Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 15, 1886, Page 4

4 THE OMATA OFFICE NO, New Yok Oreice, oo WASHINGTON OFrice, No. DAILY BEE. 14 A XD 018 Fars Ay ST 5. THRIBUNE BUTLOING 53 FoumrresTn S1 every morning. oxeept funday. The ning paper published 1o the Pubiish only Morday m whafe TRUME BY MATT £10.00 Three Months w00 e Month 0.0 10 One Year ix Months Toe Wrekey Tiew, Pablished Beery Wednes TVAME, POSTRATD with premium 1Ay. One Yenr One Yen ANl eommun orinl matic TOROF Wy 1 <« LETTERS nddressed to Tk Bey. PUsLInsG € OMANA. Drafie. checks o 10 be mndc payabie to the order of the ¢ THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS E. ROSEWATER. Eniror ————— e ALy is quict at Salt Lake. After all the neipal agony on the Mormon question in Washingte Sxow in the gutters m the cellars when the to et in its moist unpl Now that the has risen the “oldest inhabitant miniscences he ciety leads the way thermomets isth State ont his orical so So ¥AR three representatives in con failed tointroduce a bill at the present session. They are still contined 1o their rooms by sickness Mavor Boyp proposes to wawit until the 15t of April. If the mayor expeets a new council will when | takes snufl, he may find himself an April fool. Tuue Herald mforms us that Mr. Clar) has returned, and intimates that 1 stands ready to push the Omaha & North: orn Why doesn’t e do it then? Who 5 holding lim b ! wilo S A ranGr b ations session itind nomin ster in execntive senators who howled so | loudly about preventing confirmations seem to have been left out in the cold The SeverarL newly-appointed Nebraska postmasters now read their title clear, liaving been confirmed by the senate, but we fail to observe the name of J. € Morgan, of Kearney, among the lucky ones. Havine disposed of the gas question the pumbers and iee men should now | made to toe the chalk mark. An agits tion against the charges of these publ henefactors is as safe ns a rvaid on the Mormons. cold Frorima groaning over the wave which has ruined her orange ¢ and Delaw: prediets o peach funine nest summer. Californian has not yet b heard from. The f editor to an- nounce frost in that section of “God's own country” would be lynched by an cited community, Tue great power: Bulgari are urging Gree nd Turkey to demobi ize their armics. With the great powers | watehing the first chance to seize upon their territory, the smaller powers are too shrewd to accept the invitation. Dis memberment and demobilization in Bu- rope go hand in hand. NEW York is now at fever heat o the question of high license, and clergy- men, brewers, editors and distillers a all taking o hand in tl \royersy Nebraska scttled the question several years ago to the satisfaction of her eiti- zens and has no desire to change it for either low license or prohibition, which | s meuns no lice G LoOGAN is preparing for the great- est effort of his life in the speceh to be de. livered against the Fitz John P r bill. Itis to be hoped that he will give duc prominence to Gen. Grant’s personal let- ters which the general addressed to Lo gan after his careful vevision of the pe jurcd testimony npon which a brave gallant officer was crushed in disg after suving John Pope’s army from de- struction on August 50, 186 1 the Republican will turn to the Brg of Monday, January 4th, it will find th story, “Cleaned out the House," ete., which it reprints and credits to the Chey- enne Sun. The Sun stolé the artic from the Ber and put a date to it: *“Lan- der, Wyoming, Jan. 4th,” This ente prize on the part of the Republican is equal to its recent publication of a patent plate article on a “A Novel Jail,"” which oviginated in the Council Blufly page of the BEE seyeral months ago. ready been ed into congress, of which 3,600 vate bills. Seme of these days will see the folly of lumbering up the ealendar with this class of pro- jected legislation and will provide a proper tribunal to dispose of such mat- ters. As things now go ninety-nine one hundredths of the private bills on the calendar never see the daylight of debate, PirLan, A wholesalers think th have invented a scheme for keepi teack of their drammers, The Me: Pravelers' Protective socicty will prob- ubly take netion on the subject at their next meeting. The flight of a drummer on his tour is as unrestrieted as that of a jay bird in the spring, and the profession will indignantly resent such an invasion by their employers upon their inherent privileges. e—— Tug bids for the South Omaha viaduet show a difference between the various bidders ranging from $5,000 to $40,000. Whether this differcnce represents the wbility of any one company to do the work better and more substantially than another we do not know. We suppose there must be a considerable divergence duthe plans. The lowest bidders appear to be the Missouri Valley Bridge and Jeon company. The difference between their bids on Tenth and Eleventh streots 4s #5054 on a twenty-foot viaduet and $8,005 on a thivty-foot viaduet. This s a willing difterence compared with the diflerence to be derived from the location wf the vinduct on Tenth street, with the wttendant advautages of a union depot, sufo crossing nd the of Wenth street 1s a