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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13. 1890.
REraiUCMSnTE TICKET.
For Governor,
L. D. RICHARDS.
For Lieutenant-Governor,
T. J. MAJORS.
For Secretary of State,
J. C. ALLEN.
For State Auditor,
THOMAS H. KENTON.
For State Treasurer,
JAMES E. HILL.
For Attorney-General,
GEORGE II. HASTINGS.
For Commissioner of Public Lands,
A. R. HUMPHREY.
For State Stip't Public Instruction,
A. K. GOUDY.
Republican County Ticket.
For Countv Attorney,
I. L. ALBERT.
For Representative 24th District,
WILLIAM SCHELP.
Republican Platform.
The republicans or Nebraska reiterato
and cordially indorse tho fundamental
principles of the republican party as
eunciated by successive national repub
lican conventions from 1850 to 1888 and
believe the republican party capable of
dealing with every vital issue that con
cerns the American ieoplo, wherever tho
rank and file of tho republican party aro
untrammeled in tho exercise of their po
litical rights.
Wo heartily indorse tho wise and con
servative administration of President
Harrison. We also fnlly approve the
wise action of the republican memljere
of loth houses of congress in fulfilling
the pledges of the party in legislation
upon tho coinage of silver and other
measures of national itnjortaiico and
congratulate tho country upon the con
tinued reduction of the national debt.
We most heartily indorse the action of
the republican congress in passing the
disability pension bill and a republican
president who approved the same and
regard it as an act of justice too long
delayed because of the opposition to all
just pension legislation by a democratic
congress; yet we do not regard it as the
full recognition of the great debt of ob
ligation which the government and the
Ieoplo owe to those heroic men by rea
son of whose sacrifico and devotion the
union was saved and tho government
restored. We do further repeat our
declaration in favor of just and fair serv
ice tensions graded according to length
of service for every soldier and sailor
who fought in lehalf of tho union, and
by reason of whose services and devotion
the government now exists.
We hold tin honest, popular ballot
and equal representation of all the peo
ple to be tho foundation of our republi
can government and demand effective
legislation to securo the integrity and
purity of elections, which aro the foun
dation of all public authority.
Wo favor such revision of tho election
laws of the state as will guarantee to
every voter tho greatest possible secrecy
in the casting of his ballot and secure
the punishment of any who attempt the
corruption or intimidation of voters, and
we favor the Australian ballot system
for incororated towns and cities, appli
cable both to primary and regular elec
tions so far as it can conform to our
organic law.
We oppose land monopoly in overy
form, demand the forfeiture of unearned
land grants and the reservation of the
public domain for homesteaders only.
Wo recognize the right of labor to or
ganize for its protection and by all law
ful and "peaceful means to secure to
itself the greatest reward for thrift and
industry. We are in favor of laws com
lulling railroads and manufacturers to
use all appliances which science supplies
for Hie protection of laborers against
accident. We demand the enactment of
a law defining tho liability of employers
for injuries sustained by employes in
cases where proper safeguards have not
been used in occupations dangerons to
life, limb or health; railway and other
public corporations should be subject
to control through the legislative power
that created, them. Their undue influ
ence in legislation and imposition of
unnecessary burdens upon the people
and illegitimate increase of stock or
capital should be prohibited by strin
gent laws.
We demand of tho state that the
property of corporations shall be taxed
tho same as that of individuals; that the
provisions of our constitution, requiring
the assessment of franchises shall be en
forced by suitable legislation.
We demand the reduction of freight
and passenger rates on railroads to cor
respond with rates now prevailing in
adjacent states in the Mississippi valley,
and we further demand that the next
legislature shall abolish all passes or
free transportation on railroads, except
ing for employes of the railroad com
panies. We demand the establishment of the
system of postal telegraphy, and request
our members in congress to vote and
work for government ownership or con
trol of the telegraph.
We indorse the action of the inter
state commission in ordering a reduction
of the grain rates between the Missouri
river and lake ports.
We favor the modification of the stat
utes of our 6tate in such manner as shall
prevent the staying of judgments se
cured for work and labor, and the enact
ment of such laws as shall provide for
the speedy collection of the wages of our
laborers.
We favor a revision of the tariff in the
interest of the producer and laborer.
The import duties on articles of common
use should be placed as low as is con
sistent with the protection of American
industries.
We denounce all organizations of cap
italists to limit productions, control
supplies of the necessities of life and
advance prices as detrimental to the
best interests of society and as unjusti
fiable interference with the natural laws
of competition and trade and ask their
prompt suppression.
The republican party has given the
people an elastic currency of gold, silver
and paper, and has raised the credit of
the nation to one of the highest of any
country in the world, and its efforts to
fully remonetize silver should be contin
ued until it is on a perfect equality as a
money metal with gold.
Owners of public elevators that receive
and handle grain for storage should be
declared public warehousemen and com
pelled under penalty to receive, store,
ship and handle the grain of all persons
alike, without discrimination. The state
regulating charge for storage and in
spection. All railroad companies should
berequired to switch, haul, receive and
6hip the grain of all persons alike, with
out discrimination.
We favor the enactment of more strin
gent usury laws and their rigid enforce
ment under severe penalties.
ComlRg Events.
Democratic congressional convention,
Columbus, August 13th, 3 p. m.
Democratic state convention, Omaha,
August 14th, 7 p. m.
Prohibition state convention, Lincoln,
August 26th, 2 p. m.
Nance county fair, Fullerton, Sep
tember 2326.
Butler county fair, David City, Sep
tember 2326.
Platte county prohibition convention,
Columbus, August 16th.
Prohibition'congressional convention,
Columbus, September 10th.
Ninth national encampment Sons' of
Veterans, St. Joseph, Mo.,August 25 30.
Dodge Comity.
There can be no doubt'bul that there
was a contest between Richards and
Dorsey, each opposing the other for
prestige in Dodge, and for nomination,
the one for governor, the other for con
gress, each believing, doubtless, that his
own success depended in no small meas
ure, upon the defeat of the other. Now
that Mr. Richards has secured the nom
ination for governor, and Mr. Dorsey
has not yet been nominated for congress,
the situation of affairs in Dodge county
is becoming more interesting than ever.
