Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 17, 1886, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 17, 1886. THE DATLY BEE. OMATIA OFFICR,No, 914 AND 916 FARY Am 81 NEW YORK OFF1ce, ROOM 65, TRIRUNE BUILDING WASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. 513 FOURTEENTH ST, Published every morning, excapt Sunday. The only Monday morning paper published in the state. TERME BY MAT $10.00 Thron Months 5.00 One Month One Year. .. Bix Months. Tae WrrkLy Der, Published Evory Wednesday. TERMS, POSTPATD: Ono Yenr, with premium £2.00 One Year, without promitm ‘ % Eix Months, without premium One Month, on trinl ©m 1.00 CORMESPONDEN! All communientions relating to news and edi- torinl mattors should bo addressed to the HOR OF “HE IIEE. PUSINFSS LETTER mittancos ehould be ISHING COMPANY, orders 10 bo made piyable to the order of the company. THE BEE FUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. E. ROSEWAT . BmiTon, " Tk St Paul ice 1 gorgeous an affair Lonis, was not half so c-gorge at St A the i Mnr. Mormisox has introduced his tariff bill at last, and the discordant orchestrs of rival interests is turning up for the opening overture. Mut. Boyp still thirsts for “gore.” Mr. Boyd is in the blood-letting business, and proposes to transfer its methods to the politieal packing-hous Sam Jo proposes to take a rest of two wocks before tackling Chiengo. He ought to take a month before beginning the hardest job of his life, CONGRESSMAN ) Penns vania, has introduced a bill to revive the grade of general of the army. Gen. Sheri- dan heartily favors such a bill. th sult of the third and fourth- postmasters’ convention, now in session in Chicago. WaEN oil and water can be made to mingle, then will Morton and Miller shake across the bloody chasm, and not before. Such is the opinion of a prominent slaughter-house democrat. Ir is said that among the 102,000 share- holders of the Panama canal company are 16,000 women. They could not ha been swindled any worse if they had m- vested in watered railway stocks of the United State It was Iowa day in congress & She demanled, through a flood of peti- tions, protection to pure butter and the extension of suffrage to the fair sex. There is a much greater probability of national legislation in favor of the cow than there is of universal sufirage being given to women, RAILROAD earnings are not showing the improvement as compared with last year, which is noted in many other in- dustries. The aggregate earnings of sixty-five roads show a loss of $155,000, or about 6.5 per cent for the month of Janu- ary as compared with the like period of Inast year, and in earnings per mile the comparison is much more unfavorable. BvERY local industry started for the permanent employment of labor means a permanent addition to both the wealth producing and the wealth distributing growth of the city. Omaha can never become a great city unless she encour- ages manufactures. Industrial enter- prises mean homes built and maintained, a retail trade fostered, and a steadily in- creasing population, ACCORDING to the supreme court of Massachusetts a partition in a bar room snota screen. The law of Massachu- setts, like that of Nebraska, prohibits joreens _ in saloons. The lowner of pne of these establishments took outa license and complied with the law by erecting no sereens, but served his cus- tomers with tarantula juice in the back room. The court holds that as there was 1o objection to the partition when the license was issued, there was no grounds for the prosecution. { ReNTs are high in Omaha and they will continue to remain high until the supply of small houses equals the demand, But there are hundreds of wage earners in this, city who have it in their power to help the solution of the problem by build- ing their own homes. Tho several co- operative associations now in prosperous operation in Omaha offer excellent in- ducements for the erection ot homes at a eost less than the vrice of rental. Loan building associations have made Phila- delphia the city of mechanics, homes. Under proper management and patron- age thoy can do the same for Omaha, 2 ACCORDING to a W ashington dispatch, * there is a_probability since the death of Genoral Hancock that the three military divisions, whose headquarters are at New York, Chicago and San Francisco, will be done away with and transformed into departments, They are of no earthly use ‘except to delay the despateh of business - and to facilitate the entanglement of red tape. Anything which will decrease the gop-heaviness of the army should be en- . couraged. There is no reason why pa- 3 should not go direct to Washington " from the departments without passing | ghrough the routine mill of a so-called vision headquar anufacturing need of our sent is a good brick yard, . owned by men of brains and ordinary business sense, and with suflicient capital ' to supply the demands of this commu- ~mity. With the opening ot the spring ¢ building activity staring them the face, our brick yards are practical ~ ampty. The supply on hand