Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 12, 1886, Page 4

| 4 tion oath THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1886. . THE DATLY BEE OMATA OFFICE N0, 914 AND 018 FARNA NEW Yok Orerce, Roow 65, TRIBUNE BU' WasHiNarox Orvicr, No, 613 FOURTEENTH ST, Published ovi ¢ morning, exerpt Sunday. The oniy Monday state. orning paper publisied in the TERMA MY MATL: £10.00 Three Months 5,00 One M h One Year...... £2.50 Eix Months. 100 CONMPEPONDEN All communications relating to_news and edi- torinl matters should be addressed to the Ept HOR OF “HE BE] BUSINESS TETTERS! All bu sinoss ot ittances should be gadvessed to Tk IEE PUBLISHING COMPAXY, OMAftA. Drafte, checks and postoffice or tobe mado payable to the order of tho Company. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETONS. E, ROSEWATER, Ep1TOR. “WiaT, never? No, ne [ Sir Josern Georar L, MinLer s still out of politics, but business with the in- terior department will keep him in Washington for several days to come. “Tur records cannot be destroyed,” gays the erald. Evidently not, as the Bee's editorial correspondence from Washington published to-day pro PADDY RyaN has issued another chal- Jenge to John L. Sullivan. As soon as John sobers off sufficiently Paday wil have to put up his hs Wit 40 per cent of the skilled work- ingmen of London out of employment, Mr. Chamberlain has a heavy problem to solve as head of the home department. A SUBSCRIPTION paper, limit $5, is to be started in Boston for the Irish parli mentary fund. The Irish-American con- tributions in New York now amount to 50,000 and Tammany will turn in some $15,000 more. THuE orange crop is a failure, the peach erop is ruined, the ice crop on the Hud- son is none too good, and now to cap the climax comes the report that the banana crop will be short this year. This will be cheering news to ped: ACCORDING to the packing-house brig- ade, J. E. House, while a ‘“‘practical sur- veyor,” is incompetent to fill the sur- veyor general’s office. there, according to the Mil ronage-peddling outfit, was a pmmml politician. GENERAL ScHOFIELD says he prefers to remain on duty in Chicago. We violate no confidence in saying that General Boward would prefer a station at San Francisco or New York to his present one in Omaha, and he is likely to be accommod Mg. Boyp ready letter writer. His confidential letter to J. B. J. Ryan Wwas yery interesting reading, but his letter to the honorable Mr. tes of Platts- mouth will be an eye-opener to the pack- ing-house brigade. Why didn't Crites burn that letter? AccoRpING to Dr. Miller’s bosom friend Crites, J. E. Hous is a political nontenti- ty entirely unfit for a federal oflice, but Pritchett 18 a power in the land. In fact heis the only democrat in Nebraska who is fitted by education tofill the position of United States district attorney. GEN. HANCOCK's death leaves his fam- ily practically destitute, His position as . the senior major general and the leading democrat in the army made heavy de- mands upon his limited resources. A bill will doubtless be introduced in con- gress to grant Murs. Hancock a pension, . It should pass. My DeAr Mi. LAMAR:—1 wish to say to you personally that I haye known Mr. J. E. House all his active life, and while he is o good practical surveyor I do not believe that he has the ability to conduct the oftice of surveyor general—GEORGE L. MuLer.” Mr. House will feel highly . flatered by such a compliment. Tuae Boston Beacon, areligious journal, comes forward with the comforting as- surance that the expression, ‘‘a hell of a time,” is not profane. The word ‘“hell," it explains, is a survival of the old .man word, which meant—1, ringing, ~ loud, noisy; 2, visible, evident, manifest. This settles the matter. Our ministerial friends will now be at liberty to use the © expression to their heart’s content with- “out doing violence to their consciences. - This npplies with equal (ou.n to the city council. Tue judiciary commttee of the house of representatives which has under con- sideration the Edmunds Utah bill, pro- poses to add an iron-clad anti-Mormon amendment in the shape of a prescrip- which no Mormon could hounestly take, and without which he could not vote. The oath denounces as pernicious any dictation of the Mormon 1 ehureh, and pledges the voter not to act | or “'be in concert with any political party ‘acting or which may hereafter act to oarry out the political weal of the church ‘or of any Mormon political party.” This A premium on perju The Edmunds is stringent enough as itstands. The ‘rpoud amendment will add nothing to eflicienc Now that the exposition building is mearly comploted we would suggest to ‘the religious people of Omaha that it “would be a good thing to secure the ser- ~ wvices of Sam Jones and S mall to ~ hold a good old-fashioned revival here, . In St. Joe the people raised §5,000 to pus * chase a circus tent and pay the other ex of the Smn Jones meetings. The usiness men of every desoription sub ribed liberally as -they knew that the evival would bring to St. Joe many nds of people who, while drawing ligious inspiration from the lips Bam Jones, would spend great deal of money in pping and board bills. Looking