Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 20, 1886, Page 4

wTHE DAILY BEE. OMATA OFr1cE N0.914 Axn 016 FARNAM ST Kew YOork Orrice, ROOM 6, TRIRUNE BUILDING WasHisGTOs Orrron, N 3 Fourrteestn 81, Prlished bvery morning, cxcapt Sunday. The fl“{ Monday l:l?l’null paper ;:;'V'\l“lhfld n the stuio. TERME BY MAIT: One Vear. £10.00 Three Months £2.50 Bix Months.. 0/One Mouth.. 190 Tar Weekny B, Published Every Wednosaay. TERME, POSTPAID: One Year, with preminm One Year, without premiuin. ... Fix Months, withont premium One Month, on trial. ‘ CORRBEPOND! All communications relating to news and edi- torin) matters should be addressed to the Bl TOR OF TR B BUSINESS LETTERS: All bu diness lotters and DEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAuA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders 10 be made payable to the order of the corapany. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. . ROSEWATER. Eprron. MoxDAY was not a bad day for bills in the house. There were 50 introduced. Wik~ Roscoe Conkling said that Gen, Grant needs no monument, he struck a popular chord 2 Qur VICTORIA |||‘ti|;||Ql'~ to sit down on the Irish National league. She nay strike a bent pin, L ____}] Tuoss numerons railroads that have been so mueh talked abont, wili bloom in the spring along with the flowers. Turaverage Ne himself to de full winter raska beaver is kicking th for neglecting to supply of provisions. Yesterpay was Dakota day in the sen- ate. Senator Harrison's voice was raised in behalf of the land of blizzards. SErSepp—— Mn. BOIANNON'S ease still hangs fire. I£ it results as other murder cases so fre- quently do, that is about all the hanging there will be to it PreEsipENT CLEV g made such a brilliant succdss of hig cabinet din- ner, now proposes to give the diplomatie corps a square meal Tie bombardment of Sarveyor-Gener- al Garaner from the ‘Herald office con- ginues. Its effect upon Gardner will be no more damaging than yolleys from a Quaker. ‘gun, A piLn has beea introduced; in the house for the admission of Montana as a state. Sheis preparing to slide in on the Dakotw blizzard.. Theve. is, however, not o much -blowing abont. Montana’s claims. fig L i Prmaverrinia may” be considered by - ¢ some people as a slow-going eity, but she erected 5,987 buildings during the 1885, This was 2,500 more than . other city in the country. There is nothing slow about those figu " Mus, FrANK LESLIE comes to the d fense of Joaquin Miller. She suy: the poet of the Sierras has frequently for- warded checks to his daughter, although she martied a worthless dude, the son of Steele Mackaye, against his wishes and * advice, Sexator CULLOM'S intér-state com- meérce bill, with its sham railroad regula- tion, through a railroad company's com- ‘mission, does not seem to disturb the railway kings in the least. They know that the commission will never disturb their method of charging all that-the traflic will bear. i A YOUNG er, who retired before he * had any practice, his delivered a ponder- ! ous opinion to the effect that otir protest ° against pueking grand juries with irres- ponsible. men and professional jurors .was indecent and untimely, and could not be entertained by the court. We res- . pectfully refer this eminent barrister to . . Judge Wakel ¥ TuE American merchant marine cuts a . " small figure in the commerce of the world.. ‘Of the imports of merchundise Brought to this country by steam and sail vessels for the fivst eleven months of the year - $109, ) were brought in " American vessels, and $405,224,168 in © foreign vessels. Of domestic merchan- dise exportad for 1885, up to November 80, $65,008,559 were carried in our own - wvessels, and $517,855,601 in vessels of other countries THE statement of the Omaha postoflice for the six months ending December 81 presents some interesting fucts and fig- ures. The increase in business dur this period over the corresponding sl menths of 1884 is $10,395, or 22 9-10ths This is the largest percentage ‘Btates. St. Paul comes next with an i arease of 18 5-10ths per cent, and Kansas City follows with 17 8-10ths per cent. Phe statement i another evidence of the growth of Omaha ONE of the first things that Mr. G. M, Nattinger, the newly-elected secretary . of the board of (rade, should do is to im- the city council with the import o of immediately passing a building Jinspeotion ordinance, covering the en- tive vity, and providing for the issuing of b ling permits, The record of build- " aows, obtained in this way, would save . Nattinger a great deal of labor in ing statistics at the end of the year, " Bueh o record would be reliable and * of great value to the city in many ways. ~ Puor. Rasuus B, A gonsin, the minister resident to Denmark, | s oredited with having made a bad break ~ in etiquotte at the royal reception, . When he was conducted into the audience . room of the queen, aftor being roceived - by the king, he shook hands with the old fl as cordially as he would have done " any lady of his acquaintance whom om childhood. Thut Tuking a chair—a soft r—he sat down for a chat with her eminent highness ing her health, und the health of ¢hildven, and other overy day