not already mtracted for would hardly ereet a good L six-story front. Builders in Omaha have * been forced within the past few days to ‘ship brick from across the river. This is Y aceful condition of affairs. It ex- d all last fall, and it will continue to the crying complaint of the men who wish to improve this city as “dong @s small bore busivess men, " who are more interested in real estate lation than they are in the attend- PR to the wants of their customers, von- K to monopolize the burning of bric Omaha. A yard with a capacity quad- ple that of any now in the city would heavy returns on the- investment om the day it opened for business Tho Coal Robbers' Monopoly. The band of leading New York capital- ists who control the anthracite coal carry ing trade of the United States are joining hands to consummate a bold scheme of robbery at the expense of the public Owing to the dismantled condition ot the Reading railroad, which after staggering for years under a moantain of debt is now completely bankrupt, the rates on coal have been badly demoralized during the entire winter and the other coal carr roads have earned less than the usual profits on their highly watered stocks. It is nmow proposed by a syn- dicate composed of the Pennsylvania, Lackawana, Lehigh Valley and other minor roads to put the Reading on its foet by lifting its debt and then by controlling its management to consoli date the coal monopoly on a stronger basis than ever. The publication of the details of this proposed eriminal conspir ncy against the public interest has alre: used a boomin coal stocks, and investors, allured by the prospects of heavy dividends, are rushing into Wall street to purchase the sceurities of the roads interested. The coal monopol odious of all the bur public by the jobbers and pir have made railroad construc stock manipulation a stench nostrils of the lhonest eapital- ists of the world. For years the price of anthracite coal throughout the entire countr, § been made by a pool whose only aim has been to earn the highest possible dividends on stocks rep- resenting from five to ten times the actual investment of capital in the trans. portation companies connceting the mines with the seaboard. The exactions of the monopoly have broken down great industrial enterprises and crippled man- ufacturing interests dependent upon cheap fuel, while they have added new burdens to poverty and increased suffer- ing to the distress of the poor. Th present programme proposes to make this monopoly perpetual. 1t aims to control production at the mines and the price at distributing centers. Not content with having screwed down the wages of the Pennsylvania miners to a mere pittance, most of which is wrest- ed from the workmen by the stores own- ed by the companies, they are now scheming to control all the railroads en- tering the cd regions in order to force producers to stiffen the weak stock of these watered concerns. The attention of cong: should be called to this matter, and to the evil which lies at the basis of all the evils of corporate monopolieswho are also com- mon carriers. No legislation which does not strike at the swindle called stock watering will ever be thor- oughly effective in dealing with this question in the interests of the people. As long as profits are only regulated by the capacify of the patrons to pay inter- est on excessive capitalization, capitali tion will only be limited by the avarice of stock jobbersand the pliancy of boards of management. When railroads costing $15,000 a mile to construct and equip are bonded and stocked for $60,000 a mile, d earn 6 per cent dividends on that nount, some one is robbed. The very nature of the public functions of a com- mon carrier, and the generous powers conceded by the state should X: clude such robbery. Excessive cap- italization is responsible for exces- sive freight charges. Stock jobbing and investor robbing go hand in hand. The Captain Kidds of the nineteenth century sail the ocean of water on which they float their corporate barques. And the public pay the tribute. The time is approaching when the books of every transportation monopoly will be thrown open for legislative re- vision, and when legitimate profits will be defined and enforced. The work will railroad commis- isone of the most :ns imposed on the who jon and in tho o8 useful creators by throwing dust the eyss of the public. Abroad, the limitation of profits in the case of gas and water companies has al- ready begun and is in successful operation. ‘The same principle sooner or later must be engrafted on the railway legislation of this country. and only to The Business Situation, There has been little new to note in the ¢ondition of business during the past week. The merchandise distribution h; been fair but there has been no voluntary expression of activity in any department. Locally, merchants profess themselves as well satistied with the situation. The ex- pansion of Omaha’s jobbing trade in the northwest, and especially in the Black Hills region, is progressing rapidly, duc to the