Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 29, 1885, Page 4

e e TUHITY TN AT ¥ Mavnes weeme e o e THE DAILY BEE---WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1885. THE DAILY BEE. Quana Ovrren Mo, 914 Awn 918 Panwax fr. Sow Youx Ormon, Roou 65 Tarsuwa Burio mme, THE OROW CREEK CONTROVERSY. The proolamation of President Arthur ordering the settlers, or squatters, to va- cate the Crow Oreek resorvation, may be In strict accord with the law, bat nevertheloss it will work a great Injus- tloe.} (These settlors were led to belleve by the acts of the previous administra- tlon that this reseryatlan would be open- od for settlement, and they accordingly flocked thither In great numbers. Many (] of them have dlsposed of thelr old homes, ; o Wown and Rditerial R r o T e Tl rossed Pomanine COMPANY, OMARA. e notks and Powt ofios OFders 40 be mads PAT Wals 86 the order of ke sompaay. $HR BEE PUBLISHING €0, Props, R ROSEWATER, Epmrom Ir Dr. Miller s not postmaster-general ho has tho satisfaction at least of dolng the postoffice advertising. —— We arein dead earnest when wo say that Mr. Jewett must be provided for at the democratic orib. He hails from Buflalo, and is not au offensive partisan. Tae cable dispatohes state that war be- tween England and Russla is inevitable. ‘The lion and the bear, however, are post- poning the Inevitable as long as possible. Tae country is safenow. The Herald has become the official Nebraska organ for publication of blds for Indisn and army supplies. Contractors for blankets, wampum, chicory and army besns will govern themselves accordingly. Tue death-sentence in Kansas does not generally mean death. The warrant must be signed by the governor, and as yet no Kansas governor has ever signed a death warrant. As a consequence there are now thirty death-sentenced prisoners in that state. e — Tue Bee publishes Gladstone's speech In full. 1t contains over 2,500 words and was recelved as a speclal dlspatch last night. As usual, the Be leads all its contemporarles in this part of the west. Although enterprise s sometimes rather expensive, it pays In the end. Tue advertislng of Uncle Sam has been awarded to the Omaka Herald. For our part we will cheerfully dispense with our share. We are content with the patronage of merchants, who place thelr advertlsing in the medlum that reaches the people and gives them the largest return for thelr money. —ee Tuz New York Herald says that < Dr. Miller, of Omaha, Web,, who was not ap- polnted postmaster-general, s, never- thelets, #o beset by applicauts for office that he has folt compelled to refer them to President Cleveland.” Under the circumstances we cannot see to whom else he should refer thehuugry democrats, a8 he has nothing to glve them, A #rw days before the eclipse of the sun Riel addressed his owers, telling them that if he did arken the sun on the 15th he would not ask them to be- lleve him. There is no doubt that he professes to be vested with supernatural powers, and the half-breeds have an abid- fog falth In him. A few days ago he proposed to fight, ssylng that one of his men would be injared in the hands, the others escaplvg uninjured. It s for this reason that he {s called the mahdl of the northwest, and the Britlsh do not seem to be meeting with any more success In thelr efforts to suppress him than they dld In thelr attempt to subdue the mahdi of the Soudan. Tak Mississlppi editor who has asked for the pardon of Jeff Davls overlooked the fact that Mr. Davls, with other rebels, was pardoned under the proclamation of Presldent Johnson on Ohrlstmas day, 1868, The only polltical dieabllity under which the ex-president of the late con- federacy now labors ls the bar which pre- vents him from holding office under the federal government, According to the fourteenth amendment of the constltu- tion he cannot hold office unless his dis- abilltles are removed by a two-thirds vote of cougress, If Jeff Davis hankers after office he will have to spply to congress, as other rebels have done, so that he can be quallfied. But Mr, Davis has never made any such application, and probably never will. Accorora to the laws of the United States the president is empowered to em- ploy such force as may be necessary to compel any foreign veasel to depart from our waters in all cases in which by the laws of natlons or the treatles of the United States she ought mnot to remaln within our limits, When two hostile vessels are In neutral waters, the one that departs first cannot be followed by the other until twenty-four hours shall have elapsed, without a violatlon of neutrality laws, In case of a declaration of war the Britlsh man-of-warand the Rusalan corvette, now lylng in Norfolk harbor, would have to seek a battle field at least three miles from the coast, which 1s the limit of jurlsdiction of the United States, and should either wish to avold a fight, the one gettlng out of the harbor first would have a start of twenty-four bours. Should they remain at Norfolk until a declaration of war s 1ade, a fight between them would fnall probability take place at a polnt within easy view of the coast. 