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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : rUESDAY , AUGUST 30. 1887. THE DAILY BBEr PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. _ TXRMS 0 ? sun-scitinios t Dully ( Morning Kdltlon ) InoludliiK Sunday Un , Ono Vour . . $10 < W Tor BIT ilontlu r ( O For Three Month 8M Jl' Omftha Hun-lnr lECniBtle ) < l to nnjr . Address , Ono XcAT. . . 200 . Ornnt. No. nt ANJ > n TAUVAM BTPKIV. pew VOHK orriCE. lloo i . TKIIIUNK Htni.iiivtJ. WAaaixuTO.v ornci , No. 613 KOUUTCENTH aimer. * " " I All oommtinlcfUioni rotating to n < m nnd edi torial matter ohouM bo tuMreuod to tbo Uui- ton or TUB Bat. niHiNBSB Lcrrann All biiflnoafl lotten nnd rnmlttanoetihould ba add roused to TUB U PunuaitiHd COMPANY , OMAHA. Drafts , checks and poitnfflco orders to to made payable to the order of the ompiinj- , THE BEE POBLISHIlTSPW , PROPHIETORS , K. nOSEWATER. EDITOR. * THE DAILY DEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. itate of Nebraska. I , . County of DouiiTas. J8- * Gvo. U. Tzschucic , secretary cf The nee Publishing company , does solemnly swear that the actual rlrrulatlon ot the Dally Ueo for the week ending August 20,1B37 , was as follows : ttaturrlav. AiiRiist SO 14,225 WHnndav. Auutist SI 14.200 Mondnv.An ti8t2-J 14.57.- Tuesday. August 2:1 : lt ! , 75 \Vrdnesday. August 24 14,02'i .Thursday. Anenst U3 14.0V ) Friday , AURiist 20 11,025 , Avcroce 14,151 Gr.o. it. TZSCIIUCK. hworn to nnd subscribed In my presence thl.s 27th day dt August , A. 1) . 1887. ' N. P. 1 fSEAL.1 Notary Btatfl of Nebraska , I Douelas County. | 8S Geo. II. Tzschucic , being first duly sworn , neposos and says that ho Is secretary ot The Uee Publishing company , that the actual average dally circulation of the Dally lice for the month of August , ibt , 1U.4&I copies ; for ( September , 18N5 , i : ,030 copies ; for October , 1HS8. 12,989coples ; for November , I88rt , Kl.ittS copies ; f or December , 18SO. 13,237 copies ; for January 1887 , 10,200 copies ; for Februarv , 1887 , 14,198 copies ; for Alarch. 1887 , 14.400 copies ; for April. 1887,14,310coplcfl ; for May , 1B87 , 14,227 copies ; for June 1837 , 14,147 copies ; for July , 1887,14.093 copies. _ . , . GKO. B. TzscrrocK. BDbsorlbed and sworn to before me this U I'dayot ' August , A. I ) . , 1887. ( SEAL. | If. P. FKIL. Notary Public. NRBKASKA will have a very fair corn crop this year , but that is no reason why our farmers should bo compelled to pay twice as much to haul it to the eastern market as will bo paid by the farmers of Kansas. _ _ _ _ _ _ THE passenger rates In the Sacramento fralloy have boon reduced after a long' fight with the company. Inch by inch the people of this country are driving the railroad monopolies from their strongholds of extortion. Lot the good work go on until the workers and pro ducers of the land are relieved of the in cubus that has weighed so heavily on them. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ AND now the books of the Rochester & Pittsburg railroad , in Now York , have Vilsappcared. They were wanted to throw light on the inanaecniont of the road , Which has passed into the hands of a re ceiver. This method of defeating the ends of justice is becoming very popular , end it seems about time for tlio courts to make an example of those who practice It. COUNCILMAN MANVILLE'S son , who draws | lGOO a year for dome City Clerk . , Southard's work , has gone to Colorado ; - * * * on a vacation and probably also a roundtrip - trip pass. Meantime his salary goes right on , and Mr.Southard is temporarily doing some of .the office work. The question Is , Why should the city pay for supernumeraries to accommodate mem bers of the council ? No wonder there is liable to bo an overlap in the general fund. Tim United States treasury will not redeem trade dollars with standard dollars lars after September 3. The number presented has reached about 17,500,000. Thus the experiment to supersede the Mexican dollar in China , with an Ameri can dollar closes more or less , with the aspect of failure. Several millions are supposed to remain in China and more would probably have stayed there , but for the oversight of making the American coin legal tender to the amount of live dollars only. THE president has appointed ox-Judge Alexander McCuo , ot Brooklyn , to suc ceed Prof. Balril as commissioner of fish- cries of the United States. This appoint ment is a ridiculous one. The ollico re quires a person who has a general knowl edge of the habits of fish , as well as a practical acquaintance with our fisheries. McCuu's experience us a fisherman has been confined chiolly to occasional excur sions after bluoflsh near his home. Mr. McCue is a good man in his way , but ho Is without a single qualification for the position. Ho is a lawyer and not a idea list. It is probable that his appointment was the payment of & political debt. THE first gun of the Irish executive Bntl-loaguo campaign has been fired by the tory government of England. Wil liam O'Brien has boon summoned to ap pear before a magistrate for having uttered inflammatory speeches about two weeks ago. In selecting the patrio'tio editor for the ilrst victim the government probably hopes to intimidate the coun try. But the tories are quite mistaken in the man. Ho is the last one to be intimi dated , and the government will make little capital out of this move. There is R long interval between the summons and the court day , and the turn of the political crank may take the ease out ol court , but if it should come to a trial it will no doubt be n test case. TDK cattle men of the country seem to have experienced