Omaha daily bee., 1888-11-17
Iowa.

The Sioux City oat meal mill has gone into
trust and been ordered closed.
It is quite common for dogs to suicide by
jumping off the high bridge at Dubuque.
Governor Larrabee Monday madenn IN
spection of the state treasury. The cash on
hand amounted to S56, 800. 66, and bonds S225,-
525.
Sixty-nine licenses for the sale of bever-
ages, beginning November |, have been
taken out in Davenport. About one hundred
more dealers are yet expected to come up
and deposit their S25.
w. +. Carlton, auditor of Dickinson county,
was the first county auditor to forward his
election returns to the office of the secretary
of state. This report was received the day
after the official count was made.
An old soldier named Burroughs, from
Wapello county, has been adjudged insane by
the commissioners, out is held at Marshall
town for disposition. The Independence
asylum refuses to receive him, ms he is not
from its territory, and the Mt Pleasant
asylum demands that Wapello county pay for
his care before taking him there.
The county auditors will hold a state con-
ventlon in Des Moines beginning on the 10th
of December. The call is issued by j. O.
Rathbone, of Eldora, Hardin county. 1t is
the purpose of the auditors to consider any
matter of Importance to their work and to
bring out any needed changes in the laws re-
lating to their work, so that they may be
fully discussed before the next legislature
meets
A two -year-old child of James Craig, re
siding at Clinton, was playing in the yard
Monday, wheh it fell into an uncovered cis
tern. Mrs. Craig saw the child fall and
jumped in after It, Fortunately the water
was only up to her arms, and, holding the
child up she succeeded in getting the water
out of its mouth and throat. neighbor who
witnessed the accident rescued the mother
and child, all unhurt but terribly frightened.
The Great Northwest.
Two feet of snow fell at Bullion, Elko
county, Nevada, last Saturday.
The republicans will have twenty majority
on joint ballot in the next Wyoming legisla-
ture.
Last Saturday sl5O,OOO worth of silver
bullion was landed at the Shelby smelling
works.
sician reports that of seventeen births in his
neighborhood this year sixteen have been
boys.
The Wyoming Stock Growers association
has been thoroughly rcorganized new by
laws made and everything put in shape to
get down to work
W. G. Wilson, "A Laramie CWyo) druggist,
wheeled Engineer Donovan to Sherman in a
barrow as the result of an election bet. The
distance Travelled was fortysiX miles.
a new mining district has been discovered
in Nlissoula county, Montana, The ore taken
Oul 10 ottl't w assay llu W -oU Dl
silver and will average 80 per cent of lead
Rev. George II. Cornell, rector of St.
Matthew's Episcopal church at Laramie,
Wyo., mas been forced to resign on account
of his health and has accepted a call from
Sioux City, la.
a vast bed of borate of lime has been dis
covered in Curry county, Oregon, near the
coast. The borate of lime is the crude state
of borax This deposit is said to be half
mile long, 300 feet wide and 80 feet deep.
1t is said that an important discovery, con-
sisting of large deposit of asbetes, has been
made at Laramie Peak, Albany county,
Wyoming. The asbetes is found in huge
dyke OF serpentne of which the company
has located l2S acres. The quantity, Judging
from the surface indications, is very large.
Meagre reports of shooting scrape on the
San Juan river have reached Durango, Colo
1t appears that man by the name of Hamb-
lett, who bears IA hard reputation, became in
volved IN quarrel with Edward Adams and
passing through Adams body. No further
particulars have been received. Hamblett
has skipped out for the hills.
Says the Willows Journal: There is
farmer in this vicinity who offers to furnish
land to any one who will put it in fruit aud
grapes. The person who takes the land is to
pay the taxes and receive all proceeds for
four years. AT the end of four years the
land is to be sold and the money received to
be equally divided between the original
owner and the man who has put on the i'm