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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-02
TEAS.
FISH.
THE MARKETS.
CHICAGO, May
-L-.- ~

CHICAGO. May l.
On change the grain markets opened weak
and lower, hut closed at higher prices than
twenty four hours ago, wheat showing an
improvement Of 1MlS4c and cora of $s@s4c.
No wheat for June sold at and between
92G943sc, and closed at 943sWAl5c.
July sold at 9.M@95$fc and closed
at $50 @95aSc. No : corn sold
at 5sg55%sc for June, and at $3.50
55}sc for July, closing at 555s W55l4c Tor
June and 57&G5S$4c for July. Provisions
were tirmer and higher Mess pork advanced
25(g30c, and for June sales were at SlI1Oca
$3.50, closing at S1755@l7.5sJs. Lard FOG
25c higher with sales for June at $S47@&70,
closing at S. 70@S.72j9.
Live SJock-The Union stock wards reports
the following range of prices; Hogs-Mar-
ket moderately active, weak, and prices SC
lower; light grades, S505G $500 common
to choice; heavy mixed packing, s.. l5&5.50
common . to fair, and $5.35@5.91 fair
to chioce; heavy shipping, S5.5u@5 .95,
Cattle-Market steady and fairly active;
exports, SC. 3006. %; good to choice. IS. oQ@
G. IS; common to fair, S5.20@570 butchers,
S3.0O@5 Is; stockers, S3.75d5.4O. Sheep
Market strong; good to choice, S5.O0dG.25;
common to fair, $400I300,
Produce Butter-Dull: good Ia fine cream
cry, 20@23c: coed dairy l4GlGc;good 10 good
packing 7Gsc. Eggs-DuIl; good to choice
counts, 1879 q lie. Potatoes-Dul: good t.
fine early rose or peachbiow, 500 40c.
New York.
NEW YORK, MAY /
Wheat-OpeNed unsettlei and 1]1@25-c
lower; afterward recovered part of uoeitne;
No ? red, May, S1.071s9l 0S15; June 81 U9&
@l1l5S; July, $l.06A@lO715; August,
SL03&g@ LAJ4; September, SL05}s@ Le4;
December, Sl01Wl.US. Corn-Opened s{ulc
lower; later recovered decline; mixed western
spot. 56@6215c; future, 6l&6417c. Oats
lower; western, 37@46c. Provisions Beef
dull; new extra mess, $12@l25O. Pork quiet;
spot mess, SIC 75@l7. Lard dull. Steam-reu
derei ss631f.
80. Louis.
ST. LOUIS May l.
Wheat-Higher, fairly activt; No. , red,
81 12@114 cash; sl.1O@l.lOA May: $l.O3Q9
log June; 9619 @9715c July; 81 1893 year
No 3, $l00@LU2L. Corn-HigbeT, with
only moderate trading; 5045il4c cash; 49A
@50c May; 50&@5lc June; 52a52}sc July.
Oats-Very slow; 3S34 @3414c cash; S333< a
$31sc May; 34S@S42sc June; Rye-Highsr;
&c. Bsrley-DuH; 60@S0c. Whisky-Steady
Sill. Provisions-Firmer, but very slow.
Pork held higher; $lT.25. Bulk meats and
Bacon-Only small job trade. Lard held
higher; SIC asked.
TOLEDO, May |.
Wheat-Quiet, but firm; No. 2 red, g7@
9gc; May, g7c; June, 9959c; July, 96slc;
August, e51Sc; No. soft, 81 o4@l0S; No.
red, 92@95e; rejected, 65@70c Corn
| Steady; No. cash and May, SAGE bid; June,
nominally 55c; July, nominally 56I; no
| grade, SOC. Oats-Duil, but steady; No
| white, 3S1Sc: No. , cash and May, 35c
June, Sec; rejected, 34c Cloyer-Dul; primo
| medium, Sc, No. 2, S5.7h
Milwaukee.
MILWAUKEE, May l.
Wheat-Firm; 92s4c No. 2 and May
CSC June; $3.50 July. Corn-Tame; 56c No;
=. Oats-Quiet; 3415c No. 2. Rye-Dull and
lower; 651lc No. /; 631Sc No. 2. Barley
Steady; 7114c No. 2; 69s1e May.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-02

A DAZZLING novel use has just been
ound for Historian Blaine. Mr. Beecher
saws: He is doomed to illustrate how
new you can get a thing without putting
YOUR hands on it
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-02

RARNUM has received over 600 poems
on his white elephant Jumbo mast have
taken back seat.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-02

CoRREsP0SDENcE.-Loca news Of general III
tereEt sehclt Il from every town in Rock Island
and adjoining CnGEties Letters must reach the
office not later than Wednesday TO insure insertion
The same week ia the Weekly All news OF spec
ial importance. should he sent as coon ~ received
uy special Dispatch OF by telephone.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-02

THE Rothschilds own over S4O0. 900,
600 of Unit ID States bonds It's lucky
they don't.own the whole globe
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-02
Skinny Men.

