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THE SUNDAY BEE. MARCH 11. 1888.-SIXTEEN PAGES. THE SUNDAY BEE. COUNCIL BLUFFS , OFFICE : , NO. 12 PEAIUJ STHKKT. JBellvercdty Currier In Any P rtot the City at Twenty Cents 1'er Week. H. W.TH/TON . MANAGEH. TF.U1'IIONKSJ , No. 43. NldliT KDiTon , No. S3. MINOR MENTION. N. Y. Plumbing Co ! Now spring goods at Roller's. Money to loan on Improved city prop erty by W. S. Cooper , 180 Main street. Colorado coal at Council Bluffs Lum ber Co. , 900 Main street , telephone No. 257. 257.Thoso These concerned in the Union Spy en ter lain mont have worked most faith fully , and merit the thanks of the pub lic. lic.Tho The jury in the Scholslor case came in yesterday afternoon. They had failed to agree , standing six to six. They were discharged by the court. The regular meeting of Bluffs divis ion takes place to-morrow evening at Castle hall. All in ember a and visiting Sir Knights are requested to bo present. The Union Pacific "flyer" duo at 8:15 : o'clock , was two hours Into yesterday afternoon , and the ovonlng trains on all the other roads were hold to uwalt Its arrival. The big county safe which took a tumble as It was being taken into the now court house , still lies in tiio street. Ono of the castings with the roller Is broken off , and it is useless to attempt to move the safe until It is put on. Hence the delay. While getting into a cutter on elec tion day. Auditor Kinnohan snapped the shank of his wooden log. This is the first case on record of a man break ing a log In running for olcction , and is probably the reason why ho failed to "got there with both foot. " 1 Every employe of the Union Pacific railroad company at the transfer was \ yesterday furnished with a printed cir cular containing a notice of the injunc tion issued by Judge Dundy restraining the brotherhood men on the road from joining in the strike now in effect on the "Q. Don't forgot that on Monday evening there will bo a grand colored masquerade - ado hall at Planter's hall , given by the Pacific house club. Music by Prof. Jul. Thiolo's grand orchestra. Tickets 31 per couple , or 60 cents each. Found Opportunities to invest money nnd make 100 per cent. Inquire of Johnston & Van Patten , 83 Main st. Clear the Creek. The city marshal is preparing to servo notice on all the railroad companies , ordering thorn to remove the obstruc tions in Indian crook caused by the piling of their bridges over that stream. Some of the companies have a row of piling in the center of the crook bed , that catches a great deal of rubbish and eventually forms u dam , that keeps back the water and causes it tooverilow the banks , doing considerable damage in the southern part of the city. The city council took the matter under con sideration Friday night , and the rail road companies will bo ordered to leave a clear space of thirty feet for the pas sage of the water. This will obviate a recurrence of the trouble lately exper ienced , as the crook channel , if unob structed , is largo enough to carry off all the water that runs into this creek along its course. The Strike Ended. It looks now as though the greatstriko was practically at an end. Chief Ar thur and the general managers ot all the numerous trunk lines of railway ter minating at Council Bluffs held an In teresting meeting yesterday in the Pal mer house , as Chicago , at which it was decided that inasmuch as a largo portion tion of the brotherhood had , during the past year , purchased homes through J. G. Tlpton , the real estate broker at 627 Broadway , Council Bluffs , and were well pleased with their investments , that all of thorn should do the same , if they could. They consulted Mr. Tipton by telegraph who informed them that ho coulu provide comfortable homos for them nil on easy payments and thus the matter ended. It is fortunate , indeed , that a matter of such grave importance could bo brought to such a happy ter mination. It beats bloodshed u right smart bit. Shoafo loans money on real estate. Before the Bar. In the police court yesterday mornIng - Ing , Thomas Lewis ana Thomas Dolany were each fined $8.10 for filling up with boozo. John Thompson and Tim Ilur- ley. two vugs , were turned loose and rushed out of town. In the afternoon Harry Johnson , a hack driver in the employ ot William Martin , was arrested on complaint of O. D. Clack , for charging exorbitant rates as a common carrier , lie took Mr. Clack and a companion from the dummy depot to the Ogden house , and charged thorn 76 cents each. The disth.n f > is but six blocks , hence the complaint. As the complainant had to Icavo for Chicago last evening , the case was con tinued until next Friday. Special Glove Sale of II. Klsoinnn &Co. A postal card written by a lady to Mr. Eisoman , of the Peoples' store , is as fol lows : Mr. Eisoman Will you please have a kid glove sale real soon and oblige , "Many Ladies Whoso Fingers Are Out. " In response to the above request II , Eisoman & Co. will open a kid glove ealo to-morrow morning atO o'clock. The following great bargains are of fered : 100 dozen kid gloves , assorted sizes , all colors , 25 cents a pair , worth from $1.50 to 92.60. No moro than two , pair to each customer , This lot is slightly soiled , hence the special reduction. 