ff ? . * w THE OMAHA DAILY SEPTEMBER 20. THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. mia or inpaonirno * : D tlr ( MoetiiaB Edition ) Including Bunda ? „ Sit. Ono Year. $10 00 For Six Month * 600 For Threa Month * 260 Thii Omaha 8 nd r Hie , tnnlled to anr addrew , One Year. . . . . . . SCO OMAHA ome * . Wo. Ml AMD FARICAV STRUT. MIIW TOBK orrtcR , Ron * K , . TRIBITMI BIIII.DINO. WAMINUTOK orncc.Mo. J13 rouuTKi.TinBTUIT. onnRKaroNDCHCit Alt cemtnanlontioni relntlnir to nowa and edi torial matter nhould be ad'lretMd to the Km- Ton or THE Ilic. BUSINESS LCTTIM ! All budnoM luttori and remittance * thould be ddrennod to TllK till PCBMSHINO Com-Axr , OMAHA. Draft * , chocks and poitofflce orders to be made payable to the order of the company. IDE BEE POBLISHIlTciPar , PROPRIETORS , K. KOSEWATER , EPITOR. THE PAILT DEB. Sworn Btatnment of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska. I. . County of Doii'/Us. ' { " " Geo. 1) . TzftchucK , secretary of The Dee Publishing companv , does solemnly swear tbat tlie actual circulation of the Dally Bee for the week ending Sept.lO , 1887 , was as follows : Saturday. Sept. 10 14.510 Sunday. Sept 11 14.400 Monday. Sept , 13 . - . „ . . .14,77:5 : Tuesday. Sept. 13 14.150 Wednesday. Sept. 14 14,3:15 : Tliunaav. Sept 15 14.102 Friday , Sept 10. 14,075 Averaeo / 14.337 OKO. M. TZSCKUCK. Sworn to and subscribed In my presence thin Mh day of September , A. D. 1887. N. P. FF.IL. fSEAL.1 Notary Public. Btatoot Nebraska , I. . Douitlas County. IOB s , Geo. U. Tzschuck , being first duly sworn , deposes and says that bo Is secretary of The Bee Publishing company , that the actual avcrapo dally circulation of the Dally lice for the month of September , 18SO , 13.030 copies ; for October. 1880. 12,9B copies ; for Novem ber. 1880 , 13,348 copies : for December , 1880 , M.23T copies : for January 1887. 10,208 copies ; for February , 1887 , 14,108 copies ; for March. 1887 , 14,400 copies : for April , 1887 , 14tlOcoples : : for May , IbOT , 14,227 copies ; for Junn 1887,14,147 copies : tor July , 1887,14- 003 copies ; for August , 1887 , 14,151 copies. GEO. 13 TZSCIIUCK. Sworn and subscribed In my presence this 5th day ot Sept A. D. , 1837. fSKAL. | N. P. FBII , Notary Public. KKAKNKT has suddenly had greatness thrust upon her. The discovery of the rcmnins of a mastodon Is announced frotn that place. This booming Nebraska city ia bound to lot all the world know linr numerous advantages. A Tnnuiut.K bit of nowa comes from Philadelphia. Mrs. Cleveland la accused of having refused to ahako hands with Governor Forakcr. Perhaps she felt a little squeamish about grasping a hand recking with ruddy gore from the en sanguined undergarment. Miss NINA VAN ZANIVT already con siders herself a widow. She dresses in mourning and has donned all the'habila- monts of woo of one bereaved of her hus band. August Spies is not dead yet , but she nets her part as though ho wore. She is a very good actress. GKNEKAL BUTI.EK can bo very close , mouthed if ho desires. liven the Chicago reporters were imablo to secure an ex pression of opinion from him on the anarchists' case and cave up the at tempt us a bad job. Benjamin may bo r blow-hard in politics , but ho isn't IE business. HENIIY GEOIIOE has a sohomo fet establishing a number of daily news papers in the largest cities in the country in the interest of the workingmen. There is no crying need for more , newspapers for the working people , but if the surplus in Mr. Goorgo's treasury is becoming too largo this will bo a speedy method of re ducing it. NEW YOUK CITY'S MethodisTnunistr have endorsed Dr. MoGlynn in his lighl against the Catholic powers that bo , bul failed to give their sanction to his laud theories. The preachers uro always glad \ \ to welcome ono'who has deserted a rival denomination oven when the cause ol his alienation is contrary to their own belief. THE most interesting canvass in the country just now is the duel between the machlno democrats of Baltimore and the reform loacuo. The latter are workini with the republicans and trying to purge the registration lists of improperly regis f tered persons. There is vigorous calling of names , suits for damages and other interesting I toresting political adjunota. I * THE railroads of Kansas have made t h tariff discriminating in favor of the people plo of the state by engaging to transport grain and other food products frou places where there is an abundance to localities where there is a scarcity at re I * . duced rates. This is an unusual proceeding - coeding on the part of railroads. I ! would bo a Ono thing for the roads through Nebraska and Iowa to imitati tills generosity. THE cause of Mr. Porter's rotircmon from the ofllco of assistant secretary estate state is not a matter of grave nationa importance. If ho and his superior of licor could not got alone amicably together gothor , ho did well to step out , or if hi has a senatorial ambition to promot that is not at all to his discredit. Hut i is a matter of some importance whetho Mr. Uayard is to bo permitted to solec the now assistant. Under ordinary cir cumstanccs such consideration might b accorded the secretary as a courtesy du him , but the unfortunate character o the great majority of the selections mad by Mr. Uayard for public positions suggests gosts that in the present case the presi : dent may very properly relieve him o another opportunity to blunder. Tun most absurd report yet sot atloa is the statoraont that Randall will give his support to Thoobo in his contest fo Carlisle's seat. Apart from the fact tha the contestant appears to have no case it must bo apparent on the most oasua reflection that Mr. Randall would havi nothing to gain and n great deal to los by such an exhibition of hostility to Car lisle. Its motive would bo obvious , am instead of obtaining democratic assistance anco , ho would bo very likely to lose i largo part. of the support ho now has The