Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 31, 1886, Page 4

, THE DAILY BEE. OMANA OFFICR, NO. ¥1AAND 018 FARNAM 8T NEW ¥ onk Orvice, RooM 65, TRIBUNE BUILDING WasHINGTON OFFICE, NO. 513 FourTRRNTH ST, Published every morning, excopt Sunday. The @iy Monday morning puper published ta tho TERMS DY MATL: $10.00 Three Months. .. Fix Months, 5.000ne Month. ... FaE WeBKLY Drp, Published Every Wednesaay. TERME, POSTPAID: One Year, with premium. . One Year, without pre fihout premium on trial One Year. .. 2.0 CONMERPONDENCRS All communioations relating to_news and edi- torial matters should be addressed to the Epr AOR OF "Nk B NUSINESS LETTERSE ATl b siness Jotters and somittances should bo aud, essed 1o Tue 1 PUBLISHING COMPANY, ATA coks and postofice orders 10 be minde puyable 1o the order of the company. THE BEE PUSLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. K. ROSEWATER. EpiTon. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. State of Nebraska, | P 5. § ; of the Bee Publt company. nnly swear that the ac- tual circulation of the Daily Bee for the week ending May 25th, 1856, was as follows: Mory cening B Edition, Total 12,750 5 i 12160 Friday, 25th. 12,115 Average N. P, s Sworn to and subseribed before me, this BOth day of May, A. D. 1856, Sivox J. Fisuen, Notary Public. N. P, Fell, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is cashier of the Bee Pub- lishing company, that the actual average daily circulation of the Daily Bee for the month of January, 188, was 10,378 copies; for Febrnary, 15%,'1 s for March, 11,557 cop! 1880, 12,191 tuéll'('n. worn to_and subscribed before me this Bth day of May, A. D. 15%, - Simox J, Frsnen, Notary Public. —— e, “Cueexs for the living, tears for the dead.” HAVE we auother Leidtke in the .udi- tor’s department? THE coils are tightening Aoser and closer around Maxwell, the murderer. Tho next stricture which he will investi- gate will probably be a stsisture of the neck. Tae jailed polygamists of Utah have replied to Governor West, declining to give up the principle of polygamy. The answer will be reccived with howls of delight by the agitators whose stock in trade has been the ammunition furnished them by the misguided fanatics of the Mormon church. REPORTS from the interior of the state fudicate that heavy ns would be a grateful relief to farmers in the western countics But it is too early to raise the annual alarm of drouth, The alarmists are always on hand every season, and each set back of propitious weather does em to teach them the 1 ds forsettlers in Am and not. alien landlords paign cry which alike. The fac actual settlers have been outrageously abu: by foreign speculators. A single English lord already owns 60,000 acres of land in Colorado in the midst of a tract of 7,000,000 acres reported as having been acquired by fraud and perjury. — SENATOR VAN WYCK has reported from his committee a bill to improve the Mis- sissippi river by deepening and perfeot- ing the outlet to Lake Borgne. Lake Borgne lies east of New Orleans, and itis proposed to conneet it with the Missis- 8ippi at a point south by a canalor a ditch ten miles long, thus enabling the waters of the river to reach the gulf and relieve the course of 110 miles through which the waters now reach the Gulf of Mexico. PHYSICIANS east aro ealling attention to the danger of Kissing the lips of any vne WO has died from a malignant such as ~rearict fever or diphthe: little girl in New York is seriously ill through kissing her grandfaher, who was suffering from diphtheria, and her brother, to whom she communicated the Poison, has died. Complete isolation of the patient is the only safeguard in such eases — Tae collections in America for the Irish parlinmentary fund are about to be -elosed. That rased in New York will be elosed next Thuraday; it now amounts to nearly $75,000, of which $55,000 has been sent to Ireland, The $5 fund in Boston will be closed by & demonstration in Me- ohanios' hall June 17. Ifsumy up §15,000, #nd there has also been a large fund raised by the National league of Boston. A permanent organization for the annual @ollection of this fund is to be formed in New York, but the Pilot says it1s un- likely one will be formed in Boston; **pub- opinion is organization enough." —— Nosovy will probably accuse Jim Laird of being an anti-monopolist, If any ly should be foolhardy enongh to do Jim would not need to produce his E: M. commission to refute it. No- ly outside of a lunatic asylum has ever otght of classing Jim Laird’s organ at astings with exponents of anti-monop- oly principles. It