100 dozen 0-button kids in all the latest shades , 60 cents n pair , worth 81.00. No moro than two pair to euch customer , Mr. Eisoman offers a special prlao of ono pair of kid gloves to the lady wh6 wrote the above postal card , the appli cant to write ono exactly like it. Remember The sale commences at 0 o'clock Monday a. m. and will last for ouo day only. Be on hand early for your share , and oblige us by not asking ior moro than two pairs , as wo must limit the quantity in order to give all of our customers a chance. No fitting done or goods taken back from this ealo. Remember the place Henry Else- man & Co.'s Pcoplos'sloro , Nos. 314 , 310 , 818 and 320 Broadway. MllHOIllU. Regular communication of Excelsior ledge No. 259 , A , F. & A. M. , Mpnday evening at 7:80 : p'clock. Visiting breth ren cordially invited. Rr. R. Rico , NoT 11 Pearl s . , will glvo compound oxygen treatment at 60 cents each sitting. Union Abstract Co. , 230 Main st. THE MYSTERIOUS "MAJOR , " Acquitted Here , Ho Is Found Guilty in the East. HIS SWORN AUTOBIOGRAPHY , To-tnorroiv'fl School Elccllon To-ilay'B Sermons nnrt Scrylcrs An Insur ance Cft8O ItcTcracd ClearIng - Ing the Creek Personals. Tlio "M Jor's" Imst Mnrtlcr. The cold-blooded shooting of Jack Hughes nt the old Union Avenue hotel on Broadway , the subsequent urrcst mid trial of the mysterious Major Williams , will not soon bo forgotten in this com munity. To the surprise of nil , Williams wns acquitted , oye-wi-tncssos having boon cither coaxed or frightened away , and the "Major" was sot free without oven going to the stand to toll his story. Ho disappeared from the city as mys teriously as ho appeared hero , and nothing definite was learned of him until the news came from Troy , N. Y. , that ho had there shot and killed an other man , named Kelly. The "major" was known in Troy as James Brown. Ho and Kelly had some dlniculty In the rear room of a saloon , and after it was over and Kelly had started away Williams , or Brown , wont out after him , overtook and shot him , killing him almost instantly. When Williams , alias Brown , was so sensational a iiguro hero there was ab solutely nothing to bo learned as to his past life , but at the trial fbr the murder at Troy , which has just come to a close , ho went upon the stand and told his story. It will bo road with much Inter est hero. Ho testified a < t follows : I am forty-four years of ngo and was born In Troy. I have lived in New York nnd GUI- capo. In October last I kept the Sinclair cafe on Fourth street. On the night of October IB I was in my place. 1 was not In the habit of carrying n pistol , but on this day my pistol laid in a bureau drawer , nnd as I was afraid that my little boy would get it I put it in my pocket and was intending to leave it at tny saloon. 1 went out with a party on Sunday morning , October 16. Miss Towers and Miss English were with mo. The party consisted of Misses , Towers. English , Corbett , Keyes , Mr. Powers , Mr. Boarumnn and myself. I had hold of the arms of Miss Towers and Miss English. Miss Towers suid as wo wcro going cuso mo , but wo are all friends together , and I am not doing nnythinp-to the girls. " Kelly hauled oft to bit mo , and I struck him in the mouth with my list. Then ho hit mo under the cartind knocked ino down. As I got up I flrcd the pistol in the air. I went out of the alley alone , and I wont around to Quirk's , where I found the party. I was all covered with dirt and my pants were torn. These are the pants [ handed to him by Mr. Patterson , ] and thcro 11 n rip on the side as well ns at the knee , occasioned by the fall I received when Kelly struck mo. I do not know how I fell , for ho hit mo so hard that 1 was confused. I was not drunk that night although I had been drlnldng. I was brushed oft in Quirk's , and in about twenty minutes wo started to go homo. Some one suggested that wo go down the alloy , but I was afraid of meeting Kelley and I would not go that way. Powers , Miss Kcyes , Miss English and my self wont along Federal street. Powers and Miss Keyes were quite a distance ahead of mo I should say at least fifteen feet. I had known Kelly for five or six months , and