Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 23, 1886, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. | TERME OF 81U RSORTPTY Daily Moeniag Eaition) Ineludin DLk, Ono Y oar For 8% Month o Throo Months Omahn S address, One Sunday OMABA Orrrc 1 FARY AN STy New Yous i VR WASHINGTON OFPiCE, \ TERNTH STILE o All commun torinl nin TOK OF THE Ent k. NUSINERS LETTERSE ANl bueiness [otors nnd remittanoes should be Addrossed 1o Tie B PURLISHING COMPANY, OMAHA. Drafts, chocks and_postoflice ordor o be made pay able 1o the orderof the compuny, | THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPAKY, PROPRIETORS, F. ROSEWATER, Eprron THE DAILY BEL. Sworn Statement of Circulation. State of Nebraska, | County of Donglas; | % Geo, B, ‘Tzsehuck seeretary ot the U Tishing company, does sorenni the actual cireilation of the Dailv Dee for the week ending Aug. 20th, 1856, was as follows Saturday, 11th Sunday. 15th Monday, 101l Tuesday, 1ith Wednesduy, 15th Thursday, ..., Friday, 20th Aver (PRt Bubscribed and sworn to before me this 25t day of August, 1886, N, P, Frir, [SKAT.| Nofary Publ B, Tzschuck, belng first duly sworn, de- s and says (gt he is secretary of the Bee hing company, that the actual averaze daily circulation of the Daily Bee for the month of January, 18%, was 10378 copics; for February, 155, 10,503 copies; for March, 1856, 11,557 copies: ‘for copies: for May, 183, 12,45 1856, 12,208 copies for July, 18, iro, B, Tzscuuek. Subseribed and sworn to_before me, this 24 day of August, A, D, 158, o, B [8EAL. | ¥ 3 SENATOR VAN WYCK enters the eanvass upon his record. All other candidates will have to run on their promises, Creen e Iooking after tound dition, v i spent Sunday in Omaha his politieal fences. He them in a rather dismantied con DAWES county is boasting of corn in the ear ten feet high and full eared. Northwestern Nebraska proposes to keep up its end of the state in spite of geogra phics, altitudes and predicted trosts. 1t is doing it, too Tue blast upon Senator Van Wyek's bugle horn has not yet called out any of his competitors, Is the senator to have the ficld alone or the railrogue poli ticians trying the pace of their favorites before they trot them out for public in- spection? CorN will be high this fall and cattle feeders ave already hguring up the prof its of home consumption, This is the line in which a rich ticld for success lic for Nebraska farmers and stock raisers, Corn on the hoof ought to pay double the profit of corn on the car. Tue dose which the prohibitionists gave Church Howo at Lincoln made that distinguished political monte sharp wish that he ad attended the convention.” The previous suceess of this bribe-taking monte sharp induces him to believe that he can pull the wool over the eyes of honest men and ride four horses at one time. Tue railvoad system which wiil push a competing line up the Elkhorn valley and tap the rich coyntty between the Northwestern and Union Pacilic, with direct tonnections from Omaha, will have a bonanza in its grasp. There is enough undeveloped resources in the seetion to maintain three trunk lines, and Omaha jobbers will seo to it that the city furnishes her full proportion of the traflic. Crrizexs of N i especially tho votors of the First district will be in- terested in the exposure which the Bek to-duy makes of Church Howae's exploits ns ler in demoeratic bribe money. The detailed information which we give of this portion of his “spotless record” will carry conviction to every honest reader. If further testimony is required wo have no doubt that Nelse Patrick will cheerfully give it in private to honest seckers after the truth, as it is not found in Church Howe. ——— Tue stir among the dry hones of the Afghan boundary question is one of the first fruits of the Sulisbury ministry. To call attention to foreign matters is tho proper thing to do under the circum- stances. Whether Colonel Ridgeway, of the British Afghan commission, is act- Lally recalled or not, it is plain that the Indfan anestion, so long sloeping in ob- y, figured pRomingitly at Tuesda eouncil board of the new cabuef: A bit of territory in the Oxus district has been selected and, if the reports ean be relied upon, & yos or no answer has been de- munded of Russia, This pushes the issuo to the front at once. Russia nover gives A yes or no answer as to her claims upon As soil, and she can thus be relied upon to lielp the premier draw the o of rland from a burning domestie question, The sensational runiors of the week are denied, but the cabinet action as to the Afghan frontier was enough to turn the public mind in a new channel, ‘I'is is the season of the year when the Indian