a recovery of confi dence , and are anticipating a period ol generous profits. All account ? agree In Baying that the supply of cattle has been very materially diminished , and Although the price is still low It would seem to be inevitable that an advance must take place within a short time , and that bcol way go to higher figures next year than it has brought In a number of years. The consumers of the country have had lit tle if any benefit from the low prices a which cattle have ranged ( or the pas joar or two. The packing rings at Chi oago and Kansas City have reaped al the advantage. When the advance conies however , It Is not at all likely that the consumers will bo kept in ignorance o It. The indications are that it will nebo bo a great while before the butcher wil loiuund a cent or two more a pound fo hi * beef. llcdnclng Railroad Katoi. There Is a growing conviction that railroad passenger fares very generally nro too high , and the corporations may expect to hear an increasing popular do- nand for a reduction from this time on. Senator Van Wyck has long maintained that the railroads in Nebraska could illbrd to carry passengers for two cents n. mile , and a great many people in the state acquiesce in this opinion. The late o\va republican convention declared its jullcf that the first-class roads of that state can afford to reduce passenger fares to two cunts a mile , giving evidence of a widespread concurrence in this view In Iowa which is certainly more likely to ucreose than diminish. There hive jcen recent indications of a growth of public sentiment in this direction in Illi nois and other states. The people of California are subjected to a severer exaction in the matter of pas senger faros than perhaps those of any other state , but they have a promise of relief. The maximum of passenger rates is now live and six cents a mile , and it is understood that the Southern Pacific has jlvon favorable consideration to the sug gestion of the railroad commissioner and will at nn early day reduce the maximum fares to three and five cents a mile , with a possibility of establishing in some in stances a rate below three cents , Per haps this is all itho concession that can reasonably bo expected at present in California , and if it shall bo demon strated that a three cent rate can bo made profitable there it will not be dilUcult to ihow that two cents a mile will pay in Nebraska and Iowa. The argument for reduced faros does not contemplate a loss of revenue to the railroads. On the con trary it is believed it would increase the income of the roads from this traflic by the encouragement it would live to travel. It s sclf-eviduut that if a reduction of 33 per cent in rates produced in increase of 50 per cent in the number of people carried the railroads would gain by the operation. Perhaps the iverage increase ; taking the whole year through , would not be so large as this , nit it is not questionable that it would bo sufficient to prevent any cutting down of the revenue obtained from present rates. The railroads would therefore lazard nothing in making a fair conces sion to the public by reducing passenger rates , with the chances that the change would result to their gain. That two cents a mile is a paying rate when travel is active the railroads confess by making an even lower ralo for excursion parlies and for special events that attract arge numbers of people. Whether the railroads shall willl ngly come to It or not , t Is undoubtedlv only a question of time when a maximum rate of two cents a nile will bo general in all the well-set- led portions of the country , and it may jo that the time is not so far off as the corporations are perhaps disposed to bo- love. _ _ _ _ _ _ - . Looking for an Kxcnsc. A story is sent out from Washington that the republican clerks .in the depart ments have boon detected in a wide spread conspiracy to damage the ad ministration. A majority of the clerical force in the departments is republican , and most of these men are represented to bo as earnest in their political faith now as they have over boon. From mo tives of self-interest they have kept their real sentiments in restraint , but now hat another presidential election is ap- > reaching they are manifesting less care n concealing their colors , and are con spiring to do all the damaging work they can against the administration. The plausible explanation of tlua conduct is that they have conceived the idea that ; he republican party will return to power n 1889 , and if they are turned out now because of what they have done for their party their reward will certainly come when the party is again in control of the govern ment. This incredible story suggests that the department oflicials are again seeking ex cuses to justify them in making room for democrats , and it will bo surprising if this motive does not speedily develop. So far as the clerks in the departments nro concerned , it is not easy to heo what they can do to injure the ad ministration that is not already matter of public knowledge and notoriety. If the business of the departments is being carried on with the care , attention and integrity claimed by the administration there can be nothing to apprehend , from any disclosures the clerks might make. They would hardly venture to misrepres ent or pervert the facts , sincd an exposure of such falsification would Jbe easy and the consequences would bo the discom fiture of the guilty and the confusion ol all who should bo misled by their misrep rosentations. It is by no means plain how those men are in a position to do anj other injury to the administration than it keeping alive their