Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 14, 1885, Page 4

- - b THE DAILY BEE. @uana Ovwron No. 914 Awp #18 Fanwax Bs. Sww Youx Orrion, Roo € Tarsvwn Bumo- ne, D T R ™ ‘Months he Waekly Bes, Publihsed every Wednesday prRp——— , with preminm. .. 1 o Nowaand Editerial ased o the Eoivon or TR Bastness Letters and Remittances should be (Areseed to Tun Bix PUSLISRING COMPAXT, ONARA. Oheoks and Post offios orders 4o be made pay- whle 16 the order of She company. $HE BEE PUBLISHING 00, Props. R ROSEWATER, Eprron, Oiroulation, Ty Tie next city olerk will probably not have more than two initial letters to his name —ee AxoxG the things that remaln to be seen ls whether a republican coancil will continus to elect a democratic clerk, — Stoux Crry objects o prohibitlon. Like Council Bluffs she 1s too near the muddy Missourl to take kindly to water. O'Dy~AMITE RossA has at last invaded the lectare field. ‘‘Sclentific Warfare" is his subject. Now, then, lot Yseulte Dudley be turned loose, Ir isa little strange that lightning should have struck the Washington mon- ument when there are so many office seekers in Washington who are waiting to baserved In that way. Tae Illinois legislature s an expensive luxury. Six weeks ago it bad cost the state over $100,000, and that amount has since been doubled. If the session con- tinues until the st of Jily the total bill of expense will foot up In the vicinity of $400,000. Recent developments have Increased the number of readers upon the subbect of olvil service. The membars of the clvil service commission say they are recelving mora reques's for their annual report than they can comply with, and that they could easily diatribute 50,000 coples. Tue demcoratic newspapers are now getting their share of the federal patron- age. Although but few democratic edi- tors have been rewarded with office, their columns now contain the federal adver- tlsements that formerly helped to swell the Income of the republican unews. papers. Tue president’s advice to the cftice- ssekers in Washington is to go home,and it is said that ho meuns it. There may be no p'ace like home, baut the office- seekers think that there is no place like Washington. When they have spent all their money and exhausted their credit they will leave Washington, and not be- fore. Tue New York senatc has passed a bill, which may become a law, to prevent all traneactions In stocks, certificates, re- celpts, etc., which are not accompanied by the actual possession or transfer of the artfcles dealt in. The stock gamblers are naturally enough conslderably exercised over the matter, and will, no doubt, ex- ert every offort to defeat the bill. The ob- ject of the proposed law is a good one, bat It would be difficult to put it Into ex- ecation, —————— IN Michlgan the democrat!c and fusion- I8t congressmen have divided the federal offices among themselves, and they pro- pose to visit the president and tell him whom to appoint. This fact causes the New York Herald to remark that Wash- ington is to sec the most remarkable set of political idlots it has ever beheld, and it expresses the hope that what the presi- dent says to them will be made public for the Instraction of any other congresmen: dlsposed to commit, a similar folly. Tue Illinofs leg'slature has had a some- what remarkable experience durlng its seaslon so far. Beeides being unable to elect & United States senator, it has had ° three of its members removed by the hand of death. The last death is that of Representative Shaw, and it makes the second that has occurred in the demo cratle ravks, the other death belng among the republicans. Any definite action in regard to the United States senatorship is thus postponed sgain for three weeks, a8 no election to fill the vacancy cansed by Representative Shaw’'s death can be held any sooner. . Tug lower house of the Conneoticat, leglslature has adopted a proposition for the submisslon to the people of a constl- tational amendment authorizing the legis- lature to arrange for the transportation of {ts members from their homes to the capital and return at public expense. This 1 a step in the right direction, and 1t Is to be hoped that such & law will be adopted not only In Connecticut but in every state of the union. The wholesale glving of passes by the rallways to mem- bers of the legislature is nothing more nor less than bribery by which rallway logislation is largely Influenced to the detriment of the publlc good. The Con- neoticut plan is fo be commended for it puts the members of the leglalature in & posltion to be lndependent of the railways. It there is any the union where such & lawis needed it 15 Nebrasks, where rallwsy pasges by the hundreds are issued at overy scsalon of the leglala- tary other purpose than that of It certalnly bas grown to be s wil, and” It s high time that it should be :xpwud ’ CHEAP TRAVELING. A telegram from Minneapolis says that the movement of 100,000 emigrants from Europe has commenced; that all of them will locate In the west and northwest, and that all will be carrled from Chleago, by the