia before it was ,
finally killed. j
Hon. J. B. Fabnswobth has ben ap- j
pointed county judge of heva Paha-county, j
vice Judge Girber, resigned. ;
A BOPOSirrci"wdI ba snbrzittcd t&tte .
voters o Laup City, April tffTCt-rsia,- ,
j QOO bonds to aid m thf construction p; a
tsa-raile water-power cacal.
DIBCTOIt$
A. ANDERSON. Pree't. .
J. H. GALLEY, Vico Trcftt.
O.T.KOEN.Owhier.
G. ANDERSON.' P- A.VDEKSON
JACOB UHEISEN. HEN'Of RAGATZ.
JOHN J. SULLIVAN.
First National torn
State-eat f Conditio at the Close of
" Z :TiT a- men
BuineM September 3), 1839.
BXSOCBCES.
Loans and Discounts $ ltCotl "t
U. S. BomU lrf..Voi:i
Other stocks and bonds HM -
Heal Estate. Furnitnre and Fixture. . H.-'i! 2s
Due fruin other bank. 13.N1.""
" U. S.Trvaary . tT3.lK)
Cash on Hand 17.407.IU SUd '
mntmR -
Capital and Surplus
Undivided prfiit.-
National Hank notes outstanding .
Rediscounts...... ..................
Due Depositors ....................
.$ O.0H CM
7.017 If,
. injM'i u
. 'JJ.IS) it
. lll.tk'S v ,
$ 'jj"tr Of
Apr2-'SStf
gnsiness aris.
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Office over Columbus State Bank, ColimilxnC
Nebraska. -
O ULL1TA3I BEEBEI,
ATTORNEYS AT LAM',
Office over
Nebraska.
First National Bank,
Columbus,
TORI EViBEX,
co uxrr surveyor.
EPartiea deeirinir snrveyinjt done can no.
dress me at Columbus, Neb., or call ut my ollicu
in Court House. 3maj "s-J-y
T J. CIA.1EI,
CO. SUP'T PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
I will be in my office in the Court House. tln
third Saturday ot each month for the i-xamum-tion
of applicants for teachers certificates, mni
for the transaction of other school business.
I"ians8
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DRAY and EXPRESSMAN.
Lictht and heavy haalimr. Goods handled tvitli
care. Hrtuliinarters at J. P. Becker X Co. otlire.
Telephone. 33 and 34. JUrnayttil t
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tyucceor to FaubU t Bnsh'11),
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'-'Contractors anil builders will find our
brick first-class and offered at reasonable mt-.
We are also prepared to do all kinds of lr:clc
work. lriinaj'im
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Both, post-paid to any address, for $in a jrur.
strictly ia advance. Family Joch-l. t.ti a
year.
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Job-Work, loofin and Gutter
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M-ttm:t boiler, mantle, etc. hjtniam sum!
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