Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 15, 1886, Page 4

THE DATLY BEE. OMAHA OFFICENO. 914 AND g1gFARNAM ST NEW YORK OFFICE, ROOM 06, TRINUNE BUILDING Wasmixgron Orr NO. 513 FOURTEENTH ST, Published every morning, axcept Sunday. The only Monday morning paper published in the #tate, TENME BY MATL: £10.00 Three Months o Month.... 250 One Year.. 100 Bix Months.,. ... 5.00C Tre WerkLy Bee, Published Every Wednesaay. TERMS, POSTPAID! One Yenr, with premium € One Yenr, without promitn Fix Months, without premium One Month, on trial g CONMESPONDENC A1l communientions relating to_news and adi- torial matters should be addressed to the Eor HOR OF “1E I DUSINESS LETTERS: mittancos fhonld bo UBLISHING COMPANY, ecks and postoffice ordors blo to the order of the company. THE BEE PlIIiUSHIlE COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. E. ROSEWATER. Eprron. z senate bill to inc ries of United States district judges from 23,500 to & ought to pass, With better salaries we would probably get better judges. We need them, ONE of our exchanges mnocently] re- marks that the “past week has been one of striking interest in the industrial af- fairs of the United States.” So Mr.Gould and Jake Sharp think as they survey the situs A NUMBE te agents in Omaha stand to exchange 500 acres of tarm land in Douglas county for the eighty s on which Fort Omaha stands, So would any man with an eye to the main chanco. Tue Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul has made an cast bound passenger cut to retaliate on the Rock Island for a cut out of St. Paul. This is the first time in many years that Omaha has had the bene- fit of an east-bound cut Kaxsas Crry 1 y two miles of paving last year, and spent $300,000 in sewers. For lessons in improvements the town on the Kaw is respectfully in- vited toinspect the metropolis of the west, whose other name is Om: CONGRESSMAN W has mac several erank obje vER, of this state, he discovery that there are 10 n congress, and has introduced aresolution eertifying to this fact. Bill Holman's party will never staltify itself by admitting his chicf failing. STEADY, permanent, substantial growth is better than half a dozen spasmodic booms. Steady and permanent employ- ment of labor at good wages is the solid foundation of a city’s continued prosper- ity and advancement, Omaha must have more manufactures. TuE city treasurer of New Brunswick, N. J., who 1s also treasurer of the Dime Bavings bank of that city, is said, ina special dispateh, to be suffering from “acute mania’ at his home, while the bank is suflering from a deficit of about $80,000. ‘‘Acute mania” is the polite name in New Jersey for stealing. I¥ John C©. Cowin fails to challenge the artist who ‘‘did him up’ in such atrocious style iv the columns of a local contemporary, he will lose all elaims to respeet from an admiring community. The portrait represents a pivatical look- ing adventurer, a cross between Jesse James and Parson Downs. L1ne mantle of Gambetta has not fallen on the shoulders of M. Clemenceau, the leadcr of the extreme left in the French chamber of deputi The radical states- man is proving a great disappointment to his followers. He has placed his party in an awkward position by forcing a vote upon his nation to expel the royal from PFunco, and his enemics are now cirenlating a report that he has made a large fortune from jobbing in govern- ment contracts, M. Clemencenu suffers, too, from the gradual subsidence of that political clement in the republic which has been chiefly responsible for the ex- cesses, socinl and political, which have marred its history. SEVERAL of our business men haye a wrong idea about the encouragement of locul manufactures. They are willing to assist in aiding great mills and factories in locating in our midst, but do not care to bestir themselves in securing small en- terprises. If an establishment employing . thousand men were to seck encourage- ment they would readily put their shoul- ders to the wheel and help to start the ball a rolling, but they turn a cold ear to the arguments of men who are prepared to plant an industry with a pay roll of less than fifty. Thisis a mistaken policy. A large number of small factorios are Detter for the stability and growth of elty than o fow large ones. Every labor employing industry is valuable in build- ing up the material interests of the com- munity. The more diversified the indus- tries of any section the more assurance ‘there is of permanency in the employ- ment of labor. Small tactories in time become lurge cnterprises. Not many - years ago our smolting works which now . employ 400 men, found it bhard work to give employment to fifty. Pae proposition to remove l'ort Omahu to another location where the post ea) gxpanded and improved will meet A ral favor. Ths grounds upon wh AW stands are much too s) ‘garvison such as the importance of the wity and its relations to the western country demands, The high p ~ joining property seems to vend. racticable to extend the