at the from a business view, the bring- of Bam Jones to Omaha for a two s campaign against sin and sinners d prove a profituble investment, and ‘.nma time a great deal of good be accomplished. Let our religious b consider the matter and at once to get Mr. Jones here. ‘Heis a , and has dates for several months d in the large cities. Packinghonse Piaafore, Dr. Miller anthorizes a reiteration of the statement that he never recommended any- body for the surveyor-general’s office, there- fore when Gardner makes a contradictory statement he simply lies. Mr. Clege of Richardson county, and Mr. Ramsey of Cass county, warm friends of Dr. Miller, were both candidates for the position of surveyor-general, and he declined to lend his support to either, to the detriment of the other, althongh solicited by telegraph by Secretary Lamar to do so. He now con- siders his refusal to choose between them the one mistake he has made since a dem- ocratic administration was inaugurated: for if he had chosen there would have been no Gardner in the public service, * * * * Dr. Miller will stake his word against fifty Gardners that no man ever saw a letter signed by him recommending anybody for the surveyor general ship and while Gardner ought to thank his luck that such is the case he onght also to restrain his mendacity.— Herald, January 19th. I told Mr. Wise that T would do by Mr. Ramsey what I had done by Mr. Clegg, and did 50 in a letter to Secretary Lamar. At no time did I recommend any man for surveyor- gencral, nor did James E. Boyd do it in my name, Gu Lo M. —Herald, Jamuary 20th. Javes E. Boyn, P M Omai To the Honorable Secr v of the Vashington.—Sir: Mr M. attsmouth, is an position of il of Nebraska, Sometime ago ‘we ard to the character and of Mr. Robt. Clegg, of Falls City, Nebriska, to which we at once replicd o, stating that Mr. Clegg was a m'\u of most excellent character, ete o now asked to endorse Mr. Ramscy, which we most gladly do. is :n;_mnlh-n n of the strictest honesty and integrity, and there is no man in the state more competent or more peculiarly fitted to fill that position. With great re- spect, your obedient s 1\ n| ks B. Bovyp, \Ivmhm \ 1t'l Dem. Com. ORGE L. ML This is what mu_hl haye been N]Iul Packing-house Pinafore: “I never recommended yhody for the surveyor general’s office,” thundered Allll‘n.ll Miller, of Patrick’s torpedo flect. did you say? Well, hardly ever.” an ever saw a letter signed by Dr. . “recommending anybody for the surveyor generalship.’” But Mr. Lamar did receive such aletter, and at least four persons who know Dr. Miller's handwriting read it and handled it. “Did you mean to say ‘‘never!” Admiral? “No, never!” or We shall not be surpri house Pinafore should become more pop- ular among Nebraska democrats than progressive euchre ever has been among Omaha society circ T, y 11th, 1885, The Commission Farce. While Senator Cullom’s bill for the regulation of inter-state commerce is re- ceiving cordial support from lway managers and trunk line commissioners nd arbitrators, Mr. Reagan’s measure is meeting with the usual opposition from the agents of the monopolies. The rea- son is not diflicult to find. Mr. Reagan’s bill, if put into active operation, would check the principal abuses in the man- agement of corporate monopolies under which the people are suffering. It pro- s discrimination and extortion and provides a legal remedy for violation of It aims well directed blows at evils of stock jobbing, excessive capi- talization and railroad wrecking, whose cost in the end is taxed upon the patrons of the transportation system of the country, and it makes the courts the arbiters between the people and the mononolies. nator Cullom’s bill on the contrary proposes a commission to collect statistics and make recommenda- tions to cong) Its sole and only province will be to compile facts, file away annual passes and draw handsome salaries. Such a body of oflicials would bo equally powerless to harm the railroad jobbers or to help the people. This is not the solution of the problem of railway regulation demanded by the public. It solves only the perplexing question which has been troubling the railroad managers of how to shelve the issue without arousing a still greater an- tagonism throughout the country. It is legalized inaction and nothing else. The commission system wherever attempted has proved a fi ances. In Nebraska the r: ission is the laughing stock of the state. They have junketed over three systems, inspected track and stations through the bottom of champagne glasses and pub- lished several worthless reports., The practieal benefit in dollars and cents which the people of the state have de- rived from their labors would not pay a month’s salary of one of their secrctaries. No one knows better than the average railroad manager that the commission system is a mere subterfuge tor railway regulation, whos members are more easily controlled than an entire legislature, and whose decisions, unlike those of a court, can be obeyed or ignored at will. This is the reason why the Goulds and Sages and Garretts are convinced that a national railway com- mission is a pressing necessity, in the way of whose creation they will