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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : T1IUKSDAY , AUGUST 4 , 1881.
The Omaha Bee.
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John H. I'icrce in In Charge of the Circn-
ntlon of THK DAILY BKU.
NKIIKAHKA bnckn horconinnd cattle
against D.ikota'ii wliont.
" ITKAI'-COLLKCTIOX TlKHLKS " IS the
latest newspaper nnmo for our Omaha
philanthropist.
IF you fisk a Kansan how prohibi-
lion works ho puts his toiiguu in his
cheuk nnil aska you to conic mid take
a drink.
ANOTIIKU engineering party Ims
boon murdered in Mexico. Mexican
dovolopinunt is going hntul in hand
with Mexican deviltry.
OMAHA'S ricli inny ride in chniNua if
they plcaao hut her poor anil rich
alike will Imve an opportunity to ride
Uerdicfl ut i'rvo cunts : v hund.
Tin : aching void in the Now York
rcnuhlican ranks , which the stalwarts
predicted would bo loft by Conkling'H
departure , is not yet perceptible.
Tin : establishment of a windmill
factory without "Windmill Baldwin"
mining the incorporntors is like the
play of Hamlet with Hamlet loft out.
IT cost England over § 1,000,000 to
Bottle Cotowayo , the Xulti chiuftnin.
Sitting Hull forced our government to
expend upwards of $2,000,000 before
lib wns disposed of.
THK July reduction of the public
debt waa over § 10,000,000. It is be
coming u serious question whether re
duction of taxation is not ns impor
tant its reduction of the public debt.
J5ltAll\iJll ( is the modern John
Wilkos. TJio house of commons is
( Jiis objective point , and ho i lilculy to
.rs ; got there before ho'finishes his con
test'for the'scat to which ho was legal
ly elected.
THE citizens whose names arc ap
pended to tlio articles of incorporation
of the new windmill and agricultural
company are men whose interest in
'Omaha's ' development has been
proved a score of times previously.
Such men area credit to any city.
THK good Christians of Toxus are
mournfully indignant over the re
fusal of Gov. llobbrts to join with the
other governors in prayer over Gen
eral Garfiolds recovery. They pro
pose to pray for both the president
nnd the governor at the enrlient op
portunity.
. JlV aid of atr induction balance mitt
ti.'ft' . ' telephone Prof. Hell has succeeded
in locating the bullet in Presideiit
Garfield and verifying the statements
of the doctors. Of course this is
gratifying to the physicians. I'rof.
Boll's instrument can telephone but
it cannot tell a lie.
THK death of Hon. E. II. Itogers at
Vem Cruz , Mexico , was announced by
telegraph Monday. Mr. Jlogcra had
bcon appointed United E-ftatcs COIIHU !
I at Ycra Crux last winter and had only
i arrived nt his post of duty two or
thrco days before his death. Mr.
llogcre wan among the pioneers of
Nebraska and one of the lead
ing business men of Fremont.
A native of Now York , ho came to
Nebraska in 1850 , two years lifter the
territoryvus , organized , ami wan ov-
erul.times honored with u seat in the
territorial legislature. For the pas' '
thrco years Mr. Itogoiu had been ai
invalid , and Ins death was not aHo
gothor unexpected.
" "UOK McCitA.KV laid down the doc
' " a recent decision that 'tho
l have the right to lix
.U- 'nr common carriers
' 'i commerce
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A FALSE ALARM.
A OKKAT deal of bosh nnd buncombe
m being bilked mid written by people
whom the attempt to murder Presi
dent Garflcld lini shocked into a
mania for civil service reform. Sena
tor D.iwos , who ought to know am'
docs know better , tells the
country in an open letter thai
our presidents nru buintr killed
by the nwful responsibility that de
volves upon thcln in the appointment
of over 100,000 pflice holders who are
on Undo Sam's pay roll in the civil
service. Asa matter of fact les than
seven thousand ollicors who are cm-
ployed in the civil service hold com
missions from the president.
OP the 100,000 federal oflleo hold-
era moro than 00,000 are employed in
the postal norvice , and of these only
postmasters who draw a salary of over
$1,000 a year are presidential ap
pointments. All other postmasters
are commissioned by the post
master general , and other em
ployes in the postal florvico
are appointed by postmasters
railway mail superintendents and
other subordinate ollicers. With the
exception of rovomio collectors , the
entire force employed in the revenue
bureau is appointed nnd holds oillco
at the pleasure of the secretary of the
treasury or the commissioner of inter
nal revenue. In the patent oflico , pen
sion bureau , census bureau , bureau of
engraving nnd congressional printinu
oflico the employes are all under the
immodiaio control of respective heads
of those bureaus. In the customs'
service , which employs a force of more
than ton thousand employes , only
twenty or thirty ollicers hold commis
sions from the President. All the
subordinate ofllcials and employes are
either appointed by the Secretary of
; ho Treasury or the respective head of
each custom houso.