wonld not require an wentory of its railroad job oflice or an pection of its ledger to show which side its bread 1s buttered on. But we do regard it as imperative to resent as an insult the attempt of that sheet, which boasts of its stalwart republieanism,to fol- low in the foot steps of the leading demo- oratic daily in quoting articles from no- torious railroad organs as expressions of anti-monopoly opinion. A few days ago the Omaha Herald printed a seathing “‘anti-monopoly’’ editorial pub- lished by a wretched scallawag At North Bend, who never drew a bre that was not mspired by some ralroad boss. Jim laird’s paper trumped that b ::l and dealt out the same dose as & re- e to Van Wyck from an anti-monop- oly paper. When Jim Laird comes marching home with his knapsack full of Failroad ammunition we expect to hear that Van Wyck is being bombarded by _that great “anti-monopohist” Laird, There is no telling to what audacious mothods these fellows will not resort in Wheir efforts to beat Van Wyck: a the Auditor. When Governor Dawes was publicly warned by this paper that he had taken into his confidence and placed in a responsible position & man who had at one time digposad of a horse that did not belong to him and had been lodged in a Missouri jail on the charge of horse-steal- ing, there was great rescntment among the partisans of the governor. The charge was denounced as a malicious libel, man- ufactured out of whole cloth. Governor Dawes himself pronounced it as baseless, and took promoting his private the assistant adjutant I'he story related by the pleasure in seeretary to generalship. of Hoffman's horse as owner and other witnesses whose deposi- tions are now on file in the Lancaster county court, has painfully surprised the governor and shown the public that there was substantial reason and proper mo- tives for our warning. It remains to be seen whether the revelation which we make in another column will be ignored by Governor Dawes as was our exposure of Hoffman’s record. Auditor Babeock has seen fit to ignore the plain provisions of the constitution and to violate the law enacted under it. Article 1, section 24, exceutive depart- ment of the constitution of Nebraska, provides as follows: “All fees that may heroafter be payable by law for services performed by an officer provided for in this article of the constitution shall be paid in advance into the state treasury.’’ Auditor Babeock has retained the funds collected by January 1 of the present ye On strict construction of the constitution the auditor has no right to colleet a dollar from anybody. The treasurer is the sole custodian of the state funds, and he alone is held responsible for their collection and disbursement. But even if the auditor had the right to collect the fees, which aggregate over $15,000 a year, it is his manifest duty to pay them over to the state treasur fast as they are collected. The lowest estimate of the funds which he now holds illegally places the amount at from five to six thousand dollars. It is more than probable that it amounts to nearer eight thousand dollars. The bulk of this money is derived from the insur- ance department. This is the same revenue that caused ex-Auditor Leidtke to turn defaulter and leave his bondsmen to make good the loss. Auditor Babcock committed another serious misdemeanor when he issued $20,0000f state warrants on the prospee- tive levy of 1886, What right had he to 1ssue these way and what safe- guards are there against his issuing war- rants on the forthcoming state levy before it 15 collected? Nobody ean blame the contructor for the state capitol for ac- cepting these warrants and disposing of them, but the auditor has rendered him- self liable to impeachment for violation of the plain provisions of the law. Govornor Dawes may not be aware of these irregularities, but his duty in the premises is manifest. Wnen Governor Nance discovered that Leidtke had failed to pay over the insurance fees, he promptly suspended him from oflice. Governor Sherman, of Iowa, suspended Auditor Brown for malfeasance in the in- surance business, and he is now on trial before a court of impeachment. Will Governor Dawes do his duty now, and suspend Auditor Babeock, or does he propose to treat this serious charge with indifference and pretended contem nt? —_— Decoration Day, Remembrance of the sacrifices of her fallen heroes has been embalmed by a grateful country in an annually recurs wug vadonal holiaay. It is the tribute of yalty b patiousm, the memorial of the rising generation to the heroic deeds of one which is rapidly passing