decline to place a straw. The public cannot be hoodwinked by any such a scheme as that of Mr, Cullem. They know enough to know its real object and aim and whose interest its passage is intended to advance. g materials are al- reulating among property own- n the new districts which the council sated and ordered paved at its last ses- sion. Under the provisions of our law the decisions rests absolutely in the own- ers of the abutting lots. There is no ance of jobbery on the part of contrac- tors in foreing objcetionable materials upon those who have to bear the burden of taxation.” The power of the council and board of public works in the ques- tion is imited to making and approving the contracts for such a pavement as may be decided upon by the lot owner: Under these circumstances, it is important that the choice made should be a careful and a discriminut- ing one, because it is final. The hst of materials offered covers all the cl; s of paving most in use in this country and on the continent. In acdi- tion it comprises three classes of founda- tions upon which the pavements can be laid. The BEE urges upon the property owners in the new paving districts to choose the best pavement of its class, whatever the material be selected. If durable and a satisfactory one. ' Next to wood block be selected, as seems prohable in some of the districts, a' great mistake will be made in chosing a plank instead of a concrete base. That is the universal experience of every city which has at- tempted to use wood as a paving mate- rial. London, which has the best wood pavements in the world, makes her choice of creosoted blocks laid on a ce- ment foundation with the spaces between the blocks hermetically sealed, Dand with a long guarantee ..l maintenance. This is_an expensive pavement, but it isa it is a wel i I:lm k on concrete. The other pavements offered have already been tried in Omaha and are familiar to our people. Those Frandulent Surveys, The Herald, whose editor has been making a personal fight for the abolition of the surveyor-general's office at Platts- mouth, principally because the present incumbent w nominated against the dictation of the democratic faction which he lieads, begs the question i disenssing the issue 1 by Mr. Sparks' letter which opposes the closing of the office. Mr. Sparks declines to recommend the abolition of the Nebraska surveyor-gener- alship because he is convinced that the work of the office is not completed. There are the best of reasons for believ- ing that many of the surveys must be repeated, Extensive frauds have been discovered in the manner in which surveying contracts have been performed. Largo tracts of territory in the state are without town- ship and section corner stones, While the books of the office show that all the surveys in Nebraska have been com- pleted, investigation, on the ground, proves that a large portion of the work vretended to have been done under the contracts has never been touched. This 15 the issue involved, and the sole issue in which the public outside of the coutending factions in the democratic party has any interest. It makes no differcnce fo the average s tler whether rdner or Smith or Jones or Brown draws the ry of surveyor general, or whether the ap- plication of the successful candidate was endorsed by G. L. Miller or J. Sterling Morton. But it does make a great differ- ence to real estate owners in the newly settled portions of our state whether their filings on paper represent the land actu- ally taken up. The government surv are the only basis upon which pos: and transfer can be had. So long as there is o reasonable doubt whether they have been properly made, the closing of the surveyor general’s office would be manifestly improper. That is the only avenue through which resurveysand cor- rections can conie. Every one who has watched the course of polities in this state for the past fifteen years knows that the government surveys in Nebraska have been made with searce- ly a pretension of accuracy. From the days of Boss Cunninghaw down to the era of Dave Stephenson, surveying con- tracts have been honeycombed with fraud, Thereis not a county surveyor in the portions of the state surveyed dur- ng this period, who does not know that the work rlone was bh.lmof\lll_\, inade- quate and grossly incorrect in many in- stances. The charge has been made again and again, but as the means of ng it officially lay in the hands of the surveyor-general, the public has never been given a chance to know the full details of the surveying contract iniquities. The opportunity can now k3 afforded. The firat attempt of the general land oflice to verify a few of the surveys of the old gang, by a careful re-survey of the territory coyered by the last contract, will show very' promptly whether the work of the Nebraska surveyor-general’s office is completed. + sed Tne full report of Licutenant Maus on the killing of Captain Crawford confirms in every particular the first suspicions and the subsequent charge of wilful murder. It shows that the Mexicans knew perfectly well whom they were firing on and that the attack was treach- erous and premeditated. When the first shots were fired Licutenant Maus