thoro | paying | been | in the United States andlordism. " ow of Tand lished in the for January, is attention The special eommis magazine to tions in some of the wes American Mr. Gill's interest lordism in America attracting widespread wie sent a5 anthor sioner by that catigate the in land con ern states and the of h which cannot fail to qui and alarm of out absorption of our national result inquiries in a summary n the anxiety the rapid o domain ownership of that it more of nto the Gill which is rapid mtry or indifference of its ¢ <ubject. There isa popular belief that the agrieulture of the carried on by the farmers lands. How great is this sion is by an appeal to statistics. The eensus of 18840 was the first to take note of this sub It showed 1,024,601 farms rented by In the five yearswhich have elapsed it is amoderate and well con sidered estimate that the nmmber has in twenty-five per cent th more tenant farn rent to landlords in the United than in the entive United King In the stateof Hii ther tenant farn than in Scotland the same ratio of the census will see with a tenant farmer population of fully « million and half. tenden: is noted toward tenancy, even in those who now own their little farms, and the chief cause is said to bedebt. OF the persons returned by the census ing engaged in agriculture, 2,981,506 registered as nominal owners of r holdings. But thousands and thon sands of these small farms ¢ plastered with mor When the farmers who actually their own lands are deducted from the farmers whose hold ing: mortgaged nearly to their value and from the capitalists: who own farms of 1,000 aer the extent of land- lordism is more strongly revealed, Capitalists have always looked with «ly eyes upon real estate investments and monopoly is steadily s the public domain dimin- 160 acres of govern- ment land able of cultivation and open to settlement was reported. Two- thirds of this vast a has already been gobbled up, largely by syndicates and their tools. The generosity of the gov- ernment to its ¢ ns has been abused in the interests of land speculators and monopolists. It was the much-abused Land Commissioner Sparks who v the first to give the country oflicial warning of the enormous extent to which the pub- lic domain had been plundered. It has his rnest work in attempting to the doors upon the thicves that brought down upon him the fury of the land rings and their ans, The time is rapidly ap- ching when every ac of tillable g rnment land - will be exh The ontlets for the over-crowded twill be gone. Land will neecssarily enhance in value and free homes for the millions will be no longer the ery to turn west ward the old time stream of immigra- tion. Then the land question will be sented to Amerien for its solution just as it is now forced into promin £ Iand and Ireland, and the v the landlords will rage withas much fury it now does neross its con=olidation the few Mr 15 hard say the in this observes the growth or the tizens on to surprising landlordism norance country is en ject tenants erensed worils are States dom more At nest are s inerease cultivate fig) T'he ady ishes neing In1 close the waler, The Asylum Head Tax When anything afleets Omaha unfa Jly some people and a good many wpers in this state cannot repress their Joy. It was so in the matter of the enter- prise of the attorney general when he bronght suit to compel Douglas county to pay the delinquent head tax for the in- ne asylum. In the eyes of these people the attorney general had achieved a more glorious trivmph than if he had recovered 50,000 neres of stolen Iands or $2,000,000 of back taxes from the railroads, Now that the list of the counties which 2 in the same boat as - Dong county 18 been published, these smart scoflo Omaba are beginning on the other side mouths. The sum total, which 1sion of the majority of the supreme court: will have to be collected in special and needless taxes, was $167,- 8 in 1884, Tt is to say that itis 0,000 at this date. OF this amount Douglas county will pay a fraction over #31,000 and the remainder will be squeezed out of the tax-payers of the state. Thus, Lancaster county will have $14,000 to pay, Richardson over ,000, Dodge about §11,000, Saunde Ty $8,000, Cass over $6,000, wtte, Otoe, Johnson and Clay o 1,000 cach and other counties all along the line in proportion. The poor frontic counties w sufler even worse comp; tively than the wealthier and older coun- stance, Cheyenne county has over §1,000 to puy on this tax and Holt nearly $1,800. The question what is to be done with this money whenitis collected? The general levy for last year has fully coy- cred all the expenses of running the asy- lum, and the board may levy the same this year if they see fit, as they have al- ways done, to exhaust the appropriation made by the legislature, If the $200,000 are paid in this year by special tax lovy, over $100,000 will lie dead in the st reasury until 1887, That will be very table to the banks and bankers who speenlate on the state's money, but it is an imposition and an outrage on the tax payers, It is a question, however, whether much would be left of the §200,- 000 by the end of the year. Once let the board have the money at its