Will the friends of Mr. Richards con
tinue to oppose Dorsey and do so to the
bitter end? Do they now believe that if
Dorsey is nominated for congress, Rich
ards's election for governor is put in
jeopardy? Can the two candidates
safely be selected from Fremont? These
queries are suggested by what we know
in regard to the situation at Fremont,
and are interesting to republicans as
they may lear upon the campaign gen
erally. Dodge county republicans, on the
strength of a resolution passed by them
at their county convention, that they
would at this time ask no further or
other recognition of the party of state
or district, secured the nomination of
Richards for governor. Will the next
convention of republicans in that county
repudiate that action of their predeces
sors and the consequent nomination of
Mr. Richards? It doesn't seem likely;
but it may be possible, if the fight is
kept up in Dodge by the friends of each;
at least it so looks to an outsider.
At the state convention it seemed very
generally conceded that Dorsoy's nomi
nation was not thereafter among the
probabilities, some going so far as to say
that it could not, after that, be even a
remote possibility. But sometimes
strange things do happen. Mr. Dorsey
may be nominated, and both he and Mr.
Richards harmoniously conduct their
campaigns and bo elected. That would
not be surprising to us, considering the
way things now look. We believe that
the complexion of tho next republican
convention in Dodge county will go far
to determining the matter. If it shall
be for Mr; Dorsey, unequivocally and
notwithstanding the action of the con
vention which sent Richards delegates
to the state convention, Dorsey may
have a chance to secure the nomination
for congress. Then comes the question
Have things gone so far that selection
of Dorsey delegates would logically
necessitate a withdrawal from the can
vass by Mr. Richards?
In what we have written above, we
have endeavored to call the attention of
republicans to some of the prominent
features of the situation as they appear
to us; much depends upon the republi
cans of Dodge county, and they must
and doubtless will exercise their best
judgment, in the interests of the party,
in district and 6tate.
I. L. Albert.
The republican and people's independ
ent candidate for county attorney was
ltorn in Clearfield county, Pennsylvania,
Dec. 28, 1856.
His father being engaged in the lum
ber business, this was also the occupa
tion of young Albert until he was nine
teen years old, at which time he came
west, attending the Western college at
Toledo, la., of which his uncle, E. B.
Kephart, was president, and of which he
is a graduate.
Under the direction of Hon. F. C.
Hormel, a prominent attorney of Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, he studied law, and was
admitted to practice in Plymouth coun
ty. He practiced in Iowa courts till
1886, when he came to Albion, Neb.,
where he had an extensive practice until
last fall, when health failed him, and he
spent the winter months on the Pacific
coast Early last spring he returned to
Nebraska, and with J. D. Stires, esq.,
opened a law office in this city.
By his acquaintances here Mr. Albert
is regarded as a young man of excep
tionally good ability, a bright lawyer,
and one who will be a credit to himself
and an honor to the political parties
which have selected him as their candi
date for the important office of county
attorney.
Mant cattle, hogs and sheep are still
being forced to market from all parts of
the country, owing to the hot dry weath
er, scarcity of food, the uncertain condi
tion of the corn crop, and the high prices
prevailing at present for corn in all mar
kets. At present it is very dry in Kan
sas and pastures in that state are mostly
all burnt out. Kansas City has been
getting thousands of 100 to 140 pound
pigs and hundreds of half fat cattle, the
latter being almost unsalable at any
price. Some dealers are of the opinion
that after the present rush subsides, the
market for cattle will "mend a little,"
especially for good cattle which are not
over plentiful, as compared with the
general home and foreign demand for
good beeves. A Kansas shipper in with
stock to day said, "cattle will be cattle
inside of sixty days." Chicago Drovers
Journal.
The Omaha World -Herald favors
changing the office of clerk of the dis
trict court from a fee office to a salaried
office. It is best to have the salaries of
officials definite and well known, and
payable at stated times. The utmost
publicity is the only safe rule to adopt
in regard to all public matters, whether
especially concerning officials or not.
Every dollar received and expended
should be fully set forth at least once a
vear in the public prints,
The census returns have developed
the fact that two states in the Union,
and only two states, are free from debts,
either floating or bonded. These are
Nebraska and West Virginia. This is a
very cheering fact for the people of these
two happy commonwealths; and it
ought to make the monied east, with its
debt burdened states, entertain a very
fair opinion of the comparatively new
state ot Nebraska. Kearney Enterprise
In what we have to say in regard to
the republican ticket during the cam
paign, we may not always stop to except
Benton, for auditor, but we want it un
derstood first, last and all the time that
wo are against him, and we advise re
publicans to pick out the best man for
the place among the other candidates
and vote for him. The republican party
can't afford to elect him. Nance Coun
tv Journal.
Att'v Gen'l Leese has delivered the
opinion that no officer has any right to
audit or pay any bill incurred in pre
paring for the special session, called by
Gov. Thayer. The men who cleaned the
state building preparatory for the mem
bers should pool their issues and employ
a good attorney, "on the shares."
A natural artesian well or geyser has
been discovered on the American island
near Chamberlain, S. D. A galvanized
iron tube two and a half feet in diame
ter was sunk into it, and a stream of
that size is now Mowing fully forty feet
alxive the level of the Missouri river.
The prohibitionists and the alliance
will be used to defeat the republican
party, if possible, in Nebraska this fall,
not only in the state, but in congression
al and legislative districts. Republican
members of the alliance are under no ob
ligations of any kind to help the democ
racy. We print elsewhere an expression
from Senator Paddock on the tariff.
The senator deserves tho hearty thanks
of his constituents for the stand ho
takes and they will bo all the more
proud of him if he succeeds in inducing
a majority of the senators to see as ho
does.
John and Mary Shay are under arrest
at Harrison, Neb., for poisoning a herd
of cattle belonging to Dan Klein. Salt
mixed with Paris green was scattered
where the cattle could get it.