and Captain Crawford both ran out waving their handkerchiefs and calling that they were American ofticers. The Mexicans evidently understood them for they ceased firing and replied that they had made a mistake. Al this time they were moy- ing toward the shelter of the hill from which they again reopened the attack, killing Captain Crawford and then moved upon the camp. Being re- pulsed with the loss of a major and four men, they asked for a truce and once more pretended that they had made a mistake. Lieutenznt Maus reports that when he went over to the parley he would have been seized himself if his scouts had not begun to strip for fight, when he was allowed to return to his men, This is a straight story and calls for a searching investigation on the part of the government. The Mexican ban- ditti on the frontier who masquerade as regular troops while bushwhacking on both sides of the border are more dangerous to life and property than Geronimo’s copper skinned cut- throats, Their murderous performances are carefully concealed as a rule, and the Indians often get the credit of the Greaser outrages. 1In the present case the proof seems full and complete, and the military murderers should get their deserts, Diplo- matic explanations are valuable in their way, but they will fail to fill the bil in the present instance e Omaha exposition building is rap- idly approaching completion, and will be formally onened on the 18th with a grand promenade concert under the auspices of the exposition company. We hope our citizens will, by a liberal purchase of tickets, show their appreciation of the public spirit of the men who have in- vested $50,000 in an enterprise which will probably not pay any dividends for sev- eral years. They have erected . a beauti- ful and substantial building, 182 feet wide and 264 fect long. It is to be used e assemblies—such as state polit- al conventions, state and inter-state gatherings of all kinds, mass meetings of all kinds, grand concerts, balls, ete., and for the Omaha annual exposition, Itis just such a building as Omaha needs, and answer her de- mands for many years to come. We ven- ture to say that there is not a city of 200,000 people that can boast of such a commodious building for public assem- blies. With this large hall Omaha is now in shape to handle national conyentions, That it will attract to this city many lurge conventions that would otherwise not come here there is no question, and in this way it-will prove a great benefit. —— e PARLIAMENT stande¢ adjourned until the 8th inst., when the question of furnish- ing relief to English Iaborers will prob bly take precedence over Irish legisla 1. Rioting in London will furnish both liberals and tories more erial for hard work than isclatod outrages : the channel about which Lord Salisbury's party was preparing to raise parlia mentary inquir, —— To Hancock—In Memoriam, Iy an Ol Brofher Officer. Born of an honored name Of old colonial fame, To patriot hearts right dear, Without reproach or fears Like Paladin of old, Our knight lies cold, With record high mgl pure, With nothing to obseure, He filled each place With soldier gra And, swift at duty’s call, Gave heed to all. Calm on the battle field, Yot willing self to yield, When called to lead the van, Detraction failed to plan h worsted i the fight To bring a fault to light. Almost the nation’s choice, With no complaining voice He met his first defeat; Yet with no base retreat Losing a place unsought To keep a fame unbought, From simple cadet gray He won his way To shine amid the stars: Reached by the leaves and bars Through grades well won And duty fairly done. That dauntless heart lies cold— "Che nation’s flag shall fold His pulscless heart to-day Yet o'er the senseless clay Will mourning comrades weep, And dear his memory keep. ALL SORTS. A charity bawl—*Mister, gimme a nickel.” A buzzing in your ear is not so bad when a handsome girl does the buzzing. Moncy doesn’t make the man; and it isn't every man that makes the money cither, 1t is curious how much faster a street-car goes when you are running for it thau it does when you are riding on it. Attorney neral - Garland invariably turns around when he hears anybody holler “Hello!” The wealth of our language is shown by the fact that “hang it up” and “‘chalk it down’ mean precisely the same thing. Paper rails are made in Russia, we hear. That is nothing astonishing. Whole rail- ways are made out of paper In this country There is said to be a haunted sehooner in Fall Riv What with the bier and spirit, there is all the material for a ghost in a schooner. “I ean give you a cold bite,” said the wom- an. “Why not warm it up,” asked the tramp. “There ain’t any wood sawed.” “That's s0? Well, give it to me cold.” ' Mr. Todhunter has written a play in which Mus. Langtry will appear in the spring, 'The name of the author, by the way, will be re- called to the audience every time a young man goes out b(-t\won the acts of the play. ko ioh Soniod Bound to Have Water. Hastings Gazelte-Journal. If the number of townsand cities in ka figuring upon waterworks i dication, the prohibitionists ger every reason to he-ens, d. Ne- have A Great Discovery. Louisville