Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 13, 1886, Page 4

4 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. TURSDAY., APRIL 13. 1836, THE DATLY BEE. OMATTA OFPICE,NO, 014 AND GTAFARN AM ST NEW Yonx Orrice, RooM 65, TRIBUNE BUILDING Wasnixarox Orrice, No. 513 Founteestn St Published every morning, excopt Sunday. The Shiy Mouday morning paper publisied (n tie ate. TERME BY MATL: One Year. .. $10.00 Three Months. Bix Months.. 6.00/0ne Month. . TuE WEEKLY Deg, Published Evory Wednosday. TERME, POSTPAID: Ono Year, with promium One Year, without premiuim ix Months, without premiuf. One Month, on trial ol o "7) Lo 8200 CORRESPONDENCE: ATl communications relating to_news and edi- torial mattors should be nddressed to the Epi TOR OF “HE DER, DUSINEES LETTERS All'bu sinoes lottors and romittancos shonld bho ed to THE HEE PUNLISITING COMPANY, . Drafts, checks and postoffice orders 10 be made payable to the order of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS E. ROSEWATER. T surveyorship of customs has been filled, “Jordan, it’s a hard road totravel, 1 believe.” T bill to ndmit Washington territory a8 a state has passed the senate and goes to the house, where the Dakota bill still lingers in a convenient pigeon hole. There is a very shady prospec measure becoming a law at th session. WE are pained to learn from our ex- changes that Dr. T. 8. Brackett, the twin brother of Gene Albert G. Brackett, U S. A, has recently died at his home near Crawfordsville, Indiana, at the venerable age of 93. He was much respected and beloved by all who knew him, CarraiN Bourkge's “Apache Cam- paign” will shortly be brought out in a gecond edition. American ethnology owes much to the hard labors of such brilliant army officers as Bourke, Clark and Mallery, whose study of the life, lan- guage and customs of the Indians, formed a valuable contribution to Ameri- can science during the past ten years. Tue funeral ot the nt Emmet Crawford at Kearncy an imposing one. The protest by Nebraska's delega- tion against the slowness with which the state department is investigating his murder should be prompt und cmphatie. Apologies and indemnity should be wrung out of the treacherous Greasers who de hiberately assassinated one of the bray and most beloved of oflicers who wore the United States uniform. CoNGRESSMAN O'NEILL is trying to stop the military bands trom competing with other bunds at picnics, balls, parades, oclebrations and other public entertain- ments, and ho expresses the belief that an order will be issued by the war de- partment which will forbid any further such competition. This measure strikes ponsive chord in the heart of eve musician outside of the military band equently underbid the civ- ations. IF a vacancy can be made for that pur. pose Comumissioner of Pensions Black ought to promptly n his present office and accept a berth in the civil ser- vice commission. A man who can boast that he made ‘“seventy-seven appoint- ‘ments under the civil service rules, of which number seventy-two were demo- crats and five politics unknown,” is man after the administration’s own heart. He is too valuable to the party to be hidden behind the musty rolls of the pension bureau when the active labor of reforming the civil service in strict ac- cordance with Jacksonian principles, yet with mugwump methods, awaits his eoming. THE train men on the Union Pacific have eyery renson to be satistied with the result of their friendly confercnce witn the managers. They presented their gricvancos, were afforded full opportunity to discuss them, and after several confer- ences, practically won their point bva ompromise mutunlly satisfactory. There were no threats on either side, but a busi- ness like and concilintory spirit on the part of the employes, which was met by an equally friendly spirit on the part of the company. Such a victory is worth more than appedrs on its face. It isa griumph of peaceful mothods of settling Iabor disputes without a costly warfare snd o struggle whose antagonisms last long after the conflict has ended. Taere is a fecling of poorly concealed melancholy in Washington among demo- orats over the results of the spring clee: tlons throughout the country, The heavy gepublican gains everywhere reported are a dopressing surprise. Thoy fail to show that o democratic administration has strongthened the party or that the distribution of offices hus increased the wvote ns oxpectod, ~ After a year under a echange of administration the voters of country have decided against the lom of the change. The weight of the decision is admitted at tho national papital and foars are exprossed that the goming congressional elections will YElnlgrs the political complexion of the s« ‘WitiLe the Omaha & Northern railroad L #oheme is slumbering peacefully the . proposition for more direct connections woen the Elkhorn Valley and this P by a branch of the Northwestern does not scem much more active. 