THE OMAHA DAILY BEETUBSDAY MOENIKG , MAY 10 , 1881.
THE DAILY BEE.
E. ROSEWATER , EDITOR :
"GiVB iue another horse and bind
my wounds. " Rotcoe ConUiny.
THE late heavy showers have provec
the wisdom of Mayor Boyd's sugges
kens a * to the deepening the gutters.
THB national debt was .reduccc
inearly $10,000,000 last month. ' ; Mr ,
Sherman's slioes seem to fit Secretary
Windom exactly.
SENATOR DAVES didn't wan't an in
troduction to the president'during tht
rest of his term. Hence Ills speed }
retreat from the Conkling forces.
TJ.IHE constitutionality jpf the Kan
sas liquor law will soon be tested. A
druggist who has been fined § 100 foi
selling a bottle of bitters without a
license , has appealed lus case to the
supreme court , where the whole ques
tion of prohibition will be re-
Tiewed. _
RUSSIA evidently does not believe
that a woman in politics Is a blessing.
The new Czar Alexander is restrained
from granting a constitution to the
people through the urgent entreaties
of the Empress , who declares that
there is no middle ground between an
autocracy and a republic.
JAY GOULD has his eye on the Illi
nois Central railroad , which is per
haps one of the-feest managed and
fairly stocked roads In the country.
Jay is say to have remarked that an
injection of 825,000,000 of watei
wouldn't hurt the road a bit , or In
jure its stockholders.
IT isn't only in the star rout * con
tract office that the new postmaster
general is showing Ids efficiency. He
has just concluded a contract for fur
nishing the postal son-ice with postage
tamps by which the department naves
over seven thousand dollars .annually.
THE eastern dispatches think It a
remarkable fact tliat fifty colored
people were immersed at one time on
the banks of the Potomac on Sunday.
PshawJ Council Bluffs made a show
ing-of five hundred and didn't care to
telegraph It all over the country ,
either.
SCIENTIFIC IMPOSTORS.
Of all the quacks and frauds -which
* afflict the world the most despicable is
that class * hich plays upon the cred
ulity of the ignorant by means of pre
tensions to superior knowledge and
' scientific attainments. Nebraska is
not without her share of these impostors
pesters who neet in a so called
Academy of Sciences , and read papers
' ; stolen bodily from Chamber's Ency-
1 clopedia , or clipped from the files of
the Popular Science Monthly. But
for cheeky impudence one Prof. ( T )
; Paigewho hails from Council Bluffs ,
' ' is entitled to the grand medal ? This
impudent fraud , whose knowledge of
jscience is less than that of the
ordinary graduate from our High
School , is now unblushingly air-
. ing--his ignorance from the lecture
platform , and drawing forecasts of
dreadful disasters from ihe conjunc
tion of the planets winch would make
Missouri."f
an astrologer of the Dark Ages green
with envy. According to the Council
Bluffs Nonpareil , in a recent lecture ,
Prof. ( ? ) Paige , "by the aid of a 300-
feet canvas , illustrated the paths and
positions of the planets at the present
time , describing the peculiar detrimen
tal effects on the earth , and showing
. the remedies and precautions to bo ob-
erved to avoid danger as
far aa possible , " while he
succeeded in convincing , a large audi
ence that the lecture gave "marked
evidence of considerable preparation ,
51 deep research and a knowledge of and
interest in the subject matter which
added much to its success and appro-
" % ' [ iation bythose who--braved the
Cl 'threatening ' storm and listened to it. "
There was a time when people could
be excused for listening to such shal
low nonsense. In those dayajloarning
_ was confined to the few , and ignor-
P v once and credulity were the posses
sion of the many. But in this ago
when a nine-years-old child is taughi
that a comet is not a sure sign
-of bloodshed and wars , thai
' * 'persons born under Saturn
1' - are BS likely to succeed .in life as those
upon whoso birthday * Mars was in the
ascendant and that the signs of the
Zodiac have about ] as much influence
IO v upon.ih'b affairs of men aa the fabled
' - Jlan in the Moon , tve are amazed that
anybody even in the venerable town
of Council Blufis should sit in a hall
for ten "minutes and listen to such stuff
without hooting the bogus scientist out
of the house. Nebraska's homesteaders
oan't bo duped BO easily by men who
see tilings darkly through a glass. Up
iu St Helena ) Dixqg county , the ques
tion of the effect of the conjunction of
the planets upon the earth came up
.in discussion. The disputants agreed
to leave the settlement the question
to Prof. Charles A. Young , the
most eminent authority on
f the sun and planets in Amer
ica , an author of wide European
reputation and a distinguished mem
ber of the National Academy of
; * Sciences and Foreign Associate of the
Royal Astronomical Society of Great
. . . Bqiain. The following reply was re
ceived to their communication :
PBINCEIOK , N. J- March 28,1881.
DEAB. SIR : It is true that Saturn ,
Jupiter and Venus are near conjunc
tion and T. near its perhelion. _ But
they have no influence whatever of
any sort on the earth. The nonsense
talked about the matter is worthy of
the dark ages. Two tom-cats .fighting
in the streets of Peking will disturb
* . , the world more than all imaginable
planetary conjunctions. Yours
_ _ 0. A. Yorao.
.Possibly Prof. ( ? ) Paige lias greater
familiarity with thr "malign influ
ences" of the planets and the atmos
pheric distemper that is supposed to
be communicated to mortals in this
globe by the rings of Saturn than a
Chaldean sago or a Gypsy queen ,
jio room for his
profound f learning .in this section
of * the""country ? If he should
happen to cross the river and
moot-one of-our own great scientists
he TOuld j > robablyl repeat the scene
described by the Bxman satirist who
. declared that two augurs could not
\ ' ' ' -HHMJtjjin the streets of Borne without
laughing in each others faces. We
we'convincedthat thecplace for
, , , Prof ( ? ) Paige and men of his class , is
on the 'tank ' * of the Ganges -or Eu
phrates and not on the shores of the
Maddy Missouri.
