JL'HJfc OMAHA DAUbl BM : WEDNESDAY MARCH 8 lob * The Omaha Bee HtnblUhod every morning , except Snnd y , Che only Monday morning dally. TBKM8BYMAIL-I 'One Vw. . . . . $10.00 I ThroeMontha.f3.00 Six Months. 6.001 One . . 1.00 TUB WEEKLY BEE , pnblUteder. 01ERMS POST PAID. OneYc r. $2.00 I ThrcaMoTiUis. . 50 BIzMonth 1.00 I One . . 20 CORnESPwNDKNOF All Comrannl. tAtions rclfttiui * U > News nnd Editorial mat- en should bo addressed to the Enrron or THE BEE. BUSINESS LETTERS All Boslnew Letters nnd' Remittances thould be * d > droMcd to THE OMAHA FOTIURHINCI Ooit- PANT , OMAHA. Drafts , Checks nnd Pont- office Orders to be rniulo payable to the order of the Company. OMAHAPDBLISHINB 00 , , Prop'rs Ei ROSEWATER. Editor. STAHI.ET MATOTIEWH fools moro com fortnblo now thnt Roscoe Conkling h declined to join him on the supreme bench. c at Washington in on tlie senatorial race track , but nt horn among his constituents ho is willing t < servo a third term in the lower house IK loss than four weeks wo shall be called on to elect Six ward council men. Who are the candidates ? Don' all speak at onco. COUNCIL B&UITB hao elected a doinn cratic mayor after a triangular fight in which the redoubtable Waughan was running for re-election independent. five millions-of dollars are expended annually under the super vision of the Indian 'bureau. The op propriation this year < ia $350,000 greater than that of last. DuniNo the short month of Feb ruary the national -debt decreased a trifle below ton millions. The policy of taxing this generation to j > ay the whole national debt at the rate of ton millions A month is vcry.quoationablo. POLITICAL grasshoppers up ia Da kota are on the anxious seat just now undecided which sida of the fence they are to jump after congress has passed the pending bill to subdivide and reconstruct that territory. GKOUQE WABniNnroK FKOST , mu- aionary among the Indians during anoro than fifteen yoara , and inoro re cently government director of the Union Pacific railroad , ha reached the national capital to file his pre emption for another year. Tim cabinet makers are still hard at work in reconstructing 1'rcaidout Arthur's cabinet. The latest slate transfer ! Postmaster General Howe to the interior department to open the way fur some young and active ' stalwart partisan. TuAT'long-promisod branch minsat Omaha doesn't moot with much en couragement in tlio senate and it now looks as if wo should have to got our silver dollars coined In Philadelphia a few years longer. It is sad , but wo presume Omaha will survive. TIIKEB hundred and eighty-six , farmers' alliances ore now working in this state , and scarcely a week passes without additions to fliq number. The railroads have beeF given duo notice , and will probably govern ihotnsolvos accordingly. SENATOR SAUNDEKS has introduced a bill into the senate making Omaha a port of delivery. The Union Pacific bridge monopoly has boon forcing Omaha to stand and deliver for the lost nine years. > Lr wo are to believe tbo San Fran cisco Call , ox-Senator Sargent waa beaten for the interior department by the Indian rings and land grabbers. No one who knows Mr. Sargent's old- time leanings toward land grabs will credit this statement for a moment , raid on the American hog having failed ho has now attacked the American ham and classes it as cotton goods on account of the wrap per whicli encloses it , On the s&mo principle our government ought nt once to retaliate by classing German oauiagca as old skins. MlllIC DlWNELL , of Minnesota , Booms to have boon made the victim of a clover forgery , Borne weeks ago a letter WM given to the proas which announced Mr , Dunnell aa actively canvaasing for the ouccea- iiiou Of Senator Witidom. The letter was eignod with ofr DunneU'a name and purported to bo a confidential communication to a penonal friend. It created a genuine sensation' in Jliiineaota political circles , especially Atnoner Mr , Punnoll'a coiuititueata , . . ' , - .T * > CAPTAIN EADS and his trained corps of lobbyists are jubilant over their prospect of another successful raid on Uncle Sam's treasury. The senate commlttoo on commerce have decided to report favorably on End's gigantic subsidy scheme the Tchuannpcc ship railway for which the government is to advance its cred it to the tune of.fifty millions. Ends and his strikers confidently expect