commission goes on its annual trip to spread philanthropy and refine. ment among the reservations ‘and to re- turn with a large stock of misinforma- tion about Indian afluirs s usuul, the members were chosen this year from eastern gentlemen who have about as mueh practical knowledge of the Indian problem as they have of running a cattl hord. Why commissione: re not se- Jected from the west it is dificult to understand. The men of the west have had practical knowledge of the Indian problem for # quarter of o century. In thew minds it resolves itself simply into the question how the Indians shall be kept quiet and harmless. The problems of civilization and Christianization and education, and a score of other “‘ations,” which worry the minds of the eastorn philanthropists, #re quite secondary to the main issue of fronticr protection and quiet on the re- sorves. A well-fed Indian on a discip- lined agency, with s reserve commanded by well garrisoned posts, is the most harmless Tndian on the frontier, A Uoncession, Not a Surrender. The report coming from El Paso that the supreme tribunal of Chihnahua will | order the of Cutting and the | remission of the fine imposed upon him crodible. The plausible ground for such action is in the fact that Cutting | has onment release is not ready served two month Furthermor that Mexican ympris ahle to supposc the disposed to make by the in the present eir cmstan would b sion, if Ul conld be coursc 1that in « of the dering of Sceretary Bayard at the outset some conces n controversy under matter I'hey of sta msequence blun | | in ncting precipitately upon information found have been entirely curate, they have rather the advant in the and can well afford to rid | themselves of a troublesome affair if that can be by the release of Cutting But the dispateh says that the Mexiean tribunal is understood that there is in respect to the right claimed by Mexico to try an offense against its laws com mitted in the United States by an Ameri- I'his will leave the prine root of the controversy since not to carcful to have it no - sifrrender can citizen ple whicn is th still unsettled Itis statea that Cutting will not accept release as o settlement of the matter so far as he is concerned, but will demand an indemnity, probably to the amount of ten thousand dollars. In this he is said to be enconraged by Consul Brigham, The inquirics to be prosecuted by Mr. Sedgwick, who is now in Mexico as the envoy of the United States, will doubt- less have a great deal to do with determ- inng whether Cutting has any proper claim to indemnity which would justify this government in supporting his de- mand. Meanwhile the statement comes | from Washington that the state depart- the an- ment has no information regarding reported intention of the Mexican thorities, while if such action was taken it wouid interpose no obstruction to diplomatie efforts to secure the moditica- tion or repeal of the objectionable Mexican laws involving the claim to oxtra territorial jurisdiction. Assuming the autnenticity of these reports, the ob. vious deduction is that Mexico sees an easy way to avoid further and possibly serious trouble by making s concession which would involve no humihation to her, since the United States government has found it necessary to measur: from its origmal attitud leaving to the tedious processes of diplomacy the settlement at some indefi- nite time of the prime principle at stake, People who have been disposed to deny the Mexiean government the judgment and sagacity to intelligently manage its © may bave reason to reverse their opinion, recede in o while venue Reform. The next legislature will doubtless he called upon to revise our revenue law. The system of taxation especially as ap- plied to cities and to railroads is radically wrong. Omaha knows its defects, and every other city in the state suffers pro portionally. Assessment under its pro- visions is a delusion and a snare. The theory of a proper assessmentis to equal- the burden of taxation, to tnrow its weight upon shoulders able to sustain it and to relieve the poor from a drain which their swall resonrees would be un to sustain. In practice, Neb: law, which forces the eities to take the county assessment as a basis for taxation throws the burden of the taxes upon the poor and lifts it from the wealthy A single city assessor with power to avpoint deputies and with an entire year to revise property values and discover evasions of the law would change conditions at onen, Tinsis the systew ndopted in all large cities clse- where, It should be made the law for cities of the first and ond class in Nebraska. The evasion of taxes by the