1t is not presumed that elther would seek to avold an engage- ment, and as a declaration of war Ls dally expeoted the naval commanders are no doubt preparing for the set-to, | eccupants of the lands, the and removed everything they possessed to their new locations, under the honest belief that they would have the right to permanently remaln there. A great number of them havemade quite extensive Improvements, and now that they are peremptorily ordered to pull up stakes and leave, they naturally are making a vigorous protest. If the present ad- ministration Js technically right and the previous administration was wrong, it would be no more than just for congress to take some action in the matter with a vlew of relmbursing those who have suf- fored by the blunder of the government. The most practical way would be to pur- chase the rerervation outright from the Indlans and open it for settlement in the usual way. Meantime the wset- tlers who have already located there should be allowed the privilege of first cholce of lands. Under the circumstances, as we understand them, we belleve President Oleveland is making a mistake ic attemptlng to rectify the errors of a previous administratlon—if errors have been committed—by working @ hardship on Innocent settlers. It strikes us that the more mercifal way of settling the difficulty would have been to allow the settlers to remaln undisturbed until it could have been ascertained whether the Indians were willing to part with thelr reservation upon reasonable terms. On the other hand, however, It Is clalmed that Presldent Oleveland has good grounds for his actlon in the prem- fses. It is sald that a large number of the eettlers are merely equatters who were employed by a land-grabblng syn dicate to help them in seizing vast tracts of the beat lands, This, of couree, would put an entirely different phase upon the matter, and would justify the administration in treating all the settlers —the syndicate squatters and the honest homesteaders—all allke, as it would be difficult to separate the two clusses be- fore the Issuance of a proclamation. The trouble over the Crow creek reser- vatlon is largely due to Mr. Teller, ex- secrotary of the interlor. His brother, a resldent of Dakota, originated the plan of opening the reservatlon, the object of which, it 15 now alleged, was tc glve [} laad grab-bing syndl- cate an opportunity to selze vast tracts of valuable lands. Secretary Tel- ler acquiesced in the scheme, and pro moted it In every way within his power. The Dakota brother drafted the order opening the rrservation and sub mitted it to the secretary, who presented it to President Arthur, It was held by the president for nearly three weeks, until it wasfound that congress would take no, actlon. Then the secretary’s brother returned to Dakota, and when it was announced by telegraph that President Arthur had sent the order opening the reservation, he and hls partner, Day, had about 400 squat- ters ready to move the lands. These two land-grabbers took up several town sites by means of government scrlp, large blocks of which they had secured at Washington for thls purpose, and located squatters on the rest of the rch grazing and fine agricul. tural tracts, After Secretary Lamar took possession of the Interior depart- ment he wiped out the prospects of these alleged land-grabbers. It 1s now pro- posed to Investigate the condition of the charges agalnst settlers, and ascertaln who they are, where they came from, why they are there, and how many have been brought there in the interest and at the instance of speculators, It s expected that some rich developments will bo made. While It may be true that s large number of thse settlers are merely the tools of a syndicate, we belleve that there are many honest home- steaders, and they certalnly should be fairly treated, Whatever the hnal ac- tion may be, it 1s hoped that provision will be made for protecting the interests of the Indlans equally with those of the honest white settlers, Now comes Mr, Toller, of Dakota,who makes in the St. Paul Pioncer-Press a direct and comprehensive denial of the statements to the effect that he was financlally Interested In securing the opening of the Crow Creek and Winne- bsgo reservations by President Arthur, Mr, Teller says that he did favor the opening, just as did Delegate Ray- mond and other leading cltizens of Dakota, but purely for the reason that he belleved it for the Interests of the terrl- tory. He positively aseerts, however, that nelther he nor any of his friends hadjany financlal interest whatever in thejlands In questlon, To add still forther complication to the matter it is emphatically denled by other parties that any syndicate has secured any of these lands, and farthermore that