favorable action for this scheme by the senate and house , nnd the prevail ing opinion is that their confidence is well founded. Captain Ends lias already pockottcd several millions for his jetty work nt the mouth of the Mississippi , and hisoxporioncoin lobby ing that lucrative job through congress has enabled him to manipulate the congrcsonal ! committees in favor of the ship railway sckomo. Without disparaging the labors of Captain Ends on the Mississippi jetties , or en dorsing current reports that Ends per petrated a .monstrous fraud on the government in settling for the jetty job , wo may safely pronounce the "ship railway scheme a more brazen subsidy otoal than the credit mobilior grant. It is simply an insult to the intelli gence of the American people for con gress to vote fifty.millions of bonds to such a scheme > when the proposed im provement of the great water ways.of the Mississippi valley cannot secure ono-tenth of ihat sum. The fact that , Eads maintains subsi dized organs at the national capital to advocate his ship railway job , that Eads gives costly public dinners tocon grossmon and journalists , that trained and well organized lobby working night and day making con verts among congressmen who wan to bo converted affords proof that tin ship railway flchomo.is a speculative enterprise wholly'in the interest of a gang of jobbers. If this steal passe ; congress in spite of the known popu lar advorslon -aubsidios , of every class , President Arthur could not ren der the country greater service than by voicing the bill. THE disastrous overflow of the Mis sissippi river should impfoos congress with the pressing necessity of immediate diato attention to the .improvement of the great river and its principal tributaries. An unobstcucted chan nel from the head of navigation to the gulf is what the interests of < the coun try demand. Lees than that is not so much of an injury to the part nog looted as it is to the people at largo , [ t is now understood by all , as well as publicly admitted by railroad corpora Jens , that river transportation is the } no great chock upon monopoly. The testimony of Wayne MacVoagh , as ittornoy for the Pennsylvania railroad , was all of ono tenor , [ t complained throughout that , jvon without any legal rostrio- ions , the railways are scarcely able to ioiapoto with the water routes. Hence ioro is the greatest economy in ostab ishing , once for all , a navigable route rom the great broad-producing etc- mnscs of the continent to the RCA > oard. No legislation can do so much award moderating and equalizing roight charges. It is the duty of all 'oprosontatives from the Mississippi alloy to unite on this ground , Corn- lined they can exert a moral , as well , a a numerical influence , which senso- oss jealousy will weaken and dis- ipato. IT is stated that when President Arthur decided to nominate Mr , } onkling ho wrote to him at the Fifth Lvonuo hotel whore ho supposed ho ros , and informed him of his inton- ion. Mr. Conkling had gone to Jtica in the mean time to visit his amily and waa consequently there . fhon the nomination waa made. Not tearing from Mr. Conkling the presi- lent decided that the nomination vould bo agreeable and made it. fills statement , if correct , explains fhy the nomination was made , but ails to show why Mr , Conkling did lot refuse the proffer as soon as he M > came aware that his naino waa being isod without his sanction. TUB' real estate craze is liable to [ ivo Omaha a backset. Thousands of > eoplo who came hero years ago to nvost and settle down turned their jacks on Omaha because they were lazed by extravagant real ostuto prices. Dthor thousands are liable to stay iway because reckless real estate ( peculators are putting property out > f the roach of men of moderate noans. THE latest conundrum put in circu ation by sensational reporters of theresa > rosa is does Brigham Young still ivo ? Wo presume ho does , and wo ihould not bo surprised to hear that 10 was soon hobnobbing with Pie None , Louis Napoleon , Wilkes , Booth md other persons of note whose lurvival has from time to time boon a natter of speculation , UNDER the now apportionment Cansaa will hayo seven congressmen , [ 'he Kansas City Journal mentions wunty names of omli.ont Kanaans rho are prominent candidates for hogovon Hcalo , with the back counties ot to hear