disposal and the flood gates of extravagance aro wide open, Another question that presses itself into prominence is what has be come of the $183,000 which was colleeted under this head tax law during the last twelve yea and which the supreme court has been unable to trace. The legislature at every session made liberal avpropriations to cover every dollar of the estimates and the full amounts has always been levied and paid in. In the language of the classic Mikado, ““Here' a pretty how-de-do.” emsessseess—— The Mayor and Council, Mayor Boyd, in an interview, adwmits that he sent for Councilman Goodman, whom he he thought to be & fair man,and tried to convinee him before the council had voted on the Cumwmings charges, that the marshal had been bribed and should be kicked out. Mr, Boyd had to ngh of their 1 ! e employed his own who own their | In other | ra | call | pend Commings it | grounds for so d¢ in this case that stenographer to take down the This was very | kind in the n that h wanted to enlighten members ofthat jury with regard 1o the necessity of a ¢ in the marshalship. Had the mayor pur sted the Cummings had trict jury him some un impr Ev taken so much interest evidenc or and <hows same tactics been on trial before a ¢ court the judge might hay 1 pleasant truths influence — on hat th f Cummings, and ther L way lnm if he is incompetent or | of malfeasanee in ¢ “ Jut a approve the attempt to an officer, no Whon using guilty fair man cannot tigma upon matter how much he is disliked, or even [ a numbskoll as the mayor put an unjus Mayor Boyd justifies his course by say- ing that he bel mmings was because he showed such interest, Will the mayor ple why it was neeessary o bribe Cummings when the judge had issued an order fe Travis If the friends of Travis were <o stupid as to squander money on the marshal when the police judge was | the man who had to issue the order for | the release of Travis they must have also bribed Jeroim p him from makin cord of t How does the me reconeile the failure of Pentzel | to keep his record with his honesty if the theory of brabery holds good® And yet Pentzel was br t forward with his blank record to conviet Cummings. Did the marshal fix the judge and erase the records made by his elerk lie whole thing is preposterous. The had no - the fiest place anxiety Chnmmings mayor has led himself to o improprieties, 10 them by the mildest name The mayor says that the Bek is “ad-n fool” for suggesting that he should sus- he had any good He says there are at leust six men inst him in the coun cil and that therefore he must wait till next April. This is imputing dishonesty least one-half the entire legislative branch of the city government. 1f a goy ernor should indulge in such an impu tion agninst a legislature he might himself into very serious trouble, It is the mayor'’s privilege to snspe th marshal or any other offi f he believes lim to be guilty of a misdemeanor or in subordination. Upon the council then must rest the responsibility of determin ing the justice of the c wes, If they per countenance and give sup port to disreputable or corrnpt conduct inan officer they take the odium upon themselves, The mayor has no right to assume that the council will take an such an indefensible position any mor than the council could assume in vanee that every man appointed by the mayor is dishonest and incompetent. A Standing Injust The e dmerson Ethe nessee, which was debated at length in the senate at Washington a week brings once more to public notice the great injustice which is often done by the ilure of the statute of limitations to op ate in the ease of hondsmen of govern- ment ofticials, The bill under debate was for the relief of Mr. Etheridge, o surety, who is sued by the government for $10,000, fourteen years after the death of the principal on the bond. The sum for which the government to recover was expended in st tionery, printing and clerk hire by Seeretary Carter of Arizona, now de- censed, There is no question taat the government received the benefit of every dollar expended, but the items were di allowed as “unanthorized,” and e after Mr. Carter's death were cha st his estate, which was insolvent. The government now sues his bondsmen, and one of these huving no propert Mr. Etheridge, the remaming bondsman, will be compelled to bear the entire loss As Mr. Etheridge is old, infirm and in very moderate circmmstances, congress is appealed to for relief. The chief point involved is the fuilure of the govern- ment to notify the bondsmen as the deficiency was discovered, which was in 1871 At that time hoth the bondsmen Wi in condition to meet the with little hardship. But the ofticials filed aw papers and left Mr. Etheridge entirely ignorant that any deficienc, wl been found in Carter’s nccounts until in April last, when s was entered, Senator Manderson made a strong speech in sup- port of the measure, in which he refers to two cases of a similur nature which had occurred in Nebraska. In each ease years clapsed after the deficiency was discovered before the bondsmen w notitied, and the negligence of the gov- ernment was set up as a defense unsue- cessfully in both inst 5. The statute of limitations runs