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Uepuhluaii Slate Contention.
The republican electors of the state of
Nebraska are re.jiuistel to send delegates
from their several counties to meet in
convention in the city of Lincoln, Wed
neadavvTuly 23, at 8 oVl.x-k p. in., for the
purpose of placing in nomination candi
dates for the followintf state officers:
Governor.
Lieutenant Governor.
Secretary or State.
Auditor or Public Accounts.
State Treasurer.
Commissioner of Public Lauds and
HnildiiiKs.
Superintendent of Public Instruction.
And the transaction of such other
business as may come lief or the con
vention. THE Al'POKTIONMF.XT.
The several counties are entitled to
representation as follows, leinr based
uIkmj the vote cast for Hon. George II.
Hastings, presidential elector in 1888,
giving one delegate-at-large to each
county, and one for each 1") votes and
the major fraction thereof:
We omit all except Platte and ad
joining counties. The convention will
have 618 delegates.
Boone it Polk
Madison 10 Merrick '.'
Nance " Platte !
Colfax i - Stanton 4
Hatler Ill
It is recommended that no proxies lie
admitted to the convention; that each
county convention elect alternates, and
that the delegates present le authorized
to cast the full vote of the delegation.
L. D. Riciiaiukv
Walt M. Seei,ey, Chairman.
Secretary.
Krnuhliran County Convention.
The Republicans of Platte county will
meet in delegate convention at Fitpat -rick's
hall, Columbus, on
MONIIAY, .Tl'LY 21, ISM),
at 2 o'clock p. m., for the purpose of
electing nine delegates to attend the
state convention, to lie held at Lincoln,
Nebraska, July 2:$, 1800, and placing in
nomination a candidate for county at
torney and candidates for the legislat ure,
and to transact such other business as
may come before it. The basis of rep
resentation shall be one delegate at large
from each ward and township, and one
for every 15 votes, or major fraction
theroof, cast for Hon. T. L. Norval for
supreme judge in 1883, as follows:
CityofOolurubus Columbus Tp
First ward.. .." Hutler. ..
.
4
Second ward .
Third ward .
Shell Creek ..
Humphrey
Lout Creek..
Creaton ... .
Woodville
Sherman
Jo!iet
John Wise,
.it lliemark.
...3 Monroe .
. . 3 Walker .
4 Grand Prairie 3
. . 9 Granville . . 4
. . 6 Burrow, . . :l
...7 St. Bernurd J
fi Loup... ... -
... 6
J. G. Reeder,
Secretary.
Chairman.
Joseph I'AUioneof the victims of the
Pacific hotel ico cream poisoning case in
Beatrice, has since died.
General Clinton B. Fisk, the prohi
bition leader, died Wednesday morning
iu his home at New York, aged (52.
Hon. Joseph Lyman of Council Bluffs
died Wednesday last. He was a promi
nent lawyer, judge and ex-congressman.
The State Holiness camp meeting will
be held this year, commencing August
30th and continuing eight days, at
Bennett, Neb.
Near Springfield, Ohio, Wednesday,
Arthur Bieringer was killed by light
ning, and fell into a grave-like hole t hat
he had been digging.
Work is to lie liegnn at once on the
sugar palace at Grand Island. The cen
tral tower will be !) ft. high, ami the
main building 180x125(1 rt.
We suppose now that Hon. Guy C.
Barnttm has cast his lot with the inde
pendents, the Telegram will drop him us
its preferred democratic candidate for
governor. Who is your next?
The Japan mail Wednesday reported
that a rumor was prevalent that Russia
had seized the island off the coast of
Korea and that the British ships Lean
der and Severn were ordered to bo ready
to proceed to sea at a moment's notice.
It will be remembered that one Harry
Deming jumped from a third story win
dow of the Midway hotel at Kearney
daring the fire some time since and lost
his life. His mother now sues the own
er of the house for $5,000 damages for
violation of the law of the state in not
providing fire escapes.
The independents prefer to take their
candidates at first hand. Gondring may
be nominated for county attorney by tho
democrats, bnt an endorsement by the
independents, conditioned upon a future
nomination by another party, is too
many degrees removed from first princi
ples of political action to suit a new
party entering the lists for public favor.
Jealousies are already springing up
among the independents. These come
mainly through old party feelings and
aspirations for office. If the party ever
becomes numerically strong, the self
same difficulties that other political or
ganizations have had to encounter will
certainly come to this one. A political
party restricted to membership by oc
ecupaticn lines is not in accord with
oar theory of government, and can
scarcely be looked upon as permanent,
however trne it is that the interests they
so mach desire to foster lie at the very
fbmndatioQ of all onr prosperity as a
people.
NEBRASKA POLITICS.
Jack MacColl is said to le Senator
Paddock's favorite for governor.
The Flail has been, and is today, un
qualifiedly for Richards for governor,
but it cannot indorse any chicanery or
underhanded efforts to kill any other
man off to make him so, and we cannot
but believe that all such efforts will re
act on the heads of those who perpetrate
them. Our position as expressed per
sistently, has been for peace, stating em
phatically that the man who takes the
sword shall die by the sword. But we
had no idea that the astute and sagaci
ous Richards would be induced to nii
sheath first. The Flail deplores it, for
it will likely prevent our county from
being represented in either district or
state. Fremont Flail.
.
The Crawford Clipper is responsible
for the following which, if altogether
trne, would look as though the rank and
file of the party were not to lo consult
ed in the matter, and that Judge Kin
kaid is trying to make griends for a con
tingency: "Judge M. P. Kinkaid has
given out that he will not be a candidate
for the nomination as congressman from
this district. The judge gives as the
reason that he thinks (1. W. K. Dorset
can do more for the district in that
office than any other man in the district
and that he does not wish to lie used as
a tool 4o forward the schemes of the
political workers of the east end. This
statement on the part of Kinkaid vir
tually solidifies the west for Horsey and
makes the many admirers of that inde
fatigable worker in the interests of his
constituents, Horsey, friends of Kinkaid.