increased facilities for entrance into the territory and a more conciliatory policy on the part of the railronds. El where throughout the country the spring trade is not progressing as favorably as had been expected in some quarters, but the moderate pace of improvement ocea- sions little complaint as it is generally regarded 8s a result of unpropitious wenther, Cotton continues dull with a declining tendency which has communicated itself to the print cloth market. The gencral demand for staple and fancy dry goods is farly active. Interior jobbers are operating for spring wants with a good deal of confidence, and the piece goods distribution is improving as much as could be reasonably expected in yview of the unsettled weather. Wool holds about steady, but its failure to advance is a dis- appointment to the majority of dealers, who had confidently anticipated a further appreciation of values before this date. Demand for the staple is only feir and not urgent. The woolen goods trade is moderately active, but orders, as a rule, have not been placed with the liberality previously anticipated. The iron situation is strong and 55 in most departments is fairly active, though no large transac- tions are noted in any line this week, The changoes in wheat prices have been com- paratively unimportant, and the trade as a general thing has continued quiet. Ex- port demand is very moderate, but it 1s better than it was a short time ago, and the steadiness of the market reflects the effect of this slight improvement in the foreign trade outlook. There are more “buyers on breaks” in the speculative market, and the wind-sellers are not so confident. Investment demand, how- ever, is not strong enough to advance the market, and it drags along in a rut, with trading 1 coufined to scalping ven- tures by and with w BUTTOWER limits than for some time past. Corn is stoady with a good export demand, and the general tendency of the produce markets is toward greater firmness, —_——— Comparative Value of Pavemen.s. During the past twenty-five the value of the different paving materials has been thoroughly tested in a score of cities in this country and Europe. The literature of paving is extensive. Itis contained in the reports of city engineers, the published investigations of boards of enquiry, and wumber of comprehen sive scientific manuals written and print- ed for the guidance of pupils in our tech nical schools and scientific colleges. Newspaper discussion will add little to {he common consent of all competent en- gineering authorities in this country and Europe. There are six considerations to be taken into account in estimating the com- ive worth of paving 1 These are: first cost, cost of mainte and repair, durability, ease of cleansing, convenicnce, and health, Let the advo- cates of wood-block paving test their ma terial by these standards and report re« sults, It stands first in only one of the six tests. It is the cheapest, but in every other respeet, the poorest. It costs more to keep in repair, is the shortest lived,the hardest to clean, the worst for driving s s00n as wear begins to abi i surface, and by far the unhealthiest ow- ing to the noxious exhalations from its joints which colleet and retain filth, dirt and moisture, Wooden pavements are cheap and sty. They haye been rejected by every y that has given them a fair trial con- tinuing oyer any length of time. They have been thrown overboard by New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, San Francisco, after thorough tests, as unlit for use. And Omaha, if she is gulled into any extensive experimenting with the same material, will learn that the costliest mistakes are often those which are made in the interests of pretended economy. na Regarding Wooden-Block Paving. The Ber is busily engaged in a warfare on wooden-block paving, orin other words, it wants Creighton, Murphy & Co. to come to the scrateh. But the wooden block paving d just the same, and Creighton, Co. willlay it.—Herald. sk has consistently wooden pavements for five years past. It argued the question then on the same grounds on which it now advises Omaha nst the idiocy of putting @ood dollars into a cheap, but in the end, a costly pav- ing material, The determined antagon- m of Mr. James Creighton to wooden pavement was in those days more up- roarious than the opposition of the B 1f wooden pavements are to be laid, this paper and its editor are indiffer as to who lays them, so long a terms of the contract and specilications are complied with. Tt certainly wants Me Creighton, Murphy & Co. “to cometo the serateh” under their bids and bonds. Butthe BEE insists that if Omaha enters upon an era of wooden paving now, noone will more seriously regret the mistake made than the property own- ers who a few hence will be forced to pay the cost of repaving upon the streets lnid with cedar blocks. Bxperi- ence is the best teacher,but those are for- tunate who can profit by the experience of others without paying for the lesson in their own S opposed Axotner liquor damage suit, brought