Wm. B. Astob, the oldest surviving
member of the wealthy Astor family of
New York, was an Omaha visitor several
days last week. The object of his visit
was not made known.
At Bridgeport, HI., two sows, madden
ed by the intense heat, attacked their
owner and wonld have devoured him if
his hired man had not come to his aid.His
injuries will probably prove fatal.
Two young ladies, of the best families
in Kearney, dressed up in male attire,
sallied forth and had a high time until
the police detected them. Tears and re
pentence. Kehmler, the victim of the first elec
trocution, is said to have died a horrible
death, but the physicians present say
he "never suffered one iota of pain."
Last Thursday Grand Island had a
fine rain but with it there was hail and
considerable wind, blowing down chim
neys and small outbuildings.
Monday week, according to the Fre
mont Herald, grasshoppers were seen
flying south, over that city, not, howev
er, in great numbers.
The republican congressional central
committee of this district meets at Nor
folk tomorrow, the 14th.
One hundred and thirty-fivo deaths
occurred last Wednesday by cholera at
Mecca.
The Virtue of Omaha.
Omaha is a city of life, enterprise and
push. Omaha is a city of decency, law
and order. Omaha is also a city of ex
emplary habits as the monthly police
report will show.
Take last month for instance. During
thirty one days the total number of ar
rests was only 667, or hardly twenty a
day in a population of 135,000 people.
It is also worthy of note that the num
ber of arrests for drunkenness was only
133 hardly four a day.
To realize the force of these statistics
let us apply them to a town of 1,000
population. 133 arrests in Omaha wonld
be equal to only one arrest in 1,000.
Therefore tho town of 1,000 population
which had one arrest for drunkenness
in July would be as sober as Omaha and
no more so.
The World-Herald calls this to the
attention of itB prohibition friends and
suggests that it affords them good food
for thought. Does any honest prohibi
tionist believe that prohibition in the
constitution of Nebraska could make as
good a record in Omaha as the Slocomb
law is making?
Does any prohibitionist who is intelli
gent enough to read of the drinking
dens, holes in the wall and open saloons
of Iowa and Kansas, believe for a mo
ment that if Omaha were located in
either state the monthly record of
drunkenness wonld be as low as one in
1,000?
Four arrests a day for drunkenness in
a population of 135,000 is certainly
about down to the bed rock of sobriety.
-World-Herald.
SENATOR PADDOCK.
One of Nebraska Able Senators Expresses
His Views on the Tariff Question.
The senator has had occasion to give
a general idea of what the tariff should
be, and all will conclude that .he does it
in choice English. He says:
"I am a republican and represent a
republican state. I believe in the pro
tective principle and shall assist in
maintaining it, but I shall do my best to
see that it is fairly and not unreasonably
applied. I am for just as low a tariff as
will meet the revenue demands of the
government, economically but not pe
nuriously administered, and at the same
time, which will encourage labor as well
as capital. I be!i sve that the met sure of
protection afforded specific manufactur
ers should be a duty sufficient to sustain
and not to surfeit; to build up infant in
dustries, but not to bulwark stalwart
trusts. To be more specific, I do not
believe that it is a proper function of
government to build up the fortunes of
any one class of citizens at the expense
of another. For this reason, in every in
stance where heavy protective duties
are demanded, the burden of proof that
they are necessary for the general wel
fare, the upbuilding of manufacturing,
the proper diversification of industry,
the payment of good wages should be
clearly shown by those asking the tariff
protection. No manufacturer has a
right, through government and tariff
stimulus, to roll up profits of 10, 20 and
30 Der cent annually on his investment
and to make the people foot the bills
through enhanced prices. My idea of a
fair tariff protection would be a safe 6
per cent net return on capital actually
invested on industries which can live
and can show proof that they can con
tinue to live when dependent on their
own resources. At the same time I
would consider it a crime to refuse pro
tection to an industry where such re
fusal would destroy the industry and
give its market to a foreign manufactur
er and its labor to a foreign workman.
In the consideration of the present bill
I shall vote for a reduction of duty in
every case where it cannot be shown to
my satisfaction that the duty fixed by
the bill is needed to equalize the differ
ence in wages between America and
America's competitors, and to strength
en rather than weaken that home mar
ket, which already consumes more than
90 per cent of our agricultural products.
My votes will be on distinctly protect
ive lines. As has often been said, the
country recognizes the difference be
tween protection and prohibition. I
believe that the west and the people of
the United States generally will protest
against any increase of duties and
against the maintenance of any existing
duties which are not essential to a fair
measure of protection to American in
dustry. "The moment that the plain people of
the United States gain the idea that a
republican tariff bill is drafted and pass
ed to benefit manufacturers alone at the
expense of the consuming public, that
moment not only will republican
supremacy be in deadly peril, but the
protective principle itself will be most
seriously endangered."
Washington Letter.
From our regular correspondent.
Owing to the precarious state of his
health, Senator Morrill has been grant
ed an indefinite leave of absence. This
leaves Senator Aldrich in charge of the
tariff bill, and it would be a difficult
matter to place it in more competent
hands. There is no better posted man
in the Unitod States upon the varied
complications of our tariff system than
Mr. Aldrich. The senate is not making
much headway with the tariff bill not
withstanding its daily meeting at
10 o'clock, owing of course to the an
nounced policy of tho democrats in de
laying it by every known parliamentary
method. How long the majority pro
poses to stand this is problematical; but
it certainly will not be much longer.
Senator Blair offered a resolution in
structing the committee on rules to pre
pare and report a change in the rules
which would enable the majority to cut
off debate "after a reasonable time;" but
for some cause the republican leaders
in the senate did not think proper to
adopt it at this time, although a caucus
has determined that it shall be done if
necessary, and the resolution was re
ferred to committee on rules.
The house refuses to grant leaves of
absence and has revoked all those in ex
istence; but that does not keep the
members here as was shown by a vote
taken on Saturday whon 140 "pairs"
were announced and the house.was com
pelled to adjourn at 2 o'clock.
