THJS DAILY BEE FRIDAY , JULY 31 1885
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< ldrc ol to TUB Kri ! 1'rnt.um CrtiM-sT.OMAiu. .
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able to4ho orihr ot the compan } .
THE BEE PUBLISHING GO , , PfODS ,
K. KOSnWATKH , Kmion ,
A. II. 1'itcM , Manager Daily Circulation ,
Omaha , NebrMkn.
MOST of the lawyers of Omaha are
now engaged In addrtsiing open lottora
to Loyal \i. Smith , non-roaldcnt dofon-
WE are In favor of constructing Ore-
proof distilleries for copper-distilled
lightning-rod whisky , which usually re-
qniros the consuniar to have a casi-lron
stomach.
DK. MILIEU and Mayor Boyd have had
a falling out. It is not about political
matters , however , but upon the railroad
question. They still pull together In the
political harness.
Ir the plan ot the city engineer foi
naming the s'.roola is adopted every fol
low will luvo to carry a nntnorlcil index
in'his vest pocket , and a photo-Htho-
graphic plat.
PERHAPS if the editor of the Bcpubli
can will uio his inflaouca with Manager
Galloway ho cm supply O.naha with n
bran-new s'.ar-apanglod depot , with break'
fast-table attachment.
Ir the streets of Omaha are to bo re
named lot it bo done on a plain buslnca :
principle. DJ away with all duplicate
names , and have no avenues in ono par !
of town baarlng the oarna or similar
natnoa of straoU in another part of the
city.
secretary , tried for treason and
felony , ha : boon acquitted on the ground
of insanity. The eurno plot will bo saint
In Riel'a defense , and the chances am
just favorable that it trill win for him
as it did for his secretary. Had the ro-
bolllon Buccecdoi , however , nobadj
would have thought that Kiel waaluaino.
TUB English house of lords on TQOB
day refused to take up the bill providing
for woman suffrage. The woman suffrage
movement la not making any inoro head
way ia England than It is in the United
States. The leaders in the auso , how'
over , keep hammering away with a per
slotoncy that makes the average legls
later a very weary person at times.
THERE is altogether too mush ssionco in
the scheme of the city engineer for renaming -
. naming our streets. It is hard enough
for a stranger who comes to Omaha to bo
compelled to meander the Miwonrl river
to hunt up First , Second , Third and
-Fourth streets , but It would bo a great
deal moro annoying to look for Second
Twenty-third street and . .Fifth Twenty-
K seventh street. Wo want more common
Bonao and loss sclenca in the earning of
our streets.
AciTKB.i , writes to the BEE for Infer-
. matlon as to why Mr. Adams' last letter
haa not been published aj well as the
tifirat. Jf the citizen Trill take the trouble
i to read the proceedings of the lait coun
cil .mooting ho will discover that a reso
lution was adopted requesting the mayor
lie transmit that letter to the council.
When that la done next Tuesday the letter -
tor will bo made publlo. The reason
Rtvon by Mayor Bjyd for withholding It
is that Mr. Adams expressed a desire to
have no further nubile controversy.
MAYQU BOYU'S card in reply to 'Dr.
MlUor'a ' open letter is torso and to the
paint. Ho ahonrs that the doctor has a
vary poor manor/ with regard to dates
andifacta bearing on Union Pacific mat
ters. Mr. Bpyd voices the soatlmont of
the .community whoa he says thtt there
is no hostility towards the Union PaalOc
railroad or its managers on the part of
our cltkans , but simply a desire to have
ihat company rcapcoi our rlgh'a , live up
to Its obligation ) , and altjrd the public
proper ( facilities.
Ir da jifljt about as wo expected and
predicted. Qalto anumbor of 4he liquor
dealers. , c wo are informed , era lu or-
*
rears for their second installment of
license manay. If thej are allowed to run
-to the nut .Quarter the chancoa are that
most of tko delinquents will retire .from
{ "business aud tko school lund will be out
several thotmnd dollars. It ought ia be
apado the duty of the oocratary of.th
hoard of edacatlan to check off the ll < juo
dealers' ' list wick the city treasurer every
quarter , aud ace that no dellnquonoias
are permitted , ia this mttior all should
be treated nliko.
s of tha democrats point with pride
to the fact that un.lor the admlcistration
of P/aaldout Olorolacd the Mormon
polygauiJata are being pigorousljprojo
outod.7fillo the prefect admlnltira'.lon
Is entitled t ) some creditfor the otand
Uiat it has taken in rjgard to polygamy
tha domocraU should not forgot that .the
law under trUtoh polygamiita are bolag
punUhcd was drawn by Senator Kimanda
and pcased by tko vitoj ot ropubUcaai.