In the event that our census reort en
titles us to another representative, the
west will with one accord look to Judge
Kinkaid to till the vacant chair.
Plied With Liquor and Kuiued.
M:irv M 'Pit us is a nrettv country irirl
....... ... - , . -
of onlv fourteen years and is as innoci
as a child or four. Her father lives on a
farm near Saltillo and in order to have
his daughter learn something more of
the world than what she saw in her own
household. Mr. Titus allowed her to o
to the home of a friend named Deninan,
a farmer near Denton. Yesterday she
got off the train here to change cars and
while sitting in thedeiot a railroad man
approached her and by pretending to be
well acquainted with her family suc
ceeded in getting her to go with him for
a drink of lemonade. Instead of taking
her to a restaurant he led her to a wine
room, where he got her intoxicated and
ho in company with two pals took the
helpless girl to a room where her ruin
was accomplished. A fourth fellow,
Charles Burns, was also let into the room
and was captured this morning at the
place bv the police, who had got wind of
the terrible affair. Two of the other fel
lows have also been canght by the offi
cers, but the police refuse to divulge
their names until tho other scoundrel is
also run in. Lincoln Correspondence
Omaha Bee.
Mosey for a medium of exchange only
has the endorsement of many leading
financiers. Platte county borrows money
from Europe and gives rami mortgages
fox security and pays big interest for the
use of it, returning every dollar. Now
if the check or the editor or the Looking
Glass could pass as a medium of ex
change for the same length of timo and
be returned in full instead of the Euro
pean money (and without interest), every
man can understand that many dollars
would bo saved to our people and ye
editor be nono the worse, the objection
being that the editor might fail in the
meantime. To guard against such con
tingency, wo will put tho U. S. govern
ment in as the party issuing the check;
now there is no danger and tho interest
money is a clear gain to Platte county.
Anv man, though a fool, need not err in
this matter, even though Blaine, Harri
son and Windom tell you it won't work;
that the only way devised by tho polit
ical economist is for the farmer to send
a lot of blamed idiots to Washington to
doviso means to keep the kings of Amer
ica with their necks under the heel of
some foreign money boss. - - Monroe
Looking Glass.
The civilized world should devise some
wav to rid itself of the burden of stand-
ing armies. To maintain large iiumners
of men in idleness, on a remote contin
gency, is the same as impoverishing
without any adequate return. In this,
as in many other things, it would lie well
for Europe to follow the example of the
United SUites, and keep no nioro sol
diery than sufficient to do guard duty or
police work, so to speak. Great stand
ing armies are the so-called safeguards
of kings, but tho armies should lie re
duced and the jieople should rule, and
the most illustrious kings will lie those
who, of purpose, steadily work to pre
pare for the change which is coming as
when waters rise everywhere. The spirit
of progress is abroad and likewise that
of discontent, but large standing armies
only add to burdens and make discon
tent more grievous and outspoken. Ed
ucation is the full and adequate safe
guard for till right rule, and intelligent
men throughout Christendom should see
to it that this is the best attainable.
"Let 'Km hump."
Here is the "maiden speech" of Hon.
Charles McClammy, of North Carolina,
in congress, the other day, on the ques
tion of the free coinage of silver. It is a
corker:
Mr. Speaker, it is said, as an argument
against the free coinage of silver, that
Europe and other countries will dump
their silver upon this country. Listen
ing to this argument I was induced to
reflect that the countries would not
dump their silver without consideration
therefor. In other words would not
dump for the fun of it. If, then, they do
for a consideration, what is that to be
save and except it be our products out
side of silver r
Must it not be the products of our
farms, our mines, our manufactories?
Then, deferentially, I submit
For our wheat let them dump.
For our corn let them dump.
Let them dump for onr provisions.
Let them dump for our wageworkers,
in field and mine and shop.
With this dump we can pay off our
mortgages and overcome the influences
depressing the energies of our people
ana aosoroing ineir resources 10 tne
point of bankruptcy
Those politicians who are inclined to
sneer at the independents, and ridicule
them, will find that they are mistak
ing the situation of things. Their chief
principles are held by a majority of the
"bone and sinew" of both the old politi
cal parties, and their going apart, even
though temporarily, may result in open
ing the eyes of the party workers, the
men who control the machines, to the
fact that something must be done be
sides electing some Tom, Dick or Harry
to a lucrative or honorable office. There
are demands upon political parties,
which the public welfare will not allow
to go unheeded, and this new political
organization is one of the very strongest
evidences of that fact. It is very far
from lieing a conclave of disappointed
office-seekers, as one of our contempora
ries charges, but is an honest endeavor
to attempt something of public benefit.
Gen. John Charles Fremont died at
the residence of his adopted daughter,
the wife of Col. H. M. Porter, New York
City, Sunday afternoon -at 8:30. The
immediate cause of his death was in
Hammationof the bowels,dating from the
! excessive heat of the previous Tuesday.
A physician was sent for Friday, who
advised a sail so that the sick man could
get a little fresh air. While on tho
water he got a bad chill, and, although
his case w:is not considered dangerous,
tho true character of the disease de
veloped and final dissolution was sud
den. The General was seventy-sevon
years and six months old. His was a
very eventful life, and The Journal
will take occasion iu the near future to
give a sketch of his career.
AisotT one hundred years ago a neg
lected country girl named Margaret,
living iu the interior of New York state,
fell into a life of sin and shame. A
statistician ou the subject or crime and
criminals, who followed her history and
that of her decendunts, has shown that
it cost the state of New York in various
ways $1,300,(100 in seventy-live years,
or $18,000 a year to take care of the de
scendants of this unfortunate and sin
ning woman. A far less amount spent
judiciously would have saved hundreds.
The thousands sieiit today for the Mar
garets of the rural communities mean
millions saved tomorrow in the cost of
criminals and paupers in the cities.
ItojMtrt of Executive Committee of New
York State Sundav School Association.
Don't be duped by buying any of the
aliment so-called -weitsier s unatirnigeu
Dictionaries" issued bv unscrupulous
mhlishers, and offered for sale, and as a
1
iremium, by unscrupulous newspapers.
cigar, tobacco, dry goods, soap and corn
salve dealers, at S cents to $5 a copy.