there are none but honest settlers upon the reser- vatlon, These charges and counter- charges certainly make a very mixed up siate of affairs, and In all probabllity some little difficulty will be experlenced in getting at the exact truth. Tuae Alwka boundary llne may at some day become a source of trouble be- tween the United States and England, The uncertalnty of the line 1s yearly be- coming the cause of considerable frictlon between the scttlers, miners and traders of Alasks and those of the Britlsh pos- somsions. Professor Davidson, chlef of #he geodetic survey buresn of the Pacific ocoast, expresses the opinion that the indefinite character of the houndaries as 1ald down In the articles of trantfer at the time of the purchase in 1867, has been purposely passed over by England, whoss intention, it is Intimated, In to eventually claim & frontler that will deprive the Unlted States of the richest part of Alaska, It Is rather doubtfal, however, if thia question Is ever ralsed, whether England would push such a clalm very vigorously unless she could produce Indlspatable proofs to sus- taln her position. Meantime she will have enough on her hands to settle the controversy with Russla regarding the Afghan “zand-box” boundsry, as 1t Is called. Should any difficulty arise con. ocerning the Alaska frontler Rusia, from which Alaska was purchased, might have a word or two to say about that matter, and she naturally would take sides with the Unlted States. Tue dismissal of Mr, Gorman from the position of jallor and deputy marshal is made & text by the Herald for an out- rageous and uncalled-for assanlt mpon Marshal Cummings. Now we have no deslre to shield the clty marshal from re- sponsibility forany official act,and if he has in any way neglected his officlal dutles or violated the law he should be held ac- countable. But it is certalnly his privl- lege to employ as his deputy whomsoever he may regard as a competent and fit per: son for the place. He alone is responsi- ble for his deputies. It was perhaps Marshal Cuommings’ mistake to accept the deputy of Guthrle. Mr. Gorman may be a good policeman, but he is bardly fit to be a deputy marshal and to have the custody of prisoners, especially females. The less said about this matter on the part of Gorman and his frlends the better it will be for him. If there is anything wrong with Marahal Cummings let him be thoroughly investigated. DuRING the first three months cf the prosent year twenty railroads have been placed in the hands of recelvers. We learn from the Railway Age that last year the total number of roads which passed Into recelvers’ hands was thirty- soven. Their lines sggregated 11,038 miles and thelr capital and debt amounted to §716,000,000. The first quarter of this year already shows more than one- half as many roads, more than 37 per cent. cf the mileage, and about 40 per cent. of the total amount cf capltal stock Involved by the recelverthips of the entlre previous year. Should this ratio be kept up durlng the remawn- ing nine months the year will show a greater aggregate of railway insolvencies than the country has yet known. The ineolvency of most of the roads that have gone into the hands of recelverships is due to too much water. The payilng of dividends and interest o n fictitious capl- tal has proved too heavy a load. NEeArLY all the public improvements, such as pavements, sewers, grading and curbing and guttering that were made in Omaba last year, amounting to about $800,000, were rushed through in four months. This is altogether too brief a time In which to have so much impcrtant work done. Contractors are too apt to slight thelr jobs, and mistakes are llable to occur. Durlng the whole of last s son the clty engineer's office was over- crowded with work, This year, while there s not so much to be done, would be advisable to make full preparatlons be- fore the 1st day of July for all the public {mprovements that are tobe made thls season, All the preliminary arrange. ments should be made now, and not left untll the very last moment. TaERE is nothing small about Carter Harrison, He only wants $400,000 from the Chlcago Inter-Ocean, and $200,000 more from Edwin Lee Brown, for a specch made by the latter and published by the former, When a man clalms that his private character has been libeled in a polltical campalgn to the extent of $600,000 1t is pretty safe to say that the jury will thik he has overestimated him- self, and will glve about alx dollars, if he gets a verdict at all. E— Tue Russlans do not seem to pay much attentlon to the demands of the English, They keep advanclog upon the dlsputed territory, and are moving on Herat, Meantime the czar is seid to be prepar- ing a formal declaration of war agalnst England. Why England should walt any longer to open the fight ls what puzzles us, If she was looking for a fight it would appear that she has sufficlent cause, ac- cording to her own statements, to open