"f KJWA-Va NEBRASKA , * . „ . _ ;
.Emigration to Western and-North
western Iowa this spring has assuuiei
proportions by no means inconsidera
bl6. More than injbrmer years pec
pie are becoming impressed witi th
fact thai Iowa is in many moKrsense
than one a far better state fo
the farmer , mechanic and la
borer , than either Kansas o
febraslca. The disadvantages inci
dent to a beginning on the fron
ier are not experienced in Iowa as ii
Kansas and Nebraska. lowa has m
waste , arid bands , such as constitut
about two-thirds of the area of Ne
braska. She seldom experiences any
'thing like even a partial' failure o
crops as do Kansas and Nebraska , o :
an average of two out of every fou
years , either by drouth , by ravages b ;
grasshoppers , or both at once. Eithe
one of the eighth or ninth congres
sional districts of Iowa con
tarns greater agricultural re
source than the entire state of Ne
braska , and to say nothing of the ad
vantage of proximity to market , ant
better railroad facilities , superiority o
schools , church associations , etc. Tin
very face of the country must recom
mend itself to the careful and disin
terested observer as far more invitinj
than the flat and dreary , monotonou
landscape of Nebraska. With nearly j
million and three-quarters people cov
ering 55,000 square miles of land ii
her limits unsurpassed in the grea
northwest for richness , she welcome
the immigrate who will help to swel
her population to two and a half mil
lions in 1890 , and bids them welcom
with the assurance that she can wel
find room for more than ten million
of happy , prosperous people. [ Coun
cil Bluffs Nonpareil. '
We have no disposition to disparag
the great etate of Iowa , nor have w
any desire to divert immigration fron
its fertile soilWo do , however , re
sent the attempt to belittle and dwar
the state of Nebraska by glaring mis
representations. Iowa does undoubted
ly contain a great deal more arabl
land than Nebraska or Kansas , bu
no lands in the state of Iowa cai
match in fertility the great bed ;
of lands in the Missouri Rive
Valley , nor has she any grazing regioi
that will equal the valley of the Platte
Partial failures of crops have occurred
in some sections of Iowa periodically
just as they occur in some sections o
every other state in the west. Ti
eighteen years grasshoppers have ap
peared but twice in Nebraska , and ii
the very same years in which Ne
braska was scouraged a largi
part of Iowa and Minnesota
suffered from the same cause. The si
called arid lands of Nebraska are fo :
the most part pasture or grazing land
which already support more live stocl
than Iowa now contains. In Iowa ai
well as in Nebraska stock raising ii
more profitable than the growing o :
grain , and Nebraska is far superior t <
Iowa as a stock raising country. Ai
to the advantages of Iowa Ii
the way of markets , the writei
evidently ignores the facl
that Nebraska has a great market in
the West which Iowa does not possess.
As to schools , churches and railways ,
Nebraska certainly affords as great
advantages , according to her popula
tion , as any State in the Union. The
schools of Nebraska are fully equal to
those ofIowa or any other State in
the West and her churches and
benevolent associations are of the
best. The best evidence that Ne
braska has been misrepresented by the
Council Bluffs paper , from" which we'
quote , is the fact that a very large per
centage of the people of Nebraska
have emigrated from Iowa. They
lived in Iowa many years , canio over
into Nebraska to examine into her ad
vantages , and , after n careful investi
gation , reached the conclusion that it
was profitable for them to change lo
cations. Some of the most wealthy
fanners in Nebraska hail from Iowa.
They sold their farms there for a big
round sum and bought cheaper and
better lands here , and have
now farms worth more money
than those they left. This stream oi
immigration continues from year to
year , and it will continue in the fu
ture. People who have come here
after years of experience have induced
their friends to follow them. And
this is the beet proof that Nebraska is
not the God forsaken country that the
man across the river would persuade
people that it is.
AN interesting document published
by the census bureau gives the dis
tribution of population by latitude
and longitude. In 1880 , as in 1870 ,
the line dividing the population of the
country into two equal halves north
md south lay within a few miles of
the 40th parallel In 1870 , 50 per
sent of the population lay north and
50 per cent south ; in 1880 , 48.0 per
: ent lay north and 51.5 per cent
louth ; the slight movement south
jeing due tothe relative growth of
lie southern states. This parallel
uns a ross southern New Jersey and
Pennsylvania-and is only half a de
gree above Mason and Dixon's line.
: n 1870 , a little more than half , 52.8
> er cent , lay east of the 83d meridian ;
low a little less than half , 49.5 per
nt , lie east of the same line ; so slow
sthe march westward. Taking the
ountry by strips , east and west , and
he greatest relative growth , 1G9 per
ent , from 1870 to 1880 , lias been in
he most northern strip of all , between
he 48th and 49th degree of latitude ,
lecause. at its western end it includes
Vashington territory. The greatest
bsolute growth , 1,683,099 , is in the
trip between the 40th and 41st de-
Tees , across Pennsylvania , Ohio , In-
lana and Illinois. In strips north
nd south , the belt between the 99th
nd 100 meridian has grown most rap-
Uy , 912 per cent , and any one who
> oks at the map will see that this belt
cross Kansas , Nebraska and Texas is
do beach'line of the western immigra-
ion in the last ten years. The larg-
st absolute growth , 629,730 , la in the
orth and south strip lying between
tie 73d and 74th meridian.
SIR EDWARD THORNTON , the Brit-
ih minister at Washington , lias been
ppointed ambassador to Russia. Sir
Jdward's-kindly services had much to
o with a-peaceful settlement of the
Llabama question.
Nonnxo short of sixteen of Prof. ( ? )
'aige's conjunctions of the planets ,
aur earthquakes , with a couple of
iroccos and monsoons thrown in , can
hock Omaha's flood tide of pros-
BT order of Governor Gear , the
lemorjof ex-Governor Briggs was
ppropriately honored hist Friday in
tes J oinea by. the firing of half-hour
ons throughout the day.
