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COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1891.
WHOLE NUMBER 1103.
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J. H. GALLEY, Vice Pr't.
O. T. BOEX, Cashier.
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P. ANDERSON.
HENRY RAGATZ.
JOHN J. SULLIVAN.
First National Bank,
Columbus, Neb.
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RESOURCES.
Loans and Discounts. .. . S2n3.EG9.35
U.S. Bond! 15,220.00
BmI estate, forfeiture and
xtnres s 17,965.38
Due from otberioauks $23,7732
Doe from U. B. Treasury.. C75.00
Cash on hand 15.473.45 39.925.C7
$279,990.40
LIABILITIES.
Capital and surplus
UndlTidad profits
National bank notes outstanding.
Rediscounts
Due depositors
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SDI1AWZED HAPPENINGS.
A, Brief Compendium of the
Busy World's Events.
T1UEYIXG UNEARTHED.
FRAUDS IN THE WISCONSIN LUM
BER DISTRICT.
Millions or Feet Have Been Stolen From
Fublir Land In Northern Wisconsin
Tlie Government Inspectors Must Have
Been In Collunlon.
The Wisconsin state land commissioners
have unearthed a sensation in lumber
fraud-, on public lands in northern Wiscon
sin. Special agents wereemployed several
weeks ago to make investigations and they
found tiiat hundreds of thousands of feet of
lumber had been stolen from the public
lands and Investigation has only com
menced. In one township alone over 500,000
feet of Norway pine has been illegally cut
and sold. Logs were found on public lands
bearing the stamp of private corporations
and this led to inquiry. Attorney General
O'Connor said concerning the matter: "We
are satisfied ourselves, beyond question,
that immense frauds have been committed
within the last six years, and it is not im
probable that some of the agents may have
been in collusion with timber sharks, at
least we have positive evidence that one
agent did some cutting himself. Had the
agents ever reported to the state land com
missioners there would have been prosecu
tions, but this was never done." The com
missioners say that damage suits will be
Instituted soon.
Saw the Cherokee Flood.
An eye witness of the flood at Cherokee.
la., states that it Is necessary for one to
have seen it to have the least Idea of the
great amount of damage done. '-Why," he
exclaimed, "It is fearful the way the im
mense lmdy of water swept things before it.
Houses were seen to tremble, swing half
aniutid and were carried along by the tor
rents. Trees were bent and broken. The
most remarkable feature of the disaster is
that any of the iieople in the track of the
flood escaped witn their lives. As far as I
could learn, no lives were lost at Cherokee
and In the immediate vicinity. The storm
rendered betw oen 300 and 400 families home
less in artid alout Cherokee. The amount
of damage will reach 250.000."
Certified to a Mistake.
Lieut. Gov. Kay. Speaker Crafts and Mr.
Waggoner, enrolling and engrossing clerk
of the house, hae certified that the Aus
tralian ballot bill as passed by both houses
of the late Illinois legislature, contained
the missing t-ection which It was feared
would invalidate the whole bill. The error
was corrected by inserting the section and
the governor then signed the bill.
To ProttM-t the Missionaries.
The navy department at Washington has
received cablegrams from Admiral Belknap,
commanding the United States squadron on
the China station, confirmatory of the news
previously received, of the persecution of
foreign missionaries by the Chinese. The
admiral has sent all his available ships to
Shanghai, the point most threatened.
Jack Gives a Warning.
The vigilance committee in White Chapel.
Loudon, has been reawakened to activity
by an undoubted warning In the shape of a
letter in which "Jack" announces that he is
about to perform another ,4operation." ne
adds that he has been nearly caught twice,
but will never be takeii alive.
To Visit Europe.
The five world's fair delegates to Europe
are Ex-Governor Waller of Connecticut,
Senator Eustls of Louisiana. Ferd W. Peck
of Chicago, Secretary Butterworth and Pro
moter General nandy. The commission is
to sail not later than July 10.
Emperor William's Lottery.
Emperor William of Germany, while pre
siding at a ministerial council, announced
that be had devised a scheme for a lottery
by which ho hoped to obtain 8.000.000 marks
to be used In the work of combatting slavery
In Africa.
An Ocean Flyer.
The steamer Fuerst Bismarck left New
York Thursday of last week and passed
Southampton Friday morning, making the
passage in six days, thirteen hours and ten
minutes, the fastest time on record.
IN THE EAST.
Since July 1, 1861. Sl,284,716,000 has
been paid to the survivors of the war of
1812, the Mexican war and the war of
the revolution by the government.
Judge J. M. Hall, in the superior
court at Hartford, Conn., handed down
a decision in the suit of Austin Brain
ard, executive secretary of Gov. Buck
ley, against Comptroller Staub, for the
payment of his salary. The decision is
In effect a recognition of Gov. Buckley's
right to office.
A ontL is under arrest at Newburg,
N. Y., for horse stealing. She will also
bo charged with arson and murder.
Within three months she is said to have
married an old farmer, burned down his
house, mill and barn, roasted his weak
minded son to death in the fire and
wound up by running off with a livery
team and surrey, trading them for other
horses and a wagon.
