Nebraska Newspapers

    TJEiJi OMAHA DA1L.Y . BEE : WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 8
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B. ROSEWATER. Editor.
L\EKY bond uniting noighboriiif ,
cities increases tlieir ntrei ) } th.
A I'BW inoro weeks of mud will
inako our people iinnninioiia on the
question of the necessity of immedi
ate paving
TIIK number of commercial trail
ers wiw increased by ever 2,000 last
year. With throe now hotels Oniahn
will bo ready to accommodate them
all.
WIIK.V Ostur Wilclo Icotitaoa in this
city his artiitic eye will bo refreshed
by the sight of the great and only
American sunflower. Ho occupies an
editorial chair.
Mu. MLAINK'H foreign policy is only
objected to by his own political ene
mies and the political enemies of the
nation which he represented ns secre
tary of atate.
A MOTION is pending in the aenutu
for a select committee to investigate
the liquor traffic It should bo made
a committee of tlio whole. All its
members would bo competent judges.
Till' mayor of St. Joseph hus given
the city marshal orders to arrest as
vagrants a gang of aolf-slylod private
detectives , who have for some limo
inado their headquarters in that city.
Charges of vaguncy will bo placet'
against them. Other citiea might
profit from the example of St. > loo.
DKNVKII patronircs every show thai
comes along , good , bad and indillerent-
The profits of the first five months oi
of the Tabor opera house amounted to
$0,000 , a handsome return on the
governor's investment. It is to be
hoped that Mayor TJoyd'aonturo may
provo no lens successful.
IT is unfortunate that great epi
demica make most progress among the
poorer classes. Omaha has a number
of flinty hearted old fossils opposed to
every public improvement which
doesn't put money in their pockets
and who have never yet boon hit uven
by chicken pox.
Mu. VALKJ.TINB'H clerk , who in that
capacity is relieving the Omaha Hu-
publican from the necessity of paying
him a nalury as its Washington cor
respondent , has written from the cap
ital his employers explanation of the
attempted "back pay steal. " Ac
cording to Nye , Val and Majors never
had any idea of blooding the national
treasury for contingent expenses and
if it hadn't ' been a case of Pinafore
the provoking impression wouldnn\or
have gone abroad that Tom Majors
wanted pay for past sorvicoa which ho
never rendered in Congress.
"In regard to the matter. " saya
Nye , "It may bo oaid that it was
never the intention of either Valentino
tine or Majors that the latter should
receive pay for more than the sension
in which ho will bo a member if the
bill for admission is passed. In in
troducing the bill , Valentino took a
copy of the one which ho had intro
duced at the last session and marked
in it the necessary correction. In the
hurry of his work he did not notice
that there wore two bills in his hand
instead of one , nor was it understood
by him that he had delivered to the
clerk the wrong and uncorrected bill
until Bomo time afterward.
This is a very thin explanation of a
very shrewd attempt to pick the lock
of the treasury. Val "mixed those
babies up" and thought that "not u
.mortal Know it. " When ho found
that his constituents road the press
reports from Washington , and that
BOUIO of the Nebraska papers com
mented upon what they road , ho
hastened to denounce the lumurtion
that liis bill was u "hack pay grab" as
"aiiiuifamous slander and an outrage
ous Ho. " After this lie may have
changed and corrected IIIH bill , but of
this the record makes no mention.
Tlio only authority that this him been
done is the unsupported assertion of
his committee clerk , who was formerly
one of the .editors of The Omaha Re
publican , JLacl now after The Re
publican lias iicen
denouncing as a
Blander TUB Bus's charge against Val-
entine' * little "back pay grab" its cor
respondent bobs up toprovo the truth
of our comment that no other contraction -
traction could bo placed upon the
bill introduced by him lu the house
of representative * on the IGUi of lout
Pecembor.
"MOONSHINE. "
The 0. It. Nonpareil docs not see
its way clear to joining Omaha in
building a wagon bridge aero is the
Missouri. That wai what the Herald
was not able to sco several dajs
ago , when it showed that the whole
thing was imiaclicablo ] on any plan
that itoiiltl bo possible to invent.
Men do not build wngon bridges un
less they will pay a fair return on the
money invested in building them
The Missouri h a navigable river. A
wagon bridge high enough to allow
bo.itn to run under it , whether it liu
a suspension bridge , or i bridge built
on piots , would bankiupt any local
company that should undertake to
it , and n low bridge with a draw-
would bo impossible without .in ex
penditure that would insure the tunic ;
result Without any pretensions to
fltmcial knowledge on the subject , wo
filumld say that a wagon bridge across
the river that is not connected with
a railroad bndgo will bo constructed ,
if constructed at all , mainly of a very
thin article of moonshine. - Omaha
Herald.
The editor of the Herald is a vie
tim of the moonshine which filters
through the Union Pacific hc.idqii.ir
ters and his silent pirtnerihip in the
Union Pacific transfrr. This h the
reason why Dr. Miller is not able to
see how a wagon bridge can he con
st rnctod between Omaha and Council
Bluffs. It is a matter of fact that the
original charter for a bridge across
the Mmouri , contemplated a bndgo
for wagons with a draw and this plan
was originally recommended by Gen.