mat- 8. In ull probability he crossed his and looked avound for a spittoon, this is not astonishing to the rollick- feee and easy Awerican whose ways Anderson, although of to have fully acquived, but it was toly shocking to the royal atten- and the refined American colony in hagen. Prof. Aunderson should taken a fow lessons in etiquette « b veturned to his native land. auish bivth, | Omaha as a Financial Uenter. The fact that Omaha rose to the thir- teenth place in the list of thirty-one clearing house citics last week has at- tracted a great deal of attention, not only among our business men, but among the leading citics of the country. That she outranks such cities as Milwaukee, Cleveland, Detroit, Minneapolis, Galves ton and Memphis as a financial center must certainly be taken as convincing evidence of her business growth and prosperity. That she has more than doubled her bank clearances in a single 3 shows that she is booming right along. No other city shows anywhere near such an increase. In this eonnection it is proper to say t Omaha has reason to fecl proud of her financial institutions, which to-day rank among the most solid banks of the country. Keeping pace with the growth and demands of Omaha's business they have from time to time increased their capital, until now the aggregate eapital among the six national and four private Lanks of Omaha foots [up 150,000, The First Nativnal bank .ast year was authorized by act of congress to increase its capital to $2,000,000. The fact that we shall have two banks with a capital of §2,000,000 each speaks volumes for the i prosperity, and its solidity as a financial center. A Drummer's Victory. In many of the states and in some of the territories a special tax is imposed upon comniercial salesmen representing jobbers and manu turers in other states. A decision just rendered by the supreme court of the United States declares all such licenses illegal becanse they restrain free commerce between the states. The case ‘upon which this important decision was rendered is that of Samuel Walling against the stafe of Michigan. In June, 1883, Wallizg was prosecuted in Michi- gan under the state law imposing a tax on persons engaged in the business of selling liquor in that state, to be shipped from any other state. * He wasa deummer, for a Chicago firm and was convicted of selling liquor at wholesale with- out license and soliciting and taking orders . for its sale without He was imprisoned in defaultof ayment of n fine. The ecase w « to the supreme court of Michi- gan, which- decided against him. The supreme conrt of the United States held that a discriminating' tax imposed by a state, operating to . the disadvantage of the products of other states, is a r egula- tion or restraint of commerce among the states and as such is o usurpation of the power conferred by the constitution, The judgment of the supreme court of Michi- gan was reversed and remauded, with in- structions to take such further proceed ings as may not he inconsistent with this opinion. Whether this decision would abrige or deny the right of any state to require traveting saiesmen, representing brew- cries and liquor houses, to take out a license for the sale of liquor which s re- quired by local jobbers is by no means settled. In the Michigan ense there was discrimination against deale from othér states bp a special tax not-imposed upon the Michigan salesmen and dealers. The supreme conrt of the United States simply declared that no state has a right to hamper interstate commerce by dis- criminating legislation. This would im- ply that a tax imposed dlike upon home and foreign dealers would not be illegal. In Nebraska, for instance, where.the jobbers in liquar are required to take ont a license there could be no just charge of discrimination if the same license should be required ‘of foreign dealers. Under our.present high license law, however,’it might be difficult, if not impossible, for a fareign dealer to: comply with the prov i sions regarding the issuauce of a license. Literally construed the law only applies- to local jobbers and retailers. The next legisiature should amend the law so as to place all wholesale liquor dealers on the same footing. — The Business Situation. The recent snow storms and cold weather, covering almost the entire country, have hil the effeet of greatly impeding _trade- movements. The pro- duce shipments from interior points and the distribution of manufactured goods from eastern centers have been curtaiied by the difficultics of transportation con- sequent upon snow blockades. The halt- ing condition of business is a natur: outcome of the severe weather and cites no uneasiness as to the future. The most branches of trade and is gradually improving, and is a general feeling of confidence in the prospects for a good spring trade. Busmess fuilures continue exceptionally rous in the southern, western and , which contribute more than two-thivds of the total of 832 fuil- ures reported last week from the United States and Canada. Nospecial activity has been de veloped in textile fabri xports of cotton ve fallen off, but there has been a fair de- mand from home spinners, and the mark- ets