I knew him by reputation. I know him to bo a dangerous , bad man. I knew it on the evening in question. Wo went down Federal street toward River ; Miss English was with mo. Powers and Koycs had turned the corner , nnd Kelly came around tno corner on to Federal street. Ho walked up to mo with his hands in his pockets , and taking his loft hand out ho reached for mo and said : "You , I have got you now" at the same time drawing his other bond out of the other pocket. I saw something glisten in his hand , and I thought it was a ktiifo or revolver. Then I flrcd , without , however , intending to kill him. I believe Kelly meant to kill mo. I only flrcd to keep him a'vay from mo. I had no design or intent to kill him ; no such a thought came into my head. I was greatly frightened on that occasion and I do not know who wag present when I fired. I put the pistol in my pocket and walked around the corner into Hiver street and down the strict. Powers was ahead of mo. I made no resistance when Ofllcor Mulholland arrested mo. I have four brothers bcsido myself. I left Troy in 18C5 after the war. I went to Now York ; lived there until 1874. I tended bar at 119 Mercer street two years. For the remainder of the time I was around the rnco track running a poker game , faro bank and rouietto wheel. I was a gambler. I mar ried hero in Troy in 1600 , and took my wife to Now York , where all my children were born. In 1874 I went to Chicago , where I en tered the saloon business with James Fitz slmmons. I was with him eighteen months. I loft Chicago in 1877 and wont back to New York. I was not in Jail in Chicago. When I went back to Tfew York I about lived on my brother EUgene , with the exception of ono summer I was with 13arnun's ; circus and another season when I wns with Forepaugh's circus. I have been in Troy since my wife died ; I cannot toll how long ago that is. I have been with gamblers in Windsor , Can ada. Chicago was the only western place in which 1 resided. I never resided in Untroit , although I might have been there a week or ten days. I played cards thcro as a profess ional gambler. I have followed that occupa- t'on ' allmy life. I did not gamble hero in 1'roy , although I learned hero when I was tending bar for the Hon. James McKcon on Third street. Ho is dead now. I may have remained In Detroit ten days , and I might have been three or four times. I was there lust about three years ugo. I have gambled at UufTalo. Cleveland , Detroit , Chicago and Omaha. Excepting when I was a partner of Fitzsimmons I was gambling. I played any game that there was any money In. I know what n "sweat board" is but I never played It. I came back to Now York in 1877. I bor rowed money of my brother Eugene while there and paid him when 1 felt like it. I came back to Troy and lived with my sister ' after my wife died. I novcr went by any other name except James lirown. I might have been called Major Williams. I was also called Henry JohnRon , Patrick Williams nnd Brown. I did not answer to any of those names . I did know people by the names I have mentioned , but I did not want to be called them. I think I flrst told my lawyer that my name was not Major Williams. My counsel wns D. IJ. liailcy of Council Bluffs , In. He Is now dis trict attorney thcro. I had been there two days , I remained there a year lacking ten or fifteen days. Mr , Parmentor What was your business there at Council Bluffs I Mr , Puttorson I object. They want to show that bo was in Jail thcro , and the wit ness should bo instructed that ho has a right to decline to answer , ' Court I will allow the question. If the answer tends to criminate him , ho may do- cllno to answer. Witness I did not have any business , I was not known by any name during that year. I did not stop at a hotel , a private house or u charitable institution , Mr. Parmoutor Thcu where did you take your meals ) Mr. Gumboil Wo object on the pround that the nnswor might bo productive of great injustice , Mr. Grlmth Wo may as well settle this .question now as at any other time. The Court There seems to bo no actual question before the court. What Is your question ! Mr. GriftHh Our question is. Were you in Jail for nearly a year at Council Bluffs I The Court It seems to mo that thcro is a clear distinction between crime and a incro accusation. I think 1 will cxcludo the evi dence In that form. Air. Parmcntcr read from the opinion In the Casey cuso in 1878 , in support of the legality of his question. Brown then con tinued I did not shoot and kill a man in Council Bluffs. 