Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-03
STATE AND TERRITORY.
Nebraska Jottings.

Beatrice will do large amount of paving,
grading and other street improvements this
year.
Thrilling moose may be expected from
the cattle thievlng section of the Keya Paha
county.
Fairbury has added one to the many coal
prospect holes in the state. No more effec-
tive way of sinking money can be found.
After. a long and persistent struggle
Adams county has voted Sf5, 900 for a county
court house and Hastings is correspondingly
joyful.
Horse lifting as profession is declining
A few years ago it had decidedly elevating
tendency. Now il is only worth two or three
years in the penitentiary.
Twenty thousand dollars of Nebraska City
school bonds sold for premium of 21S per
cent. They are per cents and run ten or
twenty years, at the boards option.
Among the distinguished arrivals in Hast
ings are Oh BE Joyful Swartsmeyer and
Miss Hallelujah Kate Seahorn, cornotooter
and tambourine ticker of the salvation
army.
There is general disposition among the
organized farmers of the state to resist the
twine trust. Fifteen cents per pound Is the
highest price they will pay for binding twine.
The question now is, will the trust come
down or the farmers come upl
Eight hundred thousand to million
trees were planted In Dawes county on Arbor
ment 1t shows that Nebraska puts IN prac-
tice the beautiful and endearing sentiment
which was born within her borders.
Montrose has withdrawn from the race for
the capital of South Dakota.
Pulpiteer and politician are alike immersed
in the splendors of the future state.
The latest scheme in Yankton is a railroad
to Bismarck, along the Missouri valley.
Watertown has voted $4,000 in bonds for
high school and $4,000 for a city hall.
Miller aud st. Lawrence, the twin cities of
Dakota are to be united by street railway s.
The county seat fight in Meade county is
so hot that the thermometers cannot register
the temperature.
The plum orchards in Charles Mix county
are in full bloom and no lovelier sight can
be seen in that section.
The Greeley brothers, of Deuel. county, are
the largest sheep herders IN the territory
Their flock numbers 5000 head.
Bishop Walker, of Bismarck, recently
preached to four governors at one sitting
Mellette, Pierce, Ordway and Church.
North Dakota democratic papers uuani-
mously iudorse ex-Secretary Mccormack for
the nomination for governor on the state
ticket.
The Fargo Republican says the report that
Cass county prohibltionlst refused 10 ride
on Pullman car unless they put the
'pOrtern off, lacks confirmation.
The Golden Reward mines of the Black
Hills were rightly named. Geologist White
who recently examined the property, reports
that there is over Sl20, 900 in sight, and the
mines are only slightly developed.
Eastern Dakota expects large amount of
railroad building this year. Western Dakota
however, has no such fattering prospects.
Very little win be done in that section until
the Indian barriers on the east are taken
down.
The Aberdeen land office is doing -four
ishing business. During April lis pre-emp-
tions seventy-five timber culture and fifty
seven homestead claims were flied. Forty
cash entries and fifty-seven homestead proofs
were made.
Dakotans are now moving to split the Sis
seton Indian reservation, comprising z, 900 900
acres. Some of the finest farming land in
the territory is embraced in this tract, and
its opening would be a repetition of the rush
to Oklahoma, without the latter's distress
and dlsappontments.
Yankton is enjoying season of uncommon
prosperity. 1t is visible in all branches of
the building trades, in increased railroad ia
cilities and in other lines. The Press and
Dakotian gives evidence of the improvement
by indulgiug in a tasty new dress OF the lat.
est pattern, and is greatly improved in ap-
pearance.
set A Planlinton scribe varies the monot-
ony of life by preaching on Sunday. Another
at Salem, who fattens on rich fodder, an
nounces: ''If the parties who have been
helping themselves to our hay for the past
month will Just make themselves known, we
will load the wagon up at the stack ana haul
it down for them"