under the provisions of the Slocumb high license liquor law, has just been tried at Fremont, resulting in a verdict of $1,875 for the plaintift. Mrs. Ellen Jordon sued mages arising from the death of husband, who was killed by the city hal. Mr. Jordan had been crazed . Hanlan, who was then keeping a saloon, and while in his crazed condition shot by the marshal in attempt- rest him and to prevent him from murdering a deputy with an axe. Al- though the defendant h retired from the saloon business, and is said to be finan- cially irresponsible, her bondsmen will have to pay the judgment.The resultof this case, as inone or two others in Nebraska, shows that the Slocumb law makes saloon-keepers responsible. They eannot be too careful in the transaction of their business, which must be conducted with a o al of discrimination if damage suits are to be avoided. The result also demonstrates that bondsmen assume a responsibility which may cost them thou- sands of dollars, and hence as a matter of business safety they, too, should exer- cise great precaution in becoming sure- ties for suloon-keepers. The effect of such verdicts as that in the Fremont case will no doubt be of a salutary character, as men will hesitate to go upon a liquor license bond unless they feel pretty confi- dent that the applicant is a mun of some character and discrimination. THE voice of Senator Van Wyck has again been raised against the land grab- ber and in favor of the homesteader. Un- der a law passed in 1884 all abandoned military reservations were to be sold to the lighest bidders for cash, This opened the way for monopolists to gobble hun- dreds of thousands of acres of valuable lands, and yesterday Senator Van Wyck moved that the law be repealed so far as cash sales are concerned, and that the lands be opened to homestead settlement, Some 600,000 acres have alréady been turned over to the interior department, and there are about 2,000,000 acres more to follow. Senator Van Wyck's efforts in behalf of the homesteader will no doubt prove successful, ana will carry joy to the hearts of thousands who ave looking for new homes in the west. Kaxnsas City feels more elated over be- ing admitted to the National base ball league than she would over a new diree- tory census giving her a population of 200,000, The statement in the Bee that Milwaukee was to tak e the place of Kan- sus City in the league has cansed greatin. digpation in the latter town. The Jour- nal wants 1t distinetly understood that Kansas City has been libeled, as Milwau- kee takes her place in the Northwestern and not in the National league. Th pleases Omaha much better, as it gives our elub un opportunity to down a bigger place than Kansas City. Te Cineinnati authorities have pur- wsod o §700 piano for the poor house, Cincinnati proposes to in her posi- tion as w musical center. A CnicaGo mag who died the other day provided in his will that he should be eremi - Chicago wickedness isc true, such a re- quest on the part of the great majority of her citizens is entirgly superfluous. —— Mu. MorTON is warned by the Herald to cut the company, of Charley Brown if he ever hopes to be reinstated in the esteem of Dr. Miller. ‘Mr. Morton now knows the full price of forgiveness and will probably decline with thanks, A Springf CONSCTENC TRICKEN druggist of 1d, Ohio, astonished the natives the other day by pouring his entire stock of whisky into the street. We have yet to hear of any druggist in Kansas or Towa doing anything like that DexvEer officials are talking about “li- consing' gamblers, An Omaha eity ms shal tried this plan once, and was sent to the penitontiary for bribery Tuw Herald 1s evidently rattled. In this morning’s issue, whicl we have care- fully scanned, it forgets to say that Gardner must go. KINGS AND QUEENS. Prince Charles, of Portugal, is making a tour of Europe in search of a wite. Queen Victoria prefers Canon Duckworth's preaching to that of any of her spiritual Buides. King Louts, of Bavaria, refuses to talk to anyone, What a popular barber e would make! The empress of Russia, who has the finest teain the world, has @1 amber tea service out of which to drink 1t. King Theebaw wears on one finger what isdeclared to be the most magnificent ruby in the world—not the largest, but the largest without a single flaw. Barnum has proposed to the king of Ba- varia to pay all his debts on condition that he shall travel the eoming season with “the greatest show on earth,” Queen Victoria has given the Egyptian war medal for Suakin to Miss R. M. Burleigh for her care of the sick and wounded during the campaign in Egypt last year. King The while in the act of surrend- ering, looked down from his gorgeous throne into a huge gold spittoon, so heavy that it is said to take two men to carry it. The Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar has issu- ed to all his ofticials an index of foreizn words whose admission to the German lan- guage must be resisted at all hazard “The Soir says that the Czarewitch i gaged to the second daughter of the Prince of