Of the grand army of clerks cin-
iloyod in the various departments nt
Washington not one holds a commis
sion from the president.
The most numerous class of civil
ervico appointees that hold commis-
ions from the president is in the
consular and diplomatic sor-
ice and oven they do not con-
titnto a very formidable number ,
it least not formidable enough to kill
i president who I'H in fair health. The
mill in that there are almost as many ,
f not more numerous , presidential
ippointmcnts in the military and imval
ervico wlioro every ollicor is ap-
minted by the president as there
ire in the whole civil service.
\nd while the army and navy olli-
cura nro seldom superceded or dis-
nissed , they are constantly up for pro-
notion and each promotion is virtu-
illy an appointment.
All this executive labor could bo1
berne without fatigue if it were not
or the bulldo/.ing and importuning of
congressmen and senators. It is
mich less annoying for the president
o commission n hundred minor , olli-
ink than oiiu collector of the port of
'few ' Yorl- ' i
During the war Lincoln comniis-
iouod a small army of brigadier and
najor generals , commodores and ad.
nirals , and yet this task did not ser-
ously impair his health and Goii-
ral Grunt made thousands of appoint-
iionts in the military and civil service
vithout losing a pound of ilesh.
There is no doubt that
hu civil service and especially the
nothods of appointment need radical
oform , but there is no truth whatever
n the statement that our Presidents
are being killed by the overwork inci-
lent in the appointment of over 100- ,
00 men nnd women that constitute
ho civil service list.
OMAHA AS A MANUFACTUR
ING CENTRE
The best evidence of Omaha's sub-
itautial growth is the increase of her
imnufncturors. Ten yenra ago scarcely
.wo hundred workingmen were em-
> loyod in manufacturing in a small
ivay in our city. To-day over two
thousand mechanics find employment
in our shops and factories. Within
live years wo have quadrupled the ca-
jiacity of our Smelting Works , doub
led the area of our machine shops ,
ripleil the facilities of
nir breweries and distilleries
ind established on a solid
basis , whita lead works , nail works , a
linseed oil mill , a shot tower , a barb
wire factory , foundries , cornice works
und ( mite u number of smaller indus
tries that wo have not the space to
omunoruto. And now wo are about
to add another vary important estab
lishment to our manufacturing indus
tries in the shape of an agricultural
implement and windmill factory ,
which starts out with a capital ot § 00- ,
000 and is destined to grow to much
larger proportions at no distant day ,
No bolter field can exist in the west
for an Agricultural implement anil
windmill factory than right hero in
Nebraska where vast sums are paitl
out annually for this class of nianu-
lures.
But Omaha's manufacturing is util
i its infancy , Heretofore our very
limited water facilities have necessarily
rily retarded the establishment of
many manufacturing enterprises
which roquirodnnnmplosupplyofcheai
water. The completion of our water
works system will bo un incentive to
industrial development. The ex
peitso of tunning stcnm boilers witl
water carted from the river has kept
many people from undertaking ninny
enterprises that would otherwise
long since Imve been started. Other in
dustries which depended upon the use
of water , not only for their stcnrn en
gines but also for their processes ol
manufacture , have been forced to lo
cate elsewhere , because wo
have had no water works.
Thcso will now feel able
to consider the advantages of our city
on n manufacturing contra since the
great obstacle to their establishment
has been removed.
Omnlm , by her geographi
cal position , possesses great advan
tages as n contra for the manu
facturing interests of the Missouri
valley , Her enterprising merchants
have rendered the states nnd tcrrito
ries west to the Pacific coast tributary
to her markets nnd pushed their trade
northward to the British line and south
to the Kansas border. She is rapidly
gaining nn enviable reputation as the
commercial metropolis of the far west
whoso development goes hand in
liand with the growth of the trans-
Missouri country. Capital is seeking
investment in her in'dbt ' , now lines of
railroads are yearly bidding for the
transportation of her products and
opening now avenues for the distribu
tion of her merchandise , while her
banks nro amply supplied with cheap
capital which manufacturers can have
to push their enterprises.
But there is still room for a num
ber of industries which have not yet
boon established in Omaha , As the
contrn of one of the greatest corn pro
ducing stales in the west , _ Omaha of
fers nn excellent location for glucose
and starch factories. There is also an
excellent opening for oatmeal mills
ind n paper mill.
Many other articles can bo prolit-
ibly manufactured nt this point for
which the raw materials are nt hand.