0. M. Dodge. The private intoruats
of the railroad managers in the Dil-
lonvillo transfer grounds alone pre
vented ita construction and Omaha
and Council Itluffs ha\o been the suf
ferers in consequence to the tune of
hundreds of thousands of dollars a
year.
year.The
The people of the two cities have
been patient long enough under the
extortions of the giant monopoly and
have doteimined to take measures to
obtain relief from the embargo on
trade and intercourse which the
Union Pacific has placed upon them.
They are agitating n wngon biidge be
cause they are convinced it will pay
and pay handsomely , not only in dollars
lars and cents bul in assisting the
growth and development both of
Council ] ) lufl4 and Omaha. The as
sertion that a low bridge over the
Missouri is ilnpr.icticiblo ia the idicor-
est moonshine The river ia already
bridged in three places on this plan
with most satisfactory results. So
far an the expenditure of mo ley noc-
easary to build a substantial wagon
bridge ia concerned wo believe that
the amount will bo readily forthcom
ing. The trafliu between Omaha and
Council UlufTa would at once return
handsome dividends on such an in
vestment. A number of our mer-
ehanta whoso annual tolls to the
Union Pacific run up into the thou
sands of dollars could take stock in
such an enterprise with the assurance
of making money from their interest.
Local trallic between the two towns ,
aside from that of our merchants ,
would bo greatly .stimulated to the
benefit of both citiea and the profit of
the bridge company.
No amount of arguments , however ,
will convince the brasa collared edi
tors on both sides of the river , who
draw their pay from Jay Goultt'a
leadquarteis , and whoso private in-
tcreuta in addition would be affected
: > y any decrease in the amount of
Freight handled at the transfer. A
wagon bridge aciosa the Missouri at
Ins point would badly cut into the
extortionate freight tarifla charged by
; lie Union Pacific bridge monopoly
and it < a only natural that the dogs
should bark when their master is at-
aeked. Since the HUH llowur editor
of The Herald scorns to be so inter
ested in "moonshine , " we will inform
lim of an article of the kind which
vill not go down with the people of
Dmalia and Council BIuHs , and that
s the "moonshine" which attemptu to
cast a reflection of disinterestedness
ever a policy whoso only object ia to
ncrease the weight of the pocket
uiok of the editor who advocatea it.
Mil. Conn , of Indiana , is doter-
ninod to probe to the bottom the
nuttor of forfeited railroad lan'd
; rantfl , and has introduced a bill into
congrotis making it the duty of the
secretary of the interior to declare
orfeitod the grants of all roads which
lave not compiled with the terms of
the contract upon which their lamia
wore granted. This measure is
grounded on law and equity. If the
railroads have failed to carry out the
conditions under which they wore
endowed with princely aub hlioa they
mvo plainly forfeited their rights to
hose grants , There is not the leant
doubt that the Union and Central
L'auific railroads ought to come under
lie provisions of Mr , Cobbs1 measure.
The charter of these companies con
tained a proviso that all thu granted
anda remaining unsold by the cor-
mrutioim ufter the completion of the
roadu should ro\ert to the United
states and become n part of the public
domain , subject to pre-emption at
2.50 an ucro. This clause in the
charter was inserted to enforce the
disposal and cultivation of the lands
as soon as poiaiblo , wid in order that
: ho corporations might not be en
couraged in the monopoly of the
land of this country for epeculutivo
purposes. In the absence of this pro
viuiou tnu charter would never
lave been granted. After do.
aying the acceptance of the
roads for four years beyond
their completiontho , Union Pacific and
Central Pacific immediately began to
doviao a scheme for retaining the lands
which according to the law would in
three yearn revert to the United
State/i. / With this object irt view the
Central Pacific railway directors or-
gamruil n land btirciu composed of
themselves and aold to it in bulk all
that remained of their land grant.
The Burlington i Missouri in Ne
braska followed the simo course. The
Ciiioti Pacific which trusted more in
the power of money and political in-
llnonco determined to content on the
ground tint thojmortg.iges on their
lands were sulficient disposal of the
grant to comply with the terms of the
law. With a bogus prosecutor and
harmonious ntlornojo a test case was
cirried up to the supreme court of the
United States and decided in favor of
the company and there has since been
no reversal of that decision because
there has since been no further at
tempts to contest tno company's title to
the land. If Mr. Cobba inquiry serves
f o reopen the question there is a chnnco
that the nation at large may be placed
in a position to understand how it has
been swindled byaset of unprincipled
and extortionate sharpen , and an
equal chance that millions of acrua of
fertile lands now held for speculative
purposes will be thrown upon the
open market for the common benefit.
If the issue were once presented
fairly before the .supremo court ,
whether a transfer made to avoid the
fulfilment of a contract was not in it
self a fraudulent sale wo have little
doubt of the result. Such a decision
would affect grants covering an area
greater than that of the states of
Ohio , Illinois and Iowa.
THE FUNDING BILL.
Senator Slieiman professes himself
as satisfied that the funding bill which
passed the senate last week will se
cure the approval of the house and
become a law. Tlio bill as finally
passed diflurtt considerably from the
ono introduced by Mr. Sherman but
embodies its moat essential pointa.
That it passed at all may be consider
ed a decided viutoiy for its author. It
has been assailed from lirat to last
with the most inconsistent arguments
and threatened at every atagp. , vrith
highly obnoxious amendments. In
meeting the one and opposing the
other Mr. Sherman has been coin-
pulled to fight almost single handed ,
aided only in the liter stngeti of the
deb ilo by Messrs. Hawley and Ed
munds.
