Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 27, 1886, Page 4

e R 3 THE DAILY BEE. OMAHA OFFICENO. 014 AND 016 FARNAM S ~ New YORK Orrice, Room 65, TRisuse BUinniNG WASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. B15 FOURTEENTH ST, . Publiched every morning, excopt Sunday. The e cm( onday morning paper published o the stato. £10.00 Three Months % gn" Year... . ~ Bix Monthe. 5,00 One Month...... ... Tk WEEKLY Brx, Published Every Wednesday. ¢ TENMS, POSTPAID: e Year, with premium 0 Year, without premium x Months, without premium e Month, on trial. TERNS BY MATL: 2.0 CORRESPONDES All communications relating to news and cdi- karial matters should be addressed to the Epr- HOR OF K I NESS LETTERS: pittances ghould ] postofic jor of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETONS, E ROSEWATER, EpiTon. 3, grading, bouley and building will form the the boom of 1886 in Omal PrestoeNt CLEVELAND recently at- tended a charity ball in Baltimore. Wh mot invite him to attend the Omaha cha ity bally SENATOR PA of Ohio, does not by _any means sit very casy in his seat. The ~ pointed charges of bribery und corrup- | tion haye the unpleasant effect of a bent pin, It is an unusually cold fre inventive genius of the the weather turning Florida's frozen orange crop into marmalade. rds, vinduets solid basis of e when the Yankee Tur “garden sas ernment will blossom into greater luxuri- ance than ever this year. Each con- gressman is to get 6,500 packages of wvegetable seeds, besides 500 packages of charity ball are being rapdly made. The object is a most commendable cne and the coming double last paring for war with Tur- nd dares the great powers to inter- 1t begins to look as 1f the music in 14 southeastern Europe is to strike up | another lively tune to the accompaniment MintsTer WINSTON took a gold mount- ed Winchester rifle and # Rimington carbine with Lim to Teheran, to present Yo the Shah. Having been an Illinois brigadier for about three ys, Gen. Winston ought to be able to present arms n true military style. THE opening of the Black Hills by rail is now a matter of fact. Omaha’s mer- chants should allow no opportunity to ass to seize their share of the immense usiness which is being done in that see- tion of the country by St. Paul and Chica- g0 jobbers, EstivMATES for running the government for the ensuing fiscal year are $75,000,000 more than for the last year of President Arthur’s administration, ‘“‘Economy and reform,’” the watchwords of the last democratie national campaign have as yet shown no signs of putting in an appearance TrE Denver Tribune-Republican has now in press a brand book, which will * contain all the brands recorded prior to ~ January 1st, 1886--more than 8,000 in all, together with the name and postoflice ad- dress of the name of each owner. We shall await with considerable interest the appearance of this publication to sce whether it contains the two well-known Nebraska brands—S. H. D. and P, H. D. —of the slaughter-house democrats and !he packing-house democrats, 4 Bty pem— ONE of the commissionersof Lincoln county has forwarded to this office an itemized statement for furniture and household goods purchased from him by one of the Douglas county grand jurors, who skipped from North Platte by the light of the moon. The bill has been re- spectfully referred to the commissioners | of Douglas county, and it is hoped that they will be able vo assist their fellow commissioner to get his just dues. SENATOR LoGAN falls into line in op- posing the silly nonsense of executive * gessions. The sceret session is a delusion ¢ ‘L‘ and a snare. Its proceedings are prompt- reported to the public béfore the ink is t on the record, and senators who take " advantage of its presumed privacy to air _ their private grievances, are invariably disgusted to find their remarks in print in the newspapers of the succeeding day. ~ Ma, MorToN 18 said to be in Washing- ton, and there is no question about the fact that Dr. Miller 15 in Omaha. The * leaders of the warring clans of the Ne- ~ braska democracy are doing their cutting and slashing at long range distance. Mr, Morton, however, has the advantage of ~bemng in close proximity to the appoint- "~ ing power, which, after all, scems to be ~ the ohjective point of the conflict, Pk ex-justices of the peace who have pplied to the supreme court to have the law declared unconstitutional which ‘abolished all the justices in Omaha are " destined to disappointment, Three years go the logislature pussed a law which [ the city of Lincoln to dispense " with four out of her six justices. An ap- 1 was taken to the supreme court soon | thereafter to test the validity of the law, " and the courts sustained the act, It is not likely that the court will now reverse former decision, especially in view of ~ the fact that such a reversal would not ouly affect Omaha, but Lincoln also, Mus, SLOANE, one of the danghte: . Manderbilt, has already begun the stribution of a portion of the million- re’s fortune. She has made a magni donation to the New York College plans and Surgeons, for the erection maintenance of a maternity hospital in that city, to be conducted in conne: with the medical school. ‘Fhis ins on will be the fivst in the United States systematie, seientitie and practical ng in obstetries. At the present Vienna offers the best instre this branch of medicul study o whieh is a genuine o . not only to the city whereit is to | 'be made most eftective, but. to the medi- ession throughout the country, of | Coal in Nebraska. | Some of our yestern exchanges are ex- pressing strong liopes that the extension of the railroads in the northwest will re- sult in the discovery of paying veins of coal in that section of our state. The Wyoming coal measures outcrop within a few miles of the Nebraska line. Coal is also found fifty miles north of the White river country. On this account there are sorie reasons for hoping that good veins of ¢ may yet be found with- in our bounda 1t must be confessed, lowever, that all the actual explora- tions for coal thus far made in Ne- braska give no substantial grounds for believing in the existence of veins wide enough and extensive enough to be prof- itably worked. The Missouri coal field covers a portion of our southwestern bor- ber, with indications of an area of about 1,000 miles. ‘The outcrops are, however, 1lly useless for consumption, and the thickest bed reported is 22 inches, the others varying from 6 to 15 inches through. The Brownville experimental well discovered a stratum of coal 30 inclies thick at a depth of 820 feet, The coal was of fair quality, belonging to the lower measures, so called, which are the productive bituminous deposits of Towa and the states further east. But the depth at which this coal was found and the thickness of the vein precluded its probable working. From time to time there have been reported discov- eries of coal in Northern Nebraska, but investigation has in every case proved that the discovery was of no practical importance. It is barely possible that the great Wyoming coal fields may be found to extend across our northwestern border but no evidences to this effect have yet been discovered. The Farce Continues. Every mtelligent person who served the workings of the Neb road commissioners has long since reached the conclusion that they have be- come a wart on the body politic. They are simply barnacles fastened upon the taxpayers, and of no more use than the seventh wheel of a wagon. With one or two trivial exceptions, all their work has been a roaring farce. As their principal performance they have succeeded in in- ducing Mr. Kimball to refund to an anx- ious shipper an overcharge of forty-five cents. They have no power to compel railroads to obey or respect their deci ions, and wouldn't dare to render an opin- ion in which the railroads would not voluntarily acquiesce. It is hardly prob- able that the creatures of the yailroad nanagars would dare to tnterpose obsta- cles in the way of their creators. The only provision of the railroad laws which affords any protection to the patrons of the roads, is the Doane law, passed in 1881, That law prohibits un- just diserimination against shippers and places; and limits the rmlroads to charg- ing no more for a short haul than they do for a longer one over the same line. The commissioners who have taken it upon themselves to enforee this portion of the law, have recently served notice upon all the railroads that they cannot charge for a given dis- tance anywhere on themr lines in Ne- braska a greater sum per hundred pounds than they charge for a greater distance anywhere Wwithin the state, no matter from which point or station the freight originates or to what point or station it i delivered, on the same class of freight. Mr. Doane, the author of the law, will doubtless be much surprised at this re- markable interpretation of the intent of his bill to prohibit disecrimination. The plain Janguage and purpose of the Doane law is to prohibit any railroad from charging a greater rate for carry- ing a given quantity of freight over a short distange on its line than it charges for carrying the same quantity of freight over alonger distance. For instance, the Union Pacific may charge the same rate for freight from Omaha to Wahoo that it does for freight from Omaba to Lixgoln but itcan charge 1o greater rate to Wahoo than to Lincoln. But the Union Pacific rate from Omaha to Lincoln is governed by the rate cha by the Burlington road which is twenty-five miles shorter. To make the charge from Omaha to Lincoln by the longest line the for an equal distance ov other line, or even over the Union Pacific main line, would be contrary to the spirit if not the letter of the law. Suppose, for instance, that the Omaha and Lincoln rate should be charged from Sidney or McCook eastward, there would be unjust discrim- ination against the railroads themsclves which the law does not contemplate. ‘The text for the commissionoers’ decision is the case of Schwenck, of Norfolk, vs. the Fremont & Elkhorn Valley road. The rates to Norfolk were in excess of those charged to points beyond on the same line. In this instance the Elkhorn Valley and Union Pacific wake the Norfolk rate because it is a common point. The Elkhorn Valley travels over one side of a triangle, while the Union Pacific