"Wells' Health Remover restores health
and vigor, cures Dyspepsia, Impotence,
Sexual Debility. 81.
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INTENDING AnN ERTISERS should address
ESQ. T.. ROW ELL u co.
10 Spruce street. New York City,
For select list Of l.etl newspapers.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-02

RICHMOND, His, May AT the meeting
of the Northern Illinois Merino Sheep Breed
ers' association held here, George F. Peck,
president OF the association, in the chair the
following were appointed a committee to
represent the association az the national
wool-growers' convention, to be held in Chi
ago May 10 Med. Richards, Daniel Kelly,
L. ?. Smith, Z. X. Lester, George E. Peck.
Interesting debates were had upon the gen.
eral subject of sheep raising.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-02

MILW Uhtf1 AIIiI J.
Wheat-Firm; 924o No. 2 and May;
CSC June; $3.50 July. Corn-Tame; 56c No.
= Oats-Quiet; 341lc No. 2. Rye-Dull and
lower; 6515c No. /; 6315c No. q Barley
Steady; 7114c No. 2; 69s1e May.
, 1884-06-21
THE ROUND UPS.
The Very Fine Showing Made by All
of Them.


From the Northwestern i've Stock Journal.
The general spring round ups have been
in working order for some time, and re-
ports are in from most of them. The un.
usual rainfall has retarded work a good
deal. The work is over in Districts Nos.
2, 3,4, 8 and 81. In several of the west
ern districts parts of the range could not
be worked because of the high water.
The universal report is that losses during
the Winter were smaller than expected.
Another peculiarity was found in the
drift. More cattle were on the home
ranges than common, and the drift was
west instead of south as heretofore. The
calf crop is everywhere largely increased.
The old story is this year repeated, the
dead cattle are almost wholly confined to
the ''rawhides," or late arrivals. The
idea grows in the minds of all practical
csttlemen that when the habit of turning
poor cattle on the range late in the season
is stopped the Wnterlosses will be greatly
reduced, in fact, almost overcome. Cattle
that 60 into the Winter fat, whether old
or young, rarely die. But those going in
poor at the first blizzard hump their backs
and come out in the Spring carcasses.
Fat produces heat and preserves life,
while poverty breeds death.
, 1884-06-21

No one ofthe great actresses, Modjeska,
~Janauschek or Bernhard, has created
more sensation among, and won for her
self more admiration from, the play-going
people OF the country than Mile Rhea.
Although she has been in the United
States but little more than three months,
her fame is already as wide as the CONT
nent, and her progress westward is but a
series of artistic triumphs. She is as
popular in society as on the sta &c her
native modesty, her charming Unborn sim
plicity, her graceful wit, her wonderful
beauty, and, above all, her admirable
character and sweet womanly virtues have
won for her the homage of the best peo-
pie of the country. In her opening en-
gagement at the Opera House Monday
evening she appears in Frou Frou She
is already assured a very large audience.
, 1884-06-21
A BUILDING BOOM.
Seventeenth Street TO Have Three
Handsome New Structures

THE LEADER readers have noticed of
course that the old adobe and several
other old buildings on Seventeenth street
are being torn down or moved away and
frequent inquiries have been made as to
who was going to build on the old site
and as to what sort of structures would
be built. As already mentioned, there were
to be three two story brick buildings built
there but no especial mention was made
of the matter. All of the old buildings
up to and including the building n W used
and occupied as a bakery have been or
will be removed. This will leave a space
of seventy-two feet-the lots being
"a feet in width, two feet more than
usual. Upon this site a connected two
story brick is to be built which will be
about 100 feet long. While it will be vir-
tually but one building, three parties will
unite in building it On the site now oc-
cupied by the debris of the old adobe
which was yesterday entirely demolished
and leveled to the ground, will be the sec
ton or division of the buildings which the
Knights of Pithias are to put up; next to
this will be the one to be erected by G. P.
Justus, and on the west of him A. I'm
derwood will build. The three are to
unite, SO far as practicable, in the matter
of foundations, and also in walls, and it is
the intention to have the three divisions
of the building 80 connected, both in the
, 1884-06-21

why a Hid Refuses to Give His Mother
Part of His Wages.