4 ~Fnyursl ave been over the line from ennard south but the public has not fearncd whother & final decision has or Bas not been reached in regard to the gonstruction of the proposed line. What would pay the Northwestern people and Omaha better than a short line conneo- tion would be an extension east from Fremont direct to Omaha ma ing this oity the castern Mis- souri river terminus ot thy yoad. Suoh a move would result in re- moving all the irritation of the past be tween our me nts and the North- | western, sad would throw a heavy srafiic with the Elkhorn Valley and the morthwest under their control. Now that * ghe road is pushing itself into the ia- . ferior of Wyoming asd reaching for . Bwectwater Pass and tho Rockies, & d * peet conncotion of the future great trans goutinental line with tho metropolis of _ the Missouri becoruss more desirable for = gorned. We beliews that if Massrs itt and Keep would seriousiy con- wider the idua which has bafore ween pre by the Beg, that ways and means b | | thew | tuemselsos Mo Two Important Decislons. The Minnesota supreme court has just handed down two important decisions re Iating to the duties of railroads in con- nection with municipalities which are in- teresting because of the wide application of the princivles involved to every large city in the country, The first point involved was the power of cities to extend and open streets across railroad rights of way. The rond ob- jected to the proposed extension on the ground that the proverty to be con- demned was intended by it for other public uses and thay to cstablish @ crossing over it would be to entail additional and bur: densome trouble and expense upon the com| The court held that the use of land by a railroad company was not in consistont with the use of it for strect purposes, and confirmed the right and power of city councils to order nec y street openings without regard to right of way. This decision is founded on com- mon sense and on a due regard to the ne cessities of municipal growth, Omaha is new encireled with railroads. The belt line sweeps around the corporate limits from the river to the stock yards. The Union Pacific and Burlington roads beset the eity on the south. In the future development of our public improvements the question involved in the Minncapolis decision is likely to arise here. The considerations of law and public policy, contemplated by the law, would undoubtedly result in the same decision, and a like case even be taken to the Nebraska supreme court The other decision is an equally import- ant one, although not at present appli- cable to Nebraska, as the ground is cov- ered by statutory enactment. The su- preme court of Minnesota decides t railronds must bear all the expense of bridging over and tunnelling under their tracks. In the casein question, asquoted by the Pioncer Press, “traflic upon a given street had so multiplied that a crossing at grade could not be tolerated It stopped travel and was certain to bring annually a plentiful crop of acci- dents. The council lowered the street grade at that point, and ordered the com- pany to construct the work required to support its tracks. The company refused, alleging among other things that it would be compelled to occupy priv property in the construction of ap- proaches. The court decides that a rail- road company has this powc and must exercise it on demand of municipal authority. If the con- venience and the safety of the public demand a crossing above or below grade, the obligation to supply it rests upon the railroad. It must occupy and pay for necessary property, and must bear tne cost of what the judges decide to be, in effect, not n passage of the street acro: the railway tra but a sage of the railway track across a street.” Under the Nebraska law, passed by the lust legislature, the cost of viaducts is divided between the city and the ral- roads, the companies paying three-fifths and the city and property own- [ affected th other two fifths. This measure was passed to facilitate needed improvements in Omaha without the expense and delay of a long-drawn legal contest to determine the responsi- bility and convey the power to enforce viaduct construction. Without it, there can be no question that the railroad com- panies could be made to bear all the ex- pense of providing adequate approaches and safe crossings to and over : tracks. The East St. Louls Massacre. We have carefully refrained irom comment on the bloody afitay which took pluce in East St. Louis on last Fri- day, because we desired to know the de- tails as related by both sides, From the full accounts printed in the St. Louis papers, which are certainly not partial to the strikers, we are forced to the con- clusion that the shooting of six men and one woman by the deputies of the sheriff ‘was nothing more nor less than a wanton and cowardly massacre. These deputies were illegally imported from other states on an advertisement by the railway man- agers for men who, for % a day, were willing to assist the sherift in moving their trains. The class of men that enlisted under this call were notorious desperadoes and their presence was in itself an incentiye to disorder. While it is claimed by these deputics that the fivst shot came from the crowd