Courier-Journal. Senator Edmunds fipds that where forty senators will aceopt an invitation to attend a cireus not more than one or two can be be- vended upon to go to a caucus. Cto sty A Necdea Defense. Chicago Mail. A Boston minister has lately been com- pelled to make a defonse of cigars. The ci- gars we buy in Chicago ought to bo defended by somebody. They are probably eausing nine-tenths of all the sudden deaths we read about. (—] AR 1 A Defuuct Craze. St. Paul Pioncer Press. It seems to be quite evident that the roller- skating eraze is defunct beyond the power of resuscitation, * * *# It was lacking in all the wenuine popularity in a sport or a pastime, Its collapse was due to its inherent wealkness, It never will be missed except by those unlucky people who find themselves with rinks on their hands with which they " know not what to do. - A Whack at Chicago. St. Louis Globe-Demoerat. Store rents are going up In Chicago,accord- ing to the newspapers of that city, The aver- age Chicago tenant is supremely iIndifferent on the subject of rents. He believes with certain extreme socialistic theorists that rent is robbery,” and he knows by experi- encethatit is cheaper to move than to pay rent: hence this motto: “Thousands for furniture carts, but nota cent for landlords.” Senator Sawyer's Crest.. Chicago Tribune, A New York correspondent says that Sen- ator Sawyer of Wisconsin has decided to fol- low the course of certain members of the cab- inet and adopt a crest. The senator has been a lumberman, and the design he has in mind consists’of “an embattled sawlog on an em- erald pine forest, with a pair of engrailed bob-sleds on the dexter chevron.” Tt is bare- ly possible that the senator from Wisconsin is making fun of the fools, He does that sometimes, A Controlled by the Other Railroad, St. Louls Republitan, The majority of the New Jersey assembly are republicans, yet they have denonnced the proposal that the United States government shall give the Baltimore and Ohio raitroad the right of way into Staten Island as a vio- lation of state rights. They demand the very strictest construction of the constitu- tion in determining the powex of the national government over the navigabte waterways of the country. This is so funny that it sug- gests the idea that the legiSlature is controlled by the other railroad company. ———— - Greatest Authority on Earth, | Chicago Npwsy In a newspaper Interview down east re- cently, Dr. George L. Miller, the gifted and urbane editor of the Omaha Herald, vouch- safed the important and trustworthy infor- mation that the nationyl admmnistration was proving satisfactory to the Nebraska democ- racy and would do mueh toward making Ne braska a democratic state. This assura confirms the suspicion we harbored when we heard last swinmer that R, B. Hayes had part- ed with his liguor interest In Omaha; we made up our minds then that that was the rst symptom of republican disintegration in Nebraska; we felt gloomier still to hear, later on, that one of the Keifer family had emi- grated from Ohio to Nebraska; that niado us (eel certain that the republican party was a f“""' It needed Dr. Millers assurance only hat the democratic party was about to cap ture Nebraska to convince us that the yepub- licans had no ‘reason to count Nebraska as theirs in futire, - Dr. Miller is unquestiona- bly the lnue.l rellable polyglot authority now on earyh, | promotion fron { surnet A SLAUGHTER HOUSE SERIAL, In Which the Burning Brands of the Pack- ing House Are Plainly Visible, Choice Selections From the Endorse- ments of Miller, Boyd and Crites ~Treachery's Track Traced in Black k. Wasmisagroy, Feb. 9.—[Editorial Cor- respondence.]—“1f you had asked what 1 liave been doing since the 10th of Septem- ber,” exclaimed President Arthur, “1 would tell you that my time has almost entirely been taken up hy applications from army officers for promotion and with Nebraska,' “How is that, Mr. President “what is the trouble with Nebr ? “Trouble enough,” replied Mr. Arthur, “Nebraska isall torn up with factional fights and your deiegation never agrees on anything.” This was four years ngo when Valen th Saunders 'k, and Nobraska was ig- istribution of federal pat- said 1y and Van W nored in the ronage. The whitligig of time which landed Grover Cleveland in the white house has wrought a great revolution, but T imagine if Mr. Cleveland were asked to-day what he has been doing since he became president, his answer would not differ materially from that given by his predecessor six months after the death of G 1d. He has been wrestling with applications for army officers and both- i with Nebraska. o be sure it mat- v little now whether the republican ation from Nebraska is at logger- ads. Mr. Cleveland hasnotlost a min ute's sleep on their account, but he is sorely perplexed and worried and vexed by the belligerent bosses who come here to represent the wants of the very hun- gry and very thirsty democrats that be- 1ong to the “packing house” and *‘slaugh- ter house” factions. MILLER AND MORTON are attracting considerable attention just now. Morton has been here for several days, and Miller is expected within forty- cight hours. Whatever the outcome of the