faith in ropnblicar principles and their loyalty to the repub lican party- But it is easy to understand that thl < would bo quitesufilclentjto condemn then in the estimation of the democratic of ficials , who would be vary likely to regard as conspirators such as are not willing to become traitors to their convictions. It is essential to the declining cause ot the administration that some further assur auco shall bo given of its solicitude for the welfare of democrats , and anj excuse will do , that shall servo t < get rid of republican office holders. Tin alleged conspiracy of the clerks in the departments la a little the boldest and the least probable excuse that has yet been invented , but it may provo to be the most effective. Disproportionate Comnty Division. The commissioners have finally madi their division of Douglas county into u'vt districts. The country precincts ar < fenced out and accorded two commis sioners , while the city proper ii divided into three districts. This is a lop-sldot and inequitable division. Within th next twelve months there will be more than 100,000 population within the cit ; limits , while the population of the coun ty precincts will scarcely number 15,00 at the yory outside. While the threi commissioners accorded to the city wil each represent about 83,000 people , th other two commissioners will ropreson only 7,50Q each. In other words , the dis proportion against the city is more thai four to one. If the commissioners repre sent property instead of voters , the dis crimination against the city tax-payer i much greater. The assessed valnatioi oi property m the city of Omaha is mor than six times as great as the assesstueu of Douglas countjr property ouUida o ) maha. Each commissioner in the city represents about $0,000,000 on the present ax-llsf , whllo the commissioners appor tioned to the country precincts will rep resent less than 11,500,000. And the dis parity ugalnst the city will become greater every year with the erection of numerous and costly buildings and In crease of public improvements. Had the system which now prevails in merging the city and comity into dis tricts that represent as nearly as possible equal population and property been adopted , the spirit as well as the letter of ; hc law would have boon complied with. .There was no danger that in such a divis ion the rightful claims of country pro- incts to representation , would have been ignored. Omaha always has liberally ac corded representation in the board to : he country precmcU.and very of ton they iiave had more than their share. For years the country had two out of the three members. Such concessions would doubtless have again boon made if the country precincts presented men known to be qualified to transact the responsible work intrusted to the board. A WAIIRANT for Chief Colorow's arrest on the. charge of murder has been sworn out by F. P. Swindle , a citizen of Meeker , [ a this the gentleman who was a defend ant before Judge Dutidy in the trial of the Valentino land frauds last year ? Bo that as it may , the action is of further In terest , as it illustrates the uncompromis ing attitude of the people of Colorado and their determination to keep up the fight for the capital there Is in it. The nonsense will be unshed until the Indians break out in fact , and Denver dispatches will read : "Four citizens were shot and scalped at the corner of Sixteenth and Larimer streets to-day , " "Tho victori ous redskins hold a war-dance and jubi lee pow-wow at West Turner hall to night , " "Denver's scant remaining popu lation is blockaded In the Valhalla , whore hank heaven , there are abund ant supplies imported from Nelson county , Ky. The beleaguering Indiana nro holding drunken revels in the streets , while some are giving an impromptu performance of 'The Prairie Waif at the Tabor Grand.1 " A city , which leans as heavily on'tho tribute of tourist visitors , as docs Denver , should ugo its influence to check all foolish sources of terror in its neighborhood. MOST of the newspapers are giving n good deal more attention to the projected "American party , " whidh it is proposed to organize in Philadelphia the coming month , than that hair-brained movement merits. It will bo surprising if the con vention that has been called shall provo numerically respectable , but if it should turn out that there are men enough in the country in sympathy with the scheme , who are willing to spend time and money in attending a convention , to give such an assemblage any claim to attention , there need not bo the slightest apprehension that a party founded on the principles sot forth by the projectors of this schema can gain any foothold or extensive following. The resit majority ot the American pcoplo have no sympathy with efforts to revho the old Know-nothing spirit , which it is the aim of this latest movement to do , though the real purpose is sought to be concealed under misleading professions. There is no demand nnd no room for the projected party , and the effort to give it vitality , if it have any effect at all , can only bo mischievous. THE investigation of th'e Ward's island asylum for the insane in Now York , dis closes the fact that there has been a "frightful lack of moans , appliances and accommodations" in connection with the institution. The patients and their keep ers seem to have been huddled together in a manner calculated to increase the misery of those already affected and to make those insane who were not already so. This is exactly the opposite of what the treatment and surroundings of the in sane should be , and it would no doubt have been much better for the sufferers