"Br river to the sea" is the future
lotto of Western producers.
* . ASSESSMENTS.
The Petition of York County ix
the State Board of Equaliz
ation.
Aurora Republican , May 0.
Monday morning , in company wit ]
Commissioner Huling , we took ou
way to the capital city for the purposi
of meeting with the State Board o
Equalization , who-meet for the pur
pose of making the assessment 01
railroad property of the state of Ne
braska.
Upon arriving at Lincoln , we fount
there was a misunderstanding as tx
the time the board met : .it Imvinj
been published for Monday , Ma
2nd , but the board politely in
formed us they would not meet un
til Nednesday , May 4th , and then ,
that they might bo in session for ter
days before the assessments could b (
completed. Of course , this was
stunner , but not the least daunted bj
it , we began to cast about us for tht
best tiling to be done under these
rather discouraging circumstances.
Through the kindness of Mr. Eaton
editor of the "Lincoln Globe we wen
enabled to find Hon. S. V. Moore , oi
York county , having previously rur
across commissioner G. H : Buingard
ner of Fillmore county , who had beer
sent here by their respective counties
for the same purpose tha coinmis'
sioncr Huling had been sent fron
Hamilton county.
The board , consisting of Gov ,
Nance , Treasurer Bartlet and Auditoi
Wallichs , would grant us a hearing
the next morning at 10 o'clock. Thai
evening we learned that other coun
ties would be represented during the
week , but found it would be almost
impossible for us to meet them on ac
count of time'so we had a talk , de
dded to enter our protest'against sc
low an assessment of railroad propertj
this year as the one made in 1880 , am
selected Hon. S. V. Moore to prepan
and present to the board some of the
reasons why our people think railroad
property ought to bo valued for taxa
tion th e same as other propertj' .
Tuesday morning we mot the statt
board at the capitol , where we wen
received in duo form , after whicl
Mr. Moore addressed tha board , say >
ing :
Mr. Chairman and m < .mlxra : of. the State Bean
of Equalization :
The tax payers of York county f ullj
believing that railroad property has in
the past been assessed too low , espe
cially in the year 1880 , the board oi
county commissioners of York county ,
and these gentlemen present , who an
authorized to represent Hamilton and
Fillmore counties , have duly appoint
ed mo to appear before tliis honorable
board to advise and urge an assess
ment of railroad property that will
compel it to bear its just proportion
of the burdens of taxation. While
speaking before you in behalf of the
people and being actuated by nothing
more or less than a sense of justice. J
do not want to be understood as im
pugning the motives of any railroad
officer or of this honorable board , but
realizing tliat we are all more or less
liable to error in judgment and that
correct reasoning depends upon a cor
rect premises , I wish to give some oi
the seasons why the people dissent
from the past siction of tliis honorable
board. There might be many facts
.and figures given to show why railroad
property should be assessed higher
but no doubt the members of this
honorable board are conversant
with these facts and figures having
sought the information necessary to a
faithful discharge of their duty , there
fore we - ill merely notice a few ofjho
premises occupied by the board in the
past , to which the people take excep
tions. The people understand that
the state board of equalization and the
historyjof the railroad property hold
the same relations , as to their duties ,
as that of the precinct assessor and
the liater of other property of the
state. The law makes it the duty of
the railroads or their agents to make a
return to the state board of equaliza
tion , to fix a valuation upon that prop
erty equal with the assessed valuation
of other property in the state ;
anything that effects the value
of other property in the state
for the purpose of assessment sliould
in like manner affect railroad property
in assessment , nothing more or less.
If so , the reason given by the board
of equalization for a decrease in value
of railroad property in 1880 as com
pared w ith that of 1877 is not just aa
compared with other property in the
state , for we donot make the per cent ,
of property a basis of assessment. A
farm may bring ite owner ten percent ,
on capital invested one year , owing tea
a favorable season , it may not bring
two per cent. , or may result in a per
cent of loss , yet it does not affect the
assessed valuation of the farm. Again
two contigious farms equal in natural
advantages , both in a state of tillage ,
one controlled with foresight and abil
ity , managed with economy , driven by
industry , will pay its owner ten per
cent , on capital invested. The other
farm managed with the absenceof thcae
essentials to success , may not bring
its owner one per cent. , yet it does
not affect its assessed valuation. The
improvtBiient l > oing equal , the two
farms are for the purpose of taxation
valued the same per acre.
Again , a merchant may own the
real estate on which ho lives and
transacts business , and the purchasing
power of the consumers of merclian-
dise may be so weakened by a failure
of crops for a season , which paralyzes
business of all kinds to a greater or
less extent , that he may not be able
to realize two per cent , on his capital
invested , yet this does not affect the
value of his property for the purpose
of taxation. Again , a mechanic may
own the house in which he lives , and
because of depression in business fron
some cause he may not be able to ob
tain work at any price , yet this does
not affect the assessed valuation of his
house.
Now , while one specie of property
subject to assessment is engaged in
producing articles for consumption ,
the other is engaged in distributing
these productions to the consumer ;
md if production fail , commerce must
suffer unless she seek to make good
her loss by exacting higher rates for
transportation , still further oppress
ing production and consumption and
wherever commerce does this , if there
is a difference made in valuation , that
property possessing tliis great advan
tage of making good its losses from
the wealth of others , should be
ralued the highest and whether
transportation avail herself of the
idvantage she possesses / > r not , no
sane mind will attempt to deny.but
jnder the present condition of things
they are powerless 4n the hands of
jommerce , in the distribution of pro-
luce and articles of manufacture to
the consumer. The one may bo com
pelled to pay two prices foreverything
Jiey need , and the other forced to
sell at half cost of production , rather
; han lose all. Justice demands that
property possessing undue advant-
iges should be made at least , to bear
ts full share of the public burden.