We heard of a very curious case which
happened in Cheyenne only two or three
days since, which will bear relating we
think, for it is not probable that a similar
case has ever happened in Cheyenne, and
probably not elsewhere. A certain wo
man in Cheyenne, who has a husband
somewhere in the great unknown of this
life, aud also three children, one of whom
is fast getting to be a young man, but at
present what is termed by most people a
kid. Not long ago this kid had n.
quarrel with his mother, and left the pa
rental roof for the purpose of making his
own living. He got a job and went to
work or his own hook and gets pretty fair
wages for what he does. His mother,
who i: is fair to presume has a pretty hard
time in getting along, as she has to sup
port not only herself, but her two remain
ing children, recently mace an effort to
have the kid divide his wages with her.
She went to. him about the matter, but 1t
seems that the conference was not u very
pleasdnt Oue hOT IEuiIlul Ill lS results.
Matters then ran along for a time when
the old woman as the son calls her,
stated her case to another party, who fin
ally made up his mind hat he would 10
and talk to the boy himself. lie did so.
but the boy was invulnerable as a rock,
and said he would not give her a cent of
his wages.
"But what is the reason ?" asked the
ambassador.
We'll, I've got good reasons, and don't
you forget it, responded the kid.
What are they? l want to know"
"Well, said the kid, my main reason
is just this, | amt goin' ter give my wages
to anybody who calls me a - of a -,
and don't yer forgit it, ole hiss, for |
mean just what 1 say, and that's what sh
calls me, sure as you're a foot high"
, 1884-06-21
The Assessor ent Work.

]. W. Bruner, one of the deputies o
the County Assessor, returned to Chey
enne from his trip through the countr
southeast of Cheyenne, from Lole IRE.
valley westward to the head waters of til
Box Elder and not far from Virgin
Dale. All of the work in this line throug
this region of country has been complete
by Mr.. Bruner. At this time, with tn
exception of a little more work to be don
within the city itself or close around i
and some which yet remains to Depui
Draper in the vicinity of Sun Dance, til,
work of making the assessment of Lar
mic County is over for the present season
, 1884-06-21
The Properly Round Up.


Property Assessor J. T. Chafin return
ed to Cheyenne yesterday after a long and
tedious trip in making the assessment o
taxable property in distant parts of the
county. He went first from Cheyenne to
Fort Laramie, after which he went up
through Hartville, Fairbanks and Millers-
burg, and after his official labon were con-
cluded in that region be passed on up into
the Bitter Cottonwood and Hon eshoe,
and from thence to Fort Laramie, where
he parted company with Superintendent
Richardson, who had accompanied him
thus far on his trip. From Fort Laramie
Mr.. Chafhn worked down the North
Platte river, and eventually to Goshen.
From this point he worked over into
Little Horse creek and thence on to Pine
Bluffs. Taking a fresh start there and a
little rest, as one of his horses had played
out, he went down into the Muddy and
took in all that region of country to the
very last ranch and hoof of stock. His
labors over in that locality, he made his
way back to Cheyenne, having had a
pretty hard trip of it, all things con-
siderered.
, 1884-06-21

Night before last Miss Henrietta Madi-
son Who resides in the western portion OF
the city, while handling a revolver somewhat
carelessly, by some means was unfortunate
enough to cause it to go off and the bullet
took effect in the arm of her mother, Mrs.
Mary Madison. A very serious wound
was inflicted in the right arm. 1t was at
first supposed that she had been fatally
hurt, and in the confusion which ensued
1t vas thought that she had been wounded
in the left side. The daughter, after she
say what she had done, enormously sup
posed that she had killed her mother,
made 4 most determined effort to shoot
herself, but was prevented from so doing
by those who came to the rescue. Med.
ical assistance was at once summoned, and
it was ascertained that the wound was not
even a serious one. The arm was badly
wounded of course, but the bone, though
grazed by the missed, was not broken.
At last accounts she was doing as well as
could be expected under the circum-
stances.
, 1884-06-21
Cattle Raising Prospects.

