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Ei ROSEWATER , Editor.
SNOW is the liveryman's seed time
nnd sleighing his harvest.
JOHN 0. NEW has boon confirmed
an assistant secretary of the treasury.
Indiana politicians will thank God
and take courago.
GKNEIUL Duntnur has left Peru ,
lie should have laid in n good supply
of Peruvian bark before hid departure ,
M ho Is likely to need tonics.
i
FiNcnnAcx has got in h's work nt
laal. The Senate on Tuesday con
firmed his nomination as surveyor of
customs at Now Orleans.
INFORMATION from nil the cattle
ranges indicates that this has boon
an excellent winter for stock nnd
that the losses are comparatively
triflii g.
JOHT as Nebraska has left Nevada
behind , Manitoba has already out
stripped British Columbia in popula-
, tion. Far its are bettor than gold nnd
' 'silver mines the world over.
. . THE report of Commissioner Ilaum
, 'ehows that over live hundred and
forty million cigarettes paid intornnl
revenue tax last year. The number
of foolt' is rapidly increasing.
BLACK JACK LOGAN fools rather sick
over the prospect of Fit ? John Por-
tor's reinstatement to the army. The
best authorities ngroo that the presi
dent has decided to take this stop at
an early day. Porter will ask at mice
to bo placed on the retired list.
WHAT have the committee appointed
by the board of trade to confer with
the Douglas county delegation on the
question of paving , done ? The sub
ject ia of pressing importance , and
cannot in the face of the passage of
the apportionment bill and the com
ing governor's proclamation , be de
layed without danger to the interests
of Omaha.
A STOUY involving the domestic re
lations of Mr. Campbell , of the Wheel
ing Intolliconcor , is donouucod by all
parties implicated as a malicious slan
der , invented by the enemies of Mr.
Campbell. It is to bo hoped that all
papers who have received and pub
lished the report will make the proper
explanation.
MINKU W. BHUCK has boon appoint
ed private secretary to Senator Yan
Wyck , in place of Walter Booloy , re
signed. Mr. Bruce has for eonio years
post boon a prominent citizen of
Northern Nebraska , well known to
many of our readers as correspondent
of TUB BEK. Ills appointment is a
well deserved rooognition of valuable
services in the anti-monopoly cause.
ENGLAND'S census was completed
and published in three months. Our
census will not bo placed before the
country until 1883. It is represented
that it will tike at least n million dollars
lars to finish the work , The entire
management of the census bureau
seems open to criticism. Statistics
three years old will be greatly lessen
ed in value for anything but historian
reference.
THK Union Pacific organs crow over
the admission of n BKK corrospondom
that "railroad facilities uro good" it :
Frontier county. This statement , nc.
cording to the crank who turns the
railroad organ , is very inconsistent h
an anti'iuonopoly journal. There is
a great difference botwoun oppoeitioi :
to railroads and opposition to the
abuses which result from monopoly
management. In common with ul
its readers THK BKK rejoices in every
new mile of railrond ironed In Nebraska
braska which is built by the money ol
its stockholders nnd is willing to bo
eiiliji-ct to the law of the atatu am
the decisions of the courts. Honestly
built and equitably managed railrcad
are always desirable where present or
prospective trafli ? will warrant their
construption. But Nebraska nnd the
west want no more roads built iron
"tho sale of watered stock issued to
conceal the plundering of inside con
etruction rings and maintninod by the
levying of enormous nnd uxhorbllan
tributes upon their patrons. And to
restrict the operation of such inouop
olics the pcoplo of this state propose
to pass just and equitable but at the
eamo time efficient laws for their re
prossion.
THE ANDERSON BILL.
The attention of congress is called
o the gross wrong which the tnx-pay-
ors of Kansas and Nebraska nro suf-
oring from the refusal of the Union
L'ncific company to tnko out patents
on the enormous tracts of valuable
and which they hold under the sub
sidy grants of the United States yov-
eminent. Over seven million acres
of nrablelo nnd are held by the Union
L'noifio nlono in Knnsna nnd Nebraska
on which they pay no taxes and for
which they refuse to bear the ox-
tenses of survey. The title to those
amis rests with the United States ,
nnd no utato taxes can bo collected
until patents nro issued to the railway
company. So far ns the privileges of
ownership are concerned , the grant
jolongs unreservedly to the Union
Pacific. They have borrowed money
on it , nnd created through its means
an immense system of credit , , which
ias enabled them to extend their road ,
juild branches in various directions
jiiy up competition nnd water their
stock to suit the greed of the largo
stock jobbers who figure at the head
of its management. But all the duties
hat devolve upon other owners o |
property have been systematically
evaded , and while every individual
and owner in Kansas and Ne-
jraska is forced to pay taxes
on his farms for the support of the
state , the great monopoly holds and
controls this vast domain , paying no
axes and waiting for higher prices be-
: ere disposing of it to parties who will
improve it and add to the taxable
wealth of the state. This gross in
justice is being thoroughly ventilated
jy Congressman Anderson , of Kansas ,
whoso efforts in this direction have
been referred to in those columns.