generally have advanced 1-16 to § of a cent a pound on account of the smaller receipts from the south. Wool is held with a great deal of confidence in all markets. Demand is moderate, but gives promise of early improvement, as the goods trade shows increasing aetivi and manufacturers as a rule are carrying moderate stocks. Print cloths have ad- vanced 1-16 of a eent per yard, under a good demund and reduced stocks at the manufacturing centres, and 2§ to 5 per cent advance has been obtained on sowe makes of low-grade cotton shirtings and cottonades. The general dry goods trade shows as mu ctivity as can be reason- ably expected under existing weather conditions, and the market as a whole is in good shape. The anthracito coal trade situation is duil and unsatisfactory Tuc ivon market has been a little less aciive, but the prospects of the trade in most depmtments ave oncouraging. Val ntained and there is no ikness in any quarter except on nails, which are comparatiyely dull and weak in anticipation of a re- sumption of work by the idle factories in the west. Ixtensive roalizations by the long in- terests in the wheat market have caused a general decline in prices. The Chic market at the closo of last week was 2} cents per bushel lower, and scaboard quotations 1 to 1§ eents per bushel lower than st the close of the previous week. Considering the general lack of confi dence among speculative operators, and the large amouat of long wheat that has been tarown on the market, the decliue is ed; but the temper of speculation bearish, and the legitimate trade outlook < little encouragement to holders. The domestic visible supply, accor the Philadelphia Record, from wh quote, has deercased nearly 700,000 bush- els, but the falling off to the severe weather, and is more than off: set by an increase of 8%0,000 bushels in the supply of wheat and flour in transit from all parts of the world to Great Brit- ain and the continent, Exportsof wheat have been a little more liberal from New York, bul from other ports have contin- ued very small, and there is little promise of improvement in the genéral demand, as foreign wheats are still undersellmg the Amer- ican grain in the markets of Europe. Corn has been less active on new orders for export, but the requirements of out- standing contracts are so large that re ceipts are promptly absorbed, and there is still a heavy short interest among ship- pers at Baltimore. The snow blockade checked receipts at all points, and the smaller interior movement and continued large exports have combined to decrease the visible supply. Hog products hav been only moderately active, but have ruled strong, with leading staples show- ing a slight advance in consequence of the lighter run of receipts at the packing centres. Judge Dundy's New Departu The order of Judge Dundy, of the United States district court, directing Marshal Bierbower to convey the jury in the Clarke-Leighton insurance case by specianl to Lincoln, is a new departur in politica There is not only no precedent for transporting a jury from one c¢ity to another because they cannot agree, but there is no authority in law for it. The court has no right to. coerce & jury into a verdict in any such unheard-of manner, and it nly has no right toimpose payment Trond fares upon either party to a action of Judge Dundy in this case is as arbitrary as that of a king. ‘It reminds as foreibly of the or- deals to which men were subjected dur- ing the middle ages in order to compel them to. confess: themselves guilty of criminal conduet or of her In those good old days the fudges used thumb- serews, the rack, and other convinecing arguments in drawing out testimony, and quite frequently the guilt or inno- cence of a person was d, mined by his or her ability to withstand torture. There was no need of juries in those days, and hence no annoyance from stub- born jurors who refuse to agree to a ver- dict against their personal convictions. Under our enlightened ci ation all coercive methods for dealing out justice have been abandoned. The only”legiti- mate measure a judge is entitled to em- ploy in bringing juties to an agreement is to keep them togethier for a reasonable lgngth of time. When a jury has been out three days without coming to an agreeiment,- as in this instance, the rational conclusion is that they will neve ree. To subject ' a juror to ps, penalties, and unreasonable detention _is not only barbarous, but an unwarranted interference with ‘the right and duty of each juror to give a verdict aecording to his consclentious convic- tions. The action of Judge Dundy in en- deavoring to force an agreement by transporting the jury from Omaha to Lincaln will at best result in the setting aside of their verdiet by a higher court, if a verdiet'is rendered. Either ps grounds for demanding a new trial, and. they would doubtless get it. This, howev dops mot concern the public.. Itis the violation of the right of conscience and personal ‘liberty which makes the new departure so objection- able and offensive. to the popular mind. ] A 1 deal of fuss. has been. made over the Keily incident, but the Jonas episode has been almost forgotten, al- though it was