by way of Columbus has to travel over two sides. In order to do any business at Norfolk the Union Pacific is obliged to carry freight from the Missouri river over a considerably greater distance than the Elkhorn Valley road at the same price. It was manifest- ly improper for the Elkhorn Valley road to charge a greater rate from Fremont to Norfolk than it does from Fremont to Doints beyond, but it would be preposter- ous to take the distance from Fremont to Columbus by the Union Pacific and from Columbus to Norfolk by its branch asthe standard by which theUnion Pacific should fix its tarifls on any point of its main line. If the commissioners really had = the power to enforce their orders they would have no right to construe the law in such an arbitrary manner as they have in the Poter Schwenck ense, Itis evident that they ave doing this simply for the purpose of bringing the law into disrepnte and king the railroad regulation system a THE conservative ministry in England have at last decided to force the fighting on the Irish question and decide at once the question of party suprem: in the comions. Acting for the premier, Sir Michuel Hicks Beac! the govermuent will this week introduce abill for the suppression of the Land 0 be followed by such other ve- sures as the condition of wirs in Ivcland may demand. This is the challenge divect and it cannot be declined. It evidences the anxiety of the aninistry to be relieved from office and toappeal to the country ou the question of the waintenance of the imperial union THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1886. which the Irish agitation is believed to threaten. Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Par- nell will now be compelled to show their hands. The liberal party will also be placed on record. The vote on the gov- ernment’s Irish measure will show con- clusively the condition of Mr. Gladstone’s following. The split between the whigs and radicals, if such a split exists, will necessarily be exposed, A Constitutional Question The recent decision of the supreme court of the United States in the appealed case of Samuel Walling vs, the people of the state of Michigan, to the effect that a license fee exacted from a traveling sales- man and not from local dealers is uncon- stitutional,as it is a restriction upon inter- state commerce, has given rise to the belief that the Nebraska hugh license law is unconstitutional upon a somewhat sim- ilar point. A St. Louis liquor firm some two years ago sold to an Omaha saloon- a bill of goods. which he refused Suit was brought and a verdict rendered in favor of the de- fendant. on the ground that the St. Louis dealers had not taken out a license in Nebraska, and therefore their transaction was illegal. The plaintifts maintained that they could not possibly comply with the law beeanse it requires applicants for license to make oath that theyare of good moral cha residents of the state, hence the which prevented plaintifts from obtain- taining a license, was unconstitutional as itwas an unjust diserimination against the citizens of another state; and there- fore in violation of the federal constitu- tion. The case was appealed to the su- preme court of the state, which aflirmed the judgment of the court below. The St. Louis dealers, in view of the recent decision in the Michigan case, now pro: pose to carry this case to the United States supreme court, wherein all proba- bility they will be victorious. That the Nebraska high license law is defective upon the pointin question the seems now to be httle or no doubt. It should be amended by the next legislature 50 as to provide a way for foreign deale to ta out license the same as locs deale At present they cannot pio- cure licenses cven if they desire them. When this defect is remedied there will be no diserimination against the zens of other states, us they will be placed upon the same footing the people of our own state. This hag been g e mooted question; and it will now be satied by the highest tribunal of the land. The Business Situation. The expected increase in business activity still hangs fire. The unfavorable weather has had much to do with the slpw movement of merchandise, but there is still a decided disinclination on the part of merchants to purchase for anything more than immediate require- ments. In dry goods the jobbing move- ment continues everywhere moderate. Wool retains i mness, but all the in dications point toa good business of both the raw and manufactured product, and the supply of both is under strong con- trol. Food products are more steady than for some weeks past. The ciose of the week tound the wheat market steadier than for some time past under rumors of a pro- jected bull movement under the leadership of Philip D. Armour. The export demand has quickened somowhat, stimulated largely by large orders from Belgium, Corn shows a slight vance owing chiefly to the decreased move- ment, due to unfavorable weather. Hog products are firmer with an advancing tendency, which 18 certainly not based on increased export demands. The situation throughout the country shows a shight general improvement, The majority of traders are looking