Ohleago, Milwaukes & St. Paul rellroad, over which llne 5,000 or 6,000 arrived in Minnesota on last Thyrsday. It Is expected that the work of transfer. ring these 100,000 emigrants will take a'l summer, and that large dally special trains will have to be run to accomplish this work. This Is the first fralts of the sale of a hundred thousand ‘‘chesp tickets,” which were thrown on the Eoropean market by the Pennsylvania Rallroad company at one dollar each, from New York to Chicago, this ‘‘eut” belng the result of a war between the trunk lines. The tickets were taken up by the steamship companies, and used as an indncement to Earopeans to emigrate to Amerloa. The un. paralleled reduction enabled the steamship agents to make a rate of $8.50 from Liverpool to Chleago. Owling to the fact that the Chicago, Milwaunkeo & St. Paul enters a unlon depot with the Ponnsylvania at Chicago, that road se- cured the teansportation of emigrants to the northwest and weat, as the latter company refated to pay the transfer charges which would have been required had the bueiness been given to any of the other lines whose depots are distant from that of the Pennsylvania. from Chleago to Minneapolis is $7.50, maklng a through rate from Liverpool to Minneapolis of only $16.00. No such cheap traveling was ever offered to em- igrants, and probably mevar will be again, For the Pennsylvania road it will prove a losing game, as it costs sixty cents each te get the emigrants out of Castle Garden and twenty centa for the {ransfer in New York, thus leaving to the company just twenty cents per passenger for 1,000 miles travel, or only $20,000 for the transpottation of 100,000 persons from New . York to Ohleago. But the quostion that chiefly intercsts Ncbraska in connection with thls remarkable transaction is how many of thess emigrants ara coming fo this state? It would seem from the Minue- apolls telegram that the Jhicago, Mil- waukee & St. Paul proposes to carry the bulk of these emigrants to the northwest to populate Minnesota and Dakota, Al- though it has a western line to Nebraska, it for some raason or other seems in- clined to favor Minnesota and Dakota. [t may be more to the Interest of the company to transport these poople to the northwest than to the west, but it strikes us that Nebraska ought to get eome of theee people to locate within her bound- arles, If Nobraska had a live immigra- tlon board, or an energetic agent, 8 large number of theso persons could have beeninduced to settle in Nebraska. Porhaps it 18 not too late yet to Induce the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul to land eome of these emigrants in Nobras- ka, If they sro the right kind of people. 1f they are penniless and belpless the northwest can take them without any protest from Nebraska, Their condition could easlly be ascertained by proper par- tles, if any such persons could be inter- ested In the matter and authoriz:d to act In behalf of the state. No matter who is mayor of Omsaha we cannot afford to have fraudulent elec- tions, We cannot afford to have men swear in votes when they know they are committlog perjury. We cannot afford to let non-residents vote fn Omaha at city electlons, We cannot afford to allow Imported voters to debaach our system of government, and carry elections for men who have not received a majority of the votes cast. It is no excuse that all these things should ba permitted in Omaha be- cause they have been allowed elsewhere. A wave of reform, howover, is beginning to manifest itself in some of the large citles, and itis high time that true re- form In elections shonld be instituted in Omaha, In Chicago they have con- victed several ballot box stuffers and forgers, and they pro poseto prosecute ' hundreds of election judges and others for election frauds. If we had a cit/zens' astoclation in Omaha, snch as there 1s In Chiocago, the persons who committed frauds In the recent city election would be promptly ferreted out and punished to the full extent ot the law. Although we have as yet nosuch association, which is greatly needed here, it is the duty of officers of the Jaw to sec sbat fraudulent voters and others who have become ac- ocessorles to thess crimes are not allowed to go uopunished. It is tlme that an example should be made and it Is just as well to begin now, — Uxpax the laws of Connecticnt a ma- jorlty vote Is necessary to elect state officers. Twlee within ten years the democratlo gubernatorial candidate has had » plurality over his republican coms petitor, but was left in a minority be- cause of the vote cast for the prohibltion and labor tickets, 1In both instances the constitution#l provision, that In such ocases the leglalature shall fill the offices from the two leading candidptes for each place, was to the republican advantage, a0 the leglslatures were in their hands, This lost Governor Waller his re-election last fall, when he bad a plorality of idate, but & majority, owing to the probibltion and Butler tlokets, These results have not proved generally satlsfactory to the peo- ple, smong whom “hag’ sprung up p