Montenegro. She is thirteen years of and is now at school at St. Petersburg. n Victoria has chosen as_the date of ormance of “Mors et Vita,” which she will attend at the Royal Albert hall, Fri- day, ), that being the eve of the third anniversary of; the death of John Brown. g Queen Victoria has receiyeda present from the United States of a,quajto volume (name not stated) bound in sealskin, with linings of damask satin, and a hand-painted in- seription. The work is regarded as a triumph of Americap bpok-binding, and copies have been presented to the German emperor and to the emperor of Russia. King Milan of Servia proposes to place himselt on a war footing as s rifles and ammunition, a large order having just been decided on. 1f he could only purehase twen- ty-five million ronnds of coura ys the St. Paul Pioneer Press, with which to supply his soldiers along with the cartridges, he would find his standing in Europcan circles greatly improved, t. Louis Republican: When King Milan, of Seryla, orders his whole army out for a six.weeks’ drill. matters must be admitted to be looking serious. Had heordered the men out merely for another conquest of Bulgaria, as he did three months ago, the world would have known what to cxpect, and no one would have had_cause for uncasiness. But when 80,000 soldiers, in full warlike equip- ment, with stores, eamp equipage, ammuni- tion and hospital service are ordered out for drill, as the cable dispatehes say they have been, the peace of Europe is evidently in per- ilous condition, ——-— ‘What Is Killing Men, San Francisco Examiner. It is not work that kills men. It is think- ing how they can put in the longest time on the shortest jobs. That’s what saps the hu- man energics, o Couldn’t be Elected Coroner. Bloomington Justice, James . Zediker, of Franklin, is a candi- date for the oflice of secretary of state. If he was acandi coroner’ in this county, and had any opposition, 1t is probable le would be defeated. Editor Rosewater, of the BEg, when in Washington disclosed througli his paper some of the duplex letters from Nebraska's democratic statesmen who are manipulating the offices. They are makinga fin mess of the whole matter. D Evidence of Sanity, Philadelphia Record. Since the will of W. F. Story has been ad- mitted to probate in Chicago it may be de ed asettled matter that & person capabl supervising the publication of a daily news: paper Is sane enough to dispose of his prop- erty in a legal manner, ——— Depends upon Where He Falls from. St. Paul Pioneer Press, The cost of keeping James D, Fish, the ex- banker conviet, at Murray Hill in New York was 850 aday. At Auburn prison he costs twenty cents a day, and he is addressed by respectful convicts and oflicegs as “Mr."” Fish. It seems to make some difféfence in a peni- tentiary whether a man fell into the concern from a five-story marble front or trom a hen- coop. Sieriey a0 Chicago Criticism of Mary Anderson, Chicago News, The Cleveland Plain Dealgr refers to what itis pleased to term Mjss Mary Anderson’s “art.” Miss Mary Anderson has no art, She has the talents she started with ten years ago, but nothing else except more flesh, more money, more age and wiore clothes, She was a brilliantly promising woman then. Art would have fulfilled all the promise of those early years, But Miss Anderson has no more art than a mahogany sofa has soul, A February Bapezey for May. Nebraska Gily News, Hon. W. ay, the brilljant and brainy democrat of Fremont, and who is now secre- tary of the democratic state committee, has been mentioned as the democratic candidate for congressman from the third district. The News seconds his nomination with pleasure, and feels confident that if Mr. May is select- ed as the standard bearer of the noble band of demoerats of that district he will lead them on to victory, We say nominate W, L. May. e LS Scotched Out. Fremont Herald. Editor Resewater has a column and a half letter from Washington in the BEg, in which he shows up some of the patent duplex meth- ods of the Omaba political twins in connec- tion with the surveyor-gencralship, He pub- lishies several letters written by these gentle- meu endorsing* Clegg and Kamsey, which the Heiald 1as positively denied. On May ed. 1F ald that we hear uboutl 11te, for lustauce, they signed & joint letter 1 to, Secretary Lamar endorsing Ramsey (after endorsing Clegg) and the letter {s published in full. What next? - A Plea For the Cow, St. Louis Republican. 1f Commissioner Colman's idea of tinting bogus butter conld be put into effect by legis- lation in all the states it would be an entirely practical and effective way of stopping the sale of it. Another feasible method and one that would afford a quicker remedy is the levying of an internal revenue tax on it the general government with such penalti for evasion as are provided in the present revenue laws in the case of whisky and to- baceo, With a tax of thirty cents a pouud on olecomargarine there would be no more oleomargarine. 