in the case of postmasters but with no other class of government offici There is no reason or equity in the exceptions, Grave injustice is done by the failure of the accounting ofticers of the treasury to settle accounts more rapidly, and still graver by their neglect to notify the re- sponsible partiecs where deficiencies arve discovered. Senator Manderson intro- duced in the last congress a bill to remedy this condition of affuirs. He has intro- duced it in the present session, and it onght to become a law. It provides (or prompt notification of principal and surcties whenever any deficiency shall he found in the accounts of any disbursing oflicer and makes a five y limitation as to bonds after the adjustment of ne counts by the treasury, Senator Man- derson very properly intimated that con- gress and the senate, by reason of their inaction, must bear their share of the odium attaching to such euses of hard ship and injustice us that in which Mr Ethridge is at present the sufferer ()Uil CONGRESSMEN. wwes ( an undu o explain | release? Pentzel to ke ar cise o bottom In h the commit to g out, 1o 4 seeks a8 s00n loss | .00 Jette drives witha § | is, of | Gen. Bragg of Wisconsin says a Fitz John Porter restoration bill will be passed by the house by a large majority. Some of the mugwunp papers complain that the democrats in congress have no leaders to suit the complainants. Congressmen Stahlnecker, Hiscock, Le Fevre, Springer, Burtows, Cobb und Bliss are among the handsome wmen of the couns try, according to a Washiugton special, Mr. Lawler, says the Chicago Thnes, s not on many of the committees. 1t is believed, indeed, that his duties in the comumittee- rooms will not requite even the number of Lours that he holds should ulwuys constitute @ legal day’s worl, Mr. William Morrison, fawmiliarly kuown T T . TR T R 0. e e et et et e e e e et e e e as Horizontal Bill, is said to be always “ready to stand ot fall by his convietions.” This anticipatio calamity acconnts for the gracefnln with whieh the Hon. Mr. Mor- rison bites th vory once in a whi A congressman cotuplains that he recei ved < from constitu all of e and answer Tt of thing or Senator Har 1 for congressmen to so dust ¢ 1=, nearly dto Ix Wt raises up ad which telated to Itis vocates it umlawfe <sman Maybury Michigar bill setting the St onal shooting and fishing r <lone <tay in the north v Tnst summer is an pernaps, ti bill 50 pleasing to the <portsman in no fear of a veto, of aside flats as a assuran need st . of Erie, on the A0 <pan of horses Washi Both are nd a half hands high, one by Harri Indian Chief. and the <om of John Dillard Denmark. are good democrats oy thing sixteen <on Chief, dam by the other by King William dam by Washington being Kentuekians, the Uneasy i the ¢ ssional head that rests on the shoulders of a democrat these days. L his district is made up, as it usua several counties, each county ha lialf dozen men who want to fill his sh he has to choose in his recommendati postiasters in his district between a o applicants for every office, he s eley men mad when he atonce attuch themselves to the some one of his rivals and begin to make the distriet red hot in the interest of the new can- didate. Objector Holman is just now en- 1 for ses one, The ¢ anse countering a cyclone of this nature in his distriet - Sullivan's Belli Pittalnerg Commmey . . Joln L. Sullivan must think that Mitehell is 4 news He wants to fight him every day in the week, - Nothing Mean About Them, Loniisvitle Courier-Jonrnal, The land-grabbers would willingly give Secretary Lamar six feet of their earth if he would only die, . - Anybody Can Run a Newspaper. Charleston News. Anybhody can run o newspaper. Of eourse can. It is light, easy, e nial em- ment, to be suecesstal in which neither pital. business experienee nor brains is absolutely essent - ‘ollows t Chicago Inter-Ocean, blizzard has swept throngh <and aska, it will be pre stumably followed by the cheerful ancedote about wearing dusters and gathering wild flowers that bloom in the blizzard. s =i The Debate Ou to Close. t. Louis Republican. wen robbed the bank at Clinton, Miss, Oneof them, an ordinary bank pres- ident, is mow in Canada. he other, a bril Niant young student of Harvard unive isin jail. The debate over the compa advantages of | \and theoret ation ought now to close, —— Jew or Christis New York Sun. We think we may elaim to know something about the merchants of New York, and we avert reside herey there are men of high character and of prineiple superior toany form of eheat- ing. In truth, the Jews are no more dishon- est than Christians, nor is the proportion of raseals among them any greater than it is aAmong Chrtstiars, Pleasantry that Blizzar Now, Towa, | Two Church Howe's Retirement, Chicago News. The Omaha Bee announces that the Hon, Church Howe, of Nebraska, has retired from politics. This strikes us as being rather stale news, Unless v re grievously mista- ken, Mr. Howe retired very permanently from polities about eighteen months ago, when he went down south with the inten- tion and the money to earry the old slave As we distinetly re- Mr. Howe fell into a big hole just hout that time, and it reported at the time