The adailnlitratloa is eimpl/ doing its
duty In ocforiag a good Jaw which was
in oiUtonuo bo'pjro it Aauio int3 po of ,
end under which tha proatxuti-m of
polrgtmltti had bson begua before the
TTCPt oqt of ppwer ,
INDIAN CRIMES.
The pnnls'jment of Indians for the
commission of crimes , moro especially
committed Ihem-
or the crimes among
lolves , has always been attended
with -great dlflionUy , owing to a
ack of jurisdiction of the courts ,
whether state or territorial. By
reason of this defect it has boon no
nnusu l thing for an Indian who had
murdered another Indian to go entirely
free. A case of this kind occurred in
Nevada in 1872 , An Indian who had
murdered another was captured by aomo
of the members of his own tribe and
turned over to the civil authorities with
the request that ho bo tried and punished
like a whlto man. The sheriff , acting
under the advice of the district attorney ,
declined to take any atepi to bring the
prisoner forward for trial or indictment ,
as the murder had been committed on a
reservation over which the court had no
jurlndlction. The prisoner , who was
confined in the military guard honso at
Camp MoDarmlt , was' , finally sot-free , aa
no olHclals either state , federal or mili
tary would proBoonto him owing to the
doubt existing upon the matter of the
proper jurisdiction. The commander of
the department of California , Gen. Soho.
field , expressed his opinion , in an official
order , that this was n cao fairly coming
under the laws of the state of "Nevada ,
and that the accniod could bo indicted
and tried , and furthermore that thle
seemed to bo a case especially deserving
attention , aa the Indians themselves had
delivered up ono of their number foi
trial , thus virtually claiming the protec
tion of the law. In another case he
expressed n somonhat similar opln
Ion to the eliect that individna
Indians arrested for crimes by the
military , should bo turned over to the
civil authorities and dealt with by then
in the aamo manner as whlta men.
This defect in our lawa aa to jurisdic
tion has bacn the means of allowing man ]
Indian criminals to go unpunished , nni
it has given rlso to considerable com
plaint at times not only among the pao
plo of the Treat , who wera moro directly
interested , but among the eastern phllan
thropiata who are so anxious for the welfare <
faro of the Indians. It haa froqaentlj
baon urged that oangrcos ahonld pass e
law providing a remedy for this defect in
jurisdiction so tlut crlmo amonp
the Indians canld bo pun
Iflhod. That such a law WQE
finally pnaaod by the last cougraaa is t
fact known to but very few parsons. It
will be found in the concluding section ,
No. 9 , page 315 , chapter 'HI , of the fed
eral statute ] passed at the second session
of the forty-eighth congress , and ap <
proved March 31 , 1835. Thla clausowae
tacked on to the Indian appropriation
act , and is ai follows :
SECTION 9. That immediately upon am
after the data of ths nissa o of this act nl
Indians , committing against tha peraon or
property of nny othar Indian or ether parson
nny if the following crimes , namely , murder ,
manslaughter , raps , aasault with intent to
kill , nrson , burglary , and larceny , within
any territory of the United State ? ,
and cither within or without nn
Indian reservation , shall 1 > 3 subject
therefor in the same courts and in the same
manner and shall ba subject to the eamo Dan-
allies a3 are all other persons charged with
the commission of a aid crimtn respectively ;
and tha laid courts ara luroby civou juris
diction in all such cues ; and all such Indians
committing any of the nlnvo crlnna against
the person or property of another Indian or
person within any state of the United States ,
and within the limits of any Indian reserva
tion , shall be subject to the earn i lawa , tried
in the aamo courts , and in the same manner ,
and subject to tha same panilties as art all
other persons committing any oE the abore
crimes witnln the exclusive jurisdiction of the
United States.
This law certainly remedies all the de-
footo as to jurisdiction , and provides for
the speedy prosecution of criminal acta
committed by Indiana either against each
other or against the whites. Aa we have
already shown , the Indiana have had up
to this tlmo no way of panlshlng crime
committed among themselves , owing to
the fact that the federal government re
garded the various tribes as independent
powers , so far as having jurisdiction
and punishment of crimes against each
other was concerned , and loft it to them
selves to bring such offender. } to justice
In any manner they thought boat. A
case in paint is that of Grow Dog , who
killed Spotted Tail , in 1881 , on the Sions
reservation. His prosecution fell to the
ground owing to a lack of jurisdiction.
Ho was finally turned loose , and his own
people took no steps to punish him. Had
the law passed by the last congress been
In effect at that tlmo , Crow Dog wocrld
fcavo been tried , convicted aud punished
for murder.
WATERWAYS OF THE NORTH-
WEST.