hostilitles, A MILLIONAIRE at Plttsburg has been convlicted and sentenced to the peniten- tiary for five years for leadlng a gas- well rlot, which resulted in the killing of one wman, 8o far the m'llionaire’s money has failed to defeat justice, and it is con- sldered a rare exception to the geperal rule, It ought to be regarded as an en- couraging slgn of reform. OmAxA pays 1,400 a month for streot cloaning for elght months In the year. The work Is well done, and from a sanl- tary standpoint alone it is well worth the money, If the cholera visits Omaha it will find & very clean city, and prob- ably secare but little lodgment. Mg, GrapsTonE is doing & very exten- slve credit business, He asked for $50,- 000,000, and the house of commons voted 1t without a word of objection, —_— Mound Oity Blaze, Cawgo, April 28.—A fire at the marine fternoon destroyed h will conpected with the wa, damaged the ways, Loss about $10,000, surance, §9,000, WESTERN NEWS, —_— DAKOTA, Vermillion has doubled its population since Ipawich I agitating the question of buildiog » 810,000 coart house, The new Methodist church at Deadwood wiil be dedioated May 10th. A sixtesn-pound baby Is the Iatest boastful product of a Brookings family. Fargo papers report crowded hotels and other indications of the spring’s promised im- migration, Vermillion cattle dealers pald out between seven and eight thonsand dollars for cattle on Wednesday of last week, The prospect of a telegraph line from Rapid City to Chadron is haied with delight by many of the business men. In Rolette county, in which is Dunseith in the Turtle mountains, there were twenty-six townships surveyed the past year and 800 claims taken, heretofore fought, and which gave theso homes to us under an implied promise to protect us aud our families, & promise not likely to be disregarded.,” Roek Island engineers aro sard to bs camped about seventaen miles south of Ipswich, en- gaged in runnicg a preliminary line from Watertown to B|lmll'0£ The jump in wheat is stimulating the farm- ors to put in every acre possible in north Dakota and it is believed there will be con- siderable increase over last year, . Hanson county's first bonds, which wera issued to build the court house, were made to £un ten yeara at seven per cent. and were told to the Hanson county bank at & premium of four and one-half cents, Settlers on the Winnebago'reservation have their dander up. At a public meeting held at Canning, D, T, they adopted resolutions, which were telegraphed to President Cleve- land, stativg that “‘we will not leave our homes unless forced todo br the troops of the government for which we have A hut went floating dewn the Missouri past Bismarck the other day, and attention was attracted to it by the howling of a dog inside of it. Upon examinationn dead man was found within it, who had evidently frozen to death, A card bearlng the name of Mrs. J, H. Stone, and a torn envelope with the words Philadelphia, Pa., were the only indications of identity, A Pukwana business man writes: ‘‘Money in almost out of the question in this [ocality, There are five shanties on the reservation which the poor rquatters are owing me for, and now since President Cleveland’s procla- mation I will frankly say 1_don't expect one cent from any of them; and I am of the opin- ion we are on the Broad Guage and Down Grade railrcad to the poor house,” WYOMING, “A portion of the car repair shops at Chey- enne will be removed to Denyer Junction, The astessed valoation of Uheyenne, cording to the round up of the assessors, 2,500,000, The corer stone of tho Swedish Lutheran church at Laramio was laid Sunday. The building will cost 8! With the G. A, R., encampment and the firemen’s tournament, Cheyenue will have a surfeit of crush and sprt this summer, The Graff oil property has been sold_to an Eoglish syndicato for $20.000. General Law, of Omaha, has gone to England to com- plete the transfer. Hugh Bartcn,a ranchman at Carr_station, twenty miles from Cheyenne, has fallen heir to an ostato that will yield him $25,000 a year. He will punch his heifers with a diamond prod hereafter. The Uion Paciffc company is looking up a site for a depot and side track facilities at the Soda Lakes, near Laramie, It isexpected that the soda ponds will be thoroughly devel- oped this summer. The people of Laramie calculate that this stub road will ba extended into the North Park country, as originally intended, and thus materially assist in de- veloping one of the richest mineral regions. COLORADO, The Dry Creek gang of cattle thieves have been overhauled and jailed, Fort Collins fruitmen fear that the recent froezo wlil destroy thie fruit buds, The damoge to property in Denver, by wind and flood, last week, mounts up into the thousands, The rai amounted to 2,77 inches, the greatest in thirteen years, Grimes, the demolisher of Colorado’s model farm at the New Orleans show, is under 81,000 bonds, in that city to answer to tho