Mr. Anderson in an argument before
; ho house committee on Pacific rail
roads last week presented a startling
array of figures regarding the course
pursued by the Union Pacific in the
sale of lands on their Kansas or east
ern division. The grant to the Kan
sas Pacific company comprised some
3,000,000 acres in the state of Knnsiis ,
of which two-thirds is classed ns agri
cultural hind. Of this amount up to
December 31 , 1870 , the company had
sold n little more than 1,500,000acres ,
at an average price of $3.89 an aero ,
leaving in Kansas nlono at the present
time nearly 3,000,000 acres unsold
and unpatented , whose market value
is estimated at $3,000,000. Under
two decision of the supreme
court of the United States all
lands are the property of the
United Slates until patents are issued ,
and taking advantage of this provision
the company has persistently refused
to take out patents , and by this moans
swindles the state of Kansas out of
; axea which amount to $240,000 an
nually. The bill introduced by Mr.
Anderson in to compel the company
to pay the whole coat of surveying , se
lecting nnd convoying those lauds ;
that the company shall pay these' costs
within ninety days after the .passage
of the act and take out patents , and
that if it refuses the attorney-general
shall at once brinp suit to enforce
payment. Further provision is made
that if the company does not take out
patents within live months from the
passage of the act the lands shall then
become liable to taxation by the state
of Kansas.
The Anderson bill is the first
thorough remedy which has boon
brought before congress to moot the
gross injustice practiced on the people
ple of the west by the land grant
roads. Its arguments will apply with
equal force to the main line of the
Union Pacific in Nebraska. If justice
tico had boon done all the lands on
Tjoth divisions would have reverted
seven years ago to the government.
The original act granting the lands
provides that all lauds undisposed of
by the companies within three years
after the completion of the road
should bo open to the public at $1.25
per acre. This provision became op
erative in October , 1875 , and a fair
test of its construction has never yet
been mndo in the courts. It is use
less to hope that Valentino , who is a
paid attorney nnd tool of the Union
Pacific , will render Mr. Anderson or
his bill any assistance in its progress
through congress , but the Nebraska
delegation should not bo ignorant ol
the strong support which the princi
ple involved in the Anderson bill re
ceives from the people of the state.
That support was voiced in the ring' '
ing resolutions of the Farmers' Alii' '
ancu representing 12,000 voters ol
this state nnd it is bound before long
to make iUolf felt oven in so far nwuy
a place as the national capital and the
halls of congress.
AIIMY ollicora are much interested
in the fate of the Buttorworth bill in
congress , which fixes the i.jo | fur 10
tiring at sixty-two. It's passage
through the liouso
is considered cer
tain , as it 1ms strong advocates in
both of the parties , and there is n
general fooling that some measure
necessary to relieve the service from
stagnation nud to reward faithful uml
efficient service. Some opposition ia
feared in the senate , uhoro there are
uovonil determined opponents to the
measuie. The following is furnished
as a list of the officers eligible for
retirement undur the provisions of the
bill ; OcncralsShorman and McDowell
Quartermaster General llucker , and
Colonels Ingalls and Eakin , of the
quartermaster's department ; Surgeon
General Barnes , Colonels Cuyler and
King , and Lieutenant Colonels Simons
and Kconoy , of the medical depart
ment ; Majors Potter , Vcddcr , Brooks ,
Clark , T. 0. II. Smith and Brodhcnd ,
of the pay department ; Colonels lieu-
[ mm , Macomb nnd Thoni , of the engineer -
gineor corps ; Colonels Getty , Hunt ,
Dent mid Bronnnn , of the artillery ,
and Colonel King , of the infantry.
Of this number General Sherman is
thought to bo exempt from retirement
by the terms of his appointment , nnd
Colonel King will , nt his own request ,
bo retired in a few days. Colonel F.
F. Flint , of the Fourth infnntry , has
also requested that ho placed on the
retired lit.
TOOD ADULTERATION.
Commissioner Green B. Ilaum , ns
head of the Bureau of Intornnl Ilov-
onuo , has address n loiter to the Secretary
rotary of the Treasury urging upon
congress the passage of la vn to pre
vent the adulteration of food for
which ho claims that authority can be
found in the constitutional provision
for taxation. Agitation of the sub
ject is timely and highly important.
In speaking of the manufac
ture of cheap pickles , the
Hour lately gave Homo startling
facts concerning the alarming extent
of food adulteration and the use of
poisons in the preparation of wearing
apparel. It says that congressional
investigation has revealed the fao
that pure drugs are almost unknown
in this country , notwithstanding the
fact that the profits of the trade will
roaoh the enormous gain of from 100
to 1,000 per cent , on the sale of the
pure article. Seven-eights of all phy
sicians' prescriptions are rendered of
little worth by reason of the extent of
drug adulteration. In respect to
food the revelations are more alarming
still , and it was brought out recently
that pure sugarand milk wore unknown
in a very prominent western city ; that
even the bread was poisonous , and
that the so-called " "
- "imported teas"
wore made with leaves "faced" with
Prussian blue and chromate of lead.