of as much importance as the Keil wir, It will be remembered that Austria nof enly rejected Keily as United Stal minister, but she threw overboard My, Chmles Jonas, the Wis- consin Bohemian - who avas appointed United States comsul at Prague. The ground for the humiliating rejection of Mr. Jonas was that he had dencunced the Austrian “governmeat in publie, both orally and through new pers, while he Was 4 young man .many years ago in Prague. There has been an evidenteflort to have this matter quietly drop out of sight of the public, but the administra- tion having been recently remind- ed that the ease demands consid- eration, attempts are now being to expliin away the administration triesto show that Mr. Jonas was not received simply because his predecessor managed to arouse the jealousies of the German element in Bohem gainst him as a partisan of the Czechs, This, to say the least, is a very lame excuse. The fact remains that Mr, Jonas was not very ac- ceptable to the people among whom he was expected to represent the United States, and the state department admits that one n why he W jected was the fear of Austria | that Lis prosence in Prague as United States consul would encourage the socret sympathizers of Russin among the Czechs. Altogether Mr. Jonas must be c one more proof of Bayard's blundering, as these objections, if they can be called such, were known when Mr. Jonas was appointed. SECRETARY LAMAR'S recent telephone opinion leads a prominent Washington lawyer to predict that there will be no telecphone monopoly two years hence, be- cause the Bell patent cannot hold water befora the courts. In that event the American Bell stock will have no more use for water, as the bottom will drop out of it. —_—_— Tue editor of tne Fargo (Dak.) Argus claims to have published 2,000 lettors from women and thereby fouud a hus- band for each of them, He says he can accommodate 10,000 more in the same manner on ninety days' notice. This ex- plains the rapid increase in Dakota's populution. —_— Tug Philadelphia Record suys that there is no better way to spoil a newspaper than to make a postmaster of its editor. Nearly all the democratic editors of Ne- braska are spoiling to spoil their news- papers in that way, It is the spoils that they are after, The oharity ball should be made a suc- *coss in overy respect amd the prospects are that it will be. ‘Thé object is certain- cthy one and the plan of raising much-needed funds by an entertainment that will be a great social event and a pleasure to all who partjcipate is one that commends itself to everybody. At the same time it will enable the committee to raise a much larger sum than if a sub- scription paper were circulated and everybody were called ipon to contribute in proportion to his means. The tickets to the ball are placed at flve doliars each, and this sum can easily be spared by thousands of people who will not miss it. The charity ball puts everybody on an equality in the matter of contribu- ting to the assistance of the needy poor, and at the same time all will get “their money's worth,” which is a considera- tion not to be overlooked. As we have said before it is easier to collect five dol- lars each from a large number of people than it is to secure large sums from a small number of persons. The members of the managing committee of the pro- posed ball are now engaged in the sale of tickots, the object being to collect the cash at once so that it can be disbursed among the needy immediately. It is proposed to to get together about 5,000 as against $2,300 last year. The intention is to give the ball in the latter part of Februa and to make it the grandest social affair that has ever taken place west of Chica- go.. This is an enterprise that should meet with the tavor of everybody, and the committee stiould have no . difliculty in selling tickets to the amount of $5,000. Tue Bohemian oafs swindlers ave car- rying on their operations on & very ex- tensive seale among the farmers of Ohio, Pennsylvinia, Michigan and- other. east- ern and middle states, It is estimated that the frirmers of Ohio have been robbed of at least a million doliars by this scheme, and yet they continue to bite at the alluring baits thrown out by the smooth-tongued agents. The plan upon which the swindlers operate was de- seribed in the BEx of a recent issue. The of Nebraska and Towa have thus been given fair warning to look out for these shirps, who will no doubt soon their appearance west of the Miss- THERE has been an_epidemic of bur- glary in Boston for some time pa: A number of stores have been robbéd and the manner of the crimes indicate t regularly organized band of burglars was at work. This only goes to show that the most eflicient police, cannot prevent epidemics of burglary indarge civies. Hud this epideniic broken olit in Omaha the Boston papers would haye aseribed it to the nataral tendency of the wild west to harbor outlaws and tountenance lawle: ness. The fact is that burglaries in w ern ci mainly thetwork of eastern professionals. 