charge of malicious destruction of property. The new observatory on Lookout mountain, Del Norte, is being pushed to_completion 88 rapidly a8 possible. The view to be had from the observatory is not surpassed on this continent, The Tabor opera house management stirred ug @ hornet’s nest when it declared war on the press of Denver, There is talk now among the theatrical combinations to leave Denver out of the circuit and bring night shirt Tabor to his senses, Flour millers of the state are practically shut out from the market eastward owing to the raise in the railroad tariff, The Union Pacitic had given them a special rate of 25 centa per 100, but the pool compelled the cempany to charge the regular pool rate, 60 cents per hundred. Very little ore is now belng shipped from Leadville owing to the horrible condition of the roads, making it impossible to haul the ore to the railroad. It is also stated that the horses used in hauling are affected with a dis- ease known as foot rot, over 200 animals beirg thus disabled, H, D, McAllister, a prosperous charcoal burner from Leadville, has just bought 2,000 acres of land near Lamy junction, bas con- tracted for the delivery of §5,000 brick at the same point, will build twenty-five tenement houses and begin theswork of burning char- coal on & large scale, Denver is experienciog considerable trouble in eecuring the latest atyle of postoffice. There is great rivalry among_contractors to make a fortuneoff the job, The amount appropriated will not admit of accepting the bids for astone bwldingand another effort will be made to secure bids for stone within the limit of the appropriation, TTAH, The woolen mills at Provo are about to shut down owing to low price and small demand, The Indians of Pahranagat Valley stoned a ‘‘medicine man” to dnlg recently because he had failed to cure a patient, Nest hiding is the popular smurement of distingulshed polygs just mew. Edmunds' lightning is strikiog saint and spostlo alike. The mining interests of the territory give romise of & rich harvest this year, Reports rom nearly all campe are favorable. ‘The ex- citement ever the Southern Utah find has died out, The racelpta of bullion and ore In Salt Lake City tor the week ending April 22nd, inclu- sive, wero §78,095.07 of bullion, and 812,800 of ore; @ total of $90,895.07, 'For the pre- vious week the receipts were $64,8415 in ag: gregate, of which 865,070.33 was bullion and 6,771.47 ore, MONTANA, Helena is tohave » new courthouse, to cost $160,000, The number of horses in the territory is es- timated at 100,000, A system of underground or tunnel water- being constructed in Helena. Oue foot of the tunnel is already dug under the city. The main tunnel in the Cascade division of the Northern Pacific railroad will be 0.850 feet mn,ii It s expeoted that two and & half years will bo required to complete it after work begins, The merchants of Butte are now profiting by » b0 per cent reduction on wesi bound freights over the railroads batween Chicago snd Omaha, the result of a periodio disagree- ‘ment among the companies operatiog between those points. = The dramatio oritio of the Billings Rustler, detcribing the tear nulling power of Katié Putoam, says, ‘handkerchiefs which only upon yesterdsy had been laundrica were seen to emerge from their hidicg places and ab- sors the ‘irrigation’ flowlog from aw orb of -ixfs " Billings has forwarded a petition to New York begging for the honor of entertainiog and witnessing the Sullivan-Ryan 6ght. Butte, however, has tho advantage, and ould the authorities decide to prevent the 16, the pugilists can oross into Idaho, which is only few hours ride from Butte, CALIFORNTA. Tos Angeles county produced 6,000,000 gal- lons of wine Iast year. At the southern California floral fair at Las Angeles 40,000 roses were displayed, Seven tunnels have been successfully run into the monntains in Los Angeles county and watter obtained for irrigation purposes, The ground is prepared for laying the foun dation of the Stanford university, one and a half miles from Mayfeld and near Menlo Park, aud work will be begun in two woeeks. The growing orops have been greatly bene- fitted Ly tho Iate showers, but in_some places drying winds have partially neutralized thelr good effects, The fruit crop, though some- what injured by the recent frosts, gives prom- ise of abundance. Average weather will in- sure a fayorable season, Just bofore the thunderstorm at Antioch recently, a singular phenomenon occurred there, While the thunder was muttering and the storm was gathering overhead, n shower of Iarge black crickets came down' seemingly from the clouds, and the streets and Alsr walks were soon black with them, The earthquake that disturbed the cosst and valley section of tho state on thenight of the 11th was felt as far enst and up in the mountains as Bodie, where it was sufficiently strong to stop clocke, ring door-bells, throw dishes about, ete. 1t was