T < o Improvement of the waterways is
a lufcbtor of great importance to the people
ple oC our .country as they tend moro than
other auso to prevent extortionate
'roight charges and disrlmin 'Joiu o
ho part of the railways. The proton
and futccro prosperlt- the vrester :
tales , ccastitiitlng the great prodncln
heart of ILo continent-depends largely
upon the ftsllltloa-and the cost of ( cans
, portation of their producteto the market
of the world. The west is fortunate In
bolng penetrated by numerous watci
routes , which with proper Incprovemou
would afford unlimited facilities for
transporting its enormous product , at a
remarkably low coit , to every mart.
Tha policy of the national rjOTorn
ment hai teen to improve all vrntertvaya
of the country in the interest of com
merce , both foreign and domestic , It it
istiiualod ihat thorn has been expended
ibout the cum of $150,000,000 in the
approvement of ( La rivera and hsrbors
> f our CDDiitry , but the greater portion
if tLto money his hfeu spent in the
ildor itatos and blong the coast line ,
however , la raott needed in the
west , and that Is whcto the nppropria-
lens should In the future bo made to ap-
> ly. The Improvements shonld bo made
upon the waterways In the region where
ho bulk of the commerce originates , and
hat is In the center of the continent.
The people of the upper Mississippi
and Mlsaonrl valleys , comprising the
states of Illinois , Missouri , Kansas , Ne
braska , Iowa , Wisconsin , Minnesota and
the territories of Dakota and Montana
stand pre-eminently In need of immedi
ate relief from exorbitant transportation
charges , which render production un
profitable and the fruits of industry ex-
pciislvo to the eastern and foreign con
sumer.
The governor of Minnesota hai accord
ingly Isimd n circular embodying thoao
ideas , and calling a northwestern water
ways convention to ba hold in St. Paul
on the 3d of September. The governors
of the states and territories named are
invited to attend in person , end are urged
to aid In securing a full roprcsntatlon of
their states , commercial bodies and cities.
The senator * and representatives in con
gress of these states and territories ore
aho Invited to bo present and assist in
the work of the convention. Each atat
and territory will bo onttlod to ton
delegates at largo , each congressional
district to tnroo delegates , each commer
cial organization to five , and each munici
pality to five. The object of the sonvon-
tlon la to discuss the Internal commerce
and the waterways of the northwest , and
to formulate a most earnest demand upon
congress for such appropriations as maybe
bo required to insure at the earliest day
practicable the opening of our rivers to
an nntramolod commerce to tide water.
It Is to bo hoped that every state named
in the call will send a full delegation tc
this convention , the importance of which
cannot bo overestimated. The people ol
the Mhsaurl and Upper Mississippi val
leys by united action in this matter
ought to bo abe ! to accomplish the de
sired re a nit.
A STRIKING illustration of tax-shirking
on the part of corporations la a Herded in
the case of the Pullman palace car com
pany , which owns the creator part of the
town of Pullman , near Chicago. The
company owns 120 acres of land , which
is covered by over five hundred dwelling
houses , a church , a school , a hotel , eav-
oral stores and business houses , and
ether bulldliigr , all of which are the
property of the company. The ground
and buildings , not including the extensive
shops of the company , are really wortb
over § 2,000,000 , but the total assessment
last year was only $35,000. The assets-
mont was raised by the townihi/i equal
ization board to § 214.000 , a little mora
than one-tenth of the actual value , and
yet the company makes a protest against
the raise. Is it ar > y wonder that cor
porations grow rich , when they so suc
cessfully evade their just proportion oi
taxes ?
GENERAL SHERIDAN could not have se
lected a moro competent man than Captain -
tain Lee to take charge of tbo Cheyenne
and Arapahoa agency in the Indian terri
tory. These Indians , who had become
uncontrollable under Agent Dyer , will be
easily managed by Captain Lao , who haa
had considerable experience of that char
acter and thoroughly nndoratanda the po-
oullRr traits of the rod man.
He waa the military agent
of the Spotted Tall Sioux In
dians , some six thousand in number , In
1877 , and superintended their removal
late In the fall of that year from Camp
Sheridan , in Nebraska , to the Missouri
rlvoJ , in Dakota , and finally to their
present location , some distance back from
the river.
MICHAEL McGrAMAN , of the
nlgnal Bcrvlcj corps , at Pensacola , Flori
da , has been putting on altogether too
msny aristocratic bourbon a Ira. Ho
snubbed a colored soldier who had been
detailed to assist him , and would not ra-
calve him or allow him to perform the
dntloi rcqalred of him. General Elazon
has very properly preferred charges
against the swell Hjrgoaut , who will prob
ably bo tried by court martial. Sergeant
Mike may have < to spend a few months in
the gnaed homo , with the possibility of
being nndor the surveillance of a col
ored guard ,
IN Alaska in midsummer , acsordlng io
an interesting letter , tha almost continu
ous light of day shlnoi upon bright green
alopes , shaded here and there wdth dark
timber baits , rising up from the dark
blue waters , An ondloaa variety of
bright-hnod flowers , the hum of Insects
and melodious song * of birdi , together
Ith a degree of heal 'dispensed by the
solar orb , which ti our thickened blood
appears oppressive , would caaia a
ctranger suddenly transplanted there to
kink himself in any country but Alwka ,
Tim apeooh of Smator Voorheea , o
ndlana , for the dofeiua ic tlu rocan
aaeatlonal { Johnson-Henry murder trla
it GrcenvlUo , Tennessee , hae been iasuec
In panplot form by his private secretary
It makes a pamphlet of about seventy
five pages , and the present demand indl
catos thai the acla will yield a profit o
several thousand dollars. Senator Voor.