The price depending upon the supposed
ignorance of the purchaser. It is a dic
tionary, of over forty years ago, with
a supplement of ' new words," edited by
a man who has lieen dead over thirty
years, and it is now practically useless.
Tho latest and best edition bears on tho
title page tho imprint of G. A- C. Mer
riam .y Co., Springfield, Mass.
In Mercer county, W. Va., on the night
of the fith a terrible riot occurred. Sev
eral hundred negroes were on an excur
sion and as considerable liquor was
aboard, a number of fights occurred.
Three or four negroes attempted to cut
the throat or a while man, who was de
fended by a detective, one Baldwin, and
three of his men. They were attacked
by alioiit thirty negroes with whatever
they could lay their hands on; lights
were put out, and iu the melee nine
negroes were disabled. Four detectives
wero roughly handled, and several ne
groes were beaten almost to death.
Ke'iuhlirau Dele-rate.
The delegates elected Monday from
the wards of the city to the republican
county convention, nre:
First ward W. A. McAllister, A. J.
Arnold, E. Pohl, A. L. Bixby and Henry
Lubker.
Second ward-L. Gerrard, II. Ragatz,
H. J. Hudson. C. A. Brindley, L. W.
Weaver and John Hoffman.
Third ward M. Whitmoyer, G. G.
Bowman, C. H. Sheldon, S. C. Gray, C.
A. Woosley, E. H. Chandlers, Gns G.
Bccher and J. G. Reeder.
We may not be very well versed in tho
science, but know tho other thing at
sight. When a government has a pot
full of silver and a mint, and then insists
.upon Ap-cing its people to pay a bushel
ohgnteresi lo foreigners tor a circulating
TTiedium, all can recognize that at a
glance as political tomfoolery of the
very clearest "water. Monroe Looking
Glass.
WniliingKiii letter.
From our regular convhondent.
Senator Morrill, chairman of the com
mittee on finance, today called up the
McKinley tariff bill, as amende by his
committee, in the senate and made a
speech opening tho debate, the end of
which no man is rash enough to attempt
to set a date for. There was a disposi
tion on the part of senators favorable to
the river and liarlxir bill to have that
measure disposed of before the tariff
bill was taken up, bnt owing to the fact,
that there is a doubt in the minds of
many senators as to whether tho presi
dent will sign the rivor and liar 1 Kir bill,
if it is passed by tho senate and the sen
ate amendments agreed to by the house
but little was done toward antagonizing
the tariff bill with it.
Democratic senators nre openly threat
ening to talk out tho rest of the Fifty
first congress on the tariff bill, unless
the republicans will promise not to take
up the federal election bill in the senate
at this session. This can be done under
the present rules of the senate, if tho
democrats have the nerve to carry out
their threats. Of course the senate can,
if so disposed, change its rules so as to
upset this little democratic scheme, but
from conversations with a number of
the leading republican senators I think
the sentiment is at this time against
making tho radical changes in the rules
which would be necessary to do it.
Many republican senators are under tho
the impression that there is no general
demand by the party throughout the
country for the enactment of a federal
election law, so that it may le said that
the fate of the measure is in tho hands
of the republican voters of the country;
if they wish it passed let them make the
fact known to their senators, and it will
be done. That's tho whole situation in
a nutshell.
U. S. Treasurer Huston, who has been
ill for quite a while has recovered and
resumed his duties. Mr. Huston is a
deservedly popular official.
Ex-Representative Valentine, the new
sergeant-at-arms of the senate, has made
a jump into popular favor by raising
four mammoth United States flags at
the feet of the goddess of liberty on the
top of the dome of the capitol, on the
Fourth. Strange as it may sound this
is the first time the national flag has ,
aw.
been raised over the capitol since that
building was completed, except when
the house or senate wa3 in session, be
cause of tho rules, which say that the
Hags over the respective houses of con
gress shall be hoisted only when they
are in session, consequently on all holi
days and during the recess of congress
there has been no flag over the capitol.
This has been surprising to all visitors,
particularly those from foreign countries,
and Mr. Valentine is deserving of credit
for having been the first one to solve the
problem of how to raise tho flags. Ho
had four staffs temporarily erected
pointing north, south, east and west,
and it js probable that they will be
made permanent.
The argument on the silver bill still
hangs fire, and if one listened to the
opinions expressed by the conferees, in
private, he would soon be convinced
that no agreement was possible. Never
theless it is safo to say that an agree
ment will bo reached, and that it will
either provide for the purchase and
coinage of -1,500,000 ounces, and it is
probable that the bill will make the
coin certificates full legal tender, good
for either gold or silver, although tho
last will not be accomplished without a
stubborn fight. Tho republican con
ferees are now trying to get together in
their ideas so as to act as a unit in this
important matter, and it is hoped that'
they will succeed.
Mr. Itlaiuc has gone to Maine ami is
not expected to return for some time,
unless the complications with Groat
Britain in regard to the Behriugs Sea
fisheries shall reach a crisis. There was
a rumor here last week that the "Squad
ron of Evolution" had boon ordered to
Behriugs Sea to protect American inter
ests at all hazards, but it. is stated at
the navy department that tho squadron
is on its way home, having sailed from
Rio de Janeiro Saturday.
There are now forty-three stars on the
legal Hag or the United States, the pres
ident having signed the bill admitting
Idaho as a state on tho 3d, the law pro
viding that the new star shall lie added
on the Fourth of July succeeding the
law admitting a new state. Owing to a
senate amendment the bill admitting
Wyoming is still on the speaker's table
in the house.
ArriM the Continent.
To one having occasion to cross the
continent on business, with no particu
lar interest in country passed through, he
journey, even in these days of palace
cars and flying trains, must seem long
and tedious. But to him who cares to
know more of his country, her people,
her industries and resources who cares
to study tho probabilities and possibil
ities of her future, especially if ho has
some eye and soul for tho grand in na
ture, such a trip may well be counted
the privilege of a life time. There are
things that cannot lo received at second
hand, they must bo learned direct.