Pennsylvania has quite enough 6 : hand to occupy all his time and atton lion , without cooking up a new consplr acy with every assurance of defeat. If with ail the odds that are against him ho can bold his following together , h will have fairly earned the dlstinotioi which Sam Cox gives . him , of being "potentiality. " , . . . Tfc Campaign In Dakota. ' j Dakota has entered upon a campaign which is expected to finally determine the dcslro of the people ot that territory for division and admission. The South Da kota convention In July declared "that wo reaffirm the declarations already many times mailo in constitutional con ventions , legislative assemblies and moniormls to congress , that wo ar un alterably opposed to admission a * a whole , " and further declared that di vision was sought "for the reason , among others , that good government , economi cally ami welt administered , will bo more readily secured thereby for both sections than by admission as a whole ; that there by wo shall have our proper and rightful representation In congress , preserve that just balance of power to which a great population should bo entitled , and secure the highest permanent good for both North and South Dakota. " The campaign that has just begun will bo conducted upon the line Indicated by those declara tions , and every effort will bo made to get out n full vote in November , so that the result shall bo conclusive aa to the will of the pooplo. The injustice of the wholly partisan considerations which have induced a dis regard of the appeals of Dakota for ad mission to statehood cannot bo fairly questioned. It is without parallel in the country's history , and strikingly shows the extremity to which a party may go in order to deprive the opposition of n pos sible advantage , In this case the cit izens of Dakota have boon denied citizenship In the face of overwhelming facts entitling them to it , the pretext being that the people wore divided upon the question whether the territory should bo admitted as a whole or n division made. The record shows that a majority have always supported the latter propo sition. The refusal to. give Dakota state hood has boon an injury as well aa an in justice to the people of the territory. Besides denying them political rights which they should now bo enjoying , it lias been unfavorable to the material prog ress of the territory. In respect to ttio public school system and judicial ad ministration the inability of the people to legislate for themselves has been a very serious disadvantage. It is said that nowhere else in the United States is the machinery of the courts aa wholly inadequate for the transaction of public business as in Dakota , and as a consequence the courts arc hopelessly in arrears. At the November election the people of the entire territory are to express their preference , and the result ought to bo linal. The ofllccs of the territory arc in" the hands of democrats , and these have been working zealously to strengthen the sentiment in favor of admission as a whole. If the pcoplo shall again declare for division and admission , us it is not doubted they will , there will bo no fur ther excuse for the refusal of congress to acccdo to their demand , and the country will insist that it shall bo rcgar/lcd. Aa to 1'roxlGH. The insolent gang of impostors and professional jobbers who control the llcpnblican arc trying to make capital for themselves among reputable republi cans , by a hypocritical crusade against proxies and the proxy system. For weeks these patriots tor revenue only have kept up n fusilndo against the edi tor of this paper as the champion of the proxy system in locul and state politics. They oven have the impudence to claim that they are trying to purify politics and destroy a corrupt and vicious agency in the conduct of republican conven tions. One would naturally suppose that these unprincipled mountebanks , actu ated by the purest of motivos.aro entitled to a patent-right on proxy lighting. Who introduced the proxy system in Ne braska ana who has resisted every effort of honest republicans for its abolition ? As far back as liftccn years ago the editor of the BEE , as a member of the republi can state central committee , fought proxy representation and had a clause inserted in the convention call recommending that no proxies bo recognized by the state convention. In season and out of season th6 BEE has denounced the practice of misrepresenting the party by proxy. The last time the editor of tlie BEE was mem ber of the Douglas county republican committee ho agitated and carrricd through a system of registration that was to do away wiih repeating and to reserve to republicans only the privilege of taking part in republican primaries. That effort was opposed by the- railroad republicans , of which the Omaha Jlcpitblican has always been the mouthpiece. The republican registration places and polls were mobbed by rowdies and political roustabouts. Ballot-boxes were destroyed and judges of election driven by violence from the polls. The same faction , with the resources of the railroads to back them , have for years dominated the party only by the cor ruption of delegates and the purchase ol proxies. Hundreds of republicans ro- raomber the political reign of rascality oi 1870 , when the Union Pacific shop men , democrats , republicans and green- backers , wore driven like cattle to the republican primaries and made to vote the railroad ticket. It lias been the com mon practice of railroad managers and political railroad bosses to manipulate conventions by proxies that wore pro cured from employes by absolute coer cion. Railroad employes elected as dele gates at republican primaries wore awakened at midnight and requested tc give up their proxies to railroad cappers and sent nut of town on some pretended errand. This shameless misrule was no1 only practiced in Omaha but in cverj railroad town of the state. Republicans who stood