Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 5, 1886, Page 5

TWELVE MEN TRIED AND TRUE Olossted Jury Bolving the Intricacies Oon- nected With Smith's Special Sale, THE ARGUMENTS YESTERDAY. Judge Pound Pays Tribute to the Memory of His Dececased Col- league—Races Arranged at Omaha—Capital Notes. | FROM THR DRE'S LINCOLY NURRAU.| At 11 o'clock last night the jury in the Cole-Miller case were still out, with ap- parently no intention of returning a ver- dict before morning, At supper time the report was spread that they were almost unanimous for the defendants, but from the preparations made for spending the night comfortably it was casy to see that an agreement was not an immediate prospect. The lawyers on both sides have been on the watch ever since the case went to the o’clock, and, though hopeful, anxious seat. From the peculiar circum- surrounding the trial, the law and large money value involved, the litigation has aroused great interest all over the when it was known that the heavy work was to be done, the court room was crowded, and oven after the jury retired man; tators hung about the corridor: for the verdict. The arguments of the counsel in_sum- ming up the case to the jury were ingen- jousand forcible on both sides. General Jowin, for the defense, spoke fir his every word and motion gave of intense belief in the justn client’s claims, lending his effort an in- spiration that made it at times particu- grand and effecti Much of hi: § was addressed directly to Lowy and Cole, who sat in front of him at the end of the jury box, and as he hurled seathing sentences of denunciation at them, accompanied with an emphatic gesture of the hand, and the assertion, “you know its 80 Lowy; you know its 80 Cole; ncither one of you dare deny it the plaintifis wriggled about like Dean Swift’s snake which was cursed by the fish-wife for squirming when she as skinning it alive. The counsel for the plaintiff, General Cowin said, lays vartic css upon the fact that Mr. Lowy h man; that he can go to banks in ago and borrow $60,000 without security, and argues, thercfore, that he must he respeetable and hone: 1f this is a standard of probity and in: tegrity, then Loyal L. Smith must have been the very arch-angel of 1especta- bility, for he was able to do the very same thing, and there are bankers in this court room to-day who advanced him large sums of money with- out collateral endorsemeut. a ing the testimony General Cowin went through it, tracing Lowy's con- duct from the day he lett Chicago for Omaha the first time until the deal was consummated, and giving the logical deductions therefrom. The whole thing was & deliberate, collossal steal, he claimed, planned in Chicago by Lowy, Cole and Smith, who were members of the firm of pirates who carried on an illegitimate warfare upon the sea of com- merce, filling it with wrecks and spread- ing financial desolation on every side. His closing argument was on the value of the stock, the lowest estimate of which was $100,000 made by George W. Ames, a witness for the plaintiff. Lowy knew Smith never pretended to have wmore than 60,000 capital, so there must be an _indebtedness of $40,000, and yetin the faco of this he deliberately Fwears that he believed Smith’s statement that ho didn’t owe anything, Thurston’s argument for the plaintiff was more of a theoretical than logical presentation of the case, convincing rather in ity plausibility and carnestness than sound reasoning. He contended that if a steal was intended Lowy would have paid Smith $100,000 n then Smith could have given ovorplus. In this wu_{'lhuru would have been no question about the adequate rice paid. In the next sentence he ridiculed tho idea of Smith iving Lowy $10,000 as asserted by the defense, because Smith was o sharp rascal, and would not trust any man with $10,000 of his money. Lowy, he claimed, had lived in Chieago for twenty-two years, and was known as an honorable, upright man. He was not the kind of a man Smuth would chosen to assist him in a fraud. Judge Dundy’s charge was quite ex- haustive and entirely satisfactory to both pides, something unusual in u case of $his magnitude. SUMMER RACES IN OMAHIA. The Nebraska Association of Trotting Horse Breeders held a meeting here to- night, at which it was resolved to give two days races at Omaha on July2and 8, Subscriptions to the amount of $510 were phulguJ by Omabans, and Mr. Mount, who presented the p]:lpor, said the Omaha 4 i1 s fair association would give the use of its rounds and buildings without charge. i resolution of thanks to the fair associ- ation and to the people of Omaha gener- ally, for the liberality displayed, was assed unanimously. ‘Among the mem- ors in attendance were J.D. Macfar- land of Lincoln, D. T. Mount of Omaha, Henry Fry of York, L. E. Sinsabaugh o Syracuse, J. O, Frauwz of Friend and W. H, Barstow of Crete. THE MITCHELL RESOLUTIONS. When district court was opened yestor- day morning Judge Mason, on behalf of the committee, presented the resolutions adopted by the Lancaster county bar, ex- pressive of their sorrow at tha death of udge Miteholl, at the same time making a short address which moved many in the ecourt room to tears. Judge Pound, in rusronse. ordered that the resolutions and specch be spro on the record; but to the lattor Judge Mason modestly ex- copted, refusing to furnish even a skelo- ton of what he tnd said. In ordering the resolutions rocorded Judge Pound snid: “On this oceasion I think it proper to make a few rema The ofticial rela- tions which have oxisted between Judge Mitchell and myself have been pleasing, cordial and harmonions. ~ Although but u short timo on the bench, he had already won the regard and confidence, and warm approvation of the bar of this dis. trict. Both as a lawyer and a judge I Inifhl estoemed a respeoted him. Ho had many of the qualities, as those who have heard him know, of a success- ful advocate, a fine and manly presence, an earncst and impressive m: ated tone and a veady speech, lowered or bedraggled his subject but lifted it up and threw over it the light of truth and reason. He walked in sercne atmosphere and on a high plane. As a citizen and as & man he had many estimable and ennobling traits of churacter. He was gifted with a large and noble nature, generous sympathics, a line sensibility and had a high sense of honor. He wus conscientious in the dis- charge of his duty, and I think entively incapable of doing intontional wrong to another. He had pure and lofty thoughts, and liyed a pure and exemplary life, which we would all do well to emulate, But he has gone; all save the example and memory of his virtnes." BRIEF MENTION. Albert Starke was jailed for thirty days by Justice Cochrune Wednesday afternoon for wife beating. Starke’s wife had refused to furnish him witn money for chewing tobacco, for which offeuse he had knocked her down and vounded her in a brutal manner. 