The Cleveland democrats are mad at
Representative Fowler, chairman of the
democratic congressional campaign com
mittee and accuse him of using his
position to lay the wires to secure his
own nomination for president in 1892.
Fowler has had tho fever for some years
and as he has a "barrell" of the largest
size; which may always be tapped by the
right sort of talk, certain democrats are
determined that he shall always be in
the field, in his mind anyway. Serious
ly though, isn't three New York men
Cleveland, Hill and Fowler for the
nomination a little too many for good
feeling?
The Louisiana Lottery lobby was
never more active here than it is now,
and if unlimited money lavishly spent
will defeat the anti-lottery bills which
have been favorably reported to the
house, they will do it; but there is a
healthy public sentiment throughout
the country favoring those bills, and itB
effects are apparent here already.
The house committee on post offices
has reported favorably the bills provid
ing for a postal subsidy of steamships,
which recently passed the senate.
Representative Baker of New York
has introduced a resolution in the house
authorizing the president to send to
Russia, through the proper channels, a
respectful but earnest protest against
the proposed expulson of Jews from that
country. The resolution was referred
to the committee on foreign affairs.
Representative Rogers of Arkansas,
attempted to lock horns with Speaker
Reed on a parliamentary question. He
knows better now, and like the burnt
child, will hereafter carefully keep away
from the fire.
The house committee on elections has
decided to report that Representative
Breckenridge of Arkansas, is not entitled
to the seat he holds; but owing to the
absence of two republican members of
the committee and the refusal of the
democrats to attend a committee meet
ing and report has not been made to the
house, but Chairman Rowell sayB he will
have a quorum of republicans here this
week and that the report will be ordered
and made to the house, "and," he'added
suggestively, "I think the house will act
on it, too."
Senator Plumb has introduced a con
current resolution expressing the desire
of congress that the remains of Gen.
Grant be brought to Arlington ceme
tery. Written for Thk Journal.
California as It Looks to Me.
I had expected to write my impres
sions of irrigation of the arid lands of
the Middle west, the Mormons in Utah,
the Chinese on the Pacific coast, beet
sugar in California and such other mat
ters I gave some special study to on my
way and after reaching here, in the order
they came to my attention, but as I sit
here drinking in this atmosphere that
has in it the elements of pure laziness,
mental and physical, I confess I haven't
the energy to think back twenty-four
hours. So, if I write at all, it must be
of what is just at hand, both in time and
location, and of that in a very informal
way. Did I not think some of my neigh
bors were just as curious to know some
thing about this country of which we
hear so much and know so little, as I
used to be, and feel that it is a sort of
duty I owe by reason of having the op
portunity, I expect I would wander off
into the neighboring orchard, and lay
under the trees eating fresh oranges, or
lounge on my bed and go to sleep, so I
I want some credit for trying, whether
what I write amounts to anything or not.
Iv'e been in this little valley now three
weeks. The newness has worn off and
my eyes have become somewhat adjusted
to the strange scenery and productions,
and to the people and their industries.
Had I dipped in here, as scores of
tourists are doing every week, spending
a few days at the grand Arlington hotel
! at Santa Barbara, five miles away, riding
out with the professional drivers who
point out the noted places, "Hon. Mr.
Sonso, formerly of Boston, lives there.
Jay Gould's cousin owns that fine cot
tagebeautiful grounds, ain't they? Tho
mountains, you notice, are magnificent
from here. This orange orchard owned
by Judge Blank, of San Francisco, has a
thousand trees." And so on through
each drive, or depended for my informa
tion only on interested parties whose
business it is to call attention to all the
favorable features of the country, cli
mate and business, and keep the unfa
vorable out of sight, I would have
known about as much of the country as
you do after reading a pictorial descrip
tion of it published by the Southern
R. R. Co. which has lands to sell. My
extended stay and mingling with every
day people, who are thoroughly posted
but have no axes to grind, have given
me a good opportunity of seeing things
as they are, and I shall try to give as
true a picture as possible.
I stopped at Santa Barbara, expecting
to remain but a few days in this part of
the state. Old Ohio friends living on a
little fruit farm a few miles out, brought
me to their home. After a fow days vis
iting, I found the climate seemed to
agree with me better than any other
place I had been in, and as my friends
offered me a placo at their table as long
as I wished to remain, and helped me to
a tent in which to make a temporary
habitation, I decided to make a longer
stay.
Montecito, though the name appears
on maps as far back as 1803, is neither
city, town nor even hamlet, but a most
interesting little valley, stretching about
five miles between the ocean and Santa
Inez mountains with a width of from
two to three miles, separated from ad
joining valleys at either end by foothills
running out from the mountains. And
just here, for fear you may think I am
describing only a little isolated spot,
having nothing to do with the state at
large, I want to say that to us who are
accustomed to our prairie state, with
gently undulating farms stretching con
secutively through townships and coun
ties, it is difficult to have a true idea of
the surface of this mountainous state.
I certainly had not myself. I knew that
great mountain ranges ran through it,
but I supposed there was a more con
tinuous and wider level margin along
the coast, and that the valleys between
mountains covered a much larger area
than the mountains, but instead, mount
ains almost literally cover the state.
This county, Santa Barbara, for in
stance, is 70 miles long with an average
width of about 30, but there is not one
half as much tillable lands in the entire
county as there is in Platte county, and
what there is is in valloyB of limited areas
scattered over it. While the climate at
this point is more uniform than either
below or above, on account of having a
southern frontage on the ocean, instead
of the western and being protected from
the trade winds by the mountainous
islands some 30 miles from the coast, the
soil and productions are much the same
as in all the coast valleys of Southern
California, so that a description of this
little valley will in a general way answer
for all the coast country. Most of it is
undulating, and groves of large, round
topped live oak, and the tall, long
leaved oucalyptns aro scattered in every
part, which, with the orchards, make the
valley seem from a distance as if covered
with trees. There is considerable un
cultivated land held by speculators. A
few good sized ranches, as all farms
large or small are called in California,
on which a little barley, hay and some
corn and beans are raised, the rough
parts used for pasture. But most of the
land is in small tracts of from 5 to 20
acres, either cultivated in fruit or used
for residences with large ornamental
grounds, or held for sale for these two
puriose8. There are a score or more of
these fine residences and fancy grounds
in the valley now, somo of them very
elaborate and expensive, both in their
original construction and improvement
and in the constant care required to
keep them up. home of these are occu
pied by business or professional men of
Santa Barbara, but most of them by
eastern people of means who havo been
induced to make their permanent homes
here on account of the climate and sur
roundings. There are also a few largo
fruit and walnut orchards owned by
non-residents, mostly by San Francisco
capitalists. But tho valley is occupied
largely by men of smaller means who
expect to make a living by fruit growing.