Johk Qciscy Ward's statue of Henry
Ward Beecher was unveiled in Brook
lyn's city hall park with solemn and im
pressive ceremonial. The statue repre
sents Mr. Beecher in a familiar attitude.
Ho wears a cape coat and carries a soft
felt bat in his hand. With the central
form is grouped ideal figures a negro
and two children, intended to typify his
work for the slave and his love for the
jonng.
Gexebax. Nettletox, assistant sec
retary of the treasury, soon expects to
pass upon the question of Prize Fighter
Slavin's status under the contract labor
law. Slavin came to this country under
contract to make a tour of the country
and give sparring exhibitions. General
Nettleton will be called upon to decide
whether prize fighting is such an occu
pation as shall be protected in behalf of
American talent. In case the decision
goes against Slavin, proceedings will be
instituted against the contractor who
imported him for slugging purposes.
Experiments were made at Washing
ton by Prof. Dyrenf urth, of the agricul
tural department, in testing the feasi-.
billty of exploding balloons charged
with gases at a considerable height in
the air with the object of determining
the practicability of exploding dynamite
in a like manner and its effect in pro
ducing rain in case of drought. Threp
balloons, about twelve feet in diameter,
charged with two parts of hydrpgen ang
Que of oxygen, were sent up abou 1,200
feet and. exploded by means of ah elect
trie current transmitted over a fine
wire. The tests were considered auc
CttsfuL Tsk United States treasurer's state
MestUbearing date of the ISth,
showman overdraft of 9634,733, against
which there are $23,287467 pn deposit
In the Rational banks and 920,190,040 is.
fractional silve?. The apparent deicit
is 9100,000 less than appeared hi the
last statement- The foilowiag state
stettwas prepared in tat secretary's
otste as skDwitf the actual sitoatioa to
date: Available cash balance June 1,
exclusive of deposits in the national
banks, 910,138,473; receipts to June 20,
920,072,26; total, 930,210,734. The pay
ments to June 30, including 918,312,155
for pensions, is 926,771,800, leaving an
available balance June 20 of 93,438,934.
The Father Mollinger craze in' Penn
sylvania has almost subsided, and the
people who flocked to him by thousands
to be healed are beginning to realize
that they were victims of their own
credulity. It seems that Father Mol
linger did succeed, by means of the
"mind cure," in convincing a number of
people that they were not sick. Crowds
besieged his door, and before it was
demonstrated that the father was only
an ordinary mortal he had treated
thousands of persons, all of whom made
a, contribution of 95 each, and many of
whom went hundreds of miles to find no
other relief.
IN THE WEST.
Latek reports' of the northwestern
Iowa floods are worse than the first
news. The number of people in distress
at Cherokee alone is between 1,200 and
1,500. Every bridge across the Sioux
river, both wagon and railroad, between
Onawa and Cherokee, is gone. Those
houses tbat were not swept away in the
flat at Cherokee were left almost buried
in mud. The destruction of property
alone in that pretty little city will
amount to .8200,000, besides almost all
the stock pastured along the Sioux. The
Illinois Central railroad has sustained
heavy losses, miles of track being swept
away and most of their bridges gone.
Sutherland reports that Its cyclone was
not one star in, but four or five cyclones
of no small dimensions. The loss to
Sutherland and Waterman township, in.
which it is located, is. at least 975,000.
The Chicago & Northwestern loss in the
township is 925,000. The deluge covered
at least portions , of the counties of
Sioux, O'Brjen, Clay, Plymouth, Chero
kee, Bueua Vista, Woodbury, Ida, Sac,
Monona. Crawford, Carroll, Harrison
and Shelby, covering a territory three
counties in width along the western
border of the state, and five counties in
length, beginning within the tier of
counties from the northern boundary of
the state and extending southward. At
present it is impossible to estimate the
damage to railroad prtrty iu that ter
ritory, but enough is known to show
that it will be very heavy. The section
of the country where the flood was most
severe is traversed by numerous
braucbes of the Northwestern, the Illi
nois Central, the Chicago, Milwaukee &
St. Paul and the main line of the Chi
cago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha
roads. It is reported from Waterloo that
eight persons met their death in the
country round about Corrcctionville.
The Iowa democratic state conven
tion at Ottuinwa was largely attended
and enthusiastic. Gov. Horace Boies
was renominated with a whoop and a
hurrah. The ticket was completed as
follows: For lieutenant governor.Samuel
L. Bestow; supreme judge, L. G. Kinne;
superintendent of public instruction, J.
B. Kuoepler; railroad commissioner,
' Peter A. Dey. The platform declared
for tariff reform, free coinage, a pro
tected franchise and the repeal of the
prohibitory law. Upon the silver ques
tion the plank of last year's platform
was reaffirmed. It demands "free coin
age of silver and that it be made a full
legal tender for all debts, public and
private." In demanding the repeal of
the prohibitory law high license is pre
sented as the correct substitute, with an
annual license of 95C0 to be paid into
the county treasury, and such addi
tional tax as the town, township or
municipal corporations shall provide.
In the speech of the temporary chair
man of the convention, Hon. Walter H.
Butler, congressman from the Fourth
district, the reference to Gov. Boies as
worthy of presidential honors was re
ceived with marked favor.