ralroads is even more striking and disastrous to the revenue. In this particular we suffer with other neighboring states, Missouri is now agmitating a change in her law providing for taxing the great railroad corporations. Accord- ing to the St. Louis Republican the fol lowing conditions exist: “There are ninety railro in Mis- souri, having o total mileage of 5,017 miles. Their aggregate stock and bondod debt is $246,552,000, and this represents their apparent cost. What their real cost has been we cannot tell until we know how wmuch water has been put into the stoc Mvr. Henry Poor, the raiiroad statistician, estimates that one-half the railway stock and debt of the countr water, If this 1s true of the of Missouri, their actual c has been one-half of §246,552,000, or $123,- 276,000, But it is amazing how suddenly railroad values shrink when brought up. for taxation. The taxable value of all the railroads in Missouri is only $42,000,- 000—little more than one-sixth their pre- tended cost, and little more than onc- third thoir estimated actual cost, In the counties of Missouri property is taxed at about one-half its actual cash i St. Louis a1 four-iifths, and in many ¢ at its full cash ValI& Why railroads, which are a profit-earning ocigs of property, should enjoy the favor of a 3 mwuch lower taxable valuation than other kinds of property, 18 a question wuich the assessors alon 1 answer.' Political Offende The senate will have two extradition treaties to consider when it meets in December session, The English treaty is likely to cause more discussion than the one with Japan on account of its clause making “malicious injury to life and property”’ an extraditablo offense. Some unnecessary fears are expressed lest this clause, 1f ratified, should put in sopurdy the lives and liberties of per- sons charged with alleged political offenses, The question should be clearly defined. Who ave politieal offenders? In the most obyious and general sense po- litical offenses consist in attacking the es- tablished political order of government in acountry, No one pretends that political offenders of this class could be delivered up under an extradition treaty. It seems to be assumed by some that erimes committed under the orders of a secrot political society, for an alleged political purpose, would bring the perpetrators under the protection of international law as political offenders. This is a doe- trine which no right thinking man can admit. It would have protected Fieschi who murdered & number of innocent persons in the streets of Paris in an attempt upon the life of Louis | per Philippe. It would protect the dynamite conspirators and anarchist THE assnssing resently convicted in Chicago. If they should break fail and escape to Canada they could plead against extradi tion that the murderons dynamite bomb was flung into the ranks of the police for ind under this doe iim would be allowed. Under the civilized world such murders and they cannot be pallintod s politieal offenses. Revolution political offenders, Such ns may commit high treason against a political purvose trine the ¢l every code in deeds are or war create their country and upon eseaping cannot be delivered up by any government with out vic wing the makes a wide hospitality of nations sense of mankind distinction between this itieal offenders and the assas. ins who plot wholesale murder by fling ot dynamite into crowded treets with the atrocious pretension that non class of pe ing cans they ure engaged in reorganizing society STATE AND TERRITO Nebraska Jottings. Kearney has voted a charter for a stroct railway Hartington wants a jail and a full set of “coniealongs,” Generous showers make corn hump itself theso duys. The new Presbyterian church at Re- publican City was dedieated last Sunday. North Loup siloons are closed up, but the drugzlists kéep an extra supply of Winks Scotia is in the vortex whirlpool tery plan. ‘The Pythians of Beatrice are gomg to organize a uniform division and display their shane, The Chadron Democrat is the lemon peel of the northwest. Land office luere agrees with its blood. The Bay State Cattle company has commenced shipping their cattle in for feeding at the big barns at Ames, Dodge county’ The fireman’s tournam Fremont to-morrow and will continuo four days, About $1,400 are oftered in prizes and the five boys will have a lively time, Mr. Miller, a bisenit._ molder in Hold rege, ran off with Miss Nevada Ruby last week, and married her at Minden new setting, itis kneadless to say, agrees with her The hoomers of Papillion held another ereamery and cheese factory meeting Saturday evening. The town's blood has heen stirred up by the