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Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-07
TIE LIBEL SUIT.

Ten days ago q telegram from North
Platte was published among our
special dispatches alleging thst An.
thony Reis had become q d~efaulter
In the sum Ct 81, 500 as treasurer Of
the North Platte building association.
On the following day the Herald and
Republicans announced with q great
flourish Of trumpets that Mr.. Rsis had
telegraphed John O. Gown to iusti.
tute . criminal libel suit against the
editor Of THE BEE. This exhibition
of lamentable Ignorance of the libel
code might be excusable In Mr.. Reis,
but II shows on Its face that he was
either trying to play q bold game of
bluff or had In his make up an I'M
due quantity Of stupid vindictlveness.
To convict the editor of this paper of
criminal libel MIR. Reis would have to
prove that he wllfully and msliciously
published q libel about him, knowing
II to be such. If editors were to be-
come criminally liable for false re.
ports received by telegraph or mall,
which they have neither the means
nor time to verify, nobody would ven
ture to edit q paper. In this case the
dispatch was telegraphed from North
Platte by a correspondent whose reli.
ability and responsibility have never
been called in question. 1t was re.
oelved during the night and published
without comment. There could
have been no wilful malice on the
part of The BEE or Its editor, and
IL Mr.. Refs had been . straightforward.
honorable, manly man he would have
simply demanded the name Of the
author of the so.called libellous dis.
patch and requested q correction
through the BEE. Had he or any
authorized agent for him asked this,
We should have cheerfully given the
and rendered oil reparatlon that
was in our power.
He certainly had no reason to be.
lieye or suspect any Ill will on our
part, as he had always been treated
by us with ia irne ss and courtesy. But
being by nature a contemplate sneak
MI. Reis came down to Omaha with
buster and threat TO procure repsra.
ton for hisdamaged character through
the courts. Whenhefound that q Grim.
inal libel would not hold in this instance
he trumps up a claim for $40, 600, and
a brace of U. p. railroad lawyers
promptly volunteer to make an on.
slsught on THE BEE for him. One of
these lawyers says they don't expect!to
get much CT q verdict against THE
BEE but that Mr.. Refs wants to vim.
dictate himself before his German
friends. Nov If this man Refs has
any German friends we would caution
them against taking too much stock In
his high sounding blarney. Before
this libel suit is half through 1t may
turn out that Mr.. Reis has
not been damaged in character
or reputation, because no may have
neither character or reputation to
damage. While we oonfs.s that We
never had hoard any reports calling in
question the honesty OF Raig az a Gus.
5odtan Of public funds before the al.
legged iibsllous dispatch vas published
We cannot say as much now. Such a
charge has been publicly made by a
citizen of North Platte within the
past forty-aight hours in one of the
local papers that Is known to be
friendly to Mr.. Rels, and ne begin to
suspect MI. sis can employ John M.
Thurston, Vic Borrower & Co. more
protitably nearer home.
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Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-07
A Freight Train Makes Coed Time
Special Dispatch To TUB BEE.

CHICAGO, May ga special freight
train, which left here last night for
San Francisco via the St. Louis & San
Francisco road, arrived at Atchisou,
Kansas, at 8 o'clock tonight, making
q run of 497 miles In 81 hours and 5
minutes, the fastest on record for the
distance.
From Halsted the train will go over
the Atchison & Topeka to Denning
and thence by the Southern Pacific to
San Francisco. The train consists of
sixteen cars, each carrying Al, 600
pounds, eleven of them laden with
tobacco from this city, and 1t Is plsdg-
ed to run through at the rate of 20
miles per hour.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-07

SAM RANDALL has been making "a
purely business trip" to West Var
ginis. Tae West Virginia delegation
know what business Is, and Mr. Car
isles friends will find out sometime
In December.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-07

The Watchmaa intlmates that the
SIC, 900 libel suit was begun by An
thony Rels rs a boom for his jovial
chum, Vic Blerbower, In the Omaha
courts. There may be a good deal
more truth than machine poetry in
that remark.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-07

CORRESPONDENCE All Communl.
atfons relating to News and Editorial
matters should be addressed to the EDrToB
or THE BEE.
BUSINESS LETTERS-An Bushes
betters and Remittances should be sd
dressed TO THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY
JhAHA. Drafts. Checks and Postoffioe
orders to be made payable to the order Of
che Company.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-07
Warning to Politicians.

n. 7. World.
And now the legs of the bullfrog
wax fat In the marshes, and his deep.
voiced "b.l.u.n.k" betrays his hiding
place to the net of the eager hunter.
The frog on the tables of Delmonico
bears constant and emphatic witness
to the folly of talking too much.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-07
Want to Return at Old Rates.