Alum is generally used in the mami.-
faccturo of baking-powder and sul
phuric acid , alum and verdigris nro
employed to give pickling fluid a fla
vor , and copperas is used in prepar
ing the gherkin. White earth often
constitute three-quarters of the in-
gradients of croiun tartar , and
lamp-black is used to coat coffee. Tlio
same deleterious adulteration is traced
in American-made cigarettes , and ar
senic and glucose are used to such an
extent in the making of confections
as in some cases , according to the
Hour , to merit "criminal prosecution
of the candy-maker. " Arsenic is also
called into requisition in the
manufacture of clothing. In some
instances cloth has boon found
to contain eight grains of
the poi'.on to the square
foot , and ton grains have been discov
ered iu some artificial flowers Toys ,
colored stockings , veils and other ar
ticles nro in many cases more or loss
harmful , and yet no stops are taken
by legislators for the protection of the
consumer , and people go on from year
to year eating and wearing that which
poisoned to a greater or loss extent ,
as if pure food and honest manu
factures wore useless or things to bo
avoided. So long as the purity or im
purity of food and food products are
loft to the honesty of manufacturers
and dealers whoso only aim is to
amass wealth , nothing bettor than
the present condition of af
fairs can bo expected. There
is need of competent inspection at
least at ports of entry , and the impo
sition of such penalties that the de
tection of offenders will bo punished
speedily and so effectively as to pre
vent the recurrence of a crime which
is affecting the hnaltli nnd lives of our
people.
THK senate has passed the appor
tionment bill as it came from the
house , and nothing but the president's
signature now remains before it will
become operative. Governor Nance's
attention is called to this fact in the
hope that the executive pen and ink
will bo in readiness to issue a procla
mation calling for elections to fill the
legislative vacancies before the con
vening of the extra session.
THK division of Dakota , about
which there has boon so much discus
sion , will probably tnko place on the
forty-sixth parallel. The House Committee
mittoo on Territories have voted to
report a bill for the 01 cation of the
Territory of North Dakota , with this
line for its southern boundary , and
all that portion of Dakota south of
the boundary will in nil likelihood , 1 o
11 Hul i in i ) it non- slate , it'tainiiin
name of Dakota. The proposed now
territory will include 70,000 square
miles of land with an estimated pop
illation of 70,000.
WK call the attention of the sub
scribers to Tin : DAILY BKK to the
fact that only six days remain before
the closing of our premium offer. At
the expiration of that time the papers
of all subscribers found in arrears will
bo discontinued , The object of the
publishers of Tiulhi : : : in oil'ering the
largo number of valuable articles
found on the premium list , is to place
the paper on a strictly cash basis and
insure the prepayment of all subacrip-
tions for at least six months ,
This course is rendered nccossny
by the size of our list ,
vthich has doubled within the past
three months and is steadily increas
ing. The two previous distributions
under our premium plan arc guaran
tees that every article will bo given ns
exactly ns represented and in n fair
and equitable manner.
The publishers of THE But : ask
those cf its subscribers who recognize
its snporiority as n newspaper nnd ns
a staunch defender of sound and tried
principles to invite the attention of
their friends to the paper and to our
premium offer which will bo found on
the seventh page.
The Pavement Question.
To the Kdltor ol The lice :
While n chnngo in our city charter
is the first necessary stop , the question
of material is really ns vital , because
the work of paving Omaha during the
coming ten years will bo great , nnd
whatever material is inaugurated ut -
dor n general system of paving
whether good or bad , must continue
for many years. As experience has
shown , whin capital is once employed
to carry on the work , to purchase the
necessary machinery , etc , it will use
its well-known power against a change
nnd taxpayers will find themselves
powerless to control the matter. Wit
ness the cases of Chicago and St.
Louis. The former is , and has boon ,
the hopeless victim of the Nicholson
pavement ring for twenty years , which
has proved a most gigantic swindle.
St. Louis , also , has suffered oven in n
renter degree under the "Macadam
ring , " ns the Nicholson makes a good
street for six months , while macadam
for a business street is at no time
good pavement. These two great
cities are to-day without good streets ,
The taxpayers are quite willing to
charge up the millions that they have
spent in the mistakes of the past and
commence now with a permanent
pavement , but they cannot displace
the "ring. " Granite blocks laid in
the streets of Chicago nnd St. Louis
twenty years ago , oven at the unne
cessary cost of $12 a square yard ,
would have saved millions of dollars
to the taxpayer.
The question of bonds and who
should boar the burden of paying for
pavements are subjects that should bo
more thoroughly discussed nnd under
stood , ns they have been productive
of much trouble , and at times a stum
bling block to the carrying out of this
great and necessary work. A radical
change in the old methods is not only
being discussed in the old cities of the
east , but ia being made. Business
streets are for the use and benefit of
all , and all should pay for them. First ,
because it makes the tax on all light
and a hardship to none ; second , in
all cities many merchants , manufac
turers and capitalists never own a dollar
lar in real estate , and being the very
class most interested in pavements ,
they can only bo reached through a
general tax. . .
Another not insignificant element
that wo shall have to combat before
wo get good pavements in Omaha is
the "fossil" or "old fogy" element.