OHIO has an admirable system of
checks and balances to guardher pub
ic funds. The great defalcation of
ler state treasurer which occurred
; wonty years ano was a lesson which
the legislatures of Ohio have taken to
it-art and the statutes governing the
management of her funds are as per-
'cct as any in the union. The nudi-
: or of state every month counts the
money in the state treasury and certi
fies to the amount he finds , and is re-
liihed to advertise the same in certain
lowspapora. Every throe months
on the first Mondays of February ,
Way , August and November , the state
luditorandstato treasurer make a joint
examination to ascertain the precise
condition of'tho state treasury , nccord-
ng'to the books in their respective of-
iccs , and also to ascertain by actual
nspcctiom'tho'exact ' amount of money
li the treasury , together with all other
troperty , bonds , securities , claimsalid
iBsessmonts-which should bo in the
rcasury. These two oflicers then
uako and si 'ii 'a detailed statement ,
and record the name in their rcspcc-
ivo ofliccs nnd immediately furnish
ho Governor with n 'copy
hrorcof. Such ' a statement
ms just been published in the Colum-
HIS and Cincinnati papers which
covers every item of receipts and dis-
Hirsomonts with sworn statements of
he cash balances and securities ro-
nainiug in the treasury or deposited
n the various banks throughout the
tate , together with an exhibit of the
loposit in each particular bank , with
ho securities of those depositories for
he safe keeping money.
This system is in striking contrast
vith the management of the public
undo in Nebraska. Under our sys-
em nobody ever gets nt the books of
ho treasurer except the legislature.
Once every two years the farce of a
cgislativo investigation which has not
the time to investigate is gone
through with nnd the state runs the
risk of being saddled with a big lesser
or a bi' ' lawsuit.
( ) K Monday night the Colorado
Iron Works , one of Donvor's chief in
dustries , were burned to the ground ,
entailing a loss of 8100,000. The
Denver /.Vjii//iV ; ( / < m makes this com
ment :
The people of Denver should not
bo obliged to look on helpless and
powerless while n great manufactur
ing establishment is being consumed.
If the present water workK are not
adequate to the demands upon them ,
if they cannot furnish the power
to throw sulllcient streams of
water upon any building with
in the city limits , then
they should bo improved , or better
ones substituted in their place. H
the fire department wia ut fault , then
it should bo reorganized. If the iron
works were beyond the limits within
which the water works nro expected to
ail'ord protection , then it was the duty
of the city council to have provided
steam engines or other appliances for
such an emergency as occurred last
night. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Accoitm.va to the Lincoln Democrat
Mr. Gnloy says very omubatically that
the L. & F. It , K. wil ) not bo built un
ions ono hundred nnd fifty thousand
dollars of aid nro voted. That's the
first definite news wo have yet hud
about the railroad. It's well enough
to let it come along gently , in such
doses. .Fremont Jlerald ,
The Lincoln papers nro virtuously
indignant , over the advice of the BKE
to the farmers of Dodge , Saunders
and Butler counties to vote no bonds
for the construction of any railroad
through their lands. Thin advice , in
the eyes of our Lincoln contempora
in an unwarrantable mod *
dling with affairs which do not
concern Omaha. These papers seem
to forgot that , unlike themselves ,
THK BEK represents a constituency
which extends hundreds of miles in
every direction from Omaha nnd com
prises n large portion of the farmers
of Saundcrs and Butler counties , who
nro vitally interested in keeping their
taxes down and who have several
times bcon swindled by railro.id bonds
for lines of road which failed to com
pote. Wo repeat our ndvico to bur
readers in the counties through which
the proposed Lincoln and Fre
mont road is to pass ;
encourage all railroads built with the
money of their stockholders , but re
fuse to vote one dollar in bonds to
wards the construction of lines which ,
if there is any necessity for their exis
tence , will bo built without such aid.
HEARS of departments in Washing-
ington are entitled to great praise for
remaining at their posts during the
summer. They set good examples
for United States collectors , marshals
and postmasters throughout the coun
try , who are in the habit of skipping
off on the slightest provocation and
letting their ofticcs run themselves.-
Globe-Democrat.
This applies with a great deal of
force to the heads of the postal ser
vice hero in Omaha. The postmaster
hasn't done two months' work in his
oflico smco new-years. The first
six weeks of the year wore spent
at Lincoln , the two months
following at Washington nnd at pres
ent ho is away from homo supcrvis-
in n private business speculation
in Montana. In the meantime the
post ollico is left to run itself pretty
much as it pleases.
The following is from a1 Lnramio
paper :
Paul Yandervoort , chief head
clerk of the railway mail service , of
Omaha , in company vith .Too South
ard , mail clerk and a jolly good fellow ,
passed west on No. 'J last night ; en
route for Soda Springs , Idaho , whence
they will leave on a nshi ng trip on the
Snake nnd Hoar rivers.