never to have become inmates of the in stitution at all. If there is any hope for the insane , it lies in the direction of intel ligent , sympathetic attendance and healthful nnd pleasing surroundings. These factors have been too largely ab sent In our institutions for the insane , even down to the present. Wo know bet ter now and should act accordingly. It is better to spend a little more money in the right way than to waste a little less in injurious methods. TriK Rev. Charles F. Goss , of Chicago , recdntly preached a sermon to his con gregation in which he scored the owners of factories who employed girls at star vation wages. Several of his deacons took offense at his utterances , and six of them intimated that the pastor's resigna tion would be acceptable. Mr. Goss promptly tendered it , but when the con gregation came to vote on the matterlast week the result was an overwhelming victory for the preacher. The deacons then presented their resignations in high dudgeon , wbiqhjWcro promptly accepted. They will now o doubt seek a now affiliations , where they can continue the business of pinching the faces of the poor without being unpleasantly reminded of the fact. Every Rolf-respecting church in Chicago will refuse them admittance. IT is eminently in accord with the eter nal fitness of things for the Herald to clamor for radical reform in county gov ernment. It comes with such good grace from the democratic organ to demand publicity of the commissioners , ' proceed ings after the BEE had gone to the ex pense and trouble of procuring and pub lishing in full the proceedings of the las ) thirteen months. It is also very appro priate for that enterprising concern to attempt to steal the thunder which is ex pected all along the line from this quar ter bv very mildly suggesting that the promiscuous purchases of supplies , and the loose way of disbursing the county'e funds should stop. Who is to blame foi these irregularities and the mismanagement - mont of the * county affairs generally ! Have not the commissioners general su pervision of all county affairs under the law ! _ _ _ _ _ _ _ IT would seein very odd if an island in the Missouri rlvor could bo converted into a prize-fighting ground with impunity , witliout making the participants amen able to criminal prosecution. The Island is not neutral ground. If it Is nearer to the Nebraska shore than the east bank of the Missouri , it is part of Ne braska , and belongs within the jurisdic tion of tbo county adjacent to the river , [ fi on the other hand , the island is nearer to the Iowa shore it lies within the juris diction ot the county { n Iowa adjacent to the river. In any event prize-lighting on * the island was just tu much nn offense against the law as if it had been on main land. The participants and their asso ciates should bo arrested nnd remanded to the authorities who have jurisdiction , whether in Iowa or in Nebraska. Crrr CURK SotiiiiAnu was very active last week In rushing ordinances to the fraudulent contractor for official adver tising. Ordinances that wcro approved by the mayor on the 30(1 ( of August wcro given to the printer within twenty-four hours. Mr. Southard was not so lively in copying ordinances which wore passed three months ago. A dozen or more or dinances approved in the middle of June , were withhold until the 20th of July In order to keep them from the BEE , which had a contract for the year ending July 1 , and is under that contract required to continue to publish at its contract rate until a now contract has been legally lot. CIIIEK SEAVKY is m no immediate dan ger of damage suits from the roughs , thugs and sluggers who too It part in the Sundny prize light , the throats of the Herald notwithstanding. The chlaf of police had not only a right to arrest them on suspicion of being accomplices m a prearranged and deliberate criminal en counter , but ho will bo justified and sus tained by the people and the courts if he ro-arrests thnm and holds them until they nro called for by the county ofllcord whoso duty if is to bring them to justice. CHIEF ov POLICE SEA.VKV made a very creditable effort to bring to justice the brutal sluggers who got UD the disgrace ful prize-fight Sunday. It is to bo re gretted that the parties arrested by him were not held until the county officials who have jurisdiction over the island on which the slugging match took place , made the proper requisition for their persons. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Tim council is still planting fire hy drants all over the city at ? GO a year , although we already have more than 500 to pay for , and many of them are planted where they are not needed. At the rate wo are going Omaha will bo taxed $75,000 a year for fire hydrants , which is equal to paying 6 per cent , on an invest ment of | 1,200,000. PROMINENT PKUHON8. James Kussnll Lowell Is writing a life of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Verdi , the composer , has built a hospital for the poor at Uussctto , his birthplace. Henry Borph Is out of health. lie is at Uoney Island during the heated term. Colonel Nlcolay.tlie biographer oC Lincoln , lives in DeertieUI , Mass. , during the sum mer. mer.The The annual reunion of the Billings family Is set for Friday , September- , Tremont Temple , Boston. As for poor Josh , he's dead. Harriet Ueecher Stowo has written a Better to a friend denyim ; that she Is In poor health. She says that she Is able to take a long walk every day and feels strong and hopeful. Sam Jones and Sam Small have joined forces at Hound Lake. N. Y. , and are making the Pine trees shake with their oratorical eccentricities. Small