They can always bo .depended upon to
oppose any public improvement , ex
cept when , as at the present time ,
they find the tide too strong agamsi
them. They then throw their weight
ana influence in favor of something
cheap macadam , for example. The
writer was a resident and tax payer in
Chicago for eighteen years , and has no
axe to grind on the question of paving
material. GLAW.
Foatoffloo Changes
in Nebraska , during the week ending
February 18 , 1882 , furnished by Wm.
Van Vleck , of the postofiico depart
ment :
Established Antolopovillo , Ohoy-
enne county , James H. Gordloy ;
Clnrkson , Colfax county , Wm. A.
Smith Elora NuckoIIa Daniel
. ; , county ,
iel S. Kenney ; Sweden , Knox county ,
Ole ( Rudon.
Discontinued Frcaso , Chase coun
ty.
Names changed Bedford , Nemaha
county , to Howe ; Podunk , Nomaha
county , to Brock ; Smithland , Cedar
county , to Paragon.
Postmasters appointed Oowlos ,
Webster county , E. Gilford ; Oreston ,
Plutto county , John Drake ; Stella ,
Richardson county , Thos. W. Moore ;
Western , Saline county , T. J. Chid-
ester ; Williamsborough , 1'holps coun
ty , Aug. Marshall.
Nebraska Press Association.
LINCOLN , Nob. , February 22. The
annual mooting of the Nebraska Press
Association was hold in the Commer
cial parlors this afternoon. Though
not large , the mooting was n very
pleasant one. The orator and poet
failed to report , and there ivas noth
ing but routine business.
A resolution was introduced pro
viding for a series of papers on sub
jects of interest to printers and edi
tors , The first paper is to bo read by
L. W. Hilton , of The Blair Pilot , on
the subject of local advertis
ing ; the second by Mr. Gelding ,
of the Nonpareil , on editorial cjur-
tesyj the. third , Shall the paper bo a
newspaper or a mouth of public opin
ion ? by George B. Moore , of the Ni .
hiW.'H ( jr ! 'toi ! ; tlio ft urth , Job
Work , by J. W. Wigton , of the
Hastings Gazette-Journal. It was
agreed oy vote that an excursion betaken
taken to Denver , Salt Lake City and
the National park , providing arrange
ments for transportation can bo made.
The members of the association will
visit The State Journal at ton a. in.
BELL.
A Crosi Baby ,
Nothing is so conducive to a man's
remaining n bachelor as stopping for
one night at the house of a married
fiicnd and being kept awake for five
or six hours by the crying of a cross
baby. All cross and crying babies
need only Hop Bittera to make .them
well and smiliiu ? . Young man , remember -
member this. Traveler. fobl4-w2t
FREMONT'S PROGRESS.
The Steady nnd Permanent
Growth of "The Paris
of Nebraska. "
The Record of Last Year Plans for
the Present.
2orrc8K > nilcnco ot Tim Ilcc.
FKEMONT , Nun. , February 17. In
my rounds , I nm again hero in
"tho Paris of Nebraska , " nnd what a
change a short two-months .adds to
the scene 1 The streets dry nnd
dusty , pleasure rides Ihe leading
sport , the weather warm nnd pleasant ,
people working with coats off , doors
and windows in business nnd dwelling
houses thrown wide open , every line
of trade active , in that steady but
healthy prosperity that has marked
every advance of this town's progress ,
every mechanic nnd laborer industri
ously plying Itia artwith engagements
and contracts far ahead awaiting him.
The sound of the hammer and trowel
respond each to each from every
quarter of this beautiful town.
The golden Yellow of now roofs ,
the f/laro and glisten of now tin work
and painting , and the checkered faces
of now brick walls present themselves
to view , up this street , down that ,
from the center to the farthest out
skirts in every direction. So con
cludes my first ramble.
That your readers may know its
growth during 1881 I hero give n
partial list of the buildings and im
provements , dwellings , etc. :
IIU1UHN03 AND IMPROVEtfEXTS MADE IN
1881.
Nebraska or umery 8 20,000
Mny Bros. , wholesale grocery
bulldinar 20,000
Platte river free bridge 15,000
Tribune building 11,000
G. W. E , DoiBfV , reiidciico 12,000
Christian & Bothwell , store 9,000
Cobb & Co. , elevator 6,000
Bozler & BaldrufF , stores 4,600
Charles Larp , foundry 4,000
S. T. Cheney , h y press 3OuO
II. Fuhrman , improvements. 3 , ' 00
,1. , T. Lowry , residence ' . . . . X.COO
F. W. G ihsony cottages 2,5Ui I
John Grunkranz 2,500
South ward nhool 2,5CO
U. P. depot improvements 2,000
Mrs. J. 0. Henry , cottag.e V,000
L. A. Griffith 1,800
A. A. Smith , cottage . 1,000
Congregational church , additions. 1,501)
M. Rogers , improvements 1,500
E. L Kn < > , improvements 1,2'0 '
P. Hickey , cottage 1,100
H. 0 Paine , cottne 1,000
Charles Bullard , cottage 1,000
B. Balding , cottage 1,0)0 )
L. P. Larson , cottage 1,000
Mrs. Turner , cottage 1,000
Mr. Kugeles , cnttage 1,000
George Maxwell , cottage 1,000
\V. A. G. Cobb , cottuRo 1.000
Cottages and improvements of
lees value thau $1,000 each ,
amounted to 48,800
Making a qraud total of $190,000
Please notice that this does not in
clude any large outlays by corpora
tions and outsiders. This year assures
greater improvements , as several largo
brick blocks and business houses are
already contracted for.