up agalnsl this corporate tyranny and infamous abuse of party machinery were forced tc fight the devil with firo.but the advantage was always with the railroads. They had places to give.unlimited purse-power and last but not least , passes and rebates. The railroad henchmen would have been pollticallly buried long ago beyond all resurrection had it not been for the proxy trafllo. The proof of the pudding is In the eating. The arrant hypocrisy of this anti-proxy howl comes from the political pirates who are trying to steal the thirty two delegates to which this county is en titled in the state convention' withou ! saying , "By 'your leave , " It. pomes with good grace from ' the boodlor's organ , whose exemplary roj publicans are made up of oil-room bum mers , dead-beats Rndballot-box-sraashon tohowl | about proxy frauds and that.too in the face of the fact that fifteen of these reformers were snaked into the county committee last Saturday on proxies. Having always opposed the proxy sy- cm , the BEE docn not now need to define ts position. The proxy system cannot so abolished too soon , although under ho now primary election law , which the BEE has for years been advocating , the worst evils of the proxy system will bo at a minimum. Forestry Hrre and Abroad ! . The forestry congress held at Spring field , III , , last week was rather sllraly attended , a foot showing that there Is still wanting a general Interest in the important subject of forest preservation and culture. It was shown that import ant progress had boon made in forestry during the year , especially in the south , but there is still national and state legis lation required for the protection of the forests and the encouragement of tree culture. The suggestions of the Nebraska delegates that forestry bo taught in the publio schools , pamphlets published treating the subject popularly , and suit able lectures on forestry before the teach ers' institutes be encouraged , wore favor ably received. A bill was adopted that will bo presented to congress which de fines public forest lands , provides for the withdrawal of such lands from entry or sale under the existing laws preliminary to their classification , and creates a com missioner of forests in the department of the interior with four assistant commis sioners. The duty of those will bo to classify and designate , with the approval of the secretary of the interior , the permanent forest reserves , which shall bo proclaimed by the president. The bill provides for a national forestry sys tem which would undoubtedly bo found very serviceable in preserving the forests on the public lands. 'Jihe importance of forestry manage ment in the estimation of European nations , with which the subject is an old one , and which are also wiser than wo nro in economic administration , is conclusively shown in n volume of consular reports just pub lished by the state department. Those reports cover the particulars of govern ment control and management of forests inL Austria-Hungary , Germany , Franco , Italy and Switzerland , and are replete with instructive facts for students of the subject in this country. The forests of Bohemia alone , of the empire of Austria- Hungary , clear an annual profit for the government of nearly $1,000,000 , while the Prussian state forests yield a profit of $0,000,000. The French net annual in- conio is over $3,000,0000 , while that of the Swiss confederation is nearly $7,000,000. Italy also receives a considerable revenue from this source. The pres ervation and culture of forests in Australia is receiving careful atten tion , with beneficial results. The con suls say , however , that the returns in money are regarded as the least import ant evidence of the true value of forests. Their influence upon climate and rain fall , and the consequent benefit to agri cultural land and to the public health , are considerations of far greater import ance. How valuable forests are in this respect hay been so conclusively shown in this country as to silence nil contro versy. Nebraska is one of the states that can boar the strongest testimony to the benelits of tree culture. Again in Distress. Last spring when the Taylor-Rounds concern was hard pressed for means , a confidential appeal was made for relief to prominent republicans , corpora tion managers , promoters of street railways and political candidates to come to the rescue by in vesting in a few blocks of Republican stock. The fools are not all dead yet and the slick Cadet managed to rope in a few suckers and dupes for about $20,000. That helped to keep the rotten old craft nlloat for a few months. The unmistak able signal of distress is once more heard in the land , It manifests itself this time by a dcsperato effort to force a split in the republican ranks on the eve of the county campaign. The concern appears to bo again totter ing on its unsteady legs and it is imperatively necessary that some thing should bo done to close its ( raping muw either by direct contribution oi more subscriptions for mortgaged wind and water. It is a favorite old habit of the late government printer to go into bank ruptcy periodically and appeal to sympa thetic friends to pull him out of the hole into which ho gets by extravagant living ana imbecile management. This time the keynote of distress la to be "Rose- water. " That has helped former mis- managers from going to the wall and possibly may servo the same purpose again. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ THE people of Idaho are looking for ward to statehood. The population oi the territory in 1880 was 33,010 , and it doubtless has not yet a suflicicnt immibci of people to secure admission , but it is reasonably expected that it will have in a few years. Meantime consideration will bo civcu to the matter of changing the geographical delineations of the ter ritory so as to'socuro the symmetry best adapted to compactness. Several plan ! have already boon considered by which tc obviate the panhandle. One is that thii bo appropriated by Washington territory , bnt the Idaho people do not look favor ably upon a diminution of territory. Their plan is to widen the terri tory by taking in a considerable sec tion of western Montana. Anothci plan is that of Senator Steward of Nevada vada , which looks to the annexation o ! Idaho to that state. This scheme wil probably get no support anywhere out side of the deteriorating commonwealth The plan of the Idaho people of taking in a section of western Montana appear : to be regarded as the best from a geographical graphical point of view. It would mi prove the shape while increasing the siz < and population of Idaho , thus materially brightening the prospects of statehood Montana , however , may not take kindlj .to this project. With the progress thej are now making maintained , it is a ques tlon of only a few years when all the tcr ntoncs will have become states. CITY ATTOIWET WEBSTER has agair shown his Italian hand. The council di rected him to- draw up a contract for the city advertising for the period ending ot the first Tuesday in January , 1888. In stead of wording the contract in thi usual form as lie had worded the con tract drawn by himself in1 July.WobiUi 'inserted a clause1 that the llepnblicur. . shall absolutely continue .as tho' official paper until a/pcpr / contract shall have txto'n mado. 'Tno , crafty stool pigeon knows that Dcchel and llascall will sco Lo it that no now"contract shall bo let as long as they ritual n In the council. This Is only a smallmatter ( comparatively , but if the city attorney will play into the bands of one jobttcr in drawing up con tracts what will hp do when contracts In volving thousands upon thousands of dollars lars go through ) hJ9 hands. PKAISES for trio constitution of the United State. " arc even sung by the tory press of Engtnml. Says the London Times , in an editorial on the Philadel phia celebration : "Tho parade of vete rans of the Grand Array of the Republic before a democratic president and his cabinet is the crowning proof nmid a crowd of evidences of the success of the authors of the union in devising a vigor ous and abiding contract.1' The English people are growing more mid more democratic every year , and uvou the con servative press of the country have come to recognize the fact and cater to the popular idea. THE doomed anarchists have suddenly become very discreet in their utterances and deprecate the blood-and-thundor de nunciations which their socialistic friends nro hurling at the courts winch con demned them. As Mr. Spies might ex press it : "Gentlemen , what wo wish is to ovcrrido the law and save our necks. The best way to do it is to play the hppo- crite , and if our liven nro spared wo will turn in and make It hot for the would-bo judicial murderers. It may harrow your feelings to hold your tongues , but have some pity on us martyrs to the cause. " HOPKINS , the assistant cashier of the wrecked Fidelity bank of Cincinnati , at tempts to vindicate himself and asso ciates by pleading ignorance of the crookedness which Harper was engaged in. Criminal carelessness would bo a better name for his neglect , oven if lie did not have a hand in the rascality. STATU AND THIUtlTORY. Nebraska Jottings. The electric light system in Crete is Hearing completion. Sixteen teachers do tlio necessary shingling in the schools of Blair. F. M. Robinson , of Franklin , was kicked to death by a vicious horse last week. Many bridges were ruined or seriously damaged throughout Nance county by the recent flood. * Ex-Senator Van Wyck is booked for a speech at the Nanco county fair at Fullerton - lerton , next Tlitfrsjlav. In tlio opimoniof the Bancroft Journal , "tho Omaha fair' ' and reunion together constituted tlio _ grandest ulVair of the kind ever held m Nebraska. " The town of Mead , inSaumlors cdunty , vigorously objects to bo mistaken for Lincoln bv tourists. Evidently the em erald richness of the town mislead the emigrant. m Fred Hagg'Is''opo ' of the hard-headed residents of Nebraska City. A Hying ten pound hammer tapped his crown and glanced off , leaving only a small lump to murk the point of .contact. . Whitcomb , thoiBeomer humorist , , who shoved a confederate bill on a green saloonkeeper , has been bound over to the district court for trial. His experience has not been n hilarious success. The Fremont Herald utterly ignores thu breadth and depth of the Platte bottoms toms when it says Dodge county did not have ' "sand" enough to compete for the county premium at the state fair. Harry Quan , the shining light of the City hotel in Fremont for mouths past , has disappeared , together with a purse of $32 deposited by a guest. The deposit of so largo a sum so bewildered Harry that he skipped by the light of a waning moon. Antelope county will , on October 18 , vote on the question of bonds to the amount of $12,01)0 ) to build a court house at Ncligb , and Ncligh precinct will vote October 11 on the question of bonding the precinct to the amount of $3,000 on the court house. Rushville is again discussing the cost and qualities of water under steam pressure. Prominent citizens agree that the lluid would be beneficial to the town if indulged in moderately , and the pros pects are favorable for an early practical application of their theories. The female flirts of Fairbury are get ting so bold and numerous that they plague the staid and pious people in church. The Republican declares that handkerchief flirtations in front of the congregation "are unseemly , uncalled for and distasteful. " The funny business should bo confined to the choir under se vere penalties. "Citizens of Norfolk" says the News , "have many reasons for self-congratula tion over the progress made by our city this season. Never before duriug a similar period has there been so much done in the way of building. Substantial business blocks , four of which