While Mr. Paul Yandervoort
junkets around the country the gov
ernment pays for a substitute and the
postal service sutlers accordingly.
GK.V. Cl. M. DOIKIK , who is sojourn
ing at Clear Lake , lown , will return to
Council liltflfl in two or three days.
General Dodge is a Grant man , what
ever else ho may be , and it may bo
Usosnid that General Grant isaDodgo
man. Whether General D. is n
Jim Wilson or a Gear man in the
libt and heavy war for the senate that
is now going on in the neighboring
state between these republican rivals ,
is not known nt these democratic
licadijuartcrs , but there is no reason
to believe that ho will not go back on
such an olil friend nnd ) ns able a man
ns Mr. Wilso'n.in this fevery emergent
emergency. Omaha Herald.
Dr. Miller , , who exits' The Herald
nt Omaha , isni Jay Gould man whatever -
over else ho may be , and it may bo also
said that Jay Gould is Miller man as
long as the Herald plays capper for
( Jnion Pacific. Although Dr. Miller isa
democrat , hotakesn very active interest
in republican congressmen , senators
ind generals , who have in the past
been useful to the great monopoly and
who are likely to bo of great use
again whenever they get a chance ,
whatever else they may profess. So
when Dr. Millers tolls us that General
Dodge will back Mr. Wilson for the
Town senatorship ho does not in the
least surprise people who know the
peculiar relations between Mr. Wil
son and the chief engineer of the
Gould system.
THE Crowe story proves to bo a re-
pctitition of the fable of the thrco
black crows , the only truth in the
Pcoria sensation being that n man of
that name resides in that city. And
now O'Donovan Kossa proceeds to
explode the story of the infernal ma
chines. He says :
The whole farce was gotten up by
an Irishman who belongs to the
league. Ho shipped some harmless
material and then nrotendcd to act as
an informer to the British government ,
lie wont to Consul General Archi
bald nnd told him that explosives -
plosives had been sent nnd fur
nished him BitlHciont proof that the
shipment had boon made. For this
the Irishman received $1,000 and
was promised $10,000 moro when the
Knglish police should have seized the
explosives. The material which the
Irishman shipped cost about § 40 , nnd
ho got for it § 10,000 , which will bo
used to fight the English with. Now
that Archibald has found that he has
been made the victim of this practical
joke ho is tearing his hair with rugo.
The only trouble with O'Donovan
oHsa is that he first gave currency to
the dynumito story by boasting , that
the destruction of the British steamer
"Dateril" and1 ono hundred and twen-
ty-thrco of her seamen was the result
of the exertions of himself and his
"skirmishers , "
The United State Senate
Dubuque Ttlcgmph.
Now that Thurman , Conkling and
Blaine arc out of the United States
senate , the ablest debater loft in that
body is Senator Edmunds.of Vermont.
If , as is expected , Mr. Edmunds shall
be appointed to till the vacancy in the
supreme court made by the death of
Justice Clifford , the senate will then
bo without a single member of tower
ing ability , It is true that the repub
licans will still have Sherman and the
democrats Bayard , but neither Sher
man nor Bayard are at all comparable
either ns debaters or statesmen , to the
other gentlemen named. If Thurman ,
Conkling , Blaine nnd Edmunds had
been members of the senate in the
days of Webster , Calhoun and Clay ,
this tnnity of eloquent statesmei
would not have monopolized all the
oratorical honors.
Gorman Railway *
New York Ktenlng 1'ost.
Of the most important of reccnl
contributions to the literature of the
"Hailway Problem" is embodied in
the official correspondence ot the sin to
department for 1880 , being a sketch
of the railway history of Germany
made Dr. II. T. Ely. n fellow ol
Columbia College , nt the request o !
Hon. Adrow D. White , our late minis
ter nt Berlin. Dr. Ely , it appear * ,
hnd spoilt some thrco years in study
ing this and similar questions in Ger
many , His observntions and conclu
sions are given in the space of four
teen pages of the volume of diplomatic
correspondence. Every point relating
to the political , military nnd economic
bcnnngH of the Prussian railways is
elucidated in this pains taking nnd ad [
mirablo dissertation ,
Hallway building commenced in
Germany in the year 1835. In 1838
tho.Prussian monarchy which was not
then allowed to contract debts without
the consent of the "estates of the
realm , " which consent coulll not bo
obtained nnd without which it was
impossible to raise money for con
structing state railways passed what
might be called a "general milroad
law , " which is still in force , fixing the
conditions upon which such undci tak
ings might bo confided to private en
torprisc. Some of these conditions
might have been adopted with advan
tage in this country. For instance ,
all shares subscribed for must bo
paid in full in cash and the money ap
plied to the work before any borrow
ing can bo done. No loan for con
struction purposes can bo effected
without the consent of the govern
ment , which has a right to require n
sinking fund to bo established for the
liquidation of the debt. Railway
tariffsinust be conspicuously published ,
nnd no change which increases rates
can go into effect until six weeks after
publication , and no discrimination
can bo made between persons. When
the profits of a railway exceed ten per
centum upon the actual cost the tariff
must be reduced. ( This provision ,
by the way ? has always boon evaded ) !