Five principal amendments were
made to the funding bill as originally
introduced. The first made by the
finance commitlc-o leduced the amount
of the bonds fuun three to two hun
dred niill'ona. The second amend
ment struck out the clause making the
bonda payable after five years and
substitutes payment at the pleasure of
the government , while the third
amendment practically lestores the
time clause by providing that the now
bonda shall not bo called till all the
outstanding bonds redeemable at the
pleasure of the government and bear
ing a higher rate of interest than three
per cent are redeemed. An there are
? : ijO,000,000 : of the three and a half
per cents this provision makes it cer
tain that none of the now bonds will
be paid till those are out of the way ,
which will be certainly three years
hence and probably for six or more.
Some permanence ia thus given to the
bonds as an investment which will
assist greatly in placing them on the
market.
The only other amendment of im
portance aside from the proviso de
claring Mr. Windom's extended three
and a half per cents valid , is the ono
propound by Senator IJawloy. This
compels all national banks wishing to
letiro their circulation by a deposit of
an equal amount of lawful money in
the United States treasury to give
thirty dnyn notice and tu limit such
withdrawal to $ 5,000,000 in a single
month. This will prevent national
banks from speculating in tlieir bonda
and will stand in the way of caprici
ous and sudden contractions of the
bank note currency.
The consideration of the bill in the
house will doubtless nilortl now mem-
bora chance \ to ventilate their views
on the currency. It ia to be hoped
that having done this they will bo sat
isfied to lot the bill remain in its pres
ent form.
WAHHIMITON senatorial gossips are
anticipating a sensational scene on the
night of the 27th of February , when
Mr. Itlaino will deliver his eulogy on
President Garfiold. One of Mr.
Hliiino's friends , referring to the com
ing occasion , says ;
" .lust see what u spectacle it will
be. There ia Arthur and his suite ,
lllaino and his following , the demo
crats anxious to see how the republi
can quarrel will turn , thu politicians
of all sorts on the alert , and practi
cally an audience of fifty million
people following every word. There
will be , I take it , a good deal more of
lilaine in that meeting than of Gar-
field. Exactly w hat the orator of the
occasion w ill a y cannot bo prophesied ,
but his words will bo chosen. His
position ia ono of extreme delicacy ,
and the effects of his speech vill extend -
tend as far into thu future us the year
1884. Mr. Dlainu will probably not
confine himself to a 'fulsome
eulogy of the amUblo jmyuto lifo of
the dead preaidontr Hewill 'describe ,
as he has a right to describe the pub
lic lifo of his friend during those
last months of his life when ho was
shaping that policy by which ho wish
ed to commend himself to the Amen
can people. It is notorious that in
those designs and aspirations no one
was closer to the president than the
secretary of state , nor is any one bet
ter qualified to declare to the Ameri
can pcoplo what would have been the
policy of their lamented president.
To describe the past and punt the fu
ture of the Garfield administration is
ono branch of bin subject which the
orator of the occasion can scirccly
avoid , and in tlio circumstances and
surroundings of that night such an
address wilT of necessity bo more than
a mere tribute of iill'ection to the
dead. "
TIIK blows aimed at the conference
of American nationalities proponed in
the circular of Mr. Illaine do not hit
the ox-secretary at all. The idea
originated with Gcncr.il Garfield and
wax carried out in accordance- with his
intentions by Mr. Blame under thu
executive sanction of President Ar
thur. The Btidden reversal of Mr.
Truqcott'fi instructions will do more
damage to the prestige of the United
States abroad than the failure of the
convention itself if it had assembled ,
as was at firat contemplated.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Qroat American Confederation.
New York Kvcnln Tost.
It ia very much to l > o regretted that
the questions of foreign policy re
cently brought to the foreground by
Mr. Blame's diplomatic ventures
should at once have become subjects
of personal controversy connected
with the "opening of tlio next presi
dential campaign , " instead of being
considered upon their merits.
They Can't.
St. Louis Ilcpubllean.
If the American people can peace
fully contemplate the payment of
thirteen hunored millions of dollars
in a quarter of a century , with a full
knowledge of the fact that not more
than six hundred millions will go to
those who really deserve the money ,
wo are very much mistaken.
OCCIDENTAL JOTTINGS.
CALIFORNIA
There in a corner in hay nt dux Angeles ,
mid thu price has bien run up to 830 per
ton.
ton.'I
'I hu length of tlio California Southern
It ail road , when c mplcted from National
i ity to CxSlton , will be 1 , > 2 milH.
It is estimated that . ' 10,000 head of slieoi |
pcrlshed ilurinjj tlio recent Bloim in San
Dic'giiy hoi Angeles anil S.in Bernardino
counties/
Quong Ke . a ( 'olc4inl merchant at
2 > orth San Juan , absconded from that
place with ! jr > ,000 , ihc most of which be
longed tu Mongolian creditors nnd de-
The executive committee of the State
nuti-mouojMily leatuo li , . < < been rtiiueat-d
to nt once agree upon iirul put in the field
of labor n H litable person of good nnti-
inoiiopoly record , whote duty it shall be to
organize every county ia this State.
In YoHomito xnlluy this winter there are
fiftv-niuo reaidinU. Tlio ice nt tlio bane
of Yoxeinltu f.illH lian formed into a cone
that extends upward 200 feet , and with
the fulling water fornit a Bceno of Mirjiass-
ing brilliancy.