These are almost entirely eastern people,
many of them semi-invalids attracted by
the California climate. Then there are
scattered through the valley a good
many families who call themsejpes Cali
fornians, but the English people call
them Spaniards. They are of mixed
Spanish and Indian blood. In many of
them the Indian predominates very de
cidedly, in others the Spanish traits and
physique are very prominent. Except
the aborigines, they are the original
Californians. Many of these now here
have been large land holders but their
lands havo mostly slipped out of their
hands. One of them, a dignified old
man, lives near where I am. An early
settler told me that she remembers very
well when he had a thousand cows on
his ranch, "and," she said, "he had to
keep goats to supply the family
with milk," which indicates the charac
ter of the native cattle. His land is all
gone now but a few acres, where he
lives, and this he divides with his mar
ried sons who have little houses on the
same place. It seems hard to see the
early possessors of the land so com
pletely crowded out as they inevitably
will lie in a few years. Their adobe
church stands a little distance away,
and a good many of the early adobe
dwellings are yet occupied. The adobe
is simply puddled clay from the place
where the house is to be built, formed
into large flat blocks, sun dried and laid
up like brick or stone. It stands the
weather in this climate a long time.
The noted Santa Barbara mission build
ings built nearly an hundred years ago,
are partly of adobe, but have been pre
served in recent years by a coat of plas
ter on the outside. The earlier houses
were of palisade walls made of small
chaparel poles driven into the ground
and bound together by strips of raw
hide. The roofs are of poles covered
with tule, a long coarse grass. A lady I
was talking with a day or two ago told "me
one of these palisade dwellings yet stood
not far from their place when they first
came. Their fences were made the same
as these walls, the slight chaparel sticks
driven into the ground near together and
bound together by raw hide strips some
thing as the patent paling fence is held
by wire. A few of the Spaniards have
fairly good dwellings and fruit orchards,
but most of them live in small, cheap
houses, and work by the day enough to
secure subsistence, taking life easy the
balance of the time. They are fond of
amusements; some of the women are
quite handsome with their snapping
black eyes, well-iormed features and
perfect teeth. Music and dancing is
common and every man, young and old,
has a saddle horse. But they lack en
tirely the energy and enterprise required
to keep pace with the fast incoming
American people and will 6oon be re
duced to a menial race, or shoved to the
wall. There are very few foreigners here
except the Chinaman. They are already
menials and I shall speak of them in
another connection. There is a general
store and post-office in the valley and a
good school-house, and I want to say
here that the best country school-houses
I have ever seen, anywhere, I have found
in California. Not now and then one,
but so far as I have been they are uni
formly good, well-located and built with
real architectural taste, with pleasant
surroundings. Most of them are built
with library rooms which contain well
selected libraries, not expressly for chil
dren but suited to all classes in the
neighborhood. There is also a neat and
commodious church in the valley, nom
inally I believe Presbyterian, but all
denominations were sensible enough to
join in building one good house and se
curing an able minister, instead of hav
ing half a dozen churches none of them
of any account. Its character and sur
roundings make the valley very interest-
J - 4",!-!.. Tm11.. WTwm., aj4,4.,. nt
lUg. VUUTIC3 JSUUIJ "u, cuuui vi
Harper's Monthly, was here tho other
day taking a few sketches and looking
over the ground with a view of writing
it up for his magazine, and you who are
readers of Harper will soon be treated
to an illustrated sketch of one of the
prettiest places on the Pacific coast.
But my object is not so much to speak
of this" as a health and pleasure resort as
to try to give some true notiou of a
typical California fruit growing commu
nity and to this business I shall direct
my next letter. J. H. Reed.
MoNTKcrro, Cal.
Platte County Democracy.
We condense the proceedings of the
convention at Humphrey from the party
organ, the Telegram: The convention
was held at Hohle's hall, D. Schupbach,
chairman of the county central com
mittee, calling the convention to order.
O. S. Moran of Creston was elected tem
porary chairman and Gus. Falbaum,
temporary secretary.
Committee on credentials and organi
zation were appointed and made their
reports, which wero accepted, and the
temporary organization made permanent.
Delegates to the different conventions
were then elected as follows:
State J. E. North, I. Gluck, J. M.
Gondring, J. H. Lynch, John Eimers,
D. L. Bruen, R. L. Rossi ter, F. Bering,
John Moore and W. E. Acker.
Congressional C. A. Speice, D. F.
Davis, W. F. Dineen, William Schulte,
D. H. Carrig, F. T. Klebba, D. I. Clark,
George Thotnazin, M. Lehnerz and Hu
bert Braun.
Senatorial Charles Schroeder, G.
Frischolz, T. MoTaggart, P. S. Griffin,
Jay Merrill, M. Postle, T. AcArville,
Thomas Ottis, M. Morgan and F. Luch
singer. Float Representative J. B. Delsman,
D. C. Kavanaugh, J. J. Sullivan, J. E.
Carrig, C. I. Hintnan, J. W. Lynch, C.
Hessacker, John Wolf, Peter Reedy and
S. W. W. Wilson.
Nominations for representatives being
in order, the following names were pre
sented: O. S. Moran, S. W. W. Wilson,
P. F. Doody, J. F. Schnre, J. A. Maag.
Thos. Ottis, C. L Hinman, Peter Noonan,
P. Bender and P. H. Bender. All de
clined but Noonan, Doody and Wilson.