At the expiration of thirty years after
the opening of any railway the state
lias the right of purchasing it nt n
maximum price equal to twenty-five
times its average annual dividend dur
ing the five preceding years.
Under this law rather moro than
one-half of the Prussian railways have
been built. With the adoption of the
constitution of 1850 the government :
acquired the means of constructing
railways with its own resources and
it built several roads which were deem
ed too expensive or too little remuner
ative for private enterprise , the most
important of which was the ono oxton-
ing from Berlin northeastwardly to
; hp Russian frontier. No definite
railway policy was adopted by the
state , and two system that of private
) wnerahip and that of state control
; row side by side until the year 1800 ,
ivhcn these were 3,000 kilometres in
.ho former category and 3,300 , in the
attor. About one-half of the roads
> porated | by the state were held
under lease , the other half bcint ; own-
sd by the government. By the po-
itical annexations of 18UG the govern
ment came into possession of nil the
railways'owncd'by the annexed king
dom nnd duchies. . Nevertheless pri-
vnto enterprise outran the government
until the beginning of 1873 ,
when private companies oper-
itod 7,000 kilometers against
" > ,750 operated by the state.
[ n this year. Dr. Laskcr made his fa
mous attack upon the minister of com
merce , Count Itxcnplitz , charging cor
ruption in the administration of the
, 'oncrul railroad law , whereby "con
cessions" or charters were granted to
certain favorites of the minister , nnd
withheld from others. A protracted
nvestigation was had which substan
tially sustained Dr. Lasker's charges
ind led to Count Itzenplitz's res ! gna-
: ion. The committee of investigation
> voro charged among other things to
inquire how far the intentions of the
qoycrnmont in granting charters to
private companies had been fulfilled.
Under this head they reported that
"rail ways are public high ways resem
bling in essence nnd purpose other
highways. The only means of justi
fying the government in relinquish
ing thorn to private industry nnd
speculation is financial necessity. It
appears desirable to transfer to the
empire a controlling newer over nil
German railways. "
Nothing was done to carry thii re
commendation into effect until 1870 ,
when Prince Bismarck brought in a
bill in the Prussian Parliament to au
thorize the government , if it should
desire to do so , to sell nil the Prus
sian state railways , together with the
jovornment's right to acquire the pri
vuto railways , to the empire. Inas
much as the Prussian system is the
preponderating railway force in Ger
many , its acquisition by the imperial
government would give to the latter a
[ 'reat access of power as against the
"particularists" or state-rights pirty ,
who constitute the dominant faction
in Bavaria , Wurtomborg an I Saxony.
Prince Bismarck , in advocating the
measure , made a speech which would
have delighted our anti-monopoly
league.
The bill was passed by the Prussian
parliament. It remained for the em
pire to complete the bargain by pur
chasing the Prussian railways. The
"particularists" rallied against it in
such force that it was never brought
before the reischstag at nil. But Bis
marck was not detened by adverse
public opinion ho seldom is. Ho re
doubled the exertions of the govern
ment to gain possession of the private
railways of the kingdom , in order to
bring against the non-Prussian state
railways the j > oworful competition
which the united Prussian systed un
der a single control isablo to compass.
By measures adopted in 1870 , partly
by purchase and partly by building
now lines , the government became
possessed of 15,000 kilometers ( about
10,000 miles ) of railway , or three-
fourths of the entire mileage of the
kingdom. It is now in a position
where it can secure the remaining
Prussian railways on its own terms ,
since it can destroy the value of their
property by competition.
leo. ! MeraiitMeny City , wiite : "The
Si'iilM ! HixiH.soii you bent uiu has hail the
happiest effect on my daughter ; her hc.nl-
nchu anil depression of limits luw vanished ,
Sliu U again alilo to { , ' " to nchool , and in IB
lively an a cricket. I nlmll certainly rec-
mmneml it to all my friemU. Price TO
cents , trial bottle 10 cent" , aujl-lw
STATE JOTTINGS ,
Fall * City i * to have n fair.
Hebron han a building boom.
Wnterwork * bomli were defeated In IIn
coin.
coin.A
A new fcliool house Is to be built ni
Almn.
Nebraska City ii sufferinif fiiun whole
sale burglar * .