irrepressible conflict between Dr. Miller and J. Sterling Morton may be, isof Dttle concern to me personally Their respective friends and followers who readthe BEE more genel any other paper, or for that m other papers, including Dr. Miller are doubtless deeply interested. At this stage of the controversy Morton has by all odds the dictive assaults of his y, who openly boast crush bim, has naturally mpathy for him. Morton has friends in the eabinet and in the depart- ments. He | refrained from pushing the claims of his friends, but usually manages to get in his work where it will do the most good, “Governor” Morton, as he is ealled here, has a wide range of acquaintance among congr by his shrewd tactics wields gre; power than Dr. Miller with his paper. WHAT ARE WE HERE FOR? Three days ramble among the depa ments has been amusing »2 well as in- Outward appearances do not betray the faet that the confederates have captured the White House. The starry banner of our country still waves over the interior department under Secretary Lamar as it waved ten Vi ago when I called to pay my re- spe to Seeretary Zach Chandler. The ante-room of the ex-confederate seeretary isstill guarded by the same black republi- n that formerly handed my and Kirkwood. Even President nd, I am told, has retained the old republican door-keeper who was first em- ployed by General Grant, and has ush- i oflice all the eall- 1d and Arthur. In d appearances are very deceptive. The postmaster general’s room is still decorated with portraits of his predecessors from Governor Denmson down to Frank Iatton. Genel oceupies a prominent place among the military heroes that adorn the walls of the office from which Seccretary Endicott issues army orders. Emblems of loyalty and patriotism greet me on all sides and I should almost imagine ths the “Grand Old Barty” was still at the helmif it were not for the tramp, tr tramp of veterans with unmistake demoeratic countenances marching through the marble tiled corridors from early morning till the department doors close. They are all ready to shout for the flag and an uppropristion. The groups of congressmen whom I met in the postoflice and interior department were nearly all democratic and their search for patronage appeared, if any- thing, more persistent than ever was that of the republicans of the Flannagan stamp DIPLOMACY AND DUPLICITY, Among the most interesting and curious documents now on deposit in the archives of Uncle Sam are the lot and dis- patehes relating to that big bone of con- fention—the surveyor-generalst i For months D other respects out rie A} B braska in a perfe proar, Bhot, shell and filth were poured into the Mortonian np promiscuously and every wuhm range who 0 :at- Dictator” s merci- inwardness of s at last come When Dave Stevenson resigned the sur- veyor genc alship, he v\pm-n-ul that his friend Clegg, who was a **Weaver demo- erat,” would be appointed his suecessor. Boyd and Miller ‘were advised but they found themselyes embarrassed by sove applicants, T'he most competent of these was J. E. House, but his location at Omaha was in the way of their scheme to make Pritchett United States district at- torney. So they resorted to a bit of diplomacy, and worked the wires nnder cover. While they were playing loose with Clegg’ and Ramsoy ed off the plum. Miller s, He |noh ed, fume Then he eianged front ll for the abolition of the n mu-nun that appeared in the ago, Surveyor sion to say t! over for surveyor Alu\ul by M Iy of a letfer to him (Gard- ner) in b both Boyd and Miller had <~umlm~mlt-d (‘ln-g;:. and another in which R: ommended for the p:mmL i l)n at once made a Joint blank Im had neve the surveyor general’s offlce, and be fur- ther declared that no, man ever saw a letter signed by him recommending any- body for this oftice. Dr. Miller will have to recant. T have not only seen s letter with my own eyes, but at least three other persons who can vouch for his handwriting have examined and read it with me. They also will join me in cortifying to the co rectness of the following copy of a tele- gram: Antil 1885, —Tlon. 1., Q.. & Lamar: Asked to state our opinion of Robert Clegs, we say, intearity unquestioned, good ability, sound democrat, and excellent man, Boyn, Member Natic |.|llh~mow| tic Committee, On M GRORGE L. MiLien. ay 11th, 1885, the following letter was addressed 'to Mr. Lamar Sir: Mr. Basil M. Rams of Platts- mouth, is an applicant for the position of <ur- veyor general ol Nebraska, \nmx'llml' ARO we were asked in regard to the character and ability of Mr. Robt. Clegg, ot Falls City, Ne- braska, to which we at once replied by " wire, stating that Mr. (! l was a man of wost ex cellent eha We are now asked to | endorse Mr ll.unw\. which we most gladly do. Heisa tleman of t ctest hon- esty and intearity, and there is no man more rompetent or more peenliarly fitted to ill the position. With great respect, your obedient servants, Member § Gronar L, Miuiee, In order to make sure that no mi be made that would s house slate, Dr. Miller addressed a to Seere Lamar on May 20th, which concludes as follow 1 wish to say to you personally that [ have known Mr Touse o life. and while o practical surveyor, 1 ao not