'he B. & M. wutboritios estiniute that it cost the company $100,000 to keep i tracks in Nebraska clear of snow during the month of January. The Windsor hotel property will be 8old by the sheriff on April 6 to satisfy the judgments of $42,000 entered at the Jnmmry term of the district court, The gale will not affect the present landlords, Messrs. Glass & Montrose, who have a ears' lease, dating from January 1, ditor Wessel has enlarged the Courler to a six column folio, and 1s making it a nm-uni'y in Lincoln homes. Of course BEE's reference to the picture of Hon. Patrick Egan in the last issue was a joke, and one that was appreciated. Loup county funding bonds to amount of $4,50 we the registered by tie rrants were ser on Schwartz & r, the saloon men, yesterday, for Iling liquor to John Minick, a con- firmed drunkard. The jury in the case of Campin vs. Key- ser, on trial in the dist court, gave the plaintiff a ver . In Reames vs Kuney, the pls awarded $128.60, President Wintersteen of the Onio As- braska, is preparing a list of Ohio veter- ans now in this state, by counties. The parties against whom the district attorney has filed information will be aigned before Judge Pound to-day The members of the railway commis ion, who have been at Emmett, on the mont, kikhorn & Missouri Valley rai investigating the claims of th I»Iv there for a depot, have returned to Lincoln, firm in the belief t a building should be put up at once. ('Inu'lt'.fl\':mllvrprml‘ the man who has figured in police court two or three tim as & hog stealer, was I~Imlle by his neighbors yeste y d Twentieth streets, with ng his family cow. Captain Post visited Vanderpool's barn and found a wretched bovine, which he ordered fed and cared for mn a proper manner. Vanderpool has engaged hoard for the cow at the stock hotel of Perkins, on O street. STATE ARRIVALS. J.T. Hamilton, Omaha; F. E. Shepard, Omaha; G. W. Shiller, York; R, N. Wil- liams, Omaha; Ed Appleton, Ashiand; C. S. Watkins, Blue Hill; rles Buschow, Red Cloud; A. M. Glo Aurora; Augus MecDonald, Hastings; D. T. Mount, Oma- ha; Collman, DeWitt; George W. Barnhart, Columbus; W. H. Barstow, Crete; Mrs. George B. Tyl yler, Hastings. TALMAGE ON THE HOME, Sound Advice to Young Marrizd Men. It is the delusion as to what is nc vy for a home that hinders so many establishing one. Thirty rooms are not necessary, nor twenty, nor fifieen, nor ten, nor five, nor three. In the right \vhvzll nt a table, and couch, and knife, and fork, and a cup, and a chair, and you can raise a young pa se. Just starta home, on however small a scale, and it vill grow. When King Cyrus was in- ed” to_dine with a humble friend the king made the one condition of his com- ing that the only dish be one loaf of bread, and the most imperial satisfactions have sometimes banquetted on the plain- est fare. Do not be caught in the delusion of many thoussnds in postponing a home until they ean haye an exvensive one. That idea is the devil's trap that catches men and women innumerable who will never have any home at all. Capitalists of America, build plain homos for the people. Let this tenement house system in which hundreds of thousands of peo- ple of our cities are wnlln\vmglm the mire, be broken up by small homes, where people can have their own fire- sides and their own altars. In this great continent there is room enough for every man and woman to haye a home. Mor- als and civilization and religion demand it. We want done all over this land what George Peabody and Lady Burdett-Coutts did in England, and some of the large manufacturers of this country have done for the villages and cities, in building small houses at cheap rents so that the middle classes can have separate homes. They are the only class not provided for. The rich have their palaces and the poor have their poorhouses, and the criminals have their }x\lls; but what about the hon est middle classes, who are able and willing to work and yet have smallin- come? Let the capitalists, inspired of God and pure patriotism, rise and build whole streets of residences, The laborer may have, at the olose of the day, to walk or ride further than 18 desirable " to reach it, but when he gets to his destina- tion in the eventide he will find something worthy of being called by that glorious and impassioned and heaven-descended word, “home. Young married man, as soon as you can, buy such a place, even if you have to put on it a mortgage reaching from base to capstone. The much abused mort- age, which is ruin to a reckless man, to the prudent and provident is the begin- ning of a competency and a fortune, for the reason he will not be satisfied until he has paid it off, and all the household are put on slrmg]-nt economies until then. Deny yourself all superfluities and all luxuries” until you can say ‘‘Ever; thing in this house is mine, thank God! every timber, every brick, every foot of plumbinf. every door-sill.” Do not have your children born in a boarding house, and do not yourself be buried from one. Have a place where your children can shout and sing, and romp without being overhuuled ‘for the racket. Have a kitchen ~ where you can do something toward the reformation of ovil cookery and the lessening of this nation of dyspeptics. As Napol- eon lost one of his great battles bY an attack of indigestion, so many men have such a daily wrestle with the food swal- lowed that they have no strength left for the battle of life, and though your wife may know how to l:]nyun all musi- cal instruments