for- ward to a satisfactory spring trade, basing their hopes chiefly on the weeding out of shaky firms and the greater feel- ing of confidence which pervades the | west, Jur BREWER seems to have had good precedent for his recent decision in the Kansas prohibition case, where he held that the state was bound to make good to the owners of the Lawrence brewery the value of property rendered useless by the prohibitory law. In the » of Bartermeyer vs. fowa some yea ago, the supreme court held that *‘while a state may regulate and even prohibit the traflic in intoxicating liquors, it may not deprive the owner of property i which he had in ed under apern ve system withous making him due amends.”” The New York FKvening Post comments as follows upon Judge Brewer's decision in its relation to Iowa interests: “The decision s of more practical impor- tance in Towa than in Kansas. The latter state has never gone extensively into the manufacture of liquors of any kind, but the census of 1850 showed that Iowa had 114 establishments for the production of malt liquors and three distilleries, which reported an aggregate capital of about $2,100,000, But it must be remembered that this represents only the value returned fo1 purposes of assess- ment and taxation, and that the actual invest- ment was much greater than this estimate, The larger share of this was undoubtedly in- vested in buildings and machinery, which prohibition rendered worthless, and the state is thus bound by Judge Brewer's decision to pay over some millions to the people who were interested uch establishments when the law was passed—or, rather, the state would be bound to such a course if the law were en- torced, for we believe it is a fact that some of the largest breweries in Iowa are still in oper- ation,” Prosrecrs for an early consideration of the tarift question in congress are growing beautifully less, day by day. One of the members of the ways and means committee is reported as saying that no tariff bill of any nature would be reported until late in the session. Be- fore this is done there will be more than one hundreg measures designed to amend the tariff laws which will have to be ex- amined by the conmittee. It1s safe to say that spring will have lengthened far into the summer before Mr, Morrison’s committee will have finished their labors, When that time arrives the fight will just begin. Every protected interest whose subsidies are interfered with by the committee bill will struggle for its amendwments in the house. A score of auxious statesmen wiil air toeir knowl- edge of statistics in carefully prepared speeches, and the fusilade of oratory will coutinue the debate to the usual inter- winable length. Should the house finally sueceed in passing & Dbill revising the I, the senators will insist upon airing their fiscal kuowledge. Oan the whole, 1 there is very little prospect of a bill get- ting to the president this year. This thought will be a great consolation to the straddlers and trimifiers who conceal whatever definite opinipns they may have on the question behind the usual meaningless phreses of the party plat- forms, —_— Tne survivors of the Wyandotte consti- tutional conyention have arranged to cel- ebrate the quarter centennial of the ad- mission of Kansas into the union. The meeting will be held at Topeka on the 20th inst,, when a carefully prepared programme recalling the historic events of the past will be carried out. It is an interesting cpoch in American history which the gathering at Topeka will cel brate. The battle over the Kansas-Ne- braska bill was the skirmish line of the rebellion. Publicsentiment was educated into i-slavery channels by the debates which it ealled forth, and public opinion was crystalized into the demand for na- tional unity at whatever cost by the bor der wars which followed the four cons tutions over which Kansas struggled in almost as many years, The admission of Kansas in 1861 preceded by only a few months the outbreak of the great slave- holde rebellion. Then she was a state of barely 100,000 population; by the census of 1880 she ranked twelfth among the sisterhood with 1,250,000 inhabitants. ng away at the at long range. The suggestion that she made the governor of Utah should be vigorously renewed all along the line. POLITICAL POINTS. Levi P. Morton is named as the principal candidate for Senator.Miller's seat. Nathaniel P. Banks will be 30 years old on the 30th. He is still United States marshal, Gov. Hill has put his presidential boom on wheels, It promises to be a rapid transit. The Ohio legislature is already becoming loaded up with bills to regulate or suppress the liquor traflie. Joln Kelley has put many personal remi- niscences into a history of Awmerican polities about finyshed by him, . According to the Albany Journal, no pro- hibitory legislation will find favor in the New York legislature this year. Gath finds a politician who thinks Arthur aspires to the presidency and believes that Blaine's defeat guarantees his nomination, Dakota is still holding canventions to de- gide whether the territory shall be splitasun- der by a north and south or an east and west line. Don M. Dickson is