Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 23, 1886, Page 2

DATLY BEE. 5. ROSEWATER, Eniton —— THE DAILY BE gworn Statement of Circulation. State of Nebraska, | County of Donglas. { Geo. B, Tzschuck,secretary ot the Bee Pub- Tishine company, dovs solemniy swear that the actual cirenlation of _the Daily Bee for the week ending Sept. 17th, 1855, was as follows Date. Saturday. 11 Sunday, 12th Mo Lith 6,08 Wednesd Thuisday. 16 Friday, 11 8.9 ning Frentng Edition M E 6,000 08 Gro. B. Tzecnven swora to before me this 30, N. I Frit, Notary Public. being first duly sworn, de. s that he is secretary of the Bee ) l1shing company, that the actual average dally cireulation of the Daily Bee for the montl of January, 159, was 10,578 copies for February, 1583, 10,503 copies; for March, i Avril, 189, 12,101 5 for June, +for | fcopies; , 12,464 coples, GO, B. T28C1TCR. Subseribed and sworn to before me, this 4th day of Sept., A. D, 1580, N. I’ FEIT, [8EAL. | Notary Pubile. REPUBLLCAN COUNTY TICKET. or Senators: LINING 0. W, 3 HUCK. BRUNO TZS For Representatives: W. G. WHITMORE, F. B HIBBAKD, GEO. HEIMROD, R. S, HALL, JOHUN MATTHIESON, JAM R YOU I. W. BLACKBURN, M. O. RICKE For County / SDWARD W. ttorney: IMERAL. For County Commissione! ISAAC N. PIERCE, will be snowed under November polls. Cuvnen Howe at the Doraras county w solia against Church Howe in the Beatrice convention It will be solid against bim at the Novem- ber polls IN a contract between Howe and Van Wyek, in which Howe is to make the last delivery, no one donbts who will get the Lot end of the poke THERE are nosigns yet of that Farnam strect cable line which Captain Marsh’s benevolent organization proposed to run for public convenience. OyaAnA merchants are be anti-monopolists perience with their t oming better y day as their ex- ailroad discriminations in ade terntory increases. WeEks we announced that we would support any honest republican. The BEk cannot endorse or support u man whom it knows to be liar and be- iof. Sarey's delegations were for Clarke and Howe. If the chan of both can- didates arce equal, Mr. Clarke will con- tinue his drug business at the old stand whiie some one else occupies a desk at the capital, Tue republicans of the district must be taught a lesson. When party su- pre cy stong that it has no fears of party defeat, no matter what the char- acter of its candidates, the best clements of the party will combine to rebuko its arrogant assumption of unbridled power. THE news of the past twenty-four hours reportsonly two bankers who have gone wrong, one of whom is in durance and the other in Canada. The amounts “borrowed”’ by these gentlomen aggrogate about $200,000. The usual notations are made—church members, interested in school work, enjoyed confidence of everybody, ete. Accorbin cessful newspaper, the Philadelphia JTieeord, Uit is as much of a fraud to sell ndvertising space without giving the pur- chaser proper information as to what amount of publicity he is buying, ns it is to sell oleomargarine for butter.” Quite true. The BEE is the only paper in this section of the west whose advortising patrons know p week exactly how many copies were eirculated during the preceding week, day by day. A p1seAse which from the deseription iven in our dispatches appears to be similar in character to that which devas- tated the town of Plymouth, Pa., last summer, is reported to be doing deadly work in the 1on on the West Fork bottoms, near Allison, Iowa. All the conditions to which the disease isat- tributed are similar to those that pre- vailed at the Pennsylvania town. In that case the trouble did not yield readily to medical treatment, but persons af- focted who secured a change of loeation and climate were promptly benefitted, In its advanced stage the disease is probably infectious. Tue assignment of Licutenant Richard W. Youn fth artillery, to the battery of his regiment which is stationed at Fort Douglas, just outside of Salt Lake City, is reported to have greatly troubled the anti-Mormons, the lisutenant,beg a grandson of the late Brigham Young, The usually intelligent Salt Lake 7ribune absurdly remarks of the assignment that itis a ‘s menace to the oxistence of the military supremacy of the government of the territory,” which is giving it a dogree of importance that does not possess, and under no probable cireum- stances can possess. Noting this feeling regarding the lieutenant, who of course had nothing whatever to do with deter- mining the assignment, the Washington Critic suys : “First Licutenant Willard Young, corps of engineers, 18 a son of Brigham Young, and was at Salt Lake all winter, but noone seemed alarmed ai his presence.” No one is really alarmed now, but there is a class ever ready to use any pretext to make itself heard, and this is the element which is pretending to see in the trausfer of a licutenant from New York, where he has been for some $ime on stafl duty, to his battery in Utah, & weunace to the territorial government. The Nomination of Howe. In nominating as their choice for con- gressional honors the most infamons trickster and corrupt political mounte bank in the state, the republicans of the First district have committed a fatal act of folly They have in haste and they will repent ago this paper declared tha it would give its