limits, Senator nderson’s bill, full details of which e appeared in our columns, has in view the removal of the post to aloca- stion where suflicient ground ean be ob- tained, for a small amount ot money, gowebuild the fort and make a permanent & gawrison with all the necessary facilities ora large post. The question is simply ' sone of ability to procure the requisite L Munds. The sum stated in the dispatehes, © $169,000, will prove ridiculously inado: . The buildings would cost twice mmoum. Those in good condition at Bart Omuha could scarcely be replaced " era much lessswin, Asmany of thom are “umilt of brick, they could not be re- ed to the new location, and would very little if offered for sale as they d. If congress will appropriate a # million dollars as a starter, the * mamafor of the post enn be weeomplished the plans suggested. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE., MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1886, They Should Be Free to All. An inquiry into the operation of the telegraph lines on the land grant roads has been begun in congress under a reso- Iution introdueed by Anderson of Kansas, who is an unflinching opponent of all forms of corporate monopoly. The reso- lution passed by the house directs the committee on postoffices and postroads to investigate and report whether legisla- tion is needed to prevent a monopoly of telegraph facilities and to give the south- ern, western and Pacific states the bene- fits of competition. Under their eharters all the land grant roads are required to operate their telegraph lines under the same restrictions as to the rights of com- mon carriers that they do their rails This assumes that there shall be at least the same freedom in regard to the car- riago of intelligence that there is with the transportation of property. As com- mon earriers, the land grant lines ean- not refuse to accept goods from the other roads for transportation over their own. The object of the elanse in their char ters, compelling them to build, maintain and operate telegraph lines, was to afford the public the benefit of w which ~wonld not be placed un- der the exclusive control of any private monopoly. As a matter of fact the land grant roads have long since sul- stantially transferred their telegrapn franchises to the Western Union com- pany, and by so doing have given to that slosost of all priv monopolics exclu- ve control of the transmission of intelli- genee over a large portion of the west. The Western Union refuses to receive business from other companics on fair terms, ana through its use of lines built with government loang is forcing many newspapers into making exelusive con- o8 tracts to transact all their business over its Mr. D. H. Bates, ident of a competing line, lied before the committee that he had used eve effort to secure from the Union Pacifie railroad the same facilitics enjoyed by the Western Union but had utterly failed, and thatno other telegraph company could obtain any facilities west- rd over its lines from Omaha and City. The land grant companies operation of their telegraph lines have shown their usnal disregard of their charter requirements. The intention of the clause relating to the telegraph was clearly to prevent the exclusive occupation of the lines by any one company. The mm of congress was to prevent a monopoly of the transmission of intelligence and to sccure equal rights to all com- panies connecting with the wires of the land grant roads. The charter require- ment has been steadily avoided and dis- obeyed. The chicanery of contracts with inside rings, of mortgages and bonding of transters back and forth between par- ties interested, has been freely used to perpetuate the grip of the telegraph monopoly upon the wires of the land grant roads constructed by the nation’s bounty to be operated for the interests of the public. Congress intended that the wires should be as free to all ag the rails are to connecting roads. 1t is specific- ally so stated in the charter which it gave to the company and und which the roads and telegraph lines were accepted. The deliberate and continued evasion of the terms of this contract between the nation ard the Pa- cific roads isa proper subject for a searching investigation. The surface needs only to be scratched to prove all of Mr. Anderson’s charges. Arbitration the Remedy. Intelligent and thinking men, whether capitalists or laborers, will endorse cor- dially the views of Master Workman Powderly of the Knights of Labor with regard to the value of arbitration. mr. Powderly boldly a s that the majority of strikes are ncedless. He says that they menace roturning urosperity, and that thay may cause widespread suffering with but little compensating gain. In his judgment arbitration could be cured in nine out of ten cases where strikes take place, if those concerned showed more tact and less temper. Strikes, says Mr. Powderly, aro weapons for use only in cnses of urgent neces; If used too often they lose their the verdict of experience. It