ttt least are metropolitan in their propottions , grace our leading business streets , and a gratifying number of elegant and cosy dwellings have boon added to the resi dence quarters. In addition to this a $50- 000 system of water works has been in augurated , and tlio city has voted to expend $15,000 in securing fire apparatus and in building sewerage. " ' lown ItnmH. The Masons of Stuart propose'to build a temple. Ono thousand children are enrolled in the Atlantic schools. O'Brien county's now court house at Sheldon is open for business. Atlantic's ' packing house will begin operations next mouth with a force of 200 mon. j During the last tan years twonty-ono divorces have been granted in Boone county. P. C. King , the thieving treasurer of Taylor county , haslbeen convicted. His stealings amounted to $40,000. An expensive picture of the famous generals of the civil war has boon pre sented to the Dubuque high school. The state university opened at Iowa City Thursday , The attendance in the collegiate department is exactly 200. Tlio supervisorsb'f thu county have de cided to submit the question of building a $125,000 court house at Clinton to the voters this fall. Rev. Father Frederick , aged sixty-one years , died at the werman Catholic par sonage at Carroll , Thursday. He had been the pastor two years. A new club room for working girls has been opened in Davenport. Working women will stick to the rolling pinned nod broomstick , with occasional poker exercise. E.V. Andrews , of Decorah. has received notice that the pension department has awarded him back pay amounting to $10,009.83 , and a pension hereafter at the rate of $70 per month. The Sioux City Journal warns. the town lo "Bo not puffed up , " and in the same breath , perpetrates this peanut : "Sioux City is and must remain in per petuity the cattle market and the meat center of the great northwest. " ' OAt Denison tno other day a parrot created quite n sensation'at a wcuding. A minister was marrying ft couple at the hotel , and just at the point where the lady meekly promised to "lore , honor and obey. " the parrot brought down the house and interrupted the ceremony by screaming "rats" at the top of his voice The bird was removed from the room and the wadding ceremony gone over with again from the beginning. Dakota. The schools of Fargo will cost $12,000 this year. The public schools ot Sioux Falls have 680 pupils. Watertown is promised the shops of the Duluth road. Martin county will harvest 00,000 bush els of corn this year. Seventy-six Congregational churches have been built in the territory since 1881. 1881.Tho The fall term of the Dakota supreme coutt will bo hold at Deadwood , com mencing Tuesday , October 4. Rapid City is elated with the advertise ment given the city and the Black Hills by thu display of mineral and agricul tural products at the Omaha and Lincoln fairs. The collection now goes to Kansas City. The Congregational churches , 105 m number , assembled at Sioux Falls , memo rialized the president , urgently protesting against the recent order from the assist ant commissioner of Indian affairs , for bidding the use of tlio Indian language in the school on the Indian reservation. Instead of hastening the time when the Indian shall speak none but the English language , they argue that it retards it. Marvels or ttio New Northwest. S ) > rI ufldJ ( .Ifuss.iVpuMlcdn. ) . When the Now Englander sots foot in tlio newer states of the northwest ho finds a condition of tilings for which nothing has prepared him nether what ho lias read in books , magazines or news papers , nor what lie may have seen in former journeys. Nebraska , Minnesota , Dakota not yet a state , but perhaps soon to be changed so fast from year to year and almost from month to month , that the returning visitor can scarcely rccognizo that ho is in the same spot where ho stood one , two or live years ago. Even the face of nature herself chancres. The Missouri seems to bo a smaller river than when the great steam boats that have now deserted it used to navigate its muddv and meandering waters ; and there are no waste lands now where the "great American desert" was wont to spread over the old maps. Thus an Omaha journalist , reciting the history of an Island city of his enormous stale says : "Thirteen years ago the spot whore Kearney stands today was hidden in the 'great American desert , ' the buffalo and the antelope roamed over its wastes , and amid alkali , rock and sage brush the Indian still snc.ikcd , hunting for hfs white brother. Now it is a city of nearly 0,000 inhabitants , with schools and churches , electric lights , gas and water , with a mayor and city council in a word , with every adjunctof a thriv ing city , including iho meek and lowly Chinaman , and excluding the Salvation army. " Kearney is in Buffalo county , Neb. , which was organized as n county in 1870 , when it had 103 inhabitants. Now the county has more than 20,000 people , and the city will soon rise to that magnitude. It is 200 miles west of the Missouri river , on the Platte , ami is one of the feeders of Omaha , which now claims nearly 100,000 people or more than any Massachusetts city except Bos ton. Yet Omaha had less than 500 people ple thirty years ago , and oven in 1880 had but 30,000. Like St. Paul , it now doubles its population every four years , and no perceptible limit to its growth can bo scon. The state of Nebraska , according to its governor , a Massachusetts man be fore the war , now has more than 10,000- 000 people scattered over its 125,000 square miles , and chiclly along its fast extending railroads. Its corn crop is so largo this year haying mostly escaped tie ! drouth which visited lowu , Illinois , Wisconsin and Michigan -that it is ex pected to supply 25,000,000 bushels to the neighboring state of Kansas , whore tlio crop in some sections is short. Its cattle are so fast increasing that the high price of beef has come down , and