A few d iyn ago a young man of Vimi ,
Tehrttna county , UK lie I > .IH < d the school-
IIOIIUB of tlio town , was clmllengtd by a
p otty inins to kNa her. lie un nectiiiely
accepted the prop wition. The girlu
mother brought suit against tlio young
innnnnl the jiwlieo fined him $7,50.
jii DO HB portions of Lni Angeles county ,
during the recent etui in , the wind < lrovo
the slu t unit Hiiow with Hiich violence AH
niuko it imposMblo toalk or drive.
I urge numbers of sheep wore destroyed ,
ninnv being blow n froin the ground and
rolled along by the wind till they were
dead.
OREGON.
The executive committee of the nix
CliinoHo . of 1' jrtlnnd
cjiiip.inie-t are build
ing a private j ill iu that city to itniiritnti
all MoiiKnliaiisgtiilcy of crlmo * not punishable -
able by Oreg in IIUVM.
The Oregon Improvement Company's
steamer Walla Walla tins been chartered
to load lumber for China anil bring back
-,0 0 Chinese biboieu for the Northern
I'.itil'u railioudcoinpiny.
Some iickU'ns i ncal burgliimed the
IInDpuei peat Imusu in Knutern Oregon ,
nnd At tie alltlio _ bedding , and tlio clti/enH
urj now hoping for ono more case of mnnll
pox , with fatal resnltH.
L * . Britt , of Jacksonville , has an orange
tree in full bloom at his conservatory , on
which aioalno about thirty orange * of
good hizo a d ijunlity that will ripin in
< lim time. Tina m , perhaps , the only tree
of the kind nmingHiceesBfully in Oregon.
MONTANA.
Itutte ut'zem ' will hold a carnival unit
loud "lioorah ' on Shiova Titiajay.
Thu HOHS Tni-eil mine In Mudimn coun
ty has , It H waul , been bun ed for $21,100.
A famous diameter known n "Fighting
Tinn , " went "over tlio Dlvulo" recently
with hU bootn on ,
A pirty o ( Northtin 1'acliio MUM nm
lmv left .Milut f'it > to survey fora bunch
from the in.iin line to the Nationtl I'arl ; .
The HUckfett Indian * have killed more
than 100 head of tattle belonging to ranch-
ITH on Uow river , M. T. , during the last
The Jleila Couipuny of tilendiilu have
bull tn wool Ilmut xevcn miles long to
bring wood fiom the timber to tliuir char
coal piU near the \\orkH
TriicUnvt'iH on tinNoithtni Pacific ,
\MHt of MiltH City , laid truck < m .Monday ,
the Kith instant , \ihfii tint ttmporatme
uat ; t ( ) ilfgues Ulou 7tio.
Au inspired demon named lUiscli , re
cently killed hi * roil in tied , threw icero-
lenu on the clothi'1 nnd tu t tliPin on lira ,
and then xhnt liiim-olf in Hutte. The tire
wan uxtiiuuUlicil , but tlio bullcH were
frightfully Imrni'il ,
Coul-mn iMiiidlv | urnuiii ) ! It imw lint
nix ntlooim in opinitioii anil nnntlur with
u danca-houM ) attached i * being built.
Thuaaro pUnt.v of men alxmt the tovui ,
lint tbi' ro hei'ins to be uorU for all ulio uUh.
it. U hi1 going vmgis .ire $ A"m month nnd
board
An incipitnt rnilroid town i Vorujth ,
about Uuntj-livo mile , vvratof Miles ( /ity.
It U contiguous to what N called Pie.ty
1'lut , a coiibiderablu body of utllc ) l.nul
which can uadily Jxi umvuiUd into pto.
ductiu' farmn Seural buildings have
gone up there leeintly , und a nteam t > i\v.
mill U projected
Thu Xortluin 1'iu.ilie , in the bprnu- ,
will have one 01 more Jlxht-draught , pow.
eiful uteamiM on thu Yellow stone , and
will utilize thu river formoving forward to
Coulnon iron und other material for tiack *
building onat nnduit to that point. A
locomotive and Hut-car will ali < Iw h tilled
up from .MllcH by the mine method ,
liozemuu cxntinuca to congratulate iteelf
over iU i nwpeits for rooomlnp a mining
centre by reason of recent dfccorerlt * in i
Hrldjjcrcinyon. There ha been a rich
silver ledge trlkc on Hrlciger creek , four
or five mile * from Borcmnn. The qunrtz
Is of n > ell iwlMi Hint or nlntlOi Appear-
nice , clo o y ro f mbllng thnt of the far-
famed St'irmont mine nt Silver Ileef ,
Ut h The mirfncoorc nMiyi high M
? 82 i > cr tnti.
IDAHO.
A quart ? mining company hni been or-
cnnired In Woid lltver , with n cap tnl of
SftOO.OOU nil paid In. The company will
operate > omcw hero near the lie id water *
of Wood river ,
Now Yorkers have been
roped In by "wlll-c speculators from
Idaho. The niluc * deposed "f Imo no
existence In the country.
The richrst ptrHr that hn ever l-ccn
innde in the territory lim Hint been innde
In the 1'anner mine near liniso Citv.
Tnc ur-a u ays ai high as $1,500 to the
ton.