Prof. Wildrox, of the North Dakota
state agricultural faculty, who was dis
patched to Orr, Grand Forks county,
that state, upon receipt of information
that locusts were hatching out in great
quantities in that vicinity, pronounces
them genuine Rocky mountain locusts.
These locusts visited portions of Mani
toba last season, and it is thought a few
must have drifted across the line into
North Dakota and deposited eggs. Prof.
Wildron reports that the hoppers are
wingless and practically harmless for
the time being, and if they can be de
stroyed immediately little damage can be
done. He states that in one place they
cover the ground for over a mile in
length, and from one to five rods wide,
and from an inch inch to a foot in depth.
A deep ditch has been made around
them to prevent escape until they can bo
trapped and destroyed, which will prob
ably be by trapping and burning.
Secretart Jerry Rusk, of the agri
cultural department, will take charge of
the weather bureau July 1. Ho may
not be able to manage the elements of
nature so as to give the farmers of the
country just what they want in the way
of wet and dry, hot and cold spells, but
he will try to give them the probabilities
earlier and more fully than has bpen
possible while the weather bureau was
a part of the war department. The
chief signal officer, Gen. A. W. Greely,
is to continue to have charge qf all mili
tary signal duties, the operation of his
corps being confined to strictly military
matters, and he is to bo relieved of all
responsibility so far as the changes in
the weather are concerned unless the
president may seo fit. as ho Is authorized
to do, to detail him to take charge of
the weather bureau. In case a new
chief is to be appointed he will be a
civilian, at a salary of $4,500 a year.
Information' was received at the
treasury department St Washington
that a number of Chinamen were going
to be run into the United States by way
of Detroit, Mich-, and the suspension
bridge at Niagara Falls, N. Y. Tele
grams were immediately sent to the col
lectors of customs at both place in
structing them to keep a lookout for
and return the unbidden guests to the
country from which they were being
shipped. These Chinamen, it was fur
ther stated, arc but the advance guard
of a large number of their countrymen
who are to be smuggled across the bor
ders to become laborers in the United
States.
The subreme court of Indiana de
cided in favor of teaching the German
language in the schools, holding that
the law is compulsory and that the
language must be taught wherever a
sufficient number shall apply for the
same.
The families of IB. Kissroan, J.
Weist, Dan Whitehead, Jpseph Sum
mers, and Ben Smith, at Peru, Ind.,were
poisoned by eating imported, dried beef.
Twelve persons were taken violently ill
and four are still in a critical condition.
The iron workers of Chicago who have
been on a strike for a week report some
successes. Four firms employing four
hundred men signed the union scale and
their men will return to work.
The supreme lodge of Ancient Order
of United Workmen has finished lb la
bors at Detroit and adjourned to meet
on the second Tuesday in June, 1891, at
Helena, Mont.
The wheat harvest in Oklahoma is
almost complete. The yield is esti
mated at not less than twenty-fiAt
bushels per acre.
FOREIGN JOTTINGS.
The formation of the great central
European customs league Is an accom
plished fact, acknowledged bythe offi
cial circle. The exchange of communi
cations between Germany, Austria,
Hungary, Italy and Switzerland has re
sulted in the basis of an agreement.
The interest in the realization of the
most formidable zollverein ever con
ceived will overtop that in every other
public matter when the scheme is gen
erally published. In the meantime the
official circle alone knows that negotia
tions have attained definitely a success
ful stage. The terms upon which the
commercial union was agreed are meant
to be held secret until after the plenipo
tentiaries prepare the draft of the
treaty. A conference for this ptrpose
has been arranged to meet at Berne,
July 9. The league is to be an Intimate
commercial alliance, in which no one of
the contracting powers will be privileged
to form a trade treaty with any other
outside the union unless it first obtains,
the assent of the other parties. It Is
understood here that the government
has obtained the consent of the federal
states of Germany to the denudation of
the treaty . of Frankfort and to the
accepting of whatever grave conse
quences may arise from the hostility of
France to such a course. The existence
of the league will naturally affect the
trading relations of the contracting
powers with France, England, the
United States and every quarter of the
globe. How far this independent action
will be controlled depends upon the
nature of the decision of the Berne con
ference. The Canadian budget has been sent
to the house of commons. The leading
features were the references to reci
procity issues and the announcement of
the abolition of the duty on raw sugar,
by which act the treasury loses and the
sugar consumers are freed from 93,000.
000 of duties. The budget stated that
during the last year the exports to the
United States had fallen off over 91,000.
000; but the exports to Great Britain,
Germany, etc., had increased corres
pondingly. While bank after bank had
gone down in the United States in the
recent strigency, Canadian institutions
had stood without harm. This the
premier attributes to Canada's good
banking laws. TheMcKinley bill, in
stead of proving a blow, had rather
been a benefit, as it had opened to Can
ada markets she would never have oth
erwise secured. The government was
prepared to meet the government of the
United States and endeavor to agree
upon equitable terms to remove the
causes now preventing the freedom of
trade between Canada and the United
States. The net debt of the dominion
is 8239,570,000.