nothing but the railroad rates can keep up tlio exorbi tant cxstcrn price. Its railroad crop of this year will bo more than one hundred miles got in , although the caution of eastern capital has acted like a drouth on this harvest of locomotion. It markets , through iU chief city , Omaha , more gram than it raises , for DaKota and Kan sas are in some degree tributary to this railroad center. It is this year the third city in the United States in the business of pork-packing , and its cattle-packing has almost doubled since 1835. Next to Kansas City and Chicago it will soon bo the great beef-snipping market of the world. Its manufactures , though few , are important , it seems to have all the requisites for a great American city , except water-power and it is possible the Missouri could bo utilized in that di rection. A Genuine American. Atlanta Constitution. When , some lime ago , Buffalo Bill wrote to a friend in New Orleans describing - scribing tlio honors that wore paid him by the princes and the noble lords and gentlemen of England , ho said he en joyed the courtesies and the hospitalities which they extended , but ho announced that these things had not changed him. " 1 am the same old bull-whacker , " ho wrote. This was a rather loose way of saying that ho was the same American citizen his friend had known in the old days. The successful career of Mr. Cody in London for ho has been successful both as a showman and as a social lion is a matter for congratulation , and we com mend his example to the thousand of toadies and tuft-hunters that annually flock to Great Britain from these shores. General Joseph R. Ilawloy , who has just returned from London , pays an en thusiastic tribute to the mo'lest ' manli ness which characterizes Buffalo Bill in his intercourse with so-called nobility. Mr. Murat Halstcad declares to the Now York reporters that Mr. Cody lias boon quite a handsome and distinguished figure in London society. " Ho has been souqlit utter bucuiibo hols manly enough , albeit his bearing is modest and gontlu , to carry himself us thu equal of the titled mon and women who solicit his society. Ho is neither a toady nor a tuft hunter , but a genuine American who is inter ested in people not because they have mono ) ' and titles , but because they tire human beings. Wo trust other Americans who visit England will follow Mr. Cody's example , Whenever they do , the Knglish will get now ideas of the inhabitants of the re public. Why Wilful In Cheap. iltnntapr.iu Tribune , Thoio who do not understand why wheat is so cheap" the present time will ' probably find a solution for'tiio problem in the following facts relative to the pro duction of wheat in foreign countries. It is true that the American wheat crop is smaller by probably nearly 30,000,009 bushels this year than it was last , and if this had not been true here as well as in1 India , prices would now in all probillty be tower than they have been known for. year's. But .Urn crops In ot'aor foreign wheat producing countries hiu bu'en largo and that has pro1 ton tori the higher prices whjoh would undoubtedly have prevailed ai the result of the shortage in iho crops of India and America. For example the Austrian crop is re ported aa 17 per cent above the average and the Hungarian 20 per cent. Havana has shown n yield 20 per cent larger than the average ; Great Britain and Ireland , 20 per cent ; Sorvia , 40 per cent ; Little Wallachia , 25 per cent ; Central Russia , 18 per cent ; Chorson , 20 per cent ; other Russian districts , 100 per cent ; Switzer land , 110 per cent ; Franco 105 per cent ; Holland 103 per cent ; Denmark and Sweden 100 per cent , and Italy 00 per cent. It will thus bo scon that the Increase in the yields of the foreign wheat producing countries just about counteracts the effect of the shortage in India and the United States. These figures and estimates are those of the international corn market of Vienna , and may bo considered perfectly reliable and as nearly accurate us such estimates can bo mado. OiuntiB Great City. IVood nivcr OattUe. Omaha is a great city , so great that thousands and thousands of people who , until last week , had not visited her for years , were almostvlost in amazement as they witnessed the croat transformation that has been wrought since their lost visit. Wn use the word transformation because there has been an on tire change in the city since most of us first stepped upon Nebraska soil. She is no longer a place of ordinary importance , but n city of 100.000 people that is increasing in wealth and population at a rate that lias no parallel in the history of the great west , and the prediction that twenty years hence she will rank among the largest of America's large cities , is heard on every hand. The people of the whole state witness her marvellous growth with piide born of the assurance that in rt few short years Nebraska will contain one of tlie largest and best cities on the western continent , JEFF DAVISM-LOPEMENT. The Story of the Mane Helped Him Steal Miss Taylor. A Prairie du Chiono old resident re cently rotated to n Chicago Tribune cor respondent some details of the elopement of Jeff Davis with Colonel Taylor's daughter , long ago , when Taylor was in command ot lort Crawford. As bo aided Jeff in the capture anil elusion of the wrath of Taylor , his story has some interest. He says : 'You see it happened this way : My name is George Gronn and I am eighty years old , if 1 live until next November. It was about 1834 , or near that time , when I. with a number of others , went up the Mississippi river on a steamer to visit the Falls of St Anthony. Wo left the steamer where St. Paul nnw is and went qgpr to the falls , remaining so long that when wo returned the boat was gone. Nothing remained tor us to do but to buy a largo canoe from the Indians , which wo did , and floated down the river to Fort Craw ford. At that time there was a slough separating the few houses that consti tuted the village from the trading post and the fort on the bank of the river. 