musical voice of the Lot auctioneer outside Omaha, Mr and Mrs H. C. Ritehie, of Platts mouth, have a night-blooming cereus, which is now in bloom. “The ffower was as large as one's hand, with pure white, wax-like leaves and a erown in the center. SWiHlL she lot the opportunity slip?” writes a Nebraska reporter. Thatidepends. If she knows the exaet si of his bank account, it is probable she will cling to the opportunity im death to leading demoerat. W. 8. Wilson, the “Tug™ of Sutton, slapped vistol to his breast and sent his soul aloft The unfortunate was married on the 11th of this month No other cause is asslgned for the rash aet He w ¢ and genial sunshine of a speenlative Town lots are sold on a lot- opens in termelons, friends; small; our inside w63 are athirst; roll in’ the luscious all.” " So shouts. the border alitor, mouth stretehed like cave of winds, year's subscription for the bigzgest one, but plerse don't plug the ends.” G, L, Brown of North Bend harbored Bill Shubert and his wife for a number of wecks, and sums up the cost as follows A team of ponies, o lumber wagon, buzey.a cow and his danghter, Brown, all of which according to & pub- ic notice, “the said Shuberts drove oft.” Mr. Brown will give $50 for an interview with Shubert. Gieorg bring théw large and wstward of Adams county in- truded in the pasture of a business-like bull. Lhe animal elevated his ily brush, lowered his head and_charged. “A - wild comwotion ensued. Mr. I, remembe ying through the air at a speed that al- most took his breath, and landed in a soft mud_puddle, where e wisely re- mained il assistanee came, One rib and a log were broken. The Northwest Nebraska editors will rt for the Black Hills on the 15th of October. It is feared that this excursion will not conduce to the harmony and personal beauty of the members. To 0id . the possi bility of a scrap after crossing the border it is proposed to place the O'Ngiil members in separate steel wire compart- ments and feed them on musiy paste. Union Pacitic surveying corps are ox amining tho lay of the conntry in north- cast Nebraska andtho interested resi dents are buiiding, in theiw minds, brond gauge roads over hill and valley. Even ankton extracts comfort from these movements, and expeets to see the Mis- souri bridgc that point. The Telo gram says: “That bridge will come s sure as the water in the Missouri runs downward, and come soon. And within afew years Yankton will be the up-river rival ‘of Omaha. Yankton will have 50,000 people now sooner than our fac tion-torn neighbors of City reach that number, Hoop foux om up. Towa Ite ‘Ile cash in the state try 10 $I83,| 31, A cucumber four feet long 15 on exhibi- tion at Waterloo. ‘The population of Ottumwa consumes about 900,000 gallons of water per day, _‘lhe contract has been let to put in $13.000 system of water works at Nashua. The seventh annual fair of the Shenan- doah association will be held Septomber 21-25, Five clevators with 20,000 bushels of grain and two warcehouses were destroyed by fire at Ida Grove last week, The St. Paul Lutheran society at Fort Dodge i3 .,.‘X;In ing a new church building, sury amounts 43 by 96 fect, ot & cost of §15,000. In digging out the new wheel pit for the water works at Ottumwa, the work men strnek a two-foot vemn of fine co A. 8. Davis, of Des Moines, failed in Lis attempt to enjoin the ety from im- proving the streéts until thero is money 1o meet the bills, A Des Moines negro undertook to de- molish a forty-six pound watermelon one day recently, but gave it up atter dipos. ing of twenty-two pounds. An emetic aved his life, For the pust year some very boid steal- g has been going on down in Scott county, and recently the authorities du termined to capture the perpetrators, A diligent search discovered a regular rob- bers' den on an island in the Mississippi viver, and in it were stored most of the missing article Two of the thieves were eaptured. George Koener, of Keokuk, was found dead, hanging in' an inner doorway at his cigar factory, on the morning of the 17th inst. The night previous, after hay- ing shamefully maltreated his' wife and children, who lived in two small rooms back of the shop, and then drove out & man who was in the shop, closed up his house and this was the last seen of him alive, Suit was bronght Burlington & Quiney railroad by Alired Ganey for the sum of 25,000 damages, claimed to have been sustained while in the employ of that compuny as brakeman ) its yard at Creston. The claim is based upon negligence on the part of the company and its employes, whereby the plaintifi’ caught his foot between pro: truding bolts and was thrown beneath nst the Chicago, OMAHA DAILY