Three enow i-Hdfs of considerable mag-
nltudo occurred at Jiullum Kit week ,
which enlno In d inger uifly close prox-
Inilty tu the \cry center of the camp.
ll UM"i were completely covered , utalilei
demolished nnd considerable damage d 'lie '
fjeneially. Tlireo inn cs attc opted to
kick thutr way out and perished In the
attempt.
COLORADO
Six uanes of small pox lire reported iu
Denver.
GovernorTnbor'H profit from the Match
less M inu during the moiitli of December
was $00,000.
The Colorul'i Exposition company has
purclnsed a Kite for the piopovd buildings
foi ? r.,000. . '
The agent of theD < nver cL Kin ( Jrandc
K.It.at Hoblnson his diMppuirtd with
? l,700nf the company's futitU.
Oov. Kvans proposn to build the l > . k
N. O. into Triniilud , provided the town
planks down several thousand doHats n1
Tlio lloston and Colorado cuttle com
pany lileil papers of incorpatiou with a
capital stock of 8100,000 , , to operate in
Summit county.
Tlie 1) . A. N. O. is fast appioachiug the
divide and it is 10 cold that track laying
c.innot bo done until in the afternoon ,
Two hundred and thirty men .ire at-work ,
They expect to reich I'ueblo by April 1st.
The men at work on the Oreelcy , Salt
Lake and I'ucilic railro d in the canyon
west of Fort Collins , have all been with
drawn and ordered to the Oiegon shor ,
line. Kit y-nno thimi-iiid dollar H worth
of work his been dune auive above the
mouth of the can ) on.
The Denver & Now Oilcms Jtnilvvay
Construction company filed a Hiiit in the
district court , claiming § 100,000 from The
Republican Publishing company for mali
cious libel of the company. The bill con
tains four count * eich calling fin " OOO.
The ncwsp.iporinl talent of Denver is
branching out for honor * in .1 new direc
tion , in the forming of .1 new Dramatic
asRochtipn , with Mr. Ktigene Field , man-
a ing editoi of The Tiibune , for piesidcnt.
The capitol stock vvaipliced nt § 10,000
of which the above named gentleman con
tributed ? r.,000
WYOMINQ.
The It ir.iwie postolhee 1 int month
tmned ovti 11 Uncle K.im f I'JIi " 0 , oxer
and above .ill expenses.
Plasterers have commenced spreading
mortal in the new o | tra house , and the
work of finishing the eirptmter work is
being pushed alonif ra idly.
Laramie is soon to have n complcta tele
phone ) btem. The wire * , poles , and all
tha neco-s.iry materials .ire now nn the
ro.d. The company propose to connect
with Cheyenne Pellet C'lty mid Cummins
City , making the font cities one circuit.
The railroad bond bill passed the lowei
house of the legislature last week. It pro-
V des for the issuance of10,000 iu bonds
to aid the construction of the Wyoming ,
Montana & 1'aciti < mil road , provided 100
mileH of the ro id he built the present year.
The p moused road will start fr > inthoy- !
cnne and inn through the Black Hills.
The legislature is wrestling with a bill
giv ing married women the name rigutf in
propeity ad law enjo > el by their hus-
bauds. The ro < pinsibilities of the parents
shall bo equal , and the mother shall be as
fully entitled 10 the custody , control and
earning * of the children as the father , ami
in case of the father's death , the mother
skill come into IH full and complete con
trol of the children , and their estate , as
the father dee , iu case of the mother'tt
death ,
15111 Nye , of The Larumio lioomcr.ing ,
has devoted his spiiro moment to writing
a book with the t < Ncinating title of "J'he
i'orty Liara and Other Lies , " besides
wielding a sharp editorial nhears and dis
pensing daily chunks of judicinl wisdom
among the victims of the law'H _ revenge.
llii brethren nro envious of his success
and charge him with publi hng | a nerspnal
biography for put pones of gain. This is a
mistake , howovei. It is to "fill a long
felt want" in [ furnishing the disciples of
lilackt > toiio w th a ready and convenient
wurx of ancient a d modern citations ,
thereby facilitating "the due course of
justice. "
DAKOTA.
A fanners' club II.IH been orgnni/ed at
lllsmarik.
A'crinilllon is enjoying.1 lucrative Ne
braska trade.
The DUmarck chamber of con merce h
leiolved to advcrti o
The citizens of Custer City ha\o sub-
Hcrioed § 1,000 to peif t the patent of the
town tite.
Thu new wing of the insane asylum at
Vankton will MIOII be r ady fur occu
pancy.
McCouk county has thirty school din-
diets o gi ired with good school buildings
in id except four or five.
About SdL'.riOO of the taxes of 1881 have
been collected t the Union county tre.is.
urer's ollice up to this time.
The court room in the now court hotixe
at Kmmlrau vrill bo ! < 0 by l.ri feet , 15 feet
to the ciillng. Klundrau people are
counting ou it as n place of amusement ,
The Yanktun Artoxlan Well and Min
ing lompauy are about to place Uxm | the
market § 2.,000 twenty year 6 nor cent ,
tiondti , Interest pemi-anmiiilly , the hinds
reall/ud therefrom to ho used in construct-
inn a system of water works In Yankton
The Southern ( jueeii mine , liM-nted
ube t twinty miles below , ia coming to
the front with some trry high g ade ore.