from. The crop of con cessional candidates iu thu atato ii jlyaa | promiiing , TUB announcement is made by the Burlington & Missouri railroad com * pany that from date freight will bo re ceived at Omaha for Chicago , direct by way of Plattsmouth. This move on the part of the Burlington road is significant as indicating trouble in the Iowa pool. It was hardly to bo ex pected that the Burlington company , with a through line from Omaha to the lakes , would long remain content with an arrangement which gave a largo portion of the profits to the Union Pacific bridge monopoly on each carload of freight transported over the lines. This action , wo be lieve , will force a disruption of the pool , or clso compel the building of another bridge over the river at this point. The Union Pacific has for a long time boon anxious to throw all the traffic possible into the hands of the Wabash , and has used every in ducement in the way of cut ratosto ( incline shippers to this ond. Now that the Burlington road is independent of the Union Pacific , the Rock Island , Northwestern , and St. Pnul compa nies are likely to see thr advantages of securing a connection with our city by moans of an independent bridge , It is a well known fact that this sub ject has boon discussed for some months past , and that stops have been taken to ascertain the coats and the most advantageous location for such a structure. Omaha's trade has de veloped so largely within the past liv years , and the receipts and shipment ! from the city have increased so great' ly that a now bridge has become al most a necessity from a commorcia point of view. Tho' Union Pncifi bridge is over crowded with business and at times is entirely inadequate to .deal with the traffic. An a result the transfer is crowded with undelivered freight , and our merchants are correspondingly spondingly iiicaavonioncod. There is no doubt that another railroad bridge across the Missouri at this point must bo built within the next five years , and it is a question whether the ao- tion of the Burlington roads will not hasten a day which will bo hailed with pleasure by all of our citizens. movements in th south are springing up as thickly as loavcc in the spring. The back-bone of Bourbon riilo is seriously strained and a few more straws will break it aa effectually in Georgia as it has booh broken in Virginia under Mahono. Following Mr. Folton's example , General L. J. Uartroll , formerly an active and influential democrat of Georgia , announces his intention to run as an independent candidate for governor next full on a platform of a "free education of all children , oppo sition to railroad and other monopo lies , opposition to the present system of leasing the state convicts , a recognition nition of the unity of our common federal government , and equality of all men botoro the law- " The Vicka burg Herald is calling for immigration into Mississippi , and urging as induce tnonta 500,000 acres of fine plantation land , "perfect freedom in all matters , political , social and religious , " and constantly growing educational ad vantages. Those are signs of the limes which foreshadow the future ma terial advancement of the south. Prosperity and personal and political security go hand in hand. It is the { rowing recognition of this fact which is causing such a stampede from the Bourbon ranks in Dixie. THE chief element in the prosperity of every state or nation in the ocono- ny of transportation of persons and property. It is the most marked fact n the difference between civilization md barbarism. [ Horatio Seymour. Every dollar saved in the transpor- .ation of goods is a dollar in the pocket of the producer. And every lollar charged by the monopolies ibovo a rate which affords them a fair eturn for cost and risk of uorvico la n heft from the public pocket. OUAUA'K mud is oven moro famous ; han her rapid growth as the molropo- is of the Missouri. The Chicago Herald says : "There is ono other : ity in the world whore mud is a reg nant feature. According to the At lanta Constitution , "the cam got ituck" in thp streets of that city , "and off the street car lines a horse can scarcely pull an empty dray. " Misery loves company , and Chicago is glad in her abject muddiness to hoar of some thing moro recent in the mud line than the Omaha of 18G5 , whoso con dition was described