strong bouss belisved "that The rate | ), THE DAILY BEE-~TUESDAY APRIL 14, 1885 reach the people at the polls It would be sapproved. The republicans, however, have an idea that they can control the leglalatare, and hence object to ylelding that advantage. In the debate over the proposed amendment the democrats urged the falrness of the plurality system, and were met with rejoinders that the anclent system i¢ well enough, although it de- foata the popular will. PUBLIO LAND FRAUDS, Th the ropnrfnf Inspector Greene, of the general land office, the statement Is made that fraudalent entries of the pub- lic lands, in the reglon which he has ex amined, *‘include a large per cent of the whole number, except possibly cash en- trles.” He shows that under the timber culture act gigantlc frauds have been committed, particularly In Nebraeka, Kansas and Dakota, in which sections not moere than ten per cent of the land is improved In accordance with the require- ments of the act. Mr, Greene fully ex- poses the system of fraudulent entrles that has 8o successfully been practiced by cow-boya In the interest of their employ- ers, and says that if alaw had been enacted solely for their benefit it could scarcely have been more successful. Mr. Greene eays:® ° “‘These entries often very nearly, If not quite, occupy all the watered lands In & townehip and render the remainder unde- s'rable for actual settlement for farming purposes. Our land officers are largely to lame for abuss of the land laws in gene- ral, and the homestead law is no excep- tlon, Itmseemsto me there should be some way to distibguish between a fire guard of a few furrows plowed around @ quarter eection and a corn-field; some way to determino whether a description of a house ‘fourteen by sixteen’ referred to inches or feet equare; whether the floor was bored or board, or whether the ‘shingle roof' meant more than two shingles, ona on each slde. I have found one land offico whera the rules were so lax that a house six by eight feet, bullt of unbattened boarde, was accopted as a ‘comfortable reeidence’ in latitude 46 degrees north. A settler once importuned me to advise the land office to allow him to make final proof before the expliration of the full tlme, because ‘his famlly was anxious to go back to Chicago and would be liable to freezo to death In the ehanty if they re msined on the homestead.” This msn was a minister of the gospel and a highly respectable citizsn, but his moral percep- tiblities were fearfally blunted when he came to consider land laws.” 1t is to be hoped that the land office wlill continue its investizations Into the frauds and take steps towards enforcing a compliance with the provleions of the land laws, all ot which are yet in force. The timber-culture and pre-emption laws, under which most of the frauds are com- mitted, camo very nearly being repealed by the last congress, and it is to be re- gretted that they were not. In all prob- abillty, however, they will bs repealed at the next seeslon, as congress cannot any longer, in the face of overwhelming evi dence of the frauds that have been and can yet be committed, allow such laws, which are not obeyed or enforced, to re- main on the statute books. Tue correspondent of the St. Paul Pioneer-Press, with the fogces of Gen Middleton in the northwest, gives a most Interesting account of the situation as seen from Fort Qu'Appelle. One of the most valuable aids to a clear undoratand- Ing of the causes that have led to the present disturbances s the statement fur- nished by an educated half-breed, and which presents with ‘sdmirable clearness the questlons at fssus between his race and the government. The half-brerds claim that the Indian title to the north- west terrltory hes never beon extlngafsh- ed, and that, having Indian blocd, they have the Jsame rights, occupants of the soll, that the Indlans have. They claim cnly to atk to be dealt with as wero their brethren {n Manitoba; in other worde, that each half-breed who would have been entitled to an allotment in Mani- toba should be given 160 acres In the northwest In satlefaction of bis claim to partiolpate in the Indian {itle. The re- view of the history of the government survey s clearly stated, and while it has failed to convince the dominion authori- tles, it shows that there are at least two sldes to the questicn. The Pioncer Press thinks that perhaps tho govern ment commlssioners now on their way will succeed in smoothing over the diftar- ences to gome extent, Now that the Iowa saloon-keepers have at last beendowned by the prohibi tlonists, they are taking every advantage to fight the druggists. There appears to be a conflict of opinlon as to the rights of drogglsts under the pharmucy law. The clroult court at Des Moines, for instance, holds that licensed druggists are required to take out a permit to sell intoxleating liquors, even for medicinal purposes. The distelet court, which {s the higher | court, holds that the law does not apply todruggists. The state temperance alli- ance Is also inclined to th!s view, and are therefore not disturbing lcensed drug- glats, But the question hasalready got into the courts, the entire'stock of liquors of the president of the state board of pharmacy baving been eelzed and carried off by the police, on complaint made that no permlit bad been given by the county supervisors to the defendant to aell llquors, 1t will probably puzzle the su- preme court to decide what powers are given under the pharmacy law. Notwo lawyers construe it alike, and the lower courts disagree upon it. ——— Cyrus W, Fizwo, who retires at the age of sixty-five from an active career of fifty yoars, has been the orlglnator and prom ter of ly of thegreat enterprises of this cent: As the projector [of the Atlantic cable his name will forever history of the great achieve odern tlmes. 