hearty and cordial support to st republican who should be se andidate by the party. The y made, wouid have been honestly carried out. But it cannot and it will not yree for the suffrages of honest men, a ecandidate whose whole political history is honey-combed with venality has used the party useful for his priv reasoned leisnre any hor reted as a pledge, hone en and lor corruption; who the varty interests and 1 ofien as he deemed it to his advant It cannot, and it will not, support a shameless trickster to whom no friendship has been holy for betrayal, no alliance too binding for treachery, and no pledges too sacred to be ruthlessly broken. A renegade to party, a corrupter of tho people’s repre- sentatives, a tool of the railroads and a gtool pigeon for every fraud and venal scheme for tapping the public till,Church Howe's candidacy 18 an msult to republican hon and a slur upon the intelligence of tho rank and file of the party. For months the Bee has urged upon republicans of the First district the dan- gor of giving countenance and support to the candidacy of Church Howe. It hassup- plied them with ample reasons why his nomination, 1 its opinion, would be fatal to republican success. In spite of personal solicitations from that infamou trickster that it would remain silent at least until after the Beatrice convention and in face of the threats that its opposi- tion would reach on the senatorial chances of Charles H. Van Wyek, it has faithfully and consistently warned republicans against the crowning act of folly which they have at last committed, Its warnings have been unheeded. The rank and file of the party once more find themselves betrayed into the hands of professional politicians, whose only idea of the value of party organization is that it can be used to register the decrees of their masters. Church Howe-must be béaten. He will be beaten. His boasted alliances with corporations and corrupt tricksters will not avail him against the burst of honest indignation which his nomnation will excite. de serted it personal Cheap Paving. St. Joseph is watching with interest the war between two rival tirms of paving contractors. Lhe Western Asphalt com- pany, who cla the same pave- ment as the Barber company, recently o abid for paving in that cty at .61 per square yard, with a ten years’ guarantee. The Barber company. to be outdone. put 1 a bid at $1.25 per square yard, with a five years’ gu ntee, It looks as if St. Joe would have some cheap paving. Eleven thousand yards are to be let. On the basis of the Barber company’s bid the cost would be only $13,750 for the entire amount. At the price which Omaha is paying for the same work, the cost to our people for an cqual amount would foot up $32,780, a difference in favor of St.Joe of more than §19,000, % Omaha has given the asphalt company over $700,000 worth of paving. This season 14,000 ds of this class of puavement will be laid in our aty. Much more would doubtless have been contracted if the company could have scen it to their interest to re- duce the price. The actual cost of the pavement to the contractors is under- stood to be $1.75 per square yard, which, at the price charged, leave neat ma in of nearly the same sum as net profit. An effort to secure a reduction in this city last fall failed, because the company insisted that to cut the price in Omaha would break their rates all over the west. In the light of the St.Joe showing, the vlea looks a littie ridiculous, not Must We? The general freight agent of one of the west railroad corporations in Nebraska is reported to have said 1ccently that Omaha must look to the far west for the field 1 which to extend her trade. This is signiticant if true. It means that tho charges 50 often made are true, and that Chicago and Kansas City in the east and south and other citics inside our state boundaries are being favored with access to trade territory which is ours by every right, through a systematic discrimina- tion against the business men of this city. Must Omaha concede to others that which is hers if her merchants are given an cven chance with her competitors to grasp it? This is the problem with which we are confronted. So far as the trouble arises from discrimination within the state lines our people are ampiy able to rei edyit. The legislature is competent to pass and the courts to enforce laws com- pelling fair treatment in local rates, The power of an aromsed peoplo pitted against that of the corporations can promptly bring them to terms just as 80on us business men are brought to see where their interests lie. The trouble i times past has been that through fear and favor heavy merchants and promi- nent jobbers have been induced to believe that the ‘*let alon policy w the best to pur- sue in dealing with the railronds. With reference to lines doing an inte state business the problem is more difti- cult of solution. The passage of an inter-state commerce bill is not yet assured even for the near future, Meantime umted action of our merchants to divert business from lines diverting business from Omaha will be the most effective lever to compel fair treatment from these corporations. Omahia 18 now large enough and power- ful enough to demand just dealing and to make her demands felt, A Significant Fact. While the platform expressions