in the quatrain ; "Has't over been in Omaha , Where rolls the dark Missouri down- Where six strong horse * scarce can draw An empty wagon through the town ? " Tim sale of 55,000 acres of hinds in Northern Kansas i i'luiuiuK ; to the Central branch of the Union Pacific railroad company has boon re ferred to in our dispatches. This im mense tract has been held for years by the land department of the Central Branch uu&ubjocfod to state taxation jnd reaping ull the bonofUb and pro tection of a government supported by ; ho contributions of citizens who lidn't happen to belong to a railroad souipany. By its transfer to a rosi- lent of Now Jersey it will now lw breed to boar its share of the tuxes > ind Kansas will bo correspondingly xmefittod thereby. V - ' . * . . * - , . „ C8 SURVEYING FRAUDS : Senator "Van Wyck on the Trail of a Loud Beast. A Pew Facts and. Figures on the burject. Congretilonftt Record , Ftti. 25. The senate proceeded to consider the following resolution , submitted by Mr. Van Wyck on the 20th of January - uary : Whereas , The records in the general - oral land office show great nbuso and frauds in the surveys allowed by deposits - posits under sections 2401 , 2402 and 2403 of the revised statutes ; Re solved , That the secretary of the interior torior bo directed through the com * missioner of the general land oflico to instruct the surveyor general to up prove no moro applications for sur veya under the deposit system , am' that all proceedings bo suspon od under dor applications already approved un til further action by congress , so thai contracts unlawfully procured may noi bo recognized a valid. Resolved That the committee on public land make investigation oa to the natun and extent of such alleged abuses am frauds ; what redress may bd had foi any loss sustained by the govornmon and what legislation is necessary t prevent a recurrence in the future. Mr. Van Wyck Mr. President , b the courtesy of the senator from Iowa , and with the permission of the senate I propose to submit a few remark ; relative to the resolution which I pro posed in this body a few weeks sine in regard to improprieties , abuses an frauds in the surveys of the publi lands. Tim act of 1871 allowing settlers 01 the public domain to have the town ships surveyed in which they lived sc that their boundaries could bo definitely nitoly fixed , by depositing with United States depositary the cstimatoc coat of such survey , usually $600 foi a township , receiving therefor certificates catos of deposit which could , bp usoi to pay for land pre-empted in tin township so surveyed , was intondcdai a beneficent measure , but grow int < great abuse and greater frauds when in 1879 , the law was amended so tha such certificates could bo assigned by endorsement and used in payment foi the pre-emption and homestead of anj government lands. Before 1870 the enterprising raider , wore restricted by the clause .making certificates good only in the township surveyed , so they contrived a schomi to widen the field of operations Under dor the guise of regard for the settlers they appeared in congress and im posed upon its credulity , and by the miracle which generally secures the passage of any measures under which IB concealed plunder , the bill was scarcely challenged. One feature in the record of its passage from the present stand point appears signifi oant. oant.Tho The original bill 801 was introduced in the senate March 25 , 1&78 ; reported from committee on public lands April 24. : passed May 1 ; sent to the house and referred to committee on the pub lic lands May 1. The committee re ported the bill May 11 , amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting the timber-cul ture bill , believing that would be moro for the benefit of settlors. Thus amended it passed the house the same day. A proper inquiry then and now why was not the bill as amended returned to the senate for its action ? The defeat made the schemers moro ahrWd , nnd waiting until the next , which waa the third and last , session of that congress and near its close , not until the 27th of February , as the session closed on the 4U < of March , they reappeared in the house and the speaker announced that senate bill 801 had bon lost , and an order was entered'that a copy should be re quested from the sonato. So nfuch engrossed with other matters