With all tho books of travel in our li
braries, with all tho illustrated articles
that crowd onr leading magazines,
and all tho letter writing of travels in
our newspapers, no man can know his
country comprehensively, till his own
eyos have seen it through its length and
breadth. No man can properly judge
of her varied civilization and peculiar
institutions in her widely separated
parts, till ho has studied them on their
own grounds. No one can convey to an
other a true conception of a mountain
range, or of the ocean in motion. I ap
preciate theso facts as I never did be
fore. Matters I had givon special at
tention to for years, and thought myself
reasonably well informed in regard to, I
find I really know little about, at ha it
so far as those bottom facts aro concern
ed, on which all right conclusions must
rest. I do not moan to say that unless
a man travels he must remain in ig
norance of his country. The facilities
for gaining this knowledgo aro remark
ably full both in printed page and pic
ture. What I mean is that after ono
has all the information ho can obtain
through theso moans, there is yet a very
important something remaining that can
only lie had by actual, personal pres
ence. Ill health has forced upon me thoop-
Hirlunity of seeing something of our
great west. I should liavo much pre
ferred to make the trip at my conven
ience, but shall try to make tho most of
it, if under difficulties.
My neighliors had lioen kind enough
to express some interest, in former let
ters, and I have consented to give some
account of my observations on this trip.
I do not expect to interest the many
who have traveled, but write for those
who have not had the opfiortunity of
seeing this part of tho country. I shall
speak for the most part of those things
that have come under my own observa
tion or that I have verified by personal
investigation, and shall try to give a
true idea lit them so far as possible. I
speak of this liecauso already I find I'm
obliged to rearrange my own preconceiv
ed notions of many things, and I know
some things I shall say will not agree
with the present opinions of some of my
readers.
Every day I see the results of careless
or exaggerated statements. As a sam
ple: In talking with the secretaTfof the
stjite horticultural society of California
tho other day, I asked if there was not
danger of over doing the fruit growing
business on the coast His reply was:
"It is simply an impossibility; wo cannot
raise too much fruit, we have the mar
kets of the world." An hour ago I re
turned from a ramble in tho suburbs of
this pleasant little city of Santa Bar
bara, and when not three miles away
from its principal markets and from the
railway depot and the landing where
steamers touch every day, I saw scores
of bushels of apricots going to waste
under the trees of a fruit orchard, and
every day I see farmers return home
with unsold fruit. I want no reader of
this paragraph to draw any conclusion
from it in regard to fruit growing in
California. In some future letter I
shall speak on the subject at some
length. I refer to this incident simply
to illustrate how misleading half truth
may be.
All along my journey I have been im
pressed more than ever before with the
harm the frequent over statements of
interested parties, and the frequent ex
aggerated and sensational descriptions
of journalists are doing. Plain facts and
descriptions may lack the spice to se
cure readers, but I have no inclination
to attempt any other.
I was obliged to make the trip across
in easy stages, which was fortunate, so
far as it gave me opportunity of gaining
some knowledge of the characteristic
features of various localities. It is sim
ply impossible to be rushed over tho
continent night and day, on a modern
fast train, and get more than a very gen
eral notion of it. One can catch glimpses
of cities and plains and mountains and
talk afterwards of the grand and the
magnificent and all that, but his real
knowledgeof tho country is very general.
There is a biy jmMi lying between the
Missouri ri-er and the Pacific ocean.
Too big to be taken in and digested in a
day or four days. had never been
through the western jiart of our own
state even and was much interested.
Of course I saw too littlo of it to judge
of its merits intelligently, and I fully
understand that we do not see the best
lands from tho line of tho railroad, but I
am more fully persuaded than ever that
many who have gone into theso western
counties to inako a living by farming
would have been far hotter off at tho
end of five or ten years, if they had
settled in eastern or central Nebraska,
and paid $25 an aero for their laud, even
if they had worked out by tho month
for the money for tho first payment.
Those thin-soiled lands with Hie great
scarcity of water, will doubtless some
day lie of real value, but it will be when
farm products bring more than at pros
eut. It seems to me criminal for i
viduals or corporations to hold out such
fictitious inducements Tor men to Bottle
on these lands now. It not only brings
ruin to hundreds of families, but docs
onr state as a whole very great injustice.
We may not have suffered so much as
Kansas from over persuaded emigrants
taking tip poor lands, but I'm satisfied
that of any disrepute our state may have
fallen into in the east, moroof it has
lieen occasioned by this one cause than
all others together. The most casual
observer need not lie here long to see
that California, as a whole, is suffering
from this same reckless exaggeration
made use of to turn real estate into
money.
The North Platte was llowing a full
stream as we crossed it but the South
branch from its junction, showed but a
wide lied of dry sand, and we rode by its
empty banks till we passed the state
line and was well along into Colorado.
I was quite surprised at this. I had
known something of its liei ng diverted
for irrigating purposes, but had not
thought of its waters being so complete
ly taken out so early in tho season.
After leaving North Platte, and in fact
long before w reached there, wo saw
but here and there a small patch of
sickly-looking corn and occasionally a
field or two of small grain most of it
very small. Tho rest in vast pastures,
mostly fenced. I saw but ono piece of
breaking in this part of the state, but
quite frequently abandoned fields that
had once been cultivated.
I thought I had a pretty fair idea of
the portion of Colorado tho road trav
erses before reaching tho mountains,
but found I was utterly unprepared to
see those dry stretches of desolation
hour after hour. I expected tosee some
signs of greenness at this season at least,
on which there would lie grazing herds,
bnt there was only that endless expanso
of brown suface, dotted with cactus mats,
occasionally a few hungry-looking cattle
would be in sight, but what little, thin
dry grass thoro seemed to bo was eaten
close already.
Most of the towns located on the maps
aro composed of tho regularly-rocurring
water tank and station house- occasion
ally a strongly-built stock yard for
shipping cattle.