The census just taken shows a decline
in the population of Irelaud for the last
ten years of nearly half a million. This
is a greater decline thau that of any
equal period since 1851-61, and it points
to a decay of Irish industries, and a
weakening of Ireland as one of the in
tegral portions of the United Kingdom,
which can not fail to profoundly impress
men of Irish birth or descent everywhere.
The loss is nearly ten per cent, of the
average population of Ireland during
the last decade. In 1841 the population
of Ireland was over one-half as great as
that of England and Wales, and consti
tuted almost exactly 30 per cent, of the
population of the United Kingdom.
Haifa century gone finds the inhabit
ants of Ireland only about 16 per cent,
as numerous as those of England and
Wales, and forming but 12 per cent of
the total for the British Isles,
A great religious function will open
at Treves Aug. 23, when the rarely seen
"Holy Coat" will bo exhibited in the
cathedral of St. Peter and St, Helen
there to the Catholic faithful during six
weeks. The "Holy Coat" is a relic
Which has been preserved with the great
est reverence in the Treves cathedral
for many years, and Is esteemed as its
greatest treasure. It is alleged to bo
the seamless coat worn by our Savior,
It is said to have boen discovered by the
Empress Helena during her memorable
visit to Palestine in the fourth century.
After numerous vicissitudes the coat
was deposited in the cathedral of St.
Peter and St. Helen, and since the year
1196 has at exceedingly long intervals
been exhibited to the faithful.
The Prince of Wales, field marshal of
England, having graciously condescend,
ed to express regret for his share in the
scheme to keep Sir William Gordon
Cumming's conduct from the knowledge
of the military authorities, tho matter
Is at an end so far as the baccarat scan
dal is concerned. Tho radicals will en
deavor to keep tho thing alive by asking
unpleasant questions in parliament, and
a lively debate is assured when the army
estimates are given before the house,
the intention being to move to reduce
tho estimates by tho amount of the
prince's pay as field marshal and colonel
of several regiments, but nothing more
substantial than fun will be gotten out
of the business.
At last gossip is confirmed that Par
pell, the ex-Irish, leader, has led Mrs.
O'Shea o the aUar. The marriage was
quiet, without guests, and neither of the
principals nave yet talked ror publica
tion. The ony witnesses to the cere
mony were two servants. It was per
formed at Brighton, a small suburb, near
London, by a civil officei. It is an
nounced that a second religious. cere
mony will bo performed at London im
mediately to satisfy the Catholics.
Emperor William, after concluding
his visit to England on July 13, will sail
from Lejth, Scotland, to Bergen, Nor
way, from which port he will go to
Skirve and take part in the sport of
whale fishing.
Mr. Gladstone has suffered another
relapse due to exertion in addressing a
meeting of colonial bishops. Mrs. Glad
stone .says the condition, qf Mr- Glad
stone is qot sprJQUs.
A Fatal Wreck York.'
A freight train on the Burli
Missouri road went through J
near York. Neb; The engine "fell'
prcek and twenty-three cars weri
on i. Brakeman Delancy and Engineer
Moore were instantly killed and Fire
man Bean fatally hurt. -A heavy rain
washed out the culvert.
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Small Items' of Crime and Casualty la
South Dakota Improvement Notes
ThroBfnout the Commonwealth Yu
rlons Events or More Than Usual Im
portance. A few miles north of Huron 480 acres
of drouth-killed laud were obtained, at
a cost probably of not more than S2 an
acre, or 82,400. Irrigators, without
knowledge or experience in tho matter,
put down an artesian well, constructed
ditches, put in reservoirs, made some
expensive mistakes, finally got experts
and got on to the scheme in something
like ship-shape. They plowed about
300 acres of laud, seeded it with wheat,
flax, corn, barley, potatoes, etc., until
they got nearly 98,000 blowed in for
land and all. And then long before
any harvest of anything, right in the
dryest, hottest, windiest part of the
season, when things surrounding looked
blue along comes some business men,
who have already had experience with
irrigated lands in other states, and look
the place over and offer $10,000 for it.
Twenty-five per cent, advance on the
88,000 cost. But the complaisant owner
smiles at the offer. Then 811,000 is of
fered and refused; then S 12,000, and a
little hesitation, with some figuring on
"crop prospects," then tho owner's
price goes up good and strong to 815,000,
and there she stands! So much is his
tory. The owners of this farm are
making another already on the same
general plan. The disappointed nego
tiators have authorized the purchase of
a half section in Beadle county, upon
which they will proceed to mako a farm
after the fashion of the one they failed
to get. This is more history. Inter
ested people can draw their own con
clusions. Fledges for the Special Session.
Nisety-five pledges from members
of the South Dakota legislature have
been received guaranteeing to attend a
special session of the legislature, free of
cost to the state, and to vote for an
appropriation tor the world's fair and
nineteen more are known to be in favor
if the local communities will provide
expenses. This leaves but six pledges
required, and many of the memb"crs have
not reported. Of the pledges received
fifteen are from tho Farmers' Alliance
members, who were thought to be op
posed to the scheme. If a session is held
it will probably bo lato iu the fall.
Corporations and Iteal Estate.