hoes regarded the speech as the .ablest
effort of lid Hfo , and the larga aalo.of the
pimphlet will confirm that Improedon.
Te has loit none of his o/i / tirna
doqnenc ? .
Kn UAZKN aiiurcs a suffering people
t.'iat the baokbino of the hot spoil will
bo broken within the next forty-eight
lours by a cold wave from Manitoba ,
Let it roU. It can't come auy too soon ,
CUOLKUA still continues Its deadly
rurch throughout Spain with ua&bated
Igor. It fittt appeared In tint county
n March i'li , and up to July * tj ! tha
number of cases reported was 28,044 , of
which 12,317 proved f tal. Since the 4th
it this month the total numlnr of dea'hs
has Increased to nearly 16,000.
Fur. HUGH LEE , the well known ox
confederate , has boon nominated for
governor of Virginia by the democrats ,
while the republicans have nominated
John S. Wise , son of the governor who
hanged John Drawn. This Is ono of the
curious phrasss of p lltiss , especially In
old Virginia.
Kdltors ami KclltttiK.
hicago Newi ,
It is a little remarkable and slightly
ridiculous that the magazine editor does
not do editing. lie merely arranges and
selects matter for publication which in
great nowtpapor cilices is Intruded to
subordinate ! . Thla want of editing is
painfully apparent In every lasuo of the
magazines , where solocismt , mistakes of
fact , and blemishes mulling from sloven
ly editing are only too common. The
systems of newspaper and magazine
editing If the IBS' deserves to bo called
editing are radically different. The
newspaper editor , armed with a rolont-
leas heart , on unflinching hand , and a
blue pencil , goes through manuscript like
a surgeon with a dissecting knife. Ho
haa , beside , his literary reputation'at
stake , like a magazine editor his busi
ness and political interests also for now-
pipers are slrlctly business enterprises ,
which magazines are not always ; there la
moro than ono prominent magaa'no In
the country run by a grjnt publishing
firm as an advert'ssmont ' , and ono or two
aa literary pastimes , very much as ether
cipltaHsts keep yachts and trotter : .
There IB , of conrec , a very great differ *
once in the manner of the two sorts of
editors The newspaper editor must bo
brief sometimes ho muat bo brusque.
Ho is always pellto if ho is it first-class
editor , but his eye often wanderi to the
big brazon-faced clock hanging some
where In the oflico , by which everything
ia run , aud when he says his tlma Is limi
ted ho is telling the truth ; ho knows the
very minute when the clang of the proases
In the sub-collar of tbo printing ollho
mast begin. The magazine editor , on
the contrary , Is disposed to bo conver
sational. Ho can aft"rd to. Ho hai a
whole month before him to arrange the
mat'ur ' fcr a publication about as the
Sunday edition of a great New York
daily , and as many months BS ho chooEca
to deliberate where the pictures shall go
la on article on "Tho Probable Shape of
the Sea Cow'a Tail in the Paloc/olc
Period , " or "Operations Before Tripoli
lu 180C , by Captain Halyard and Commander -
mandor L\nyard , U. S. N. , " and other
subjects of contemporaneous human In
terest. Tbo newspaper editor , on the
contrary , has abjut twenty-four hours to
edit nti article on the Spanish tiuaty , for
example , going over tbo whole ground of
commercial treaties , the constitutional
rights of the Jiouso and Senate ; In irctty-
making , its effect on the tariff , its status
in different sections of the country , the
nholo thing to be compiosod Into three-
quarters of a column , with the certainty
that , if ho slips up once , every ono of his
esteemed contemporaries will bo baund-
int ; him next morning , and that ho will
never ba able to write another line en
the subject of commercial treaties with
out bdng reminded In a printed chorns ,
with the charming frankness of news
paper men , that he is a monumental John-
donkey , and this continual grind goln
on every day Jn iln week , and every
week in the year , and a thonaend other
things of as much Importance aa the Span
ish treaty pressing him ; itith literature
and art demanding to bo heard ni ranch
in a norrspaper as in a magazine , verily
the newspaper editor ia born to ink and
mlecry. I must again repeat that this
typical editor belongs to a great arid
powerful daily.