thit gathered near the trac the preponder- ance of testimony shows that the brave deputies fired a volley from their Win- chester rifles into the crowd without pro- vocation and then tovk to thewr heels across the bridge to put themselves under the protection of the St. Louis police. The tact that the victims of these hired ruflians were spectators, and not strikers, shows within itself how reckless and un- called for was the shooting, The wonder is that it was not followed by a generai destruction of life and property. In this view, we are in full accord with somo of the most conservative papers of the country. “The Cleveland Leader, which certainly caunot be classed as an organ ot dynamiters and anarchists, has this to suy about the afiray at East St Louis: Nothine shart ot g \nh; ous assault up- on the guards could justify f Anght v advertising for and employlng “men of nerve,” “who mean business,” arming them with repeating rities and revolvers and in- structing them to use these weapons if the property under their protection was menaced, the railroad company was guilty of incite- ment to murder and arrogated to itself au- thority th:at belongs only to the city or state government. It is evident that the men thus employed wers Gesperate charicters who would hesitute st no atrocity, and that they took tha tirst spnortunity to demonstrate tho fact, 1f we mpy belleve the news scut ovor s —-and thore appears to be no rea- sou W doast fts truthfulness—the out- rave wes ose of tno most unprovoked i s histery of Iahor troubles, The re- spousibllity tharafor 1ests upon tie employers of these guards &8 much as upon the ruians wgulaily organized police or anitazy foree woald bawe been permitted tire vaun e “moh"” excant after due no- tice, and W falare of every other means to repress it This would Fave been true lu the face of & severe avuck by tLo so-callod sitikers. Bitin shis case b0 such atiack ap- jears to have beon wadu, and iue bloodshed is therefore all the more 10 be condemned. The eeplorable aftair stili further cowplicates an already desperale atat af afairs, and what the cnd may bs and whea it will come is impossiite to toreast This muck s cer T The principais o the dattardly out- rage sheuld be summastly pudisied, and their alders and absttors—the persons who fweklcssly luadbed 4Ly employiog desper- d be found to ewrry the plan to & | adues for s work requiifag the greatest Cor- bearauce and diseretion—should be indicted l up i sbort novice. nsuwmation. and brought to trial without delay. Thére 1s now in a Pennsylvania jail a millionaire named Weston undergoing a five years' sen- tence for manslanghter, who is no more guilt;, if asmuch, as the railroad oficials whom public sentimen: will hold responsible for ths bloody deeds at East St. Lous yester- day. Justice will not be satisfied until they, t00, have been placed behind prison bars. They have daily denounced the strikers for alleged violation of the laws since the troubles commenced. By these same laws, the majesty of which should be equal to the oceasion and apply to all alike, they should be judged, and quickly judged. sing to note that the attempt New Tt is pl of some bumptions “Irishman” in York to raise a difference in the ranks of League by reports of a quar- rel between Mr. Patrick Egan and Mr Parnell has signally led. Mr. Egan was represented as being opposed to peaceful methods and dissatisfied with Parnell’s parliamentary management. Both statements have been denounced by the liberal and patriotic president of the National League as being unqualifiedly false. What the object of the “prominent Irishman,” who has carefully concealed his name, was in cndeavoring to stir up trouble in the league ean only be conjectured. There are excellent reasons for believing that he is no friend of Ireland in her liopes for liberty. Parnell's greatest suc- ar has been his signal ability in rmomzing Irishmen and collecting round him such ablelieutenants as John nand William Sexton. ady expressed himself to Mr. Gladstone’s home leading features, and as thoroughly in accord with Mr. Parnell. What the ue thinks of the Irishleader may beseen from the princely contribution £60,000 sent by it the other 0ss the water for the Parnell parliamentary fund for the support of Irish members at West- minster. Now is the time, if ever, when Irishmen should sink all differences and stand shoulder to shoulder in the support of the man whose bril t leadership has forced Irelana’s claims for justice before the world, and raised as their champion the strongest advocate among English speaking nations in the person of Mr. Gladstone. Whether home rule is to be the gift of to-day or the far distant future depends largely upon the earnest and united efforts of the men whose country 15 to be benefitted. 