1f weowe protection to the sheep we certainly ought not to refuse it tn the cow, - A Timely Warning, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, ¢ Itis alittle early yet fora cholera seare, but it can do no harmn to take account of the the dread scourge has appeared at in Spain—nearer to the United Sta tes, geographically considered, than it was Inst year. There is no particular reason to antio- ipate its coming to this country: but there is every reason why the authorities should take prompt steps to meot a possible emergency of that sort. Sanitary vigilance is the best as- surance of safety where cholera is concerned ; and sanitary vigilance is desirable whethe weare in danger ot a cholera visitation or not. —— Short Langunge Lossons, Ralph E. Hoyt. Of the man who did sing we say that he sang Or, we speak of the song he has sung: ‘Then permit us to say of the gun that can bang, It has often proceeded to bung. Of the man who written, And we properly can write we say he has ¥ that he has wrote: So then, when a doz another dog has bitten, We can'say he did bite, or else that e bote: Of a man who has ridden we say hie can ride, And twould also be proper to state that he rode: v not remark of the boat that can 't)lvlhly has glidden, or else that it STATE AND nifn‘mw. Nebraska Jottings. Tekamah is troubled with counterfeit silver coin, Plattsmonthers will waltz to the music of n charity ball on the 22d. A wilil cat weighing twenty-one pounds was captured by a hunter at Norfolk last week Ice gorges on the Loup away several bridges, infli damage on the traflic of country towns. A Slocumb verdict for $ render- ed by a Fremont jury 1y, against Mrs. Hanlon for corning George Jordan nd Tsland man is talking water n Kearney. ‘The natives propose to screw down' his safety valve with a proposition for bonds. The contract for grading the first thirty-one miles of the Lincoln extenison of tlie Elkhorn Valley road out of Fre- mont has been let and must be com- pleted by June 1. A frisky cow disputed the right of way with a B. & M. tram near Alma Saturday but the race was brief and ended in'a bloody cat. The animal was mangled without injury to the train There are two lady insurance agents in Nebraska, Mrs. A A. Dow, ot Oxford, Furnas county, and Mrs. Fannic O'Linn, of Sheridan, Dawes county. Each does a good business and makes money. Mrs. Angle Sherman, the young lady who so mysteriously disappeared from Bloomington on Thursday as found Friday about twelve miles from her home, ves no reasons for leaving her bome. Tecumseh is afMlicted with g small men, whosy publican’s'word forit, “are so small that a grain of mustard seed would not find room within. Men so hoggish and little in their actions and ideas, that there is nothing more to doto make hogs of them than to put on a twisted tail.” vers swept cting , serious .~'|||'f»lu~& of , taking the Re- lowa Items, Union county is in debt $34,224, The Methodists of Indianola are to build a church to cost $13,000. . Sioux City paid a bonus of $15,000 to insure the erection of a $200,000 hotel. The creameries in Madison county pay to the farmers from $125,000 to $150,000 annually for milk and eream. The Shaver Wagon and CarriageLom- of Des Moines, capital $100,000, rticles of incorporation. A Sioux City family named Lutz we sickened last week by drinking de cistern water. It required conside pumping to save funeral expenses. On February 10 Belmont had had no train over the Iowa Central road in twenty-six days. The snow was still two and_ one-half” feet deep on a level and badly drifted. At Melrose, Grundy county, Lew Delp and wife made .‘]Hmd poured 1t boiling hot into a washtub sitting on the floor, when their little 8-y old boy acciden- tully fell into thé seething ma The father caught the child from the tub in time to save it from instant death, Dakota. Deadwood has organiz trade with G. R. Scrongal at its | B Buffalo Gap is growing rapidly. A cemetery has been opened up near town. The Oad Fellows of Huron are prep: ing the plans for a three-story brick block 40x80 feet in size. Rapid City has decided o invest $1,500 in a jail, to supply the demands of a pro- gressive community. Deadwood is gullilvz jealous of the growing importance of Rapid City, and attempts to belittle its progress. A farmers’ mut msurance tion has been formed at Alexand ociation will insure against izhtning only. The Pacific Coas Most of the Montana stock ranges are roported as being free from snow, and cattle doing well, Every one of the quartz mills in Storey, Lyon and Ormsby counties, Nevada ranning full time. In-digging o grave at Ketchum, Wood or, fda, o body was discovered which had been buried with its boots on The Post-Inteltigencer reports deprecia- tion in the value of Seattie property. It says what was paid $10,000 for two years ago is not worth §6,000 to-day. Tn the allegations in a suit for damages in Sacramento, it appears that a bull suc. ceeded in thi omotive from o railroad trac The buli died from over-exertion, however, All Chinamen who die in Sacramento must be buried “in a box of suituble dimensions, made of redwood boards, not less than