READING, Pa, May 5.-The Phila-
delphia and Reading rolling mills
shut down to-day for one week, on
account of depression In trade and
lack of orders. Puddlers at the
Reading iron works who had asked
for an advance In wages from So. so to
SO. rs per ton and were refused, now
offer to return to work at the old rates
If paid aemi' monthly. The company
holds the matter under advlsement.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-07

SECRET negotiations are said to be
pending between Great Britain and
the United States for the extrsdltion
of several accused IriAhmen. The
sooner tho secret negotiations stop and
the matter Is transferred to the courts
whore 1t belongs the better everyone
will be pleased If the accused are
political criminals their oases must be
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-07

THERE Is to be another naval review
at Hampton, II the two vessels which
are to participate can be calked In
time to float In Virginia waters.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-07
fhs BEE PUBLISHING CO., Props.
T.. ROsEwATER Editor.

KEIFER is off for Dakota. With
Keller and Ordwsy Dakota has more
than her share Of small bore politl-
clans,
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-07
Marine.

Special Dispatch TO The BSE.
New YORK, May 5.-Arrived, w.
A. Schotten, Rotterdam, and State of
Alabama, Glasgow.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-07

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Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-07
The Omaha Bee.

Published every morning. except Sun.
~. The emily Monday morning daily.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-07

vERMS BYiMAIL-
1ue Year. . $1,000 Three Months $500
Blk Months. 500 One Month 80. LOO
The Dickinson press., 1883-07-07
A Wonderfully Good Country.

A trip up the line this week served to
convince us more than ever that the
country tributary to Man,an is not
only a wonderfully good country, but
that it is being rapidly settled by an
enterprising class of people. The
towns of Richardton, Glenullin, Glad
stone, Dickinson, Beliield and Little
Missouri are being rapidly built up.
new stores and dwellings,, and every
thing has Il business-like appearance.
Our merchants are watching the
opening of business, and they should
make it a point to gain the trade of
all the country, us by rights it belongs
to them.
Milwaukee telegram: S. w. Tall
madgc to-day received the following
report from james Baynes, United
States statistical agent for Dakota,
dated Alexandria, June 3. "All
small grain is making splendid pro-
gress, with weather highly propitious
for it's growth. Spring wheat is look
ing very good. The plant is of Il
healthy color and vigorous, and
making good stools. The reports en-
bracing forty-nine counties on pres
ent condition are all above the aver
age, except one which places it at 95
OH account of lateness. The acreage
is largely increased over last year in
the counties that were settled last
year, and also in the exclusive wheat
region. The acreage for the territory
is l,O0G, 100, an increase over last year
of 40 per cent, and condition as COM
pared with last year lis per cent.
Last years average for the territory
was seventeen bushels" According
to the above decidedly ilattering Off
cial statement, Dakota will this sea-
son produce II wheat crop aggregating
2O,000,0O0 bushels.
The Dickinson press., 1883-07-07
DAKOTA SMILES.
Grand Forks plaindcaler.

'Tis this beautiful spring-like day
that makes the heart of the true Dak-
otian rejoice. The sun shines bright
ly and the grounds are rapidly drying
up, and farmers are getting ready to
put i'll their crops. The tide of pros
perity is sweeping over the fertile
plains, and those who come here will
ing and able to work are rewarded
with the just results of honest toll
The rich black loan that has for
years lain without being stirred ex-
cept by the tramp Of the buffalo and
antelope, now yields forth the golden
wheat in abundance. The happy till
er of the soil can here select from
the boundless sea of land, choice
farms, where in the past waving prai-
rie grass grew, and in its stead raise
the beautiful hard cereal which is
Dakota's boast. 1t is when the
clouds of winter have disappeared,
and when the earth has been warmed
by the April showers, that Dakota
comes forth in all her loveliness.
1t is then that the farmers are busy
putting in their crops, assured of a
large return and bountiful harvest.
Dakota smiles and the world looks on
with wonder. Come to Dakota if you
want to see happiness and prosperity.
The Dickinson press., 1883-07-07