and rival a prima donna, she is not well educated unless she can boil an Irish potato and broil a mutton chop, since the diet sometimes decides the fate of families and nations. Have a sitting-room with at least one easy chair, oven thongh you have to take turns at sitting in ad books out of the public library or out of your own purchase for the making of your family intelligent, and checker boards and fiucsnmz matches, with an oecasional lind man’s buff, which is of all games my favorite. Rusoup your home with all styles of innocent mirth, and gather u}; in your children’s nature a reservoir of exuberance that will pour down re- freshing streams when life gots parched. and the dark days como, and the lights 0 out, and the laughter is smothered into sob, e Money Awaits Ilim. Murshal Cummings to-day received a lotter from Mrs. D. H. Gregg, of Plano, Texas, making inquiry about a brother of hers, Lyeurgus Johuston, who is sup- posed to be in Omaha. Shesays he is a l brick mason by trade, short and heavy set _in figuro, with whiskers slightly an'inklud with gray. Mrs, Gregg says that she has some interesting informa tion for him concerning a sum of money to which he has fallen heir. LY The Dalton Contempt Case. Coruanus, O. Mareh 4—The supreme court this morning afirmed the decision of the lower court in_ refusing to grant & writ of labeas corpus in the case of Daniel Daltou of Cinciunatl, held for contempt by the house of representatives, Tl L T Smuggled Diamonds Captured. Catcaao, March 4.—Diamonds valued at 000 were seizod bhere to-day by Unlted States treasury ageuts. They are owned by Jerry Monroe, a State street saloonk ceper who, the oMcials charge, sinuggled the same from England, aided by an l{ngliah wowman named Lloyd. No arests, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, I'RIDAY, MARCH WHAT NEBRASKA PLOPLE SAY A Oorrespondent Calls Attention to That Boom On the 8miling Blue, BACKED BY ONE FROM BEATRICE. An Essay On the Fertile Soil of Brown Uonnty— Periodical Toot] From Tecumseh—The Santee Indians’ Insurance Troubles, That Boom on the Blue. BLuE Srrinas, Neb., March, 4.—[Cor- respondence of the BEk.]—Appropos of the improvements that are to be made in our thriving city the coming season, the following facts in connection with the men who are engaged in furthering them and the advantages offered will prove of interest: Messrs, Black Bros. & Schrimpton, long and favorably known in our neighbor- ing city of Boatrice as men of ability and integrity and thoroughly conversant with all the details'of successful milling, have leased sufficient power for a mill with a cavacity of 150 barrels of flour per day, and will at once erect a building forty feet square and three stories high, with mansard roof. Also an elevator with machinery for preparing rye and buck- wheat flour. The entire works are to be of the most approved modern style and the machinery the best that can be purchased in America. Mr. N. S Spencer, also from Beatrice, a gentleman of probity and brimfull of enterprise and pluck, will erect the planing mill and sash factory. Messrs. McDowel & Knight, who will establish the foundry and machine shops, are men conversant with the business and enthusiastic over their profllpl‘(‘lq. 5 After these shall have been all supplied with the requisite power there still re- mains an amount equal to at least 800 horse to be utilized in the near future. 1t has long been conceded thatthe waters of the beautiful Blue river at this point afford the largest and best water power in the state, and recognizing that fact and also the fact that the time would come when it would be utilized, and through this influ the pleasant little city of Blue Springs wonld become n town of vast importance to its line of road, the oflicers of the Union Pacific some years since purchased the entire property and have sinco held it, awaiting the coming of the time when it must be improved. Owing to the fact that the several lines of railroad have been push- ing rapidly westward and opening new iclds, which, by the opporjun afforded for cheap investments, have a tracted emigration, and for a time caused the far El‘cmnr inducements here to be passed by and neglected, our water power has until now remained idle, and but little known beyond our immediate vicinity. Our citizens, though knowing thata niine of wealth and pros: perity was located within our midst, and that it was only a question of time when it would be deposited, have yet at times felt much of “hope deferred that maketh the heart sick,”” but now feel that tho time of the fruition of our hopes is at hand. There is in the whole of the “wild west” no more beautiful section of country than southern Gage county. The summer’s sun shines on no more fertile region than the Blue river valley, with its meadows and fields, its groves and plains. Nowhero is there a more in- telligent, educated, and law-abiding peo- ple, and now that the sparkling waters of the Blue arc to be utilized for indus- trial and commercial purposes, the pleas- unt little city of Blue Springs starts out with a new boom which cannot but re- sult in making it one of the most pros- perous and desirable locations in the state, Pooun-Ban. As Another Sees It. BrAaTriCE, Neb,, March 4.—[Corre- spondence of the Bek.]—About twelve miles south of here is situated atown whose inhabitants are afflicted with pluck and persistence, this affliction prob- ably being caused by the rejuvenating qualities of the springs in that vicinity. This town is named Blue Springs, and has many natural advantages, surrounded by fine farming land, while east, north and south flows the Blue river, which is one of the best water powers in the state. Arrangements have been com- pleted with the Union Pacific railroad whereby the water power will be diately utilized. That railroad is pr ing to put in flood gates, repair the dam, ete. A as the weather — permits a flouring mill, 200 barrel capacity, will be built. Also, a planing mill, sash factory, and machine shop. The Union Pacific depot is at the cast end of the business street, The suit h has been_ in the supreme court against the B, & M., and recently won by the people of Blue Springs, gives them o depot and freight facilitics nt_the west end of tho business street. Within the gmfl fow months a street railway has been uilt joining Blmfi‘mingd and Wymore, which in time wil the best in the state. ‘make the two towns Nankr-Poo. Brown Oounty's Advantages. JonxsrowN, Neb., March 2.