A ( Jiaft has been Hunk some twenty feet ,
shoeing u vein three feet in width which
carries 70 per cent , c pper and GJ ounces
of sih or to the ton.
A largo number of lllsmarck's tax-pa-
ers , who liuvo made a vigor un kick against
their aiiHosninent , have instituted proceedIngs -
Ings , and claim that they ha\e eviik'ici
that will i.ot only light tlieir claims of
unjust taxitlou. but vvi I show up the pro
ceedings of th register of deeds und coun
ty cle k f"r the p-ist tw i or tlireo venrn ,
hlcli ure clalnifit to be v try crooked.
MISCELLANEOUS.
It is s.iid that there are two colonies of
Mormonn in Arizona that are free from
territorial and cjunty taxes. They ure so
hohited tint Iheooet of collecting amounts
to more than the taxes ,
Ni > county , Nevada , U the largeat
county in the United .States covering lil-
OJU ( | iiare miles ; Kan Dernardino , Cali
fornia , with -3,000 square mile * , is the
next largest ,
It U said the contractors for building
the luw Insane asjhiui at lleua will lo > e
from S\000 to $10,000 on the job. It
has cost them ? - ( ! a day for tha lait month
to heat the building so the placer would
not freeze ,
The Sunday law went Into force in
Washington Territory ou the 1st iuit.
In Seattle the law is etrktly obierved ,
but the prevailing sentiment seemn to be
thut the l&w U void , nnd will t * > dl re-
g rdd in future.
A Singular Scono.
Dubuqiie l ) < n | < atch , Kcl ) . 2.
'hcrownsa peculiar scene in the
district court to-day , during the prog-
of the trial of Win. .1. Clark for the
murder of M. Hnzolton , an att.irho
of Forcpaiiyh's circus , lust July. The
sttito nnd defense had concluded testi
mony , nnd the case was about to bo
argued , when Judge Hvpg , presidiiif ; ,
toro up BOV on caaes of instructions ho
had prc'pirud for the jury , throw thoni
on thu lloor and declared that the case
should not bo argued to the jury. , that
the state had tailed to nuke out a
case , and ho could not allow the jury
to bring in a Verdict of guilty If
thuy did ho shonld fool it his duty to
set it aside. If the jtny agreed
with him that the state had
failed to make out a case ,
they could render u vurdict of
not guilty without leaving their seats ,
which they did. The judge said that
the defendant was acting as a police
ollicer when the shooting was done ,
and being urn-rounded by a threaten
ing mid assailing crowd , had a light
to defend himself , no matter what ro
suited. The weakness of the state's
Bide of thu case waa duo to the ab-
aenei1 of circus nttnclus , who vve-re ex
pected to appear agauibt the defend
ant. .ludgo lingg's ruling that the
case should not bo argued , and his ac
tion in requesting the jury to bring in
a verdict of not guilty , has no parallel
in this c urt , and is u matter of gen
eral comment heie to-diy ; but .Fudge
Dasjg has a high leputation for judi
cial wisdom and prudence , and quite
likely knew what ho was about.
Clark ia now a free man , and Hale-
ton sleeps in the Potter's field.
"A Wonderful Effect. "
ADRIAN , Mich. , Juno 30 , 1881.
U. II. Warner & Co. : Sirs Your
Safe Kidney and Liver Cure has had
the most wonderful eli'cct upon my
wife , who haa been troubled for three
or four years with a kidney and liver
difliculty. . F. A. F
fobTlvvcod
BOYD'S OPEEA HOUSE.
JA5IKS E. I10 0 , I'rnpmtor
U. L. MAItSIl , Manigcr
Till : ACKNOWI.KDOKD
MUSICAL AfTKlCl
TIIUKR NUJIUS and MATlXfcK Coimmic ! . „ '
Thuisday. February 9.
H. B MAHN'S
rOMICOI'Ht\CO P\N\ .
Approved lij all to he the Ifvr.'cxt anil most
complc i orjanlzitHn in Auicraa Thursdiv
evcnintron' uppe's list ana xriatcst works
( adiptcii ami tr uislitcilsolcl ) f jr ihls coiiipiii ) ) ,
DONNA JUAN1TA
MO IIIJT Vou S ippe's uopu ir opera ,
BOCCACCIO
S\ltltl \ \ evening ( likt apicirinco ) ( .illitrt
Sullivan s Utest inus'c ' l ova ion ,
PATIENCE.
U ) a cirefullj oeleitcd conipiti ) of nrtUts , tn-
f thcr with i grainl ctionis < f 50 Voices M )
Prices : iri ! , "iU , 7 , "I ijO SiaUnow on sail
fch'-a 10
-AND-
Store rixluiT orKs
nd rrciati Doiibelhlck Hat mil Ucnt Show
Cabu ClHiei
O. .T. WILDE ,
1315 and 1317 Cass Street.
fcl)7-lni
AUCTION SALE
Of valuible dwelling hou c3 , birns , i tc. 1 will
sell it public auction on f hursdij , February 10 ,
1582 , beginning at 10 o'clock a in. , at the prem
ises on 8 h street , bctcvvccn Farnham and Jack
son ttrceU About fifteen dnililnc houses ,
tmni , fencing anil other improvement ) ) , being
thopropirl.v of thu II. & M. U. K Coin nn } .
Terms , laih down.
D P. 31. KlimVKLL ,
( chTtoll ) SilcHiuaii.
