Omaha daily bee., 1888-04-16
A AND TERRlToRY.
Nebraska ,Jotttngs.

J. M. Woodsop, OF Plattsmouth, has
fallen heir to an estate in Virginia
worth S35 600.
The farmers in Clay county have
planted all their small grain and are
now preparing the fields for corn.
O'Neill has swiped the land Office
from Niobrara. The GOODNESS between
them would make a superb summer re-
sort.
The roundup of the youngsters of
York shows a total of 1,202-606 boys
and 500 girls. Fortunately there are
enough boys to go around.
Hastings and Grand Island, !" says
the York Times, 'are right smart
towns. II they were a little further
away from York they would have
a brilliant future"
The joyful news from Rulo that
the Missouri river sis going down."
Had it stopped a moment and looked
Rulo in the face the would
have been appalling.
Another daily paper is promised in
Hastings. The recent mounds erected
in the journalistic cemetery there have
no terrors for men with more money
than discretion. Pewter plates come
cheap, however.
Omaha brick makers are investigat-
ing the clay banks near Weeping Water
with a view to establishing yards there.
The clay is said to be q superior article
for the manufacture of pressed, paving
and other grades of brick.
York is pushing TO the front in a way
that threatens the peace of slumbering
rivals. On the heels of waterworks and
a big school comes n united pull for n
foundry and a planning mill, both OF
which are almost assured.
A Gage county man was hurried to
the pearly gates last week with ''good
luck" branded on his abdomen. He
was kicked todeath by u horse. The
brand will give him a leading position
among the Mavericks knocking at the
door.
The recent arrest of e. e. Finney in
Omaha for raising money by mortgages
on cheek did not astonish any person in
Fremont, where he masquaraded as a
model youth and borrowed right and
left. The Herald says he left dozens of
victims in that city.
II see that the base ball rules for 1888
provide for three Strikes" remarked
Maud to Alfred, as they stood up to
soften their joints OF the grand stand.
II hope it won't spread to our boys. I
should hate awfully to see them lose
their situations. They are just too
lovely!n
Sioux City imagines that the finger
of scorn will scorch the nose of Omaha
if she borrows the corn palace idea.
The hamlet on the Big Sioux is need
lessly worried. Omaha's corn palaces
are ample for home needs, without bor-
rowing from the bootleg joints of her
~red-headed neighbor.
Men and teams are at work grading
| tho E1nhnr avtnrn;a. fpp,, T,N,, 81 tN~
to Verdigris. near Niobrara, a distance
OF t~wenty-four miles. 1t is generally
believed that this move is q preliminary
step toward the Sioux reservation. 1t
Will give the company a big start
through that country as soon as it is
opened.
Beatrice is looking hopefully toward
the Rock Island to build northeast from
that city to Omaha. The Demourat
says surveyors are working in that di-
rection now, but no one knows what
their purpose is or what company they
represent. The territory between the
two cities is the most inviting in the
state, rich in natural %esource well
improved and stocked, and open to the
first conner. Liberal aid will be given
the company that undertakes the job.
The l. G. society, of York, has pro-
cured a gold medal to be presented to
Miss Minnie Freeman, the heroine of
Myra valley, 1t bears on one side the
raised initials, IN. F." inlaid with
garnet and turquoise. Upon the re-
verse side is engraved the letters Il.
Co." the name of the society which
gave it, and january II" the day upon
which she rescued so many little ones
from perisbing in the great blizzard.
Miss Freeman is a member OF the l. c..
society.
"a substantial city of over
eight thousand inhabitants" says
the Plattsmouth Herald, with
but one railroad is certainly an
anomaly in this state, yet that is Platts-
mouths condition to-day. The Herald
has the best of reasons, however, for be-
lieving that ere long we will be blessed
with another line. The Missouri Pa
citic people will build through TO Omaha
this year from Union, fourteen miles
south of us. That is our prediction and
as we have achieved something ola rep
utation as Il prophet, we shall take no
chances when we assure our people of
the building of a new line"
Land spectators and settlers are
pouring into western Nebraska and
eastern Wyoming and Colorado by the
hundred. As a rule they are sturdy
people, well equipped to rough it until
harvest time. Government land is dis
appearing so rapidly that in less than a
decade the choicest of it will have
passed into the hands of settlers.
This fact coupled with the certainty of
rapid increase in value is a
powerful emigration agent. Another
incentive is the widespread belief that
congress will repeal the presumption
and timber culture laws, and limit
claims to the homestead law under
stringent regulations. Scores of work.
ingmen and farmers sons in and around
Omaha are arranging tie take advantage
of this bonanza. With a little money
and the grit and energy to stay by the
claim, n man can secure $50 acres of
land and at the end of five years will
have secured "a competence and freedom
from the stripes inherited by wage
workers. Go west and secure a slice OF
the nations bounty.
Iowa Items.
The whale has succeeded the legisla-
ture as an attraction in Des Moines.
The people of lie Mars are making a