Them nre 1(5,000 ( he.-wi < < f Tens cuttle nt
OKaWla , Neb.
The contract fur the licmiblican Cit )
brldxo liaa been let.
The town of Alma , JIarlan county , lias
been incorporated.
A preat Kcnrcity of carpenters 5 * reporter
in nil pntts of tlic SUtc.
Kiveiton wns excited last week by an at
tempt to fire the town.
Mr. Gcer , formerly of York , will erect
nn elevator ftt Wyniorc.
TJio village trustees of Arapnhoc are
having.tlie street graded.
A new flume and wheel-house li Mug
put In at the XAJMIIICO mills.
Counterfeit $ . " > trold pieces are said to be
in circulation at Arapahoe.
The bridge bomU at Arnpahoe were
carried by a vote of 519 to 35.
The construction of the new Orleans
mills It progressing rapidly.
Hun eat and haying hands arc In great
demand In Wayne county.
The corner stone of Franklin Academy
will lw laid on August 9th.
It took sixteen bullets to finish a large
buffalo on the I/nip the other day.
Two hundred teams are at work on the
M. P. road between Hiawatha and KalN
City.
Jonathan Gill , one of Xcbra ka's oldest
Bettlem , died at Nebraska City , Satuuiay
morning.
The pteam sugar cane mill nt Falrfield
! s nearly completed and will soon bo in
operation.
A girl in Nebraska City last week at
tempted to commit suicide by taking carbolic -
bolic acid.
The residence of , T. C. Lewis , in Ne
braska City wa * burned.by incendiaries
last week.
It has been decided to locate the county
seat of Gospcr county a little southeast of
Yaiighan.
The First car of barley of this year's
crop received in Chicago , wns from Adams
county , Neb.
It is estimated that the wheat crop of
Webster county will yield about ten bush
els to the acre.
The dead boilof John Fritze , nn in
sane man , wai tilt-covered near Nebraska
City , Thursday.
The ( irflfton post oflice issued 1,500
money orders during the last two years ,
representing $50,000.
The managcis of the Hastings fair ,
which taken place in September , offer SICK )
to the victorious linse luill.
Last week eight lots were Hold 1.1 Frank
lin county for S'200. Residences will be
erected on them at once.
In a feuHUHe days Neligli will cease to
je a frontier town , ns the _ railroad will be
ipencd to a point fifty miles west.
Within a radius of four miles of Keptib-
lean City , there was over fifteen hundred
acres of wheat harvested since June 25.
The charges inaJe against Kev. Edward
Jornet , of Republican City , were found
in investigation to be false nnd malicious.
The trneklaying on the Norfolk line
Irags for lack of iron and men. Novein-
er 1st will bo us early as it can be com-
tletecl.
Twenty wagons from the farm of Church
iTowo & Son , Uedford , delivered 1,000
mullets of wheat to the Neinnhu City ele
vator on Monday last.
The Kenublican City Knterprfoe says
.here . will be ten times the number nf cattle
n Harlan county next fall than has ever
jeeii in the county before.
Antelope is the banner wheat raising
> recinct in Harlan county. Ten headers
ami an equal number of harvesters are
wnetl and operated in the precinct.
One fanner in I'iUwore expects to re
echo 82,000 fiom his crops on a quarter
section thin year , and has good proof to
show that his expectations were justly
Irawn. ,
A row between two gangs of section
nen near Alexandria on 3 mirxdnv last
veek , resulted In the murder of one Tower ,
y two men named Jones and Sims. They
vere arrested and lodged in thu Nuckollu
county jail.
The suit of Nancy J. Mitchell against
. . 1' . Olive for 83,000 for loss of her fins-
land , has Ijeen compromised , settlement ot
lie case having been effected the first of
.bo week by attorneys. Seven hundred nnd
ifty dollars was the amount accepted by
Airs. Mitchell ,
It is now a settled fact that Nemaha
2ity is to have the B. k M. transfer boat.
The "Joy" has been sent from Nebraska
2ity to bt. Louis to be repaired , and will
> o sent hero us soon as it is in good shape.
Surveyors are now making a mirvev from
the river to the K. C. & St. .Toe& 0.15. U.
It. [ Nemaha City Times.
Wednesday morning an outfit of four
lorccs and t'wo buggies drove up to one
f our hotels. AH Sheriff ( Jroner had
jcen advised that nuch an outfit was
wanted at Ited Cloud ho took in thp oc
cupants , two men nnd a woman. Thurs.
lay morning a sheriff arrived from lied
Jloud with a warrant of arrest for one of
e men , who was charged with running
off with mortgaged property. The woman
and other man was liberated , when they
concluded to return with the criminal
North Platte Kepnblican.