Imnil-ttrnbbing lu Dn.lc.-ita ,
St. Paul Globe.
The census enumerators in Dakota re
port that in nearly all the towns they find
a great many people who refuse to bo enrolled -
rolled DS citizens of the towns because
they hold claims in the county , often in
other counties , and in proving up these
It is necessary to establish a legal resi
dence on them. In many caiea they have
lived in the towns for years , own the
houses they live in , are engaged in busi
ness , belocg to churchej , and look nnd
act like residents. The Mitchell Repub
lican , In noting this matter as regards
that city , says : "Servant cirls who have
not been absent from the city two weeks
In the past six months ; young men who
are engacod In mechanical and other par-
sul's , and whoao faces have been familiar
for a year past , are not citizens for tha
reason that they have a claim. ' " This
fact will largely account for the small fig-
urea in many placca. Of course , theao
parties have pretty tough swearing to dote
to make ont residence on their clalmi ,
which in nine caees out of ton they hold
simply for speculative purposes , but they
generally pull through- Under the now
instructions of the land oflio it Is becom
ing moro difficult , however.
Mr , ITaycH has No ChlckiiH for Halo.
Brooklyn Union.
The publication of the ( statement that
ox-President Iluthoford D. Hayes had
engaged in the business of raising poul
try an a 15,000 acre farm in Ohio , and
that ho Vr-ai the possessor of some very
choice breeds of fowlt , haa led many
leas fortunate poultry men to write to the
ox-president for specimens o his stock.
Among tbo applicants for some of the
fowls wan Valentino Schramm , of Collega
Point , Long l-.hnd , who U not only a
largo ralaor of fowls , but an enthuslas ic
aimirer of the Fremont statesman. Mr
Sohramra rccjn ly wrote to Mr. Hayes ,
requesting him to ahlp at once 1,000 head
of his choicest fowla and draw at sigh
for the amount. In reply Mr. Schramm
received the following plihy epistle ,
which is a mild contradiction of the state
ments that the ox president is raising
poultry for speculative purposes. The
'otter read as follows :
FBKMOMT , 0 , July 17 , 1885 , DEAU
Siu : I a in sorry not to be able to comply
with year request. Wo raise only enough
for our own use not any for sale. Sin
cerely , H , B. HAYES ,
Mr. Valentino Sohramm , College
Point , Lang Island.
Tdo Dlitillnry Fire.
"Yes , " said Mr. Her to a reporter
yesterday "tho lots on the distillery will
amount to About f 50,000. This amaunt
Is almost oavorod by insurance , "
The distillery is of course not running
low , and about 125 men are thrown out
> f employment. The vork of rebuilding
* il ( commence at once , The still house
iropor Id almost intact , whlii ) the alcohol
louse , fermenting house , aud-rectifyluv
ud refining houcu under th .came rocf
ro a toUl bar.-
Seal of North Carolina Smoking To
* CCQ ii the best ,
THE TIDE OF WEALTH
Development of ibo North-
weslernConnliesofNttola ( ,
Thriving Towiis and Cultivated
Farms Succeed Desolate Prairie
Progress of the Northwestern Itnll-
roail The Mlnek Hills 11 ranch
anil the AVrnmln Scheme.
ON TO OI1&U11ON.
COMPLETION OF THE KAU.11OAI1 TO THE TOWS.
Special Correspondence of The USE ,
GiiAimoN , Daivcs Co , July 27. The
virtual completion of the extension of
the Fremont , Missouri Valley & Elkhoru
railroad to this point marks another long
stride In the development of Northern
Nebraska Yesterday construction trains
ran Into the newly located town of Chad-
ron , five miles southeast of whore this
letter is written , and within two weeks
tlmo through Pullman sleepers will un
load paaicngors for the Black Hilla and
the northwest 125 miles nearer their des
tination than by any existing ronto.
From early in April , gradew , tracklayers
and telegraph corps have haon badly engaged -
gaged in pushing forward this splendid
now road through sand hill and canyon
across creeks and gulches Into the fine
valley of the Whlto river which they
have now reached , and the progress has
been followed , nay , anticipated by euch a
stream of Immigration as Nebraska has
not known for years. It ia the Intention
of the writer who haa recently spent some
tlmo In the country and along the line of
the railroad extension to give a few of
many passing impressions which this most
newly settled portion of our state has
made upon him.