BUSINESS.
But few outsiders realize the amount
of business done at this place. A
brief mention of the different lines of
business successfully and profitably
carried on here will give some idea :
Four banks , four wholesale grocery
houses , two wholesale dry goods and
notion houses , two wholesale hard
ware houses , ton live stock wholesale
and retail dealers , four hay prossin
establishments , two founderies an
machine shops , three elevators , two
lumber yards , two first-class hotels ,
and the usual number of small dealers
and establishments , all doing a thriv
ing and satisfactory business.
OENERA1 , .
Fremont , already established as
first-class market for buying and sell
ing , with free bridges across the
Platte securing the Saunders and But
ler county trade , with free bridges
across the Elkhorn securing a large
trade from Sarpy , Douglas and Wash
ington counties , with an unbounded
northweat necessarily tributary to
this point , can well and justly look
with pride to her place among the
cities of our. state.
In a few years , with her vast native
meadows , and her wonderfully pro
ductive and extensive corn-fields , this
place is destined to bo the center of
the cattle feeding and pork producing
land of America. The stock men
and capitalists are fast realizing this
fact , and are bonding every energy
ad centering every effort to secure
a largo foothold on the lands before
they nro divided up into small farms.
I'EHSONAL.
Mr. Bond , of Chicago , is hero
selecting material and dates for liis
now history of Nebraska.
Rev. Powell , of Lincoln , is ambi
tious to start n free and unsoctarian
church hero.
Hammond Bros , of The Tribune ,
are cosily nnd elegantly quartered in
their new block , and promise the best
paper in these parts.
Richard & Keene are now in their
now homo , as bankers , in The Tribune
block.
Our postofiico will soon bo moved
to the spacious room in The Tribune
blo-ck.
Barnard & Gray uro bringing cows
from Kansas for the now creamery.
G. W. E. Dorsoy will give this city
his monument in the shape of ono of
tlui linnet und most orimtu brick a
blocks in the scuta Ho is now ut
work on it.
The Enp fiasco vanished by the has
ty departure of the blackmailer , Mrs ,
Carpenter.
Cobb & Co. are putting in a now
lumber yard.
D. Orowell Mill build an 'elevator
this season and run it in connection
with his lumber yard.
Mayor & Schurman will begin on
their now brick soon.
The now hall of the I. 0. 0. F. is
one of the finest and best in the stato.
Mr. Campbell , of The Republican ,
gnvo our city a visit a day or two
since.
After but a few minutes hustling
and inquiry , the following parties reMaking -
plied , "I want TUB DAILY BKKJ send
it to mo from this on : "
Hey Bros. , cattle dealers.
'Incite A gen ; wholesale hardware.
Bile & Bridge , whotaalo grocery
Brown Bros , liverymen and horse deal
ers.
ers.N. . H Hell , lawyer.
Morris Slowman , wholesale leather deal-
er.
( I * . Loom ! * , lawyer.
Dr. Wlthmpoon , V. S.
Wilson Ioyno1d ! < , land ami sheep dealer.
These increase the list of subscrib
ers to TUB DAILY BEB is no.uly 75 at
this point , delivered by carrier.
MOHE ANON.
OCCIDENTAL JOTTINGS.
CALIFORNIA
Almond orchards nra in bloom.
Snow Is deeper in many portions of El
Dorado county than it has hcen for 25
years.
An nil spring has hcon found near Gil.
roy. The upriiiif ia about six leet in width
and thirty leet long.
The LOH An eles Exprcsssnys dealer * In
winoi from the East mid from San Tran
che , have been purchasing the now vint
age of that county at greatly advanced
figureB. It ia estimated that the advance
for now wines has been equal to from 25 to
35 per cent.
There is n lively trade in sheep pelts In
Los Angeles county , the uriceu varying all
the way from ten cento to § 1.23 , a cording
to the amount of wool and the grade of the
defunit hoep , sixty cents being a f jir av
erage. Thus far there has been high havoc
amongst tlio sheep , but the period of dan
i'cr is thought now to have passed.
The suit of Hartmnn vs. Olvers , which
hai recently ( on brought to a close in Los
Angeles county , is a fair parallel to Jam-
dice VH. Jarndjve. While it was only
thirteen yeais in litixniion , it was tried by
oven District Judges , all of whom are
dead. Though th amount Involved orlgl
nally was only § 3,500 , it was five times be'
fore the Supreme O urt , the cosUlono in
this protracted litigation being $ \(00. ( All
the tirit p irtles to the action were dead
before it WJB determined.