was every member that no ono of the pub lic land committee corrected the speaker with the information that , although effectually buried by the house , the bill certainly was not lost. A copy of the senate bill was obtained nnd on February 27 promptly passed. Already organized , the plotters at once extended their plan of operations with dummies , straw men and collu- lijn with some of the surveyors- general. Ihoso surveys are confined to lands "not mineral or reserved , " intending to benefit settlers , and would bo most used in agricultural states and terri tories. Before this amendment the ipposits were small , especially in agri cultural states. With money at command these ur- lent friends of the settlers increased the deposits , particularly whora ac commodating surveyors-general were found , and the records show some , like Barkis "woro willing. " They sold the certificates at 00 and 95had the surveying contract ! made to them selves or in their interest , got the work done for 40 or 50 per cent , of contract price. Adding 10 per cent , liscount on certificates , the profit is 30 per cent , while the loss to the gov ernment ifl nearly the whole amount , for many of the surveys are of no raluo whore the lands are inacceesible ind worthless , and sometimes no sur veys in fact are made. These deposits , in previous yean of imall amount' , swelled during the last peal to about two million dollars , and every day increasing. Is every de partment of this government honey- tombed with kindred corruption ? The postoffico waa raided , and ono equally jutragoous appears in the land depart ment. Like the postoffice , the land department produced this monstrosity if villuny under a remarkably pure administration. If moro time hud been spent in detecting thefts and robbers and loss in decimal fractions , the differential calculus , and the. or bits of the heavenly bodies , the treas ury would not liavo sufiored so much lotrimont. These frauds in the interior depart- nont are particularly painful , for at : hat time it was enjoying the distinc- ; ion of possessing all thorp was tm- Jiotic in the mradtao of civjl service , riiero the lily and sunflower of American politics wore scattering heir brightest hues midmost fragrant lorfunies. Daily and monthly re- jorts wern regularly made , the annual ( ipoiidituro of a few thousands was wulliii | { iuto millions , still the wathotio ihiof and his pinks of civil service ro om must nut be disturbed In their consideration of abstractions and theories , The present commissioner , Judge McFarland , having some knowledge of the value of money and the enor mity of crime , soon after his intro duction into oflico began to have glimpse * of the "ways thataro dark , " and September 5. 1881 , issued to the surveyors general a circular warning tliem of thu great fraud ] being per petrated , nnd directing the manner of detecting , so ai to "annul fraudulent contracts. " The commissioner in his report snys : It is believed the practical results of said net of March 3 , 1879 , have been to cause the survey of vast areas of land of no prueent and perhaps of no prospective value , and the sur render of valuable lands in payment for such surveys. The records nlao conclusively show where the surveyors general must have been criminally negligent or ignorant , or in collusion with this band of plunderers. They had opera ted with much success in states and territories wlicro townships of good land could bo surveyed , but the great object was to survey worthless lands , and then have the opportunity to use the certificate whore the lands are good. There- would bo no profit to survey largely in Now Mexico , Colorado , No- vnda , and Wyoming. unless the cir- tificatos could bo used in other states and territories. Notwithstanding the circular of Commissioner McFarland , many of the surveyors general have continued making contracts. Colorado rado has added $180,000 since the close of the fiscal year , making for the slate about $000,000 for eighteen months. To show how recklessly those frauds are perpetrated , the same men appear as contractors in Arizona California , Nebraska and Nevada. A California chief roaches from the Mis souri to the Pacific. Late in the yea : they invaded Nebraska from the west well knowins its settlers did not in yoke their presence to obtain addi tlonal