[ t matters not whether property is
raluod high or low , but tliat we have
in equal assess * ! valuation , that all
) roperty may be made to furnish its
ust proportion of the revenue
iccessary to support good state ,
sounty and municipal governments.
The amount of revenue necessary
xjing fixed , a uniform low or high
raluatiou can only increase or do-
irease the per cent , of taxation on all
iroperty alike. But when a specie of
> roperty possessing , through its un-
iuuted power of taxation of allindus-
ry , that ability to fix the real valua-
ion of all other property , seeking to
ivoid by a low valuation its just share
if the public burden , it becomes a
pave question , and the only way to
.rrivo at a just and equal assessment
if all property is to subject all to the
amo rule in fixing its valuation. . ,
If one-half of the market or cash
alue is the rule'then apply it to all
like. If one-third of the market
alue is the rule then follow it If a
farm is worth In the markejt $12 , pei
acre , then assess at § 4.00. If anothei
has improvements to increase its valw
to § 15 , then assess at $5. If its loca
tion or nearness to market give it ad
vantages.that will increase its markei
value to § 30 per acre then assess it al
§ 10 per acre.
If a railroad is worth in the market
§ 24,000 per mile , then assess it ai
§ 8000 per mile. If from moi-e sub
stantial construction and better mater
ial , its market value is $30,000'pei
mile then value it at § 10,000 peronilo.
If having superior equipments and sc
favorable a location that a greatei
amount of freight passes over its line
making its net earnings large thus add
ing a value to its franchise and in
creasing its value to § 60,000 per mile
and it cannot bo bought for less in the
market , then value it for the purpose
of taxation at § 20,000 per mile. A
feeder or short line railroad owned
and operated by a main line or road
will collect just as much freight as the
same number of miles of the main line ,
therefore in that respect equally val
uable ; the increase value of each on
account of connection with each other
is reciprocal.
As wo understand it , it is the duty
of the assessors to inform himself .13
to the cash or market * value of the
property ho is called upon to assess ,
it being the duty of the owner , or his
agent to report under oath the amount
kind and quality of property , and the
assessor fixes the value , each being ac
countable under the law for a faithful
discharge of their duty. *
In like manner it is the duty of the
corporation or their agent , to report
the amount , kind and quality of their
property , being amenable to the law
for a truthful statement , and it is the
duty of the board of equalization to
place a proper value on the same as re
ported. A low rate of valuation of
railroad property in other states has
Been pointed out or referred to in jus
tification of our own , this is wrong un
less taken in comparison with other
property of those states. If Iowa saw
tit to assess higher in some cases and
in others lower than wo do and Kan
sas higher in every case , yet it
might be that the assessment of rail
road property in those states were
more equal , with the assessed valua
tion of other property taken into con
sideration than ours now are. If not ,
and Iowa officials permitted themselves
tobeblinded by sophistry and swerved
from duty by improper motives , it is
no just reason why we should blindly
follow their footsteps without first in
vestigating.
Wo are not here to advise or urge
this honorable board to do that which
they believe after mature deliberation
to be wrong ; but people knowing that
the railroads liave their well
paid attorneys , whoso ser
vices are valued according to
their ability to make money fet their
employes , and that they have sought
in the past to make money for these
corporations by seeking to obtain at
the linnda of thia honorable board , so
low assessed valuation of their
property , that the people believe it to
be far below that of other property of
the state.
Mr. Huling then said : I shall not
attempt to add anything to what luis
already been said by Mr. Moore , only
that the people of Hamilton county
will expect from tliis board a valua
tion of railroad property for taxable
purposes , equal in all respects to that
placed upon other property for the
same purpose , and they will be very
apt to hold this board respon
sible for the faithful and hon-
at performance of that duty.
Mr. Bumgardner said : Filmore
county only asks that railroads bear a
just proportion of the public burdens ,
and they appeal to you gentlemen for
that protection which you alone can
give or withhold.
In closing the argument in behalf of
the people for a just assessment of
railroad property we recited the facts
heretofore set forth in these columns
to the effect that "ten j-ears ago rail
roads , in this state , were assessed at
about § 12,000 ] > er mile , but that in
1880 , while their property was worth
tw ice as much as ten years ago , the
same roads were assessed atonly about
§ 9000 per mile. That these roads cost
from § 30,000 to § 40,000 per mile ,
and that they would sell any time
for from § 75,000 to § 100,000 per mile ,
which ought to be a pretty good basis
for an assessment valuation. That
this property ought not to be assessed
at less than its cost , it ought to be
valued for taxable purposes .as other
property , which is about one-third its
cash value , wliich would fix a valua
tion for taxable purposes at about § 14- ,
000 pur mile. " Tliis statement brought
out a vigorous cross fire from the
members of that honorable body ,
which plainly indicates the position
they assume and the necessity of a de
fense of that position.
Thus has ended the first effort over
made in the state of Nebraska in this
direction ; but it will not be the last ,
unless relief , ample and permanent ,
be forthcoming.
STATE JOTTINQa
John Hill , living near Admah , Burt
county , hung himself last week in hi ;
stable.
Fairmont has organized a businesi
men's association.
Mrs. Strohm , of Gosper county
planted over 2500 fruit and fores
trees on Arbor day.
A libel suit for § 5,000 has been in
stituted against The York Tribune bj
the county treasurer of York county
for alleged slander.
The house of A. J. Wagner , nin
miles from Oakland , was struck by
lightning last week. The family e *
caped.
Lincoln police are enforcing the
street cleaning law.
The license of T. H. Tibblea as elder
was revoked by the last Omaha pres
bytery.
Jos. Jack , jr. , living near Co
lumbus , was run over by a
plow last week , the point
entering on his left side , cutting his
ung and causing his kidney and spleen
: o protrude from his body. He was
iving at last accounts.