away, Twenty-five years have elapsed since the ng of the first gun at Sumpter precip- itated the greatest civil war of modern times. Of the great commanders of the early days ot the wara handful only re- mains. Barely twonty per cent of those who wore the blue in the first battles of the army of the Potomac are alive to answer to the peaceful roll ecalls of fraternal re- unions. Buabies who opened their eyes after Appomatox now vote with the sur- vivors of the last campaign. A new gen- oration has taken the place of the soldier boys of the rebellion, and fingers which never handled & musket now strew flow- ers over the graves of the defenders of the union, But there still remain enough survivors of the civil war to bring the observance of the day heme to thousands of hearts, The empty sleeves and shattered frames of the old veterans who wend their in solemn procession to hillside cemeteries and attest the fact thut the scars of civil war are not yet healed. As long ns there temain aching hearts and broken family circles, the chief significance of Decora- tion Day in the present generation will be its connection with the mighty struggle which shook the country a quarter of a century since from center to circumfer- ence, and swept the flower of the loyal north to glorious graves under the folds of the banner for whose supremacy they fought. But in the years to come, the hal- lowed day will not alone commemorate the valor of those who died m the five years’ struggle for national unity, but patriotism itself incarnated in every hero who hus yielded his life for his country on whatever field of battle. Long after every participator in that ever to be re- membgred conflict has joned the ranks of the silent majority. May flowers will strew the graves of the soldier dead, making sweet incense over the erumbling dust of the nation’s defenders. — Tie county commissioners of Douglas county imagine that they are gomng to make themselves popular by catering to to the tax shirkers and trying to preyent assessors from doing their duty they are very much mistaken. We propose this time to put the responsibility for the un- equal assessments where it belongs, We him as fees since THE OMAHA DAILY BEL: MONDAY, MAY 31, 1880 are told that the commissioners have actually informed one of the assessors that his assessment last year was too high, and that he has no business to rai: it this year, And vet these commissioners are actually complaining that there is not enotgh revenue for connty purposes to enable them to put a decent sidewalk in front of the court house and enclose the lot with a w. —_— Hot and Cotd. Ever since Dr, Miller adopted the infla- tion policy to boost the Herald by gas and wind, that paper has been hlowing hot and cold on every question. Dr. Miller himself is an avowed monopolist and worshipper of the Goulden ealf. He des- pises the class from which he sprang and associates only with blue blood. He looks down upon the laboring man just as the southern planter did before the war. He is by instinct and nature an aristocrat and has no sympathy in com- mon with the masse But he has discovered of late th an extra se- lect silk stocking circulation does not yield much revenue or wield much influence. So he has adopted the hot and cold policy. He reorganized his staff and hired a man who belongs to the Knights of Labor to write vigorous Jabor and anti-monopoly articles on the off da while he was doing his con- gemal monopoly business three times a week. The patrons of the Herald are served up red hot labor dishes on Sunday, wdwiched in with puffs for Jay and attacks on labor leaders. On Tues- day they are regaled with well-seasoned arbitration sonp, with a few crackers at Martin Irons and the ‘“‘communists” thrown n to prevent indigestion among the railrond managers who read the paper. On Wednesday Dr. Miller serves up a roast on anti-monopolists and sensons it with gravy a la Dillon and Tom Potter. As a side dish the anti-monovoly editor throws ina few hints about the rights and wrongs of the down-trodden toilers with peppermint sauce to protection monopolists. On Thursday the Knignt of Labor fires chain and canister at Pig [ron Kelle, and the doctor booms Rane and Abe Hewitt in another column. For dessert a lLue puneh i sorved up for Carlisle with and eake for Morrison. On v an Irish stew is dished up by the K. L. man, who lauds home rule and dynamite, and in the next column Dr. Miller prints a eulogy of the lamented Beaconsfield and the glorious English nation. The Doctor has been in England, “y’ know,” and he never will foi get