facilities for surveying , andalsr knowing that secrecy was importan to prevent suspicions. . The statute allows deposits in anj United States depository. There is ono In Omaha , but bettor to conceal their operations they send 500 miles east and make all the deposits at Chi cagoj then the contracts are made to this wandering band who are so zeal ous to protect thp interests of the sot tiers on the public domain. The surveyor voyor general of Colorado realized that some explanation was necessary for the absorption of half a million. Ho says : "This increase is duo main' ' ly to the extensions of the different lines of railway into regions heretofore almost inaccessible by pack-trains , rendering every aero of arable land valuable. " If all the surveys were actually made for which ho approved contracts , it is also true that the pro visions and equipments for surveying parties' were transported by pack- traius over the townships to bo sur veyed. The following table of figures taken from the reports of the several surveyors-general will illustrate and sustain these charges : SPECIAL DEPOSITS TOR SURVEYS. § IS ! 1881 'OS eutif oouig l 55tH n cfnmao cT 005"t-T M CO -T * OOC3T-I eo"c oo rritf ) o > vt a > & efn row" ST n a : o * S o I H s # 3 5 w a ; rt 01 o Individual. + By Central Pacific , I Surveyor generalin his report , June 30 , 1881 , says 330.0CO has been paid , leaving in unexpired balance of $181,000 , I-S r ? ' While the general appropriations or surveys of late have ' boon too mall , yet congress did not intend nor rill it sanction the delegation of its tower to an irresponsible syndicate or the expenditure of millions , which s the practical result. The present system is sadly dofi- litnt the appointment of a surveyor [ onoral without any regard to his cnowledgo of the rudiments of the mnitinh , with no idoof th < > mndn or lorrc' ncaa of Mm1" n Or'nci tit" ippropriations pro fanned out tu depu- ics who are not surreyora , to a few avoritos , who expect to retain one- mlf the appropriations as profits , naking the whole system a sort ot po- Itical hospital , without any regard to ifiicient and economical expenditure. One object of the resolution was to iffoct a remodeling of the entire plan ; , lso to have annulled contracts that night bo illegal , not of course to im- > air thoau made in good faith. Be- loving these subjects may bo moro iasily reached and no injustice done uy one , I move thut the resolution to referred to the committed on pub ic lands , with power to make full in- cstigation. Mr. Toller. The complaint made y the honorable senator from Ne > braska , so far as it alludes to Colorado , is not well taken. No complaint can be made in regard to thnt state , al though a very largo amount of the country has been surveyed ) The ap propriations hnvo been so utterly be low what they ought to have been for the purpose of surveying , that state having an area of 105,500 oquaru miles , thnt the settlers nnd parlies i-- terestcd in having the public lands surveyed have taken advantage of the statute referred to. To show that in Colorado there hoi been an nbuso of the statute , the hon orable senator calls attention to the limited number of acres of land that have been entered and paid for , If ho had been as familiar with the wants of the pcoplo of that stnto as the senators from that state nro , he would not have cited that as an illustration. IVo-thirds of the state of Colorado , nt least , is a mineral region. Very little - tlo of that can bo entered either aa homesteads or under the pre-emption net. In every section of it , pretty much , parties are making applications under the mineral law for the entry of mineral claims , both of gold and silver. It is as csaential to the com plete description of those claims that the country should bo surveyed as it is that it should bo surveyed whore they enter agricultural land , and therefore there has boon n necessity for the survey of all that region of the state in which this money has boon expended. \Yhilo townships and counties maybe bo surveyed as the wants of the people ple require a survey , yet there is very probabfy not a quarter section of ] , the whole country which will over betaken taken under the pre-emption act Ibut hundreds of minors are there locating their lands , locating their claims ; and when they make their