—[Corre- spondence of the Ber.]—Seeing letters from other parts of the country I thought I would write to let the readers of the Ber know that there is a place called Johnstown. Itisin Brown county, about twelve miles west of Amnsworth, situated between Plum and Sand creeks, on the Fremont & Elkhorn Valley railroad. It contains four grocery and dry goods stores, one hardware, one drugstore, two blacksmith shops, one land office, a bank, one law oflice, two carpenter shops, one livery stable, one physician, one furniture and we expect to ereet a large school house. The Methodists have built # very handsome church, which they nold meetings in. ted Brethren have bought two lots and intend to buld ol f’" away. ve had a vul{? pleasant winter— little snow and a very few cold d s0 far. Stock is looking' first class. Woe have a splendid opening for a mill here; lots of water power, and a party that would take hold and put up a good mill would make money. The farm here raised as good wheat as they did in any part of the state—if not better— alt loufih itis claimed that we are in the Sand Hills, We can raise the largest vegetables, and in time as good corn as anywhe: It may seem strange to say this. Even if we are in the northwestern part of Nebraska, we have not had as cold weather bere, nor as’ unpleasant, as you have had in Omaba, or in the south- ern part of the state. We are watching Senator Van Wyck and glory in his spunk. We hope he will keep after the land sharks, as well as Sparks. Government land is being taken quite fast bere. We have splendid water here; no malaria, and I ‘was told by a doctor the other du?' that it was so healthy in Brown county that he would starve to death if he did not move away. Kamisua. Tecumseh Toots, cuasel, March 8.—[Correspondence of the Bge.)--Messrs. Montague and Huckins, the temperance workers, came here last Friday ovening and held meet- ings every night since. The opera house will not hold the people. Hundreds have donned the blue ribbon. They go from here to Syracuse. The rates betwoen here and Vista, we believe, have been arranged. Our agents had the samo ratés all the time, or could get them for the asking, but the agents here are not very much on the talk and gave the regular rates, while the Vista agent, being a cOmmunicative man and wanting information, wrote to headquar- ters and got a reduction of $22 a car and was doing all the business for our town and east of us for miles, The hotel is being talked up and is as- suming better shape. The ground north of the depot has been secured at £2,000. It is well located for passengers to take dinner, and as wo | four passenger trains hei y day, the company onght to k and help the thing along. Politics present. are not very lively here at The exci ¢ “the post- ofice seems to h 1 off a little. The “packing.house” democrats scem to think they are on top and the “‘slaughter- house “fellows are <kirmishing around the corners pretty lively, We believe the peo- ple ought to ‘elect “the postmasters and stop that much wrangling at the seat of the government. We conld fill the post- offices with good men and let our sena tors, congressmen and president do more for the nation at lagr 0-Ko. om an Indian. Ney, Neb., March 2.—[To In your paper of Monday, February 23, you published my state ment to a reporter of the Bee regarding the swindling of the Sioux Indians by R. S. Young. He was agent for the Nebra ka & lowa Insurance company, and afterwards for the Home Five Insurance company of Omaha. My visit to Omaha was solicited by Mr. Campbell of the Nebraska & lowa Insurance company, who also promised me a pass to St. Paul for my trouble. After staying in Omsha five days I lost patience waiting for my pass, and being without money, asked the Nebraska & Iowa Insurance com- p:m{lo ive me enough money to pay my hotel bill and railroad fare to return home. They refused to do anything for me, stating ‘that Mr. Campbell was ab- sent trom the city; they would fixup with the Indians some time' next spring. When I told about my trouble to the Home Fire Insurance” company they at_ once my hotel bill and railrond fare. Thev sent Mr. Martin Maas, their special agent, along with me to straighten up everything with the Indians.” When arriviug at Creighton Mr. Mauas swore out a warrant for Young's arrest, and the_ofticers are now looking for him. Mr. Maas has visited all the Indians who made any compluint. He has been here three days and engaged me as his interpreter 'the Home fire Insurance company has done all the; could do to have the Indians satistied, even at a great 1oss to the company. The Indians are loud in their praises of the prompt and fair action of this company, and only wish, now that R. S. Young would soon be found and punished. JOoHN ROUILLARD. CONFERRING THE PALLIUM. i ki A Notable Catholic Ceremony Wit- nessed in New York. New Yonrk, March 4.—Throngs of the faithful crowded around St. Patrick’s cathe- dral this morning anx to secure admis- sion, to witness tite ceremonies attending the conferring of the pallinm upon Archbishop Corrigan, which will install him as the head of the see of New:York. This includes the diocese of Brooklyn, Buffalo, Newark, Al- bany, Rochester and 'Ogdensburg. Admis- sion was gained by tickets. Every church in the neighboring cities was represented. Promptly at1 o’clock the services were com- menced. Cardinal-Elect Gibbons of Balti- more, and Bishops McInery and Conroy and McMaban, Monsignor Doane and Dr. 0'Con- nell occupled seats within the chancel rail on the right side of the altar Priests and _acolytes led the _procession. Arelbishop Corrigan was arrayed in_golden Tobes and attended by Monsignors Preston and Quinn, following, They marched down the side and through the center aisle to the chancel rail, where the t‘lerg‘vnmn divided, taking seats on either side, the archbishop with Monsignors Preston and Quinn advan- cing to