WILLIAM GENTLEMAN
TZ3HS
16th Street Grocer ,
s roit
STAPLE & FANCY GROCERIES ,
Lemons and Oranges ,
Choice Batter and Eggs
A Sl'KC'ALTY.
GIVE HIM A CALL.
jinlUdlm
AWNINGS !
Made to Order on Short Notice
-AT-
Harness Store.
1508 KA11NHAM ST11EET.
SMOKERS' HEADQUARTERS ,
Joe lleckman livi removed to No. 215 bouth
Thirteenth street , between Karnbam and
Dotglas He now liana fine , room } store with
an cnUnsIro ci ar iinnntactorj In rear ,
Jau27'lm.
JOIIX NTABIKK , CKIJ.MR SCIUMI ,
P Ckldtnt N let Pru-
\V h DKIHIIKK , Sn MidTrris
THE NEBRASKA
M1MAOT1M& CO
Linco n ,
S OK
Corn Planters , Harrows , Farm Rollers ,
Bulky Hay Rakes , Ducket Elevating Wind'
mills , &c.
We are prerurul to do job worK and maniilac
turliff for otlur paitlis
Addreoall oidirt
.NKUHASKA MAMJFAUTUItl.VO CO
LivroLK , N B.
_ lanlO 8m
HOUSES
For Sale By
ITS
FIFTEENTH AND DOUGLAS SI'S ' , ,
No 2W , Full lot ( cnccil inil w Ith small t.ullil
liitt on Crtjiltol AveiMici nenr 25th i.trcet , ? 700.
No. 2S7 , tnt e lot or Mock 295 li > 270 lect oa.
Hamilton , nenr Irene street , i2MO.
No lf ! < 8 , Full lorncr lot on Jonts , iicnr 1Mb.
Btrcct , * 1,000.
Ho. 163 ! , Two loin on Center strict , near Cum--
Inir ftrcit , 81)(0 (
No. 2fi2 , Lot nnSpruce strict , mir O'h street.
WBONo
No 2SI , Twoloti ou Stwanl , near Klnjf street ,
8dM > .
No. 2MJ , Ixjton bcvtnnl , near King street , .
SJW.
SJW.No.
No. 240 , Half lot on DJgc , ncvr llth struct
S2.100
No. 247 , Four lic&utlfnl residence lota , near'
CrclRhton Oollcguor ( will null srnrftto$3(00'i |
No. 240 , Two lots on C'lmrlet , ntar Cmnlnit
etrett , * JOO iat.h.
No. 240J , L ° t O" lilftlior iir Cuiiilng tri > ct , .
No. 245 , Ono acre lot on Cnnilng , near Dutton ,
street , S760
No 244 , Lot on Farnham , near ISth 81 net ,
$4.000.
No. 243. Lot 66 b } 133 fett on College struct ,
nenr St. Mar ) ' Av > nuo , 3500.
No 242 , Ixit on Dougla ! ) , mar 2Cth street.
$ 176.
176.No
No 241 , Lot on Farnham , ncir 2Qh ! iTcet.
* 7GO.
7GO.No A
No 240 , LotOOliv 09 feet on South Avuiue , .
near Ma'on street , i'lbo.
No. 239 , Corner Irt on llur' , mar 2.M atroot ,
92,600
No. 233 , 120x132 ftet on Ilartiev , near 24tli.
stri.e ( will cut It up ) , ? 2,400.
No. S36 , 71x310 feet on Sherman Arena *
( Kith street ) , nenr Orate , $1,000.
No. SOI , Lot on Douglas street , ncar23d $760.
No. 232 , Lot on I'ltr Direct , near Scvvaril , $500.
No. 231 , Iot40zl)0 feet , mar C-pitol Avenue
nud 22 < 1 struct , 91,000
No. 227 , Two lots on Dccatur , marlruiontreet
JJOQanJlJl'itich.
No. 223 , I ot 143 30 110ti > 441 ftct on Hhurmaa
AvenuuOlith strict ) , ncirdraec. 82,400.
Vo 220 , Lot 21x00 fitton Dodge , near ISth
street , tiiilic an ofTcr.
No 217 , Lot on 23J street , near Clark , $500.
No 210 , Lot on Unmiltoi , near Kini ; , SbOO.
No. 209 , Lot on 18th , near Nicholas strut.
S-KXI
No. 207 , THO lota on IB h , near 1'aclflc btroui
81,600
No 20Twools \ on Castilhr , near 10th strecb.
* 150.
150.No
No 201 , buuitlful rcfldcncn lot on Di\iblon
Htnct , in nr Cumin ) ; , Sb&O
No 203 , Lot un Siunderi , near Hamlltoo
stri.it , S5f,0.
No 1OTJ , Lot 15th ftrctt , near Tactile , 8600.
No 10SJ , Three lots on bauridird utnct , near
Sew aril , 81,300
No. 1U3J , Ijfit on 20th * ttn.it , near Sherman
& .
No. 104J , Two lots on 'AM , near Grace Btroel
$600 u ih.
No. 191 } , two lots on King , near Harallt
strut , gl,200.
No. l'J2it o lots on 17th utrect , near Whit
Lead VV i r ! < s , 81,060
No. IBS } , ono lull block , ten lotB , near the bar
ratkH , ? 400 \
No 191 , lot on I'arktr , near Irene street , f300. .
No l&j , two lots on Cain , near 21st etrcot.