1 thought I might muke some money by using tlio canoe as a ferry boat across the slough , and bought out the interest of my partners. 1 accordingly established my ferry and Jeff Davis was one of my patrons. 1 did not like his pompous ways , for when ho paid his passage - sago ho always threw the money into my hand as though ho was throwing money to a beggar. One day ho came to mo and asked mo if I could safely row two persons across the river , and 1 replied that I could. Shortly after ho came again and seemed to bo somewhat ex cited as ho asked me to bo on Imnd that evening with my canoo. Ho was more gracious in his manner , mid gave mo some money as a guarantee of good faith. I did not know then tliat I was to be a party to an elopement or I might have objected to doing a wrong not against Colonel Taylor , for whom f had tno highest regard. It cumo about , how ever , that 1 was al the slough after the HUH wont down , and waited patiently for the young otlicur. I hud waited some hours whim I heard footsteps , and tnrn- inc I saw Jeff Davis and Colonel Tavlor's daughter hurrying toward mo. Not a' word was spoken as ho lifted her ten derly to a seat in the canoe , and , 1 fol lowed , taking up my paddle.V6 went ' down the slough to' whore it joined the river. The young woman began to cry softly as woswoptitito. the stream and Jell drew her head over on his shoulder as hn spoke to her in a soothing voice. Across thn river wo drifted , and the sound of my paddlu could not bo heard a furlong away. Not a loud word was spoken in that silent voyage and 1 was at a loss to understand the whole affair. Wo kept on across the river and every few moments I took occasion to glunco around to see how my passengers wore getting along. Thn girl had ceased her crying and by the way she rested her head on the bosom of the young lieu tenant 1 somehow became convinced that slio was not altogether unhappy. Wo landed on thu opposite shore below the island , and waited with some in terest to see what would happen next. Presently I saw three men emerge from the thick underbrush some distance from the river bank and Jeff Davis put some money in my hand and told mo to return. I learned afterwards that one of these three men who came up on the river bank , was a priest , but I never found out who the others were and neither did I ascertain the mime of the priest. Be fore 1 had reached the place in the slough where I had moored my canon I heard the noise of the river steamer coming down from St. Paul She halted below the island in tlio middle of the stream , for I distinctly heard the engines reverse , and know that Jeff Davis and his bride wore about to pass down the Mississippi to the south. The next day I watched closely for a glimpse of Colonel Taylor , but the old Holdior was too circumspect in his actions to betray any anxiety. I was informed that Davis took the young woman from an upper window in the log cabin , and with the assistance of the chaplain was enabled to gut her beyond the picket lines unobserved. There was no doubt that thu chaplain was on the other side of iho river to witness the marriage , and that ho convoyed to Colonel Taylor news of the elopement. "I was away from f'ort Crawford for so in o time after this episode , and hoard no more about it. It is , however , u mat ter of history that Colonel Taylor was never wholly reconciled to the marriage. It is stated that after thu buttle of Hiuuia Vista , Taylor visited Jeff Davis as ho lay wounded in his tent , and extended his hand to him , although there was no farther reconciliation. Uavis hud un doubtedly won thn baftlu with thu Mis sissippi Hillcs , and Taylor could not fall to recognize such gallantry. Time and again I have heard this story of mine called a falsehood , but it is true , and 1 am ready to Bland by it. " IN A TIGER'S CLUTCH. How CAptalii llrailford I/out An Arm In An Indian Juiiclo. In 1870 I met Captain Bradford at Joy- poor , in Hajpootanawhere ho was a resi dent political agent , says a writer in thu IVnsacola ( Fla. ) Advance Gazette. Ho was indeed a man of clear grit and a thorough gentleman ; his coat Hlo.ivo.was quite empty , though with his other arm ho could and did handle a small , light shotgun and was still fond of shooting. His taste for tiger shooting was , however gone. From him I learned that ho and some moro of his fellow olllcers wont out on , aQtigor hunt , and wore In n line some distance from each other awaiting the coming of a long line of beaten * , who , with their horns , shrill pipes , drums , yells , etc. , wore driving the game before thorn. Brad * ford's stand was next to a river ) ho thought it advisable to got up a tree , and un fortunately selected ono with a sloping trunk , ho then wont out on a Urge branch where ho could gut a fair sight and awaited events : presently a tiger came sneaking along every now and then looking back in the direction of the noise , from which it was fly ing , Bradford fired , mortally wound * ing the tiger , who looked up and caught sight of him. With a hoarsn growl ot rage it rushed up the sloping trunk ( a tiger can't climb n straight tree ) and came out along the branch to reek its vengeance. Bradford raised his double-barrelled rifle , took aim , and pulled the trigger , the tiger being quite close , but the ham mer in falling caught n twig. The cap did not explode ; there was no time to re- cock' Ono thought , ono hope flashed in his mind. Ho dropped the ritlo and sprang into the river. "The tiger would notVfollow him thorot" Ho was mistaken. Ono moment and it was after him. Automatically , without know ing it , ho put out ono arm to fend off the danger ; this the tiger svlzcd and dragged him ashore. Bradford had fainted. Ho felt the ono pang when the powerful jaws closed on his arm , crushing the bone like an egg shell , and for some tiuio hu