how near he came to being invited to Windsor castle. On Saturday the various dishes are warmed over, and the editorial refrigerator is cleaned up for Sunday. With such a varied and well seasoned bill of fare the Herald's boom must be prodigious. “You pays your money and you takes yourchoice.”” Like some of the seaside hotels where the same bill of fare is served up all the summer with a new date at the head, the hot and cold Herald hasonly to change date lines to fill the bill of the cooks. A Significant Straw. The enormous mass meeting held by workingmen to protest nst the abuscs of the present tariff is a significant straw, which shows from what direction the wind of tariff reform is beginning to blow. Philadelphi hot bed of the high protective iden the metropolis of a state whose greatest indust have received all the benefits of a war tariff. “Protection to Ameri- can industry” and Pennsylvamia monop- olists has been the battle ery for years in the Keystone state. But American workingmen have brains as well as lusty arms, and they are shrewd enough to see through the protection millstone, with its enormous hole of sel- fish personal interests in the center. Forty thousand workingmen of a single city have memorialized congress asking that raw materials be made free. The memorial presents some sound economi- cal doctrines when it states: It is time indeed that tlis little bugbear about wages was dropped, and the greater ones about high rates of interestand profit on capital, the enormous tax on raw materials, the high charges and discriminations of the railroads in transportation, the heavy gen- cral taaatiun, tho Jach ur SKIL 00 MANAZH- mentand economic administration and the excessive number of high salaried bosses in our mills be taken into account; and it will be found in theso combined there is room for a reduction that will ag- grezate more than the entire wage account of American labor and make up more than ten times over for all the difference there may be between American and European wages. As the law now stands thg tariff tax on the ma- terials amounts to much more than the wages paid on the finished fabrics, which accounts for the enhancement of prices without rela- tive compensation to labor; and' hentd the possibility of importing the finished or even partly finished product at a greater profic than to import the materials and have them manufactured here, This is a forcible plea for a beneficient reform of the tariff, which, while not as- sailing protection to oapital, insists that there shall be also protection to the work- ingmen employed by cnpital, Tue real and personal property value of Omaha is from $100,000,000 to $150,000,000. The appraised value as re- turned by the assessors last year was $9,000,000. An honest and fair appraise- ment this year would at least aggregate at onefourth of the actual value, $25,000,060. Let us see whether we will get it up to one-half of this sum, OxanA is now increasing in population at the rate of 8,500 a year. The births aggregate 5,000 and deaths 1,500, This is 5 per cent increase on 70,000 It issafe to suy that more than 8,500 people have located here within the past year, which would give an increase of 7,000. At that ratio the next census will show over 100,000 people. These arestubborn facts. I¥ the arch traitor, Jeff Davis, reads the reports of Decoration Day he will doubtless note that in the opinion of the north the war decided something. — He Gave it Away, Pittshurg Chronicle. “Dan,” said Grover, who had been listen- ing from the head of the stairs to a colloquy between some callers and his private secre- tary, “did theyAvaut to see m “They did, sire.” “And what did you tell them®” *1 told them you were engaged, sire,” “Dan,” said the presiaent, supressing an emphatically simple Jeffersonian remarik, *1 didi’t think you'd give me away like that. You kuow I have never even adwitted it my- sell.,” — Decoration Day. Written for the Bee. Let work and trade he cast aside By every one who meets to-day, And in memoriun, they who died Be honored by the acts we pay. Let every heart réspénd with zeal To strew the flowers upon the erave Of soldier dead;, because we feel Their loss, whodied our land to save. Let purple pansics, roses rad, And drooping fuchias deck the tomb Of those dear ones, our soldier dead. Wiiose lives saved us from treason’s doom. But while our thonghts all hallowed are By memory’s sad, far-reaching power, Which brings to mind stern-visaged war, With all its horrors fresh, this hour, "Iis well to think, and not forget That peace hias victories as