that he pulled the hole in atter hin. - he National Silyerites' View. Cin ati Commereial, An able correspondent wants to ow what, in brief, is our position on the silver question. Itis that silver is a money metal, il that we have coined enough of it- enough, at least, for immediate use—and that congress 8 hould have sense enough to stop the foreed production of silver dollars. The only object in going on with the coinage of silver, as the ease stands, s to depreciate our money standard and confuse our com- mercial relations, "This is not desirable, 1t would degrade us from our position s u first- class nation to lower the standard. - Omaha as a Port of Ent Chicagn News, Senator Manderson has suceeeded in get- ting Omaha recognized as a port of entry. This we think eminently proper, Omaha is unquestionably the castern gateway to a mighty territory—a veritable paradise of murderous cowboys, maranding aborigines, serub cactuses, thieving Indian agents, and consclenceless land sharks—an in panse of sand and butfalo chips, coyotes and praivie dogs, cyclones and blizzards, Y we can see why Omaha should have been ereated a port of entry; but he who passes her should leave all hope behind, - The Bovine Aristocracy, Chicago Herald, In the cattle growing industry of the west ) attempt is making to build up a bovine toeracy by making the owng less thin 50,000 head ineligible to seats in the ax nual eonvention at Denver, Although thers is morc or less objection o the arrangement on the part of small awners, they are not left entirely without resource. The western cat- tle raiser with a bunch of a hundred beeves, who inot figare out that there will be 50,000 0f them by the time he ean travel from hisranch to Denver, 15 'a very poor stock- raiser for t part of the'country, The active and experienced liars emple by the land thieves to attack and misrep sent Land Commissipuer Sparks through the columns of the New York Tribune and other gans of the ring ure striving to deserve the tull measure of xeproot administered to their elass by the president in his letter to Mr. Keppler, Mero paviisan lying wearies those who practice' It, in time, and gives place to the less toflsome poliey of plain, or- dinary truth telling, But self-interested ly- ing has no end, and 15 [ncessant, The falsi- fication of which Mr. Sparks is the vietim will be kept up until the eminent land thieves whose profitable business Le has so roughly interfered with have forsaken the public domain, and entered upon equally congenial eareers in railroad wrecking or “salted” mine swindling. e Miss Cleveland Positively Handsome, Washington Correspondence Chicago News. 1t is encouraging to state, in the midst of gloomy forehodings, that Miss Cleveland is unguestionably handsome. This may not have its true value in the opinion of outsid- ers, but with cloud that coutains a silver lining and a eyclone, too, with the tariff and the civil servieo and a dozen other pestifer ous things bothering the administration, the conselousuess that o good-looking woman presides at the white house is full of baln, She always had an excellent face, tand now Of course, | As | among the Jewish merchants who | I that she has eschewed short hair and wears three puffs and twe curls she is positively handsome, It has puzzled certain able intel lects in both parties Miss €] managed to arrange the charming supe ture on the top of her head. Nothing Did you ever how gent minstrel business who acters fasten a blonde g on? They comb nair up straight to the crown of the head and then tie it, hold for the how in the male cha notice nate Sweet man 0 It's in you ey Iliat glitter, that cn Bespiaks yo And pipes for w 1 know will bust Great man ! My sink pipe 5 ) You eame and looked and 1o - Andina week Y ou sent two mey They ean And came They stopy Somie il white'er v satne. You're never left. - STATE NDa nITony, Nebraska Jottings, The boiler house of the Fremont found was de el by fire Tuesday Several Dixon connty farmers will ex- periment with tobaeco nest season. . The Citizens' bank of Plattsmouth inereased its capital stock to 100,000, A store building and several vesidences were destroyed by fire in Gothenburg lust Saturday. An old man_ named Dickman, living near Scribner, blew his brains ont with a shotgzun last week The store department of the B. & M at Plattsmouth handled 2,000,000 worth of material last year Fourteen engines were wreeked while bucking snow drifts on the Burlington & Missouri since the blizzard. The Plattsmouth shops of the Burling ton & Missouri have received an order to build four pony engines and ten way ry Work bas been resumed at T lege at Blair. The four-story brick strneture is owned by the Danish Luther an society, and is the only one of its kind in Ame . A lightning jerker at b skipped out of town woman. The deserte sumping on their trail lision may be looked fe Two locomoti drive at asnow L When quict was swere in the diteh, The conductor sman were injured severel y by the name of Smith 1 i Jack Donovan’s shot at a ranch ten miles north of Sidney last urday Jack claims that Sonth insulted o lady friend o his and was justified infitling his lungs with Jead. Smith died easily and Donovan