The vlaitor to the White River country
takes the Sioux City nnd Pacific's leased
line , the Fremont , Elkhorn & Missouri
Vulley railroad at1 Blair. The rldo to
Norfolk alone ; the beautiful valleys of the
Logan aud Elkhorn , In familiar to many
of your ruadors. No portion of our
beantifal state has boon moro bountifully
endowed by nature. No section Is poa-
sceaod of moro fertile uplands , of richer
lowlands , of a greater variety of contrast
ing country senery , or of an amnlor sup'
ply of water. The black soil , as woglldo
past flourishing towns and villages , ovl-
iiuncinH the thrift and prosperity of their
inhablthtite , ohowa throagh long avenues
of green corn , wlioto waving tieaels and
nllky ears bespeak a crop greater1 then has
bean known for yuare. Long and wide
patches of yellow fields are dotted with
sheaves or echoing with the choorfulclatter
of the reaper and binder. Farm after
farm in a high state of cultivation , and
the absence of continuous stretches of
unimproved land , make a commentary
on the benefit of
"FHEE LANDS FOII THE MILLION , "
the motto of the railroad , which needs
no explanation. It la worthy of note
that Northern Nebraska haa boon built
up by actual settlers on government land.
There haa boon no railroad grant of al
ternate sections to bar its progress or to
encourage speculators and shark ; . The
men who have had the nervp to press for
ward In advance of civilization and
steam , or to follow cloae In its footsteps ,
with little or no capital except honesty ,
thrift and iudomitabla energy , have ta
ken up their pro-emptione , homoatoada
and tree claims , and have secured the
land directly from the government
through the Improvements required
by the law. The result
is apparent at a glance In the fine groves
which pass us by in rapid succession and
in the well worked farms and substantial
buildings which adorn them. It needs
no examination of tbo state census to toll
the travelers np the Elkhnrn valley of
the wonderful growth of Northern Ne
braska in the past live years. Now build
ings , old sod houses and dug outs replaced
by neat residences , sheds and fields with
bright new agricnltur.il implements of
laatest make , towns and villages whose
streets are busy with a commercial ac
tivity which gains now impetus every
month all are proofs which appear to
oven the passing vlaitor. From Fremont to
Nellgh through the old counties of Dodge
and Cumlng and the newer moa of Stanton -
ton , Mad la on and Antelope much of the
beat land Is occupied and
HELD AT man FHIUKES.
Settlement capoclally directly along the
line of the railroad ia almost continuous
and cities and townalikoFremontScribner )
Weat Point , Stanton , Oakdalo , Norfolk
and Neligh. draw trade from and assist
in supplying a market to a largo section
of ndjicent country. From Nelijjh west
to Valentino wo pass through the still
newer coun'iea of Holt , Broirn and
Cherry , with O'Neill , Stuart , Lon Pine ,
Alnaworth and Valentino , as their loadIng -
Ing towns. There is still a heavy immi
gration Into this section which promises
soon to eqnal its abler country east ia
the abundance of its cropa and the prot-
perlty of its paople ,
Valentino , the county seat of Chorr ; .
county , has bscn for eeveral years pas
the terminus of the Elkhorn Valley line
It la from this point that the great Imml
gratlou which for tbe past twelve month
haa been pouring Into the Whlto Illve
valley his started. Thousands of Imml
grants and hundreds of carloads of house
Jiola goods have hero been transferred t
the prairie schooner en Its western trip
towards the future terminus of the rail
road. And Valentino has reaped In ful
measure tbo benefits of the great inrush
Her merchants have supplied the country
west fcr nearly a hundred and fifty
miles , and , the town bat grown In proper
tlon to too demands made upon its ro
sources. While Cherry county has ye
much of Its territory to bo settled and
much that probably never can ba utilized
for farming purposes It still contains
many thoneauda of acres of excellent
land which la jet unbroken and untakon ,
The success of last year and the almoat
certain prospects of HUCCCBS this year
which the heavy rainfall acorns to aasuro
Is most encouraging to now settlers , and
la inducing many who expected to looato
further west to stop east of Valentine.
TJIK KAILHOAI ) EXT NBON ,
The immediate extension of the Slonx
City tt Pacific , or mora properly tha Chicago
cage & Northwestern both the Sioux
Uiiy and Elkhorn valley line are leased or
controlled by that read was decided upon
early hat year , Several preliminary
mrveys had been maio Ion ? previous
ind the route practically decided :
jpon before the road reached Val-
> Dtiue ( o mike Its temporary tcr-
ulnua in Cherry county. But the ub-
lonce of funds and poiilllctlng interests on
ho PJcrro route to tbo Black Hills , t l-
Removed
TELE OZEsTETS"
1119FABNAMST. , 1119
I
Formerly of 1312 Douglas Street ,
ready owned by the Northwestern , to
gether with the extremely limited settle
ment to the wcat , In old Sioux county
operated t ] prevent further construction ,
and fostered delay on the part of the ofli-
clals. The oatontiblo object of extension
westward was to open n route by rail to
the Black Hills. Any further construc
tion by way of Fort Plnrro was effectually
blocked by the great Sioux reserve across
which no franchlio was obtainable Ex
tension northwest by way of Valentino
waa also impracticable for the eamo rna-
ton. Nothing therefore remained lor the
company but to push west , skirting the
Dakota line until the western boundary
of the reservation , nearly 150 miles dis
tant from Valentino , was reached when a
north and south branch Hue to the hills
would find easy accois to Rapid City.