0SS 80 as favorable rule bill in i Tue contract has been let for the Chey enne depot of the Union Pacific, but there are no symptoms of a desire on the part of that company to accommodate Omaha with a substitute for the wretched shed which ccts as an apology for a depot on Tenth street. When the ques- tion of changing the location of the Eleventh street viaduet was under dis- cussion General Managor Callaway sug- ed that the proposed change was in- cly connected with plans fora grand union depot then in contemplation. Since then the matter seems to have dropped out of sight. Omaha has done enough for the Union Pacific rmul- road to entitle her to better depot accommodations. The present dilapi ed structur is a positive dotriment to the eity. Travelers passing through its dingy walls are unfayorably impressed with the surroundings and gain a false idea of the size and enter- prise of the community. A handsome union depot would pay handsome r turns on the investment. It must com some timo, but all our people would be delighted to learn that the time is in the near future and will not be delayed until the new bridge is completed and all the trunk lines are running into Nebraska direct. A MOVEMENT is on foot in Germany to to improve the present system of legal education, and to adopt one similar to that in vogue in Great Britain. A similar movement ought to be started in the United States. At present the legal pro- fession 18 the easfest for a man to enter. The requirements amount to nothing, and the applicants for admission to the bar are generally whitewashed in the so- called examinations. This condition of aflairs nccounts for the numerous shysters and blockheads that are crowding into the ranks of the legal profession, which, 1t has been alleged, is the most honorabld and most learned of all professions. JupGe West, the new governor of Utah, hails from Cynthiana, Kentucky, and is a lawyer by profession. Although he is not a man of extended reputation, even in his own state, he is said to pos- sess considerable horse sense. He has served as county judge and has been mentioned occasionally as a candidate for licutcnant-governor and congress- man, Born houses of congress have passed the bill providing for a new congressional library building. ‘The aged and encyclo- pedie librarian, Spofford, now feels that “the present sossion is most efficient so far as work is concerned, of any which ho bus known for years.”” Tue fact that between 8,000 and 10,000 people were in attendance at the revival meeting in the exposition building Sun- day evening shows that Sam Jones and Sam Small are not needed after all to akening in Omaha. Our Londoi 8p ent view of the prospects for the pass of Gladstone’s home rule bill, Enthusi- astic home rulers, however, predict a ma- jority of forty for the bill on the second reading and a bundred on the final vote. AND now Jay Gould is trying vo break down Powderly by false reports of pro- tended conversations with the master workmen. The great railroad wrecker will not succeed in wrecking the great labor organization. JOE PuLirzen has resigned his seat in congress, being unable to ride two horses at the same time. He thinks the Worid requiras more of his attention than the house of revresentatives. —— TnE trouble with Mr. Jamos is that he hails from Cleveland. It he omine from Fremont there would be o guestion #baut his fitness for superintendent, base- ment or no basement. e A Cu1caGo firm has publishied a novel entit ove's Laddoer.”” The success- we steps 1n Chicago are Courtship, Mar- riage and Divorce. — WuEeN Gould has finished bearing Mis- souri Pacific stock the labor troubles on the southwesiern system will be wound = The RipsyOfce. The first Omaha federal office to open ite arms to a democtat is the surveyor- ship of customs. M Robert C. Jordan is the fortunate Wbmifneo who wili sue- coed Suryeyor Cagipbbll in the federal building and perform, the by no means arduons duties of the position. Mr. Jor- dan is one of our ‘shost respected and amiable of citizens, ohe of Nebraska' oldest residents, and a man who needs no introduction to out people. In succoed- ing Mr. Campbell in the customs service Mr. Jordan will prosidd over the destinies of the port of Omaha by inspecting an occasional steamboat and checking up here and the floating invoice. If the law passes making Omaha a point of im- mediate transportation the duties and the compensation of the office, neither of which are now cxcessive, may be ex- pected to inerease. Mr. Jordan may congratulate himself over beating Mr, Pritchett, Con. Gal- lagher and several other worthy but ambitious gentlemen in the o for federal oflice. Mr. Brener will be the president of the new council and Mr. Boyd will re- main mayor for another year, Ir New York aldermen continue to kip'" there will not be a quorum left in RSONS. . D., has been hit with a c can crush Mary. Thomas Nast has made fame. Ho now thinks of drawing fortune from a Colorado mine. William K. Vanderbuilt is gradually got- ting out of business entanglements, and will take his life easily. Mrs. James Brown Potter is rehearsing a charming little play which she will produce next summer at Newport. Webb Hayes, son of the ex-vresident, is visiting Washington for the first time since his father left the white house. jov. Bookwalter of Ohio will soon sail for Europe, where e will devote himself solely to scientific