1 did not shoot u man there , or at any other place in the state of Iowa. I did not shoot n woman there cither , nor In nny other state. I did not shoot n man or woman in Detroit , or in any other part of Michigan. Mr. Parmcntcr Were you ever charged with murder 1 Brown No , sir. . The jury in the case were out nearly three days. It wns reported that cloven stood for conviction and but ono for ac quittal. The verdict wag llnitlly reached of manslaughter in the flrst degree , the penalty being from five to twenty years in the penitentiary. Travelers ! Stop at the Bcchlolo , On the market for over twenty years. Still the most reliable and the most popular Bowing machine made. The tight running Domestic. Ofllco 105 Main st. Sunday Snujqcts. The following nro the religious an nouncements for the day : CONGUKOATlOXAt. CHUHCH. Service to-day as usual. Morning subject : "How to Bo Free. Evening : "Tho Christian's Whole Duty. " A cor dial invitation is extended. There will bo a special musical programme in the evening. F1IIST BAPTIST. Services at 10:80 : a. in , and 7:30 : p. tn. Subject for morning : "Christian Bold ness. " For evening : "Mary the Mother of Jesus. " Seats free ; all wol- como. rilKSlJYTEHIAN. Services as usual , both morning and evening. Preaching by the pastor. Sabbath school at 12 o'clock. Strangers and others cordially invited. YOUNG HKX'fi CHIUSTIAJT ASSOCIATION. Corner Main and Broadway. Rooms open from 8:80 : a. m. to 10 p. in. Sun day from 2 to 0 p. in. Religious meetings - ings on Sunday as follows : Workers' training class at 0 o'clock In the morn ing. Mooting for men only at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. All men nro cordially Invited. Strangers mudo to fool at homo. G. D. Baker , general secretary. METHODIST KPISCOl'AL. Rev. Gcorgo W. Gray , D. D. , of Chicago cage , will occupy the pulpit to-day , preaching at 10:30 : a. m. , on "Tho Per petuity of Church and Nation in Jeopardy ardy from Illiteracy. " At 7:80 : p. m. "Castodn America. " W. H. W. Roes , pastor. ITAmiONY MISSION" . Services to-day at I ! o'clock conducted by Mr. St. John. Sabbath school nt 4 o'clock. ' Prayer meeting Thursday ev ening. Subject : ' 'Your Adversary , the Devil. " I. Peter , 6-8. Eight gentle men and four ladies assisted in making the services interesting last week. Every ono invited. THE SALVATION AHMY. Meetings on Sunday in the army bar racks as follows : Knee drill , 7 a. in. Holiness , 11 a. m. Free and easy. 3 p. m. Salvation , 8 p. m. At night Cap tain Little David's sublect will bo "Tho Two Fools. " Come and welcome. BAINT'S CHUHOII. Elder Mark Forscutt will preach at Saint's church this morning at 10:30 : o'clock , and 7:30 p. m. The public are cordially invited to come. Money to loan. W. S. Cooper. E. H. Shcafo loans money on chattel security of every description. Private consulting rooms. All business strictly confidential. Office 600 Broadway , cor ner Main street , up-stairs. . a. The School Election. To-morrow is to bo hold a very im portant election , and yet ono in which surprisingly little interest ismanifested. The management 6f the public schools of the city is ono of the most responsible official duties , and It involves not only the expenditure of largo sums of the taxpayer's money , but there Is also in volved to a largo extent the success of the educational advantages ot which the rising generations are to avail thomfeolvos. When an alderman is to bo elected there is a call for all the bands and all the ward strikers. When a school director is to bo elected there is a feeling that it makes little differ ence who is chosen , anybody will do. Fortunately the nominations this year are an improvement over Borne made in preceding years , and while it would not bo a misfortune if any of those named should bo elected , still there is a choice to bo made , and that choice should bo made in favor of thtiso who are really best fitted for the position. Thero' should bo an arousing of public interest in this election , and such men as voters feel will best care for this important public trust , should have the hearty ac * tivo support at the polls. The republicans have nominated Colonel R. G. Hubbard and .Tt.mcs Pat terson. The democrats have named George Bluxsim and .T. J. Stuart. The voters are also to bo called upon to decide whether the old Mills street school house shall bo torn down , and a $40.000 ono built in its place. The building is said to bo old and illy fitted for school purposes. There are grave doubts entertained by many as to whether it would not bo better to lot it stand , nnd put up the now building on another lot , but to secure such a lot would probably cost as much ns the old building is really worth. There is an imperative ) need of moro room and the schools have been so crowded ttio past year as to greatly cripple their effi ciency. There are over four hundred moro children than a