A Paris letter speaking ot the great
sympathy felt there forPresidontGar-
ield , remarks :
"One wine merchant has sent him a
ircsent of a case of claret , the same
.irand as that exclusively prepared for
: ho Pope ; nay more , a medical sort of
nctallurgist has sent over directions
ind apparatus by which the extraction
) f the bullet becomes unnecessary.
lie notes one of his patients , the pro
prietor of the Restaurant Gymnaso ,
ivho has three bullets in his head , ono
n his thigh and two in the loins , re
ceived as a parting salute five years
igo from a discharged waiter. The
vitiont , who was naturally n dullish
nan previous to the accident , is now
cmarkablo for his shrewdness , capac-
ty and eloquence ; and further , ho has
> cen enabled .since to enlarge his
premises , "
"Out of Work ,
and sick with my kidneys for years , "
wrote Mr. Alexander Ferris , of Cho-
nango Forks , N. Y. , recently. lie
ased Warner's Safe Kidney and Xivor
Cure. Now ho says , " 1 cheerfully
recommend it to all persons suffering
n the same way. " augl-lw
NOTIOK OF SITTING OF 01TV
COUNCIL AS UOAIll ) OF
EQUALIZATION.
CnV C'LtRH'H OtHIK , )
outiu , .Aujjwta , issi. f
III accordance with ccctlrn JOot Uiu Omaha tit\
iliarur notlio Is hereby given that the city coun
cil or the city of Omaha , will git an a board of
equalization for fl\e d \ , conuueiicini ' , on Tins-
dav. Aiigutt Ulli , A. I > . 18-11. bald iUirn lll be
ii'ld In the council chamber and commence at 0
o'clock a , in . * ach d y. Section 17 ul the city
iliurtcr U ai follow * :
"SKCTIUN 17. The council ! ( hall ha\e power to
act us a l > oarJ of roualitution fur the city , to
filiulliu all aiaoxiucnU , and to com-ctany error
in the luting or taluatlon ot property , * nd to
nu | > | > ly any emU Ion In the name , and lull hate
the name J M ai county coiumlsolontri l n
in klinlUr tae . " J. J. U c. JK KIT.
' CitClerk. .
CHEAP LAND
FOR SALE.
1,000,000 Acres
OF THK
FINEST LAND
EASTEEN NEBRASKA.
SKLKCTED IN AN EAHMT DAT NOT HAIL
UOAD LAND , BUT LAND OW.NKD nr NON
RESIDENTS WHC AUK TinsDrATiNOTAXM
AND AUE OFFKIil.Va TIIKII1 LANDS AT TUB
LOW rntOK or SO , $8 , AND 810 run ACUB ,
ON LONO TI1IK AND KA8T TK11H8.
WE ALSCfOFFKU FOU SALE
IMPROVED FARMS
IN
Douglas , Sarpy anfl Washington
ALSO , AN IMMENSE LIST OF
OmahCityEealEstate
Including Elegant Residences , Business
And Residence Lots , Cheap Houses and
Lotx , nnd a largo number of Lots in moat of
the Additions of Omaha.
Also , Small Tracts of 6 , 10 nnd 20 ncrcoa
in and near the city. Wo have good op | > or-
tuniticH for making Loans , and in all cases
personally examine titles and take every
precaution to insure safety of money so
invested.
io ow we offer a small lint of SPECIAL
BARGAINS.
BOGGS & HILL ,
Eeal Estate Brokers ,
14OS
North Side of Parnham Street ,
Opp. Grand Central Hotel ,
OMAHA , NEB.
C AI E. A noautlful residence lot
OHLC Callfomia between 22tidanil
2Jd btrccts , 81UOO.
BOGGS k HILL.
CAI C Very nice house and lot
OHLC on Oth and Webster streets ,
with barn , coal house , well cisttrn , shade ami
ruit trc is , tnerj thing complete. A dcslrablo
icco o ( property , llgurcs low
OGS k HILL.
CflD CAI C Splendid busmcs lots S. K.
rUn OHLC corner of 10th and Capita
At untie. BOGGS & HILL.
[ ZftD CAI C House and lot corner Chicago
rUn OH LSI and 21st streets , f MOO.
HOGGS k HILL.
CflD OAI C Large ltou e on Datcnport
Un UHLL street between llth nnd 12th
goop location for boarding house. Owner wll
sell low UOGGS& HILL.
CAD CAI C Two new houses on full lot
rUn OHLC. in Kountzc k Ituth's oAM-
tion. Tills property Hill bo sold \cry cheap.
BOGGS k HILL.
FOR SALE A top phcaton. Enquire of Jas.
Stephenson. 091-U
CAIC Comer of two choice lots In
OHLC. Shlnn's Addition , request teat
at once submit beat cosh offer.
offer.BOGGS
BOGGS & HILL.