85| on Many ANDRRSON Ia credited with hav- ingjrecently presented Tennyson with a bottle of twonty-year old Kentucky whisky. We are not Informed as to how recently the presentation occurred, but if, a8 is suspected, it was just before the poet laureate wrote his *‘Ode to Free- dom,” that poetic offort should have been entltled “Owed to American Corn- Julce,"” IxasmucH as “reform” won the day, we preenme Mayor Boyd will follow the example of Mr, Oleveland, and see that clvil service reform is carrled out daring his admlinlstration. This Is merely a presumption on our part, however, and no one necd take it for granted. Banitos, the slain president of Gaute mala, was & man who looked out fo number one. He was the richest man in Gautemala, his fortune being $10,000, 000. Two years ago he ,bought & man- slon in New York for 240,000, also one in Paris and one in the City of Mexlco, — Tre probability is that the next city clerk will wear a turn-down shirt.collar. —_— The General's Article, Arkansaw Traveler, Gen, Mecklebam, in Imitation of great- or men, declded upon writing a series of war ariicles. ““Why shouldn’t I, Mary?" he asked cf his wife, who belongs to a literary soclety and who is considered an excellent critle, “I should just like to konow why I ought not to glye my experi- encel I went through the war .and served with distinctlon, if 1 do say It myself. Another thingin my favor is that I know how to write. I underatand the construction of sentences. [ under- stand the use of vigorous English. What do you say, Mary?” “Why, by all means write your experl- ence. Ido not see why you should keep back anything that might prove of inter- ent to the public and result In profit to to yourself.” “That's it, Mary; that's it. You have hit the nall equarely on the head. While I was at coll ge, the students used to lavgh at me for continuing to devote =o mauch attentlon to rhotoric. It will come in handy now, you see. Well, I shall go to work at onci The next evening, when {he light had been lighted, the general sald: ‘‘Mary, are you ready to hear my war “*What do you think of it?" It is good.” “‘Don’t you think it's first-class?” “Yes, I do.” “I have never nald much about’ it, Mary, but I am a writer. Many a time, while vislting newspaper offices, I have ea'd to myself, ‘Ah, well, you fellowa think that you ara great writers, but you haven't learned your first lesson.” So you think ivs first-class. eh? Now, I sball wad it up and send it to & magazine. I ought to get at least $1C0 for ft."” *You are golng to copy 1t, are you not.” *‘Oh, no, not necessary. It's as plain as print,” *'I dldn’t know but you might want to make a few corrections. Let me tee the manuceript a minute, Listen to thispar- agrsph. ‘Gen. Beauregard, seeing that the left wing was weakening, determined to reinforce them.” Don’c you think that you should say ‘it’ instead of them?” “Why? Refera to soldiers ” “b,lo, it means wing, which should be Gl **Well, go on, go on.” ““‘The general at one time,’ continued the woman, finding another objectionable paragraph, ‘was much moved to see & soldier dregging & gun with a broken leg.'” *‘What's wrong with that? for I eaw it myself.” “Yes, but how did he drag & gun with a broken leg?” *‘Confound it, don't you see? The fel- low’s leg was broken, but so determined was hoe that he still stuck to his gun ” “'But he didn't drag it with his broken leg.” IUsa fact, “Hang It, the fellow's legwas brok- “I understand that.” “Well, then., Leg war broken, but unwillicg to retire from the field, he crawled along dragging bis gun.” “*With his broken leg?" “‘Mary, haven't you got any senso at alli The statement {s as plain as day- light. When you sirike & woman on military matterr, dad blsme it, she can’c see two inches.” I understand it well enough. The man was dragging bis gun with his bro- ken leg, which, 1 ehould think, would differ very little from dragglng his broken gun with his leg.” The general wheeled around in hls chafr, shoved both hands into hispockets, and in a calm velce, sligl trembling on the som of a stroggle, said: *‘‘When I married, I thought that my wife was a sensible woman., I thought that she was a woman of literary taste. Ab, Lord, Mary, your blamed blindness has confused me. Kead the papagraph again.” “The general at one time was much moved to gee & soldier dragglng a gun with a broken leg.’ Ah, I sge,” she ex- clalmed, ““I am glad you do. Mary.” “‘The soldler was drigging a gun with a broken leg—the gun’s leg war broken,” “Gimme that pspar!” he exc'alm “I'll be eternally burned if I allowany one to —Mary I am ashamed of you. Go on away and leave me alone, Tosudden- ly discover such Jgnorance totally crushes me. Do you thlok a gun has legs and arms ltke a man? Do you for a . minute sappoEe—go on away, tell yous”' *‘You mean that a soldier with & brok- en l;rokan leg was diagging his gun don’t oul" *‘Hah?" Bhe repeated the remark, The faunnl took the manuscript, fold- ed it with mook preclsion and putin the stove, ‘‘Why do you burn it desr?”’ “‘Oh, I was afrsid it might break one of its legs. I reckon its safe enough, wow, The next time you ask me to write anythiog, I'll do it. 5!1. yer, I'll nelze & broken-leg pen, and write the life out of it. A prophet is not withoat honor, and 80 on, You have beaten me out of $100 in cash, and I hope you are satlsfied.” — — THE BOOMERS. RESTIVENESS IN THE CAMP OF THE COLONISTS BVERYTHING STAKED UFON CAPT., COUCH'S WASHINGTON VENTURE. Special to the Chicago Times, s Arkansas Orry, April 12, - The Oklahoms boomers are showing signs of restiveness. They are evidently tired of the do-nothing | 404 policy of their leaders, and hiave sent Capt. Couchfto Washington for the purpose of try- ing what influence his eloquence will have upon the president. They built largely upon the hope that the mew administration would take a different view of the matter than did the Iast, but when, after giving a hearing to the representatives of the would-be colo- nizers, the president issued his proclama: tion taking his stand upon the same ground a8 his predecessor, their hopes were biasted. Their remaining here in camp so long hae been rather expensive, and, as they see no immediate possibility 'of their getting into Oklahoma, they are about concluding that the best thing they can do is to go back home; at least that is thh way the scnsible people rea son, Of course, those who have gone into the movement aa they would into any money making schem s counsel holding out, assaring the most gullible that they will tire out and coerce the government into compliance with their demands, In the meantime, the troops in camp on Chiloceo creek, six milos distant, are keeping up their discipline and drill, _Gen., Hatoh. whose headquarters are here, keeps himeelf informed of the coming and going of the “boomers " w0 that they = can not make & move but that ho is cognizant of it, and it is absolutely impossible for any con: siderable party to ges past the commandt and enter the coveted country, 1If they do slip in THE BLUFFS COUNCIL. Tidings of the Mayor's Visit fo Wask- inglon, Election of Oity Officers Post- poned Again, Mircellancons ‘Business Transacted The councll met last evening; all pros- ent except Alderman Bennett., A petition of property owners on Seventh strest was presented, askivg that contract for curbing and layiog briok sldewalks be mnullified, the fill got being sottled sufficlently yeot, Referred. Ald. Shugart moved that the englnoer in giving grades and filling should place a permanent monument on the cornera of in small detotchments, there are other com mands soatterad through the territory, in communioation with each other, making it an eaey matter to eject all trospassers, It is genorally understood hore that the “boomers" have ataked their all upon the re: sult of Couch's mission to Washington, and that if ho fails to induce the authoritiea’ ta n favorable consideration of his claime, they will depact in peace, e ——— SUPREME COURT DECIsSIONS, MECHANICS' LIENS, LaNcorw, Neb., March 8, 1885, The following decisions were filed to- day: Ballou v Black. Appeal from Cass county. Reversed. Opmlon by Cobb, Ch. J. 1. The act entitled ‘*An act to amend chapter 42 of the general atatates of No braeks, entitled Mechanics’ Liens,” ap- proved Febraary 28, 1881, examined, and held not inlmieal to the provislons of siction 11 of srtlole 3 of the constitution, which Is in the following words: ‘*‘No bill shall contain more than one subject, and the same shall be clearly expressed In{ts title. Andnolaw shall beamended unless the new act contains the section or sections 80 amended, and the section or sections 8o amended shall be repealed.” Nor is the sald act affected by any irreg- ularity attending Its passage through the varlous stages of leglslation. 2. The building contracted for and erected belng a uni, and the contract for its erectlon containing a convenient methed of apportioning its cost between the two owners, the same will be adopted by the court as a proper method of ap- portionirg the llen upon the separate lots apon which it {s sltuated. 