followed thereabout three hours later by another though lighter spasm, Several Ewlinh familios, now residing on the Isle of Wight, have asked the Immigra- tion association of the state to select a loca- tion for them somtwhere in California, tame request is made by & number of Ki tuckians—men worth from 85,000 to $20,000— their chief stipulation being & healthful oli- mate, a8 some of them are invalids. e —— STATE JOTTINGS. The Blair chocss factory consumes 36,000 pounds of milk daily. Bob Tweed dropped a roll of $100 while passing through Lincoln. A new court house is one of the bright pros- pecta of Urd, Valley county. Six_thoueand dollars worth of property were destroyed at Murray last week. The cadets of the university will picnic near Beatrice four days next menth. The Western Wave is the name of a prairie billow surging around for news and ads at Western, Saline county. The Kitchen Bros,, proprietors of the Pax- ton hotel, have leased and will rua the Boa- trick houso at Hastings. The paupers of Butler county struck against corn grub and left the institution, They in- sisted on tho diluted article. The spring round-up of children in Grand Teland thows 1620, that of Thayer county 8664, an increase of 1115 in two years, The pastor of the Cedar Rapids Congrega- tional church manages to live on the proceeds of the Sunday collections and hold a periodical donation party. Shakopah, a noted Tndian chiof of the Sac and Fox tribe in Kaneas, slipped under a car at Rulo and narrowly escaped transportation to the happy hunting grounds. Moses Mountain, a prominent farmer_and stock-raiser living’ near Bellvue, in Sarpy county, dropped dead while engaged in plow- ine in his field a fow days ago. Tho Plattsmouth Canning company is con- structing & building 22x100 feet, two stories, tor pickling purposes and an additional room for boiling and cooking | urposes. Farmer Savage, tho boss cabbage cultivator of the state farm, has thrown up the job and gone to raising virgin saurkrout in Custer eounty. Prof. Wing eucceeds him, Tom W. Clarey is snxiously wanted in Columbus, especially at the Demcerat office, for certuin sums of money collected and never turned in. **Pass the little cuss around.” A hydrophobus cur was turned loose in Horman last wook aud every man in town whipped out his gun and blazed away, Forty rounds were fired beforo the barkwas silenced Valentine continues flooded with land seek- ers, business prospectors and cowboys, The business is Rreater than at any time since ita eatablishment, and is constantly on tho ia- crease. The hoodlum _elements of Uolumbus, when full to the nozzle, are & holy terror. The Democrat calls upon the suthoritios to ‘“jug the villaine and show them that thero is & Godin Israel.” Jacob Weyburg was found swinging from the Boone railroad bridge one day last week. The knot was carefully and effectively ad- usted. Ho was 25 years of age and formerly lived at Davenport, Towa. A David City woman, wife of George White resented the interference of neighbors in her suicidal attempts by taking a socond dose of poison. Bodily afflictions and the loss of re- atives dethroned her roason, Christina Young, s woman of sixty-two and married forty years, suicided by hanging in Falls City laat week. In a letter to her boys she says she had been elandered and robbed and cursed, and life made a burden to er. The Fremont Herald says: The *‘Bucking- ham” traveling procuring. estab ishment, is working up converta along tho line, ‘Whon an outfit 18 too low for Omaha, 1t 18 apt to shock the modesty of some of our inland vil- lagee! A clergyman on his way from Fremont to St, Paul dropped a roll of $112 somewhere be- tween Missouri Valley and Sioux City. He carried his woalth in his hip pocket, and in frienaly squeeze between train acquaintances bus roll’ vanished. Gordon's cowboys are a sportive set, When real dry they march single file into the nearest dispencary and cosx the barkeoper to tet up the medicine, A dozen cocked revoly persuasive. The matines cioses with & sero- nadeof pistol shots, Mrs. Patrick Finnegan, of Schuyler, has obtained a divorce from her husband on the grounds of drunkeness and cruolty. Iinne. | P! g0 appoars to be a successful sot, as thecourt ordered him to pay 82,590 alimony and sup- port the three children, The name, company, rogiment and post- offic in wanted of overy Oblo soldier now a resident of Lavcaster county for insertion 1n the state roster for 1885, Comrades will sen their names above registered to N, G. Franklin, sec ry of state office, Lincoln, THE DAVID OITYTOUGH. J. Rebert Williams Suddenly Becomes a Noted and Notorious Orimi- nal, Sometime ago the qulet, pescefal, un- assuming little capital of Butler county, Davld Clty, was thrown into the surging waves of an extraordinary sensation. J. Robert Willlams, notoxlous for dark ways and valn tricks, forged notes to the extent of $1,400 or more on citizens of David City, then like most all