one inch in thickness, and lined with sheet-lead not 1 than five pounds to the sq foot, which shall Le soldered by a licensed plumber. Such a box shall a brass vent screw one and o f inches in diameter, with standard thread, and with flange and lock-nut, whieh said vent serew shull be soldered to the lead on the inside of the bottom of the box, six inches from the foo. end of the box.' - For Money. Chicago Herall arking who sues Lucky Baldwin, neisco, for breach of of marriage, and who las boen giving associa- . The lire and promise her testimony this week, makes out a very good case for hersclf. She wet Bald win at his ranch when she was sixteen yoars old, and appears to have captivated him completely, He was about four times as old as she, but as he was known to have several millions and to be the possessor of lnck that was unfailing, her parents offered no objection to her asso ciating with him with & freedom that was hardly within the bounds of pro P oty. She accompanied him to San ‘rancisco on_ several oceasions without other companionship.and once when in that city he proposed She accepted him, and it w od wedding shoild fake | within thre months. Ho then (ook her to a joweler's and purchused a diamond ring, which is now in evidence. After this, with the seeming consent of her parents, the girl was in Baldwin's company most of th time, nnd, though no ceremony had been ln formed, she at length traveled with iim as his wife. Returning home finally to prepare for the wedding, she was dumfounded to receive information of Baldwin's marriage to another woman a fortnight before the time set for her own nuptials. She now sues for heavy dam ages i stor is that of a foolish girl, not yet ninete 1 years old, who, according to lior own confession, isthe vietim of pa rental avarice and neglect no less than that of the heartless deception of a man whose millions are expected to furnish o save for her wounds. In estimating Juldwin’s culpability the attitude of the parents of Miss Perking must be fully pnsidered also, and, if the story be true in all its parts, no condemnation of him will be complete without a similar ar raignment of them. 1 ntions mil- lionaires of the e anout what a Targe portion of the people who are not millionaires make them. It is no defene of Baldwin to assert that the parvents of the girl may be as well satis fied with their present chances in a breach of promise suit as they would haye been with their relutionship to him had the m: ge coremony been performed, but the fact that thei ugh- ter, who is to be the real sufferer, was left by them to the tender me of a man whose reputation for marrying his mis- was not good, does argue that he s not the only offender. Y 1 shameful one all around, only regrot which wonld follow the recovery of heavy damages by the girl would” be the probability that her arents would be the gainers, and not . In an age when ny ‘men and women will scll hody soul for money it is folly to inveight the licen- tiousness of the Pacific ¢ — nor Seymour's Opinion of Poli- ticians, The following expressions from Mr. Seymour on the subject of “‘Politicians taken from an article which appeared years ago in the New York Sun e eminently characteristic of the dis- guished statesman I'never loved the B never cared particularly for public , but T :\I‘\\un |lk0lI politi nd, what is more, I like politicians., They are a much-ubused class. It is the fashion to sneer at them, but I think they are bet- ter men, as u rule, than merchants and banke nd other representatives o spectability. They make more and domore unselfish work for other than business men ever think of doing. They cultivate a ce chivalrio sense of honor. Even some whe are naturally corrupt will refuse the most tempting bribes when the integrity of their party is involved. I have Secn enough of political life to satisfy me that its influence is elevating and not degrading. 1 would rather be tried by a of my political opponents who' were acknowi- edged politicians, than by a jury of re- table business men who said that took no particular interest in poli- sually voted the republic sm them 1 should expeet injustice and prejudice tentimes as intense v avowed political opponents would isplay. The man who serves a cause, if 1t is not a positively bad cause, is enno- Dled by the e. He learns to look men, as well as doctrines from a higher ndpoint than a mere_personal selfish s. Hence I repeat that I like politi- well as politics, but I do not like Gove o of power; e Edison = Spark. An Akron, O., correspondent write The announcement that Thomas A, Edi- son, the inventor, is soon to marry Miss Mina Miller, of this city, created no jittle surprise and comment here among all classe The prominence of the bride’s father, and the still more celebrated name of Mr. Edison, make the marriag one of nnusual i :st. The wedding cerem, lebrated electrician and inyentor of Lewis Miller will 1 ormed at mansion of the Miller family in this c on Feb. 24, The ofliciating clergyn be Rev. Dr. E. K. Young, pustor of Methodist E!:isn-nkml