3. The lumber furnlshed by plaintiff for the erectlon of defendant’s building was delivered in fivo parcels, of nearly equal valae, ono on the 12th, one on tho 14th, one on the 17th, one on the 20th, aud one on the 28th days of September, and the sworn statement for lien was filed for record on the 25:h day of No- vember, of the rame year: held, that the same constituted but one’ dslivery, and that the llen was filed in due time to cover the whole, PROMISSORY NOTES. Milford vs. Larue. Errcr from Valley county, Affirmed. Opinion by Max- well, J. Where In an actlon on certaln promis- sory notes the maker as a defesse alleges falso ropresentations of the piyee by which he was deceived and sustalned damsges. Held, That if the evidence fails to establish false representatlons, technical objectlons based thereon will not be coneidered. UNSUPPORTED JUDGMENTS SET ASIDE. Hunt ve. Mewls. Error from Pierce county. Reversed. Opinion by Maix- well, J. Inan sctlon onan aczount wherea jory is waived and a trial had to the court, if the judgmentls not supported by the evidence it will be set aside. LIABILITY F:R COSTS, Johnton V. Sutliff. Error from Sew- ard county. Affirmed. Opinlon by Max- well, J. In proceedings tn ad quod damnum, where there {8 no resistance, the plaintiff is liable for the costs; and the provisions of sections 965 and 670 of the ccde in re gard to permit ing judgement for a speci- fied sum to be rendered against the plain- tiff do not apply. A REPLEVIN CASE, Welton vs, Beltezore. Errorfrom Holt county. Affiirmed, Opinion by Reese, J. 1. Ordinarily tho filing of & super- sedess bond is not eesential to secure a roview of a cauto upon error. Such bond s only necessary if a stay of pro- ceedlngs is desired pending the review of a judgment or final order. 2. It is not necetsiry that exceptions be taken to a final judgment to entitle @ party to have it reviewed. % Where the defendant in replevin lawfally held the progerty by virtue of & levy under an execation, the amount of which he was rcquired to collect (the verdict belng in his favor) the measure of his demages within the value of the property, was the amount due opon the. execution with legal costs and charges, 4. All payments of monsy made by the contractor to the plaintiff or thelr execu- tor, on genoral account, or the applica- tion of which were not made by him, and which were received after the first deliv- ery for defendant’s building, should be apportioned between the several accounts of plalntifi's for lumber by them far- nished, for the several buildings, of the said contractor, then in course of con- straction, in proportion to the amount due and remaining nopald for each, at the time of each of such payments. o —— GENERAL GRANT. HAS A GOOD REAT—CHAFFER'S OPINION . Niw YORK, April 13—8:45 A, M,—General Grant slept in a char from midnight until 6:30 A. . He was disturbed occaslonally by attacks of coughing with expectoration, He awoke expressiog himself as feelivg quite comfortable, He has just taken nourishment without pain and is resting quietly, Pulse 72; temperature normal, Bepator Chaffes, who left the house of Gen, Grant at 9:15, stated the disease was spreading, The senator was with the general an hour, The cancer in the throat was sup- perating, but the general seemed no weaker than yesterday and during the hour of the senator's call the patient coughed only once, and then the expectoration of mucus was sc. complished without difficulty, Ho long as the eneral was nourished as now the senator be lleved he would survive uantil death resulted from the g adual course of the cancerous dis- ens, ——————— The Visible Bupply of Grain In the United States and Oanada, Cu104GO, April 18.—The following figures taken from » statement compiled to-day by Secretary Store, show tho visible supply of wheat, corn, rye aod barley in “the United States and Canada on Saturday, April 11, and the amount of increase or decrese for the week ending on that _ date Wheat, 40,551 decroase, 716 08 ro, 9955,d66; inceesse, 1,072 b0 osts 2,418,310, decrease 246,185; rye 812,70 decresse 45,142: barley 70, decrease 11( G4, ‘The stocks of graiu in store in Chicago April 11 were: Wheat 15,575 429 bushels, 550 bushels, oats’ 426,919 bushels ‘3 bushels, barley 50,4:% Lushelr corn 2, ryo 199, each strect. Carrled, and the city attor- ney instructed to prepara an ordinance, Petitloners asked for Avenue E to be opened Into Eighth strect. Rsferred. A sldewalk atked for on the east side of Seott street from Broadway to Willow | % avenue was referred. The sidewa'k asked fr on Mynster street, 'between Seventh and Kighth streete, was laid over until Monday night next, The city attorncy reported in favor of paying Wm. Brix $385, the amount claimed for personal injuries caused by a defectlve sidewalk. Referred back, with request to get {temized bill, The clty attorney reported on the mat- ter of gettlog the right-of-way from the Rock Island Railwsy company, at the end of Olive straet, for strafghtening In- dian croek, and prescnted a contract with the railway company providing for the injunct!on to be dissolved, and the work to go on, and the disputes concerning the right-of way, between J. T. Stewart, the railway company and the city, to be decided afterwards by the courts, the olty In any event not to be liable for more than $962. Approved. The city attorney reported in favor of paying Sam