From the Omaha Herald.
A friend OF Mr.. John S. Collins, of
this city, who has large cattle interests in
the Powder River country, an English
man, writes to him discouragingly of the
future cattle fattening interests upon
which so much is staked by the people of
this and other parts of the West. Mr..
Collins has handed to us a part of a pri-
vate letter from that gentleman for our
consideration and comment, as follows:
They want in England now every live
animal we can send them, to eat their
surplus crop of roots and grass. They can
take over corn from Illinois at a very
small cost, and, thanks to that wonder
fully mild climate, fat a steer as fully there
with thirty bushels as can be done in
Illinois with eighty. At present farmers
are giving freely IL and - cents a pound
live weight for feeders of good quality,
and by way of Lake Superior and Quebec
it is impossible to figure hat it will cost
more than three cents to send our beeves
over there. The law has just been altered
in England for the very purpose of attract
ing these supplies, and | have no doubt
whatever it will boom u trade inside of
twelve months, subject to a little red tape,
which l hope will be speedily arranged l
am figuring upon sending my entire ship
ments that way this season"
Our English friend makes a case for
cattle fattening in England that is more
plausible han sound.
The milder climate of England has its
advantages, and the root crop there would
do its part. But our people are already
overcoming the severity of climate by
housing their cattle for feeding. English
men must fatten cattle in small numbers,
by scores and ffties, whereas Americans
in the corn growing states do it by thoI-
sands, Wholesale fattening will beat re-
tail fattening, and a better care of animals
here will overcome the alleged disparity of
thirty bushels as against eighty bushels af
corn in the fattening of a steer. Mr.. Col
Inns friend is mistaken.
, 1884-06-21
LAND Is
Made by Late I2mpioyes ON IrrIgstIng
DItches.

Some of the men III the city who have
recently been employed on some Of the
irrigation bitches which are beng cun-
structed north Of Cheyenne are very loud
IN their complaints about the way they
have been treated as employees. Tn,y
say they were promised $50 per Jay
from the time they left Cheyenne to 10 10
the scene Of their lLbors, and were 20
have their board while On their way also,
but they were refused thus on settlement.
Besides this while they were to have the
price agreed upon they were to pay IS. 50
per week tor board, which they did not
complain Of particularly, but they say
they were not furnished with work more
than one half Of the time. If any em
pioye wanted to quit, as under his con-
tract he had the right to do at any time,
IN order to get the check for his pay he
would have TO throw of ~ per cent OF
what was coming to HIM and IN many
Eases the employer would insist on giving
INN an order on some merchant in Chey-
enne for q suit Of clothes, when perhaps
he did not need them. In one place
where work is being done on one of these
irrigation bitches they have u follow vino
pretends to be a doctor, who goes around
to the employees and will get them to pay
him 81 each on condition that he is to
doctor them if they get sick, and in vari-
GUS ways schemes are resOrtel 10 by which
the laboring man will be Obliged to leave
about all that he earns, when he does his
work, so that but few, if any, of them
get away with moro than $40 or SIS.
If one half that these men tell is
true, there are some employers and con
tractors engaged in putting in some of
these bitches who have little or no regard
for the poor laborers who work for them.
, 1884-06-21

Mr.. G. w. Smith, a former resident of
Cheyenne, ard in business here during
the Black Hills excitement, is down here
from Custer, where he now resides. He
speaks of the future prospect of Custer
City with great confidence. He says that
the population of that place will increase
very largely during the coming season.
This is due to the fact of the recent de-
velopements of the tin mines near there
which he says have been pronounced very
rich by experts. One Of the richest quartz
mines in the hills is only a mile away from
the town, and, although nothing of i'm
portance is being done there just at pre-
sent, they expect it will be worked after
a while. The country around Custer City
is very attractive, and Mr.. Smith thinks
it is almost a paradise.
, 1884-06-21
STOCK NOTES.

The plains of Texas cover an area of
l52, OOO, 900 acres, on which feed 3, 800, 900
head of cattle.
Charles Goodnight, the Panhandle cat
tie king, is worth 81, 200, 900, and made it
in seven years ''out'n' cattle.
1t is estimated that the sheep of the
State are worth $4,000, 900, and hat the
wool crop Of this year is worth 81, 500, 600,
a sum equal to Is per cent of the whole
investment in sheep. The value of the
lamb crop is estimated at SO, 900, 900,
making an annual interest of As per cent
received on the whole investment. Out
of this 45 per cent must come the cost of
herding, shearing, etc, leaving still an
interest on the original sum invested as
profit that cannot be equaled in any bust
ness except stock raising .-Denrer Repub-
HcdH.
R. c. Bloomfield, general manager of
the Arkansas Valley Land and Cattle
company, came in from Dodge City yes
terday. He stopped a day at the COM
pany's ranch, where he learned the most
encouraging of information concerning
cattle. Mr.. Bloomfield said that the
scare about the high water in the Cana
dian was unnecessary, as herds were cross
ing every day between Dodge and Trini-
dad. A few days ago there were %, 900
head in the vicinity of Dodge, that had
crossed the Canadian without any diff
Guilty. All the cattle he saw looked well
and had stood the drive better than ordin-
arily. Lovell's and Shepperd & Sherrer's
herds are expected to arrive at Dodge in
a few days, having left Wichita Falls
about three weeks ago.-Denrer Neins.
, 1884-06-21
VERY
Awkward Arrangement OF the Trains Al
the Depot.