well— Grand yictories of a blood-bought debt, Purchased by blood of those who fell. I'he victory of happy homes, And liberty from sea to sea— Yet purchased by a million groans Of dying soldiers’ agony. ‘Then strew the flowers with lavish hand; he swectest flowers we can pick; Until throughout our loyal land, h patriot’s grave Is covered thick. —J. H. CALK1Ng, David City, Neb, SOME 1 TIN(‘) FACTS, aus on reservations in the state of The consumption of eels in amounts to 1,300 tons a year. England owns 000,000 fowls, 1,000,000,000 ezgs were imported in 1855, A cat’s eye vained at $15,000 is one of Coy- lon’s gem exhibits at the London colonial ex- hibition, One hundred persons have recently died in New Hampshire between the ages of 80 and 100 years, In the three years it has been open to the publie, 45,136,534 people have crossed Brook- 1yn bridge. There are now published In the United § 14,160 newspapers and periodicals of all ela Among them are 700 religions and denominational newspapers, nearly one-third of which are printed in Philadel- phia, New York, Boston and Chicago. Of the total number of dwellings in New Yaork, 10,314 contain one family, or six per- sons: 16,952 houses or flats contaln one fam- ily on a floor, or twenty-five persons; while 18,906 tencments accommodate fifty persons each on an average—that is,about three-quar- ters of a million. The area of the United States and terri- tories, exclusive of Alaska, is in round numn- bers about 1,900,000,000 acres, The extent of the arable area is, say 990,000,000 acres. Of this amount there were improved in 1550, say 300,000,000 acres, leaving 650,000,000 acres yet to be improved and made productive. litornia_carries on a, large business in sea shells, which are gathered on its coast and shipped to Europe” Qe fir has » con- tract to ship forty tons of'shells_every sixty days. ‘They are “worth from $700 to $1,000a ton. They are used in_ all kinds of d tive industries, returning to the Un States from France vastly jincreased in lulcu when transformed jinto pearl buttons, shawl elasps, knife handles or in- ‘Tahita shell ze flat mother- t-pearl shells, are worth from $1.50to $4 each, and the tinest sélectéd pairs are some- times sold for as mucly as 85 ‘The landed property of England covers 72,000,000 acres. Tt is worth'$10,000,000,000 and yields an annual rentyindependent of mines, of £330,000,000. One-fourth of this territor exclusive of that held by the owners of less than an acre, is in the jan 4200 proprie- tors, and a_second fourth is owhed by 6,200 others: sothat half the entire country is held v 7400 individuais, The povulation is ‘The peers, not 600 in_number, own more than one-fifth of that kingdom; they possess 14,000,000 acres of land, worth $2,000.000.000, with an annual rental of 806,000,000, s High License the Most Eficacious. Toronto Mail. In large cities high license Is perhaps the most eflicaclous means of restraining the liquor traffic and of gradually educating tho veople up to its abolition. London and e Cheap atany Price. Sl Louis Globe-Democrat, General Miles' offer of $2,000 for the head of Geromimo is open to eriticism, perhaps, from a sentimental point of view; but prac- tically speaking, the article In question would certainly be cheap at the price. The Way to Settle It. Chicago Times, Miss Iolsom, it is said, denies the story that she is to marry the president, and feels much mortification at the gossip with which her name has been associated. Evidently the only way to settic this watter is to ap- noint a coneresslonal investigating commit tee with power to summon witnesses, 2 to Omaha. Kansas Tottrnal. 1t was, of course, to be expected that Omaha would endeavor to secure Sam Jones fora week or two, The associated press sends out reports of his meetings and he advertises the town where he preaches. The business men have been asked to contribute liberally in order to make it an inducement to Sam to come. They see the advantage and are pledging themselves to give freely. Lt i3 probeble that Mr. Jones will visit Omaha in November. We hope he wili and that he will give the town a lift. AL T A Memory. Maurice Thompeon, in Southern Bivouae, May, 1564, ‘The mornine stars were growing pale, But still we slept, as soldiers sleen Who know not fear, deep in the vale Between the mountains dark and steep, A quiet bronded o'er the camp, And not a cloud was in the sky, With soothing dew our brows were damp A sweet breeze fanned us tenderly. 