studies and to literatnre. Mr. Winston, United States minister to Persia, Is engaged to marry Miss Calhoun, a grand-daughter of thoe great South Caroli- nian. James Ru departure for offers to write mag each, Ex-Minlster Luelus Fairenild says that his experienco has led him to the conclusion that Spain isa safer country to live in than the United States. Phillip Brooks, the most prominent preach- or In!Boston, isa bachelor of fifty, who, with- out being handsome, fias a noble head and a frame of ma e proportions. rl Schurz is actink ast attorney for cer- tain bondholding interests of the New York, Philadelphia & Butfalo rdilroad, a position he secured through the triéndship of Henry Villard. f W. Corcoran, the Washington mil- spends his declining years in_dis- tributing checks. Itis @ pleasing and an honorable way of squaring accounts with 11 Lowell, just previous to his rope, 1 said to have declined ine articles at $1,000 A cllic Arthuris not the belle of the white house at presehit, although there is no knowing what she may come_to some day should she marry o democrat. But she loves Washington and Washington loves her. s e Ripe for the Penitentiary. Chicago Time: Juke Sharp says that everything that he donewas under legal advice; and it would seem as if some of the New York lnwyers are about as ripe for the penitentiary as” the New York aldermen. SR War on Liquor. Denver Tribunc-Republican. The Knights of Labor propose to make war upon Jiquor drinking. Their motive is purely practical. They say thataman who is n slave to liquor is of no use to organized Iabor. This Is true; he s of 1o use to any- thing or anybody. 200 Tl Making English History. Chicago News, 1t would be reassuring now to hear from those London gossips who some time ago told us that Mr. Gladstone was going Insane, The old gentleman has reserved his reason long enough to make some of the ortant history that has boen mado and for many a day. —— A Gentle Hint. Fremont Tribuns. Prohibition is coming to the front in south- ern Nebraska as quite a force in_ politics, it veing a leading issue in most of the south Nebraska towns in the municipal election this spring. The people who do not want prohibition forced upon this state need to have n eare in selecting members of the next lezislature, ———— Little Left for Miles to Do, St, Paul Pionecr Press, Gen. Crook has brought into Fort Bowle and shipped to Florida, for perpetual exile, seventy-six of the hostile Apaches. It is be- Lioved that there are only thirty-four hostiles loft, and nearly half of these are sauaws, who fight on a pinch, so_that Gen, Miles, by employing all the available troops In Ari- zona, may be able to bring the Apache busi- ness to a satisfactory conclusion. These thirtv-four squaws and bucks should be bagged at all costs, A dead Apache repre- sonts an expenditure of several thousand dollars by the government, and the sooner they are all run down the better will it be for the treasury, The Master of the House. John Dennis, He cannot walk, he cannot speak, Nothing he kniows of books and men, He is the weakest of the weak, And has not strenzth to hold a pen; He has no pocket, and nopurse, Bl\'(ir ever yet ;n}s u\\?nudlu_ penny, Bt ligs more riches thau his nurse, i it S A He rules his parents by'a cry, ‘And holds them captive Uy a smile, A despot, nmmi through mfancy, A king, from lack of guile, He lies upon his back and erows, Or looks with grave gyes on his mother— What can he mean? But [ suppose They understand each other, In doors or out, early ef late, There is no limit to his sway, For wrapt In baby robes of stafe He governs night and d:.é Kisses | And Ty o takes as rightful die, i-likey has lils 6Hves to dress bim, His subjects bend befort: him, too, I'm one of them. God bless him, I A Ell“k{njs Contrast, Montreal Herald, The contrast between the way In which the Union Pacific company has treated the United States government and the dealings of the Canadian Pacitic company with the people of the dominion is almost enough to make a Pharisee out of the humblest and wost unpretending Canadian, The Canadian company have not only taken no advantage of the Canadian taxpayers, but they have dune better than they promised. They have civen the company @ far belter road than r agreement cowpelled, and they have completed it in o shorter tlme than was set down in the bond. SRR Van Wyck and the Edmunds' Resolu tions. Fremont Tribune. The attention of our readers is called to the letter published to-day from Senator Van Wyek. The brasscollared newspapers of this state have been hounding him ever since he voted upon the Edmunds’ resolutions; they have maliciously Ifed about and misrep- resented him and still persist in it whon they might know the truth if they were not pur- posely deat to it. Senator Van Wyek voted on the right side of those resolutions and in the very beginning was wise enough to place himself upon grounds that could be main- tained and not assume a position as many did, which was untenable and from which he would be compelled to retreat. We ask everybody to read the senator’s letter (which he has written in self defense) and judge him by what he actually did and not by what apack of prolific falsifiers say he did. - Stock and Bond Watering. Chicago Tribune. The consideration of the bill authoriz ing the construction of a railroad through the Indian Territory brought out in the senate some ratber singular views about watering railroad stocks and bonds. The act provide for a road from Fort Smith, Ark., to Arkansas City, Kas.,, running threugh the Indian Te y and con- nected by a branch line with the South- ern Kansas railway near Coffeyy company is authorized to take a strip of ul 200 teet wide through the Indian and accordance with an aw; by arbitrators appointed Inited States courts, and also seorctary of the interior a spec for the benefit of the Indians, All these sroyisions are proper enongh and ealeu- nted to secure a needed railrond in the Indian Territory and protect the rights of the Inc .~ But the senate defeated other sections of the bill which were in- tended to require an honest construction of the road and prolbit the watering of its stock and bonds. The first amendment, proposed by Sen- ator Van Wyck, would forbid the issue of any more stock or bonds than would rey 1t the actual cost of building and equipping the rond. Mr. Platt offered a second _amendment, proyiding that no share of stock should be transferable un- til fifty per cent. of its par value was paid in and the amount sworn to by the offi- cers of the company. Both these amend- ments were defeated, Do the senators wish it understood that they would char- ter this road only on condition t! should be left free to swindle its creditors and tax its future patrons double rates in order to pay illegitimate profits on water- ed stock and bonds? Senator Ingalls thought the company wonld refuse to ac- cept & charter “‘burdened with conditions imposed on no_other corportion,” but it is clear that these “‘conditions’ put on the cnm‘mn no other ‘“burden” than common honesty. An individual who, by misrepresentation, would mortgage for $15,000 a farm worth only $10,000, and then make a default, would be guilty of obtaining money under false pretenses and punishable by imprisonment: but the transaction would be essentially the same as the act of [ company building a railroad which would igsue more mortghge bonds than the road cost, pocket the surplus, and then pile on stock, bull the market, and unload the worthless, swindling chromos on the pub) i scality the senate of tes, under In- d, has sanctioned. y be that the burden of common honesty has been “imposed on no other corporation,” but if so it is ainly time to begin making such requirements. The practice of issuing bonds represent- ing a greater value than the cost of th road has indeed been general in the last twenty years, and it is the main caus why these corporations breed discontent and disorder by levying extortionate charges on the farmers® produce and pay- ing their emplo; dequate wagy The ring of railrond stocks has brought in a train of abuses; and its con- sequences are seen in the angry feeling of the overburdened farmers, artisans, traders and producers, as well'as in the oceasional violent outbreaks of workmen. Itis strange that the senate would not establish at least one precedent where a railroad corporation was held to the rule of fair dealing. e S TR s Jay Gould. Chicago Herald. Who is Jay Gould? He is something more than the little black-cyed, sallow- taced man with whose features and name the public is familiar. The potentiality known as Jay Gould is $600,000,000 of capital, more or less watered, which he controls. It is a power in many states—a sovereign in a few. It represents rapac- ity, pr‘ri'“ry, theft, bribery, and all un- charitableness, It is a conspiracy which has no end, and whose manifestations are ever before us. It is alert, crafty, tireless. At is baflled by no law when the laws are in its wa It is quick to take refuge under the law when it is menaced, — What is known as Jav Gould, therefore, is not simply the man, but the power which he wields, and the ‘methoas which he adopts In thirty years he has secured control of corpor wealth in Ameriea amount-: ing ‘o 000,000,000, and is the absoluc owner of miore’ than $100,000,000. The men who earned this money are not the present owners of i They may be tramps, or their families may be paupers. Gould earned as the thief earns his money, as the gambler earns his, as the conspirator earns his, and as the swind- ler earns his. He worked for it, but he worked as the burglar works. His vigils asted long into the night, he ran fearful chances, he played double, he lied and cheated ‘and botrayed, but of honest toil, of Innusciem.iuus endeavor, he never knew adav, He became a director and afterward president of the Erie rail with the in- tention of wrecking the property unc his management, and with the assistan of Fisk the bonded t of that road in- creased in a few years from §51,000,000 to $115,000,000. During his shameless mis- manngement ot that property he bought Tegislatures and courts as he wonld spikes, and one judge, the