the altar, where the former kissed the cross presented 'him by Archbishop Elder, ceieprant of the pontuical mass and custo- dian of llum. A cholr of 150 boys sang the eum,” after which mass was commenced. Bc(bon the celebration of mass was bflfun, A‘rch sxoR %;rglgnn was presented with an address on bel Y]r of the clerzy by Rev. Arthur J, Donnelly, fector of St Mlclpfi s church, which concluded as follows: *Un- der your future guidance we can but be of 00 onéer, and full, Bob merely of hope, but of expectation, and'even the great progress of the past under your illustrious predeces- sors, — will beé dwarfed by that of future, and that ~the other sheep which you have will also hear your voice, and though it cannot reasonably bé ex- pected that in your own lifetime so happy result can be reached, yet: posterity shall one day see one fold and ono shephord.” A reply to the address, Arenbishop Corri- gan expressed Lis aporoctation of the iionor which had been conferred upon him. The kind words which had been said would en- courage him to labor more earnestly and ||):ulfull)' than ever for the salvation of the souls of men and the advancement of Christ’s kingdom, After mass had been duly celebrated, Arch- bishop Ryan of Philadelphia delivered the sermon from St John xxvi: 11-23, upon Christian unll{y‘ ‘The palllum ln{ upon the altar hidden by a silken veil. It isonlya white woolen band, about two inches wi worn around the shoulders and sed in front, The pallium was made at Rome of wool shorn from two lambs which the sister- hood of Bt. Agnes offer every year ou their patronal ~ feast. No archbishop ecan exercise his functions without it, Going to the altar Archbishop Gibbons sat upon his throne. Archbishop Corrigan, !IIPPOI‘IA?(I by two monsigneun knelt before him and repeated the oath n essary beforea investure with the pallium. After making aloud his profession of faith, Archoishop Gibbons arose, and taking the mllium))]awl it upon the shoulders of ishop Corrigan *“In the Son and Holy and holy sce. vested the archblshop with the fullest powers. Then Al‘chblnlm‘) Corrigan, with firm step asconded the altar and faced the congreg tion, He took in his hand the archi-episcopal cross, and gave Lj sing to all present, Then once more the hrocession formed, the priests leading aid the bishops following, and marched down the aisles and into the sacristy, and the ceremony was at an end. e IN TERROR OF BANDITS, ——— The Town of Uarrizo in Fear of At. tack by a Mexican Mob. GALVESTON, Texas, March 4,—A startlin g report hias just been received here from Car- rizo, a town sixty miles down the Rio Grande river, thatall able bodied citizens are under arms to resist an attack from Mexican bandits. A sheep herder from a ranch near Carrizo arrived in that town this morning in a state of great excitement, claiming that he had night before last been & prisoner in the hands of about fifty Mexican bandits who were making active preparations to raid and plun- der the town of Carrizo. The frightened herder sald the bandits were all heavlly armed and well mounted and that their attack upon Carrizo could be expected any night: hence the precaution of the citizens, who are pre- pared to give the bold bandits'a wWarm recep- ion. As Company F, Nineteenth [nfantry, en roufe from Ringgold Barracks to Laredo, must be near there by this time, it is likely they will take a hand against the bandits should they make the attack to-night. Much interest is manifested and later fimlllgem-e from Carrizo is expected to be of a sanguin- ary character, R . Under the new election law of Wash- ington territory it requires a printed ticket one foot long to elect & justice of the peace. HONEST SETTLERS DON'T KIOK. Commissioner Sparks' Course Oom- mended by a Nebraska Re- publican. SnermAN, Furnas county, Neb., March 2.—(To the Editor.]-In an editorial in one of your weeklies about the middle of February you seemed to throw out a bid for a public expression of the people’s opinion in regard to the official acts of Commissioner Sparks. As one of the people I have not the slightest objection to expressing my opinion in regard to Mr. Sparks. Ihave not met a citizen yet in this section that has expressed his views of Mr. Sparks' official acts who did not coincide with me in saying that Sparks has acted in an eminently proper way in investigating land frauds through- out the coun 1 have not heard a howl yet from a settler beeanse Mr. Sparks has withheld his patents till he could investi- gate the proofs. I thingall the how! that comes from the actual settlers could be compressed in so small a compass that you could not hear it with the most pow- erful ear trumpet in existenco. All the howl I have yet heard of is in the news- papers, and undoubtedly comes from land grabbers and monopoly congress- men of the Jim Laird stripe. What on earth the republicans of this aistrict elected the Stinkingwater Chieftain for [ am unable to determine. There is not a more shameless hypoerite in_ the public service thanJim Laird. Tam a republican, but I can endorse an honest democrat or condemn a dishonost party leader. Of Commisioner Sparks' official acts i gard to the public lands, I heartily en- dorse every one of them, and if the opin- ions of the settlers could find expression you would find forty-nine out of eyery fifty would do the same. If we could have had as hon a commission Mr. Sparks to administer the affa the land office in past years, we would not have had to suffer “the numberless frauds that have been exposed lately. They are everywh Right n this neighborlood I' can show clum nftor m, and find dozens more, that have been seoured by poriury. Final proof should not be where except at the recei a common allowed 'Jl]!)'