Tuk state supremo court holds that
thq question as to whether or not a cor
poration can hold real estate for profit
for purposes other than that neces
sary for tho business for which it was
organized can only bo raised by tho
state in proceedings instituted directly
for that purpose, and that it cannot
como up collaterally. The point was de
cided in a case pertaining to the right of
outside loan companies to sink artesian
wells.
All for Ekes.
From April 15 to the 10th of June, the
period during which eggs arc bought for
storage, twenty-five carloads were
bought from farmers within a distance
of twenty miles from Scotland. These
twenty-livo carloads represent 315,000
dozeh, or 3,780,000 eggs, and for which
between S3'J,U00 and 840,000 has been
distributed among the farmers residing
within twenty miles of Scotland.
Struck Natural Gas,
While sinking a well on Siding Five,
about fifteen miles south of Edgemont,
the Burlington & Missouri River Rail
road company struck a vein of natural
gas at a depth of 190 feet. Tho gas is
said to How freely and burns readily.
A Tin Palace at the Fair.
The tin interests of the Black Hills
will build a tin palace at the world's
fair which will be a wonder. It will be
constructed of block tin and one of tho
features will be a block tin tower fifty
feet high.
THE NEWS IN NEBRASKA,
Events Great anil Small of Interest All
Around the State.
The Nebraska stato board of trans
portation has received numerous appli
cations for appointments as deputy in
spectors, under the new warehouse law,
but just at present the members of the
board arc too busy trying to find out
what the law contemplates and requires
to have any particular concern about
grain inspectors. Although the bill was
framed on the Hues of the Illinois law,
the state officers are not familiar with
the operations of the latter, and tho
Nebraska act is a puzzle to them. The
secretaries of tho hoard have also been
set to work to, unravel its mysteries, but
they, too, confess that they have not
yet solved the riddle. Members of the
board talk of going to Chicago and St.
Louis to get enlightenment from their
systems, and if they themselves do not
go it is Ijkely the secretaries will be
sent. The board will act on the opinion
of the attorney general that the act
does not take effect until August 1,
The governor appoints the chiof in
spector, but the board names tho dep
uties and fixes all salaries, which are
to he paid frqtn the inspection fees.
The Storm In Nbrank,
liRi'onTS from vanlous parts of Ne
braska indicate that the recent raia
amounted to a general deluge. At Wa
hoo a house occupied by John Gunder
son and family was struck by lightning
and torn to pieces. The faiqily- ws in
bed at the time and the, springs of the
bed were melted. None were seriously
hurt. At Fremont the ruin fell iu tor
rents for hours and trains on the Fre
mont. Elkhorn & Missouri Valley were
detained by tho washouts. Iv, th,e vi
cinity of York tho country bridges a.re
nearly all w'ish.ed p,itt especially 114 the
southern sectioi. Dwellings iu tho low
places in tqwn were invaded by the ris
ing waters, at night and the inhabitants
had to move. At Harrison a 10-year-old
daughter of John Johnson was drowned
in a ravine. At Kearney tltcre was a
considerable electrical display and rain.
Many buildings were struck by light
ning, but no one was hurt. The dam
age was great at Grand Island. Four
inches of water fell during; one r-JgJit.
Gram) Army Men Vf"l Celehrafe,
Ord is making preparations to enter
tain the reuniqno.f the central Nebraska
district, Q. A, R,i which is to meet there
August 9.T--98. The following are the
officers of the association: Judge Jamie
R. Fairbank, president: Capt. John L.
McDonough, vice-president; Hon. Her
man Westorer, secretary: Hon. Charles
B. Coffin, treasurer; M. E. Getter, D. A.
Gard, C. E. Paist, G. W. Milford, Frank
Mallory, J. M. Klinker, Frajtk Dvorak,
executive.
Republican State Central Committee.
Jokx C. Watsqx, chairman ofie
state republican committee, hasBd
a call to the state central commiflleto
meet at Lincoln on Wednesday??uly 8,
tc arrange for the state convention.
State Fish Commissioner.
Judge Johx H. Blaib, of Omaha, has
been appointed state fish commissioner
to succeed B, E. B.Kennedy, of Omaha.
COAL MINES PLAYING OUT.
Ifcs te Kerthera WeLster leant? Net!..
Ins; but Pocket.
Frank Collins, of the Coillns Brothers
Coal Company, mlno operators at Fore
Dodge, Coalville, and LshUh, in Web
ster County, saysi concerning tho con
dition of things in the Northern-- ovra
soal fields:
It Is summer now, and of coin 3 j
things are pretty dull and the working
force small. Then there has be u a
strike in some of the mines, which has
injured the interest to some oxtent. and
on the who.e it is a very unlavorablo
time to sum up the situation.
The prospects for the opening
mines or the investment of more 0
in the industry aro not at all
The condition of the veins wsffikf not
warrants further investment TIhns-h
called veins in Webster County, which
aro the ones furthest north in Iowa,
aro not veins at" all. They aro
pockets, and the best of thour,
with'possiby a couple of exceptions,'
have been workedFout Within the ptst
fow years the center of tjte no: t!i.n
mining operations has been gradually
moving southward. Ten years ti-io Fort
iKJUf MWfeewter: a inn principal
place is Lehigh, which." by following Uc
rivor and the course of the coal field, h
fully twenty-live miles further sou til.