This Is what has bson accomplished by
the present extension , ana so far their
plans have been carried out. But thoeo
who watched the numerous parties of
surveyors trailing their chains and pack
ing their tranalin farwost of tbo proposed
junction of the Black Hilla line at White
rlvor , eaw n wider and moro comprehen
sive sshomo of western railroad aovclop-
ment than was indicated in reptr.ed in
terviews with the management or in the
declarations of the onqinocM. There
were symptoms of tha coming of railroads
from the south and southeast northwards
acrcsi the Wyoming line into the CDS !
1 mdp , aud rich grazing country around
Fort Fcttorraan.
1J AM ) It. SUUVEYOUS
had been running preliminary lines along
the North Plttto totvarda Fort Lirfimlc ,
ana there were rumors that the Union
Pacific would not partnit ether cattle
shipping territory to bo occupied by an
other company without n struggle. Those
facts decided the railroad to make ns little
tlo halt as possible In pushing forward a
main Hue which in time would become a
through trunk line bstwoon the Paclfia
covat and the lakes , and which in its pro-
proas would enter the coal fields of Wy
oming and iap the rich ranges of that
territory. It ia now believed that by this
tlmo next year the mauapumont will be
shipping cattle from a paint 135 miles
west of Ohadron and only twelve miles
to the east of old Fort Fettorman , in
Wyoming , while bef ore the expiration of
another twelve months they will have
through connections over their own or
friendly lines with Salt Like city aud
the Central Pacific Donbtlojs it Is with
this in view that their newly constructed
line Into the White river has boon built
in Its present substantial manner. Road
bed , sleepers , rails , bridges all ere of
the beet , and the constrnctlon train , on
tbo roar of which wo an > winding through
the sand hills west of Valentino carries
ua aa smoothly as if wo were riding on
the section ont of Fremont. Sixty-
pound steel rails on a well settled bed
and a finely ballasted road give assurance
of
PLEASANT JOUKNEYS ANI EAHY TUAVEL ,
while the neat station houses aud build-
in s for employee , built In the moat
durable msnnor and with every conven
ience for patrons , ara an earnest /or the
fatnro treatment of the Inhabitants of a
rapidly settling country. It ia a fact to
bo noted that the railroad cimpiny has
raised few antagonlsma In Its progress ,
and that the boat of feeling exists bs-
tproen It and the people which It is about
to servo. Not a dollar's worth of bjnds
has baon voted or naked. There lias
been no systematized blackmailing In
view of favors to coma. Right of way
has been purchased In every Instanca and
liberally paid foriucish.
Within a few miles from Valentino
the ra'lroad ' otrikes the sandhills. This
formation ia peculiar to a largo extent of
territory in Northern Nebraska and
opinions still dlll'jr whether it can over
bo utilized for farming purposes. Thorn
la , however , no question of the value of
the sand hills for a range. Cattle subsist
and crow fat upon the nutritious grasses
which covers rbo loir hummocka and find
shelter and nutriment in winter behind
the protection which they nfl'jrd. The
stretch of nearly eighty mtlos which ex
tends to within a few sections of Gordon
is accordingly very sparooly ocsnpled by
anything but ringe citllo and their own-
era who sincerely hope that they may not
ba dlatnrbod by the rush cf immigration
which la now passing beyond. A few
miles from Gordo'n we pasa from out the
siud hills and enter Sheridan county.
The soil begins to blacken and deepen ,
and the sod honso and settler to put In
an appearanca. Gordon , ninety miles
weet of Valentino , la a city of little moro
than a year's growth and is now the moat
thilvlng settlement In Sheridan county ,
the caitormost of the three counties into
which old Sioux was divided by tbo last
legislature. Largo and handsome freight
and station houses , water tanks and yards
have been constructed hero by the rail
road company and the town is alroidy
putting of ! its early frontier appearance ,
and boasts of hotels , btnks , pluto glass
fronts and largo agricultural implement
warehouses.
AN EXCELLENT FAHMINO ItEOION
lies to the wort and south cf Gordon and
it is believed that moat of the supplies
for Pine Ridge agency will ba shipped
from this point. By act of tha governor
Sheridan county haa just received a tem
porary organization and the people of
Gordon , as the largest iown in the
Cbiiaty , are putting in an earnest pica '
for the permanent location of the county
neat at this point.