While foreigners are pouring into
Dakota every spring and summer, and
taking up our most desirable lands,
there are thousands of deserving poor
in the eastern states who remain in
poverty and wretchedness, either be-
cause they have not the nerve OF are
not financially able to make the move
to this land of plenty. The Northern
Pacific company is making special
efforts to induce Germans and other
foreigners to imnigrate thither.
That is all right enough. But it is
greatly to be deplored that more OF
our own countrymen who are drag
ging out miserable lives in eastern
factories and work shops, cannot, or
do not, avail themselves of the grand
opportunities afforded in Dakota for
health and wealth without drudgery.
Some special missionary work should
be inaugurated to spread the gospel
truth of Dakota's transcendent advan-
tages among these people.-Bismarck
Tribune.
The Dickinson press., 1883-07-07
Dickinson Stark County, Dakota Saturday
Dakota's Hanging Farms.
BROOKLYN Eagle.

brooklyn lluSle.
Eyes gentlemen continued the
Dakota man, ''we have got the big
gest country, the biggest people and
the biggest farms there are anywhere
on earth. What dye think of farms
three or four hundred miles square l'
and the Dakota man leaned back and
enjoyed the astonishment of the mob
"What dye raise, chiehy!' asked a
quiet man, who was taking it all in.
"Wheat" replied the man from
Dakota. 1--WE don't do any business
but wheat.'
Il don't think l want any of it"
remarked the quiet man. ut looks
to me as though there couldn't be any
houses to live in up that way"
"rhat's 500 murmured the crowd.
"Houses!' exclaimed the gentle.
man from Dakota. "IIouses! houses !!
Why, when say that territory con-
tains more and better buildings than
all the rest of the United States put
together, am ashamed of the mild
ness in which l draw it! Houses!
Gentlemen, it is IL positive fact that
there isn't a square foot in that terri
tory that isn't built over, and in some
cases they have to run poles off the
roofs of the buildings already erected,
and on those poles they have built
houses right over the streets and
roads. That's what keeps us so warm
in winter and cool in summer. The
cold and sunlight never get through. -
'Do [ understand you that every
foot of that country is rooted in? 3"
demanded the quiet man. ''Is that a
fact OF are you gassing?'
"Just as sure's your born," replied
the Dakota man promtly and conf
IDENTIFY. ''lf q man goes into that dis
trict with the idea Of building he's
going to get left bad"
"In that cast" "rejoined the quiet man
slowly, sin that case will you be kind
enough to explain to me just where
those big farms you have been speak
ing of are located!"
stranger" said the Dakota man,
stranger. you think you have put a
poser, but there is just where you util-
ize everything that leads to wealth.
| Gentlemen, them farms are on top of
The houses, and we put them up there
SOS to let 'em get the sun and ut the
same time keep them out of the wet!
You see wheat But they inter-
rupted him with a kick.
The Dickinson press., 1883-07-07
Indian Progress.
Pioneer Press.

There are in round numbers 10000
Indians in the United States that live
on reservations and may be called
civilized. They are growing fewer in
number each year. Yet the cost of
their keeping and education increases.
From 1855 to 1868 government spent
for Indians $40, 100000; from 1869 to
1873, there was spent for Indians $9l,
100000. The excess is about $40, 1000.
600. There is spent now annually
about $lo,000,000 on Indians, OF about
$3.50 per capita, counting Indian wo-
men and children. The increased ex.
penditure has not been attended by in
creased docility and ambition to be-
come civilized. Our Indian popula-
tion is no nearer being self-s,pporting.
In many respects it is still as trouble
some OIL the frontier. Army expenses
are not diminished by the increase of
Indian appropriations. In general, it
may be said, that the rising genera
tion of Indians is not better educated
or fitted for support. A small por-
ton of the Indian appropriation is ap-
piled to the maintenance of three ex-
cellent schools for Indian children.
and the agency schools, which con-
sume but small fraction of the In
dian outlay are kept up with good re-
suits in some cases. The Indian
children who return to their people
from these schools are thickly sprink-
led with deinquents, who fall back
into the old worthless life. But an
encouraging proportion say they want
to live among the whites and earn
their own living. If one-tenth the
amount spent annually to feed able
bodied Indians, who ought to earn
their own subsistence, We're spent on
the higher schools for Indian educa-
ton, another decade would see a
marked improvement in our Indian
tribes, and Il reduction of the large
annual appropriation would be possi-
bic and desirable.
The Dickinson press., 1883-07-07
Dakota Free From Storms.
Fargo Argus.