Ten years ago. Carbon Junction, on tho
Minos Central- and four miles east o
1-ort Dodge, was a mining town of l.ve
hundred people. In it Diincomi c
Richards, the FortToJge foal Company,
and the Holiday Creek Company wt-ro
operating large mine-. Now all that re
main? to mark tho sito of the once livclv
burg is the scattered piles of slack an..1
refuse from tho mines. From Carbon
the Fort Dodge Company and Duw-oiiiIm
& Richards went south two miie. to thi
Coa'villo mines. Hero several 'arj;o
shafts wero opened and another huge
town was buiit. but these have all been
deserted now, and along the stran
gling street aro scattered tho
crumbling and unoccupied hru?e
which were once the homes of
several hundred miners. Onl a f:v
country banks aro uow operating there,
where once the output rivalo i in propor
tions that of any place in the State It
was at Coalville that our company fiit
opened mines We are now running a
larger mine about a mi e from there a:ni
have a prospected field that will furnhih
us wit'i our present output for a innnlr
of years, but it is the only field north of
I.ohigh that can be operated successful
ly. The Craig Coal Company, the Wash
burns, Batches and others, mostly Min
neapolis and St Paul capitalists do
veloped larce fields at Ka'o, across tho
Des Moines River from Coalville, hut
now the only company left is the Craig
company and its output is small iu com
parison .to what it was five years ao
Tho town of Kalo has become depopulat
ed, and even the Craig company, wliicl;
has a largo business, has been compelled
to go to Angus, forty miles further
south, and open mines from which to HI:
their orders. At Lehigh thu orey
Brothcrs. Crooked Creek company and
several other extensive concerns an; op
erating large mines, but theirToiitput U
on the decrease and their mines ate 1 o
coming mora expensive and ditlicult to
operate with each succeed1 us; y.-ar.
Duringthe past two summers the 1 chigh
companies ha e spent thousands of do la rs
In prospecting forcoal to supply tho trade
which soon must leave them for
want of coal, but without marked suc
cess. It is only a matter of a ery few
years whon LeKlkvwiU be enumerated
with Carbon, Kalopl Coalvil o as ouo
of the mining towns of'tlie past. There
Is considerable coal "in tho extreme
southern part of Webster County, but it
Is away from the railroads, has or
roofing, and will bo expensive to miiio.
It is only a question of a comparatively
short time before coal mining in Iowa
north of the contor of the Stato will he
a thing of tho past. Iowa's coal suppl)
will have to come from tho central and
southern parts of the State or from
other States
As far as tho progress of the develop
ment of Iowa's industries is concerned.
I do not think it will have much effect
outside the mining dist-.icts. As to tho
price of coal in this portion of the Stat.-,
1 can say that railroad rates from the
southern and central portions will have
to come down, or the prices will be ad
vanced to agree with tho difference in
freights between the present and tho
future sources of supply.
Atchison Peeularltles.
An Atchison colored barber has a
white wife.
A little Atchison bov yesterday said
to his mother: "You are the only
sweetheart I will ever have."
An Atchison man whose wife does
all the work for a family of seven, re
cently paid the licence on five dogs.
The awfullest mau in the world lives
in Atchison. He was married three
weeks ago, and is already flirting with
the other girls.
A Northwest Atchison man is cele
brating his sixty-fourth birth-day, and
insists on every guest drinking sixty
four glasses of beer.
An Atchison man selects his wife's
hats. They are seldom becoming, but
he is the best natured man on earth
when the bills come in.
There is a woman living in Atchison
who spent seven years as a member
of a cirous company. She is now
happily married, and has several
children, and is popular with her
neighbors.
An Atchison man has a mean way of
getting even with his neighbors.
When his children take the whooping
cough, or measles, or any other con
tagious disease, he sends "them over to
plajr with the neighbors' childreu.
There are so many pleasant faced
old maids in Atchison; they should
form a Merry Old Maids' club, They
have as much reason t be merry and
gay as the married women, and a great
deal more than some.
There is one person in Atchison who
believes in speaking well of the oppo
sition. 'It is a wash woman. She
tells the family she washes for that
the lady who washes fox the woman
across the street, is the best clear
starcher in town.
An Atchison girl is badly afflicted.
Whenever she blushes, instead of the
red showing in her cheeks, it goes to
her nose. Say pretty things to her
that wo.uW make her blush, and in
five minutes her nose looks like the
nose of a lusher.
An Atchison woman who is subject
to fainting fits, and who is liable to
tumble over in a faint at almost any
time, has spent a great deal of time
and money in the past year in learning
how to fall gracefully.' She has em
ployed at least three teachers, At
chiton Globe.
TlMMCfct to ha Funny.
Coats of arms Sleeves.
It's a mighty cowardly man who hasn't
the courage to advise another with the
toothache to have it yanked out Bos
ton Courisr.
The henpecked husband who misses a
train he has promised his wife to return
on "catches It" when he gets home.
jCope Cod Item.
iSoBisosr "Brown is awfully stingy.
Watklns "You bet he is. He won't
Wea allow a joke cracked at his expense
If Jhe can help It.' Washington.