surrendered to the ofli Edward Anderson, a stage driver, turned up his toes the notorions hog ranch of Octavia - Reeves, in Sionx county, recently. The dive is the head quartérs of the worst gang of toughs alive. There w 1 general fusilude of guns when Anderson dropped, and the murderer cannot be apprehenc Thr search for roon the lowa bottoms. Tuesday. McKenzie, an expert ean opener. headed the procession, with Dan O'Rourke, the Kerry warbler, and Dan expr 1CSSen o i car. Suddenly and MeKenzie and “his gun were caressing o slippery cake of e, The concussion disehargéd the weapon, and sixteen grains of shot plowed fur rows in Coflee’s legs. He will be laid up for two wecks, and Towa bar will get a rest. A sensational scandal struek North Bend within the last few days, which promises to keep the tongue of gossip greased for the winter, O NEHLS 3Z0 a young man struck the town with only a good suit of clothes and_a venceredl tongue to recommend him. He hung out his shingle as o Jnwyer and plunged into the social vortex like a veteran. — He b came the chief spouterand leaderin all r form movements, as well as the defende of the town's interests. A few weeks ago he was married to on i started for the east on w tour. He had searcely crossed the Missouri_ before an Indiuna sherifl’ a rived in North Bend with a warrant for the arvest of W, H. Claive, the identical leader of society and ently wedded Claire’s carcer in Hoosierdom thei cropped out. He posed us a mini rin Richmond i that te, and bol rowed a team and buggy with which he nd to Ncbraska and finally sold the outfit in North Bend. This trifling episode served to keep his mem- ory green in Richmond, and shook the confidence of several prominent Benders, one of whom started in pursuit of the bridal party, They were overhauled in Towa. Thé bride returned to her home, and Claire scttled with his pursucr. inity col tings recently with a2 murried husband is now and a bloody col- wrbnry last d both n foul Towa Iteny A pmrmiliun is on foot at Indis establish monthly live stock sales on an extensive seale, During December M 78,440 pound of butte 2,050 dozen cgygs. The clock fuctor which was looking all over Iowa for o loeation has finully anchored at Rock Island, 111 The shot tower at Dubuque is closed, and the proprictors will remove to Omaha, which is a better point for man- ufacture, nchester shipped 100,200 poultry tnd nton Journal defines a bliz- ok wind, moving with ich finds all sides of a neously The stat 1 commissioners were at Dubugne Jast week for the purpose of selecting a location for the union depot that is to be built there this ye As an instance of the o Cedar Rapids merchants, in the veport of the merchant police for the year 1885 just published, itis stated that 416 doors and windows and twelve safes were found open, and #3835 worth of goods were left outside of the stores, Andrew Benedict, at 12-year old boy at LeMars, Monday morning while workin about the barn was kicked in the face by a horse. The lowe w bone was broken 50 badly that a portion of 1t had to be re- moved. and all his teeth were knocked out. Besides a severe ent in the lower jaw, the checks are cut open from the jouth back to the ear on both sides of th face. The horse had but recently been arp shod. If the boy lives he will probably be maimed for life, Dakota. The improvements in Huron lust year amounted to $202,680. The packing house at Sioux Falls kills about 450 hogs a week When the b rd last Thursday the wercury tumbled in twenty-four hours, The Black Hills Mining company has surchused 160 acres of lind near Buftalo J p for $10,000, which will be laid out in city lots. A number of persons have been cutting Jessness of struck Deadwood 108 plow took a | » Plattsmouth sports started out to | of the belles of | tne Indian near Canning, Last week the rad and drove off teams, captoring ten who were tarned over withorities THE RAILROAD PROBLEY pping OF Withered Branches of a vil, While the Root and Flourish nship will « ht canse of evils to apply a remedy o treating is as disas wood on reseryation twenty-five and drivers the military ut 1ms to -~ el then will nal to the physics: and the charlatan ean be cla ignorant of sound ful instead of helpf would eure, I portation que cal and medical wm sorders they n the trans ent time x The last act in the legisl n Nebraska offe in point paeudo « tab ing pow. 1 and m I'his is the limit ot v this auth faree, with no seric v of cost w 1 wit that any cfiort i state, even though an un one, should Do utterly so cntirely powerless Gils tor which it was pro | floa What are these ey | 11 any man <ap ey are emb inatriting exces e to A over b or a1 greater or less inequality of rates on the long or short haul or any temporary inadequacy of convenicnces at way sta | ions_or terminal ints, he has sadly failed to comprehiend th wtion. These [ may indeed be evils which require corree tion—some of them evils which are far reaching and injurious. But if there were no more deep-scated and - threaten ing i in the - transportation system than is indicated by these symp- toms, the universal dissatisfaction with that system would have no existenee which woild be threatening or serious