1t may have been a mocking bird, Low thrilling to the dawning day, But every veteran dreaped he heard His love sing as e slceping lay, Some loves were wives and maidens some, And some were mothers sweet and fair: And some were children loft at home Without a mother’s tender care, But ah! how mournful was that strain, “Phat low, sad song ifidreqming cars, It rose and' fell, and rose agdin, And dled as if in sobs and tears, ‘Then brayed the trumpet, elashed the drum; “Fallin!” Up sprang we all as one, Bullets like bees bezan fo hum, And warm red bled like yine to run, On which side foughs we, stiall I say? (We fought so hard, with hearts 5o truet) We may have won the stainless Gray, Or loyally the precious Blue. Some fell. some lived, and all wero bray For all had heard the love song that morn, Oh woman weeping by a grave, Of golden drean to tatters torn, What, without loye, is victory worth? What Is defeat If love Is won? Hearts of the South, hearts of the North, Throb louder than the drum or gun.a The school childr ring flowers to the Grand Army this morningd before 11 o'clock persons who desire to furnish flowers or other decorations will pl before that hour, The is on north side ‘of Doug tween Thirteenth and Four! D. Mead, chairman committee > % This is the best son which to purify the blood, and Hood'sSarsaparilla is the best blood purifier, 100 Doscs Que Dollar. on_are requested to STATE CAPITAL AFFAIRS. The Marvellous Progress of Linooln and Its Bright Outlook. A VISIT TO THE STATE HOUSE. A Coldness Between the Executive and the Departments - Bad State of Affairs in the Auditor's Office~The Lowy Trial. Lixcory, May 20.—[Editorial Corro- spondence of the I J—=That $30,000 libel suit of the unhorsed assistant adju- tant general of Governor Dawes has proved of material benefit to me after all. It has enlarged my ideas not only of Ar- kansas but of Nebras! It has atforded me opportunity to see for myself the mar- vellous developmwent of northwestern Ne braska, and has enabled me to appreciate the solid growth of the eapital city of the state When I first came to Lincoln in 1871 to attend the legislative session, the city, founded by David Butler, was a gling viliage of about 5,000 people tered overa bleak, trecless prairie, old caupitol building, with its outls dome, stood at on A of the town, flanked by the old Tichenor house and om Kennard’s residence. Between the Tichenor and the public square there werce probably not more than ftifty dwell- gs. The Clifton house was a first-class hotel and the members of the Douglas delegation occupied palatial quart- ers ~ there for the on. Th business center of Lincoln S on two sides of the square, which had a large mud heap for its center, now occu- pied by Uncle. Sam’s court 'house and post office. With the exeeption of the state buildings, halt a dozen stores and three or four residences, there were no brick structures i the town, rs that have elapsed a dence in Lincoln, I have visited the ital two or threc times ev year. But when a man attends political conventions, legislatures, and senatorial elections he is in no_con- dition to e the census of new buildings, or to devote much time to his surround- ings outside of the politicians and lobhy. Atliree hours' ride with Hon. C. 0. Whedon around and through the city was a gratifying surprise to m srywhere, from the business center to the re- mote outskirts, beheld strikin evidences of thrift, enterprise and solid growth, Large blocks of three and four-sfory brick buildings are going up on every’ leading thoroughfai Many elegant dwellings are in process of con- struction in the residence portion of the city, and hundreds of cottages aro being built by italists and workingmen. That this wonderful building boom is bound to contiaue for some years I am now fully convinced, At present there is not a swore or dwelling house for rent, and nearly every building now in course of construction has been spoken for. Chiet among the many causes for this growth is the fact that” Lincoln has be- come a great railrond center. She al- ready has the appearance of a hub~ on the railroad map. iron spokes radiate in ever i on, Within ninety days she will add two more spokes to the hub—the Missouri Pacific_and the Chicago & Northwestern, With such facilities her jobbing trade is steadily increasing 1 visited the stock yards and viewed the elegant exchange” building and the new packing louses now 1n course of construction. Thesc buildings ave being constructed of stone and will, when completed, present a very substantial ppearance. The company has Mrundx its. water works ~with a stand pipe to supply the yards with an abundance of clear water. Close to the stock yards is John