BEE the moving cars and seve nently crippled y and porma- Dakota, There are three opium joints running in Rapid City A Kimball man owns a crystal, set in golil, which Lafayetie gave his grand fathor in 1524, I'he first new wheat was brought into Ensterline Monday, August 9, the earliest date for the new crop known It is oxpected that the Northern Pacific cars will reach Aberdecn over the North- western extension within two weeks, The failure of the hop crop does not affect the size of the schooners in Rapid City nor the cost of émptying one—tif teen cents Jerauld county has cighteen candidates for county superinten dont, thirty-one for sherifl, ninety-one for assessor and six for probate judg A big vein of coal has been found in southeastern Potter county, near the Hand county linn. 1t is equal to the best Hlinois conl I'he Homestake uses upwards of fifteen loads of powder a year. The con sumption of powder throughont the Hills amonnts to about seventy-five carloads a vear There are thousands of aeres of rich farming land in the Red canyon of the Southern nills, butat is within the limits of the auriferons belt and is not subject to entry, The product of Tron Hill mine for the first two weeks of August was 11,282.60 ounces. ‘Lhe total product of the ming was 218,218,538 ounces. - Stock has jumped from $1.50 to §2.80., Smce stream tin has been recognized in tho Black Hills the old-timers are be- ginmng to kick themselves for not drop pingon long ago. The black sand that used to be blown out of their gold dust was stream tin, and they didn’t know it The entire assessed property of the territory wilt reach about $130.000,000. Itis expected the rate levied for taxes for territorial purposes will be about 24 mills. Last year the property was valued at $106,000,000 and the rate 3 mills An East Pierre lady thought she Lad reason to suspeet her husband recently, and one morning marked the sock into which he thrust fiis left foot. When he came home at night that sock was on the other foot, and then there was war. A decision of tle general land com- missioner in aease involving the title to w large portion of the Crook City town site ha en received at the Deadwood land office. The decision vaeates @ part of the land. J. L. Denman 1s a party in the interest Utah and ldaha, Hog cholera has broken out in Tdaho. Polygamists ar rorously prose cuted in Idaho A recent five at Ogden destroyed $25,- 000 worth of property One hundred thousand sheep are be ing driven into (daho. Lust week's bullion shipment from Sait Lake City was: Twenty-one cars bullion 186,707 1hs; seventoen cays ove, 544,600 Ibs: three cars copper ore, 83,100 1bs; three cars sulphur, 81,000 {bs. There are said to be a thousand men i the Yellow Pine Basin country, and the surface is staked offin all directions for twenty miles. Three mimers have r turncd theree lo Ketehum, and pr nounce the country a traud so far as placers are concerned. A Salt Lake paper improves on the railroad situation thus: “Next season the Union Pacitic will build a road from Echo down through Coalville and Par- loy's can Salt Lake, it being their ultimate ution to atandon Ogden and continue a separate line. by - of Stockton to the Pacific. The Central Pacitic will then establish its terminus, It is said that the Union Pacitic manag: ment have determined (o make a new departure which will certainly be of great benefit to the road by addinz o its Popularity with the publiz. ThiZ 1s to encou and_ fostr the purchase and improvement of pleasure resorts along the ronte, of which theve are a good num- Ler, by companics of a semi-ofticial ni- ture. being vi R — A CORRECTIO! Statement From the Nebraska Land and Loan Company. eb., August 21.—-To the Editor We note i your issue ot the an article dated York, Neb,, ial to the Ber), “They York, of the BE 20th inst August 1 Must Py ; The BEF has been in our office for the four years, and in justice to your we think the past paper and our compan, trath should be before the public. The articles of ussociation of the Nebraska Land and Loan company were filed on ey about September 1, 1881, but no - cupital vaid up or business transacted until July 15, 1835, at_ which date our books were opened and first assessment made on stockholdc The tax in question was for the year 1885, at which time (April 15t) we were not assessable. Regarding the tax of 1836 there is no question involved. as our company drew from the state Januar The statement in the Be P! ntation throughout, asinvestigation will prove, Mr. E. P. Wainer was never connected with the company either oflicially or as a stockholder. ~ Yours very respecttully, F. FF. MEAD, Cashie Subseribed and