is level, common sense from a level-headed man. The vast ma- | ands of dollars ¢ jority of all labor disputes can, and should be, scttled by a peaceful conference be- tween the employer and the employes. Many labor troubles have proved to he the result of misunderstandings on the one side or on the other, which arbitra- tion has promptly removed. Arbitration is simply diplomacy—the ecffort to secure the object sought without resort to war, It is an inexpensive remedy. A strike or lockout is always a costly one. Labor has its rights, and is properly combining o defend them from assault. Against ¢ he vast consoliduted interests of capital labor felt and to resentunjust aggressions upon its interosts, The sizo of the Knights of. Labor ovder is its strongth, It can en- force its own decrees whether they be of peace or of war. For this reason the order ean do more than a large number of organizations of workingmen in foster- ation ing the principle of arbity a peaceful settler of labor disputes. It has alveady done much in this direction, The work of the Knights of Labor has so far been beneficiul to its members and of great value to the publie. It nas saved hundreds of thous- dnced in clreulution in communitics of working men, by prevent- ing strikes in wills and factories. At the same time it has secured in every case where the vights of labor were involved the victory for whichit was striving. The wants of the organization, of which the cool-headed Powderly is the chicf, hias proved beyond dispute that arbitra- tion is the best vemady for settling dif- ferences between wage payers and wage earners, Sixcr 1884 the Standard oil compuny, one of the greatest monopolies on eurth, has had a special rate of 72§ cents per 100 pounds from Chicago to California terminal points, while other shippers have been obliged to pay §1.20, s fuir sample of the outrageous diserimin- ation that has been practiced for years by the railroads. The Standard oil com- pany would no doubt have continued for many years to enjoy this spec tarift had it not been for the breaking of the transcontinental pool, which has result- ed in rates much below that monopoly's special rate. It remains to -be -scen, whether, upon the readjustment of i the transcontinental. - difioulties the Standard ofl ecompany will bo be restored to its former position asa special favorite with rates below all com- petitors. Is it any wondor that the Stan- dard oil company under such favorable circumstances has frozen out all compet- itors? What show has anybody to com- pete under such discriminations? Does it astonish anybody that the people are ripe for revolt against the high-handed robberies of railroads and the aggressions of monopolies generally? Is it not about time that an interstate commerce bill, such as has been presented by Reagan, be passed by congress for the relief of producers and shippers by putting them all on an oqual footing? A Strained Argument. Mr. Edmunds’ argument thatall papers relating to office are in their nature “ofticial’ under ir interpretation of the term, 18 a strained one. The distine- tion between oflicial and non-official cor- respondence cannot rest on any such broad ba: To admit it would force the conclusion that every letter addressed to senutors and congressmen regarding public- business by private citizens, is Yoflicial” and subject to inspection on call. Custom and p: ular precedents unite in terming those letters official which come from offi 4 es. Mr. Edmunds on wholly, and he the fact that Mr. Cleveland's oly similar to that taken ) Webster, then Presi- secretary of state. Mr. called upon to make a <o ignore vosition is preet Webster ruling on the same point as that involved was in the controversy which Mr. Edmunds has boen so carcfully nursing, and is follows in Niles' Registe ations for office or letlers respeeting appointments or ¢ ations held with in- dividuals on such subjects are not ofiicial Proceedings and cannot by any means be ke of the character of ofticial proceedings, unless aftec ihe nomination of such person so writing or conversing, the president shall think proper to lay such cor- spondence or such conyeisations before the senate. On another occusion Mr, Wei in the senate: Sir, since the practice has become a settled practice, sinee every administration has in- du Lin it,and sinee it must now be consid- ered as the legal construetion of the constitu- tion that itisone 18 of the presi- dent to remove from oftices which they hold, it follows, as a necessary and as an inevitable consequence, tha POW vested in the pre inust be exercised lim as independently of our control us any otner power that is to be exercised by him under the constitution. * % And Isee no ground upon which we can call upon him to give us reasons for the manner in which he 8 any more than we can e reasons for the man in whieh he exercises any other power under the constitution, Mr. Edwunds is respeetfully referred to the opinion of as great a constitu- aid tional himself. The