The Chief of the San Francisco fire de
partment hug placed on f-ach of the wagons
of the Fire Patrol a large , heavy canvass ,
aboue twenty feet square , with a number
of handles on each side. These are in
tend' d to bo used at fire * , where persona
have been caught in the upper stories and
have no avenue of escape but the roof or
upper windows. 'Iwenty or thirty per-
sonn catching hold of the handles on each
of the < e canvasses can hold it fast and re
ceive in it any persons who m y lie forced
to jump from an elevation. By the use ol
these , it is expected that , in caae of neces
sity , lives may bo saved.
NEVADA.
There are about 300 Inriians at the Pyr.
amid reservation , and they ore making
arrangementa to farm nnan extensive scale
next summer. They hate built a dam
acro'H the Truckee , nnd constructed irriga
ting ditches to convey the water to grain
fields and vegetable garden ) .
The length of the shafts and galleries in
the Coinstock mines of Nevada is two hun
dred nnd fifty miles. During the twenty
years just closed , 350,000,00 ' tons of waste
rock have been hoisted , 1,750,000,000 tuns
of water pumped to the surface , and the
net result of all this work was § 325,000,000
in bullion.
The Winnemucca Silver State inyt : A
few nights ago a squtw gave birlh to a
papoose in an open wickiup , with th.th < r-
mometer at zero. Next day she was
around , and the babe , wrapped In a rabbit-
skin robe , u apparently as contented and
comfortable as if born i a mansion. The
child of nature is wonderfully made.
OREGON AND WASHINGTON.
Two and one-half feet of drifted snow
in tha streets and the mercury averaging
11 * below zero , is the kind of winter they
are enjoying at Moscow , \V. T.
At Yaqulna Bay , Ore. , the construction
of , the dock 13 being pushed with great
vigor. The piling is almost completed.
Aa teen a the docki finished it is thought
that the shipping business will grow enor
mously.
The Golf ax , W. T. , postmaster con
structs the Sunday law so literally that be
does not even open his ollice on that day.
In a published notice he warns all per
sons to get their matter out of the office on
Saturday.
The Academy built at Cheney , W. T. ,
with the 87,000 donated by Sir. B. P.
Cheney , of Boston , after whom the town
was named , is finished. Two tea he s are
on the way from the east to open the
school.
The Oregon Railway and Navigation
company issued order on the Iftth inst. to
commence work on grading the roads from
Co fat , W. T. , to Farminirton , a distance
of thirtv miles , and f om Coif jx to Mos
cow , 1. T. , a distance of twenty-six miles.
John Jackson is the cattle king of Lake
county Oregon , hnviig about 12,000 head
in that county alone. He recently our-
chased 1,5'iQ bead of stock cattle , and is
also largely engaged in raising mules ,
beingthe owner of two prize jacks , valued
at $1,700.
There are owned within a radius of
twenty miles of Heppner , W. T. , over
200,000 sheep. It is safe to assume that
these will average at least 6 pounds ol
wool apiece or 1,200,000 pounds , which at
an average price of twenty cents per pound
yields the handsome sum of § 240 , LOO a
year.
Three-rj.ua1 ters of the big bridge of the
N. P. , across the Pen d'Oriello lake have
been capped and orders have been receiv
ed to drive another set of bridge piles by
the side of those already down. About 13
miles of grade have bf en completed east of
the lake and 2.COU Chinese and COO whites
are busy making more.
WYOMING.
The Carbon mines nro running half
time.
Judge Parks , the successor of Judge
Peck , nf the sagebrush district , was sworn
in last Monday.
"Pufsy Newport , " a notorious woman
of the town of Laramie , killedhcrself with
a pistol la t Sunday.
Cheyenne is agitating a | nblio hospital ,
A bill will be introduced in the legislature
authorizing the i-Mue of 820.000 in bonds
for that purpose
Spmo nf the handsomest gold miecimens
ever brought to Laramie were shown us
by Messrs. Cummius and Burnlmm , of
Cummins City. The claim is known at
the Gold Eagle , and is only twenty-three
feet in depth. The ore is very handsome
aside from the rich nuggets which stick
out of it all the way from the BIZO of a pin
head to th t of a large Lima bean. The
property is owned by John Cummins and
J. T. Buruhatr. & Brother , ajidjin not for
sale. [ Boomerang.
DAKOTA.
Itapid City h is voted to issue $10,500 In
bonds to build a school house.
A stamp at the HontestaUe mine fell on
vf.irkimin na'iieil 15 it Wallace mid liroka
Ilia leg.
Cattle thieves are doing a thriving busi.
ue B near Rapid City. They steal and kill
cattle and sell them to butchers. Some
arrests have been made.
A rich strike of highgrado silver ore has
been mailo at the Minnie mine , situated
on False Bottom. This name has been
bonded by parties In Deadwood.
N MISCELLANEOUS.
_ rh Utah & Northern was blockaded in
tnree places Collinoton , Beaver Head
Canyon aud Purtneuf by the recent storm ,
A report comes from Miles City that a
juck-rubblt will ) hoius six inches long
was recently hilled near that place. This
wi 1 fairly olfeot the big snake story from
Maine ,
Port Collins I * Agitating the matter of
damming up the Cache-lft-I'oudre for irri
gation purposf-s , ami making a b g reser
voir at that place , and the Ojeoley a.d
Evans vgricuiturUU aie very indignant.