Is not looking well , but his voice Is strone and his delivery has become como mil el i smoother tlian It was a year ago. Kate Field's lirst lecture to the A laskans was delivered In a dance-house In Juneau , the largest mining town In the territory , be fore an attentive audience. Her only re muneration was a vote of thanks , a dinner nt the hotel , and.a subscription to the Free Press , the only paper In the territory. Cornelius Vanderbllt Is about forty years of age and worth certainly 975,000,000. per haps $123,000.000. He Is a tremendous work er , and his friends fear ho Is Injuring his health by his assiduous attention to the de tails ot his business. It seems strange to think of a man working himself sick when he already has a larger Income than he can by any possibility get rid of. Human nature Is a queer thing. Swift Justice. St. Ioui ( Globe-Democrat A. specimen of the "swift justice" which Is too often done to negroes accused of crime In Kentucky , has lust come to light. Lmdsoy Smith , a negro , was accused not long since of killing an unknown man. neatNicholas - vllle. As ttiero was no positive evidence that any man had been killed , the jury let the prisoner off easy twenty-one years In the penitentiary. And now the man who Is sup posed to have been killed turns up alive and hearty , and the court , we are Informed , "has granted a now trial. " A new trial tor killing a man who Is not dead Is something novel in the history ot criminal jurisprudence. A Brutal Solution. St. m J Pioneer Press. The alleged Ute uprising in Colorada Is simply an expedient of the whites to stir up a conflict , and get the Indians shot down and cleaned out of the way. This is a bru tal way of solving the Indian problem , and the Colorado Incident forcibly suggests that the sooner the government breaks up tribal relations and divides the reservations , and places the Indians under the white man's laws , the more humanely and speedily will this unpleasant Indian question be com posed. A Mileitono. As the first big pattering drops that fall With a splash on the lattlco pane , Make us shiver and start , and as they warn us all Of storm or of coming rain , bo It Is with life when wo are growing old. And nau steals unaware , We shiver and start , if ttie truth were told , At the sight of our first gray hair. Wo mark not the light of our noonday hours , J Like the lirst streaks the dawn doth bring ; \ve hall not the birth our qur summer flowers As we do the first snowdrops of spriue ; On tlio bleat winter wind wo look with srlef , Though It howls through the branches bare. Dut we sigh when wo witness the brown autumn leaf , And behold nature's first gray hair. Gray hairs may come when the beaming eye Has none of Its brightness lost , W&en your buoyant heart we would fain l dany Youth's Rubicon has been crossed ; 1 et the Ive-clad trees look- young and ereen , Though the sapless trnpks may bo there , And naught ot decay on' ' our cheeks may be seen When we witness our first gray hair. Come early , come late , like a knock at the gate , Is that tint soft silvery thread ; And it joins with Its silence the years that With the years forever fled ; It silently telU us we're Journeying on It silently questions where ? O , faithful , mil stone , were the truth but known , As seen In our first jrray hair. * STATE AND TERUiTORY. Nebraska Jolting * . Grant has voted tl.OOO for the -purpose of building a school house. The stage mail service between Howard and Clay Center has been discontinued. . The village of Uushvillq1' has voted $3,500 bonds to secure protection from tiro. tiro.Work Work has boon commenced on the now iron bridge across the Republican at Red Cloud. Clay county's cold water politicians will hold their convention alClay Center September 10. Hitchcock countv's first twins were bom at Stratton last week , T. K. Morton being the Imppv father. Harvard's hosn company has been for given by the railroad company and has again boon given permission to use water from the railroad tank. Ad Thomas tried Dhard to drive his horse over n Rock Island switch englno at Falrbury the other day , but gave it up as a bad Job after his bngtry was demol ished. . Arrangements have been completed for the immediate erection of a llouring mill in Gordon , which will have a capacity of grinding out eighty barrels of flour every twenty-four hours. Mrs. Ovcrholt , aged seventy years , a resident of Worth county , Iowa , while on a visit to her son at Stratton , was sud denly taken sick and died. Her remains wcro taken to her Iowa homo. The Ogallala Cattle company has rounded up its cattle In Dawes county and will transfer them.to a ranch near Fort Fottornmn , which will bo the com pany's headquarters in the future. Special Agent Bowman , of the Interior department , has been looking into the matter of illegal timber cutting in Dawos county during tlio t > ast week , and has fwi/ousomo three hundred saw logs on the Little Cottsnwood. G. G. Armltage , of the flrm of Armltage & Tngciirt , wholesale ami retail grocers of Hastings , has suddenly disappeared and the MicrifV his : set/ud the stock of goods. It is thought that Mr. Ta < rgart has been badly duped by a dishonest partner. Perry Davis , a private in tlio Eighth in fantry , stationed nt Fort Robinson , has deserted the service ot Uncle Sam , besides - sides carrying oil'a suitof clothes belong- me to a comrade , und a couple of horses owned by a Crawford man. No trace of the fugitive. Premium lists of the fairs of Furnas , Holt a nd Nemaha counties are tlio latest received by the BEE. Furnas county's fair will bo held at Beaver City , Septem ber 0 , 7 and 8 ; Holt county's at O'Noill , October a. 4. 