claim which he » s astrained one through- out. Itisone which has not the backing in the precedents fixing the relations of the senate and the exccutive which he seeks to establish. All the co-ordinate parts of the government have their pre- rogati They do not conflict when properly exercised. Mr. Cleveland seems to know his own in the preseut little dif- ficulty, and the senate is powerless to assail them with anything more violent than the battery of debate, Moderation Will Win. The industrial situation throughout the country is much disturbed by the sucees- sion of strikes and lockouts of the past fortnight. The organs of capital are combining to convince the public that labor has organized to clog the wheels of enterprise and to exact demands which, if granted, would close the doors of mills and factories and draw the fiyes of furnaces and forees. Their readers are 10id that the state of the markets will not permit » general advance in wages, and that the scenes of 1877 will be re- peated if laboring men do not withdraw from their aggressive attitude toward em- ploying capital. he public will not be deceived by the compatison, The situation in 1886 is vastly diflerent from that of nine years ago. The industrial revolution of 1877 was a mistake, because it wus made on a falling labor market. It failed because all the conditions of the vperiod wi against continued overproduction, Man- ufacturers had overstocked the market and could better afford to close their doors than maintain their expense rolls. To-day, after a long period of depression, industry is reviving. The market is short. Demands upon the manufactur- ers in many lines are heavier than their capacity. The market is rising. The Iabor market is also advancing and labor demands a share in the increased profits only one danger “which is now menacing combined labor. That danger is over-confidence and a rash and need- less display of its power. Moderation will win. Wages are being voluntarily d in all tne manufucturing cen- ters of the east. The arbitration com- mittee of the Knights of Labor have already settled more than a hundred dis- putes between employers and working- men without the loss of a day's work to the mechanies involved. Every such victory helps organized labor. It draws to the support an unorganized pub- lie. It shows the power of com- bined labor in the strongest possible light. Strikes and lockouts are forms of social warfare and war is always a seri- ous business and a costly bys s, It means loss of property and iuss of time. It infliets injury uffoh “every community from which the warriors are taken. A victory won by war is an expensive one if the same terms could have been secured by diplomucy. Modoration is a tramp 'd in any controversy. It will be the W ing card in the present la bles if played by men of cool hea QUEEN VICTORIA ins and correeting personally the proof slips of the Court Circular. Vicky has ovi- dently bad some trying experiences in times past with the enterprising proof reads ists on reading Tue marrisge of Miss Marguerite Faust, of 8t. Louis, is announced. The Rev. Mephistopholes did not tie the knot ———— BisMARCK's spivit bill has been reject- ed, and his spirits have been dejected SECRETARY LAMAR has' submitted to ess @ list of about 4,500 Indian dep- tion' claims, calling for about $15,000,000. Nebraska, of course, is rep- resented in that budget with pumerous ancient claims, or else Hon. Pat O. Hawes has missed his thekoning. MIXED DRINKS. A barroom fight—a rum punch. As a general rule a drunken man can't see straight, but there is one exception—he can always see whisky straighit. “It is said that half a pint of whisky will killa dog.” Some ot that sold in this locall- ty would have no difliculty in getting away with two dogs, Alcohol freely used will effectually clean out the inside of an inkstand. 1t will also clean out the inside of a pocketbook just a little more thoroughly and effectually than any other known agent, “Gimme a Philadelphia ola maid,” labori- ously sliding a_quarter over thebar. And the experienced drink-mixer, withoutan ine stant’s hesitation, pushed outa bottle of sour mash. Frederick Zimmer, of Bedford county, Pa., cutdown a hollow tree, the other day, which he found twen e snake It is believed that a temperance lecturer had con- cealed a bottlein the tree and the cork acei- dentally worked out, PROMIMENT PERSONS, Baron Rotaschild stainer. Mrs, Langtry now holds deeds and mort- gnges on New York real estateto the value of 150,000, Joel Chandler Harris (Uncle Remus) will ¢ Miss Caroline Muggs, o wealthy young lady of North Carolina, who is also niece of Gen. Stonewall Jackson. The Prussian government has ordered the Polish poet Kraszewski to return to prison on May 1. This isa schieme to prevent him trom publishing poems on Spring. Lartijo, the chief espada or bull-fighter of Madrid, elaims to have killed $45 bulls with- outbeing injured. If he should attempt to buck against the Wall street bulls he might beskinned alive, Count