After leaving Julesburg, where we
loavo the main line for Denver, there was
some water left in tho bed of the Platto
and occasionally a field of alfalfa, where
convenient to lead tho water from the
river. From there on the irrigating
ditches bccaino more frequent, and the
littlo isolated farms green with trees and
growing crops looked very strange sur
rounded by the brown expanse on every
side. Sometimes these littlo oases would
bo separated for miles iu every direction
from any other cultivated land. I lie-
came much interested in the matter of
reclaiming theso arid lands of our far
west, and will speak or what i have
learned in regard to it, in my net letter.
.1. 11. Kr.HH.
HNT lUltUMM.Cal.
TIIK NKHIIASKA WORLD'S FAIIJ.
NVIii-:ih:i State Fair and Kpoitiiin at
Lincoln. September 5 to fj. I MM I.
Tho time is drawing near, when the
Nebraska stato lioard of agriculture will
hold its twenty-fourth annual exposition
under the new contract term for five
years, commencing with this year 18'.M).
As our readers aro aware, the fair will
lie hold on the same large and commod
ious grounds adjoining tho city of Lin
coln, ;is occupied the past five years.
While there already exists extensive and
superior accommodations, second to no
other in the country, more and lietter
are being provided for the coming fair.
A visit to the grounds finds a forco of
workmen engaged in erecting a large,
entirely new and systematically arrang
ed art hall; additions to agricultural
hall, increasing its space nearly double
what it has been .heretofore; a new and
enlarged poultry house; tho stato fish
exhibit house enlarged and rearranged;
the water mains enlarged to furnish tin
increased supply of pure water from
the city waterworks; the capacity of the
amphitheater will be enlarged, together
with many other preparations to accom
modate, among which will be seats
about the grounds where the weary may
rest, shaded seats about the show rings,
and the like, for tho convenience of
guests.
Every effort on the part of tho man
agement to bring out the products and
show the resources of the state is being
made. Especially in behalf of agricul
tural products. This year, for county
collective exhibits, the premiums are:
For first beet collection $ 23) 00
For second beat collection 'J00 00
For third best collection ISO 00
For fourth bet collection 125 00
For fifth best collection 100 00
For sixth beat collection 75 00
For seventh best collection SO 00
The management, intent on both in
struction and amusement, has contract
ed for, as an attraction, the Coup eqnes
curriculumof sixteen wonderful horses,
the best educated in the world their
equals do not exist. Also Prof. Freyer's
educated dogs. These wonderful ani
mals perform military drill- with equal
precision as old soldiers, and actually
perform theatrical plays, presenting
Mtfl- SviiiiTnL,
marvellous and highly educational exhi
bitions. They will astonish, plenso,
amaze and amuse, not ouly tho young,
but the old as well. A practical illus
tration of the power of education, show
ing to what extent even the dumb an
imals of'creation can be educated.
From an interview with the secretary
we learn that negotiations are pending
which promise of putting a "fust step
per" on tho race track, that will chase
two minutes closer than ever before
known on the Nebraska state fair, or any
other track in the world.
No pains will bo spared this year to
make the coming fair ami exposition su
perior in all respects to any of its pre
decessors. A general public interest is
being manifest edof the ir.oit encouraging
character. Live stock stables, stalls
and pens aro bein called for more than
usual. Speed purses are filling up nice
ly. The two large purse.! $J,0.M each
guarantee, are already filled to overtlow
ing. Space, too, in all l!i: halls is large
ly engaged even at this date. The sec
retary says: "All looks big! If the clerk
of tho weather smiles on us as iioiiat the
fair or ISihl will eclipse, all others in the
history of the state."
For information wiite the secretary,
Rob't W. Furnas. Hrownvdle. "Mis
business" is to "diffuse liyht ami infor
mation" iu fair matters.
o!' the Pi'!t'-dili-j ol tin- l.'.ur.l o!
:UMTViM-s.
l)tnVi:tt.)
TOWNSHIPS .M'MIIKi: OK MILLS.
Columbus 7
U ItSllItt I iv
Crest on No levy
( iiimd Panirie I
o 1141 1 l.l'tM'K.. ........ .. ... .'
1)11111 I " i
Jt'lllV -
l'"l " It l V a "'
Ivlli I (
1 1 rti ii vil It". ................. ...... ...............
ii ( . in ii.iiii. ... ........... ......
i i 1 1 1 t. ......... ........ ... .. .......... i
vl I'll I'M ..... .................. t
W imn! II !( .....-.......
ii I ................ . '
CITY A.VIi IILLAUKS M'MI'.KIt K MILLS.
City of Columbus i'
Village of Platte Center 10
Village of Lindsay "
Village of Crotoii 1
Village of Humphrey No levy
Interest and ." percent of principal on
.ilfi.OOO But let precinct bridge bonds, 14
mills.
Interest on .2.".0)D Columbus pre
cinct railroad bonds, -A mills.
Interest on $10,000 Columbus town
ship Loup rivet bridge bonds, -1 mills.
The board of supervisors of Platte
county met yesterday and made the fol
lowing levies after which they adjourned
to meet again on Tuesday. July l.":
COl.NTY M'MBKIt OK MILLS
(ieneral fund 7 4-
Load fund... ....................... ........ - 1-.
a i i' it. , ........ ............................... )
Soldiers' relief l-:"
Payment of interest on $S,000 re
funding bonds 1 1--
This is two mills lower than the levy
of last year.
Assessed valuation of Platte county by
towusliips (as equalized Ly Hit: roiinty
board of equalisation). hieliidmgjjijrrd
and telegraph property:
Tups. Personal. Itealtv. Total.