Pawnee City's Christian congrega-
; ion will commence the erection of
; heir new church next week.
Mr. W. H. Jameson , of Geneva , re
vived severe injuries from being
itruck with the thills of a dump cart.
[ Vo of his ibs were fractured.
Peter KlanscliiandMichael O'Herno ,
.wo fanners living near Duncan , have
uid a feud of several weeks standing
> ver the possession of a strip of land.
Chree affrays have taken place be
ween them , the last culminating last
* eekwhen O'Herne attacked Klans-
: hi with a knife and stabbed him
burteen times. He will recover.
Crete's council requiring a license
if § 250 until Juno 1st , all the saloons
lave closed.
I. P. Olive has returned to Plum
3reek from Texas.
A man by the name of Lee suicided
, t Edgar last week by hanging , him-
elf in his barn. It seems he went to
he barn , took the rope from the
torse's neck , climbed up on a wagon
rheel , fastened one end of the rope to
, rafter and the other around his neck
Jid jumped off , the fall breaking his
icck. His wife , seeing the horse
ome from the barn alone , went out to
ee what was the matter , and found
am dead : No cause for the deed is
nown.
Sheep are selling in Polk county for
5 per head.
Osceola school district voted bonds
a the amount of § 3500 for a new
: heel house.
Daniel McKenzie , who attempted to
omrnit suicide last November at
[ enesaw , has developed into a raging
laniac and has been sent to the in-
uie asylum.
Madison has three churches and two
iloons.
Garden seeds are in poor supply at
iiobrara.
The Dakota City Argus says tliatj
§ 50 an acrd-will bo the rub'ng prica fo
the best farms of Dakota county be
fore another year. Within five year
it > , thiriks the price will advance to $7i
per acre.
ThoJittle daughter of-John Bocken
hauer , of LaPorte , was bitten -by i
rattlesnake , but recovered.
Wheat stands four to five inche
liigh in the Republican valley.
fWm. B. Whitney , the young mai
accused of infanticide at Cambridge
was acquitted . last . week. . _
r ia > jA-j.a m T _ : * x * ? * V
Alma is to have pottery and tilt
works. Clay in the vicinity is said t <
be excellent for the purpose.
Seward wants a landlord for he :
new "hotel.
The contract for Fremont's nev
creamery haa been let for the sum o
§ 10,000.
A proposition for bonds of § 3,00 (
will soon be submitted to vote a ;
Bloomington for bridge purposes.
Estimates for running Fremont' ;
city government for next year foot uj
§ 5,500.
Probably 300,000 forest trees wil
be put out in the neighborhood oi
Fairfield this spring.
About.40,000 acres will bo put ink
wheat in Hamilton county this year.
The seeding is more than half done.
Hundreds of sheep are beingbroughi
into Gage county.
A. Heslope , of Sherman county , hat
his leg broken below the knee by r
kick from one of his horses.
The Ponca coal Company will begli ;
sinking their shaft down to co.al a ;
soon as the weather is settled.
L. A. Bates , of Sarpy Centre , will
sliip from South Bend over 20,00 (
trees or cuttings , to Furnaa county , tr
be planted on his timber claim by i
farmer living near.
The contracts for building the now
U. P. shops at Grand Island , 1ms beer
awarded to St. Louia parties.
Work will commence immediately
on the railroad extension from Plain-
view to Creighton.
The now railroad bridge at TJlyssea ,
is finished at last , and trains are run
ning to Columbus.
George Meisner , near Sheldon , h
putting in fourteen hundred acres ol
"wheat and two hundred acres of corn
this season. Thirty-fivo teams aru
doing the work.
Charlie Moss , formerly of Ciete , U
an exhibitor at the Paris Salon.
Lord Scully , of London , England ,
will soon colonize his land in jJSTuck-
ells county with people from his coun
try. Ho owns about 18,000 acres in
Hardy precinct.
Crete contributed § 150 to the Da
kota sufferers.
The Blair hog thieves were fined
§ 50 and costa.
A largo number of locations have
been made on Beaver creek , Furnaa
county , thia spring.
Polk county has organized a Bible
society.
The University cadets will visit
Omaha on May 14th.
.The body of one Charles Hunter , of
Tccumseh , was found recently in the
Nemaha river. The coroner's jury
rendered n verdict of suicide.
The elevator of B. F. Stilly , at Exe
ter , was destroyed by fire last week.
Loss , § 2,400 ; covered by insurance ) .
A county alliance w ill bo organized
at Geneva on May 14th by the local
alliances of Fillmore county.
An addition is being sun-eyed to the
town of Niobiara.
A tree planting inani.i has struck
Red Cloud and hundreds of trees are
being planted.
Niobrara , was overrun Ity a b.iml of
80 plundering Poncas , last week.
A circulating library is established
at Arapohoc , beginning with two hun
dred volumes.
During the spring there will bo .a
laige immigration fioin Franklin coun
ty to the Gunnison country.
Nelson is organizing a brass band.
Never perhaps in the history of
Nuckolls county has the outlook been
better than at this time and the pros
pect for bounteous crops is a splendid
one.
Stroinsburg has voted § 2000 in
bonds for a new school house.
Cambridge's new hotel is rapidly approaching
preaching completion.
A Lancaster county fanner has just
finished planting 1800 hills of sweet
corn , 3300 hills of potatoes , 000 hills
of peanuts , 240 hilla of watermelons ,
120 lulls of muskmelons , 240 hills of
tomatoes , and 3CO hills of sweet-
potatoes.
EXPERIMENTS IN TEMPERANCE.
A SUGGESTION THAT IOWA TRY THE
HIO1I LICENSE.
DCS Maliws Rej ster.