application for a patent , of which the gentleman hai taken no consideration whatever , o when they make their location with out reference to the patent , ' it is i necessity that they should hav a township line , a section corner , an all other data of that charactoi In Colorado there is no complain by the pooplo. The people have no been wronged , noitner hasjtlio general government boon wronged. If there has boon frauds and swindles in Nebraska braska , the honorable senator ma ; speak for Nebraska. Ho has no righ to speak for Colorado. The motion was agreed to. FEBSONAL. J. W. Bakh left for Cheyenne yesterday , W. B. Loring went west yesterday Sidney. H. D. Kitobrook baa gone to Chicagi on business , Kev. Father Englinh wemt out to iF mont yesterday , Dave Reynolds , the cattle man , wen west yesterday. Hon. J. T , C'arkson ' , of Schuyler was in the city yesterday , Hon. Geo. W. E. Dors y , of Fremont , was in town yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Anderson , of Wa hoe , ate in the city. Wm. T. Mason , of Leadville , is in th city , a guest at the Withnell. Mr. C. A. Ringer went o'ast yeaterda to select his spring stock. O. J. Taylor'and W. H. Livingston , o Siouz City , are registered at the Withnell. James Coughton , a prominent San Francisco merchant , was a west b'oum passenger yesterday. O. North arrived in tb city Mont'a ; from Evanston , Wyoming , and is stoppin at t.e ! Withnell house. Mr. Sain Smith and wife came in from Cheyenne Monday. Mr. Smith la well known U. F. conductor. Capt. Sam. C. Jones , assistant general passeoger a/ent [ / of the U. P , left for Colorado rado yesterday , on a two weeks abeence. Ilev. W. A. Llpe , formerly of this city , went east yesterday to Sterling , III. , attend the golden wedding of his parents , Isaac L'oe , of the firm of Coe & Carter , ctttle dealers , arrived in the city last even < ing and put up with mine host Kitchen. W. D. White , of Tekomah , superin teudent of police at the coming state fair , is in the city , Mr , White Is heavily inter ated with Hon. Chris * Hartman in thi business in Burt county , M . M. E. Gillette , of Burlington : Mii , Goo. W. Colbura , of I'acfic Junction und Miss Cora F. Knight , ot Holyoke , Mass. , were in the city yesterday , the cpiests of Mr , Louia Littlefield. Mr. and Mrs , George Canfield , of the Canfield house , left on Sunday night for Denver , from which point they will make a trip ink ) Southern Colorado. They were accompanied as far as Denver by MH jor D. 11. Wheeler , of 1'lattsmoutb , nnd Conductor Geo. Duncan , of the Union L'acific. : Old Prince Poisoned. Some wretch poisoned old Prince , the depot dog , yesterday. Old Prince was a fine blooded pointer , ind the property of Councilman McOavock. For years ho 1 as been in.tho habit of watching the trains nnd being on the depot platform , when they came in , as regular aa if 110 were an employe of the road. Everybody know him and his fis1 good natured appearance was alway , the signal for tun among the boys , Prince never did a moan thing in his lifeand his honeat.eycs would look in the faces of these whom ho knew with 111 the intelligence of a human. His nvnor nnd Uuurgo HM are both in- : oiiBoublo. ) DYING BV INCHES Vly o'ton wo sc t uiuww ( d. 'uiUi u.niio fuiiu nt kuliiey cuiiip ami , ind is gradually dying y inches rhis no longer need bo so , for Electric Sitters will positively euro Bright's liscaao , or any diseases of the kidneys ir urinary organs. They are especially idapted to thu class of diseases , acting lirectly on the stomach and liver at ho same time , and will speedily cure There every other remedy has failed. 5old nt fifty cents a bottle by lah & rtcMahon. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (5) ( ) Aged Gratitude * FLINT , Mich. , June 22 , 1881. H. W. WAHNKU & Co. : Sirs-I am ' 2 years old , nnd have not been so roll in 20 years as I am to-day , thanks o your Sato Kidney and Liver Cure , ho best remedy in the world mch7-dlw IK . Tfc . THE GRAND JURY. It Concludes Its Labors by Indicting : - Siort , Kane and Oblof Gnlllgan. The grand jury reported yesterday- afternoon , after nearly n week's ses sion , and handed in tko names of three parties against whom indict ments had boon found. These are : Henry Siort , charged with selling liquor without liconao. Patrick Kane , charged with selling