notorious Barnard, owned body and soul, kept him m his house surrounded by bedizened antons, and on more than one oceasion him hold" court where corks were Nying and strumpes were disporting themselves. Operating uidcr coves of the law where it was possible, and sub- verting the law by the corrup- tion of its ministers when such a course became mnecessary, he bank- rupted hundreds, and " at length was, with his entiré erew, foreibly ejected trou wae Erie offices by a band of armed men in t mploy of swindled English stockholders, Here was o ca where law was on the side of Gould, th conspirator, and violence and disof on the side of the men whom he had robbed, but the latter triumphed. Hay- ing galned possession of the company’s offices they undertook to appenlto the law to punish the robber. Gould was not prepaved for a contest of that character, and one day he appeared before his vie: tims with a zine box, from which he drow £8,000,000 worth of bonds. These we turned over to the stockholders in settle ment, and no crimina prosecuton- ensued. Notwithstanding this by the ¢ the restitution of a dog. He spcured: control of the West- orn Union telegraph by moans that wero characteristic of the ‘man. In the onc case s lever was & pretonded al, in the other a corrupt judge, Wostbroke by name. Both ~ were conspiracies intended to fasten monopo. lies upon the people and to place himself in control of them. With these great in: terests at hi ck he once more branched out as a railway man, and before many months had elapsed he was in control of the Southwestern system, the prineips owner of all railroads local to Missouri, and almost the soleowner of many of the more important transportation facilities and interests of St. Lous On such foundations rest the Jay Gould power in Ameriea, and by such rethods has it been built up. = Never thwart ed but once, and then only by the wlessness of the men he was robbing, it is a question for people of a serious turn of mind whether it is not time for a better understanding with him than has yet been had. . When such as he have the law on their side, then the law has been used for purpotes nover con- templated by its authors and expounders, Proverty rignts are sacred, but fraud vitiates everything which it touches, and there is not & dollar of Jay Gould's for- tune which is not spotted with 1f there is no power anywhere to protect the mass of men against such crimes as his, it is time that it was conferred by the people. They wve hedged the Goulds all about with legal safegnards of the most solemn nature. Lot them pro- tect themselves as well - A BOOMING TOW Atkinson, in Holt County, Located in the Rich and Fertlle Elkhorn Valley. ATRINSON, Neb., April 11.—[Corres- pondence of the Ber.]—Six years ago the northern, central and northwestern portion of Nebraska was comparatively unknown to the outside world and but fow people knew what rich agrienltural land these northern Nebraska counties were composed of. Since that time, however, the western tide of immigration has been turned toward this country and I the land of any importance in the county of Holt, and the counties lying east of it has been monopolized by the homesteader and is now valued at from 6 to $15 per acre and rapidly ncreasing in value. “‘And the desert shall blossom as the rose.” It has been the popular but erroneous impression that this country, and that lying westward, was the poorest portion of the state. All northern Ne was pronounced a sand desert easterner who had never viewed the county west of the Missouri, had his idea that mothmg but sand hills glistened for miles all through the north Grn part of the state and 1o his eye to s in this country even white beans would have been amiracle. Not till peo- ple settled here and placed the land in a state of cultivation was the tfuth made known. But now it has beeu tested, and amore fertile agricultural country could ibly be found, and especidily that hich “Holt county 1s composed. Wouid that there were more sand deserts of the same kind scattered through the states. This county (Holt) wuas first cttled by a colony from the New England states in 1874, but rewained very thinly settled until the railroad reached it in 1880. This, of cours ted an influx of immigration. Strangers came, viewed the. country and _were satistied and re- mained, o else desired their neighbor: and friends in the cast to share the for: tune which awaited them, and traveled Dack and ith ger interest unfolded great resources and ad- vantages of this country. The colonics _came, newspapers were established and the wealth and nat- ural advantages of the supposed great desert was made known to the world. Towns which now have a popuiation of from 300 to a 1,000 were commenced to be built, and business enterprises of all kinds were ostablished. Atkinson is, and has been, one of the foremost towns of Holt county, both in population and bus- iness enterpri The division of the county at no distant day wiil make the town the county seat of the new cou and give it a commanding® comm and political importance. 