There is evidently a growing feeling -
ing in Iowa in favor of the temper
ance regulation enacted in Nebraska
the present winter , which is a severe
fonn of license law. Saloons in town :
of a thousand people are compelled tx
pay one thousand dollars license ,
is argued that thia form of regulation
will get rid of dens and holes , am"
rotten or poisonous whiskies , and
that it will put the saloons in charge
of men who are financially responsible ,
ind so can bo reached by the compan
ion law making saloon-keepers liabl
to pay damages for making drunkards
> f men , and beggars of their wives and
children.
Tliere is something in this , and bet
; er than all , it is an experiment in a
lew direction , and any experiment ii :
; his intricate field is to be welcomed
md entertained , until like hundreds
> f other experiments in the same field
t is thoroughly tested and found to
> e a failure , or but half way a success ,
! fo proposition in this matter ia to b <
lespised , since the question of do
ireasing the great business of drunk
, rd-making stands as far from solution
o-day aa it did in the days when it
lumbered Noah , the patriarch , as one
f its victims. The one great strength
f the theory or proposition of totv
iroliibition , is in the hope rather than
ti the belief that it may prove success-
ill. Thousands and thousands of mei
rould vote for it , not because they bt
ievo in It fully , but because they
rould be willing to try any and every-
liing that has in it the promise of
; qod. They would see it tried. They
ealize that ( ill other plans have failed ,
nd they are w illing to see this one
riud.
riud.No
No doubt this class of people hold
he balance of power hi Iowa to-day.
Ve" believe tliat a law forbidding
lie sale as a beverage of everything
liat makes drunk come , ihey would
ote to try' it If it sliould fail in
caching the heart of the great evil ,
s we believe it would unless public
sntiment should advance with it , the
nme people would the next year be
rilling to try the high license or
ome other theory. The trouble la
j-day that we have far more law on
lis question than we have public
iiithnent to sustain it.
There ia in Iowa even now enough
f law , if it had -aggressive public
jntiment back of it to enforce it , to
mt up every saloon in the state. We
ave , first , all alcoholic liquors ban
ned by state law ; and if public santi-
lent were abreast of the law in every
jmraunity , not a drop of such liquor
mid be sold in the state. Besides
iis , we have a law giving to every
mimunity in the state the option and
10 power to prohibit all other ao-
illed intoxicating drinks , including
e , Trine and beer. Further than
iis we have the law making the saloon
jeper and the property he is in re-
Ktnsible for the drunkards he makes ,
ieaven knows we have law enough in
> wa now , if law will bring what ia
anted : if only we had public senti
ent to enforce it. But to accom-
ish anything in this world , an ounce
1 public sentiment is worth ten
n thousand pounds of law. * This is
16 power behind the throne , and on
.e throne ; it is the throne. It is thia
dich must be reached.
Having BO much law , and so little
public sentiment to enforce it , make
intelligent men fear that still more Ja ?
in tub same direction , and no mor
sentiment , would only result in stil
more conspicuous failure ; but for ou :
part we are willing.to try itnot be
cause we have entire faitMt will sue
ceed , but because the havoc of drunk
enneaa goes on under the present sys
tern of regulation , and bccause"s (
many good people believe that thii
stronger method , would succeed , anc
so- ' many others would-liko to try it
All tlieso people are necessary to anj
good temperance worko and so wi
°
want them all kepi in the teniporanci
ranks. If this project , when tried
shall fail , they will then be willing te
try something else.
For these reasons we are willing tc
see the proposed amendment , if it
does not prohibit the total manufac
ture of alcoholic liquors in the state
fairly tried. If it doea prohibit manu
facture for export or for sale for othei
purpoaes than a beverage , we are op
posed to it , and so wo believe will be
the great body of the people of Iowa.
Iowa ia not yet one-sixth in cultiva
tion , and already wo are wondering
what to do with our com crop. Culti
vate the other five-sixths , and then
apply the close cultivation of the old
countries , and \ve aliall have twentj
such lowas aa we have to-day ,
producing twenty times aa much
corn ; and what could we
do with it then , -all in { the
the actual grain or com ? Wo must ,
to sell it to the world , make it into
the shape in which the world wants it.
We must condense it in order to get
it to far away markets , which will use
it in one shape but not in others. We
can sell at the Mediterranean porta
very little corn aa corn , but aa alcohol
we can aell milliona of dollars' worth
of it annually. In South America we
can sell hardly any of our Iowa com ,
but in the fonn of alcohol wo can and
do sell much of it. One distillerin
Dea Moines sold last year in South
America hundreds of thousands of
dollars'- worth of Iowa com in the
form of alcohol , which waa there made
into vaniish. So on over the whole
world.
But this ia a diversion. We were
writing of something by which Iowa
might lessen the amount of drunken
ness in the state. If we could shut all
the saloons in Iowa , which so many
thousands of good people think would
prove the heaven of all temperance re
forms , and give it a thorough trial ,
and that too should prove a failure ,
then we could try something else , and
perhaps the high license idea would
bo the next best experiment.
There is only one sure method to
discover whether an article is worth
anything or not , and that is to try it.
Mr. Walter B. Gardner , Foreman
American Steam Gauge Co. , No. 30
Chardon St. , Boston , Mass. , did thia
with .a popular preparation and ob
serves : The St. Jacobs Oil has been
uae among the employees of thia
company , who have been burnt and
injured working among the machinery ,
and it never failed to euro them. I
can highly recommend it.
Almost Crazy.
How often do we see the hardwork
ing f.ither straining every nerve and
muscle , and doing hia utmost to sup
port his family. Imagine hia feelings
when returning home from a hard
day's labor , to find liia family proatrate
with disease , conscious of unpaid doc
tors' bills and debts on every hand.
It must be enough to drive onu almost
crazy. All his iinhappiness could be
avoided by using Electric Bitters ,
which expel every disease from the
system , bringing joy and happiness to
thousands. Sold at fifty cents a bottle
tle by Ish it McMiihon. (4) ( )
GREATEST REMEDY KNOWN.