- catise it s aying that the county officers will help you through and half swear the witnesses—that is, slide them through as casily as 1 agree with one of ? when he says it is a T settler ca The money lender is fattest man in the land, now. If the will of the western settler is observed, Mr. Sparks will be continued in oflice. Respectfull, RonT. A. Pr ——— WHY NOT BUILD NORTH? Plan of a Profitable Railroad Line Into Dakota, To the Editor: Your city must have ‘a northern road, exclusively under control of Omaha men devoted to Omaha inter- ests. That road should be under con- tract this very moment and should be in full operation in three years. Railroads may get into Omaha from the north, but if tho management of these have other in- terests to subserve, Omaha will be plucked instead of benefitted. You are strong enough to assert your individuality and the sooner 1t is done the better. Now what is wanted? Simply this: A railroad north into Dakota, crossing the Missouri by a bridge at or below Yankton, up the valley of the James river, and secking, probably, Bistuarck on the Northern Pa- cific road, as a terminus; then from some point on the road, a direct northwest branch to the Niobrara river and the Black Hills. In selecting the route care must be taken to boldly penetrate the ter- ritory already made ‘tributary to a rival cty in an adjacent state, and thus to bring back, or rather, tie to Omaha Ne- braska counties lying to the north, that would pledge to form intimate trading associations with their own metropolis. The idea that has been advanced in the Bee of a road to Kennard, thence to West Point, thence up Plum Creck val- loy, thence to Wayne or Wakefield, thence through the westorn part of Dixon coun- ty, and thence along the East Bow creck to whatever point may be selected as the Missouri river crosslnfi, is the one, as Isee it, that should be put into practical oper- ation. This route isseveral degrees to the west of north. One hundred miles out of Omaha (perhaps rat] moro) and above Wayne or Wakefiold—certainly in- dg the ox-bow ling from Hartington, in Cedar county, to Sioux City—s ?uuld he the pount of divergenc decidodly north- west to the Black Hills, crossing” the ox- bow somewhere between Coleridge and Wakefield. This would grasp and hold firm all that fine region of country in Dixon and Cedar, and counties west of them, the trade of which Sioux City has 50 ingeniously put herself in wait for. And what is p; y good in this matter is, this arrangement will make about the best of any that can be con- rived to connect Omaha with eastern Da- kota and the Black Hills alike. The pr sumption is, such a road as this, con- structed without waste and under good management, will prove as profitable in the end as that under the guidance of Alexander Mitchell, of Milwaukce. At all events, it will make Omaha what she desires to be, the metropolis of the upper uri valley, All the analogies point s o result certain to come, by thus g herself with the country "to the north and northwest. 8. L Trunk-Line Impudence. Dew York Commercial Advertiser, We do not care the toss of a penny for ial interests of either of the two s affected by the recent changes in freight rates on dressed meats and live stock, and while we have given the news of the case in full, as we give the news of all publicly interesting matters, we have thus far refrained from discussing the questions involved in the dispute. But, while we haye no more concern for the interests of the dressed-meat shippers than for those of the live-stock shippers, we must concern ourselves somewhat with a mischievously false doctrine put forward by Commissioner Fink in sup- ]lul'll of the rates fixed by the trunk-line pool. ! That doctrine, simply stated, is that it 18 the function of the frunk line pool to take paternal control of the business of the country and protect each branch of it against the competition of cheaper or better methods, and no doctri - tice could be more dangerou: sioner Fink says that the pool rates a carefully arranged, so that a pound of dressed ment shall cost the sume in New York, whether it is dressed in Chic and shipped lither in that form, or slaughtered and dressed in this city, thut he explained in & communication | to the Commercial Advertiser a few days ago, is what the rates should be made to accomplish, But why? Unless we admit that the railroad corporations associated together in the trunk line pool are the legitimate guardians of the people, and are charged with the duty of (!uuinling what our meat shall cost us; 1t is impossible to discover any ground whatever for My, Fink's as- sumption. There is butone proper meas- ure by which railroad freight charges are determined, namely, the cost of trans- portation. If it costs more to carry one ind of freight than another, therates must differ, and even Mr. Fink would not contend that the railroads should equalize them by reducing the higher of making the one unremunerative. On the other hand, the railroads certainly have no right to make an exorbitant charge upon the freight that it is less ex pensive to handle, m order to equalize the two, But Commissioner Fink contends for even more than that. He holds it to be the duty of the railroads to make exorbi- tant charges tor carrying a certain kind of freight in order that the price of the thing carricd may be the same at the point of delivery as if it had been carried in more expensive shape. He holds t it is the busimess of the the trunk line ‘mnl to regulate the price of beef in New Vorl in thie interost of a certain group of men. That is the long and short of it, and a more monstrous d‘f trine was never formulated. The people of New York consume a large amount of beef daily. They were supplied origimally from the region round about, It was then found that cattle growers in the west could ship their ani- s to New York and sell them for less r neighboring growers could, and so the people of the metropolis were fed at less cost than they otherwise could have been, Then certain Chicago men, secing that it actually costs a great deal more to live stock than to carry the dressed meat from an equal number of animals, undertook to save the waste by slaught- i in and _shipping the The natural result would have been cheaper meat to everybody in New York, by reason of the saving of a considerable waste. But Commissioner Fink decides that tho people of New York shall not have ch . He says that the men who ship live stock must” be protected at the expense of consumers; that we must con- tinue to pay for the waste involved in that method” of shipping, whether the aste is actually incurred or not; that an