year ago , and the city is growing steadily in numbers. Council Proceed In KB. The , city council met yesterday after noon in an adjourned session. The mayor and a full board of aldermen were present. Mrs. Dunn appeared in her own behalf - half asking for a reduction of tax upon her property. It has been assessed at 8H50 , but now it is flxed at 81,200. The matter is now in the hands of a com mittee , and will bo disposed of at the proper timo. Reading of minutes and presentation of petitions laid over till next wook. Bills and reports of committees upon them followed the Biuno course. The grade of Broadway extension Btreot was flxed by ordinance , and the resolution was adoptcu , A resolution was also adopted by the provisions of which the Omaha & Council Bluffs Bridge company grade 200 feet of Broadway extension beside 1,050 foot abutingthoirown prop erty. Also the etreot railway is to bo laid upon Ffth avenue and Avenue A. , Intersecting the Broadway line at Six teenth street and the line will bo in operation by or before September 1 , 1888. A resolution was adopted prohibiting the grunting of rights to lay any rail way or street car line upon lower Broad way. Majority nnd minority reports were presented upon the ordinance fixing the salaries of the city officers. The minor ity loport changed as follows : City so licitor , 82,000 ; city engineer , 1,500 : treasurer , * 1,000. Majority report , so licitor , $1,800 and other officers the same as now. Minority report lost. Ayes , Lacy , Motcalf , Danforth ; nays , Ham mer , Wells , Keller. On motion of Aid. Wells the salary of the solicitor was fixed at $1,800. Alderman Wells moved to amend ma jority report by changing the salary of solicitor from $1,759 to " $1,800. , Alder man Lacy moved to nmciitT by making the treasurer's 8alarv,88000 instead 04 (760. On motion of AlilcrYnnn Keller , the salary of the mnybj 'fras ' changed $1,200 to $1,500. Thai oj-dtnanco , ns amended , was adopted by unanimous vote. i 'I An ordinance wns adopted granting to the Northwestern riillraul the right to run a single track' railway along First avcnuo to the river , -f A petition from Ferris Ogden to the effect that ho has purchased foundry property In this city Jov ' 18,000 , and asks that city Uixes btj Remitted for a period of flvo years , tia p'or resolution now in forco. Granted. He versed the Decision. The ca o of Hai I Vs.Tho Pottawattnmlo County Farmers Mutual Insurance com pany , decided In favor of defendants be fore Judge Conner , has just been re versed in the higher court. Suit was brought lo recover about $2,600 insur ance on the Ilarl dairy , that was burned In April , 1885. The company paid $ GOO loss on the barn , but refused to pay the loss on personal property. The defense claimed that the company was not in corporated and n judgment could not bo obtained against them. A verdict was rendered Tn their favor in the fall of 1880 , and the decision was reversed on Friday last. The case will probably bo tried again before Judge Deomcr , dur ing the next term of court , that con venes on the 3rd of April. Personal Paragraphs.- C. Flock , of Dornsvillo , la. , is in the city. John Grcouamoyor , of Hamburg , was at the Kiel house yesterday. William Foley , of Anamosn , is in the city with some of his flno horses. William Townsend , grain dealer , formerly of Mincola , but now of Rockville - villo , Nob. , was In the Bluffs yesterday. O. D. Clack , of Gibbon , Nob. , was in the city yesterday. Ho will bo a mem ber of the hose team from this city that is to participate in the free-for-all race at the state firemen's tournament at Clinton in June. Ho left for Chicago last evening , but will return the latter part of the week. < Irrlpntloti In the West. General Brlsbin in a letter to the Now York Tribune writes : There is anew now source of wealth growing up in our country almost unobserved but colossal In Us nature and extent. I mean the owning of water in the streams and rivers. Formerly only the land was conbidered valuable , but now in many parts of the country the ownership ot land without water is of little account. If ono man owns the land and another the water , the man who owns the water has the best of it and has the other fol low at his morcy. The great system of irrigating lands in drV sections for crops is as yet in its infancy , but where tried it bus done well anq irrigating ditches have yielded a largp return to in them. the investors t K Most of the largest ditches are in Colorado where 3,000,000 acres of land are subject to irrigation. Of this vast body less than 600,000 acres' " have been irrigated , leaving 2 00)000 ) to bo watered yet. The cauuls.in course of construction will water .about 1,200,000 