on the warpath to get an office for Eiliott T. Slocumb. who led the boltin the Michigan legjsiature when Zach Chandler was defeated for re-election to the United States senate. L The Mobile Register thinks the silver ques- tion should be separated from politics and diseussed on its merits. | Curreney questions constitute a very considerable essential ele- ment of politics. e Ex-Senator Christianey, énce oneof the most popular and esteemed jurists of Michi- gan, fvas alinost ruined by his luckless Wash- ington career and now llves on the procoeds of a very slender law pratide. Many friends of ex-Goy. Kirkwood of Iowa Wwill be glad to know that the old man is com- fortably fixed at Towa City notwithstanding his seventeen relatives have' been bereft of their positions in the interi department, his intimate friend, O. B. Ficklin, of Charles- s: “You will be gratified by seeing me enter public life again. 1 am now on the retired list, with my own full consent and with no i nation whatever for active life, except as a private,” ————— Eli Perkins Could Beat Them. Papillion Times. Eli Perkins could scarceimprove the official utterances of the state railroad commission- ers. e An I[tem With a Meaning. 5 Fort Worth Gazelte. Jacob Wiggins, a colored man of Waco, has offered 850 to the subscription for the Baylor Female college of that place. Iow many white men of Waco gave $50° o e Honest and Lowly. St Payl Globe. . u Jones says that copper cents will be the circulating medium of most Christians in heaven. Brother Jones bases his opinion on his experience in taking up Sunday school collections e he Horse Was a Misfit. Carlisle Indian School Morning Star. A horse was sent up from the farm to be shod. Having a,number of ready-made shoe: on hand, the job, in theabsence of the boss, was given to an apprentice.” After an inter val the following note came to the superin- tendent: *“This horse don’t fit any of our shoes,” A Suggestion to Dr. Miller. Hastings Gazette-Journal, The Omaha Herald’s war on the surveyor general having met with but _indifferent sue cess ,we rise to make the suggestion that Dr. Miller drop the matter and commence a cru- sade against the cold weather, Such an effort would meet the approval of everyone, irrespective of political afliliations B A Big Jug Trade. Chicago Herald, In Boston the police anthorities will not permit saloonkeepers to use screens of any kind, so that men who buy their bitters by the single prescription are compelled to take them in plain view of passers-by,a regulation which has eaused almost as big a trade in pri- vate jug; a prohibition law would, L el yed for a Professional Pol- iucian, St. Louis Repbliehn, Sam Jones in Cincinnati sayshe has never had the impudence to get down and pray for aprofessional politician. While he remains thus modest only those Qhio men who have been temporarily retived into_the penitenti- ary for ballot-box stufting will get the benefit of his intercessions ——— Pat Ford's Mistake. Fremont Herald, The Omaha Herald says if turned its col- umns over to Chas. H. Brown to conduct du- ring liis campaign for co ;- vied the county by about; 5,500 majority, the inference would seem to be that Pat Ford made & mistake when ke didu't make the same kind of a deal when he was a candi- date! - A Good Word For Judge Beneke, Fremont Herald, Gustay Beneke, county clerk of Douglas county, turned over for the four and a halt months of his term of ofliee, as excess o fees, $1,762.20—the largest amount ever turned over to the county during the ineumbency of any clerk, no matter how long his terim was, and 15 more than has been returned during the last elght years by all the clerks com- bined. Thisis a kind of “slaughter-house” proceeding which the people Wil appreciate ! S - Another Man Who is Going to Reti Papillion Tivica, Congressman Weaver Las given politi- cians to understand that he will retive from politics when his present texim of oftice ex- pires. Mr, Weaver has said this before, and but few believe him now. Whatever his failing way be, he can manipulate a convens Never P | tion quite successfully, as Church Howe, John L. Webster, and numerous other am- bitious statesmen can testify, If Weaver doesn’t want a_renomination it is because he wants Van Wyck's seat. He will retire from politics when he is compelled to. bbb~ i 4 O1d Admiral Porter. Washinglon Corresnondence Chicagn News, Old Admiral Porter is ailing—the sole ad- miral In the American navy, and when he dies his title dies with him, just as General Sherman’s dies with him. 1t s commonly said that Admiral Porter ought to be kept in aglass cage during the time of peace, and only when war breaks out should he be ai- lowed at large. The gallant old fellow has been trying his hand at fiction lately, and a series of the most perfectly delicious literary gems has appeared. ““Allen Dare” and “Robert the Devil”—people in Chicago hav read them, perhaps. Some folks say that what is the matter with the old gentleman— his novels have made him ill, just as they have bromght a number of other persons to the verge of the grave. et Entitled to His Title. Chicago Tribune, We observe that some of our highly re- garded