Ihe great disease of the rairomd s n upon wlich publie opinion has fixed its tention —th for which states manship must find a cure, or stand con | fronted with a remedyless and fatal mal Iy—may be distinguished by the two leading characteristies of modern rail road buildin, T'h of theseis the mstantly it sing volume of stocks 1l bonds; the second is the predominat ing influence of railroad builders in our | legislatures and our courts. The second | of these is the covollavy of the first Eliminate the tirst evil, and the second will eliminate itself. In their comp: hension of these faets the common peo- ple are in advance of the statesmen. I'hey have lized the primary facts of the case, and have swiftly made the cor t deduction. ‘The primary*fucts are that this enormous and ever-inereasing volume of watered seeurities constitutes anational debt—in every essential fea ture, as surely as does the United States | bonds; and that this debt is just as su { 1y a tax upon_the productive Tabo ountry, as impossible to es indireet tarift upon the life, or the direct tax for the support of public schools. The people see a national debt of four thousand millions of doliars Joaded upon the producers and consim 's of the nation, They see the system under which this was accomplished — under which one dollar in cash is put | down, and three in stocks and bonds fen up—going forward with constantly e ol culiavly” ill treatment drama 3y it a A b in to t Vlations Tts & 1o be the peo com wity has come tl the regret barren of r reach the r 1 as a remedy ase hey sce the pro- jectors and owners of wads loading themselves out of the pockets of the peo- ple, with inexhaustible supphes of the ammunition used to hunt legislatures and judges; and they sce asa logieal result cenormous accuniulations of wealthin the hands of the few, ponding increase of poverty the many, at the same time that the” power of our excen- tives are being transferred into the hands an oligarehy of moncy, and onr ry into a machine for interpreti 4 cording its edicts, The common | people have fairly reached the eminence [Pt Ly can not only plainly discern all this, but can faintly catch o glimpse of the illimitable beyond, when L equulity will have ceased, and the principles of republicanism’ have been trampled under the iron heel of the Jest aristocracy ever known on earth ; The statesman who proposcs te their discontent or stop their by filling up stagnant water g platform tacilities, or ing incqualit between shippers, tling the folly of Canute, | who sat his chair of state hy the ocean and proposed to stop its billows by a | wave of kingly hand Under this system of building railroads on eredit, for the sake of their nominal ownership and their actual debts, which have weetive value far above the veal cost of the rouds when constructed; debt and interest are constantly in ad- vance of business. Consequently man- s of railroads, who are not often the lominated by imperative They must prey bank- nd ward off receiverships. Of dollar of annual gross earnings 3 nts goes to pay interest. But with this enormous disproportion of in- sest to gross receipts, the average rate of inte actually i only 43 per e apitalization of about nine dol 'y dollar of an- 1 gross res Thus” dominated by itics, no and fixed b; hi rates is possible for managers. cy have been compelled to adopt the rule’of “what the traflic will bear,” in- stead of a fair compensation for ce rendered, and by the same token clussi- fieation, based “upon commercial value alone, instead of upon weight and cubic mensure ys Mr. Albert Fink, the great pool eommissioner “But while this knowle of each serviee is desirable, practical use charges. * # lated by other cost of the work to th are regulated by the value of the serviee to the parties for which it is performed If any avticle is to be moved between two points, the difference | two points is all that can be eharged. See Mr. Fink's testimony before the Cul- o Com,, p. 10.] 1 could pronounce this arobbe But I am not now indulging in denun, tion. T only considering p And the plain fact is that e are compelled to adopt tlas rule, road for itself, overloaded with wate Ty of the cost it is of little ing railrond ANZes are regu- considerations than the railvonds. They Indians made a | Will yon bankrupt the roads® asks one. Not any honest ro. But what do we do with counterfeit money? 14 | and with the counterfeitert We destroy the money wherever found, without any regard for the bankruptey or right of i nocent holders, and we imprison th | counterfeiter. And I affirm that wate o « on an exact equality with coun only that the former po nrated essence of fraud masmuch as they | wing a perpetual dra temand of the peop nothing less {an e and partics will do w ) leed of i 1 BUREOW « FiLLEY, Neb 18ty 18, - THE PERU NORMAL The Ada pleted Neb ek the School Cor at Convenience. 