sworn to before me by ¥, ¥. Mead this 21st day of August, A, D. 1886, GEORGE B, FRANCE Notary Public in and for York county, state of Nebraska - Wom subjeet to constitutional weak- ness are greatly benefitted by the use of Dr.J. H. McLean’s Liver and Kidney Balm. It'is agreeable to take, and gentle in its netion, und always successful. $1.00 per bottle. b5.5 Lost Her Way 1da Johnson, & young girl who came to Omaha tovisit relatives, lost her way and was picked up by Marshal Cummings late Saturday cvening wanderimg about the streets. She was placed in care of Mrs. Pugsicy, of the Woman's Christian At assgeintion, ane yesterday found her ends friend s Benton's Hajr Groiver Al who aro BALD, ull who aro fRguaing BALD, all who do not want to ba biia, A!! who are troubled with DANDRUFF, or FPCHING of the sealp; should use Bonfon’s Hair Grower. Eiaiery Peg Cext of those using It have grown hair. It never falls to stop the hair from falling. Through sickness and fovers the hair sometimes falls off in short time, and although the person may hayo remained bald for years, if youuse Ben- ton's Hair Grower according to direetions you are sure of a growih of “hair, In hun- dreds of cases we have produced a good growth of Hair on those who liave been bald and glazed for years woe have ully substan- tiated the following facts: We grow Hair in 80 cases out of 100, ‘matter how long bald. Unlike other preparations, it eontains no sugar of lead, or veetablo or mineral D30NS, Itis aspecific for falling hair, dandrufl, and itehing of thy sealp. The Hair Grower is a har food, and ity auposition is almost exactly like the oi which supplies the hair With Its vitali DOUBLEWND FRIPLE STRENGTI When the skin is very tough and nard, and the follice Is apparenily effcetually " elosed, the single strength will sometimes fail to reach tiie papilla; in sich cases the double or triple strength should be used in_connection with the single, using tiem alternately, Price, singlo strength, 81,00; °double strength, $2.00; triple strength, $3.00. If your druggists have not got it we will send it prapared on_receipt of price ' GROWER €O, BENTON HALR TN Sold by C. F. Goodman and Kuhn & Uo. o b’mu and Douxlas. 18th aud Cumings no MONDAY. AUGU CHURCH HOWE AS A DECOY. A TFew More Statements About the States- man from Nemaha. HIS LEGISLATIVE CAREER And His Oonnection With ¢ Senatorial Contest Charges of Briber, rrup- tion and Dishonesty, teminisconces, Liscorns, Neb., August 21, 1886, or respondence of the Bk J—Church Howe lias so many times dupod and chentod his own constituents in Nemaha county that he actually can tuke in a whole congressional distriot. Just now he is busily tramping areund denouncing overything that has beon published about him in cthe Bre, as malicious li bels. Does this mountebank and trickster really imagine that the people ot this state have lost their memorios and no longer romember his performances in the logislature® It so [ pro pose to refresh their memory and revive the historic record, When the legislature convened in this eity in January, 1875, it was beset by an army of active political workers. There s to be a senatorial election for the held by Tipton. General Thayer, 10 was at that time a resident of Lin coln, was the most prominent candidate on the republican side, with Judge Dundy noxt and Paddock bringing up the rear There was palpably no show for a demo- crat any more than there is now, but Nelse Patrick, who had a large “barl, conceived the scheme of capturing the senatorship by buying up adozen venal republicans, The ~ fiest thing he did was to b A cottage near the old Tichenor house and Jay in a full supply of refreshments in the cellar, Then he looked about him for a first eclass decoy, who would rope i the sucker nd - distribute the boodle. Chureh Howe was picked upon as the man. 1t claimed to be a re formed republican with independent tendencios, He was the boss granger, and could work the' farmer racket to perfection. As the contest progressed, Patrick beeame very contident. It took only twenty-seven votes to clect, and Church Howe had assured Patrick that he had thirty pledged When the bal loting commenced, Church led off for Patrick, The democrats, under Patrick’s advice, seattered their votes promiscuous- ly, most of them voting for Paddock, who only had a pair, Griggs and Joe Me Dowell, to which he expected W full. The fight betwe 4 and Dundy became very fierce. = Thayer alene had the inside, while Dundy’s fol lowers were sadly demoralized x’.) the scents of Patrick’s boodle. Presenidy the crisis was reached by Dundy’s with- drawal and Paddock’s election. Church Howe stood brazenly by Patrick to the