of democratic conventions have more or less vigorously endorsed the adnnistra- tion, and the individual preferences of the members of those bodies have been found to favor Mr. Cleveland as the can- didate in 1888 by a large majority, there are other facts of a most significant char- acter which very pointedly iudicate that the party is not so universally or deeply imbued with admiration of the policy of its president as these expressions of satis- faction and confidence 1mply. Our Washington correspondent notes the fact that thus far twenty-five chairmen of house committees have been rejected by their constitucnts or declived & renomi- Weeks | was | THE nation, ana four are regarded as protty well assured those who hold sirips in the present congress will not be returned, and the importance this fact will be seen when it is that the men retired are the pronounced supporters of the policy of the administration rly one-half of the democratie representation in con gross | {the same way that most fifty per cont of the domocratic membership in the next congress, pro. vided none are defeated, will bo new men other renominations doubtful. It is thus that quite half of committee chairman of most a majority of whom haye been preforred to present members who of Mr. Cleveland T'here is far 18 showing the r are supporters wnd his policy more meamng in these al feeling of dem ocrats regarding the administration, than in the declarations of conventions, which aremade for general effeet, Asthe discreet man is impartial in commending his fam ily before the world, butasserts a prefer ence among them when he h particular work or policy to carry out, 0 the pru dent politician, when the eyes of all men are on him, professes unqualified devo tion to his party leaders, but when in the comparative seclusion of his congres sional district he is called upon to desig- note some one to represent him he dis. elos a partinlity which for the most part has reference to con- demning a policy with which he does not agree and promoting one that he favors. Thus the action of these con- stituencies in rejecting the representa: tives who hayesupported the policy of the administration. and who doubtless in overy case made the fact of this support the ground of their claim to a renomina- tion, must fairly be regarded as a de- liberate verdict adverse to this policy. No intelligent inan conversant with the ways of politics ean entertain a serious doubt that the democratic praise of the administration is insincere. The majority of the democratic party is implacably opposed to the oivil service policy of Mr. Cleveland, and uncompromisingly hostile to the financial ideas of Mr. Manning. But it dare not proclaim this before the country. As far as possible, however, it will choose representatives to congress who can be depended upon not to sus- tain these policies, and this is the mean- ing of the rejection of the men who have failed to secure renomination. The pre- tense that the democratic party is har- monicus is a sham. Chinese Retaliation, The reports of outragzes in China upon the persons and property of American naries have been fully veritied by an ofticial statement of Minister Denby to the state department. 1t1s understood also that a demand has been made for in- demnity. Referring to these occurrences, the correspondent of a New York paper says that the Chinese mimster at Wash- ington, after the confirmation of Mr. Hager, the collector at San Francisco, expressed a fear that the common people of China would revenge themselves on Americans in theiwr country. It will be remembered that when the Chinese dele- gation arrived at San Francisco, permis- siou to land was 1sed the members un- less they could show passports, and an appeal to Washington was necessary to enable them to leave the steamer. The state department made due explanation or apology for this offense, which was supposed to be satisfactory to the delega- tion and the Chinese government, al- though it was undoubtedly expected that the collector would be defeated for con- firmation. This occurcence was arded by the people of China, according to the minister, as an intentional insult, and the feehmg was intensificd when the offending official was confirmed by the senate. The bad feeling was further aggravated, doubiless, by the failure of congress to pass the Rock Springs indem- nity bill, while tk Chinese women arriving at San Francisco may have had an influence, although this charge, shown to have been ill-founded, is comparatively recent, and perhaps has not reached the loealities in the Chinese empire where the outrages were perpe- trated. However, it ms to bo the accepted view that the outrages were prompted by a spirit of retaliation, and for this reason they acquire added importance as & mat- ter to be most seriously looked 1nto by this government. The Chinese minister at Washington months ago apprehended trouble of this kind, and it is to be pre- sumed that the Chinese government was not blind to the possibility of such out- rages, but no pre tions appear to have been taken to prevent them. Nor does the American minister advise this gov- ernment that any measures have been taken to prevent further outrages, So far as the country is aware, the state department is only proposing to do something, and