Columbus $14J.S.V.I $i7:t,."5l $I'J4.440
ColmuhuH-tp.. l'.l,7i2 11S.!0I 'siO.ti'.'S
ltismark :50S44 Ci,0S7 iC,f.::i
Sherman iii.217 i'.2.3'.m; 88,iV.3
Creston .r4.'.':7 C.",:"iS lJ0,4!ri
Shell Creek... iiO.HiS t:r.,J."i M.IR::
(hand Prairie. l!.il: 0::.'.r,7 $:5,S7t;
Humphrey.... 77,72:-t 7I.13.i 14S.SS
Butler.... 13.i,Ci0 33,80$ lt)'i,IS
Loup 14.03.S 27,040 4l,.i7.s
Lost Creek.... 113.1J.. 1U,013 -2:W.13S
lJurrows Pi.403 f.J,'.i07 103,310
Granville .0,SS1 M.i4 li.W,
Monroe :.t;,02 70,824 l-jr.3r.i;
.loliet U.'MV2 :VJ,013 '.7.fl"
St. Bernard... :".7tN :V..1G2 107.H30
Woodville I'O.rMS 4S,30 iW.iJIIS
Walker 47.C3.i 77.,.'.1 l!i-.ttM
ll3,0;i 1417,043 r.so.u'.
Assessed Valuation for ISS'J.. .i,:7S.M3
Increase for IS'.Ml I.JI;
City of Columbus valuation for
issji 3:i::.u'.i!i
Citj of Columbus increase for
" l.Siitl 31.311
AH railroad and telegraph property
assessed at the same valuation as last
year.
arHil llrarli on t.reut Salt l.aLr. I'IjIi.
unoiis health and pleasure resort.
irfjd Beach on treat Salt Lake.
tiles from Salt Luke City, and
liel iuv iu Hie union 1'aciiic.
o Overland Route" is now open for
1 1 " season.
This is tho onlv sand beach on Great
II. Lake, and is one of the finest bath-
lg ami pleasure resorts in tne west.
treat Salt Lake is not a sullen, listless,
sheet or water, beating idly on the shore,
but on tho contrary is as lieautirul a
sheet of water as can lie found anywhere.
It is 21 per cent salt, while the ocean is
only 'A ier cent, and the water is so buoy
ant that a person is sustained on its sur
face indefinitely without the least effort
on his part. Experience has proven its
great hygienic effects. Owing to the
stimulating effect of tho brino on the
skin, or tho saline air on the lungs tho
appetite is stimulated, and after a bath,
the bathers aro ready Tor a hearty meal,
and feel greatly invigorated.
Fine bath houses accommodating -100
people, have been erected at Garfield
Reach, in connection with which there is
a first-class restaurant and n dancing
pavillion built out over tho lake, all of
these aro run by tho Union Pacific, who
guarantee a first-class resort in every
respect.
Tho Union Pacific has made low rates
of fare for those desiring to visit Salt
Lake City and Garfield Reach.
For completo description of Garfield
Reach and Great Salt Lake, send to E.
L. Loma.Y, Gen'l Pass. Agent, Omaha for
copies of "Sights and Scenes in Utah,"
or A Glimpse of Great Salt Lake," or
J. R. Meagher, agent U. P. systt.ii at
Columbus.
7-8t
ttrnnil Excursion to Yt-Ilowaftinc National
Park ami OtliPcVVVtrri IteMirt.
The Uniin Pacific, "TUieBverland
Route," piloses to run, onu 26th, a
grand exaJRhin from Omaha Jo Yellow
stone National Park, Greats Shoshone
talis, lUftno, VgUen, Salt
City,
Garfield Readi, Denveri?vCIea
reek
ther
Carn-Whe faXotisoop,
andj
poiitaof interestA'-The Union
ific
will
Concord
lies,
whic
:wil
party
from .
aver
Canon,
through Ti
r.
ow-
stone
will a
NJ
.These cc
hes
taken to S
"
shone si
tion,
and u
ilia ride t
IreatSM
4." 1
hone
Falls. At
h stoppilg place, such as
Ogden,
ake Citjt Cheyenne and
coaches will be unloaded,
and the J
rists conveyem. from the de-
pot to
itels. AfteJmrd n ride to
all pointif of i
rest in'fpch city will lie
inlfAti "M
From Beawr Canoalo Yellowstone
' AJ
National Pari the trip ViH occupy three I
Ar?a iTAinfr kmo -love Mltimtiif nil
uao vuif-y wmukw ubjd icfcmmu. auu
f -OF nir 111 - -rJ'
i3r SbBV-dSLV
Gkix&xOr. Beoher,
T'tta -r t tcv
kct., li'om Tf
" - --- -
iLikuir on li
.'iry 1. 1S1K1.
is7. is;
iht-ttst.. ...
1-S) t:i.v
lsl
I-v
is:
lJ-4
PvCi
H-S7
!.
1N'.I
itt'tfl. ......... ..
V"
. .jf
l7:t to l7'.i city tax i-oll.-vt.sl . fT. . . ..
Soliixil hunt rinriKi! anil intereM ..
School land lea-e Jf.
Fines r.f.'ivcil ..-."
tjity onler for kivini: fifHoticr
School aMMirtiomiu.-Dt''.
!!see-- ol" count j trrcwnvi'n fcT lv.t".
Total .-"....
(mit Kt'iit-m! liriilgflioiiiU.::
t'ounty tniTal l.ri.ls.'t lxud couism.-t
Hutler prtvinet liruio !onds c.ii-.,!,s
t'oliimlnis imviiii-l Kjl. honilt con mm..
Paid Htriie IrciMirvrB?
" treKMin-roF. f'olc.nilM citv . ..
trex-mrof Hm'u.hrci villi",.
treasurer of I'latte (Vatcr i!I.-ii:e ..."??.
I.. A N. V. K. K. !,;i.l-i couMi.-i Sff
count) Rid fund uarnuitr . "f
" couutt ltri.li;.' fund wiirraiit.i . .. Jff
county t't'li.Tnl fuiid warrant-, . .. .
" Poll and road ta rccciptr, f
lowiiMii or.lcrn t.y. ...
school idcr, lotud-1 and CiiuimiuhTR
i-Vetoii c.i.utt). ?-v-:i.'6l.-LtowuoJiipciiy r.iul tili.it-e
liaiumv on HMD. I
Total ....
l fifit'it) ivmu Hi.' :iu..-ivik it l; ih triuaul
No re. Simv .!ul I Ihciv h:i. !vn dinwu
S'li.UKloti I ! I.. A.N. V. C. I". Imii.1i, ut:. I .-j l,(HI
wet I
L is adrftsable
urtheriforina
rsion and itinc-
I. I J. ."M::giikk.
Columbus.