( Bill edRt. ) 88,000.
No 181 , lot on Center , near Cutiilng street ,
$300.No
No ISO , lot on Pier , noir Sevtard street , $650.
No. 176 , lot ou Sherman avenue , near Izard' '
street,31.4CO.
No. 174 } , lot ou Cass , near 14th , 81,000
No 170 , lot on Pacific , near 14th street ; malt *
offtrs.
No. 1GB , nix lots on Knr'-ham , niar24tb struct
81 45 > to $2,000 each
No 103 , full block on 26th street , nt *
race ( .ourxe , and three lot * in Gisu'H addition
near Saun iere and Casalus ttrtttH , $2,000.
No 129 , lo on California street , near Crclgh ,
oncollesre,8426.
( NO. 127 , oi re lot , near thu head of St. ilary'e
avtnuo , S3.000.
No. 12d , hout two acres , near the head of St.
Murj'u avenue , $ l,0jn.
No. 120 , lot on 18th street , near White Lead
Works , 8526.
No. 124 , BlxtLtu lotn , near ehci tower on the
lidleuie ro id , 875 per ot.
No. 122 , 132x132 feet (2 ( lots ) on Ibth strovt ,
car I'oppli ton's , 81,000.
No. 11 , lhlrt > halfarru lotfl In Millard and
Caldv\tllHiidilltlonij on hhennan avenue , Spring :
and barutow streets , near thu end of green
street car tniA , 80" to $1,200 each.
No 89 , lot on Chicago , near 22il strict , $1,000
No SH , lot on t'alducll , neir bauuilcra street
$ MK ) .
No SO , eonur lot on Cbirlen , mar Sanndern
streit , S700.
No 8\ lot on Izanl , niar21bt , utth two em
nouses , $2,100
No. S3 , two lots ou lUth , near I'lireo Btroo
$1,600
No 7S , tlirte IntHon llarncj , mar 10th struct ,
$2,0 ( I.
No. 76,1)0x132 ) fctton 9th strict.near L avcO'
viorthstn.it , $3,000.
No. 7j , UixS2 ( feet , on Pacific , nearbth str ctr
$3.1,00
No. 09 , (1(1x132 ( fut , on Duuglin itnit , n
10th , $2 600
No. 00 , eighteen lots nn 21ut , 22d , 23d and
Siundcrx Btricbi , mar I'nioaiid blunders tre
liridge , $400 inch. utb
No. U , one fourth block ( ISOxl 35 fret ) , ncarulM
Convent of I'oor Clalri. on Hamilton strict , nr
thu end of rid xtrev tar track , $360.
No. 6 , lot on Marc } , mar Oth strict , $1,200.
Nn t , lot on Callfcrnia , near 2lnt , $1,60U.
No. 2 , lot on L'us , near 22d strict , $2,600.
No. 1. lot / n Harnoy , near 18th , $2,000
Lotn In Ilarbach's tlrst and ceiond addition *
alrio In I'arkir'H , Hhlnn's , Nelson'n , Terrace , K.
V. huiltli's , Hcdkk'n , Cluu'n , Lake's , and all other ,
additions , at any prices and terms.
302 lots In ilanscom Place , near Ilanuoom ,
Park ; prlcm from $300 to $800 tech
220 iholce liiislness lots lu all the prlndptli
hu . 'iens struts of Onmlm. varying from 9600 to-
$7.000 each.
Two hundred lioiines and oti ranglntr from.
$500 to $15OuO , und located In every part of the
Uirga number of cxecllent firms in Uoiiglaa ,
Sarpi , bnundtre , Dodgt , Washington , Buri , and *
tlar good i-ountln In Kostcru NtbrasKa
012,000 aerci best lands In Doutlan , 7,0X ) airob
bent lands in arpi eouiity , and large tracts ID
all the rattirn tlirs o ) countli' *
Oitr 900,000 aero' fl the litst lands In Nebras
ka oraalebt thUrgoncj.
\ irj largu uinoiints of suburban propirtv In.
ono to ten , tweiit ) , fortv acru plcio' , located
within ono to threi , four or live miles of the
OHtolllcu some ver ) cheap plinn
NKtt PlKKKTSUl-K UK UHAIU , pllbllsllul bV Q ,
llciuli-tinill ) nuts each
Jlonc ) lo'iiitlon linprovul farms , alto on lin-
irond etv proHrt | ) , at thelowu t rates of In-
ten < * t
lloiiHK , ntnn , hotcM , farnn , lots , hindt
rtkcs f OHM , i. , to rent orlea e
Onu hunUnil and Hit } nine beautiful rcsJ-
iliuce loin , located ou Hamilton itnet , half w r
bct ecu the turn table of the rod street car line
and the waterworks ri ervlor nnd addition , and
Just vvi t of the foment of Iho bisttra I'oor
Llalre In Khlnn's aduition , I'rlcu lange from
$76 to $100 iach , and will he tolJ on easy tcnru ,
TracUiof 6. 10 , 16 , 20 , 40 or W ) cres , IUj-
bu.ldiugt and othir improv i incuts , anil udlolnlnk-
the city , at ill prices
3 600 of tne best ruldence lota In the city of
Omaha an ) location jou do'lrc north , c , t ,
south or wist , and at bul rock prlien
Bemis'
REAL ESTATE AGENCY :
16th and DC igla Street ,