UTital
JfriJht
FAST DISAPPEARING.
THE TIMBER WEALTH OF THE
GREAT PINE TRINITY.
Mill ProiloeU Increase 3e Per Cent, la
Quantity. 78 Per Cent, la Valae nly
Enough! Held by Private Partle fee
PlTe Year Supply.
The Census Ofllce has prepared fordts
butlon an hiterestins bulletin on lumber
production and hilled Industrie of Wiscon
sin, Minnesota and Michhtan. which com
prlso what Is known ns tho 'white pine
croup." Tho aggregate iiicrcaso of mill
products us compared with tho census re
ports of ISfO is 20.f.6 per cent. In quantity
and 7 .".): per cent. In value: the increase
In tho mn.ibr of hands employed Is 133.49
ler cent, and tho Increase In the totl
amount of wage paid is Ul.Sit percent.
Acvordln to the tenth census (1m)) tho
amount of capital invested In the milling
industry in Michigan. Wisconsin and Min
nesota was Stf5.N"tfcK. The capital shown
to have been invested at the eleventh
census (1S90) U S--1J::WS.C07. an Increase ot
$157,530.0"..
According to the census of 18S0 tho nro-
rportloh of cup It'll employed to the value of
manufactured products was reported to bo
3'J.SlCs to St. In IsiK) the proportion Is
stated to be $1.5:1 to '51. Tho latter propor
tion If applied to tiio amount of products
reported at tho tenth census would produce
tho sum of SllK.207.s3fi as tho actual Vapital
employed at that period.-and the Incrc.iso
computed on this uasit U found to bo sjcyg
per cent.
The results obtained respecting tho prin
cipal subjects are summarized in tho follow
ing exhibit t r the group of Suites:
Value of forest products not manu
factured at mill 30.426,181
value of mill products 115.Cl!.uU
Value of manufactures 21.112.Ghi
Aggregate valuo of products S1S7.237.8HJ
The production of this valuo required tho
employment of fS70,152,012 invested cap
ital; tho employment In tho forest of 70.
052 men, HO women, and 10 children, and
aLsj tho labor of 32.4DI animals: the labor
In the mills of S7. t3t) men, file women, and
633 children; thu operation of .machinery
and mechanical appliances valued at 323.
55D.334: the removal 1 1 1.2r.2.151.1s0 cubic
feet of merchantable timber from natural
growth; the Investment of 37.S00.25l in
vessels, railways, and waterways, specially
used and owned bv th.s industry ror tho
transportation of Its material and product,
and the exendituro or S'J3.f'.Ss,25rt fop
wages, subsistence, supplies, and miscel
laneous expenses.
The value of forest products not manu
factured at mill, bv Kntw U .w r,iira-u.
Michigan
Wisconsin ,
Miunesota-
" "" " v
Sll,UtVOri
.... lj.X8.t'.U
.... '5,3.l,r.i!
Total S3J,t2U3
The value of tho mill products by States
is as follows;
Michigan $Ct,782,963
Wisconsin 3s.i(,671
Minnesota 13,800,350
Ttal 113,699,t0
Tho valuo of manufactures by States Is
as follows:
Michigan $t,3M,2C0
Wisconsin 11.437,739
Minnesota. 5,315,73
Total S21.112.C18
Tho porcentaso of Increase In tho value
of mill production and manufactures from
tho value reported In 180 Is as follows:
.Michigan, 2D.92 per cent: Wisconsin. 175.X
percent; Miunesota, 159.01 por cent.
In njiiio localities In Michigan, tho sup
ply of all kinds of timber has become prac
tically CYhuusted. and tho decreased pro
duction la noted, while in others, .there tho
pino has been denuded, other varieties of
timber aro now utilized into a greater
variety of products. Tho fact Is cited In
explanation of tho lncreaso shown in re
manufactures. According to tho census of 1SS0. te six
principal lumber producing cltlus m this
group wero. In order, as follows:
1. Bay City. Mich., output S3.C07.299
2. Muskegon Mich., output 3,1!).23J
3. MinneaiKUs Minn., output 2.740.643
i' S81?' Mich., output 2.035,66
5. Manistee, Mich., output l.f7,500
6. Menominee, Mien., output 1.2J4.834
At the present census this order of rela
tive rank has materially changed. Saginaw,
and Manistee. Mich., having been outclass
ed from tho six principal cities, the order ot
which Is now as follows:
1. Minneapolis, Minn., output C,5?4,45S
2. Menominee. Mioh., output 4.20s.e89
X Mnslw-gon . Mlch..output 4.016.OH
i yCJty. Mich., output 4,008.214
5. Oskosh. wis., output y 819 130
C. LaCrosse, Wis., output 3,202 C3S
Tho production of white pino lumber was
carried to its highest point in 1680 at tho
month of Saginaw Klver, Michigan, and
that point still holds first rank in this ro
spect. Tho aggregate valuo or production re
ported for Kay City, West Bay City. Sag
inaw, Essex vlllo and Zllwaukee, constitut
ing tho principal productive points on tho
Saginaw River, was S3,520.!43 In 1880 and
$9,027,405 InlSOO. The aggregate quantity of
material consumed during tho census year
1800 was about C50.000.000 reet board meas
ure, and thequatitltyorstanding timber now
owned by establishments In tho places
named Is reported to bo about 2,500,000,000
feet
Tho city of Menominee, at tho mouth of
tho Menominee River, in Michigan, shows
tho greatest lncreaso of production during
tho decade. In 1SS0 it ranked sixth in tho
nine principal lumber-producing points in
tho United States, aud is now found to bo
second.