Fitzgerald's new brick manufacturing tablishment, which has a capacity of 1,000,000 brick per month, and is now in full operation. This briuklynrd plant, costing $30,000, is only one of the many enterprises set on foot by John Fitzgerald, who 18 a mil- lionaire who does not content himself with lending money at 10 per cent and shaving notes for a living. Tne most striking contrast between the Lincoln of to-day and the Lincoln of 1871 18 visible in the forest of shade trees which line the streets and the green lawns decorated with flower plots and shrubbery. The taste displaved in the arrangement of lawns and embellish- ment of dwellings and residences is most excellent. With paved streets Lipcoln will before long bg one of the most beau- tiful and attractive cities in the west. One of the noticeable features of the oapital aity 12 ita numorous and ologant church edifices, which will compare favorably with church buildings in cities of 100,000 population. Incidentally I may remark that Lincoln is yery nearly ready to don the garb of u city of the first class. Her public im- provements are about to be placed on an equal footing with those of Omaha. She already has a system of water works, and the Waring system of sewerage has becn adopted Y her council. Grading and paving will soon follow, and the transformation will be as marked in Lin- coln as it has been in Omaha. DISCORD AT THE STATE HOUSE. My visit to the state house has im- rressed me with the lamentable lack of harmony between the executive office and the de?nrlmenn Governor Dawes is not popular down town, and much less of a favorite at the capitol than any of his predecessors. Heis hardly on speak- ing terms with some of the state officers. Secretary Roggen, for instance, has not crossed the threshold of the governor's office in twelve months, Other of- ficers have mno iIntercourse with the governor whatever, except ot an oflicial character. All this came from the attempt of the governor to override the board of public lands and buildings in the management of state institutions, notably tho insane hospital. ~ The goy- ernor snubbed and insul: the board by ignoring its remonstrunce about the mat ron of the asylum and the methods of the superintendent. The matron se¢ms to have more influenee over the governor than the state ofticers charged “with the supervision of our benevolenf institutions, This of course can only work mischief, and eause insubordination and misman” agement In the main I fiud the business of the state in good hands with one or two ex- ceptions. Land Commussioner Scott is an honest and hard working oflicial who realizes the responsibility of his position and conscientiously discharges its duties e hest of his ability urer Willard attends strictly to his business, and his books are always open to inspection, while his vaults are well guarded. Mr. Roggen has always been a very eflicient and accommodating ofticer. He is thoroughly conversant with his duties and discharges them without fear or favor The only blunder he has made was in ap- pointing Gere on the railroad commis sion. About the attorney ofe to say nothing, h;ml'lf’ bec nothing to say—good, bad or indifferent The “auditor’s office is again in bad hands. When I called upon the treasurer to ascertain the condition of state fin ances it did not take long for me to dis- cover & shortage in the auditor’s oflice constitution requives all state to turn in their fi to treasurer. These fees ave e in advance before any service Is performed. 1 find that the fees paid over to the treasurer for the year ending since my 1 the December 81, 1885, were as follows: Gov- ernor, $192; secretary of state, $1,297.90; auditor, $15,169.10. Since January 1 up to the 28th of May the governor has paid in $30; secretary of stal $707.75; audi- tor, nothmfi. Auditor Babeock has retained all the fees collected this year, and the natural inference is that he is using the money for his own benefit. This discovery led to another one. 1 find that Mr. Babcock has seen fit to issue about twenty thousand dollars in warrants to the contractor of the capitol on the prospective levy of 1886, These warrants were issued in direct violation of law. To be sure, they draw no inter- est, but that does not excuse the anditor for such a breach of trust. The warrants, I am told, were not put on the market in Nebraska, but have been disposed of to parties in New England. Mr. Babeock, it seemis to me, is not a very safe man in the auditor's ofti HOW THE YWY JURY WAS WORKED. While lounging at the hotel await- ing the call of tho Hoffman case, I