liquor without license. John J. Galligan , charged with ob taining money under false pretenses. The public are well acquainted with the first two cases , aa both hare been up before and como under the action of the Slocumb law. Four counts are found against Siort nnd two against Knno. The indictment of Galligan , chief of the fire department , includes three- counts , or , moro properly , throe in dictments. Ono clmrzea that on July 23d , 1881 , Galligan "sold his salary na chief engineer of the fire de partment for August nnd Sep tember , amounting to $200 , to Julius Treitscko ; and that ho had previously sold the same salary to Felix J. Mc- Shano. The second charges thnt on November 28 , 1881 , ho sold his salary for January ; 1882 , $125 , to Troitacko , . and that ho had previously sold the same to William Hagcdon. The third charges that on July 10 , 1882 , ho sold his salary for February to Dennis Cunningham ; and that ho had pre vious sold the same claim to Troitscko It is understood that since conduct ing those rather perilous business operations Galligan has paid in great part the indebtedness that ho thereby incurred. However this may bo , the indictments were found , and it ia- probable that Gallitjan will bo tried this term of court. It was generally understood last evening that Roster's case will bo- commenced to-day. Mexican News Httlcxua Associated I'ran. CITY OF MEXICO , March 7. A branch of the French-Mexican Na tional bank have been established at Vera Oruz with a capital ot $260GOO' and the privilege of increasing the capital to any amount the directors- may think proper. A diligence , with a full complomont- of inside and outside passengers , while on its way to Guadalajara and when within a mile of that city , was attacked by a band of robbers. Most of thd passengers being armed they resisted the attack , and in the fight that ensued cloven of the robbers were killed , while the remainder were put to flight Strange aa it may seem not one of the passengers were in jured. Wife Murder National Associated Presa. LANCASTER , Pa. , March 7. James Shaw , aged 55 years , shot and killed his wife this morning in Coloraino township , Lancaster county. They had not lived together for some time past , and have had moro or less do mestic difficulties. The murderer es caped and up to thia evening had not been captured. Explosion of a Powder Mill , \ National Associated PICM. BOSTON , March 7. The Acton pow der works blew up this morning. ACTON , Maaa. , March 71 Four hun dred pounds of powder caught fire by some unknown moans and blew the factory to atoms. The noise of the explosion was heard twenty miles. No one was killed , but Frank Wilson , , an employe , was thrown 100 feet , alighting uninjured in the canal. This is the fourteenth explosion in the same mill and the only one in which lives were not lost. United States Depository/ National Banc ! : r OMAUA. * Oor. 13th anrt Farnam Ste. OLDEST UAMUaU OMAHA ur SUCCESSORS TO KOUNTZE BROTHERS. ) STABUHUKD IBM. Orgiclicd at National lUnh August 3 , Ihea CAPITAL AND FKOFITS OVEB - UQaOOO omens AMD DUUOTOM r HtRXAa Kouvrzn , Prwidci.t. Aoo'JHii's KouNTzr , Vice Irv ! dcnli. U. W. YiTHt , ( iuhler. A. J. POPPLKTOX , Attorney JOHN A. Oauouioa. 7. n. DAVU , A9tt. duhlur Thl ban ii rrcelvw deposits wlthnn reKMtltei tinountf , leaaca time fertlflcatoa bearing Interest. Draws drafts oa San Francisco end principal I title's of the United States , also London , DuWln Edinburgh an J the principal cities of thocontli n nt ot Europe. fielln [ laietuirer ticket * for emigrant * by tbe In * nun line mavlilkf THXSO ID BANKING HOUSti IN NEBRASKA. CALDWELLIHAMLTON&GO. [ Bnilneu ironiaoted tame as tb at tf an incorporated bank. Account * kept iu currency or gold. labjeot to tight oheok without no : Joe. Certificates of deposit iuHed par ible in throe , six and twelve. noaths , bearing interest , or on do- nand without interest , Advances made to onitomor * on ipprovo I * eoarltin at market rates The interests of customers are ilosolyguardodiand every faoility omputlblo with principle * or ound banking freely extended. Draw sight draft * on England , . reland , Scotland , and all oart * of Europe. Sell European p i ago ticket * . 'QN8 PROMPTLY MADE. d. L MANUFACTURER OF ? APBE BOXES * 218 and 220 S. 14th St. V triil package of "BLAOK-DRAUOHT" ' rWojf charge.