Nebraska, Oh the south of Dakota,
seems to be specially liable to floods
and tornadoes. There has been hard
ly Il week this season when reports of
disasters from the disorderly elements
have not come from there. Terrific
rain falls have caused streams to
spread widely over the country and
destroy the growing crops, and some-
times the homes of the poor and
struggling settlers, and in numerous
eases have not even spared lives.
Then the wild winds, in their merci-
less fury, have swept like a bosom of
destruction over many parts of the
state. Similar tales come from Kan
sas, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa and many
other states. 1t is believed that in no
former season have these destructive
forces been as constant and perilonc.
in their operation as the present. A
close observer for the past few years
would seem to gather substantial sup
port for the theory that in the Sec
tions which these visitations range,
they are becoming more numerous
year by year. There may be climatic
changes attributed to the settling up
of the country that account for this,
but there is no well digested explana-
tion of the matter. The occurrences
are becoming so serious and general
as to affect the movement of imme-
grafton. AS the fact becomes well
understood that Dakota is not only
superior for farming purposes, but EN-
tirely beyond the range of the courses
of these atmospherical and electrical
disturbances, the preference will to a
still larger extent be given to this
peaceful and serene climate, where
the soil is vastly richer and more
productive,
The Dickinson press., 1883-07-07
$3.50 AsEG1. sES
Value Of Railways.

An exchange has this to say of the
value Of railways: Few persons will
ignore the fact that railroads have
wonderful influence in building up
the occupied territories of the west
and northwest. Dakota a few years
ago was not heard from. She had at
that time but few miles of railroad
or telegraph line by which the news
could be transmitted. 1t is now
known to be Il great wheat producing
country, with Il population quite suffi-
clent for a state. Grain buyers are
numerous. and the producer can sell
his products at home for cash. Un-
til the Northern Pacific was built
through the territory it did not
amount to very much. To-day it is
one OF the best and most important
wheat growing regions of the north
west, Minnesota not excepted. Rail-
ways going before population, mark
out pathway for immigration, and
the result is that more than one hun
dred and fifty thousand people, mostly
farmers, are becoming wealthy in
that territory. Washington territory
is another case in point, with this diff
ference, that it can be approached by
water. The eastern part of this terri
tory is suitable for agriculture while
the northern part is famous for the
quantity of timber it turns out yearly.
These territories are not the only
ones which have been created, as it
were, by the influence of railroads.
Colorado was a sparsely settled region
until the railroads made it accessible,
when it made rapid strides in popllla-
ton and wealth. The present million
aires will, in the course of few
years, all disappear, but the wealth
which has been created will remain.
All farms in the west and northwest
will have an increaed valuation.
Even those parts of the new terri
tories which to-day seem well-nigh
useless. will invite population at
later day. There is not railrosd
which penetrates q valley in the
northwest which is not creator of
wealth i'll the way suggested. 1t is in
the recollection of many when Minne-
sofa, now IL powerful state, was but
vast appropriated country. To-day
she ranks f;lvoably among the states.
The Dickinson press., 1883-07-07
productive.

Last Mondays west bound train
had OH board w. A. Stiles, of the New
York Tribune, Paul Dana, son of
Chas. A. Dana of the New York Sun,
and Prof. Sargent. They are making
a tour Of the golden northwest. Mr..
Dana and Prof. Sargent will go to the
coast before returning. They gave
the PRESS a pleasant call, and when
told that Dickinson was less than a
year old expressed great surprise at
it's rapid growth. Their trip will be
written up for the two papers.
Another railroad accident by which
Mr.. William Simpson, better known
as Eli, lost his life, occurred last
Thursday night this side of Mandan.
Mr.. Simpson was a trusty employs
and well liked by all with whom he
had any dealings. lie was about "a
years Of age. 1t is supposed he acci-
dentally fell between the cars while
on duty as a brakeman. Fourteen
cars passed over him, severing one
leg and arm and otherwise injuring
him. He was not missed by the con-
ductor for some time after, when the
train was immediately backed to the
place where the accident occurred.
He lived about one hour after being
found. The body was taken to Man
dan.
The Dickinson press., 1883-07-07
Our last correspondence from Glad