Dr. King's New Discovery for Con
sumption IB certainly thu greatest
medical remedy ever placed within the
reach of suffering humanity. Thou
sands of once helpless sufferers , now
loudly proclaim their praise for this
wonderful discovery to which they
owe their lives. Not only doea it posi
tively cure Consumption , but Coughs ,
Colds , Asthma , Bronchitis , Hay
Fever , Hoarseness and all affections of
the Throat , Chest and Lunga yields
at once to its wonderful curative pow
er as if by magic. We do not ask you
to buy a large bottle unless you know
what you ase getting. We therefore
e.micstly request you to call on your
druggists , ISH & McMAuox , and fjet a
trial bottle free of cost which will con
vince the most skeptical of its wonder
ful merits , and show you what a regu
lar one dollar size bottle will do. Fo
sale by Ish it McMalion. (4) ( )
Great German
REMEDY
FOR
NEURALGIA ,
SCIATICA
LUMBAGO ,
BACKACHE
GOUT
QnnitliD
SORENESS
or THE
CHEST ,
SORE THROAT
QUINSY ,
SWELLINGS
SPRAINS ,
FROSTED FEET
JXD
EARS.
iL'lll
OEITT3E . ra
JLKU
SCALDS ,
GENERAL"
BODILY PIS ,
TOOTH , EAR
AND
HEADACHE ,
All other Pains
A3O
ACHES.
No Prer rition < " > rth equals St. Jicou OIL u
. sirr. scut , 3IV7LC aid cuiAr External ItemeJ/ .
L tri l tnUiIi but the confaratirtltrifljog outl j of
0 CEXTS. and eTtr/ona infTtriaff witlt paia cm bi
heap and positive proof of IU claims.
DIBICTIOXS M XLZTK.X UXGC1GZ3.
010 BT AIL 08UDQISTS AND DEALERS IN MEDICINE.
A. VOGELER & CO.
Jlaltitnorc. 3fd. , U. S.JL.
. Vn CiMP , M. D. B. L. Stoeivs , U I ) .
Meal and Surgical
INSTITUTE.
° Pen'orthe
c reception of pa-
cute for the TREATMENT of ALL CHRONIC
id SURGICAL DISEASES.
) rs. Van Camp & Siggins ,
Physicians Surgeons ,
PROPRIETORS.
ODD FELLOWS' BLOCK ,
O Ii
rr o o
IE. 14m AND DODOI STBZOT , wlllctllcl.
The Oldest Established -
BANKING HOUSE
*
IN NEBRASKA. *
Caldwell , Hamilton & Co.
Budnraa tnntrei.tvd name as tliat of an incor
poratcd uank.
Accounts kept In currency or tfold lubjett to
debt check without notit * - . n
Certificate * of dejio.it Unued payable In three
sir and twelre months , bearing interest , or on
demand without Interest. ' "
Adranccs made to customer ! ou approved wu
ritles at market rated of Interest.
Buy and sell ( fold , billi of exchange , t-OTeni
mcnt , state , county nd city bond *
Draw sight drafts on England , Ireland , Scot
land , and all parts of Europe.
Sell European passage tickets.
COLLECTIONS PROMPTLY HADE.
aujfldt
United States Depository.
NationalBank
1 OMAHA.
Cor. 13th and Farnum Sts.
OLDEST BANKING ESTABLISHMENT IN
OUAIIA.
SUCCESSORS TO KOUNTZE BROTHERS. )
KaTABUSUID 1S50.
OrvaalieJ u a. National Bank August iO , 15 < U
CAPITAL AND PROFITS OTKR - S300.000
8pe Iallj authorized by the Sitrttnrj of Tien-
ur ) to reeeire subscription * to the
UNITED STATES
4 Per Cent. Funded Loan.
orncsaa AKD DIREOTURB :
HIKJIIN KocjiTis , President.
AcoreiUH Kocvnz , Vice President.
II. VT. YATIU , Cashier.
A. J. POPMJTTOM , Attorney.
JOBS A. CRPIOHTO't.
F. H DiTW , At. Cmhior
This bank reel-lies deposiU w Ithout regiml to
amounts.
Iwues time certificates bearing Intvrt.it.
Drawi drafts on San Francisco and printiixU
miee of the United Statea , alto London , Dublin ,
Edinburgh and the principal Uties of theeontl
nent of Europe.
Sells ptuwenger tickets for migrants In tht > Ill-
man hni. umvhltf
DexterL.Thomas&Bro ,
WILL BUY AND SELL
AID ALL TR1&9JLCTIOM1
CONXECTBD TIIEHKWITH.
Pay Taxes , Eent Houses , Eto.
17 TOD WA1.T TO BTT OK 1Z1.L
Call at OlHie , Hootn S. CreLthtou Blocfe , Oiu ha
_ apSiltt
If etoask Land Agency
DAVIS & SNYDER ,
1 505 Farnham St. , . . . Omaha , Nebraska.
Carefully ( elected land in Eastern Nebrrstafor
eal . Great Bargains in Improved forms , and
Omaha dty property.
O. A. DAVIS. W EBbTER SNYDEII
Late Land Com'r U. P. E. R. 4p-febTtf
BTKOX REED. LEV IS KfcKD
BYRON. REED & CO. ,
OLDEST eaTABUSllLIl
Eeal Estate Agency
IN NEBRASKA.
Keep a complete atfetraf t of title to all Rial
Eetate in Onmha and DouRlas county. niRyltf
AND STILL THE LION
CONTINUES TO
Roar for Moores ( )
Harness
AND Saddlery.
CD
I hare adopted the Lion tu n. Trade Hark , an
ullniy ( roods -Bill bo STAMPED with the L1O
ind my NAME on the same. NO GOODS Alt
GENUINE WITHOIT THE ABOVE STAMPS
The best material Is tiled anil the most-killc
workmen are employed , and at the lowest cos
price. Anjonc wishing a price hit of goods i
confer a faior by tending for one
DAVID SMITH MOORE.