believe that he has the .m ty 10 con- duet the oftice of survey o, Having stabbed House e vibs the doctor finishes him thr friend Crites of Plattsmouth, who writesa long letter enlogizing his brothor-in-law Ramscy. The following estract is all I need to quote: A certain clique of democrats who are bent on the overthrow of true and tried dem ocrats of this state like Dr. Georee L, Miller of the Herald, o . Boyd, national long - and v and strength of 1885, the arty, n-uflh\n-l J. . Hou: wlitical nonentity in engineer of the at what linging a volley of divt “malcon- pleased to call thes tents” e winds up as follow chett is the choice ¢ ine-tenths © democ f the state for dis- ict Xlflm ney the oth aspirants Iy J»ll\"«' by education, ahead of Dr menof J. K. I am o placed the cart be- fore the he this time. In order to get a clear insight into the *king house method of slanghtering, T must reproduce another letter, which explains how Bob Clegg was n done uy ONAHA, Neb., March 2 Crites, Plattsmouti.. Neb.—My am in receipt of cireular reqiiesting my en- dorsement * and recommendation of ~ Alr. l! sil \V. Ramsey for surveyor gen- B ish to “avoid any ‘unseemly such — matt knowing anything T n applicant for the place sider that Cass county is entitl want you to know that 1 am mber 0' the 1 will that T K. Boyp, didn’t Mr. Crites burn this letter? v most distressing case of du- and if it was not my it to pick y letters this mystery about the might” never have E. RoseEwATER, Wh, Tl y i) hcon cleared up. STATH LRRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. D. P, Rolf has boeen elected pres of the Nebraska City board of trade. ‘The Cedar County Agricultural soc s a balunce of §51.78 o start next i ident Pl\\nm’- business men have made up a purse of $1,000 to secure the loeation of a foundry there. Two new towns will soon be located in the southern part of Fillmore county, to be known by the name of Media “and Ohiowa. A high toned and short haired Celestial from Omaha swooped down on a brother Mongol in Fremont the other day and donc him up for $20. Residents of Plum Creek talk of or- ganizing a grand hunt for the purpose of extermiating the coyotes that are prowl- ing about that neighbornood. . Marinds |Jvn|n-< of Neb: a poor despondent woman left 1y less husband to, provide for I three chi mpted s for the d time last ||u-~1|.|' prompt 1l of adoctor, howe: saved her ska Cif 1 he self and k with a double edition devoted rowth and prosperity of the town and Polk county, The churches and schools and prominent business men are pictorially represented, while the statis- tical and historical review prove the steady advancement of the community. The enterprise of thi publishers is commendable. Last § \un 1y Anton Bef dent of Cedar county, 2 A coup miles south of St. Helena, was. the tim of & runaway accident which will ubly prove fi His team got the ntage of him, and while they were running Mr. Betz was thrown between the forward wheel and the zon, His head and face were badly lacerated, and concussion of the brain is the lefll'Iuln result of the aflair, An Omaha drummer aflicted with a desire to exhibit his shape at night, crawled out of his bed in a Ilmlm'rs hotel, strode through the streets in his stocking feet and monnted cighty feet high, which su new water tower, Here hi robes fluttered in the br like a cold wave signal, while the mercury hugged the bottom ot the bulb, and failing to ro- ceive the applanse of the silent multitude Lo imagined surrounded his lofty pereh he descended and Janded in the arms o a vigilant policeman. promptly vod out and snake root applied to his troubled soles The committee of the board of trade having charge of the seheme, has reported in favor of organ- company to build a county It is ‘proposed to is: stock to the amount of 25,000 in s of 50 each, the purpose being to erect a threc-story br stricture somewhere in the business part of town, the lower story o be used for busineds purposes | for the benefit of the slmklmth- the two upper stories to be donated free to the nse of the county for oflices and court room as long as thé county seat remains in Plattsmouth. The proposition met the approval of the board and the president | was instructed to eall a spe on Thursduy evening, Febr consider the matter Plattsmouth fowa Items. Davenport is irrigated with 212 liconsed saloons, Manchester is moving for connection with Davenport. Seventeen candidates for announced in Missouri Valley a railroad mayor are Dave DoLong has sued the editor of the Farragut Sentinel for 9,000 damages for slander and alienating the affections of his wife. The Bar association of Delaware coun- ty, in session at Manchester on Saturday, passed a resolution lmmmq the abolish- ment of circuit eourts and substituting county courts. The census just taken gives the popt- Iation of the towns of Harrison follows: n.mn. 408; Logan, 8 tle Sioux, Mmunn alley Mondamin l‘i Modale, 2 1on. Augustus Aum-mm representas tive from Hamilton le\(\, has intro- duced n bill in the legislature to provide monument to the memory of thoso S .uml at Spirit Lake in March, 1857, i miles north of while trying to board a moving train, a man fell underncath the wheels