extra and unjustifiable charge mu: be put upon the dressed meats (o ma then as much here as if dressed here; i ord, that the pool will levy & tax upon this entire people for the benef of u little group of ock shippers in Chiicago. “Mr. Fink undestakes to inter- fere with a natural and bencficent law of trade. He agsumes the right to fine ev person in New York who uses Chicag He arrogates to himself ight to fix the price of beef here, ad- ng it beyond its natural figure in order that a certain group of speculat muy not be undersofd by their rivals business who have hit upon an improyed ce for supplying this market. Mr. Fink's position is startlingly impudent et e o The Railroads and Dressed Beef. Chicago Tyllune. $ The good the railroads have done in aiding the development of the country is great. But they have done this in thei [ ity of public servitors. In assum- ing the right to dictate they have not only taken a false position theoretically, but have been guilty of more injustice than has furnished an excuse for the ovel throw of more than one government in the old world, and have done enough to 18 the object of gene the character of their ully understood by the publie they have wronged. Their action in the dressed-beef business alone is suflicient to condemn them, even out of their own mouths, in the estimation of all right- thinking men. The assumption of a right to dictate to the business world that it shall gain no advantage from its choice to slaughter cattle at the west instead of at the east is one at which the most de: potic of the rulers of Europe would hes tate to-day—unless as & discrimination in favor of his own people as against the subjcets of another government. As between_ diflferent sections of the same ttempted with- out imperiling a revolution. Indecd, the ising of a no worse bar as between the facturers of 1 nd and lreland, Y ago, was such a ance that it “is now referred to as a ason for present enmity, though long since abolished. The student of politica economy who has long groaned under a iction iy, porhaps, de- rive a tion from the thought that the evil is working its own cure, and that the prosent troubfos of the vailroads are in o large part due to their false as- sumptions of prerogative in the past. The very fact that they scemed to have such * l)miuu pickings” was a temptation to others to come in and “‘take a share of the swag'' which appeared to be at the command of any one bold cnough to stretch torth his hand and help himself. In a tuture suflering of the ponalty for past misdeeds the railrond men of this country will learn that they cannot evade the operation of inexorable laws. e Railvoad Discrimination Against Car- rying Dressed Beef. New York Evening Post. The obyious and patent facts are these: A new and_cheaper method of bringing beef from the producer to the consumer bas been found. The cheapness consists ng the beef without the oflul ying the product of the animal instead of the animal himself, dispensing with the need of feeding and caring for him en route and of curing him if he falls sick as hois upt to. The railroad companics throw themselyes in the way of this notable boon to the publie, and say that it shull not be. They have the assurance, the andacity--we can eall it by no softer name—to say that progress in the useful arts shall stop at their bidding. They have the indiscre. tion and the want of tact to nake this avowal at a time when the public mind is an extremely sensitive state, and when congress is con: sidering menstres to curb thewr proten- tions. By such steps they put it out of the power of st pon and journalists who would be gi. 1 to detend them against the attacks of demugogues to render them any effective assistan They give themselves away altogetl Wurm\‘n heard of cases where isoluted railways in the mining regions have put the rates of transportation on silver so a3 to get as much money out of it, whether it was delivered to'them in the form of raw ore, or of concentrated ore, or of bullion. Instances have been cited where railways vo fixed their rates 80 as to requird lumbermen to ship the whole log instead of suwing it up and leaving tfie slabs behind. Indecd, a multitude “of parallel cases might be found, but none could be found” more flagitious than the one thatis now the subject of hot dispute between Mr. Ar- mour and Mr. Fink.” Sitting on a Chunk of Ice, Last week u St. Louis theuter manager offered & reward to the boy who could it the longest on a chunk of “ice in front of the theater. Twelve chunks of ice were placed in a row on the curbste and about a thousand d compate for the fr Humane society’s oficers appeared upon the scene just as the matinee was about to commence and sat on the manager. One boy who went there with determin in his eye and rabber liniag in tho seat of his trousers, did not thank the i humare man for his interfe Sacramento Bee: Farmers may be in tevested in the stutement that a bushel of corn makes seventeen quarts of strong whisky, which, by the time it is retailed, h i diluted \.\I:l\ eight i tar average' is zallon, 80 that the busk % 510 drinks. The farwer sells the bushel of corn for th its, equivalent to two drinks at i 1 cents a drink, There i ¢ more profit in m rates to the level of the lower one, at cost | sclling whisky thau in groy WHAI'S IN A NAME? A Superior Oity Waliting Patiently for Dovelopment. Surertor Crry, Wis,, March 1.—[Cor« respondence of the Bee.]