criml- nols of that class, fled toCanada, While there his cage was made a matter for the attention of diplomatic circles and as the consequence of vol- uminous correspondence, Willlams was extradited from Canada and taken back to the scenes of his outlawry. In order to get him back an agreement had to be made with the government of Ca) ada to the effect that the terms of the Ashburton treaty would be strictly ob- served and that his trial must be con- ducted in accordance with the interna- tional laws, As arrangements had been made to try and conviot Willisms on some other charge, than that of forgery, this put an end to the effort; therefore, inasmuch as the grand jury falled to bring an indletment sgaiost the notori: ous subject of all this upheaval,he walked out a free ma e Base Ball Newe, OrxonATY, April 28, —Cincinoati, 0; 8. Louls, 6. ) Inpianarowss, April 25,~Indiansgolis, 6; Toledo, 6. RUINOUS TO BUSINESS. The Chattel Mortgage and Lears Pub- lcatons of the Balltin. A Useless and Injurlons Practice— Expressions of Opinion, There has been no little dissatisfaction expressed by the merchants of this city against the the practice which has been adopted by the new self-atyled “Court and Real Estate Bulletin,” In publishing the list of chattel mortgages, leases, eto., which are filed in the office of the county clerk. This feeling is well grounded. In order to define exactly this sentiment of dlssatisfaction snd to show how uteless, and ralnous to the busl- ness Interests of those firma published In the ‘‘chattel mortgage” colamns of this publication, is the prac- tloe referred to, a reporter sought the opinlon of several leading business men on the subject. It wlill be noticed that each one Ia positive in his exprension of disgust at this feature of the paper. Mr. Dewey, of the firm of Dowey & Stone, expreesed himself in no uncertain lang- uage: *I think that the plan of this new sheet with referenco to the publica- tion of the leaser, chattel mortgages, eic., as recorded officially, is simply litle bet- ter than one of blackmail. No respec- table person wants to have his or her name paraded in the paper as haviog pur- ohased from a firm on the chattel mort- gage plan. Here is a poor man who is earning, we will say, a salary of $756 per month; he comes to me and he tells me that he wants to buy a set of furniture by installmente, paying perhaps $5 or $6 down and the rest in monthly install- ments. Do you euppose that he cares to have all this paraded In the columns of a daily journal? No, The plan which I have determined to adopt, and In truth have adopted, is that of eelling farniture to no man or woman from whom the principles of self.defense In business will require me to take a chattel mortgage, or, In— deed, to filo securlty papers of any eort. In this way I can_protect my customers from the pablication in this sheet, which they are so anxlous to avoid. There Is no question in my mind but that this practice will rerc: in & manner most in- jurlous and unjust to our business.” Mr. Hospe, of Donglas street, ex- pressed himself readily on the eubject. ‘*What, do I think of thia echeme of pub- lishing the chattel mortgages and re- corded documents of slmilar nature in the columns of that shee!? Itis simply ruin- ous to the business Interests of the mer- chants of the clty. I have several reas- ons for 80 thinking. For example, one man does not care to have his next door nelghbor know the Inwardness of his pri- vate financlal affairs—does not want him to know that he 1s buying thls or that on time, because he Is too poor to pay for 1t av once. Agaln, suppose 1 sell to Mrs B. a piano, on montkly paymente, chattel mortgage or lease plan. Snooks, the en- torpriring agent for a tival plano reads in this sheet tho fact cf the filing of the chattel mortgago papors. He goes to Mrs. B. and prevails upon her, perhsps to drop my piano and take his, as she has made but cne payment. So you see this thing paves the way to the establishment of a policy whish cannot fail to be dan- gerous in ita effects.” Mr. Hill, of HIll & Young, who have been given considerable free advertizing in the ““lease” aud ‘‘chattel” mortgage columns of the Bulletin, was next cor- ralled by the reperter: *I have not thought over the matter particularly,” he sald, **but I am inclined to think that it willhurt our business greatly. This thing of publishing the private affairs of our custoraera is not relished by any of them. Especlally is true of thoss who are at all sensitlve on the matter of thelr private afialrs, Again, there are a_number of sporting people who patronize us and are unable to pay for an article in one payment and conse- quently they buy from us on the chattel mortgage plan, or lease it from ue, and the papers are recorded. Ncw respect- able people see these names published in this paper, the Bulletin, and they are naturally shy of seeking such associations in their purchases, or of havlng their