church of Akron assisted by Rey, 1 . H. Vincent, of Plainficld, N. J. Only the intimate friends of the family will be present, on account of the failing wlth of M r, mother of the Immedi- ter the wedding Mr, Edison and le_will travel by special car to Jucksonville, Fla., whence they will pro- ceed to Fort Mey Fla., where he has built a handsome villa, to be used as his winter home. Here thev will remain un- til the close of April, when they will r turn to Ohio for a brief visit. In May Mr. and Mrs. Edison will go to Menlo Park, N. J., where the inventor has fitted tial home of rare elegance and ng, it is thout $150,000. s Miller 1s the second danghter of Lewis Miller, She will be 20 years of age in March next. Miss Mitler is of medium height, with a well-developed figure, brown hair, blue eyes, very large and expressive, and has o beautiful cach-like complexien, She graduated tom the Akron high school a couple of years ago, and spent the following summer in Europe, ie is an excellent musician, and of lute hus nequired a taste for painting and other arts. Although 5ho has o Fuss than ton brothers and afs ters, she is the first child in the family to be led to the hymeneal . Her elder sister, Miss Jennie Miller, has been engaged 10 'be married for some time There is a little romane nnected with the engagement of Mr. Miller's daughter. Mr. Edison paid his | to Chautauqua last'year, and del leeture. - While there he was the guest of Mr. Miller, who, a5 president of the sembly, entertains many prominent visi tors at his summer cottag: It was here ! (last summer) that Mr. Edison met the | charming daughter of the Ohio miliion- aire. She at once cantivated the inyen tor, and they became gr friends ol Yot A TERRITORIAL TILT. the that the | country like Montana,* said he, “I'd quit business and go to New Mexico and shoot lizzards, ~1daho wouldn't have any blizzards but for Montana." “Any place but Idaho wonld be able to stop a bl rd,"” retorted Montana, “But you haven't got a tree in your ters There is nothing there but alkali s and plains of lava.” “Fhe last time T was in Montuna,' ro- turned Idaho, “there was a snowfall on, | and the wind was blowing so strongly at the same time that it drove the snow an inch and a half intc the trees.” | “Wedon't have snow slides, anyway, in ont country,” said ho of the land of blizzards, 1 had a paper from Butte | City t morning that tells of a snow slide there the other day that carried away and killed one-third of the popula- tion of Tdaho.” ‘Do you mean that?'" inquired Tdaho, with real ansiety pietured on his couns tenance. “Certs “And how 1 STwo men A painful expression flitted across tha face of Idaho, and, turning to the third party, he explained that he of Montana was in reality an Idaho man; but was temporarily employed in the manuafc: ture of blizzards “in Montana while awaiting the expiration of tie statute of limitation, when he would roturn to Idaho “How does the statute of limitation af- feet him?" Inquired the third party. “On!it's in connection with a little af- fair he had witha horse—several horaes, in fact—somo y veturned Idaho, YLdon't want to give him aw s Montana replied by taking out his pocketbook and seribbling init in large characters the figures any were killed?"” Then he tore out the leaf and handed it to Idaho, saying: “Don’ these figures re teminiscences, my friend W do they sign asked the third patly before Idaho Kad tino to ros ply. : HOh! now and then, up in our coun- try,” said Montar ‘the ofticers of the 1aw require a little assistance in the main- his assistance antes, and when n excursion they post the town with these figures, and they meet the eye everywhere. They signify at there is danger in the air, and pru- dent men keep quict for a day or two. “Men who have been guilty of wrong- doing, when they sco those mystic figures, ience stricken, and generally emigrate into laaho,” and Montani glanced queerly at the representative of the territory named.” y “And if they don't get out? inquired the third in, with a view to al- lowing Idaho fime to gzet cool SIf they don't yo the vigilantes pay them a vi nd allow them fifteen min- utes or half an hour to get out of town. I have a man in my mind now who was allowed fifteen min to take the Idaho road out of Butte City." “Did he take ity “He promised to be satisfied with ten minutes if the mute didn’t Kick.” “But, 'lhy all vigilantes use the same fignres in Butte City they a 77, but in Helena they are i-1-7-3-7, T believe.” At this moment the conversation was interrupted by the arrival of a man from Arizona, who'suggested poker, and amid blufls and flushes and - straights and pairs the minds of Idaho and Montana once again became ealm and quiet. A Norwich man, excavating for a new collar, found a small hlack walnut coffin, which hie opened. Within was the body of a black and tan terrier, well preserved., The dog wore a shrond’ of white satin, trimmed with Lice, and_around its neck was ahandsome collar of buffleather and gold. 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