--I have never altered my opinion about the head of Lake Superior. Superior City, in Wise consin, has the building spot. Nothis can be finer seeing than the protect deep-water bay in front of the (ow cight miles long and one mile wide. I is never disturbed by the agitated lake outside. The channel between Minnesota and Wisconsin points can bo despened and kept constantly open for the largest of the lake craft. Many years ago I stood on the top of Mount Oneota and looked over this town-site of Superior, and was convinced that nothing could be better for the developmient of & marvel- lously great city. The shore stands well above the lake, and forms n fine ateau for miles towards the interior of Wisconsin, with a breadth of ample ex- pansion from Left-hand river west to the Minnesota state line, where 1t intersects the St. Louis river. ' The ground lies as handsomely as that upon which Philadel- phia stands. The yery spot seems to have been fashioned by Providence for a tremendous point of population and trade. At present there Hs somothin \olding Superior Uity back, were in Minnesota I prosume there would never have been any Duluth, All the influence of Minnesota goes towards showing up the commercial pointat the head of the lake on her own territory. As a state she derives benefit from such a cour: I have an idea that thero is another retarding influence, having its seat in Milwaukee, and very likely in adison City. The one as the largest in Wisconsin, and the other, as its state capital, don't eare about seeing & strong influence built up in the north of Wisconsin, which can do neither any good. There is another, and I foar & worse one. Superior City 1s sold out in lots all over the United State. It has no virgin soil to work on, as at present lo- cated on Superior bay. Any indication of ultimate prosperity would send up prop- crty fabulously and kill out temporari what little enterprise might be exhibited. Be the cuso what it may, Superior City will be the Chicago of Lake Superior as I believe and Duluth its Milwaukee, onl; the two places will be in sight of encl other instead of ninety miles apart. The time cannot be far distant when the lake fleet will constantly scek refuge in the bay inside the two points, where the hardest storm that may prevail on the agitat r outside cannot disturb the vesscls from riding as easy as a rocking- air, and where, in perfect security, they can in the Red or wheat and bulky articles from Japan and China. Supérior City then will occupy the same relitive position to Minnesota that Kan- sas City (in Missouri) does to the state of Ka They may fret and fume over Ba, ., Ashland, Washburn and the® like ns they please, these will be even- tually, like Waukegan, Kenosha and Ra- c ar Chicago, along the shore of e Micligan. It may seem a queer thing to say, but in the year 2,000—which means 114 years hence—Superior City will be larger than Chicago, provided we own all the tributary towards the north pole, in other words, Canada. The navi- gation is just as good to the head of Superior as to the head of Michigan, and once at Superior City nothing can cut off the vast str s of trade, not even St. Paul and Minneapolis. It must be re- membered that the Northern Pacilic road is not fairly out of its swaddling clothes, After ' a hard _ struggle 1t is just breathing for life, Its Pacific ter- Puget Sound is yet to be devel- Directly it will be found coursing stward along the south side of the lake, to Sault St. Marie, then in Canada across the Ottawa river, down this to Montreal, and from thence probably to Portland, Maine. Of course, it must go right on over the town-site of Superior City. And then what a combining point the latter will be of trunk railroads and deep water navigation! Nothing equal to it in the world. Of course; when I say Superior City, I do not confine myself to the plat laid out by Newton thirty yearsago. The city may be nn’v_,-whero botween Loft- Hand river and Fond du Lac, twent miles above on the St. Louis river; but it must be on that great plateau to the south and cast of St. Lows river and the bay of Superior. It will not be alon the rugged shore to the north and west the lukes and outside of Superior bay— in other words, where Duluth, under Minnesota auspices, has been planted and forced into notice with a large out- lay of means, Before dismissing this Superior business (of which I have not thought so much for a long time), I de- siro to say that now is the time for enter- ising men to be nbout the head of Lake Superior, In 1853-56 it was before our eye like n metcor, which flashed brightly, full of great possibilities in the near or remote_future, as circumstancos might determine. That meteor vanished fr_g* the publiegaze, and a whole generati gave little thought to the spot. Now, with the onnecting the head of the 1 ific ocean, it nppears as u{; sun, the beams of which we can hardly estimate, and rcg:\rdiutgim setting can have no conception. S, Health Hints, Modical World: Sassafras tea, strongly infused, is credited with wonderful prop- ies for inducing cheerfulness, Impri- ness, free conversational powers and a oneral teeling of well-bein, Teaspoon- ul doses of sassafras oil, taken in water or soda-water, are suid to produce a do- lightful species of intoxication, and to re- move pain of colie, cramp, ete. The ex- ternal application of the same oil is also said to relieve neuralgic pain. Sassafras has long been used in England as a do- mestic remedy or palliative for chronie rheumatism. Powdered sugar has been found to form an excellent dressing for wounds, ulcers and eavitios, excepting in conditions of profuso se n which cases i tion is les: ) Small repeat sos of sulphur are highly extolled by an English surgeon in freatment of diphtneria. ifteen grains of milk of sulphur muy bo sus- ended in an ounce of mucilage and favored agreeabiy. Of this a tenspoons ful or more may be taken every half hour or hour, according to the age of the pa- tient, Some time ago an old British soldier from the East Indies brought us some pills mude of spider's webs, which he told I ¢ employed in India as a nstand eure for ague, t he himself had born a * from intermittent fever for years . though the disease was not wlicated, he could her avert the spells or render thew insignificant by the use of this singulur remedy. — - hal's Calculation. nia Maverick: “Mose, what ure you doing now?" inquired a friend of Mr. Blumenthal Jast T lay mc ng. “Vell, Tsubbose you heard 1 vas out of de cloding veezui “Yes, [ hos “You , I vas ashinement un and now 1 am “How's that “Vell, sinee 1 clodin’ depres cont, “Why doos it make y “1d Just o di credit if Lo pecznis gl - Ouray, Col., has just invested $1,000 in a novel hearse, It issaid to be a very Zorgeous r, but its principal festure i ng tube leading from the 10 thie Juterior, prophy To wssure suli t, Mose."" voreed to make an 2o drough pankruptey, n happy.” nt out of de peeznis d dwenty-five per