learned the true inwardness of another case which is just now attract- ing a good deal of attention, “That was a most villainous viece of jobbery,” ex- imed my informant, referring to the Loyal L. Smith-Lowy trial. *I'he’ whole thing was an infamous conspiracy. But 0 way the jury was handled to beat Smith’s ereditors shows how loosely the federal courts run, Ed Carns was put nnllw(i\u " continued my inform- 1 Ca worked the jury for all 18 in it Oneof the jurymen wasa veteran from York. “Carns gen- d his hotel bill atthe Commer- the court was in session Carns supplied the jurymen with thea- tickets. He took them to entertain- ments and footed their bills, and last, but not least, he ran a poker room whero he had bis friends put in their time and spare cash. In this gambling den an Omaha attorney dropped $100, and a clerk of the United States courts made a _deposit of a larger amount.” No wonder the jury agroed with Carns m favor of the swindlers. Who fur- nished the money for Carnscan probably be told by the eminent counsel engaged in Lowy’s behalf. I am no longer sur- sed at the remark dropped by Lowy recently that the trial already had cost him $10,000. ‘The moral of this tale, to my mind, is ither suggestive. When juries are ked by notovious politicians, and court oflicials gnmble away moncy the way ot justice becomes rather unecertain. E. ROSEWATER. EAnS King Theebaw in From the Times of Ind Theebaw, x-king of Burmah, is now a state oner, with his two queens and three children at Rutangherry, where he ar- rived from Madras on the 16th of April. Theebaw was brought on shore by coolies in an arm chair which was wholly with Turkey red. The two ore then brought to shore and 50 was the Id with the attendant, Theebaw is about 23 years of age, is a strong built, middie sized man, with a round, fair' Chinose complexion, and wears light monstache. He has & pre- r( g uppearance and the gait and behavior of a refined person. Ho had put on a white silk coat ching down 1o his knees, and had a sitk longoti of variegated colors, He was wearing a white silk puggree like the vim of a Per- sian hat, from tne top of which his plaits of bair, which were tied up in the form of sible. He was also w stockings and kid leather shoes, 1 on the whole he presented a smart carance. On ench side of his breast k coat two of the size st 1 gold settings,wl shone brightly in the morning rays of the sun. Sopayuh Lat, his favorite queen, was dressed in g small white silk pettice ith pink and blue frontages, and a longoti, stockings and English shoes. The upper portion of her chest, which was bare, was ornamented with a huge diamond ce some three or four rows deep, which a sort of a coronet sot with rubies, emaralds and diamonds, was fixed into the folds of her hair just above the forehead. She had also huge gold rings, set with a large diamond and e¢m erald on either side of it, fixed into the holes bored into the lobes of her ears The other queen, who was similarly dressed and decorated with dinmonds and rubies and emeralds as Sopayah Lat, did not, however, present a_desponding appearance. She 1s at all events more handsome and lively than the rival queen, After Theebaw_and his two queens had been landed, Mr.Propert and Mr. Craw- ford led the way., and immediately So- payah Lat, turning towards her ‘royal consort, cast u wistful glance at him, and offered him her left hand, followed hand n hand the officials. The second qufiun follbwed the royal couple, 'Lhey all walked with a light though firm step to the other end of the shora, where the car, ¢ waiting for them. The two ated them- selves in what m of honor, and Theebaw and Mr. Propert occupied the opposite seat. The eldest child was also taken into the carringe by Sopayah Lat, and the party was then driven to their bungalow on the hill. In the second boat were brought the six maids of honor and two other infant children of Theebaw. The maids of honor were dressed in much the same way as the two qucens, but they had not their maguiticent jewels to” decorate themselves with. But still each one, decorated as they were, carried a mine of wealth with her. Two of these maids carried, among other very valuable arti- cles, two huge, bows, which are made of pure gold. ile. 1 the seat LIt i En Excited Celestial, New York Sun: “Hoop-la!"" ghouted a Mott street Chiuaman; “burnee, shoote polico, knock ‘em outce, laise helle allee same--" “Here, John," interrupted a police- man, “what’s up?" “Me no Chinaman, Mo analchist, so- cialist, Molmon mmmigrant. Me hnal- hist. 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