5 A MEXICAN - editor 1€ to be shot for libel. Tf such. a_punishment were in- flicted in this cormtry, there wouldn't he quite' so many men’ whe! think they can run a newspaper alittlecbetter than, any- hody else L Eprtor STEAD once.more breathes the airof freedom. The next time he venti- lates the immoial atmosphiere of London he will probably do it ‘at a much longer range. PESONALITIE! Evangelist Moedy loves hol and drives in a pell-mell style. 2 Mr. Gladstone would like Mr. J. L, Sullivan to come over and smash' the government. Editor Burr, of Hartford, is the oldest editor in the state. Burr must be a chestnut. George Baneroft at eighty-five. does almost a8 neh work each day as he did at thirty~ five, ‘When Chauncoy - Depew was counsel for the Vanderbilt railroads be got $36,000a year, . Tonis Kossuth is in failing health. ' He has arrived at Sorranto, where he will pass the winter, Mrs, Frank Unger, the bright. journalist of the Pacific coast, will spenrd. the winter in in New York, 0. Horace K. Porter, a great after-dinner awit, i now accused of repeating stale jokes on cony i Clara Shortridge Foltz, tongued lady lawyer of the I takes no stock in female suffra; Miss Murfree, the novelist, is said to bein love with a six-foot Tennessee mountaineer who is fond of bacon and hominy. Mme Patti dined with Queen Vietoria the otherday. Of course shehad a royal good time, and it did not cost her a note, Lieut, Slamm s the commander of the revenue steamer Hamilton. There is always a door open for the Slawmms somewhere, Miss Cl wland is very much liked in Wash- ington. Her conversation is considered a little ton deep for the butterflies of society. Hiram C, Hotehkiss of Wayne county Y,, is the peppermint king of the world handles $250,000 worth of the stuff a year. “The more I know of men,” says Madame de Stael, *‘the more I admire dogs,” She had run ageinst some mad-dog cranks, evidently, Mrs. Carlisle, the wife of the spea¥er of the house, hus resumed her Wednesday recep- tions at the Riggs house. Sl‘xe is very popular. ‘The wife of Chief Justice Waite has almost entirely rec overed her hiealfh and is now able to discharge mauy of {ho pociai obligations at Washington, 1 Mus. Gen. Logan is niore and more pleased with her home on Columbia Heights at the capital, and declares that i combines all the advantages of city and country life. Adolph Satro, the mflliohaire with secien- tif hhies, is building a Sea-anemone agua- rium at San Franciseo.! It:must be a hobby with him, for he certainly cannot see any money m it - iw i Mus, Fanny Villard, wife of Henry Villard, declined recently to play the part of an English barmaid at g tancy fair in Berlin, although requested to«o so by the crown princess of Germany, 1t is just as well to avoid uncomplimentary references w the marriage of Sarali Althea Hill. The gentleman who the distin- guished honor to be the husband of this complished lady has killed his man, Gen, Sheridan, presiding at Aruy of the Cumberland reunion, will wield a gavel made of weod trom Chickamauga, with a handle from Mission Ridge. A rifle bullet is fmbedded in the head. 1t was presented to him by Gen. J. D, Wilder, of Chattanooga, “Diamond Joe"” Reynolds is one of the wil- lionairve curiosities of Chicago, e invari- ably wears a plain gray sult without an over coat, & hat several seasons behind, pruuella Kaiters that have been out of style for years, and always has in his shirt-front a first-wate r dismond us large as a filbert and as bright as #dewdrop, He owns more grain elevators the *goldel cific coast than any man in the country and ships more grain than any two men on the Chieago board of trade. - A Burcan of Ripe Statesmen. Albany Argus. A Washington paper publishes woodcut portraits of the members of the agricultural department, and they all look as if they had woneto seed. — - Anyhow It Doesn't Pay. Boston Transeripl. The world moves, 1t probably cheaper to move than pay rent. finds it - Dreads the Fire. Sutton Register. The tall sycamore of the Wabash will not tackle Senator Van Wyck soon again, The burnt ehild dreads tie fire. it e Fora Sbow of Respectability. Ot nnati Commereial, The name of whe old senator (Thurman) is used to make a show of respectabllity at the close of a campalgn of disgra ce. — -~ Heirlooms for Posterity. Buffalo Courier Senator Evarts’ silver views and the man who struck Billy Patterson are still keeping company with the Junius probiem. i e Prefers the Good 010 Way. Philadelphia Preas The experionce of the past forty-eight hours teaches that it is better to have winter on the old-fashioned instaliment plan than all at once. — A Flight of the American Bagle. Washington Star. A newspaper correspondent recently poked fun at a western eongressman for a “'spread- eagle” burst of eloquence, and then found out that the passage was a quotation from Macaulay, e No Fox Shows There. Chicago Tribune. In Berlinall public pertormances of trained bears and other wild animals are prohibited. Such an ordinance adopted here would close up the common council. hibdymo A The Reason Why, Ulysses Dispateh, The reason now plain why Congr ess- man Laird is so strongly opposed to Land Commissioner Sparks, That official is said to have cancelles mmiy’s land _entries on Stinking Water creek. Most any common swindler will kick when. compelled to