Business College ,
THE GREAT WESTERN
QEO. R. RATH BUN , Principal.
Creighton Block ,
3MAHA , . . NEBRASKA
jarSend for Circular. noT2 IAn t
M. R. RISDOM ,
Groneral Insurance Agent
REPRESENTS :
'IKENIX ASSURANCE CO , of Lon
don. CIdh AasetK JsnoT.-
VEHTCUESTER , N. V , Capital 1,000.000
PHE MERCHANTS , of Ne aak , > . J 1,000,00. .
JIRARD FIRE. Philadelphia , Capital l.OOO.OOC
CORTHWEbTERN NATIONAL.Cvi.ital BOO.OOr
1KEME.VU FUND. CalifoiiiU 800,001
IRITIbH AMERICA AfabURANCE CO. I.SUU.UDi
lEWARK FIRE INS. CO. . A * ct bOO.OO
AMERICAN CENTRAL , A'seU 600,0 *
Southeast t'oc. of Fifteenth and DoiiL-Ian St. ,
OUAIIA. NLB
J. G. RUSSELL M. D.
. . , . . ,
2OMCEPATHIO PHYSICIAN.
of Children and Charonlc Disease ) *
pecialty. Office at Residence , ! & 09 C us street
lours a to 10 a m. , 1 to 1 \ > m. , and after 6 p
i. _ _ nplIdSin
J. R. Mackey ,
DENTIST ,
Corner 13th and Douglas Sts , Onmha , Nib.
dcts Reasonable ap32 2w
John G. Jacobs ,
( Formerly of Giih & Jacobs , )
JNDERTAKER.
o. mT'famham St. , Old Stand of Jacob GIj.
X3"Order8 bjr Telegraph bollottd p27-ly
L f , MM , Dentist.
OmCB Jacobs' Block , comer Capitol avenue
id Fifteenth street , Omaha , Neb
KENNEDY'S
EAST - INDIA
JITTERS
ILEIl & CO. ,
ole Manufacturers , OMAHA.
New York Clothing House
HAS TO
1309 FARM HAM STREET ,
ia Old Stand ; ) ?
. * m-RETHKY,3HALL KEEP CONSTANTLY U. HAM , AN IMMESsB MEN * .
"
AND
ClotMig-Eats
, ,
PRICES ALWAYSTHOWEST.
IEC.
1309 Farnham Street , Omaha , Neb.
More Popular than Ever.
THE GENUINE
New Family" Sewing Machine.
Hie popular Jetmui.l for the GENTINE SIXOER in 1579 ce leJthatiT nr proriotu j ir Juilntr
the ijuarter of a tenturj in huh thu "OM tollable' Machine haa bw-n before the publUx
if is , WC * ° . 350.422 Machlnr.
lnlfca e-old 431.167
Kxcec * overall ! prerlou * jenr - - - 74,735 "
OUR S VI.ES LAST \ EAK WKI1E AT TLIE KATE OF
OVER 1400 SEWING MACHINES A DAY.
For orurjr Imsinem day In the year
REMEMBER : THE
" 'OLD'taABLE"
THAT EVEUT BEAI. M.MiElt
SINGER
SEWINH MACHINE HAH THIS
. BIMI'LK
TRADE - MAHIv CAST INTO
THE MOST DURABLE SEWINH
THE IKON STAMl AND IMBEDDED
M.UII1MKVKK YET CON
BEDDED IN THE AltM Ol'
STUUTED
THK MACHINE.
THE SINGER MANUFACTURING GO.
Principal Office , 34 Union Square , N. Y.
l , oO bubonUuatu Ortii ! . iu thu I nltwl StuU's and CunaJa , and 3.0W offices In the Old World and
Sontli America
Pianos and Organs
J. S. WEIGHT ,
-AUEST FOO-
THE ING PIANOS.
AND SOLE AC ENT FOR
Hallet , Davis &Co. , James &Holmstrom , and
J & C. Fischer's Pianos ; also Sole-Agent
for the Estey , Burdett and t. e Fort
Wayne Organ Co.'s Organs.
HAVEIUD YK
218 Sixteenth St , City Hall Building , Omak
HALSET V. FITCH , : : : Tuner.
SZIXTCHC/E :
POWER AND HAND
Steam Pumps , Engine Trimmings ,
- * * \ t
ilIXIXC MACIIIXEin , HKLTl.NCJ. IIUSE. TI5A S AND IKON FITTI.VCS I'IPE. STHA1I
I'At KING. AT WIIOI.EMI.K AM ) KKTA1L.
HALLADAY WiND-MiLLS , CHURCH AND SCHOOL BELLS.
A. L. STRANG , 205 Farnam St. , Omaha.
J. A. WAKEFIELD
WHOLESALE ASH UKT IL UHALEK IN
Lath , Shingles , Pickets ,
> ASH , DOORS , BLINDS , FOLDINGS , LIME , CEMENT ,
AS-STATE AGENT FOI : JIILWAfKKE ( 'HIIENT COMPANY
tfear Union Pacific Depot , OMAHAr NEB.
PET STORE.
. u
* f * ' -H. jM T.
fhe Largest Stock"an'd Mbt Com
plete Assortment in
' ' f
The-West' '
JfrflTT ,
V f , .
7e Keep Everything in the Line of Carpets , Oil
cloths , Matting , Window-shades , .Fixtures
and Lace Curtains.
IE HAVE GOODS TO PLEASE EVERYBODY.
313 Farnham St. , Omaha.
) ECORATIVE PAINTER.
BEST DESIGNS. LATKST STYLES. ARTISTIC WOKK.
. .
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trur riorau nxntf OROBBI.IU voitx. mmniMS.
IIQNS , PAPER HANGING , PLAIN PAINTING OF ALL KINO3 , at REASONABLE RATES.
1318 Harney Street , Omaha , Neb.