5 , 0 and 7 , and Neuialm's at Auburn , October 4 , 5 , 0 and 7. Two young men namud Gilhland and Copeland , living near Beaver City , had a lively little dispute the other day , result ing in the former pulling u gun and pep pering the latter with cold lead. Only a slight wound was inflicted ; however , out GiUilaud 1ms boon arrested. Dawes county settlers are all wrought up over the frequency of horse stealing in that country. Every day or two re ports roach the oflicinls of raids by the ubiquitous knight of the halter. Farmers have their shot-guns loaded , have lot loose their bulldogs , and a hanging bee or shooting match is expected in the near future. The Catholics of St. Ann parish , in Webster county , indulged in n little re ligious riot last week , which resulted in the priest having -about a dozen of his parishioners ai rested for assault. The diflicult.y nil grow out of the location of the church. The case against the rioters has been adjourned to uwait the arrival of the bishop of the diocese , who will en deavor to settle the dispute. Iowa. A union labor club was organized at Dnbuque Friday night. Whitticr colrego is to have n now presi dent , Rev. J. T. Bassott , of Grconcastlo. Ind. Ind.A A five-year-old Auburn kid named Jesse Hipjey caught a fish last week weighing live pounds a pound to a year. An insane inmate of the poor-house at Leon came to town with u load of wood , hitched the team and ran away. He has not been heard of since. James Glass was killed at Montezuma Thursday by the running away of a team. Ho was a soldier and the G. A. R. post took charge of the funeral. Janies Bowman , a railroad man of Burlington , tired of life , committed sui cide by the revolver road the other dav. He has once before attempted His life by the morphine mode , but it failed to work , A fire broke out in W. II. liursh's flour mill at Wintersct Friday , and destroyed the entire structure with all its contents. Loss , .f 13,000 ; insurance , fi.OOO. The ( ire is supposed to have originated from a hot box. The Odd Follows of Iowa are making extensive preparations to attend' the meeting of the Sovereign grand lodge at Denver , September 14. The grand lodge of Iowa will muot at Omaha on the lUtb , and proceed to Denver. There wns great rejoicing in the house hold ot Mrs. Samuel Kauftman , Fairliold , Thursday , upon the receipt of a cable gram announcing the safe arrival of her husband in England. He wus one of the missing thirteen m the recent disaster to the steamer City of Montreal in mid- ocean. Belle Plaino is soon to make another effort to close the big well. At present a four-inch stream carries out the water , excepting the leak that comes evidently from the tubing put in by Mr. King. Palmer Bros. , who have been engaged as wet nurses , are preparing an eight-Inch pipe with an automatic tlange attach ment outside , to insert in King's tubing , and when in place , propose to fill with cement and thus have an eight-inch well under control. When evorvthingislovoly it is proposed to'uso the water power for an electric plant. Dakota. Tbo Caster City Chronicle completed its seventh volume last weeK. Custer City miners organized last week for the development of the Comstock lode. The Bismarck flouring nulls have a contract to supply the army posts with 800,000 pounds of flour. Dakota is short on prairie chickens this year , the birds having moved west to grow up with the country. It is claimed that 4,000 men nnd teams will begin work on the Wilraar & Sioux Falls branch of the Duluth road In a few days. Yankton expects a big beef nnd pork packing establishment. General Beadle lias been in Chicago in conference with parties m regard to it. The allotment of lands in severally to the Indians ot the Sissoton reservation will make business again lively at the Watortown land ollice. The Black Hills are securing a reputa tion for lawlessness which causes oven the local papers to admit it and acknow ledge that It is sad , but true. James Caretto , a miner ut Lead City , was dashed to death by falling 300 feet into an open cut. This makes the fourth accidental death at Lead in ton days. Wyoming. Typhoid fever is raging at Hot Springs. Coal business is slack at Carbon now for want of cars. A Cheyenne roan won | 280 with a twenty cent starter playing faro bank Wednesday night. Rawlings shop men are putting In from twelve to fifteen hours a day trying to keep up with the work. Over forty students have already bone booked to enter tLe Wyoming university at the beginning of the first term. Wolves arc becoming very bad north of Hat Creole. A large yearling was re cently dragged down aud killed by .the boasts. T. J. Ryan.was'shot and. killed at a ranch on the Rosebud on August 3 by A. T. Vance , the killing being done in self- defense. Cheyenne detectives rounded up three men lost Tuesday supposed to bo exten sive cattle thieves. One of thorn was an ex-policeman of Cheyenne. The American Reduction comaiiy , with a capital of | 2,000,000 , hat been Incorpor ated in Choycnno.to operate In mines and ore reduction in Guanajuato , Mox. . A syndicate of Chicago capitalists hare purcliMsed an interest in the marble de posits seventeen miles beyond the con templated terminus of tlio Choyunuo & Northern. Joseph Fowler , a Union Pacific freight conductor , was quite badlv hurt at Car bon Wednesday night. Ho was coupling two engines when the pilot bar of one broke ana struck him on the side. The territorial tax levy this year is as follows : General fund , .H mills ; univer sity income , one-fourth mill ; territorial land tax , one-fourth mill ; insane asylum tax , one