dis- gorge his ill-gotten gair g 2 He Descrves Credit. Brooklyn Eagle, Speaker Carlisle deserves creait for a some- what unusual feat. In constituting the com- mittee on coi he had in mind the famil- far illustration of the dog and its tail, and took particular pains to make the tail long enough and strong enongh fo wag the dog. o g The Death Yell in Kentucky, Courier-Jowrnal, When a great ruler dies in Europe some one calls in his car three times. Once is enough in Kentucky. A friend steps reverently to the couch of the deceased and whispers necessarily lond): ““Let’s take a drink. he makes no reply he is dead beyond perad- venture, and the funeral is proceeded with. —— Ohio A Byword. Wasistngton Cor. Cineinnati-Commereial. When the mortified Olio man tries to. tell what a large class of worthy and respectable citizens he represents, he 1s greeted with in- crednlots laughter. One of them said to- day that the reputation of the state had be- come such a byword he was actually atraid to get up on the floor and plead its wants, knowing he woutd gét'a fling he could not reply to with dignity. e R o, A-Question in Natural History. Now York Telegram. *“Pa, does the sausaze come out of his hole on Candlemas Day and look around for_ its & to make an early spring? Ma says it does.” “What are you thinking about?” says the papa to.the little boy, . It is the ground. hog that comes out of its hole, not the sausage” “Well, ‘ain’t saugage ground hog?” e A Strong Temptation to Let Them Go. New York Independent. Those whose eyes are nice to- discover typographical errors have noconception of the mistakes whieh.-the painstaking proof- readér cortects before they reach tho press. Among the examples of last week we noticed that on the first proof - “'them asses” was and “intercessory jim jams” to “iutercessory prayers.” Ll Ll A Libel on Our Cowboys. Chicago Hei ld; General Sheridan’s objection-to thé Ne- braska projeet of enlisting a regiment of cowboys to fight the Apaches is that the boys fight well when they are drunk and do ot fight at all unless they are drunk, which everybody will admit wouold be & serious drawback in a country ‘where th distilleries enough to supply the Ind Great Caesar! Think of 1t. Fremant Herald, Marshal Cummings says he will resign about April 18th, 1887, and if Mayor Boyd wants to get him out sconer he must prefer charges against him and prove them. Mr. Boyd has said that “one or the other of us must resign.” There would still be left in the city government those eminent reform- Pat Ford, Behm and Leeder. Great wsar! think of it, —_——— The Long and Short of It, Chicago News, Congressman Reagan is mistaken when he says that the republican party was turned out of power because it had abandoned the people on such questions as the tariff, Inter- stute commerce and the cuinage of silver. There is no use in beating about the bush, The republican party was turned out of pow- er because it nominated the wrong man. ‘That is the long and the short of it. e Protecting Their Own [nterests. St Louis Republican, ‘The assertion is made in one of the city pa- pers by s water-gas stockholder, that it is foolish to expeet its capitalists who make a business investment in a business way to go into polities further than to protect their own interests, These same capitalists occasion- ally buy a state legislature and elect a United States senator, but no one supposes that they go further into politics in doing so “than to proteet their own interests,” The stal ent of the position they oceupy towards society is lueid, and, on the whole, quite correct, Snug as & Bug in & Bed. Buston Courler, By praneing span they go, Their hearts will happiness aglow Although their eartips tingle; ‘The air is erisp ahd bright the day, Andblithely. merrily the sleigh- Bells jingle. Along the winding road they The maiden sits right close fo 1 fact could not sit snug A girl of wit, and sense stie v— She, drives and leaves him both arm To bug her, ind im, free Four irrigation camnals are’ now in course of construction in the Gila valley below the junction of Salt river, and when completed will provide the means of cultivating an extent of country capable of supporting 20,000 people. Another scheme for tapping the subterrancan waters of the Sauta Cruez river, between Casu Grande and Tueson, will border the voute of the Southern Pacific from Yuma to Tueson with productive country instead of a waste. STATE AND TRRRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Lewls Talmage, of Ulysses, lost 300 sheep in the lste storms Norfolk boasts of a population of 1,910, an ine e 0 1,420 in five years. Tho axpenses of Cass county for the present year are figarod at $70,800 by the commissioners The young town of Cambridge, Furnas county, expended £35,605 in bullding im provements last year. Norfolk is already m the field for the next G. A, R. reunion, and has vaised a guarantee of £6,000 for that purpose Work has bogim on the approaches of the big bridge which will span the river at Republican City. 1t will cost $7,000. Mr. John Valest, of Saline county, the cheerful father of triplets, all alive and squealing, assures the public that none of them got