this information is entirely unofficial, This matter is one that calls for immediate and firm action, ‘There are other lives and property that may be imperilled to appease Chinese re- venge, aud it1s the duty of this govern- ment (o interpose without delay for their protection. Whatever ditficulties may anse in adjusting the future relations of the two governments, and there will un- doubtealy be some, the matter of imme- diate concern will not allow of delay for nses and explanations, The govern- ment being officially notified that Amer:- can eitizens in China have suffered out- rages to their persons and property, and that these are likely to recur at any time, its plain duty is to demand of the Chinese government the exercise of its authority and the adoption of ample precautions for preventing further outrages. The official announcement that Mr, Bayard is giving any attention to this very seri- ous and urgent matter is awaited with interest, and will be receiyed with grati- fication. TaE public school facilities of the capi- tal ity of the country ought to be ample to enable every child of school age to at- tend the sehools, and in every provision and requirement the public schools of Washington city should furnish a model of thoroughness and excellence. In all these respects, however, they are far short of the highest standard, and are surpassed by the provisions and methods of cities much less pretentious in most respects than Washington, Last year the capacity of the schools was found to be inadequate and some addi- tions were made on a niggardly scale, so that this year matters are as bad as be- fore and hundreds of children cannot be accommodated. Another cause of just complaint 1s the fact that a great many children are kept out of the schools be- cause Lheir parents are too poor to buy stated | | over the questivd OMAHA DAILY BEE; Books and the city does not furnish them to such persons. Itis only a fow years ago that the. publiec sehool system of Washington was badly demoralized ow ing to the school fund being insufficient to pay the teachers. In short, the public tem of Washington 1 for as it onght to have and the fact isa stigma on the commun ity which it sioutd endeavor to remove by futare improvement in this dircction school has never been care been, SCIENTISTS cAst are once more agitated of the existence of the est view of the ma by Licutenant 1 serpent. The monster was seen Foster of the United States navy from the deck of the Minnesota, in New York harbor. arly every summer we have additions to that gr which Prof. Proctor say him of the existence of the sea but during the present summer the evi boen stronger than ever be fore that a serpent-like, but marine mal of great size, which cannot classifiecd in any known specics, occupies our American waters, The only ground for disbelief is that the alleged monster does not fit into the ex isting classification of snakes. Our scr pents are not pnble of sustaining life under such conditions as this unumal must put up with, The only proof ti will satisfy some of the public skepties the production in public of tho animal himself. As Barnum has oftered $5,000 for his skin, the scientists are soon to be accommodated hy the great showmpan. at body of testimony has satisfied serpent dence has ani be LITTLE BITS OF WIT, “L don’t see the point, but I realize its force,” said the man when a bee settled on the back of his neck, “What a beantiful form!” exclaimed Miss the first time she saw an eel; “such a long, thin waist, you know.” Summer is rapidly passing away, and the Kirl who has a pienic beau who hasn’t pro- vosed, is getting extremely nervous, “Paul,” sald his mamma, “will you go softly into the parlor and seo if grandpa is asleep?” “Yes, mamwa,” whispered Paul on hisreturn; “he is all asleep but his nose, “Father, why does the paper speak of Miss Cleveland’s books as ‘works? " asked little Johnny. *“Well, my son, if you should ever attempt to read one you willfind what hard work it is.” A Boston girl was thrown from her car- riage, and in reply as to whether she was hurt, said. “I really believe I have fractured the extensor ossis metacarpi policis manus.” She had broken her thumb. Chicago Tribune: “If the plural of goose is geese, the plural of moose must be meese,” says an exchange Not at all: for the rule doesn’t work both ways in the first instance. T'wo uatives of Portugal would be Portu- guese; but one native would not be Portu- goose in philology, however he or she wight be Litly so deseribed in fact. A Lively Corpse. Columbus Democrat. Polities in Nebraska seems to be a regular three card monte g: ow you see it and now you don’t. A few ) Van Wyck was considered agoner, and even his friends were preparing to sing his requiem. Since at he has proved himself a lively corpse. 