Gen'l I'ass. Agl.
Omaha. Xeb.
11-
liiuMfa's Arnica Salve.
The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains,
corns, and ail skin eruptions, and posi
tively cures piles, or no pay required.
It is guranteed to give perfect satisfac
tion, or money refunded. Price U cents
per box. For sale by David Ilowty. .
Gi:x. Van Wyck is to speak at the
Madison county fair Septemlier iith.
A Wonder Worker.
Mr. Fntnk Hii'Tninn. a young man of
lhirlington. O.. states that he had been
under the care of two prominent physi
cians, ami used their treatment until he
was not able to get around. They pm
uotinced his ease to be consumption and
incurable, lie was persuaded to try Dr.
King's New Discovery Tor consumption,
coughs and colds and at that time was
not able to wall; across the street without
resting, lie found before he had utied
half of a bottle, that he was much bet
ter; he continued to use it and is todaj
enjoying good health. If you have any
throat, chest or lung trouble try it. V
guarantee satisfaction. Trial bottle
freo at David Dowty's drugstore.
Fll.I.F.I'roN k
works.
.u'tig to ha v. water
l.let-tiie :::ttt-i--..
This retiK d is l;tcoiiiiiuf so well Iisi.kti;
and ;-i.i:l;;r as t. tu'e.l n.t sK.-eia!
ii. itioii. All v.ho hate u?.v lll.-ctric
l!ilu
t!
!" titiie toiig of piaiM.
A pun medicine d.;K not i-it and it
isgu.iran. -I U. do all licit is claimed.
l-2le.-lrie l.',t.: v.ill cure all diseases of
the Li'.cr :. ' l-.idue;.u, ttil! r.-niue ;tll
Pimples. I'oilr,. ' l:luttm and other
affect ions caused by impure blood Will
drive malaria from the system and pre
vent as well as cure all malarial fevers.
For cure r headache, constipation and
indigestion try Fleet ric Hitters Fntire
satisfaction guaranteed, or money refunded.-
Price oOc and "..IHI per liottle
at David Dovvlys drug store.
Tnr census gives Des Moines, Town, a
population of over .5.0i)0.
In a recent article in the Youth's Com
panion, on "how to cure a cold," the
writer advises a hot lemonade to be tak
et at bed time. It is a dangerous treat
ment, especially during the severe cold
weather of the winter months, as it opens
the pores of the skin and leaves the sys
tern in such a condition that another and
much more severe cold is almost certain
to be contracted. Many years constant
use and the experience of thousands of
persons of all ages, has fully demonstrat
ed that there is nothing lietter for a
severe cold than Chamberlain's Cough
Ueniedy. It acts in perfect harmony
with nature, relieves the lungs. Inpictics
the tough tenacious mucous, making it
easier to expectorate, and restores the
system to a strong and health condi
tion. Fifty cent bottles for salo by all
druggists.
A cYcffoNi: struck St. Paul, Minn.,
about ii o'clock Sunday afternoon. The
estimato of the loss of life at different
points near St. Paul reaches at least one
hundred.
Mr. T. A. Deroven, merchant. Deroven,
La., says: 'The St. Patrick's Pills went
like hot cakes." vPeople who have once
tried them aro nevnr satisfied with any
other kind. Their action and reliability
as a cathartic is what makes them popu
lar. For salo by all druggists.
WATCH
GUARANTEED GOODS,
Cheaier than any lxly, opiwite I Mother Iiou.-m.
l'Jfchly
HUNTEMNN BROS.,
Contradors and Builders.
Call on in and Ket priced before euterinK into
contract for j our work.
COLUMBUS, - - NEBRASKA.
2jol3m
JBM.- -
"-
nmi-iTanii
iiir. ,-i
...r
T"?rr. -js-jfi'a '--. it
eight days will be spenlii the Park.
cftlieiit tent-! ami gixiil tsflMitiiitMit for
camrng out will be furni:-nYl b the
rnioiil'iunlic, cnr.iutc. fnA Beaver
Cuioii to thV IV.rU. and wlle in the
t'arl; the ii:;ls H&J ijJarteretl at
Hie vnriijji&Xotels. " "f
The vtfpf 1 iw rate of S-ljer pas
senger hy been made frwuuaha.
This rate, Includes railroad. ptHLjuHKaml
stage fHrtvwvils and hotel hiljKJTom
lite tiiiPf" of hVving OiuahalMl the
ret unijif the eursion, iiuririiys.
Onljjl thirty pasf-eugjeah Jie ae
coiiittiodatcdainlriPiei'MiiiiiAatioiis
are limited. irhvfSTplicatiiHi fv same
shotihf lie iiVahyio one being 'vecpted
after Inly 2unftjyVnlcss ('Ji ticll'ts are
sold .Inly HOtMthe excursion Vill be
nhauiVitoii. andpBrchasc money round
ed itu!wtliately.9a X
Tii ordering tiwets send money for
same bv cpressli Harrv V. Deuef.Citv
Ticket Aleut LTl5y. :&1 FnrnnnLSU
Omaha. olini.sliaiV H
Wiiil.f childtliVwill be :Jfr
on tit iff trip. tflilN
not to Mike t Item, vlor
tion relaVtu to this eve
rary. apply to
K. Ii. Loiiax.
ML J. iSSMl
rfgg
f T"t nfi
jfc,- w
County, NebrAs-'-ly
1. 1S30. -
t'BSO, to Jv
iVll'lV
..r.0u iv
;nss to
i.:"ii (m
1V-17 nl
s,i?; u
tat .
in c;
tVS en
liV.USJ
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:t.4.v. ulV
in. I W 7
i.aMi'
IS.?-.- "1
IS.siVi V.l
t.ltl CfK
"o,tH; e.
$ ri.w.t V.