contemporaries, in referring to Col. Tom Ochiltree, quote the “Col.,” thus hint ing that the title is not fully merited. Now, if there is one fact thoroughly established in this country, and in this year of grace 15506, it is that Col. Tem Ochiltree is entitled o the honot lie bears in the community. He is a Texan and an ex-member of congress, which alone would make him a colonel, and in ad- dition to that e is a gentleman who can sit down with equal grace in Galyeston, St. Louis, Chicago, or New Yorl and tell a glow- ing tale (o the marines as no other man could tell it. His gift of improvising novelties, political and socfal, would make him a colo- nelin any community between the oceans. “There is but one plea on whicl the title could possibly be dented him, and that is that sueh a gaudy romancer as he, must be a general at the least. Fates) e Picnic Boston Couri “The poets that sing in the spi At Singing just now of th For the snow IS a beautiful thing, tea la And poets they must have their I Whether folks like it or no. Or whether or not the eftusions they brine To the sanctum are weleome as the flowers in the spring, "fling, The Nebraska Husband. Philadelphia Times, At a time when the world seems full of eloping wi and infuriated husbands bent upon Killing somebody to y their thirst for vevenge, it isasrefr to chronicle the conduct of # Nebr: husband as it is to discover un on desert. Told by the detectives that his eloping wife could be pursued and eap- tured upon payment of reward and the expenses of the pursuit, he is said to have turned upon his heel with the re- mark: “No, thank you; I will save that to ate the children.” not necessary to investig case any further to discover which party to the violated marriage contract was lame for the unhappy ending of The man, who in tho own supreme bereavement, was capable of remembering the little ones dependent upon him for maintgn- and edugation was much too ‘good a b AR AT ORI BSTII0 oo bRle was a mother as well 1 wife. While human passion is stronger than an reason ot sense of right, the fool and_husbands may be expected to o on eloping, no matter what the conse: quences of their foll But it would 1 good thing for the wronged party in each case if he or she would try to follow the ample of the Nebrask fmwlmn(l. The sum of human is not contained in the mere rescnting of real or fancied wrongs and a futher's care of helpless venge. If that fact could only be mor generally impressed upon the publ mind there would be fewer murder tria to shame an_ otherwise law-abiding peo- ple, and perhaps in time even the elope ments might not be so numerous. At any rate, as the pistol and knife have not lessened the number of these the N S- ka method is worth a trial. —~~— STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Chadron added a board of trade to its list of accompaniments, The McClure p a commenced ope M, Bues, ant farmar nf Wai, ster county, died suddenly on the 20th. The contractor of the Fremont avater works is getting thmgs in order for the spring campaign. Colorado coal brings §0.50 in Arapa- hoe. In Omaha it is :ked down for . ‘This is one of the beautics of the “long haul,” The Ainsworth skating rink has been turned into a court house. It is hoped the blind goddess will not be tempted to put on the roller: The Union Pacific has let the contract for forty-five miles of road from Howard City in the direction of Broken Bow. Denizens of the latter burg rejoice muchly. A recent “grand ball” at Hay Springs had a ‘‘full” attendance, comfirming 1‘:; belief that the spirit of *civilization per ates the music of the spheres on the e that ge. t Neligh id City photographer g guests with a novel and efleetive « londed revolver in a glass e rounded by photos of **d silently commends the patrons to *F or pay.” It is reported Union Pacific survey- ors examining a route ] county, along Hamburg route 15 an old and venerable one developed many a chestnut in its day. A petition is receiving signatures in the vicinity of Deloit, Antelope county, re- questing the postmaster general to'expe- dite with dynamite or” other forcible means the mail carvier of route 34, The petitioners are not particular the consequences if the mail gets there, A frost-bitten granger harried into Rushville on st week and asked the r or tarifl’ rates on load Tots waves. The m many figures grew wiarm by d worked himself mto such a he sion that he kicked the windows out of the oflice to cool the atmosphere, and then suaded the granger through a ‘erack in the building Red Cloud rejoice Nebraska, Kansas & ‘.'inniul,( to ocal bonv Ax- 1 of rrees and that the Chicago, puthwestern is be . A request for u coupled with highly rospective benetits, has | at the taxpayers. Tho in corporators of this much named road aro veterans in the bond hunting line, und are likely to bunko sey The st ic the legislature for s $50,000° Herman Kruger, aaler, suicided with a second hand shot- ast week. dutell sued the town of Missouri lley for ,000 danages caused by a ctive sidewalk, but the jury brought There is a movement foot to secu assage of a law licensing telegra tors, engineets, conduetors 1 employes holding responsible posi Conyiets o rétiring frow (e, poniten tiary this winter are given in, addiiton 1o the customary turnout suit, an overcoat out | and a pair of mittens, thus enabling them at once ‘togain an entrec into the most fashionable society V. R. Lovell of Garner, orator from the state universi City to represent that institution in the state contest to take place February 4, at Cedar Rapids. 