1t alread three churches, agood graded school, ete. Two well patronized papers, the Bee and the Graphie, are published here, Among the wide awake business men to whom the town owes a greut share of its pres- ent prosperity, we had the pleasure of mecting Sturdevant Bros., A. P. La Clair & Co., and Bulfer & Co., all deale general merchandise and pioncers of the place The first hardwi ore w. established here by Graham & Owings in 1882, C.” L. Sturdevant, M. D., opened the first dvug store in At- kinson, and now has one of the leading drug houses westof Omaha A bank called the Exchange was erected inabout 1883, with a pai capitul of )00. This at present isone of the leading banking institutions in Holt county. The legal profession has been from the be- ginning well represented Ilf J. W, arger, B. L. Snow, and Whitney & Johnson. One of the wealthy men of the county, George Graves, has a magni- fieently-stocked Tumber yard at this place, and it is said lumber can be pur- chased as reasonable here us at the eastern mills. This, if a fuet, isa balm to the settler. The hotel accommodation of Atkinson are equal to those of any town along the line. The Metropolitan, conduoted by Mrs: M. A; Moals ib run on the European and American vlan, and it well deserves the title which is applied to it. A person stopping in town could do no better than put up at this hotel. We mention the above because they embrace the leading business houses of northern Nobraska, Atkinson is well supplicd with business houses and local enter orises usually found in a town of tive hundred, buf needs something more. She needs mills and factories, and badly louring mill and ereamery. i carried on n the sir- xtensively, and a flouring mill could here be ed at a profitable investment. Atkinson is sit- uated on the I, B, &M. V. R, R., and lies in the beautiful Elkhorn valley, which is & valley broad, sweeping and i valley which attained a conntry STRICTLY PUR| T CONTAINS NOOPIUM IN ANY FORM IN THREE SIZE BOTTLES, PRICE 25 CENTS, 50 CENTS, AND $1 PERBOTTLE 3 FCEN! BOTTLES aro put up for the a commodation of ll who dosiro & goo and low pricod Cough, ColdandCroupRemedy THOSE DESIRING A REMEDY FOR CONSUMPTION ANY LUNG DISEASE. Bhould secure the larke $1 botties. — Dirootion accompanying each bottle. Bold by all Modicine Dealers. OCTOR WHITTIER 617 St. Charles St., St. Louts, Mo, ed {n the. 1 Cy o, vn, Skt "’(‘m»;_‘;pv-;" tration, ' Debill umchm ervous Prostration, ' Debility, Mental and Physical Weaknoss : Morcurial and other Rfec tlons of Throat, Skin o Bones, Blood Polsoning, old Sores and Ul troa 3 ) Discase! i Exposure or Induigence, w hieh produce *erto deiibr di e fhee, ph usion st o Realed enveiope, Troat segerr e Tl ositive Written G Fabio case, Medlcine sentevery whore by MARRIAGE 200 PAGES, FINE PLATES, Bindlo, el 0. 3 siven Ul Wartanted togive satisfac tion onany work und fn any hunds, Price § 2.50 J.B.TrickeyaCo WHOLESALE JEWELERS, Lincoln, Solo Wholesnlo ngents for Nebraska, DEALERS SUPPLIED AT Facrory RATES. N. B. Thisis not a Stylo- graph pencll, but first olass flexiblo gold pon of any do sired fineness of point. WOODBRIDGE BRO'S. State Agents FOR THE DeckerBro'sPianos Omaha, Neb. faciil d o, § Ko 174 Fullon Street. Now ng the ning country in the stafe, '@ Llkhorn river and its tributaries drain a score of the most fer countics in northern Nebrasya, covering an area of twelve thousand uare miles, with a s ) vroduct greater than all New Eng- and and agricultural possibilities equil to the sustenance of & wmillion people. The traveler may look in vain for a country whose topograpl chances oxcel \?uv»u of the Eikhorn , which, auty, and the farmer muy look in v richer and more fertile countr invalid sighing for health should dinly visit here, But as our pen fails ture to perfection the charms of cellient country or the inducements to tho poor man, business man or capitalist, we will draw a vel over the beautiful and picturesque scenes of this churming and fertile valley. ! n stolen guods, Gould Lins made Lis fortune in Eric. Ho had other millions which be did not restore. He engincered the gold corner which culminuted in Hinek Fridny carrying ruin to thousands and death and insamty to many. He had Tweed’s Tam- many behmd. Lim, and the courts and iegislators in plenty) but on that day of pinic, when the wires melted under " the ire of elactricity. men went wad by their losses, roamed the s in search oflim, prepured to dispatch him as they would ‘When Haby was siok, we gave her Casioria, Whon sho was a Child, she eried for Castoris, When shio bocame Miss, she clung to Castoria, When she had Clildres, she gave them Castoria, Do you want a pure, hloom- ing Complexion? 1If so, a fow applications of Hagan's MAGNOLIA BALM will grat- ify you to your heart’s cone tent. It does away with Sal- lowness, Redness, Pimples, Blotches, and all disenses an imperfections of the skin, It overcomesthe flushed appear- anco of heat, fatigue and ex- citement, It makes a lady of THIRTY appear but TWEN- TY ; and so natural, gradual, and })erfact are ifs effects, that it is impossible to detock its application,