and was horribly mangled, From letters found in his coa it is sup- posed that the man was Will McKinney the son of a well-todo farmer at Brist tow. Dakota, There are seventeen saloons in Siots Falls, South Dakota has thirty-three presi- dential postoflices, A stock company has been formed to build a large Iml L at Deadwood. Robert Crow, formerly of the Dead- wood Times, has purchised the Buffalo and - will publish it as dwood’s business men have for le mining comps et will Lain properties at the carbonate The artesian well at Fort spouts 1,400 gallons of water per minute, foree which lifts a solid column o six feet above the mouth of the pipe. This is the most powerful well n dakota and it is only 610 feet deep. -l How the Yublic Domain Exhausted, Chicago Tritnne. It wasshown in these columns a few ago that twenty-nine alien landlords 1 possessed themselves of 22,000,000 .\v\mufllw public lands in Texas, Wi Colorado, Florida, and Dakota t ? It was then eclaimed that aliens hold at least 30,000,000 acres of lIand throughout the United States. This v underestimate. The figures are nearer 50,000,000, But though the alien landlords have been ra us enough, they cannot compare with some ol‘% hmm- rations, syndicates, and mo- Th tle’ barons of the west ed millions of acres of the pub- lic domain in Nebras! Wyoming, and Colorada on one pretext or another. We have seen how y tried last summer propriate to them: a portion of the Indian {erriory. nd companies of nts pretending d and timber oull\m- laws, have obtained a large e tent of territory in the states and terri tories already mentioned and in Dakota and Minnesota. But by far the grecdiest, the most rapacious, plunderers have been the railroad corporations, They are now in possession of three times the quantity of arable land left for settle- ment owned by the United State: Sinee the first land grant wa the Hlinois Central in 1850 th corporations have gone on approp big slices of arm thulj‘ In most cases those ever fulfiiled the ob- assumed in return nd they are now in possession of millions of acre which ought again to become tho erty of the netiiy, LS land grant i took I d of Ny to develop cer- Has Been peop business, when it was wrm of grants to Iroads proposed to be constructed through the states. In this way Louisiana, Flori abama Mississippi disposed’ of 12,000,000 acres and Hlinois 2,600,000. The latter was the grant to the Ilinois Central. The aggre- gate given to the railroads through the 5 ,.mm.lnlm aere These rail- from the nation 1306, 000,000 acres in 'he ||\ t grants according to the ords ar Acres. 12,000,000 187,000 1,000,600 6,000,000 1,100,000 3,000,000 Union Pacelic Central Braneh Union Pacitic. cifie (as successor ‘\u.um: & 1 Southern Pac Total. The railronds have in many ins disposed of large areas of the territory thus acquired, but the) yet in pos- session of more than 100,000,000 ncrea The Northern and Southern Pac bave not been able to dispose of (lwil' territory res ||Iy beeause of the “cloud on their title' “due to their failure to carry out their contracts with the goy- ernment concerning these lands, But the wmtun has sed out of the pos- ion of “the.United States. It is not open for scttlement. [t may be by the ne the 51,000,000 acres of maining are exhausted, T very largely on’ th umf\lu- x\Lll\lI) of Hm adinistration, The Romance of a Coal Stove. Detroit Free Pr One day last_fall £ Was Sore, i sded in selling a widow a coal stove, but it with the proviso that, if everything didn't work y he was to make it. Two fter delivering the stove he got his A boy entered the store and and full of s you Lo come up The house is A man was sent up and he found the trouble to be with the chimney. Only three or four days had passed when the hie me inagain and siid; “That stove is putling und blowing an gz tne widow to death. Sho wints the same man to come up again." He was sent, and it was discovered that she didn’t know how to arrange the dam pers or drajts. Everything secimed to run well for a week, and then the boy walked in to annour “She sent moe down to have yon send 4 1u|| again, The houseis tull of l)u- man went up edy, but inside of th stove got to |:ulfin;,'. two duys after the five wouldn't draw; then it drew too much; then gas escaped again, At length the o1 went to the house and said: lam, you gave me §30 for the stove; how much will you tuke for its” “I wouldntsell it."" “But 1 ean’'t be sending my man up re every two or three days all winter.” on't have to. I've concluded tlx marry him m order to have some one here in cs ent.’ Aund thre ll_.n\a(ln ¢ quictly and - The Perfect Pittshury Chronicle “Well. Mr. ? said {ng that Man. raplh cortainly wrong for Joaking up fron Kel “htle lust Sunday’ era kmu ked thivty-four hogs in ayton, one day 70 widows . aund 108 s is perennial .in ,‘:hlmrhuw 3 Miss Josephiné Hueppuer of Hamlurg | had both l«-g» broken just above the | ankles while coasting lust week, | asked lic $ says there are no pericet you think you found one 1 you waried me, 1 sippose,” beaued Suizes. “ludeed 1 dow'ts” was the guick ©hut | know there was & perfect wian ue was Mk Mark,” re- onidunent. Y es tinotly spoake ‘of How tl \lun\ | i@ perfect wan.' ‘_.