Shuyaloff, who has been in unofiieial disgrace at the Russian court ever since the Russo-Turkish war, is likely to be restored to favor. Shoveloft Is always in favor here af- ter a snow-storm. Princess Anna Murat, now duchess of Mouchy, grand-danghter of a_stable-boy who beeame a soldier, marshal of France and King of Naples, is by birthan American, born at Bordentown, N, J., in 1841, She still re- mafns one of the handsomest women in France. s become a total ab- e e L Attitude of Congress Toward Dakota. . Louis Post-Dispatch. Congress is treating Dakota like a ripe watermelon, und is thumping her before di- viding her. Known in Chicago, 1 Evangelist Small has discovered that when ever ho talks about Jaek Pott the Chicago people are on to him, Mo 'is a well-known character, Matter of Self-Defense. Chicato Néws. The Rev. Joseph Cook says: “If T had a dog which smoked I would shoot him.” So would any man. The raseal would as like as not sneak in and steat all the cigars, i 157 H ity Luxury Making Sherman Tender. Attanta Constitution. Under the criticism of a_few newspapers en. Sherman flies all to pleces. Gen. Grant sinilarly annoyed mahy times during his life, but he displayed np signs of frrita- tion, [¢ b ie e gylh Bismarck's Rfieumatism. Chicago Ne Bismarek's rheumatism is becoming worse and worse. Well, we told him when he was wading around in the seas looking for islands that e was Ilkely to get his feet wet and catch cold. el The Ticket for 1888, Siouz Crty Jowrnal. Frank Hatton wants Roscoe Conkling for the republican candidate for president in 1885, And now somebody propoges tg tail up the ticket with Frapk Hattes for vied presi- - Literature in the South. Atlanta Constitution. It is worthy of note that the most success- ful magazine in the south is simply an annex w a plow factory. When one of our big patent medicine establishments takes a no- tion to enter the field in the interest of polite literatare it will sweep the country, ———— Its Foot So Lifted. St. Louis Globe-Democrat, The Boston Herald observes that “Presi- dent Cleveland has ihe democratic party at his back.”” To be sure he has, and its foot is lifted to urge upon him its opinion of his betrayal of thetrust reposed in him concern- ing the distribution of the offices. ——— It Goes to Show. St. Louis Globe-Democrat, At Mr. Gladstone's request, the nomination of his son-in-law to a valuab’e crown rector- ship has been withdrawn, This goes to show that it is better in some respects fo be a re ative of a Missouri senator than to win the daughter of the prime minister of Great Buitain, i ] Very Carcless, St. Paul Globe, The report that a United States senator was seen drunk on the streets of Washing- ton the other evening shows the necessity of reform in the executive session business, It was very careless on the part of the man at the door to let the old gentleman get away from the crowd. Yesterda, Texas Siftings. What makes the king unhay His queen is young and 1is children elimb around him, With waving yellow bair, His realm is broad and peaceful, He tears no foreign foe: And health to his veins comes leaping 1n all the winds that Blow, ) What makes the king unhappy? L Alas!alittle thing, Thyt woney capuot, parchase, Nor tleets and aruies bring. And yesterday he had it, Wiih vesterday it ywent, nd yesterday it perlshed, With all the king's coytént. ¥or this he sits lamenting, And sighs, “Alack ! alack ! I'd give one-half my kingdom, Could yesterday eome back !, -~ Oattle in a Storm. Cattle will drift for long distances be- fore a_storm, but s soon us a fence is reached their instinet can avail them no nd they wander up and down iving the full force of the wind and driving snow, until finally, if the storm continues, many of them sucewmb. Hundreds of frozen cattle have lately been discoye in _the Arkansas valley, on the ice of the r A and are frequently found still standing in life-like attitudes. ————— Such Fun Practising Musi “Then you study music this year, do your'' inquired a youug lady of her Ficna. ‘“How do you enjoy it 'Ob, it is delightful. I bhave such fun practisin, nearly drive Aunt Jane crazy. Mother goes off neighboring and I bavethe house all to myself. Come | down aud bear me praciioé soxe day.' l and althongh th 1 BTATE AND TERRITORY. NebraskaJottings. Tho J)onuh\u(m of Logan county has doubled in_the last six months.” The first term of court will be held there in June. Ainsworth peoplo are chipping in to start a creamery there. The product of 277 cows has been pledged for the estab- lishment, The citizens of Niobrara and contj uous towns are talking strongly of offer ing the Milwaukee road cash induce- ments to build into that region. The gold find in Butler county has dis- appeared, yet milljons remain on the sur- face awaldng only sced and musclo to pan out hugely. The O'Neill Front a mammoth immigr: forth the fortile wi and Niobra growth and g Eight hundred teams and men to handle them are said to be camped on the line of the nd Island & Wyoming Cen- tral, awaiting