An informal ballot resulted:
Moran 39; Doody 19; Wilson 10;
Sch tire 5.
Mr. Moran again positively declined
saying that he would not accept the
nomination under any circumstances.
The formal ballot was: Moran 39; Doody
24; Wilson 9. The nomination of Mr.
Moran was made unanimous, but he re
fused to accept.
Wm. O'Brien was then nominated by
acclamation for county attorney and a
recess taken for ten minutes.
On reassembling, a motion by D. C.
Kavanaugh, instructing the congression
al delegates to use all honorable means
to nominate O. M. Kem, was defeated,
C. A. Speice speaking against it, and
Dan only, voting for it.
Mr.Moran renewed his declination and
another recess was taken.
On reassembling, Wilson and Doody
were placed in nomination for represent
ative, the informal ballot showing:
Doody 36; Wilson 34; blank 4. The for
mal ballot nominated Wilson by a vote
of 43 to 31 for Doody.
Mr. Wilson thanked the convention,
pledged himself to work for the best
interests of the county; he favored re
duction of freight rates; amendment of
township laws, so as to give more power
to township boards, particularly in re
gard to roads; he opposed state aid for
manufactories; the principles of the al
liance were borrowed from the democrats
and tariff reduction would be of more
benefit than any other reform. He
pledged himself, if elected, to work for
the whole county.
The central committee was then se
lected as follows, and the convention
adjourned: Columbus, First ward, D.
Schupbach; Second, D. C. Kavanaugh;
Third, C. F. Gleason; Columbus town
ship, P. S. Griffin; Butler, August
Schroeder; Bismark, Fred Schaad; Mon
roe, John Gleason; Shell Creek, W. F.
Dineen; Walker, Dan Holleran; Hum
phrey, P. H. Bender; Grand Prairie, II.
Braun; Lost Creek, M. E. Clother; Gran
ville, Frank Brockhaus; Creston, R. C.
Moran; Burrows, J. F. Schure; St. Ber
nard, H. E. Ay are; Sherman, Julius
Hembd; Loup, Daniel Imhoff; Joliet,
Hans Elliott.
Palestine.
Mrs. J. M. Anderson visited at Mrs.
Jones's the present week.
Mr. J. M. Pearce and son went to Co
lumbus one day this week.
Mr. Clark of Woodville dined at Pal
estine Tuesday.
Capt. Trevellick made two powerful
speeches at the Dane church on Friday
and Saturday evenings of last week. He
was listened to with the closest atten
tion. The open meeting of the alliance was
crowded on Friday evening. Mr. Schelp
of Grand Prairie, Mr. Frye of Watts
ville, Mr. Guiles of ML Pleasant were
present and made excellent speeches for
the order. Mr. Schelp and Mr. FVye
stopped at the Palestine house.
Mrs. Sheriff Caldwell and children,
and Miss Mary Peterson have been vis
iting at their home near Lindsay and
staid over night at Palestine on Friday,
leaving for Columbus Saturday morning.
Mr. Jake Heith is building a stable
and granary.
The splendid rain of Thursday after
noon did an immense amount of good to
crops that were not past help.
W. F. Hanchett was attempting to fix
a rope on a calf when the animal threw
him on the ground, wrenching his back
and side so that he was not able to
move. A neighbor, Mr. Jones, saw him
and helped him to the house. He is in
great pain and unable to move in bed
without assistance.
We have read the Omaha Bee supple
ment all through and we are puzzled to
know why men will travel around the
country talking against prohibition,
spending so much time and money, with
the thermometer ranging between 98
and 106", if prohibition don't prohibit.
Why not let it alone to die a natural
death, if they can? We are not poli
ticians, so cannot answer our own ques
tions. Dan.
Mr. T. A. Deroven, merchant, Deroven,
La., says: '-The St. Patrick's Pills went
like hot cakes." People who have once
tried them are never satisfied with any
other kind. Their action and reliability
as a cathartic is what makes them popu
lar. For sale by all druggists.
The Union Pacific, the "Overland
Route," is the shortest and beet to far
western points.
THE BIG SHOW.
Son ofV
Attractions of the Coming
renic Exhibition.
are the attraction or Wallace x Anuer-
ia big show, which is coming to Columbus.
is in fact twelve Dhows in one: aa internation
al muBeum, double menagerie, wild west anil
wild east, three ring circuit, Roman hippodrom,
oceanic aquarium, StrogotTa " Laat Days ff
Pompeii," Turkish caravan, mystifying Eyt
tian illusion. Arabian Night pageant, twin
elevated stage, two herds of elephants. tw
drove of camels, mammoth olympia, the blood
ed home fair, the largest exhibit of fine boqSea
under the sun. 150 standard bred jMiuine. y)
ponies, mammoth balloon ascension and thrill
ing parachute jump from 5,001) feet high, and
double wedding. Remember all this is with the
Wallace & Anderson shows. It doesn't cost any
more to see this big show than it doe a little
one. The balloon a cics'oaand rarath ite jump,
the horse fair, tho Arabian Nights pugeaut, ami
tho double wedding and over 100 other special
attractive features are to lie seen free at Colum
bus, Thursday, August 23th. This is the show'
that has got tho fine horses you have road sJ
much about in the agricultural papers. This i
the first show to place under canvas StrogotFft
' Last Days of Pompeii," presented on a large
stage witli over $100,000 worth of correct orts
tnmes, scenery, armor, weapons, etc.; actually
300 in the cast; the most magnificent ballet ever
dreamed of, Strogotf's grand triumphal proces
sion, religions rites, chorus, ancient ceremonies,
dawn of Christianity, tableaux, songs, dances,
coinhats, feasts, races, wrestling bouts, proces
sions, ballet, gladiators, horsemen, soldier,
slaves, etc. There are seventy circus acts, twen
ty clown, twenty-fiie riders, four big baud in
tho parade, eight tableaux cars, twelve chariots,
thirty cages of living wild animals, six open
tiens, 100 mounted people. All the show undi
vided will bo here Thursday, August IX th.