of the 2,600,000 acres. This is enormous when wo consider that the whole sys tem of irrigation has grown up almost within the past five years. The Louis Park canal , watering 400,000 acres ; State Land canal , 140QOP acres ; Citi zens' canal , 110,000 acres ; and , , Del Norto and Suguaeho .canal , 150,000 acres , may bo mentioned as among the most successful Colorado ditches. These three canals cover 100,000 acres of gov ernment land , 200,000 acres of prtontcd land , and 150,000 acres of state land. They will furnish homes for between 3,000 and 4,000 farmers. The water for the canals is taken from the Rio Grande river near the town of Del Norto. The largest canal is 120 foot wide at its head and gradually narrows down to twelve feet. Its depth varies from two to six feet. It has when full a capacity for watering 400,000 acres of land. How do they make irrigating canals ? Easy enough and quite rapidly. First is tlo construction of the main canal. The water is taken from a river or crcok , the supply being regulated by a hcadgate. The canal may bo ten , twenty or fifty feet wide and ono , five or ten feet decp according to the vol ume of water desired. Generally the canals are wide and shallow like a creek. Indeed , they are merely artificial creeks and when grass-grown nnd planted with trees along their banks are hard to toll from the natural streams. A favorable place for tapping the river or creek having been found the canal is carried forward _ to the high grounds. It is generally given about half the fall of the river or creek so it soon reaches an elevation far above the natural stream and has the lands between it and the stream beiow its waters. At in tervals as needed , small canals are taken out and carried to the farms. Each lateral has a headgato and meas ure for tno water. The laterals are built so as to cover the greatest number of farms. At certain distances sublatorals are taken out from the main laterals and these sublatorals too have head- gates and water measures. The sub laterals are used by individual farmers. If before ploughing time there has been rain enough to soften the ground the farmer docs not resort to his ditch , but if the season is dry ho opens his head- gate and saturates the ground. The seeding is then dono. Ton acres is about the allowance of land that can bo irrigated in ono day per man. Unless water is very plentiful farmers are lim ited to eighty acres each to bo irrigated in ono season , but this docs not Include grass lands. After the crops como up they are ir rigated or simply Hooded. The quantity of water put on'is about equal to what would fall in three days' steady rain. When the crop isT half grown ft is irrigated again. Two integrations are considered enough for a crop in a sca- bon unless the weather is very hot and dry , and then three irrigations may bo put on. It will thus bo aeon that every farmer holds in his own' hands the means ot making a crop when ho has ir rigating ditches. ' Root crops can always bo kept moist and rcquiro five or ten limes ns much water as cereals. The expense of irri gation when compared with the benefits derived is very slight. Irrigation about doubles crops , and the c6st of the water is never over 62 per aero and often as low as GO cents per aero ppr uiinum. Forty and fifty bushels of wheat wdr aero are often raised under irrigation. Potatoes fre quently grow to live pounds nnd yield 250 to 500 bushels per aero. Other root crops yield equally well , and barley will yield forty bushels per ucro , and oats often fifty and sixty bubhels. I have seen sqvonty-sGvon bushels of oats cut on nn aero of irrigated land , and myself measured 500 bushels of whout cut from a ton-aero field in Colorado , near Boul der. Wild hay , when well irrigated , will cut two tons per aero , and alfalfa four to blx tons. All kinds of berries , such as strawberries , raspberries , black berries , gooseberries , currents and such fruits , grow proliilcally under irrigation and yield nearly a double crop. From $300 to $400 is often taken from an ucro for small fruits , Ditcliing jnuchiaeri have been made for digging irrigating canals , but I never saw ono that wdrkodnntisfnctorUy. The best ditching mnchlno is an Irish man and a wheelbarrow or a plow mid a ecrapor. A ditch ten foot wide nnd two or thrco foot deep can ordinarily bo made at a cost of $ 1,000 per mllo. The income from the water In euch n ditch In a good locality is about 24 per cent per annum on the cost of making , So It will bo scon ditching IB profitable. The little companies first formed In Colorado had great difficulty In placing their stock , but they throve amazingly and coon men ot capital began to look into tho. matter. The Colorado Loan & Trust company wns formed by Mr. T. C. Henry for the purpose of irrigating lands and soon largo ditches were under way. This company now con trols many ditches nnd irrigates nearly 1,000,000 acres of land. There are many other companies and 1 believe nit are making money. From Colorado thu irrigation system spread into Wyoming and there arc now moro than ono hun dred Irrigating ditches in this territory. Many of them are owned by Colorado capitalists , which shows that they are going o extend their ditches us rapidly as possible , not only in their own state , but in the adjoining states and terri tories. That was a curious tnossago soul by the governor of Nebraska to the gov ernor of Colorado , protesting against taking any moro water from the South Platte river In Colorado , because it was drying up the Platte river in Nebraska. It was the first message of the kind , I think , over scut in the west , but it will not be the last ono. It snows that the water in the great rivers will ono day bo in contest and their distribution on the lands along their banks bccomo a subject of inter-state legislation. The day will como when from irrigation tno volume of water In the great Missouri nnd Mississippi will bo materially de creased , and when ono may at certain seasons of the year cross over dry shod at the mouth of streams where steamers now float , as at the mouth of the Yel lowstone In Montana. Nor will the system ot Irrigation bo confined to the west , for it will spread eastward and before many years bo brought into general use. When I think of my old father's farm in Penn sylvania nnd our dread of drouth it makes mo half angry at our stupidity. Through this farm ran a line stream of water and wo saw the crops die for want of water on its very banks. Had wo hud sense enough to put a dam in the crook at the top of the farm wo could have thrown out its waters on the land and defied the drouth. But no ono thought of it , or rather wo did not know anything about irrigation. Such a thing could not occur there again with mo ns the loss of the crop for want of water , and I doubt if it will bo long until even the dullest of our farmers como to understand the advantages of irrigation and how to distribute water from adjacent streams upon their lauds. EFFECTS OF HASHISH. Remarkable Experience of n Drug Clerk Who Took the Wrong Dose. A few miles from this city lives a man who was once as fine a drug clerk as there was in the city of Boston , says the Manchester ( N. H. ) Union. His name is Randolph R. Sanford , and ho is at present residing with his widowed mother. Sanford is some over forty years of ago and is a complete wrcck. _ IIis hair is as white as snow and his left side lias been pasalyzod from the crown of his head to his feet , " \yhilo mixing chemicals at the last place in Boston where ho worked an unforsecn combina tion ensued and nn explosion was the result. This explosion proved most dis astrous to Sandford. Ho was ill for a long time , and during his sickness his whole loft side was paralyzed , as stated above. Sanford is a most interesting convor- sationilist , and is full of stories regard ing the lifo of a drug clork. His expe rience with hashish is worth roproduc- tiion. Hashish is the foundation of the same powerful extract that figures in Monte Cristo. The name by which it goes nmo ig druggists is "extractum cannabis indicic. " or extract of Indian hemp. The liquid preparation resembles ink in appearance a dark green ink. Its fragrance is of a narcotic odor , and in taste it is slightly warm , bitterish and acid. In Hindoostan , Persia and other parts of the cast hemp has habitually been employed asan intoxicating agent. The parts Ubcd arc the tops of the plant , and a resinous product obtained from it. The plant is cut after flowering and formed into bundles from two to four foot long by thrco inches in diameter , which are sold in the bazaars by the name of gunjah. The resin obtained is formed into balls by the natives , and is smoked like tobacco , with which it is said to bo frequently mixed. An infu sion or decoction of the drink is some times used asnn exhilarating drink. "Somo eight or ton years ago , " says Sanford , "I was at work for aprominont druggist in Boston. For some little time I had been sutloring with dyspep sia , and the ailment bothered mo so that lifo became unbearable. I at last mixed up a decoction that gave mo great re lief. I was to take if before meals , nnd placed the bottle on the shelf behind the prescription counter among other bottles which are usually founo in that place. One noon I wont to take my medicine. I took down what I thought to bo the right bottle , and , discarding the use of a spoon , I placed the orifice