HOUSES
LOTS !
For Sale By
FIFTEENTH AND J10UQLAS SIS , ,
178 , Iou ! o 3 rooms , full lot on Plcrco noixr
2Uth street , ? 1GM > .
177 , House 2 rooms , full lot on Dougloa ner
EOths rcct , 700.
176 , Ilfftiillfnl residence , full lot on CABS near
10th s'rcct , 812,000.
174 , Two houses and J lot on Dodpo nor Oth
street , l 500.
i
17C , House thrca room * , two closets , e'c. , hull
lot on 21 et i car Orncc street , ? 8 < X ) .
172 , Ono and one-half story brick IIOIIRC kn
twit lota on Douglas near 2tth Mnct , 81,7(0.
171 , Housotno rooms , wdl.cictcrn , cubic , etc
full lot near 1'lcrco and IStli stre-t , WO.
17B , Ono and one-halt story home U rooms
vid well , hall lot on Convent street near St.
JInrj'gcnut , 81 , 8M.
No. 170 , House three rooms on Clltiton street
near shot lower , 8325.
No. 109 , House and 33x120 fcot lot on lot
street near Wcbsttr street , 83 600
No. 1CR , House ol 11 roon s , lot 33x120 feet on
10th mar Hurt street , 85,000.
No. 107 , Two story benne , 9 roonu 4 clorct * .
Bood cel'nr , on Ibth Htccl near Topplcton's
? 4UOO.
No . 16S , New house of 0 room * , half lot on
Irnrd near 10th street , $1,850.
No. 164 , Ono and one half story houeo 8 rooms
on 18th street i car l.ctuct. worth , 83,660.
N 101 , Ono and cm-half rtory louse of &
rooms near Hanscom Park , 81,000.
No. 158 Two houtcs 6 rooms each , closets , etc
ou Durt street near 26th , 3,600.
No. 167 , house Cronus , full let on 10th street
near Lcacnworth , 82J400.
No. HO , House 4 largo rooms , 2 closets
bait acre on Hurt etrcoi near Oution , 81,200.
No. 166 , Two houses , ono of 6 and ono of 4
rooms , on 17th street near Hare j $3,200.
No. 164. Three houses , one of 7 and two of 6
roon reach , aud corner lot on Cosj near 14th
street , 85,000.
Nc. 153 , email hou-'o and full lot on Pacific
near 12th * trcct , $2,500.
No. 161 , One story house 0 roams , on Lcaron-
worth near 10th , $3,000.
No. 160 , Ho1 BU thice roonu and lot 02x116
crarMth. and Foruham , $2,600.
No. 148 , Now house of eight rooms , en 18th
strctt ntnr Ltavcnnorth $3,10f.
No. 147 , liouso of 13 rooms en ISth street
near Marcy , $5,1 , 00.
No. 146 , llou'o of 10 rooms and Ulots on 16th
street near llarcy , | 0 000.
No. 145 , House two large rooms , lot 07x210 too
on ' Slier iinn menus ( Kith street ) near Nicholas ,
No 143 , liouso 7 rooms , barn , on 20th sticct
near Leavonvtortr , S2.600.
No. 142 , HOII-O 6 roomii , kitchen , etc. , on 10th
street near Nicholas , 81.S75
No. 141 , Houio3 roouaon Douglas near 2Cth
street , $950.
No. 140. Larpo home nnd two lota , on 24t
near Farnham utrei t , { 8,0' 0.
No. 130 , Ikuno 3 rooms , lot COxlC6J fcot , on
Douglas near 27th street , 31,600.
No. 137 , liouso G roonu and half lot on Capita
acnuo near 23d sirect , S2.300.
No. 130 , House and half acre lot on Cumluc
street near 24th 60.
No. 131 , House 2 rot ins , full lot , on Iiard
noin 21xt street , fSOO.
No. 129 , Tw , hoiifc * o-o of n rprl ono of 4
rooiiH uka-cJ let mi Wclisiur n ur ? 0tli a nt. .
* 2,6il .
No. 127. Twqatorj cute 8 rociiu , hulf lut on
Webster ncarldth 83,600.
No. ISO , House 3 rooms lot 20x120 fcot on
20lh s roet nuir UoutliM , * j"n.
No , 125 , Two story house on liih near Dodge
street lotMxGii feet 81,200.
No. 124 , Largo house and full block near
Farnham and Con rat street , $8,00u.
No. 123 , House 0 rooms and large lot on Saun-
dcrs street near Banacka , $2 100.
No. 122 , House 0 rooms and half lot on Web
ster near 16th street , ? lt > 00.
No. 118 , House 10 rooms , lot 30x90 feet on
Capitol avenue near 22d street , $2,060.
No. 117 , House 3 rooms , lot 30x120 feet , on
Capitol avenue near 22d 91,600.
No. 114 , House 3 room * on Dougha near 28tb
itreet , $760.