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 wintor months, as it opens
the pores of the skin and leaves the sys
tem 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 better for a
severe cold than Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy. It acts in perfect harmony
with nature, relieves the lungs, liquefies
the tough tenacious mucous, making it
easier to expectorate, and restores the
system to a strong and healthy condi
tion. Fifty cent bottles for sale by all
druggists.
Rarklen Arnica Salve.
The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rhoum, fever
sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains,
corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi
tively cures piles, or no pay required.
It is gnranteed to give perfect satisfac
tion, or money refunded. Price 25 cents
per box. For sale by David Dowty. 3
Send a postal card to F. L. Lynde,
, U. P. line, St. Joseph, Mo., for
ilnstrated pamphlet on any of the west-
era states or territories.
Comrades! Are Yoa Aware
that the G. A. R. of Nebraska hold their
reunion at Grand Island Sept. 1 to 6,
and for this occasion the Union Pacific
has made a rate of one fare for the round
trip from Nebraska points? Tickets
will be on sale Aug. 31 to Sept. 5, good
to return to and including Sept. 7.
For further information apply to J. R.
Meagher, agent for Uuion Pacific sys
tem. 16-4t
Take the U. P. to Denver and all Col
orado resorts.
Specimen Cases.
S. H. Clifford, New Cassel, Wis., was
troubled with neuralgia and rheuma
tism, his stomach was disordered, his
liver was affected to an alarming degree,
appetite fell away, and ho was terribly
reduced in flesh and strength. Three
bottles of Electric Bitters cured him.
Edward Shepherd, Harrisburg, III.,had
a running sore on his leg of eight years'
standing. Used three bottles of Elec
tric Bitters and seven loxes of Bucklen's
Arnica Salve, and his leg is sound and
well. John Sieaker, Catawba, O., had
five large fevor sores on his leg, doctors
said he was incurable. One lottIe of
Electric Bitters and one box of Buck
len's Arnica Salve cured him entirely.
Sold by David Dowty, druggist.
About $600 in coin has been found
under the platform and waiting room of
the old U. P. depot at Omaha. One lad
found a $20 gold piece.
The Palpit and the Stage.
Rev. F. M. Shront, pastor United
Brethren church, Blue Mound, Kaa,
says: "I feel it my duty to tell what
wonders Dr. King's New Discovery has
done for me. My lungs were badly dis
eased, and my parishoners thought I
could live only a few weeks. I took
five ltottles of Dr. King's New Discovery
and am sound and well, gaining 26 lbs.
in weight."
Arthur Love, manager Love's Funny
Folks Combination, writes: "After a
thorough trial and convincing evidence,
I am confident Dr. King's New Discov
ery for consumption, beats 'em all, and
cures when everything else fails. The
greatest kindness I can do many thous
ands of friends iB to urge them to try it."
Free trial bottles at David Dowty's
drug store. Regular sizes 50c and $1.
ESTRAV NOTICE.
Came to the herd of Longlook Farm, on
July 18th.
ONE RED HEIFER.
3 years old; has some white marks on. Owner
can have the same by proving proirty and
paying charges. J. II. Rkkd x So.
aOjuJj.'.t
T. S. JAWORSKI,
DEALER IX
Mills and Pumps
FIXTIRKS ALWAYS ON HASH.
Pump repairs a specialty. Before contracting
see our
made at Beatrice, Nebraska.
OFFICE OX OLIVE STREET.
Ono door north of Baker's barn.
6aug6m
LAND FOB SALE.
A FINE IMPROVED FARM
for sale in Hhall Creek valley,
near Columbus, containing 2U0
lf. t Imm.1. atuu.fr tM.
under cultivation; 10 acres heavily timbered, re-
maintlpr mnatlv in livi mnA Kit.. .. I
and hay land; ISO fruit treea.-appIaa.Dean.
cherry, plums, etc.. some bearing; all kinds of
ornamental treea and shrubs; ISO full-bearins:
grape vine. The farm entire ia fenced, and dS.
Tided into small fields by fence. Dwelling house
of seven rooms, granary, corn cribs. Urge horaa
stable with hay-mow, cattle bam which hold SB
tons of hay; hog house; 2 wells; running water
la pasture. For further particular Uqaire at
.real
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A)ffi
PROCLAMATION.
VThkbkas, A joint resolution was adopted by
the legislature of the state of Nebraska, Ht thi
twenty-first session thereof, and approved Fb.
ruary 13th, A. D. 1!W. proposing an amendment
to the constitution of said state, and that said
amendment shall read as follows, towit:
Section 1: That at the general election to be
held on the Tuesday succeeding tho first Mon
day of November. A. D. ls). there shall be sub
mitted to the electors of this state for approval
or rejection an amendment to the constitution
of this stnte in feord as follows: "Tho manu
facture, sale and keeping for sale of intoxicat
ing liimorsasulieveragearj forever prohibited
in this state, and the legit-la:ure shall provide by
law for the enforcement of this provision.
An.l there shall also at said election be separ
atel) submitted to the electors of this state for
their approval or rejection an amendment to the
constitution of the state in words as follows:
'The manufacture, side and keeping for sals of
intoxicating linuor as a beverage shall be li
censed and regulated b law."
Sec. -: At such election, on the ballot of each
elector voting for the proposed amendments to
the constitution, shall be written or printed th
words: "for proponed amendment to the con
stitution, prohibiting the manufacture, sale and
keeping for sulttof intoxicating liquors as a bvr
erage," or "Against the proposed amendment to
the constitution prohibiting the manufacture,
sale ami keeping for sale of intoxicating liquors
as a beverage."
There shall also bo written or printed on the
lxillot of each elector voting for the proposed
amendment to the constitution, the words:
"For proHwed amendment to the constitution
that the luauufui'tur, sale and keeping fur sale
of iutoxicuting liiiuors us a beteruge in this
state sliall bo licensed and regulated by law,"
or "Against said proosed aiaendment to th
countitution that tho manufacture, sal and
keeping for sale of intoxicating liquor aa a
beverage shall be licensed and regulated by
law."