This claim will bo reiiitod by Rush-
I'llle , fourteen rnlloi cast , and 104 miles
Frcm Valentine. Unahvlllo ia expert *
imclng a rapid growth and claims n larger
: outtituoncy of actual aotthra and a iino
mrrouudlng country of tbo bzst farming
a nil a , waturod by Rush crock and Its
ribut rics , It lias a postollice , ton or
ifteon business bonnes , good hotels and
cstaurantB , and it bound to hnomlf the
> luck and energy of Its people and am-
> ltj natural rtcourcos can nmitu U ,
From IluahviUo the road etfikoj north-
0 aatcrly towards the valley of the Whllo
river , ntsilug along the foothills cf the
Pine Utdgo chain of blufla , through a
country well watered and with n largo
per cent of excellent farming Innda ,
which ia receiving now accessions of set
tlers dally. There ar j occasional patches
of sand but few In number. Sjuth of
Hay Springs , the next station west of
Kushville , the country Btrotshes In a
fertile table land for miles toward the
Nlobrara river , a section which Is said to
bo the mcsi fertile In Sheridan county.
Four miles west along the line of the
road wo enter Dawes county and cross
the divide of the P/na / ll'tlgo ' At. Bor
deaux aiding , 124 miles from Valentino
and twenty from Knalivlllo etjges are
awaiting us to cany ua Into Chadron
thirteen miles distant though the smoke
of the construction train Is not passed un
til wo have covered more than seven
miles by the stage. W. E. A.
ThoGrowlli uf Luimlon ,
The Builder.
The view of the growth of London
which wai recently presented by Mr.
Price Williams to the statistical society
covers ground familiar to many of our
rcadoH. For the meat forcible appeal
to the imagination nclliing can exceed
the mnte uloqnonco of the figures of this
preliminary report of the cenaua of 1885.
There wo loam that at the beginning o
the century out of ten Inhabitants of.
England and Walea ono lived in London ,
the proportion haa risen to one in savon.
The greater London of the register gpnor-
al's weekly returns contained in 1881
015,818 inhabited houses , built over an
area of 097 equaro miles , The growth of
the population over this dnnsnly peopled
area has boon from 3,222,720 In 1801
47.8 per cent in twenty years , and of
22 0 per cent In the last ducado. Inti
mately connected wlh } the growth of the
population of London , and with the
house room provided for tholr ac
commodation ; Is the yet moro porten
tous growth of the rental , and of the
ratable valoo of the house * . lu 1871 the
metropolis , then containing , according
to the report of the local government
board. 417,707 houses , was rated nt 19-
830,051 In 18S1 the corresponding num
ber of houses was 480,280 , and the rata
ble valua 27,541,440 , allowing on ad
vance In the Utter of from . 47 5 to 50 ( J
per houae. The increate lu the total
value was thus 38.0 per cent. In ton years ,
against a growth of 71.23 par cent , of the
population. A comparison of this kind
shows where lies the nucleus of the diffi
culty attending on the question of the
housing of the working classoa. And not
of the working claques alone , far unices a
corresponding activity In trade and man
ufacture companies this apparently irre
sistible Increase in ono of the main ar
ticles of necessary cxpondlturo , pDvorty
must bo on the Increase. Over the
whole of England , after dcdncling the
metropolis , the Increase of ratable vnluo
haa been 28 per cont. In the decide ,
agalnat III 84 growth in population. It Is
conceivable that as this fact becomes
known it may tend to apply some check
to the enormous growth of this great
realm of brick and mortar.
Prof. lUlcj'u ] Ijouunt Bancjuor.
Prof , lllley , the entomologist , ins had
to fltaud n good deal of dialling upon his
cicada diet , but the agrkultnrlats who
wore in Washington the other day took
the palm for guying from the nowapaper
men. The visitors wura given a dinner
at the Ebbltt by Commissioner Counan
and his staff. There the conspiracy cul
minated.
"You may give mo a locust stow in
milk , to commence with , " ono of the
gueata said gravely , In a full , firm volca
to the waiter at his elbow.
The darky looked mystified , but passed
to the npxt and asked , "What'll you
have , best ? '
"I'll take deviled locusts , " wan the sol
emn reply.
"Scolloped locuatn , " aald Number
Throe. .
"A HtHo locust Ihvorod with roach , "
was the fourth order , and still not a
smile.
The waiter hesitated. "Bi j , " ho
asked "Is all this "
, on the bill ?
"Certainly , " was the reap-jiiso.
' Boar , pleaao call mo thin In plain
Eaultah , BO I can ax thncook. "
So the perplexed African was Bonfc
back to the kitchen to find out If the Eh-
bett lirdor contained any cicada sopton-
doclm or trodclm. Ho returned in H few
mlnnto * announced with nluborato flour-
lahea that "do cicadas had been out two
weoke , tab. "
By this limo the whole body of agri
culturists was thoroughly allvo to the
iltnation. Prof. lllley could hold in no
longer , "This tiling has pone far
} nough"ho almost shouted , "Gentle *
HOD , I'll set up the wine and you'll take
to cat boaldes locauat. "
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