Omaha daily bee., 1885-09-03
BUSTLING BLAIR,
and Private Enterprise in
WaShiDgtOn'S Metropolis.
A iFemale Crank Attempts Suicide
but Fails A Night School for
Fostofice Candidates
Political and
Otherwise.
Correspondence of The BkE.

Correspondence OF The BkE.
BLAIR, Nsb., Sept 1.-Blair has not
gone out of existence, nor hes it ceased
to be a city of life aud activity. On the
contrary, cur business men are Ist be-
ginning to r~ealizs that to continue to
grow snd ihr.vs they mast besslr them
selves and show some enterprise, as Ia
evidenced by the lively interest man.
Tested In endeavorlng to get a pork
packing establishment ard q stove man.
ufactory located here. TIE liberality of
some Of our buiineis men in thia Is
highly commeudable.
The contract for a system If waite r
works has been let to the Fairbanks, of
st. Louis, their bid being the lowest
SIG .6lS. Work will at once.
The schools commenced yesterday
with Prof. Bond az principal, although
Prof. Miller was here ready to act as
principal, he olaimlog to be the regu.
larly appointed principal. As to that
the courss will probably decide.
The farmers of this locality ara max.
ing extensive preparations for stock.
feeding this fall, as their immense corn
crops vii enable them to do 80.
Politics Is awakening the interest of
the many candidates for tho various
offices. The principal ''bone of conten.
tion" will be the treasurer's Office, which
at present Is being bid for by Z. G Jack
son, W. o. Hatch, Jos s Cook aud a.
Chapman, and your correspondent thinks
that when tho roll is called, ''slick and
ely Johnnie Boggs will be there.
Bill Gross, the lsziest man In the
county wants to tu coed himself as sher-
iff for o third term.
Lou Perkins will euccsed himself as
county judge, and be ready for all sach
''snaps' as the Leonard Smith eatate.
w. V. Miller, tho many time elected
superintendent. wants to succeed him.
self, but Prof. Citherwood Is strenuously
opposed to 1t. If the 'lcngest pole
knocks the psrsimmons" the P1of. ought
to be nuccessful
The temper ,nce people hsve a ticket
made up which thsy exp sc; to elect with
the aid of Banker Hills money and In
f~uenco. Mr.. Hill came from Kausa,
whers he did much in aid of prohibition
and his Efforts here are unceasing In that
direction.
The democratic plrty will devote their
united and entire eff,rts In an attempt to
sscure the BAR postofice. A night
school has been started for the bens fit of
Hartman and Arnold a, their penman.
chip and photography Is "a her below the
of Clsvelaa d's +. quirements.
In fact Hartman retained Glover before
the result of the cleo ion was known.
Glover is raid to be an exc ,llent teacher
In both of the above branches
DIR Miller's man Ffidsy "a. G. Strlpt),
here q short time ago ito write up
the town and select a pos msster," but
as there were no Glovers here, the town
not written up and IL was concluded
10 retain Hilton as postmaster.
Saturday night a fine looking young
lady, having the appearance somewhat of
the demimonde class, got off the train
here and stayed over nigh. The next
afternoon late che was seen going towards
the river along the railroad track, and
va. observed by somo men to throw her
zelf In front of a fast approaching train.
Ono of the gentlemen, ct the risk of his
own life, reSc1ed he's with difficulty, she
being determinedto -emain on the track.
She still persisted in going to the river to
brown herself, but was taken TO the all
by the marshal and the Mex day was
irlyen to Calhoun by w. A. Bradley. II
vas learned thai she was the young lady
sho attempted suicide at Lincoln a short
lime ago. E.