8. I, Teeters of West Liberty, was second in rank, and N, C. Young of Imogene, third, and will also attend as delegates. The coroner’s jury in the case of the men killed by the lard tank explosion at Creston recently, hold the proprietors of the packing hotse personally responsiblo for the accident, and accuse them of ‘gross eriminal carelessness,” heeause the exploded tank reted of in- ferior material and in inferior manner, Mrs, Ann Lenihan and daughter Mag- ie, who were convicted ot the murder of John Lenihan, the hy in Lyon county, in who were sentenced by imprisonment for life, h doned but will not be March 31, released unti Dakota fton saloons irrig door on Sundays. Five tin locations near Custer ( recently sold for $10,000. ron is alveady preparing for the ter- a1 fait to bo held there Rext fall. yple, the bonanza Dakota farmer, will put in 30,000 acres of wheit next season. He raised 200,000 bushels of wheat the past season A private onterprise is now almost wplete for the purpose of extending a telegraph line from Buflalo Gap to con- neet with Hot Springs, Custer City, Etta and finally with the Homestake and Deadwood. A deputy urged a_hor Thie equine appropriator ) but in doing =0 got the drop on the deputy, and induced him to obey hisown nn\n . The thief of cou At the next term of court in Davis county there will he a test ease under the rlings of Commissioner Sp 1y defendant, D. L. Williams, proved up on & claim and thon mortgaged 1t to A L Wright, of Mil kee. The land com- missioner afte: ds cancelled the claim and it was covered by . pre-emption by another party. ‘The action is brought to foreclose the mortgage Wyoming. Rawlins is talking up a $30,000 school. A score of tin-whistle gamblers ave lay- ing for the lawmakers in Cheyenne. Crook county people propose to have a court house at” Sun Danee, the county seat, The Carbon county debt has been in creased $30,000 the past year, and is now $79,925.60, Laramie county has thirty-seven schools, Albany cotnty eighten and Fre- mont county seven. The legislature has heen asked to ap- propriate $1,000 for the relicf of the saf- L!l rs by the Almy mine disaster. The sheep on ranges are in a thriving condition, and the range 0 excellent that so far sheepmen have not been obliged to feed them hay: The supreme court has cision which condemns Willun Booth, the Buffalo murderer, to death. The fes tive event is set for March 5, at Buffalo, Johnson county. During all the recent tough weather Wyoming has enjoyed «a markably open winter. But liftle snow has fallen, the grazing was never better, and the stockmen expeet to come out of the winter with a comparatively small loss. The jury in the Almy mine ease finds that the unfortunate mi ame to their deaths from injuries received by the ex plosion of fire damp; also that the owner and managers of the mine are criminally responsible in that they had not provided the means for seeuring ample and proper ventilation, The territorial legislature isnow happy. Mr, Whitchouse, the only member shght- ed in the distribution of Union Pacific passes, | ceived his eardboard. T removes the last vestige of discord tween the company and the ate through the cwere flirmed the de- lawmakers, e has settled down once more on cek. Colorado, Begus butter is driving the genuine article from the markets of the stite. Chaflee _county’s outstanding indebt- edness is $302,000, and assets $150,000. A rear end collision with a horse re- sulted in the death of a man in Idaho Inion Pacific company 1d county $37,801 tax year 1885, Recorder Scott of Arapahoe county is under thirteen indictments for forgery and fraud, Fremont county milkmen ave ning about cold weathe their pumps are frozen. Atyood must be a hard town. peddler wrested there fined §5 and costs, or $17 in ing (o selt a copy of Beecher's Christ.” e e A MONTEVIDEAN MILLIONAIRE. com- heeause A hook ceently and 11, for offer- *Life of The Castaway Sailor From Philadel- phia Who Has Become a Croesus. Philadelphia Record: “There are very few people in this city who know what a big figure a Pluladciphian is cutting down in Monteyideo, the capital of Uruguay, in Scuth Ameriea,” remarked fapt. Ulmer, lately commanding the arkentine Wandering Joew of !]ni\‘porl, who is now in the employ of the Penn: sylvania Railroad Company. “I was owir the year ago,” continued the ecaptain, *‘and " saw considerable of the on in question, a man numed W, D. Evans, \\'«-I]‘ml\ need inlife and on: of the wealthiest cf D - an republic. Evans American and a Plil prevailing iden umong the, Gitizens of dCo s that he 15 o Scotchman, ¢ he insists that he is not o as brought all his children trict understanding that y o A wkbone and MUsE never ae stars and st} ; Sum. He struck Montevideo about thirty years ago without a cent to bless