know no moro. When ho regained consciousness the mortally wounded tiger was lying with its head and ono huge paw across his chest , weighing him down , his arm in the tiger's mouth , its hot breath on his face ; It had crushed his arm from wrls to shoulder. "Did you fool nain or fear ? " I asked. "No pain , no fear ; only a numbed feel ing in the brain , sensation of hopeless ness and that my last hour had como.thut death was near. " "What time hnd elapsed I did not know. Just then an olllccr and ono of the native troopers came running up. The oilicer tried to take aim , but the tiger's body was so that ho could not shoot it without danger to the man beneath it. The Imvildar never hesitated , but rushed in and drove the tulwar throtmh the tiger's licart.rollmg it off the body of his olllcer. Bradford was loved by his mon , who would have followed him to the death and risked anything for him. An express messenger was dispatched to tho'oantonmont for the surgeon , and Bradford , put on an improvised litter , carried to meet him , which they did about half way under a tree. The mirecon then and there took his arm off , which was buried. * MOURNING FOR SUNNATONNA. Ho Was an Utoe Chief and Had Hunt of Friend * . RED ROCK , Otoo Agency , ! . T. , Sept. 0. Sunnatonna is dead. His life passed peacefully a way at noon Sunday. Sun natonna hold two Important and lucra tive ) posts. Hu was an Otoo chief and a policeman. His mercenary friends dressed him three times for the gravj , thinking , no doubt , that this would hasten his demise. When the agency people learned this they had him brought in from camp , dismissed his covetous fried ) , and coaxed him back to life again ; but his fate seemed sealed from the first , and the white flag waves over ono moru trravo on the hillside , and one less is there to receive rations. Sunnatonna was a clean , tasteful In dian. Ho had a pleasant face and a smile for every ono. The clerk hud given him a pair of alligator slippers in exchange for a pair or moccasins. Sunnatonna'H wife hnd made him a dressing gown out of curtain calico ; and what with these signs of Civilization , and his cleanly habits and genial disposition , Sunnatonna was beloved by more than the wife whom ho left to mourn for him , and ho will bo missed by others than his immediate kinsfolk. Aiound Snnnatonna's deathbed stood his wife and some near and distant rela tives. When it was known that ho was dead his wife mourned quietly but sin cerely. She took the scissors and clip ped a piece of her long black hair and placed it under her husband's head. Then she gashed her face with the scis sors. The other women wore loud in their lamentations , especially one who seemed frantic. The reporter learned later that the ono who mourns the loud est receives a gift of something. However - over , his wife seems sincere in her grief. She is besides his grave early In the evening. She wanders through the agency like ono bewildered. Her simple belief points to the mooting in the In dian's happy hunting grounds. A New Stool Process. Experiments are being made by prom inent steel manufacturers in this i-ity , says thu Pittsburtr I'ost , which are likely to have a great inlluonco on the cost of production of steel. The experiments re late to u process that has been discovered bv which the defects in steel blooms and billets can bu obviated. The new invention consists of mixing quantities of alloy of iron aluminum with thu steel when it is being made into in- cots. This , it is claimed , will prevent any defective blooms or billets. A representative of ono steel-works , speaking of the invention , yester day afternoon , said : "Tho process now promises to bo a successful ono. and it will certainly have considerable influ Ar ence on steel manufacture. At present there are numerous billets and blooms that have what is called a 'blow * in them. This makes them worthless , and results in absolute loss to thu manufacturers. The new process is designed to prevent these blows , ' and us a result the losses of the various companies will bo reduced , The most pleasing feature of the new process is its cheapness. The cost is ridiculously low that the saving of one bloom wil ! almost pay Its cost for ono week. I am curtain that it will bu adopted by all manufacture . Of course it will eventually affect the price oi steel bccatisu thu alistinco of lossus re sulting from spoiled blooms will lesson the cost of production , and consequently will permit manufacturers to sell steel cheaper than at present. " ! ! KnoWH I'll is Trick Now. Chicago Tribune : "Have any of you found u bank note ? " inquired a man in wild-eyed excitement as hu hurriedly ap- prouchuil a knot of loiiimerw at thu union depot yesterday morning. "Havo you lost onu ? " asked tin oldurly stranger of bland and nodule appearance. "Yes. yes ; have you found It ? " "Wait a moment. What was its de nomination ? " "It was a $ T > Q bill National bank note. " The stranger lelsuielydruw a roll of bills from his pocket , looked them over , took oiiu out , and passed it over to the excited individual , remarking with much urbanity as hu did so : "It is welt for you , my friend , that it was found by an honest man. I nicked it up ii few minutes ago , and tuku pleasure in giving back to you what I am natitmod is your property. " 'Thank you , sir ; thank you. It's my tucn now to do thu fair thing. Here's n tun-dollar bill. You shan't rufuso it. Take it , sir ; take U , or I shall feel hurt. " Thn stranger , thus urged , took thu money , and the grateful individual walked oil with hisfiU. Hu was consider- nbly surprised to learn , a fuw hours later , that thu bill was not the oil' ) ho hud lost at all , but a counterfeit. Hu is now look ing for thu bland and elderly stranger , but thuru are reasons for doubting his success in finding him , Hunk The volume of business transacted nt the clearing house yesterday is represen ted by .the figures $553,7 4.07 ,