4 Il of the ' republican candidates for islature, $0' far as nominated, are for the old man, It will take a good deal of gold to buy off his subporters. e A Progressive Newspaper. Chadaon Democrat. The newspapers of Omaha are known far and wide for their ability and enterprise, but just now the Ber takes the lead, in the latter Qquality, 1t was the first paper in Nebraska to purchase and use a web perfecting press, and now it comes to the front with another press of the same manufacture, which gives it the best press facilities of any paper west of Chicago—being eapable of turning out 30,000 copies per hour, 0 The Growth of the Bee. Rapid Oity Journal. No better illustration of the growth or the west can be found than that shown in the growth of the Omaha daily newspapers, It has been but a short time since a press of very ordinary sj 1 was considered sufficient to print the edition of either pavers published there. The BeE then found it necessury to secure a faster press, and put in one with a capacity of printing 15,000 complete papers per hour. e A Lesson in Politics. Nebraska Watchman. “Father, the opposition to Van Wyek on e part of some papers is venomous.” “Pruly you speak, my son.” And I am still unable to tell, father, whether certain republican or democratic organs are the more venomous,” “Tnat.my son, depends upon the size of the job department attached to the organ. The more railroad job work the more abuse of Van Wyck is gronnd out. Your political education, my son, has been neglected.” —~— About the Size of It, Wisner Chironicle. ‘Fhe Omaha papers continue to build paper railroads up the Elkhorn val and howl themselves hoarse because the Northwestern does not discriminate in favor of Omaha mer- chants. Before the Northwestern developed the Elkhorn valley, the Omaha merchants would hardly own that there was a foot of 1and in all northern Nebraska that was worth owning and they sent everybody to the southern part of the state that they could, That is the reason why the northern part of the state did not settle up as rapidly as the southern. Omaha sees her mistake to-day and sighs for a road up this way that will dis- eriminate in her favor, but if she over gets one it will haveito be built by Omaha money. Ne wspaper talki #lone will not build a rail road. Beptember, J:’: Speetator, 0 golden child ot the year Thats sere,” With robe of godsamer twining; O month that walkest a maid, Unafruid, O'er meadowswith dew-pearts shining! f Thy rippling laygh is the broeze ¥ TIRRHRE | Do, Thy voice is the startliug calling; Thy golden ddwer are tha slheaves, And the From wall ang o The hills lie pirple in haze All thy days, The eloud slecps aver its shadow As ghost in_ raiment of white All the night ‘The mist keeps watch o'er the meadow, “The splendor thou h Of & Queen For oft when the woods are fairest, Thou darkenest heaven with a trown, And thy crown With a tempest of passion tearest. Yot hast thou a kindly hest, Wayward guest, And gently breakest the message, Tnat days more niggard of light d the flight Of gathering swallows presage. 0, ehild of the Summer past, "Phough the Iast, Yet dearest of all we find thee! O, stay with us, and vy thy stay Keep away The hungering Winter behind thee! es woodland falling. t, yet the spleen | SEPTEMBER 2 STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. Will Keithley has blossomed out with the Gazetto at Julesburg, Colo. Eugene Urendorf, a young he live wool, near Hebron, played with volver and plowed a hole through his thizh Frank Marvin, a brakeman Grand Island extension Bf the B, was instantly killed at Anselmo, 10th, while coupling cars » B & M. and St Joe & Grana Island roads are having a hiyely war of rates on Louis business, At Hastings passen r rates are down to $5 for the round (N ler of on the & M., on the The Omaha fair and_oxposition,"’ the Sutton Register, *‘was s and sue cess and was_as fine a display of stock and farm produets, machinery, cte., as was ever collected together in Nebraska A Plattemouth girl put her foot down on the Perkins house gong and crushed it. I am the original and only chestnut belle in this house,” she hissed sho hurled the rim at the silver-haired clerk T'he Sehuyler Herald says: “The fair hold at Omaha was o siccess in every sensc of the word, No state of th union can make a better showing of stock and agrienltural products than was made at the Omaha fair.” The Weeping Water Republi of Omaha’s big show: “It was the exhibition ever shown in the st took us about three hours to go throngh and see everything from a silver brick to anail cutting machine that was kept running at full speed andrattied out nails lively. Tie mellow autumn sunshine glows and glistens amid the giant corn, wheat and oats, blushing apples, mammoth turnips, beats and squash, and other pro- ducts of the garden, fi and orchard on exhibition at tl y fair in Plattsmouth. It is nd well worth a visit. A new confidence game has taken to the coun in search of victims. The plan is to drive up to a farm house, de- nounee the rapacity of town grocers and sell a barrel of sugar one-third the regular price. If the sucker bites, he pays spot cash and finds himself the proud owner o rel of Charles Kemletz waltzed g with Aug. Kempf's best gi Seribner. The latter did not relish the hilarity of the pair, his {c ousy rose to the tighting point, and thc inee began withont notifying the fiddler of the change. Kenletz secured four na polka dots, made with. a knife, in s shoulders and abdomen, and turned over to the doctors. Kempf was jailed, and the dancers abruptly adjourned. The B. & M. company has issued a Jmmphlel entitied *“Tho Broken Bow ‘ountry in Central and Western Ne- ski 1d How to Get There.” Itgives led sketeh of the country, its soil, er courses, towns and other