Paine $300 for personai In- juries by a defective sldewalk. Referred. The petition of Dr. Plnney for rebate on taxes was reported on favorably by the attorney, and referred to committee on claims. An ordinance was read providing for the raising of the ticket brokers’ license. Was passed to a second reading and lald over. Ald. Shugart, by permlssion of the councll and to the: delight of the crowd in the lobby, read the following tidings of the missing mayor, as appearivg in the columes of cne of yesterday morn- ing’s Chicago papers: VAUGHAN INVADES THE CAPITAL. WasEINGTON, April 15, — [Speclal ] — Vaughan has ar rived, He was expected, Ho is widely known as the most modest man in the Uuited Statee, and it was only withont his knowledge and consent that a few of tho countless admirers succecded in letting Wash- ington know what a great man was about to visit it. Vaughan's constitntional shyness would have impelled him to come incognito bad it been poesible; but in epite of his uncon- querable reticence about himsilf , his great deeds have made his name and face 80 familiar to the world that it would be easier for Bis. marck to travel incognito than for Vaughan, But Vaughan does not realize]what adreadful- ly famous man he is, and he thinks it neces. sary to put a small amount of information about himself on his card. This is where his diffidence comes out strong. The average man is go puffed up with conceit that he has nothing on his card but his name, rometimes his residence, and occasionally his office, His vanity leads him to assume that all the world knows the rest. But Vaughan is humble, very humble, He supposes that mnobody knows anything about him, and so ho puts a little!gene al information absut himself on HIS CARD, This is the inecription om the circus poster that announced kim at the white house yes: terday: ‘W. R, Vaughao, mayor of Council Bluffs, Towa; second term of office expires March 17, 1886; noble grand of Towa, U, A, 0. D.; representative to United States grand grove; past grand prelate K. of ’.; represeutative to &nwn grand lodge; population of Council Bluffs in 1870, 10,000; in 1884, 33,000, A Virginian by birth, and a resident of Alabama untit 1860, By turping the placard up edgewiro it wag fourd possible to get it into the white house, and the right of it aroused 8o much curiosity in the mind of the president that he expressed & wish to look at Vaughan, So Vaughan was taken into the white house, and the presi- dent looked at him. After the crowd had hsd its fun over the above the councll got down to bu nets again. The claim of Mrs. Whitney for personal injuries, which bas been in court for two yoars, wan referred by the request of her attorney, to the judiclary committee. The bids for s2werage on Fifth avenue were returned to the proposers, the councll not baving Cecided how to ar- range f.r payng for the work. As roon as that decision ia made the work will be readvertised. An ordinence for the protection of hydrants on the street was presented and lald over. Complaint was made thst there fsa very dangerous place on the Mosquito creek road nesr Hall's place, which liys ouls'de the clty liwits should be attended by the town trustees, Oan account of the absence of Ald- Bennett, the electlon of city cflicers was postponed until next Thursdsy evening. The clty engloeer was instructed to d vise some plans for giving some tempo- rory dratnage to the Fourth ward, The eouncll then adjourned to Thurs- day night. FIRE ALARM, The Council Bluffs fire department w called out last night by an alarm being sounded, which was occasioned by the blazing up of the rolus of the dwelling | {ulres’is's which was burned on last Friday night on lower Broadwsy. The ruins blazed from tome cause notkoown, The prop- erty belonged to J, M. Parmer, Faq. To-Night at Oakland, Great preparations are made for the G, A, R., camp firs at Oakland this evening. A pumber from here will participal The following Is the programme ranged: Music by the band, Hong by Mre, Nash Prayer, Elder Morri ‘Address of Welcome, R Recitation, ''Drummer Elvis Caldwell, Song. Mrs, Nash, Address, Col. Keatley. Musio by the band, ‘Address, Major Lywan, Boog, Mrs, Nash, - Addrese, Ool. Dally, Soog, N, D. Mann, Adfxm, Rev. Bartlett, Band music, Addrews, Rev. Ramsey. Song, N, D, Moz, Address, Dr, Thomas, HBand musl C 8 Asoldier, Hong, N. D, Maon. Short speeche, eto. . Rausey, Boy at Shilob,” o —— OLEVELAND AND THE NEGRO, Chicago Times Speclal, WaBHINGTON, April 12.