wst, but when he failed to return the £3,000 which Patrick had advanced on sure contingeney there were curses loud and deep among the followers of the man who later on_ iried to 1ix Cronin for Sam Tilden, Two years later the charge was broadly made that Church Howe | wken a bribe of £3,000 for his influence and votc in the previous legislature. The licuten ant governor, who was one of Howe's cronios, packed ncommittee organized to whitewash. The testimony was very strong, and when the most mmportant witnesses were about to he introduced the committee slapm the door in their foces and adjourncd. Among the wit- nEsses that we led was Joseph Bar- ker, brother-m-law of My, Pairick, who was reputed to have transacied & good deal of business with Howe. He declined to answer when asked if he was o confidential friend of Mr. J. N. H. Patrick, of whom it had been charged that he had cived $3,000, he declined to answer, giving for his reason that it might compromise him. Also to these questions he refused an unswer Interesting believes he 1.\ money to be used as one of the agencies to clect Patrick? 2. Were you one ot the parties to furnish money to secure that election? 3. Did you know anything of his plac- ing mondy at the disposal of Mr. Howe, to aid in securing his election? 4. Do you mean to say that you don’t know whether it was arranged between Mr. Howe and Mp. Patrick that any money should he placed at Mr. Howe's digposal in any form to secure his elee- tion? 5. Were you the custodian of money, the money to be employed to secure that clectiony T'o all of the questions Mr. Barker re sponded by saying he “declined to answer.” There'the. examination could have stopped, as each question was evi dence enough that Howe was guilty, as charged by Mr. Rosewater. HON. 11 ¢, LETT, under oath, testitied as foilows ‘I'he May after the senatorial contest, 1 t Mr. Patrick and_Dr. Miller in Chi- engo, und came as far as Red Oak, A sation came up referring o the senatorml contest. Patrick asked where our mutual friend Howe was. [ stated that he was at home when I left. Patrick sud, “Howe is a_ pretty cuss.” I answered; Yo Howe " is pretty hivel He said, *“Howe is a guerrilla,” I asked, “*what was the matter between you and Howe?' and he remarked, “I would have been thousands of dollars better ot if I hadn’t geen him." T was inquisitive. He swid that he had spent several thousand dollavs during tho sona- torvial contest. 1 think ten or (welve thousand, I said [ didn't how this could be, He said, “In various ways; that Howe got seyeral thousand dollars of our money.” I asked, “How was that?’ He said that How ed o so many things that he did not or could not accomplish.” 1 replied, *Howe paid your money hack, didn't her” He said, “not a cen The investigation counsumed several d crcated quite an expense, and ended in complete whitewash for Howe. Just as the evidence commenced gry fo find that Howe was guiity, as ehiirged, pf fdaeiving #3,000 from Patrick as a bribe, Carns moved to adjourn sine die, which motion was agréed w, il but one voting in the negative. The F port whitewashing the gentleman was rushed through the senate, the “injured” man went to his Nemaha ‘county “home, tirst telegraphing a brass band to meet him at the depot. AllL_through the trial the evidence was positive. Howe's de- mand for an investigation at the state’s expense, was one of those pecutiar dashes for which he is celebrated OTHER CHARGE It has been openly eharg denied that Howe received money for Luis vote on the capitol removal question In 1877 it was charged and not dented that Grant kicked him ot of a federal office in Wyoming for corrupt and dis honest practices, four years before JUDGE MOORE, in a campaign against him county, openly and publicly declared that Howe had corruptly bartered away his vote in the legislature to Patrick; that he had accepted bribes for his vote on the eapitol removal bill, the railvoad tax bill and other measures. AL FAIRBROTHER. - Mr, Jacob Hagel, Dayton, O.. says he would ot be without 8t. dacob’s Onl. and never in his own A NOTABLE BRIDGE. The First Railroad Bridge in the Country Being Demolished After Lifty Years of Use. Philadelphin. Record: After half & century of usefulness the famous Colum bin wooden bridge spanning the Schuyl Kill river between Rockland and Bel mont, in Fairmount Park, is to be dis mantled, and in its place will riso a more modern structure of iron. Aside from the ancient and pietiresque appearance of the structure considerablo interest at taches to it on account of its historical importance and its conncetion with the carlier railroad intorests of Pennsyl vania. It was built in by the caral commissiouers of the state for the Phila delphin & Columbia raiiroad, one of the earliest practical steam lines' construeted in Peonsylvama, and, in_fact, in the whole United States.’ This line was originally projected as a_stoek company, but tailing to ‘secure suflicient financial support it was takon in hand by the s of Pennsylvania, under whose dircetion it was construeted and operated until sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad com- pany in 1942 Just previous to the construction of the Phifadelphia and Columbia raiftond the Union Canal, which was to follow the cnst bank of the Schuylkill, was pro- jected. Money for its construetion was not readily forthcoming, o a lottery for Ite benent was authorized by the state Work was commenced. but beyond grad ing the course from Fairmont avenue to closo by the eastern end of the bridge, nothing was done. The line thus pre pared was then utilized by the Columl Company, notwithstanding a futile 1aw- suitby the Canal Company for its r covery There are many among the older resi- dents of Philadelphia who are able to re- call the old sta Iroad by which trayelers wont west, starting from Broad and Callowhill streets. Travel was com menced several years prior to the con struction of the “Columbia bridge, pass engers being conveyed to the cast bank of the Schuylkill by rail and erossing the river in boats m the west side’ the cars were hauled to the summit of the hill upon which Belmont Mansion stands over an inclined plane, a stationary en gine at the top of the hill furnishing the motive power. Locomotives w then attached to the cars and passengers were conveyed across country to Columbin, The new route adopted by the Penn sylvania vailrond upon its “purchase of the Columbia line rendered the bridge of 1o value to the new iine, and it was sub sequently sold to the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company, its present owners. 1t was then somewhat altered and improved in order to fit it for the change in traflic which took place. The long “and gracefully sweeping arches, which now form a conspicuous feature of the bridge, were added, and the entire structure was strengthened throughout with iron-tie bolts, The old wooden bridge long and has seven spuns ble”tracks and earringe width of forty-eight feet. It is built of winite pine, and, owing to the careful manner i whicli it is protected from the wenther by an iron covering, it is a sound to-day as when first constructed Speaking of wooden bridges, an expe rienced engincer remarked the other day “Itis the popular but erroncous idea that a wooden bridge of such an age must necessarily be pretty well decayed, but if well ¢oyered and theroughly protected from the weather, suehi a structure will last an almost indefinite period.” The Columbia was the first raitroad bridge of any considerabie size ever con- structed in” this country, and it is the oldest now in existence. There ave, how ever, several foot and earringe bridges whose construction antedates the Coliim bia bridge. The old wooden bridge at ston was built in 1805, while that at Hurrlsburg bridge was destroyed by five, but with that exception both® structurcs are as sound to-day as when fivst erected, ‘The Columbia bridge has never suffered by five und has withstood the floods and storms of fitly winters without suffering any damage. * The principal reason for the demolition of the old bridge is its seanty width, which will hardly’ permit of the passage of the modern passenger CArS nOW in use. Strango burdens have Dbeen across the old bridge during its hali century of usefulness. Unnumbered thousands of foot passengers have tramped its floor, and yehicles of every deseription rolled along i the dark and tunnel-like strueture. Not only have freight and passenger trains crossed the river upon its substantial arches, but even canal boats have been trundled across and brought into the very heart of the city, Until the construction of the Pennsylvania railrond numcrous canal boats were built in detachable seetions. Freight was loaded on these crafts at Pittshurg and other points, and the Loats were taken by land and water to their destination. At the termination of the wi routes the sections of the canal boats were detached and each one run upon o trnek. They were then dinwn from the water and placed upon the rail- road trucks over which they were con veyed to their destination. Freight loaded upon boats in Pittsbur, unlonded from the snme vesss Mar- ket stroet warehouses, - Rupture radieally cured, also pile tu mors and fistulie, Pamphlet of particu- lars 10 conts in stamps. 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