Tho aggregate quantity of material con
sumed at thoso points during tho census
year 1RO0 was about 450.000,000 feet. loard
measure, and tho quantity of standing
timber now owned by establishments In tho
places named Is reported to to more than
4.000,000.000, Indicating a sufficient supply
at the present rate of consumption for
another decade.
The principal material used by this In
dustry consists of standing tlmbor, and but
for tho fact of tho Inability of tho officials
of the Federal Government to furnish data
or approximate estimato showing tho area
of timbered lands in Michigan, Wisconsin,
and Minnesota owned by the Govornmeut It
would bo possible to approximate tho gross
average ot timbered lands owned by both
the Government and prlvato parties. It Is
shown from returns of Individual manufac
turers that their present holdings ot stand
ing timber in tula group of States aro only
sufficient to supply thorn for about fivo
years at the present mtj of consumption.
Too quantity in roservo is believed to be
principally comprehended by what Is stand
ing on lands owned by Federal and Stato
Governments. This quantity, however, is
unknown. The Federal Government sup
plies no Information on this subject, but
tho holdings of public lands reported by
State Governments Indicate that no consid
erable area of timbered lands is owned by
the State ot Michigan..
The total area of land held by tho Stato
ex Wisconsin Sept. 30, lsoo. Ss reported at
671.633 seres. Most of this land Is located
In the northern counties aud about one
half is said to bo timbered. Tho State of
Minnesota reports ownership of 13.000,000
aerosol timber 0l land, containing 20.000.
0O.00S feet of standing timber, mostly pine,
valued at $60,000,000.
The total capital Invested in timbered
lands and standing timberby tho establish
ments reporting in tho respective States is
as follows:
Michigan...
Wisconsin.
IChmssoU.
34.QCB.044
5,TJ1,'JU1
Of the foregoing, the amounts Invested
le lands located outside the group of S titles
are as follows:
JUClTsSS a s a iaV7(.liAi
Wisconsin 2.G39.4.14
Minnesota 503.4SO
Total..
8.110.069
A visiTOit to tho fur exhibition in Lon
don says: "A curious bundle was shown
to mo as 'freaks of nature' a skunk
skin of a fawn io!or, with an arrow
shaped mark in white: black and white
knnk skins, like a badger's, and a curi
ous admixture of gray and black'. These
bo money could duplicate. There arc a
couple of water buffalo heads, win' h
are almost priceless now, ziu many
noble antlers dear to the heart of tho
sportsman, for the- cxhibit;oii appeal- to
the naturalist and sportsman a well a3
to the woman of fashion."
THU OLD
Columbus State Bank
SB - (Oldest Bank la tke State.)
Fays Merest w Tiie
AND
lakes Liac h Seal Estate.
ISSUES SIGHT DBAFT8 ON
Oaaasut, Ckieatc. Mew Twk aat J1
Fereisrsi Cstutriesw
SELLS STEAMSHIP TICKETS.
BUYS GOOD NOTES
And Holpslts Customers whsathey Need Help.
OFFICII! AJTBBIBICNM :
LKAXDRlt GKKRAKD, President.
U. 11. 11KNRY. Vice-Frits hi t.
JOHN 8TAUFFEK. tTsakter.
M. BKUGGFJt, Q. W. HUL8T.
COMMERCIAL BANK.
OF
COLUMBUS. NEB.
HAS AN
ABthonzerl Capital if mm
Paid in Capital - 91,0(111
OFFICERS:
C. II. SHELDON, Pres't.
II. 1 H. OEHIJtICH. Vice-Pres't.
C A. NEWMAN. Cashier.
DANIEL BCHRAM. Asst Cask. .
STOCKHOLDERS:
C. II. Sheldon, J. P. Becker,
Herman P. H.Oehlrioh. ITsrl Bleake.
Jonas Welch.
W. A. McAllister.
.1. Henry Wurdemau.
Coorrfo W. (lalley,
Frank Korcr.
Henry Losoke,
H.M. Wiaslow.
8. C. Grey.
Arnold P. H. Oeklrlck.
Gerhard Loseke.
o"Hank or deposit ; interest allowed on time
deposits; luy ana sell exchange rn United
States and Europe, and buy and sell aTallable
R-ouritie. We shall be pleased to receive your
bufiinosB. We solicit your patronage, ibdecrf .
.a.. jl ltssell;
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PUMPS REPAIRED ON SHORT
NOTICE.
Olive St., nearly petite Pest-eRce.
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Judicious Advertising
Creates many & new business,
Enlarges many an old business,
Revives many a dull business,
Rescues many a lost business,
Saves many a failing business,
Preserves many a large business.
Secures success in any business.
Bo sajs a man ot business, and we add that
Judicious adTertisinjr, for this sectioa of country.
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