COD CAIC A B0 < xl an desirable res
rUn OHLC dcnce proiwrty , $4000.
BOGUS k HILL.
RESIDENCE Not In the market
Ower will sell ( or $0,000.
BOGGS k HILL.
CAIC * K ° ° < * Ioti Shlnn's 3d ad
OHLC dltion $1KO each.
BOGGS k HILL
CAIC At cry flue residence lot , to
OHLk some party desiring to build
a flue house , $2,300. BOGGS k HILL.
CAIC About 200 lots In Kountzo &
OHLC Jtuth's addition , just south
of St. Mary's atenuc , 8160 to fbOO. These lota
are near business , surroundoa by flue Improve
ments and are 40 per cent cheaper than any othe
lots in the market. Save money by buying the *
loia. BOGGS k HILL.
CflP CAIC 10 Ms , suitable for fine real
rUn OHLC dence , on Park-Wild avenue
3 blocks S. U. of Urpot , all cotcrcd with line larg
trees. Price oxtremuly low. $ 00 to J700.
BOGGS k HILL.
CAI C Some ven- cheap lota
OHLC Lake's addition.
HOGGS & HILL.
"flP CAI C Cheap corner lot , corner
FUR WHLb Douglas and Jefferson Sta.
BOG03 & HILL.
CAIC 93 loU on 20th , 27th , 28th ,
OHLC 29th and 30th Sta. , between
rarnham , Douglas , and thu proposed cutcnslon of
Dod-f atrutt. Prices range from $200 to 8400.
We ha\e concluded to gli omen of small means ,
one more chance to secure a homo and will build
IIOUMS on these lots on small pajraents , and will
sell loU on monthly tajiucnU.
liOGOS & HILL.
Et\3 CAIC 160 acres , 0 milca irom city ,
rUn OHLC about SO acres very choice
alley , withrunninj water ; balance ( 'cutly rolling
prrirlc , only 3 miles fiom rallaood , * 10 per a&ie.
BOGGS k HILL. I
QAI C < 0 ° acrc8 In one tract twek J
OrH.t miles from city ; 40 acres cu |
thntcd , Lltlng Kprlnirof water , BOIIIO nlctn I
lejs. aim land U all llnt-clasd rich prairie. I'ric i
$10 per aero BOGUS A , HILL. t
CAIC 72 ° acres In one body , 7 mlle < J
OHLk went of Fremont , ls all let el _ yfth
land , juoduclnir iiiaty grouthof gratis , In high
t alley , rich Holland J mien from railroad an
side trade , In good settlement and no better Ian
can bo found. BOGGS A. HILL ,
Q AI C A highly Improved farm of
OHLb 210 acred , 3 miles from city.
Film Improvements on this land , owner not a
practical fanner , determined to sell , A good
opening for some man of rucuni.
rucuni.HOGGS k HILL.
CAIC 2' ° ° ° acrcs o ( lan < 1 "car Mil-
. OHLC land Ktatlon , 3fXX ) near Klk-
horn , Si to * 10 ; 4,000 ixi-rci In north i rt of conn.
ty , * 7 to 810 , 3,000 acris 2 to 8 miles from Klor-
cmc , $5 to 810 ; 6,000 acres wustof the KIKhorn ,
? 1 to $10 ; 10,000 acres mattered through the coun
ty , tfl to $10.
The nlimi ) lamli lie nrxr ami adjoin nearly
ctcry farm In tlui county , anil van mootly be soIJ
on small cash | < a > nient. witti the balance In 1-2-3-
4 and fear's time. BOGUS k HILL.
{ OR QAI C "everal fine residences prop
rUn OHLC ertlcs ne'er bcfrre oueri > d
and not known In the market as holng for sale.
I/xationa will only bo made known to punliaseiii
"meanlwr busluci. "
IMPROVED FARMS
nipro\e ( arms around Omaha , and In all jtartx of
teuglos , barjiy and Wasliln ton counties. Also
inns In Iowa , Fer docription and prices call on
u . HOGGS illll.1. .
( \ Dusiness Lots for Sale on Farnam and Douu-
U
CAIC 8 business lots next west
OHLC of iUsonlo Temple prlca
adtancwl of 2 000 each. BOQGB k HILL
CflD CAIC 8 business lots west of O.U
1 Ull OfiMM Kclloblock. . (2 tOO each.
CAI C - Imtlncas lots eouth nida
OHLC Douglas street , between 12th
COD CAIC ICOncres.ocvcred wlthj-oung
* UK OHLC Uiubtr ; mius wattr. u
roundfd by Improved rial , only 7 uil.i'e from
cit . Ctcopcil laud onuftDd.
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