Our last correspondence from Glad
stone said, "business continues quiet,
but steady We have come to the
conclusion that business must be
very puiet there as the merchants
cannot afford to advertise. while our
Dickinson merchants advertise and
are doing good business, but town
without enterprise or life never ad-
vertises and remains the same its
whole life long.
The Dickinson press., 1883-07-07

Fifteen millions of barrels of beer
We're consumed i'll this country last
year at a cost to the consumers of
S4S0,000,OOO.
The Dickinson press., 1883-07-07
How the Bismarck Boomer Makes his
Fortune.

FOftunes
Alex. Mckenzie, the great Bis-
marck boomer, was in Sioux Falls last
evening, having brought our peniten-
tiary convicts from Burleigh county,
of which he is sheriff. Alex is the
man who captured the capital, and
although he is the hero of north Dak-
ota, and man who has now almost a
national reputation, he wears his hon
ors with no more swell or parade
than characterized him ten years ago,
when he peddled pop from a wheel
barrow in the streets of Bismarck.
He just goes along tending to his Off
cial duties, and lets his private busi-
ness at Bismarck make him cool
$4,000 a month. Alex Mckenzie
attributes his fortune to printers ink.
which he says is a commodity whose
value can hardly be expressed in dol
lars and cents. AS an illustration of
it's value, however, it may be stated
that in real estate advertising he last
year expended $4,000, and it made
him $l25.00O and he says that with
out the advertising he wouldn't have
made dollar. Last winter. when
the thermometer was 90 to 80 degrees
below zero, he was receiving letters
from down in Florida and elsewhere,
enclosing thousands of dollars as re-
suit of his NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Falls
Press.
The Dickinson press., 1883-07-07
FOR SALE:

Lot Is in block 8: lots IL and 10 in
block II 4; lot l3, corner. in block l3 /;
lots is, 81 and % in block Is; lot 3 in
block 81. The whole will be sold
together OF offers will be received for
single lots subject to approval,
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-03-20

The FeniAns are carrying the war into
the government heart of England They
are adopting the tactics of the Russian
NihilistS. They have began the dynamite
warfare, or renewed the method of old
Gay Faxkes On the 18th they attempted
the destruction Of portion Of the Par
lament buildings, succeeding to the e1-
tent Of doing some twenty thousand dol
lars damage, killing nobody, but wound
ing two children That the explosion was
not more disastrous seems to have been
due to lack Of ingenuity on the part of
those who managed the murderous work
The explosive was placed against the out
side of the building, SCATTERING everything
in the vicinity, and the report was heard
three miles away. Five hundred police
men now guard the building, and the
whole country is excited.
O'Donovan Rossa boasts in New York
that it was Irishmen who used the dyna-
mite, and that it was but the beginning.
and that it was intended to do all the
damage it could, even to killing, and
would have done more if the plan had
been fully carried out The assassina-
ton press of the United States the
ultra Fenian organs-will doubtless echo
the words of the leaders and agitate more
money out of the pockets of the Irish in
America. One Dorkall telegraphs from
Boston to Rosa in New York: Il congratu-
late you on the news from London this
morning. can collect money now in
Boston" John T. Finerty, member of
Congress elect from the Third Illinois
District, says of the explosion: Il am
sorry it was not more successful" With
out-spoken hackers on the floors Of Con-
gress it is not surprising that Irishmen
personally aggrieved talk murder, urge
murder and glory in murder-being safe
here in America. Rosa wants petroleum
fires set simultaneously in every large
town in England.
1t is sore trial to arrogant John Bull
that he cannot demand satisfaction from
the United States for sheltering his pcsti-
lent enemies. But he cannot, for here in
America he has pledge at stake to keep
him in amicable relations. He may grum-
Bile and growl as he will, and as he did
when the United States made him pay for
the damage done by Confederate cruisers,
L,.,f ha had IN couao down NTH The rnooar
The security for his amity is bis Dominion
of Canada. He knows that when be
makes war American forces will at once
swarm over the border and occupy Can
ada. Though Canada is not profitable
possession, Great Britain cannot submit
to the loss of prestige Of having it taker
from her; will submit to much before
abandoning her loyal subjects 70 conquest