-
The most dire confusion seems to exist
at the depot when the trains from three
different directions all arrive ut about the
same time. They have to ''go into park"
as would be said were they sections of a
battery Of light artillery, and are conse-
quently compelled to stand on the main
tracks along side by side or nearly so.
After No. | has arrived and when No. 4
and also the Denver train is about to
pull out, the passenger, if he wishes
to get aboard of the latter, must climb up
and down across the platforms of two
trains that stand between him and the
one he wants to reach, while if he wants
to go East direct his climbing is not quite
80 difficult for there is only one train to
be scaled. 1t is almost impossible further
more for even a person well acquainted
here to tell whether he is getting aboard
Of the right train or not, and ladies, es-
pecially those who have small children
with them, are often made half crazy by
not being able to tell which train to get
aboard, and they are worse still after they
10 get into the cars for then, of course,
hey cannot be sure but that they are
board of the wrong train. In the case
Of strangers the matter is far worse and
t takes Officer Thomasson, all of the con
luctors and generally two or three parties
o get them aboard of the right train.
We do not know what would be a remedy
or this state of affairs, but it strikes us
hat if the trains were to be strung out so
nat all can be seen at once and placards
laced upon each of them, it would 10
fir toward reme1vin1 tho evil
, 1884-06-21

Prof. E. H. Griffith, F. R. NJ. s., who
is the director of the working department
of the American Society of Microscopists,
was in the city yesterday, . guest at the
Inter-O Ocean. Prof. Griffith has with him
a beautiful and valuable collection of
specimens, some of which possess an his.
toric as well as a scientific value. The
seventh annual meeting of the society
will be held in Rochester, N. Y, August
10, 20, 81 and %.
, 1884-06-21
OFFICE OF COUNTY CLERK,

Buffalo, Wyo,, June 5. 1884.
Sealed proposals will be received at this
office until 10 o'clock a. m. on Tuesday,
the LIST day of July, 1884, for thirty
thousand 1886, 00u) dollars of coupon
bonds; to be issued by the county of John
son, for the payment of the cost of erect
ing a Court House and Jail for said
county. The issue of said bonds was
authorized by an act of the legislative as
sembly of the territory of Wyoming. An
proved March 5. 1884.
Said bonds will be of the denomination
of one hundred (Sl00) dollars each, dated
July !, A. ID. 1884, bearing eight per
cent. interest per annum, principal and
interest payable in the lawful money of
the United States of America, at the office
of the County Treasurer, in the city of
Buffalo, Wyoming Territory; said bonds
will be payable in fifteen years from date
of issue. and redeemable in order of issue
after the second year; at least one tenth
of said bonds to be retired annually until
paid. Coupons will be paid annually on
January ! of each year. Proposals will
be received for the whole or my portion
of the issue, but no bids under 80 per
centum will be considered. Accrued in
terest will be charged from date of bond
to date of delivery to purchaser. The
County Commissioners reserve the right
to reject any or all bids. By order of the
Board of County Commissioners.
LSEAL. N. G. CARwILE.
County Clerk.
, 1884-06-21
WATER SYSTEM EXTENSION.
The Contract For 1t Let and Work VIII
Soon Bsgin.

The special committee, representing the
City Council, consisting Of X. Jeffrey,
City Clerk; J. A. Riner, City Attorney,
and w. G. provinces, City Engineer, yes-
terady reached a final conclusion in tho
matter Of awarding the contract for the
extension of the Cheyenne Water System.
There has been some delay in this matter
and it appeared to be somewhat uncertain
as to whom it would be awarded. At the
outset there were several bids put in, some
of them for the work to be done, and some
for both work and material. The contract
was, by a vote of the City Council, award
ed to the lowest bidder or bidders. A
careful figuring showed that Messrs.
Lawler K O'Brien were the lowest
bidders for the work and that
Dennis Long x Co. were the lowest
bidders for the material to be furnished.
These two bids, taken together, amounted
in all to a little upwards of Sll 900. After
the Council had delegated its authority tt
this committee, there was a disposition to
figure still further on the various bids in
order to ascertain to a certainty just how
the matter stood, and there was more or
less negotiating with the Union Pacific in
regard to the rates to be charged for
freights between Cheyenne and Omaha.
Everything was satisfactorily arranged,
however, and yesterday the contract was
signed between the city and Lawler &
O'Brien, and also between the city and
Dennis Long & Co., and the required
bonds given. As the contract specifies
that the work is to be completed in sixty
days, operations will be commenced by
the contractors at once.