See. 8: If either of tho said proposed amend
ment shaH bo approved by a majority of tho
electors voting ut the said electiouMhen it shall
countitute Ktftiou twenty-seven 1 27 1 of article
one 1 of the constitution of this state.
Therefore. I, John M.Thayer, (Sovernorof th
state of Nebraska, do hereby give notice in ac
cordance with section one 1) article fifteen 151
of the constitution and the provisions of tho act
entitled "un act to provide the manner of pro
posing all amendment to the constitution and
submitting the same to the electors of thw
state." Approved February 13th. A. D. 1877.
that said proMMed ameutlment will bo submitted
to the qualified voters of this state for approval
or rejection at the general election to bo held oa
the 4th day of November. A. D. 1HM).
In witness whereof 1 'hereunto set my hand,
anil cause to bo affixed the great seal of th
otrtteof Nebraska. Done ut Lincoln this 2dth
day of July. A. D. lio.nnd the .'tth year of thw
state, anil of tho independence of the United
States the one hundred fifteenth.
Hy the Coventor. JOHN M. THAYKK.
llEN-MXIM It COWDKKV.
SkL. Secretary or State. SOjulSm
IMtOCLAMATION.
WiixnrAtt. A joint resolution wait adopted by
the legislature of the state of Nebraska, at tho
twenty-first session thereof, and approved March
30th, A. D. Ivft. promising an amendment to
Section Thirteen (IS) or Article Six (ti) of the
constitution of said state; that said section aa
amended shall road as follows, to wit:
Skution I. That section thirteen (13) of arti
cle six (t5) of tho constitution of the state of Ne
braska lie amended so aa to read at follows:
Skc 13. The judges of the supreme court
shall each receive a salary of thirty-five hundred
dollars ($3,500) per annum and the judges of the
district court shall receive a salary of three
thousand dollars if3,UU0) iter annum, and tho
salary of each shall bo pa) able quarterly.
Sec. 2. Kach ierson voting in favor of thi
amendment shall have written or printed upon
his ballot the following:
"ForthopmiMMed amendment to the consti
tution, relating to the salary of judges of the
supreme and district court."
Therefore, I, John M. Thayer, governor of the
state of Nebraska, do hereby give notice, in ac
cordance with section ono (1) article fifteen (15)
of the constitution, aud the provisions of an act
entitled. "An net to provide the manner of pro
potting all amendments to the constitution and
submitting the same to the electors of thestato,"
Approved February 13th. A. D. 1H77. that said
proposed amendment will be submitted to tho
qualified voters of this state for approval or re
jection, at the general election to be held on tin
4th day of Novemlier. A. D. 18U0.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and caused to be affixed the great seal of
the stato of Nebraska. Done at Lincoln, this 31th
day of July, A. I. IMa), and the twenty-fonrth
yearof thefHtate, and of the independence of the
United States the one hundred and fifteenth.
Hy the Governor. JOHN M. THAYKH.
Hknjmin ICCowdery,
sk l. Secretary of State.
Legal Notice.
To all whom It may concern:
The special coiiiinls.sloner appointed to view
and resrt iiK)ii the practicability of locating
a public road commencing at the southwest
corner of the southeast quarter of northeast
quarter ot section 3.', township W. range 2.
west, ami running thence due cast on the half
section line, one-iourtli ()ofn mile, to south
east corner of southeast quarter or northeast
quarter or said .section 33, thence due south on
section Hue to near the northeast corner of
southeast quarter of southeast quarter of tho
said section, and there connecting with the
Scully road and known and designated uh the
Johannes road, has reported favorably upon
said location.
Also the same commissioner appointed
to view and report upon the posihlllty of vacat
ing that iart of thfe Scull v road described 111
hume hHiiIoii as running diagonally across the
northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of
M-ction 32. township 19, range 2. west, has re
orted favorably upon the vacation thereof.
Now all objections thereto, or claims for dam
ages for the locution or vacation thereof, as
theenso may be, must be filed In the county
el rk's office on or before noon. September 2w.
A. I. 1M, or the location or vacation, or both,
may he made without reference thereto.
!. V. I'll I !.Mis. County Clerk.
Dated at Columbus. Neb.. July l.r. ls!K).
W-7 !7-4t.
-riii-: 11UKK '."
fhe figure 0 in our dates will tnako a long star.
Ho man or woman now living will ever date a
Jocuraent without using the figure 9. It stand
in the third place in I860, where it will remain tea
years and then move up to kecoud place la 1900.
where it will rest for ono hundred yaars.
There is another "ft" which has also coma to stay.
It is unlike the figure 9 in our dates In t haras pact
that It has already moved up to first place, wksra
it will permanently remain. It Is called tha "No.
" High Arm Wheeler Wilson Sawing Ifaeala.
The "No. 9" was endorsed for first plaea by tha
experts or Europe at the Paris Exposition or UB9.
where, after a severe contest with the leading ma
chines or the world, it was awarded tha only
Grand Prize given to family sewing machines, all
others on exhibit having received lower award
or gold medals, etc. The French Goveraiaeat
also recognized its superiority by thedecoratloa or
Mr. Nathaniel Wheeler, Presidentof tha compaay,
with the Cross or the Legion or Honor.
The "No. 9" Is not an old machine Improved
upon, but is an entirely new machine, and tha
Grand Prize at Paris waa awarded it as tha grand
est advance In sewing machine niecnanlam or tha
ge. Those who buy It can rest assured, ths
lore, or. Having tne very latest and best.
WHEELER ft WILSON MTG CO.,
185 and 187 WabMh Av., Ckicifft
SOLD BY
6. W. KIBLER, Lefck, Nrtp.
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GUARANTEED GOODS,
Cheaper than any body, opposite Clother homt.
laebly
JOHN EUSDEN,
SURVEYOR.
. Informs his friend and the public he is still
in the business and all orders will have prompt
attention. Copies of field note and plats fur
nished. Charges to meet the timee. Columbus,
Nebraska. iOaprJy
IWTEUM IMS.,
Contractors and Builders.
Call on ns and get prices before entering inta
contract for your work.
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