one-hundredth mill ; total lax , three and one-hundredth mills. Patterson Hoyt , an old army veteran , and a resident of Kvanston sinceits , lirst settlement , died there recently from the c lie els of dissipation. Ho had lost one leg and efforts wore being made to send him to the soldiers'homo al Leaven worth , ho having signed the necessary papers the day before his death. The Pacific Const. William McQuillan is in custody at Carson for selling whisky to Indians. The membership of the I. O. O. F. has quadrupled in Idaho the past live years. The pcoplo of Sierra City threaten to wipe out the vile dance houses which flourish there. The recent earthquakes In Sonora loft deep fissures which have made travel ul- 'most impossible. William Montgomery , in jail at Albu querque , N. M. , for burglary , wherein nil ho got was u counterfeit $20 bill , escaped on the 23d. A Chinaman at Merced , tired of work ing for a living1 , took n dose of crude opium Monday and passed into an eter nal rest. Mrs. Bartlow 1ms been arrested nt Woodland for scalding her husband by pouring boiling water upon him. Ho is seriously injured. The captain and several members of the Salvation army at San Bernardino wcro placed in jail Monday night for boating another member. An explosion of a wine cask by the ig nition of alcoholic vapor which wus aris ing from a cask'of wine while in the pro cess of being heated , caused the loss of 1,000 gallons ofiwmoin Do Turk's winery at Santa Rosa. THE DARK-RECHNDIAN. Grapblo and BlleaiHurlne Observa tions on the "Utn Outbreak. " BillNye In New York World : The regular form of annual hydrophobia known as the Ute outbreak has followed the sea serpent , the paragraph about the watermelon , and other current Horns. As a matter of fact the Utcs have done more to make newspaper life desirable than "Constant Reader , " "Vetoras , " and "Taxpayer" all put together. You can always bet on a Ute outbreak and write it up when you feel like it , as long be forehand as you wish , and the Ute will not ask you to retract. Old man Corolrow is like the regular army. Ho is bravo , but he hasn't got help enough. He is a man of great nerve nnd enjoys carnage , provideiTit is fur nished by some one else. Ho is said by those who have mot him to bo a "low- sot" man , with a powder-burned face and a desire to outlive us many white men as possible. But the Utes are not strong enough to do any special damage , nnd it is very likely they have no special notion of It. They are a measly set , and still they are not likely to break out. It has been customary to have an In dian scare in the Rocky mountains every year until it is almost indispensable. For several years , also , the circus was kept out of Wyoming territory by a high license which amounted to prohibition , and if the people of Wyoming hodu't had an Indian scare that they could turn to they would have sufl'erod. The Indians in the Nation's ward kind of a doubtful ward , as It worn but he is a great boon to the newspaper man , who naturally gets tired of pool and picnics at this season , and pines for almost any thing that will give him a chance. It is safe to say that the Ute outbreak will turn out , upon close investigation , to bo nothing more than prickly heat. It Is not presuming too much to say that human life will bo perfectly safe as far west as St. Louis , and even those who dwell-as far west as Omaha nnd. Denver will run no risk of being killed by Indians if they will come homo by l ) o'clock p.m. Indians are not so ferocious as many suppose thorn to bo , any wav. Wo have soon the Indians of Buffalo Bill , nnd they were very pleasant to meet. They uro not Intellectual , of course , and they want to ride in a hotel elevator all the time when thev nro not drunk , but they have behaved well hero and won the English heart. It is claimed that by another year the common frontier American blue eyed flea will bo ns common In England as it is now in the territories. And yet it is claimed that the Indian is cold and backward in society and desirous of in augurating an outbreak. The Ute has been almost always friendly to the whites , and has repeatedly assisted the white man in fighting the warlike Sioux. The price of good available lots facing south ought not to be reduced either at Kansas City or Omaha on account of a pending Ute outbreak , and the St. Paul man who refuses to bring in the washing from the clothes line after 9 o'clock be cause he is afraid of Indians is just trifling with the tender feelings of his his wife. HENRY'S LAKE. Ono of the Alnrvclloun Wonders ot tlio Hooky Mountain * . Virginia City ( Nov. ) Chronicle : Hen ry's lake is one of the wonders ot the Rockies. Directly on the summit of the continental divide , in a depression or gap called Targcu's Pass , is a body or water that was given the above nnrae in honor of an old trapper who made his homo on its borders for several years in the enjoyment of sweet solitude. Henry's lake is of oval shape and has an area of forty sqauro miles. It is en tirely surrounded by what seems to bo solid land , and ono really concludes that it has no outlet. On the west side lies a level meadow , which floats on the wntor , nnd the hidden outlet is beyond it. Near the rim of the busln , which nt no distant day must have been the pebbly beach of the lake , is a shallow pool , out from which flows a crock , thu source of the north fork of Hnako river. A species of the blue joint grass of lux uriant growth floats upon the water and sends out a mass of largo hollow white roots , which form a mat so thick and flrm that a horse can walk with safety over tlio natural pontoon. The decayed vegetation adds to thu thickness of the mat and forms a mold in which weeds , willows , and small trees take root and grow. Back from the now border the now land is firm , and supports pine and aspen trees of small trrowth. An Island of the same turf formation floats about the lake. The floating body of land is circular and measure ! 