away A capitalist named Rutter is negotiat ing to start a canning factory at Exeter. A Tocal bonus is the mainspring of his benevolent enterprise. A specimen of the ancient spinning wheel, in good repair and in constant use, has been discoyered in the household of a farmer in Pierce county. The temporary headquarters of the constraction foree of the Elkhorn Valley road are being built at Fremont. These struetures will be four in number, built of wood, The right of way for the Elknorn Val rond _through Fremont will cost 5,000. The price is said to be very rea sonable, and will doubtless be aceeptable to the ofticers of the road. Casper Johnson of Polk county filled his eanteen with hot whisky and tackled Dakota's late contribution of arctic pro- ducts. The stroggle was beief and fur- nished a sabject fov the coroner. An O'Neill bride of three months is about to sue for a divorce because her loving mate insisted on sandpapering her heels. Thisis the first ins on record where a ping heel threatened the social peace of a community. A man at Hartington tarvied too long in a saloon and his team beeame tired of waiting for him and started for home_on their own motion. They were found in a creek three miles from town both de and the wagon was o complete wreck. Returns of losses of stock in the late storms are beginning to come in. Frank Stoufler of North Bend, lost 80 head of cattle, and at Gilmore, the big feeding ranch, 50 mares were frozen to death, In the southwestern tier of counties 17 head of eattle and 165 hogs perished. The Blue Valley Blade, of Wilbur, an- nounges that a man named C. k. Small, recently living there, is a married man. iere would bo nothing small or unusual in that were' it not tha 3 had an- nounced the death of his w while she is alive and enjoying good heitlth in St. Louis, Small is said to be camping in Omaia. The body of a e y Englishnan found fr were 50 fierce that the coroner was com- pelled to shoot them before he could g near the body. One ve i black dog laid close to hi and refusing to . allow any one to inte fere with the body, was lasgoed by the coroner and lod oft’ 4 captive. The Red Cloud Chief came “out last week with a pictorial swell head, envel- oped in a fog of printer’s ink, A blood- thirsty Apache, with a Winchester of the Iatest pattern, eronches on a lpg in the foreground, on the lookout for delin- quent subs rs, while a dilapidated tepee leans painfully against a telegraph pole. suggesting that he who enters here eaves a dollar and a half behind frost-bitten immigrant,” hound for the great beyond, trudges after a- prairi schooner, apparently thankful that his scalp 18 in the proper placi fow mountain peiks, n - river and & railroad track, unartistic con- fusion, somewhat softens the ferocious, semi-nude savagery of the roman nosed frontispicce. 1t is” hoped the charitable people of. Red Clound will invite the lone- some Lo to come.in out of the coid. master's Towa Items, The best hay brings §11 a ton in lington. Cédar Rapids claims to pack more pork than Cineinnati. Blackleg prevails among young stock in Clarke county. : A round up of Oskaloosa’s aristocracy at a charity bail, netted $140 for the poor and naked, Speaker Head ot thie Towa housc of representatives, is a cousi of Goyerner Foraker of Ohio. The water-gas monopoly of Philade phin has purchased the Burlington works for $200,000. The meters will now fly and bills pile up. onx City is again discussin tion of bridging the Missour! ject is so well rooted and watc blooms every spring. The board of supervisors of Warren county refuse to grant permits to drug- gists to sell intoxicating liquors for medi- cinal and mechanical purposes. Conrad Baudler, of Sheldon, is soon to come into possession of about $7,000 through the good fortune and honesty of an old friend who failed “some years ago leaving him in the lurch as an indorser. Martin Coonan, one of the oldest in Palo Alto county, dropped wn in a stupor and died” almost in- stantly Thursday night at his home near Emmotsburg. Mr. Coonan came to Palo Alto county as a pioneer nearly thirty years 6go. During cne of the coldest days last week at Montrose, Leo county, Fred Jusper made a bot with Frank Harsh that he conld walk a longer time out of doors in his bare feet than Havsh could. ere ont forty minutes, when itup. It is probable fhat he will lose both feet. The 12-year old daughter of C. C. Linnile, of Decoral, was bnrned to death last Wednesday. ilow it happened i not known. The mother left the givl in the house while she visited a neighbor. When she returned honie she found the girl lying dead on the floor, the flesh on the upper part of the body burned to crisp. Bur: 2 the ques- The sub- ed that it OAudrew Bell, son of a Burlington wholesale grocer of wealth and high social position, a graduste of Scotl college, and a fast young man, is in jail on the charge of scducing Miss Alice Naudiun, the daughter of a former dry goods merchant of Burlington. His fathor refused to furnish bond for his re- case. There is & mammoth op class hotel in Larvamie. It is estimafed that there are now 1,100, 000 cattle in Wyoming. The democratic aldermanie ticket swept every ward in Cheyenne