—The president will recoghiza the colored people of the country ) # political element, but he wishes to do it without making the color line conspicuone. All that he cando he will do to obliterate that line and make the colored people feel that they are American citizens and not a special varioty —a sort of national wards, for example. Several colored men ave been for the position of register treasury because Repis ter Bruce ia a colored man, No colored man will succeed Mr, Bruce, The idea that one office belongs to_ome claes of the community and another office belongs to another class will no be encouraged, The president in tonds to appoint a colored man or two to oftice and he wants to do it soon, He feels that it is time to do it, and he i tryiog to decide what placeto put a colored man in, There ate several membors of the colcred race whom the premdent knows, and of whom he thinke very well, HIS SELECTION will be made from such_men as Rev, C. 8 Smith of Bloomington, Wright, of Oincinnati, Mathews, of Albany, and George T, Down ing, of Rhode Tsland. Yesterday, when be crushed Chase, the editor of The Bee, #o thorouyhly, be defined his position very fully to tho other members of the declaration, He assured them that he should protect them in all their rights; that Lhe[‘;ml'ty he represented would redeem all the pledgos it bad mada for tho full and equal protection and recognition of the colored people, He told them to respect taomsolves, to respoct the law, to acquire the habit of thinking of themselves as American citizens on a perfect equality with white citi- and not as a particular set, apart from ito people, with special necessities and ambitions, and_above all he warned them to boware of putting too much confidence in dis reputable leaders of their own color, Their great danger, ho told them, was of trusting themselves implicitly to unworthy men of their own raco lika Chage, who used (hem simply to promote their private ambitions and interests, | ——— SEARCHING PRISONERS. How the Occupants ot the Jail are “Held Up"—A Oan of Dynamite. *‘Got any valuables with you—any money—jewelry, knives, rovolvers, ra- zors, or anything of that sort about you?" asked Ed Gorman, the Apollo, who pre- sldes over the clty jall and rejolces In the title of Deputy Marshal, to & prironer the other night. The unfortunate was made to ‘‘shell out” the entire contents of his pockets, which amounted to a small fortune, and being thus lightened was stowed away in one of the oells. ““Why ls that you rob the poor man of allhehan?” asked a reporter, who witnessed the operaticn, *“Why? welt for one thing we want to be sure that he Is carrying no concealed weapons sbout him, with which he could hurt himself or any of the other prisoners, Very often prisoners have tools about them, tco, with which, as econ as they are left alone they will tiy to effect an escape. Of course, it ls not very probable that they would sscceed, but we dow’t propose to glve them any chance. Then, ogain, most of our boarders, when they enter ugon their sojourn in this hotel are pos- seased of various amounts of money, jew- elry, and valuables of every description. We very often have to put two or more In a cell, and you can seo that if & man were allowed to epend the night with his pockets full of cash or valuables, in com. pany with a crook, he would bo very lisblo to wake up in the morning, and find himeelf mlnus. So when we clear a man of all he heas cn his person before asslgning hlm to a cell, we put all the stuff in one package, mark it with hie proper name_and stow it away. When he 15 released, his posessions are turnod over to him."” “I euppose you make on some of your prisoners?” “‘Yes, it Ia a very common thing to find all sorts of outlandish trinkets upon them, but I think the queeres: discovery I ever made jn this way was about ten or twelve months ego, There was darkey who was run in for distmbing the peace, clalming to hail from S-. Leuia. 1 asked him his name, to which he roplied very readily; I booked him on the jall “blotter,” and then proceeded to empty his pockets. I noticed that one of them appeared to have a largs can of some ma- terial in it, and while takiog it out I aked the ‘‘cullud pueson” what it was. He told me that it was dypamite. I didn’c belleve him at the time, but you may depend upon it I handled the object with care and affec: tlon. I stored it swayin a secluded queer finde T8 HEALTUFULYESS § CHICAQO. > place and the next dsy t ok it to a chem- st who at once pronounced it dynamite, Since that time [ am always very carefal _|how I handle prisouers with cans In thelr pockets.” WORL e— D OF BPORT. The Omaha Gun Club-Base Prospects, Ball The Omsaba Gun club held a mecting Saturday night and elected "officers and board of mavagers for the entulng sessor s follows: Prosidont Gaorge T. Mills, vice presi- dent, J.W. Balford, eecretary, and treas- urer, C. B, Lane; board of mansgement, Dr. H, A. Worley, Goodly Brucker and S. Parmalee. The club will hold hoots” every two weeke, on grounds hereafter to be arranged for. It has also been declded to hold a state tournament during the comiog summer, to which all other gun clubas of Nebraska will be in- vited. TEST YOUR BAKING POWDER T0-DAY. Brands advertivd as nbolutely pure CONTAIN ATIMONIA. THE TEST: Placs a ean top down on & hot tove roiisys i sover And amoll. A S Bhoe s ula. DOES NOT CONTAIN AMMONIA, NEVER BEEX QUESTIONE:, PRICE BAKING POWDER Co., MaxEns oF Dr, Price's Special Flavoring Extracts, Th s1rong e, most delieions and natrs| Baror kaews, sad Dr. Prioe’s Lupulin Yeast Goms For Light, Healthy Bread, The Lest Dry Mo Voust 1o the World, . 7 HP FOR BALE BY CROCERS. 7. Lovie.