the departure of Jack Frost to begin netive operations. wyer Hartig: of Plattsmouth is out with a premium of $10 to the hand- somest pair of yearling twins in the county, to be exhibited at the county fair. Sex nor color no bar to competi The Plattsmouth Herald has been en- larged to eight pages and looks neat and nobby m a spring suit. Deacon Bush- nell continues manager and chief com- vounder of secular Christianity in its columns. The Johnson County Journal last week dighed up the history "of the county, its population, soil and cereal wealth, and other strong facts intended especially for seekers after hom ho Journal "is a typographical daisy, and one of the brightest and strongest weeklies in the southern section. Gov. Dawes has recei Thompson of South C: rotype picture of Gov. Burt, Nebraska's fi tervitorial governor. 1t is the in- tention of Gov. Dawes to obtain the metures of all the governors and have them enlarged and framed and hung on the walls of the exceutive oflic During the month of February, 1885, there were forwarded from Ponea 403,260 pounds of freight,and the earnings on'the same amounted to §613 5. February, 1836, shows 588,405 pounds forwarded, carnings #1,866.69, andin o in ship ments of 185, pounds, andin earn- ings of §752.10. A Tairficld carpenter named Snyder is said to be as mad as a “Marchhare,” actually erazed, on account of “mitten’’ given him by a hudding countr lass on whom he wasted the quintessence He tried to shuflle off the ished hope from round his green and a shotgun, but 11 Be sent to the asylum if the doctors do not finish him. The model ranch of the state is one run by W. 8, Patterson, near Aurora. Mr. Patterson has some 700 aeres, watered by the Blue r nd thoroughly cultivated. He has it s d with shorthorn eattle of the choicest strains, the breeding herd consisting of forty cows of the Luans of t issued last week jon edition setting alth of the Elkhorn O'Neill's ol from Gov. olina_n dague Artes families, and a bull of the ] register. * In addition to these Mr. Pat- terson is feeding 400 steers and 450 sheep. Rushville justice is mild-cyed and mes ciful. A Gordon barber struck town last week and proceeded at once to spread vermilion stripes over the localit: Be- fore finishing the contract he ran against i med Preston and promptly ed him out with a revolver. The obstreperous barber was finally serape into the cooler, but w eased with a Tvu!er:xlu shampoo for ‘“disorderly con- duct.” Tom Morton, the newly appointed postmaster at’ Nebraska City, sends greetings to his friends in a treble lended leader in the News, in which he claims that his thirty years' battle tor democracy has been nowledged very hand- somely and satisfactorily by the signa- tures of 700 or 800 voters at home, and by the autograph of President Cleveland at Washington.” Mvr. Morton ‘‘returns regrets to those gentlemen who with pens and voices, and likewisc in alleged Eng- lish editorials, have waged upon him quite vigorous and vindictive warfare,” A pagty Ry the namg of Brooks, who Tins a notel in Atkinson d of his boarders, Mrs. Dutcher, oceupyin, rooms there with her husband and chil- dren, The lady naturally rebelled against such treatment. It was enough for an ordinary mortal to put up with the hash doled out three times a day and pie emi-annually, without digesting large slices of venomed tongue at the same 1S = time. She invited Mr, Brooks into court to prove his assertions, and failing to do so tl rded Mrs. Duteher dam- ages to the amount of §3,000. Towa Items, Boone’s charity ball netted $109, O'Brien county boasts of & man named Sheol. The munic I expenses of Waterloo for the year past were $11,078.74. Of 6,000 legal voters in Dubuque, only 200 voted at the annual school election, Over 200,000 bushels of oats are stored at Dubuque awaiting shipment on the opening of navigation, The Bohemian oat swindler victimized the farmers of Pleasant township, Lucas county, to the extent of $2,000. Marcellus MeNeill, of Monona county, killed a bald eagle last Monday which measured seven feet between the tips of its wings, D. Parker, of [Humboldt, has invented and patented a_system of phonography for the type writer, by means of which a fairly rapid operator of the caligraph can write about 200 per cent faster than with apen. The sensation at Keokuk is a horse- i 2. Mr Chevillion went to with Miss Ogier, and Mrs, n waited ut the door for them, and with a horsewhip castigated her hus- band. Separation hus followed, Woodbury county gets $2,181 share of the interest on the school fund, sccording to the recent ap- portionment. The neighboring counties receive the following amounts: Plym- outh, $1,941.87; Monona, §1,500.23; Sioux, £1,802.40; Osccola, $1,308.71; Cherokee, $1.048.14. The Methodists of Avoca are all torn up over the wrogressive euchre craze, churel is divided on the Aitcr, the anti-card things howl, and o l‘l i bers has been expetied {6y ous pursuit of “g h Cedar county has a lawsuit which seems to be fatal to lawyers. The suit originally arose on a dispited account of %6, but which now involves costs to the amount of $1%. A lawyer by the name 4 as its ) of Couts brought the sut and died: it was defended by Lawyer Ingham, who died; Coats was succeeded by Lawyer Yates, who died, and now Lawyer Cloud takes Ingham’s place. Dakota. court house at Highmore ill y voted recently to invest $15,000 10 a jail. A wan and s wife and eleven chil- dren recently settled in the vieinity of Redfield. They have come west Lo Zrow up with the country. The Yankton Press says: “Omaba is the coming city of the west, Itsadvance during the past few yeurs has been with out parallel in recent history.’ A canvass of Rapid City last week ro- sulted in raising §42,000, one-half the sum required for the proposed n Y remadinder wikl be put up by outside capl- tulists. ‘There is wmuch ing in thewest making | = part of Edmunds connty over the an- nouncement that the Milwaukee railroad I8 to extend its lino thirty miles west of Ipswich this season. Several chicfs of the Rosebud agency have written to their brothren at varions agencies urging them to refuse to negoti- ate for the sale of the Sioux reservation, and to demand a survey. During the past twelve years 6,600 chattel mortgages have been tiled in the oflice of the register of deeds of Yankton county. Itis estimated the mortgages represented loans aggregating $350,000, The theory that tho Indians are do- ereasing in numbers is not sustained by information from Sitting Bull's people. During the month of February among thoso enrolled at Standing Rock thero were seventeen deaths and twenty-one Dirths, The Black Hills region prides itself specially upon its fine climate. An ob- server near Rapid City reportsin the past three months but five or six stormy days, and sixty days of bright sunshine all day Not over eighteen inches of snow has fallen in all. D C. P. Adams’ “Oase in Point"—Keeps ing the Country Poor and En- riching the City, To the Editor: A great hue and ery is being made just now about railroad dis- crimination against the dressed beef traflic. Phil Armour’s corns are being trodden. It is money versus money this time, and Iam glad the fur likely to fly. But the aspeets ef this question are now discussed with great interest, which 1 have pointed out a hundred times on the stump and in the papers. viz.: That the power of fixing diseriminating rates gives the raiirond corporation full con- trol of any business in the country which they wish to interfere with. If they do not, through its exercise control the trade in dry goods, hardware, grocerics, ote., ete., it is simply beeause under ox- isting circumstances they do not deem it their interest to do 1f, as Don Platt suys, in a recent article in the Chicago Current, the corporations are “the gov- crnment,” they can do these things when- ever (hp{ sce fit. They arrogate the right to do them, and throngh them to control and regulate commerce between the to stimulate or depress ain industries, to ruin or enrich tain individuals ~ or communities, iese powers are all embraced in the power to fix diseriminating rates; in fact, they are embraced in the power to mako classifications and fix rates at all—and long as human nature remains what it the great power will be seltishly us will he used to oppress and destroy when- ever it suits the convenience of the in- dividu who wield it, Charles Francis Adams gave what he called “a cuso in point,” when he met the Jullom — committee at Omaha last summer. He said thavin the case of & mining eamp where the oro produced was of so low a grade that it could not be worked and transported in competition with ordinary orcs and pay the usual rates, nhis company was in the habit of maintaining that camp by giving lower rates on its ore for the sako of the business it gained in hauling miners’ suppli n this case this pany cxercise the power of interfor- ing With the whole business of mining, of depressing tho price of ores and tho £ labor throughout the whole butary to it, simply for the prolit supplies hauled to low grade camps, This great question. It involves the right of railrond corporations, who claim to bo ‘“‘the vanguard of civiliza- tion,’" to retard civilization by keeping farming districts poor, while it v build up and enrich manufacturing cenfres. It involves the power to keep g i of the country, producing a raw products for export which b cost of production, and keeping great jons far manufacturing suppli 80 Llll:ll ]lhc I'll]l rol:uh may fet on the lon; ul between thom., long, haul between the yolves naviiual exercise by individuals of imper through the exercise of those pow corporations are coming to be ‘‘the gov- ernment,” as Don Piatt justly sa) 1 welcome tho dressed beef controver- sy, or any other thing which will tend to arouse the people to the danger which is threatening free institutions in this coun- try. J. Burrows. N How to Organize an Aliinnce, 1, Call & meeting of the farmers of your noighborhood. 2. 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