last week Sundance, the county seat of Crook county, improved $100,000 worth last ing forafirst- here have been wved in the territory of 53,200,000 acres. Au immense meteor, like a great ball of fire with a tail like & comet, buried itself in the ground near Laramie City the other morning. It will be dug up. Another grievons ease of diseri tion is churged up to the Union P at Cheyenne, 'l'll:- unwritten fills the pockets of the passes was observed by the company, aud all members of the tervitorial assembly but one roceived thy This unfortunate reprosontatiy Sweetwater county was omitted from the st because 100 townships sur- Thiz meuns an he participated in the Rook Springs riots, The Alma mine explosion was a tre! mendons upheaval of confined gases, Its force was so great that every building nd ohject near the month of the mine were leveled. Cars, coal, rock, timbers, machinery and human hoings were hurled iy i mid-air and their fragmonts attered over many acres of ground. The column of fire rcached to Boar river on the west, a distance of one and one- half miles, covering the ground as far north as the No. § mine, o mile distant, black with debris, and looking very mnol ik the old burnt district of the great Chicago fire Dakota, B:‘\Ip‘nl City proposes to invest §13,000 in a jai The commissioners of Faulk have decided to grant no liquor licenses this yea Eastern loan_companies have ordered their Grand Forks agents to make all future mortgages payable in gold. Several of the heaviest stock raisers in the vicinity of Yankton have joined together and will make a shipment of 500 beef cattle to the Chicago market. The business men of Rapid City have organized a milling company, eapital £60,000; a gypsum company, capital $50,- and a sfreet railway company with a capital of $£100,000. Taving just veceived a load of willows on subseription the editor of the Vermil- lion Republican is prepaved to furnish gads to mothers m“l‘ school teachers at prices that defy the possibili tition ¥ of compe- AP A Good Excuse For Bad Teoth, Dan D Quille, AComstock woman o fow days ago visited a dentist to have somgthing done to a tooth that was giving hera good deal of trouble. After looKing into her mouth the dentist proclaimed himself horrified —as dentists always are on such ocea- sions—at the condition” of the woman's teetly. “Wh cried he, teeth go till they are should have had you Why didn’t “yon've let your most ruined. Youl teeth attended to' you come to mg id the woman, “I've never ' had the time since 1'v s married.”” SWhat! Never had time'to get your teeth cleaned and filleds” “No: I've never heen able to sparve the time necessary to have them attended “Well you'd have better taken time, then you'd not ve had sich a bad-look- i"l'f set of teeth as you've now got. ™ "his tipped the seales of the woman's ood nature the wrong way. Suid she, firing up; “If von'd had “a baby every year for the past six years you'd have a worse-looking lot of teeth than I've got!" The dentist took a back séat, contining himself thenceforward strictly to the buse iness in hand. A Startling Dress at the Opera. The New York correspondent of the Boston Globe says: At a representation of *“The Queen of Sheba’? by the German company at the Metropolitan opera house a few .evenings ago, a certain woman, well known in New York: society, created a distinet sensation by the andacity of her costume. She wore he dress very low in the meck, and with simple straps across the shoulders; and the color of her waist material she got as near a_flesh tint as could be found, so. that a little distance it was impossible t see any dividing line. *As she sat in h box the eflfect was startling, and every opera s in the house was leyelled while the men in the awlience rstened between the acts, as a of investigation, to sce what she had on or had off' The effect produced by hor dressing w exactly what she wanted, and yet she is a young woman, ‘a married ‘woman, a and not an immodest woms 1f a man_should accidentally see her with the waist of her dress oft, though khe wore a high-ne¢ked underwaist, she would be ready to faint,and yet sl would it in her box atthe operi lookin, for all the world as if she was dressed lik Eve before the fall. Truly, women: are strange creatures; t least this kind aro, T e Physical Development. There is almost no limit to the pl development and health that ahy gained and maintained by walking, whieh is done for the purpose of exerci Any one can find time and spac which to walk, and find con- genial company for s Dective husband is Almost inevitably unter, further, no frecly when custom or o lean upon a muscaline ar be beneficial, walking must He done in shoes broad enough to let ‘the feet bo od firmly upon the ground at eyery , and in_ clothing: which ‘allow 1 play to the lungs and arms, The should be as quick as can be maintained without causing uncomfortable inorenso in the action of the | The pedestr] an yugh the nose,curry the head raid of be- coming high shouldered, ¢ with pasicboard of B, P. Anderson, who Mich., recently, he ball this obstruction and glanced off through the shoulder. 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