informa- tion for the benefit of intending settlers e sectional map of the stato the pamphlet, showing the r. § of the Grand Isiand extension into the central and northwestern coun- ties. The map is chielly interesting in its bit of the ious lines of the com Huge red lines mark of main lines and he whole South Platte coun- is covered with a net work of iron, very few counties escaping. Five limes lead from the Missourt river west and northwest, two branches drop down into Kansas, four tap the Union Pacific west of Omaha, and one runs northwest. The enterprise and push of the comn; and mination to thoroughly iron its tieid, is well illustrated by this The pamphlet is an excellent in- migration agent. says a great show Towa Items. Anartesian well is being sunk at Hol- stein, The Seventh street ghostin Des Moines has turned out to be a feline Thomas, The new Catholic church at Creston is nearly completed. It presents a hand- some external appearanee. Mrs. Margaret Jenny, who has been one of the best known ladies in Waterloo for many voars, died at her dence on the 18th'inst., of blood poisoning. ican was shot near ¢ one v last week which me cight alf feet from the tip of wing to the tip of the other, and e logs were sixteen inches in léngth Peter Theilen, a.railroad laborer on the Dubuque & Northwestern at Dubuque, jumped from a moving train, alighted on apile of dirt and fell back under the wheels. His head was struck by a wheel, causing instant death, E. C. Frye, agent for the Umted States Express company at Berlin, a small station on the lg agonal road east of Marshalltown, been arrested on a warrant charging him with the embez- zlement of $100 of funds belonging to the compuny. There lives in Sioux City a young drummer and his_charming wife. “Their happy hife is undisturbed exc when the young husband comes home under the influence of the ‘‘ardent "’ t such times he has the suicide fever, and threatens to end his life with a razor, which his wife has always kept hid, but recently he bothered hér so long that she concluded that he was “blufling,” and did not want to die. She went dircetly to where the or was con- cealed, and taking 1t up, handed it to him, gaying: ‘‘Takeit, you little fool! and cut your throat, and don't say so much about it,”” The suicide racket has been dropped in that houschold. Dakota. joux Falls will m an _eflort to se- cure the territorial fair in 1887, The yield of flax in Lincoln county is fiftecn to twenty bushels per aere. Stark county has a bonded ndebted- ness of $15,000, but no unpaid warrant Girls for domestic seryice are a scarce commodity in Rapid City, $25 per month and board’ not being sufticient induce- ment to supply the demand, The aver; yigld of 9,050 acres of wheat on the Grandin farm was 22 bushels and 15 pounds per aere, On the Mayville farm 4,006 acres averaged 25 bushels and 3 pounds per aci A large building 18 being erected at Stevens, eighteen miles north of Port Thompson, on the Crow Creek reserva- tion, under the auspices of the Doninican fathers, to be used as a school for Indian children. It will be 40 by 100 feet and thres and a half stories high, 1t is nnderstood that Charles Carson held at Chamberlain on & charge of steal ing horses at Pierre, turns outto boa noted highwayman and desperado, who has been operating south of the Black Hills for & number of years, and ho is also wanted in several other places. A Rapid City woman has asked for a divorce because her husband eaught her 1n & questionable situation with another man, She does not want her personal liberty interfered with, and alleges that this is good grounds for u release from her lord and master, She also states: John is too confounded inquisitive.” Colorado, Pueblo has a saloon for each 112 per- sons. The hay erop of Saguache couuty 18 es- timated at 20,000 tons this year, yalued at $100,000. The Indians have killed about all the deer and other game that formerly were in abundance between Carbonafe and Mecker. There 0,000 acres of native meadow in the San Luis valley. The wheat crop is estimatod at 160,000 bushels; oats, 300, torm wred Dt | secure piace in t} 000; batley, 48,000; potatocs, 400,000 bush- els; hay, 300,000 tons, A tragedy similar to the Laver case in this city, occurred at a ranch two miles from Denver Inst Monday night. Gec Whitemore awoke suddacnly from a rest less sleep to hear some one moying about in_his room. He had retired with his mind burdened with the responsibility of the safe keeping of $100 \\',m h he had lately received placed in the hosc sound he heard he arose in his bed, grasp ing his revolver and mozally certain that a burglar had enterod the honse for the purpose of seeuring the money. He saw a moving fig wnd taking aim he fired two shets in quick suceession. Then there followed piercing shricks of a woman, that chilled his blood and made his heart sick, In tl gonizin he recognized the voice of his wif know in' a motion that he had probably murdered his wife. He sprang to her side and lifted her back tenderly upon the bed. The biood poured from her right shouider and the left side of her neck, where the eruel bullets had struck hor, He died his best to staunch the flow of Blood, and then rau to give the alarm, Oneof the bullets penetrated the laryns and her recovery is doubiful. Thoe grief of