800 feet in diometer. A willow thicket thrives in the centre , Interdperficd with small aspens - pens nnd dwarf pines. The little trees catch the brcczu and are the sales that cirry the island on its orbit. One evening - ing it was within a storm's throw of our camp. , Next morning it. wai live miles away. , , . , , / . WAS SHE BURIED ALIVE ? An Italian Womnn Hurried to Her Grnvo In Clilongo. Chicngo News : Intense oxnitcmont has been caused in the Clark street Italian quarter ovpr the mysterious burial ol l-rnnccsca Cencssa , nn Itallian woman living nt 09 Polk street , a few doors from Clark. Six hours after it was supposed she had died she turned over in her collin according to her neighbors , and then sat up after an cflbrt. She looked around , apparently but Imlf-consoious , reached out to embrace her child , nnd then full back in her collin nnd lay iinconsolotijf , seemingly dead. However , no effort was made to restore her to life nnd not long afterward the undertaker came in , nailed up the coflln , and the body wns taken for burial. The woman's liottso is In ono of the most squalid and wretched quarters of this city. All of its people are pauper foreigners , a largo part of them being "dago" Italians. They are ignorant and , superstitious and stand in great fear of , i the authorities. The woman had been - confined to her bed for over six months. Her name was Franccsca Concsda , and during her long sickness it was supposed several tunes that she was dead , A coQin was bought for the woman several monshs ago , when everybody believed the woman dead , but the collin could not bo used fur a long time. It lay in the room , under the bed on which the woman was lying. Twelve different doctors at tended the woman during her sickness. She used to fall asleep for several days , when she scorned dead , but then she would wake up and come to life tigaln. The woman's death was described by a neighbor , and Italian named Francesco Ptindoll , as follows : "Ono day , while standing at the corner of Polk and Clark streets , my attention was attracted by a largo crowd havlns gathered around the house. I joined thu crowd , and , upon inquiry. I was told that the woman , who was lying apparently dead in a coflln , had just risen to her feet and kissed ono of her children. 1 saw how the coflln was covered and nailud , but I did not suspect the woman was still alive. A few days afterward I hoard the neighbors commenting on it. They said the woman might have boon alive , nsthoy saw her rise from the coflln shortly before it was nailed. " Similar stories wore fold by runny other neighbors , some of whom believe that the woman was buried in such haste be cause some of the pcoplo who felt her slckucss n burden wanted to gut rid oi her. her.Dr. Dr. Re admitted having issued the death certificate without seeing the body , on application of the father of the woman. lie had attended the woman several days before her death and know that she had been suffering from porlton- l Itis. On that account ho had no hesitancy I in signing a certificate of death on her ) father's statement without making a per sonal examination at the time. | Philip James Bailey , author of the once I popular "Foattia , " which now lives clnotlv , in a single quotation of half a dozen , lines , is still a vigorous and active man , though ho WP.S born a yenr before Water- t loo. His poem has passed through thirty editions in America to cloven in England , and he would therefore much like to visit this country , but hesitates to do so at his ago. _ J At the reunion of the E/.oll family at the homo of Uraxton Kzell , of Jasper county , Georgia , there wore present thir ty-six members of the family , represent ing four generations of children , grand children , and great-grandchildren. A remarkable featnro in the history of this family is that only four have died , and not one who has passed the age of seven years. liraxton K/ell is ninety years old. * A curious old anchor , very probably lost by the early French missionarieswas found at the head of Green bay. It ap pears to have been constructed from a young maple true having throe branches from the root. Another bar was fastened on. Tims far it was like a round-topped stool with four legs. Ou the bottom ol these logs wore fastened , with mortieo and tenon , the flukes , which wore barsoi oak crossing each other. PUBLISHED TO-DAY. SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE FOR SEPTEMBER. AUTUMN NUMHKR The uingiizlno opens with Mr Edward L. Wilson's finely illus trated article on Tlio Itfculcrit Nile ; the Rev. W. S. Ralnsford , D.D. , Rector of St. George's Church , New York , con tributes an entertaining account oi Camping and Hunting In the Shoiliou'e , and the successful pursuit of large game , beautifully Illustrated ; there is the first part of a unique and charming Japanese story , entitled The Sacred Flumu of Toriu Jl , written by Mr. E. II. House ( for many > oars a resident of 'japan ) , and illustrated by Mr. George Foster Humes ; the Thacke ray letters are continued , with some reminiscences by Misd Kate Perry , both illustrated. A timely and most import ant contribution is An Unpublished Draft of n ftntlonul Coiulltiitloii J > y LUward Randolph , ( with fac simile ) by Moncuro D. 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