No. 113 , UOUBO 2 rooms , lot 66x09 feet on 21st ,
near Cumlng utrcct , 8760. -V
No. 112 , Urlck bouse 11 rooms and half lot on \
Gaa near 14th itrcet , $2,800. * \ ,
No. Ill , House 12 rooms on Da\enport near
20th street , S7,0 > 0.
No. 110 , Drlck house and lot 22x132 feet on
Cess street near 16th , 83,000.
No. 108 , Large house on Harnoy near 10th
strict , 83,600.
No 109 , Two houses and 30x132 foot lot on
Cos ? near 14th street , $3,600.
No. 107 , House & rooms and half lot on Izard
near 17th street , 81,200.
r-o. li 0. House and lot 61x103 feet , lot on 14th
near rieico street , $600.
No. US , Two story house 8 rooms with 1 } lot
on Reward near Saunders street , 82,800
No. 103. One and one half story house 10 rooma
Webster near 16th street , 82,600.
No. 102 , Two houses 7 rooms each and J lot on
14th near Chicago , $4,0.0.
No. 101 , House 3 rooms , cell-r , etc. , H lots on
South avenue near Pacific screes $1,60.
No. 100 , Houeo 4 rooms , cellar , etc. , halt lot
on Izard street near 10th , $2,000.
No. 09 , Very largo house and full lot on Har-
ney near 14th street , $9 000.
No. 97 , Large house of 11 rooms on Sherman
avenue near Clark street , make an offer.
No. 96 , One and ono half seory house 7 rooms
lot 240x401 foot , stable , etc. , ou Sherman ave
nue near Grace , $7 ( .00.
No. 92 , Large brick house two lot * on Daven
port street near 19th 818,000.
N . 00 , Large house and full lot on Dode
near ISih itrott , $7,00) .
No. 89 , Large hause 10 rooms hall lot on 20th
near California street , 87,600.
No. 88 , Large house 10 or 12 rooma , beautiful
corner lot on Cogs nt ar 20th , 87,000 .
No. 87 , Two story house 3 rooms 6 acres eland
land en Saunders street near Barracks , $2,000.
No. 86 Two stores and a reslui nee on leased
half lot.near Mason and 10th street , $ 00.
No 84 , Two story hou-e 8 rooms , closets , elc. .
with 6 acres of ground , on Saundcra street near
Omaha Smacks , $2 600.
No. 83 , House of 8 roo-re , half lot on Capitol
avenue near 12th street , 82 , WO.
No 82 , Ono and ono halt story > ouso , 6 rooms
full lot ou Plorco near 20th street , $1,800.
No. 81 , Two 2 story houses , one of 0 and ono
0 rooms , Chicago St. , near 12th , $3,000.
No. 80 House 4 rooms , closets , etc. , large lot
on 18th strett near White Lead works , 81,300.
No. 77 , Large house of 11 rooms , closets , cel
lar. etj. , with 1J lot in FarnliamnearMth street ,
88,000.
No. 76 , Oreanl one-half story house of 3 rooma ,
lot 66x81 feet oa Casu near 14th utreet , $4,600.
No. 75 , Ilouno 4 rooms and basement , lot
10JX132 feet ou Marcy near 8th street , $675.
No 74 Largo brick house and two full lota on
Dacnport near 15th street , 816.COO.
No. 73 Ono and one-half story house nnd Hot
36x132 feet on Jackson near 12th street , $1,800.
No. 72 , Large brick house 11 roorni , full lot
on la\e port near 15th street , $5,0)0.
No. 71 , Largo hoUtc 12 rooms , full lot on C ll-
fornla near 20th fitruet. $7,000.
No. 65 , Stable and 3 full lota on Franklin street
nrar Saunders , (2,000.
No. 0 , Two story frame building , store below
and rooms above , on leiseJ lot on Dodge near
16th street , $800.
No. (3 , House 4 rooms , basement , etc. , lot
03x230 feet on Ibth street mar hall Works ,
o. B2 , New houeo 4 rcoms ono story , full lot
on Homey near 21st street , $1,760.
No. 01 , targe house 10 rooas , full lot on Bur
ncsr 2Ut street , 85,000. .
No. CO , House 3 rot ins , half lot on Dsvenport
near 23il street , $1,000.
No 69 , Four houses and half lot on CMS near
No 'nouseot 7 rooms , full lot Webster
near 21st street , $2,600. ;
No. 67. housa ot 6 r joins , lot 00140 feet on
21st street near St. Mary's avenuo. W.OOO.
No.60 , Houne of 10 looms , full lot on Califor
nia iii' r lift street , $ . ,600. , , . , „ . , ,
Nn. to , Huu.u II roonib , two full UM on 10th
tiuet r eir I'aul , * J,000. .
No. 40 , Brick house 11 rooms , full lot on Farn-
ham near 17th street , $0,000.
No. 48 , House of 0 rooms , half lot on Pacific
near Oth street , 83,000.
No. 46 , Largo houio with full block near > ho
t0&oT'46'Urgc ! house 7 rooms , closets , etc. , on
! ° SSi on Chicago near
two loUon Chicago nc *
S2d street , $7HO.
REAL ESTATE ACEHCY
16th nnd Dx. agla Street ,
BOTX13BE.