names psraded in the same column and in the same connectlon. Of course, busl: nees Is business, and scme firm has got to trade with these people, but it is not necetsary to have the fact published in ths paper.” Mr. Erickeon, of the firm of Edholm & Eclckson, was next invited to unbosom himself on the polnt of nvestigation. This firm has been recorded in the chattel mortgsge column of the Balletin as hay- ing disposed of diamond jewelry, music- boxes, etc., to & number of the gilded sisterhood. ‘I am inclined to think,” sald Mr, E,,—*In fact I know—that th actioe of publishing the private busi- ness which we aro transacting every day 18 one most Injurlous to our trade. Now, of course in our line of business we have to deal to & very large extent with fast women, They come tous, want to buy this or that, &nd, of course, a8 a matter of busiuess we sell to them But decent people see all this, and if they are anususlly sensitive, they will |} become chary of enterlng our store for fear of assoclatiog with these pecple. They are inclined to greatly exsggerate the evll, and, perhaps, may cease trading with us altogether, and on this account. But somebody will sell to these fast women, and why not we? So that you csu see one very bad e flect on busloess which this practice will produce. eople don’t care to haye their business rlld open to the public. Only the other day, » lady came in here and wanted to buy a plano on time payments. She was afrald that 1f she made the bargsin, the fact would be published 1in the papers. We almost lost the trade on this acoount, and It was only after I had succeeded in curing the suppression of the ltem that o made up her mind to conclude the bargaln.” 1t will be noticed that thore is a wide- spread dlssatisfaction .f.lun the practice of the seven-by-nine follo, in publishing the private affalrs of merchants or their customers. ‘‘What ls the use of all this, anyway!’ they are induced to ask, snd with reason. Echo answers ‘‘what{” What class of people will it benefit? Who cares to koow whether Miss Belle, Miss Nell, or Tom, Dick or Harry, have mortgaged thelr o!d;shoes or old clothes for a set of dlamonds, a 717- alr music box or a #pan of new horaes? 1f it becomes absolutely necessary for one indlvidual to post himeelf upon the pri- vate financlal rs of another he can do it through the commercial agencles and secure in thls direction loformation which would be much more rellable than that which 1s peddled in the columns of the Bulletin, The publishers of the follo may make | o} lossos are a {matter of fact and ree- ord, and s wsuch they have a perfect right to publish the same. This is not a good explanation, In trath, it 1] ndwlsedly unsavory one. A patr of ragged.neated pants In a matter of *‘fact and record,” But would the publishers of the Bulletin hesitate to avall them- velves of the protection afforded by the folds of the long talled Prince Albert coat to fend off the dread cxposure threatened by the aforesald breochen? A WIOKED ROLLER. Willard, a Knight of the Rink, Tries to Jump the Town but is Balked, The “gay and festive rollerlte” is an {ndivldual to be shunned, as he {s a man of wicked ways and wliles. The {atert [llustration of this trath has just developed. Mondsy night Dre, Dinsmore & Worley "swore out in Justice Bartlett’s court an sttachment wupon the trunk of one J. H. Willard, a pro- fesslonal roller skater, who has been nging around Omaha for the past two At the eame time, a gentleman by the name of Lanaunan swore outa complaint against the same worthy, charging him with stealing & $30 over- coat belongiog to tho complalnant. Theso legal papers wero placed In the hands of Constable Manning, who went off post haste to serve thera. It had lenked out that Willard had in- tonded to jump the town, and to defraud his creditors, who are as numerous as the little twinkling stars ihat stud the deep blue sky. It was learned that Willard intended to leave on the 8:30 Denver train for the weet. Accordirgly Man- ning repaired thither, expectlng to find Willard there with the tronk. But he was disappointed. Willard bad suepec— ted something, and discovering that he would have thres hours to wait for the traln, had hastily uncbecked his trunk, called a hack and was epsedily driven to the boarding house where he had been stopping. The ofticers of the law baftled at the first turn made diligent search for the fugitive, but did not discover him until about half-past ten o’clock at night, calmly reated In his rcom. Heo was im- mediately arrested, but was releasod on a promise to compromise. He settled the medical bill of Drs. Dinsuore and Werley, and the attachment warrant was withdrawn. He was relessed from the complaint of theft preferred by Lanan- pan, on returning the overocat. The case has thus been compromized, and Willard is freo to go Denver-ward. —eem—— NEWSPAPER OUTFITS. TO PUBLISHERS. 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