12 -[Correspondence erection of the new ol adds much to mot A Jan The to the Normal scl Appearan and beauty of the build onlid be bighly appreciated by e it doos away with goir s so much, The school is =0 arrar I that onece the scholars are in their re places can remain on the same floor during school hours, A it was before they had to go from the Dasement to the chapel in the | story to recite their different lessons new wing 1s 55305 feet 1l contains ing and the students up and down sta peetive The 10 stori 14 rooms ntains inaddition to the pris partment, the labratory of and small apparatus | 18 room 2080 hall 8 f wilde, The is vichly furnished and fitte up with tables, counters, sinks. 1< and small_clo with sh The tables are vsed for chemieals and uiratias in daily use by the studs wof. Grant has a plice nd everything inits place, the stud eem to take pride in keeping every in order. He has quite 2 number o 1A birds neatly mou | tie<t floor | cipal’s private 10x28, & number for chemicals, a ¢l closets | rooms usc seientitie and feet, Il anl Hory 1 oo 1 floor s spectively leatit room by stemm proved u suece the v ntstorms. The class v halls were perfectly comfort The water works are sit rods east of the building with an : nt supply of water, but the mac being 100 weak to smplish the the contractor concluded to pu steam pumyp which is on the gron will be put in working o TS the weather will permit. This wil ply the building and dormitory witer i - Lords of the Isles. Chicago Herald, nderhilt’s conta WiV island on the for his own u which may h The land is nix purchase ¢ jeorgin const, prest s inwinter, is amom far-reaching mileslong and two wide and is sufliciently fertile 1o tain a large population, With unli meun s command and a dispo more pron than that of hi tors to 1 mselt ot busny and branch out into soeiety ar polities, the present head ot may conclude to establish Kintzdom, tributary to but not rily under the mwon heel of the r aus Spreckles, the Pacific o king, is the practical owners of th wich 1] n.L. nd a rich tinguished New York editor owns « the summer lives and 1 island in the sound. Jay Gould's o retirement from busmess has he Tow iother yachti tour the isles to the southeast o forid of which heis liable to huy at and still other rich me in po of islanas adjacent to the New T coast, on which they hold their during a portion of each 0 Although this whim of the mult nires suggests a desire on L to be rather exclusive, the Americ people may have one very soothii retlection concerning it When the su t of fortifying the sea coust comes up or serious attention, the insular mindful of the possible efl ton rifle on their provinees, will be pre- pared to subscribe liberally for defense, and in the event of war they could not do less than fit out a vessel or two each for their own protection. In this way the island-buying fever promises to promote the general welfare - Postoflice Changes, Postoflice changes in - Nebraska and Tows during the week cending Jan, 9th, 1886, furnished by William Van Vieek, of the postoftice department: NEBRASKA blished —Cooleyton, Loup county, Ashley B. Cooley, postmaster; Longhorn, Dawes county, Thomas J. Brown; Lu o county, Joln_ Luce; Impe : county, i Mossier, an county Mors me Changed—Wheatlund, Webster county, to Saint Ann, Postmast Appointed—Danby, York county, Miss Flora ‘Iroutman; Doer Creck, Madison coun Juacob Whi Munson, Madison oounty, J. W. Davis; Pleasant Valley, Dodgé county, John Emanuel; Purple € Dodge " county, Mrs, Jan: Suint Aun, Webster county, Jean Laport pringlield, Surpy county, Henry C. Lifler; Stetta, Richiardson county, Edward S, Malone; on, Richardson county, Austin H. Sloan. ve the 10WA Postmasters Appointed noose county, Hardin Guinng Dol Deluware county, Amzi 1. Burnes; Earlville, Delaw county, R. H. Van Wagener; sstville, Deliware county, William Wall; Jewell, Hamilton county, George I, Willett; Lawler, Chickusaw county, William . Cluvz; Mediapolis, Des Moines county, Henry Hustod; Milton, Van Buren County, W. I, Jd- monson; Norwalk, Warren county, Charles No Miller; Richmond, Washing- ton county, Michael Smith; Suylarsville, Polk counity, John T Hirder! Seranton dity, Greene county, Isaae H. Jones; wan, Washington county, Wever, Lee county, K. W. Deun, A|v“;l' | seeurities; is compelled to wring from its | traflie “allit will hear'” without annilila- | tion, in a vain effort to float those securi- ties to a respectable we on the stock boards of the country. Under this rule no uniform principle Tor the establish ment of a just busis can be adopted. By inherent defects of human nature railroad wunagers are prevented from g the propriety of the luw providing u proper Pasts for them, and are compelled to use all their enorn.ous powers 1o prevent it from so doing, notwithstanding such a Jaw would be i boon to them and a bless- ing to the people Now, the remedy needed lishwent of a basls for freight charge tounded on honesty, not on fraud. ‘Fhis remedy wild never bee applied from within, »is only one power that can apply it—that is the power that created the cor- poration and shared with them its inhe ¢ bt of eminent domain—the power of the state and nation. The busis be & fair compensation for servic dered, whieh would comprise a f terest at the actual cash cost of ull rouds, but uo cent of returu or lictitious securi- is the estab. MOST PERFECT MADE Prevared with special regard (o hoatih, No Awwmonis, Lime or Alum. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO., CHICAGO. ST. LOVIS 4