Co! ii-rs. Nk.i:.. .lult l. l-'A).
corns'!.
i:is.ti. HKt'iiKi;.
Trva.-urcr l'l:illi-C.utit), NchrisLa. '
SI'-'.W'ii more from the count) l-,-a-ur) to :i) otf
t.. -i. I lie int.-r.-M on III.-jl(-t',iV Uniiti till Jul) I.'
rii. itiutu; "V."
f!u tlgu-i-0 mourtlitcH uill uuktMi Ions star.
:. iiLi-i ; wut-xtn :kiw living will ever d.itt
Ifoumcitt u ill... iit umii( the ll;;un- 9. It sUqJ
hi th. third i'l il-i in ISU nlnTi-.it uill rcm&lu teu
v.-ir- and then i:ioe u; to mvo-uI place iu 1DUU.
wiser- it ill re-.t fur one hundred ihm.
There i-. another 1" v Inch hanl-ocome to Atity.
It ii unlike the Itjjutvli in our dates in the respect
th.'t it im already moved up to tlr-t place, whore
it will permanently n-iuuiu. It U called the"Nu.
" Iheh Aria Wlieeler A. Wilson Sowing Mauhiue.
The No. li" wa-; endorsed for first place by thu
i-. ports of Kuroi-eat the l"an Exposition of .
whore, alter a .M-voreooule.st with the loading m
otniies of the world, it was awarded thu ouly
Grand Prize given to family sew iuu machine, all
other ou exhibit luxiu received lower award
jf jrold tiled iU. etc. The French Government
r.lso rocoenued iu.superiority ly the decoration of
jUr. Nathaniel Wheeler. President of the cutnpiiuy,
with the Cro. of the Legion of Honor.
The "No. 0" U not an old machine improved
upon, but i-i an entirely tn-u- machiuii, and thj
Jr.ir.d Prize at larU was awarded it a the cntud-e--t
advance iu 'ni: machine iiiectiaiiiMii of tha
age. Those who buy it can rct assured, thuw
fore, of havii:g th very latest and b.-st.
WIlEELKIi & WILSON M'F'O CO.,
165 and 1ST Wubuah Ave., Chicagft
. V. KIISLKK, Lefeh. X-Ir.
Jiilir'WI-i'.t
WEBSTEK
Tlu-so-callcl "Wclis'.er's i-i-abridgctl
.Dictionary ' which is
iMMitltawkt'ttaiiofit thrcotiotry
:iiilnif'-rl loi-.salo in lry 'ools
Store:! a low pric, and alo
utlVrvtl :i a prcimiau ia a lew
rax'.s. lot .sttliscriptions to pa
pers. isMihsiantiaUy tbebookot"
OVER F0STY YEARS AGO
The body cf the work, from A to Z, L; a
cheap reprint, page lor page, ol tho oditioa
of 1847, reproduced, hrokeu type, error
aad all, by phototype process.
DO NOT BE DECEIVED ! !
Get the Best! WhV:.,X".""r
wasrevjT
MOA
Moici
OMABJUDCtii iiMYi
'DICTIONAtog iTScLF .
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T-wmi -
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liesideiiuanyothi rvalilaU- feat ures.it coui'iie
A Dictionary of the Language
i-iiiiUiinii lls.fjm tVurds amlHiKai Kneiunn,
A Dictionary of Biography
giving f.iots al-out neurit UV oted lVrou-,
A Dictionary of Geography
liH-.ttlti and hrietly describing J.'.M 1'lucti,
A Dictionary of Fiction
fuund only in Weliter"r I'nahridged,
All in One Book.
Tie New York TriBaae-tys it i recognized
a-. thii-t n-t-tiil existing w.rd-lo.lc' f
the Knliih l.nij;ii:iee nil over thu wurM.
S.l. Lviill ISiHik-elh-rx. I'ainiht-t frvi.
C.&C.MERRIAM&CO.,lul'rs,Si.riutrt;ldMua.
GRAND
SALE!
At .1. I. IJ.H-!c-r'.- f.irm, on-nml n half inih-
nortli of Cnliiinhu-. .-nljoinint: the fair
eriitiii'I- on the north, on
Satnrdar, July 26,'!
ItKClNNINC AT 1 l 31.. SHAKI.
:0 cutVM. Krmliil: t hi-if-n, '1 tear old; II
hi-iferh I jearolil; H f-t-rs 1 'nr old; 10 c:dtet,
half hlood Polled Ann; 'i calven, t;nide Short
Morn; 1 i-t;dlion;. inan-s and coIih; I colt, i jear
old;ieolt, 1 jearohl; 'Joii:n:horM-; I iairof
Iimsvj- v.ork hor-os; 1 4 jear-t old nrire, e;oid
driter; I manure i-preruler: 1 tonne M:rajK-r; i
iiiowiu mai-liinn; I Milky plow.
Terms:
On Maliiim an-l all wih- over ten ilollarn, on
yearV time ith ten im.t cent intent;a dincntint'
of five jx-ro-nt forcif-h wiles will Ijealloivetl.
J. P. BFXKKIL
JOHN EUSDEN,
SURVEYOR.
Inform hit friend- and th public hi in otill
in tin biiiines(iaiiilaUon!er will hav prompt
attention. (Topie-of field noteH and platn fur-ni-.h-l.
Cli:irei. to meet the tiiues. ColumhiiM,
Xelraka. !apr!jy
LAND FOR SALE.
JtpX A FISK IMFKOVKD FAIUt
T(VuLda ,or Kl iu Shell Creek Tidley,
9Si-pEL. near t'olumbns, containing 'Mi
V. L lq&. acrex of land; about t'.'U ucrua
nnder cultivation; 10 ocrM heavily timbered, n-ninindi-r
mostly in clover end blae Knttia partm
ins
i!rW
vided intomniill fielhJy fence. Dwell iD9ttoua
of eleven rooms, granary, corn cribd, Ihtko hors
et.iblo with liay-mow, cattle barn which Loldti 68
tons of hay; hoj Iioum.-; Z wells; running water
in pa-turv. For further purticularn iuuuire ut
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