himself with, hav- ing been wreeked while mate of the' ship Young Mech: of Rockland, Me., and saving only the elothes on his back dud a battered ofd bout in which he got had unlimite 3 went to work at Vlving by forrying peo- s harbor to and from ships roadsted, and jobs of that after he took (o the bus incss F ught in Just outs the harbor Four hours later a steame hove to and picked him up while he was chnging to the keel of hix upturned eraft 1o thanked the ofli in eh of the men who had put off'to rescu but deelined to go on board the aer, at favor that the sailors Titing his capsized boat, as it was all he laud in the world to make a livi with, Adwmiving bis girt, they ) the reguired assistance, and an after the steamer dropp: her him, W g help bim in x place is one of tho finest in the enfire while his fortune is vonunnnla His hospitality 15 a_bywos re, and it appears fo give him especial pleasure to entertain Amerieans while for the Yankee naval officers and shipmasters who sail into port he cannot make too much fuss over them. He often talks about Philadelphia, but doos not say anything about coming back here to live. Poverty is no bar to a man find- ing o friend in Mr. Evans, for he is as ready to welcome a poor chap out of thd fo'eastle us the commander of a man-o'- war, but he won't take any stock in men unless he thinks that they are square. He has aiways given a very cold shoulder to Winslow, the Boston forger, who found a haven in Montevideo, “In the centre of his private park there is a splendid bronze fountain which cost him a good many thousand dollars, and it is surrounded by a huge basin, stocked with splendid trout and a big school of gold fi Floating about on the waters of the basin is the old boat he saved from the wreck, and he thinks as much of it as he does of any of his children. No stranger ever escapes being taken to do reverence to the boat that twice saved his host's life and laid the foundation of his splendid fortune. ““When 1 was flat broke she was my only friend, he says to the people he es down to the fountain to see his rickety old pet, id though you may not notice anything pretty about her, she's the most beautiful thing 1 ever aw.’ Of course such a man is immense- 1y popular, and in all the valley of the river Plate there i a man who don't 1 proud of Eyans' acquaintance if he has the pleasure of knowing him,” QS THE GHOST OF BLOODY RUN A Scheming Hoosier's Trick to Scare the Nativi A few weeks ago the Ber published the particulars of an alleged ghost which anchor he sailed past and n a hearty cheer by the men on the fo’castle deck, “He picked up o little money by means the old_tub he had refused to desert 1 invested in a bit of property, whicl »z doubled iu o, andd then, go into real estute smiled on in o few ) of then flourished and fattened on the fears of the residents of Bloody Run, Jeflerson county, Ind. Several armed parties of fearless anti-ghost helievers camped in the Run at night for the sole purpose of capturing his ghostship, but they ‘were invarviably scaved away. Ten days ago the exposure came, and the sawdust bull of Bloody Run w captured and disem- boweled. cal joker named McLaughlin was the author and chief engineer of the ghost. He had stretehed wstrong wire from the blufl, sixty feet above the Run, and connected it at a lower point on thy opposite bluft, On this wire he operate the ghost—a canvas stuffed with sawdust shaped like a bull. The captors were W Denny, an old soldier nd good staying ual- itics, sted by two other soldiers of pluck and nerve, Lon Baxter and James A, M all armed to the teeth With kn onets. Capt. Dennp slipped his men in unknown to any one, stationed Baxter at the place near ‘where the treasure iz supposed to be hidden armed with a butcher knife. Denny and MeGee took a position in cas, '.\upporliug distance where thy could have a goo diew of the field, “Armed, the captain with a good hick clup and llCUYQ with a Bayonet used” by his father in the arof 1812, they w. 1 and watched about three nours before the fellow who worked the wires let slip the bull of war, when, lo, horrors of horrors. up in the air, near the top of the cliff;, that monster of Bloody Kun, made o ranning shoot for Baxter, ‘who clinched his knife with a p and looked Mr. Bull square in but the fellow working aimed to stop the bu before it would strike Baxter, 50 a3 to give him a chance to run, but the saw-dust stufling in the bull having got- ten wet and frozen, and the wires being full of frost, when he jerkad the wire to stop the bull, the wire broke and the monster struck Baxter square in_the face and knocked him twenty or thirty feet down the eliff, sc re upon his back, without the si, é nd in him, and he showed no sign of life for ten or fittoen minutes. Capt. Denny and McGee took in the sitnation ata’glance, and went into Mr. Bull in true soldier style. Me- o with his bayonet and the captain with lus club, and in less than half the time it takes to tell it, that bull, of Bloody Run, had no stuflin in him, and there is at least o half a wagon load of saw Just where that fearful animal met his TORTURES h. 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