to my mouth and took a largo swallow. Horrors ! The taste told mo I had made a mistake ! I looked at the bottle and well , my friend , ! had taken a largo dose of India cannabis , or othorwiho Imslmsh. I know what the result would bo. I staggered to the rear part of the store. How queer I folt. How light I was growing. Up , up , up I wont , until my head bobbed against the coiling. I was like a cork floating on disturbed water. I glided along and could look down and see the huge bottles , each ono with a hideous face laughing at mo , The stools on the marble lloor Boomed to want to keep mo company , and their click , click , on the marble floor sounded like thunder in my cars. Suddenly I was plunged into inky black ness. From the black nothingness flashed out bright balls of light. I reached the sofa and sank down upon it. My tpnguo seemed to swell and I tried in vain to scream , but no sound issued. I seemed to know that there was a long , long hour before my fellow clerk would bo back from his dinner , and then ho might not como into the rear room and discover my condition. The events of days nnd weeks came before fore my mind hi all the details , and I saw faces beautiful faces angelic in their divinity , which seemed to beckon to mo and then vanish with a .hideous laugh. Again was I tos'sed to the coiling and then thrown by some invisible force from ono sidoof the room to the other. I felt no concession , but bounced about like a liugo foot-ball. Then I foil back into dreamy contem plation and years ecomod to pass by. Fantastic pictures were worked , my limbs felt weighted with lead , just the opposite to my experience of what seemed to mo years ago. 1 heard somebody say , ' \Yhy , Ralphio , old fol low , what's the matter. RalphioJ Ralphiel The words reverberated like thunder. My shop-mato had returned. Again ho tried to bhuko mo to myself , and I never bated u man so cordially as I hated him at that moment. Ho got a doctor , uud I tall you , my friend , they HARKNESS AND BUY ANEW DRESS WHILE YOU CAN AT GREAT [ REDUC REDUCTION TION IN PRICES- YOUR FRIENDS ARE THERE , GREAT BARGAINS THIS WEEK. CARPETS , CURTAIN GOODS , ETC. SKILLED WORKMEN , LOWEST PRICES FOR BEST GOODS , -REMEMBER THE PLACE , 401 BROADWAY , COUNCIL BLUFFS , IA. THREE STORIES LARGEST STOCK FULL IN OF CARPETS. WESTERN IOWA 405 405 THE ONLY CARPET EXCLUSIVE HOflSE. 4O5 405 THOROUGH THE BEST WORKMEN , NO VALUES THE MISFITS. LEAST MONEY. ESTABLISHED 1843. INCOIU'OUA ED 1878 ' CO. , MASSILLON , OHIO , MANUFACTUUEKS. Especially Designed for SIZES FROM MILLS ELEVATORS 25 TO 250 AND HORSE ELECTRIC LIGHT POWER , PURPOSES , AUTOMATIC : CUT-OFF : ENGINE. Branch House , Council Bluffs , Iowa. . SEND 1 < 'OU OAT/VljOOUE. E. C. HARRIS , Manager. had no easy time to bring mo to myself. Every word they uttered surged Into my brain and seemed to jnr mo to pieces. I sulTorcd from that experience long afterward , and it appears oven at this day , when I think it over , that I have that fooling coming on , so power ful was the impression made on mo at that time. " _ Internal Jlcvoniic. Boston Commercial Bulletin : Lot it bo shown that internal revenue taxes servo no good purpose to society in al leged restriction of the consumption of tobacco and liquors , and they nro bound to bo swept from the national statute book. The policy of this country from the first has boon to leave all Internal taxation to the states. No internal tax was levied at first , but the import tax being iusulllciont , Hamilton reluctantly urged a tax on distilled spirits which congress levied , after a bitter fight in 1701. It is stated that ono ob ject which Hamilton had in the passage of this act was to demonstrate the power of the now national government. At Jefferson's recommendation the odious act was repealed in 1802 , but was again resorted to in another form in the war times of 1812. In 1817 the law was re pealed und 1818 to 1801 no internal tax was in operation under United States law. The traditional policy of the father has been to resort to internal taxation only in times of exi gency. They ought to bo the first taxes taxes to bo remitted in the palmy day ot a treasury surplus , if bueh action con bo taken without harm to society. The tobacco tax should go and the tax on alcohol used In the arts should go. It is a question whether or not the cause of tomporuneo would not bo best served by taking olt the tax on alcohol altogether. Down with internal taxes first , for they have always boon resorted to in this country as emergency taxes. NEW SPRING MILLINERY 151-1 DOUOLiAS Sr , , OMAHANI3I1. R , H , HUNTINGTON & GO , , WHOLESALE FLOUR , FRUIT & PRODUCE , NO. 101 WUOAinVAY. 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