the husband was heart rending. - Wyck's Point, Neb., Sept. 20 ~To the In the Omaha Daily n of the 15th instant I notic communication from this place givi an account of an alleged “‘beer garden show,” as the title designated it. It was an ostensible history of the pienie of the Catholic Knights, at which Senator Van Wrek spoke, the mvitation of our president. Now, withont saying a word "nr or against General Van W, (who, by the by, 1s abundantly able to take care of hinself), it ig proper to correct few misstatoments of the misguided Republi- cun correspondent. The writer say: “I'he Hon. [so-and-s0] Van Wyck, a big flourish of trumpets, two we advertising, and the running of special traing, has tinally been here, and ex- hibited to an audience of less than three nundred, at the beer garden, at 10 cents ahead.” * = n [Wyck| veh mently sawed the air for two hours," ete. The above contains five statements ¢hich are untrue—mistakes, T presume. First, no ono (not even the society whose nvited him) knew that Senator was coming here at all, until precisely oight days before he came. The pienic was not gencrally advertised. I venture the assertion that one nalf of the Fuunlu of West Point did not know the Jour at which the speaking would occur. This was our fault. I mean the society’s, Secondly, there were no special trains. “Thirdly, (I know whercof I speak,) over one thousand people were admitted to the picnic groundson that day. TFourth- Iy, strict orders were issued, that, at the i aking, no admission fee should This, however, was rend- cticable, owing to the fact that the senator was obliged to leav that evening, and, consequently v compelled to speak at_an early hour. Fifthly, General Van Wyek's did not exceed an hour in I he, inuendo about the beer garden is one of” those half truths, wl constitute the worst slanders. members of our C. K. of A. thre i nal prosecution any person hquor for sale upon the picn: The Good Templars had previously held a picnic on the: me grounds. - posc the sensitive Republican eorrespor.- dent would consider the picnic grounds poisoned had onc used for garden. According to his logic a pilgriny visiting Calvary could pe indieted for murder. Truth with the Revublican um'\'vsfifiuudvn is a precious Jewel, which shineth atar o, T mil- 1arly eall the senator “Van.”” This epi- toniizing of the surname is, to say the least, in bad taste, especially as Mr." Van Wyck is nearly’ sixty-three yoars old. But when the correspondent used the Blessed Saviour’s name coupled with solecism, he shaves the edge of blas- phomy. ' He should romeiber what olonius saysin Hamlet. “Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar,” and crics and shot Senator Vau Visit to West PorN, Editor of the B, Republics he ngz grounds. convenience) hack u senjor senator till his palsied to his thigh, or, if equzl to the Herculean task, he v hew the senator to picces pohtically, like a modern Agag. But when he illsu?l«ll every member of the C. K. of A. with a blasphemous dia- trabe, advertising us as a bevy of beer guzzlers, he spat in the face of e Ky Catholie in the state; and 1 bereby call attention to the aflront, which might have been treated with derision or con- tempt, had it not been repeated by other journals until it coased to be funny The senator was invited, by the president of the C. K. of A., as one gentleman of cul- ture would inyite another. No means were sparea to remove from the affair all political significance whatever. Butsome entlemen scemed determined that it ,’w‘lmuhl have a political sign! A Without pagsing upon the orthodoxy the senior senator’s political ereed, our society considered him a respecfable member of socicty, whom ovr president had a right to invite hitlh without ap- plying for a license to do 80 WirLiam F. Beyanr, A Disgusted Lieutenant, Atlanta Constitution: During the war about twenty confederate pris- oners. wer at = Fort McHenry, stored away in a fodder-loft under guard. One morning Captain Ned Bridges was playing un 1nnogent game of cards when the sick call was souneed—the signal for wiling soldiers to revort at the surgeon's oftice and be exam “Lieutenant,” turning to & young sold \swer sick cail for me and let us finish the game. Go down and personate me, and tell the doctor you want another box ot his liver tain Bridgos, ging lieutenant marched out and proceeded with other soldiers, under ascort of the guards, to the surgeon’s of- fico. When the name of Captain Bridges was called the ligutenant's appoared at the little oftice window. “Doctor,” he began, “them pills you save me helped me up considerably, but %wnu( another box. T think another box will fix me up all right.” “Didn't them pills eure yout" nsked the doctor abruptly, looking over his spectacles at the bogus Bridges 0, but another box will fix me, I think."” “Well, well, himself, “1'll | ment on you 4 ‘Phereupon he picked up a graduating glass, and from various bottles mixed the most infernal mess that mortal ever suw. The lieutenant shuddored. When the villainous compound was made up the doctor stirred it vigorously and yiclously, and handing it out said: “Drink t ) £ Tune lientenant took hold of the glass. Cold ehills ran up and down his spine. “Doctor,” he stamme “ld=-I'd er lwubrul.lmr take the pills.”” said the doctor half to @ to chungo the treat rink it!"” stormed the doctor and in the excitement the medicine went down the lieutenant's throat. When the lieutenant returned to tho fodder-loft he was very glum. When tl game of cards grew monotonous Cuptain Bridges turncd and asked: g itenant, git them pills ‘you needn’t ell,” waid the captain, \ did the be 80 snappish about it. What dactor sny?"’ ’ ““He said he was going to ehange the the treatment on you, and if you don't most | At the shght | wnd | WITH GLITTER AND MUSIC. The Grand Parade and Concert Mark Yes- terday at the Conclave. A MAGNIFICENT PROGRAMME. Seventy Thonsand People Crowd the Streets of 8¢ Witness the Festivie Scenes, onis ¢ Knights » ties-Brilliant The Kunights Templar Conclave, St Lovis Sept By 11 fully 10,00 spectators wore grounds and street unchecke de commanderi Krounds we rew into time Jackson No. ¢ first on the ground, < in the drill ¢ oclock on the Neweomers wero ree than ever, The relied to the parade with Icheers, whieh national repute Jackson, Mich., andother competi 1 i the following order: lisville 1, St. Bernard sMolay 19, of Toulsvilled of Indianay and Zion 2 of lis, Owing to'the fact that no siomas were to be awarded, and ciston as 1o the merits of the n was to be annoutced, the utmost good feeling prevailed It lacked bit fifteen minutos of noon when the sienal for the conclave drill to begin was sounded, and Dedoiny commandery © of Louisville marchied 1o the parade grounds, greeted by the most enthusiastie applause of from 15,000 to 20,000 people, who crowded all accessible, and some apparently inaceessible oints of observation. The pi wround iad been trodden into a field of mud, render- ing the performance of the various evolutions slow, difficult and tiresome owever, the tactics were elosely followed, and notablé figures and movements were' grected with liberal applause, Following the DeMolay's retiremont, Zion No. 2, of Minneapolis, ook the ground, mak- in an excellent (npression on Jts apsroael. During the progress of its drill considerable unfavorable comment was caused by the action ot St. Bernard commandery, of Chi- eago, which, attired in a gaudy uniform, with white trousers and preceded by the Thirty- seventh regiment baud of lam- ilton, — Ont, marched across the border of the parade eround to its position in the rear, somewhat over- Imllnw!mzll|l'lr«»mmn{nl‘ ously attired Zion ommandery. Notwithstanding the disad- tage undor which they were placed, the members of Zion kept steadily on with ‘thelr Dusincss and in very short order had the une divided attention of erowds In attendance and elicited toud and frequent applause by their superb drilling. To the tune of “Old Kentuek Loutsville commander; field, making a most The scenaat 1 ¢ K was most brilliant, The weather was pertect, a good breeze was stirring, the sun was shining brightly, and the candidates we in every way favorable to the fullest and most_complete enjoyment of the oe Stands and every ‘available spot in distance of tho pirad ground were pa with spectators. the knightly aniforn the brilliant costumes of the ladies uniting to make the picture most beautiful and impos- ing. The commandery drills lasted until nearly 4 o'elock, La Pier commandery, of Indianapolis,failed to appear ana Detroit No. 1 closed the drill with evoiutions continuing an hou At 2 0'clock Leader Gilmore began muster- ing the various bands of musie which were to participate in the grand concert, b after 3:30 before they began to stand they were to oceupy. ‘They wer ranged so that the diferent kinds of instru- ments were brought together, and the ‘e quilt” appearance of the interminglod uniforms was decidedly unique. Throughout the afternoon erowds of peovle had been arriving inall sorts of vehicles and on foot, and when the concert began a conservative estimate of the num- ber of auditors When G 4 1o ofticral conm Home" the marched up the favorable impression. nlay ol at the front of this large jon of musiclans he was greeted with most enthusiastic ap- After bowing his acknowledgments, ered upon the following pro- cramne, which was carried out to the very ette 1. Overture, nnhauser, alone “Nearer My God to The softly, by brass mstruments onl time with full power, united bands, 3. “Hail Columbia,” by entire brass and reed bands aad drum corp: 4. Concert polkas for cornets, netlsts, with accompaniment bands, 5. “Columbi lery accompan: 6. vilgrim'’s trombones, euphonomes, 7. Selection b; Hauilton, On iilmore’s band first time second b’)‘ 185 cor- by united ” by united band, with artil- ent. Choius, Lowbardi, by 150 horns, baritones ~ and d by united bands. enth Battalion band, , under direetion of G, R. Robinson. The Star Spangled Banner, by united band, with artillery accompaniment. ( Fest Mareh, Tannhauser, by con- sotidated band 10, Americ: united bands and drum corps. 11. Military March, united bands and T\lvl!enl) econd regiment, New York. rit well stan’t my failt for [ have takon fim nastigst d—d dose for you that ever | . Grand Scena, from Il Trovatore, in- troducing anvil chorus, perforned by uited Dands and drum corjys, With acooupaniment of fifty anvils played tipon by the Rainwater Rifles of St. Louis and artille ik 014 Hundred, by all musical forces com- in During the afternoon the weatber becamo tremely close and hot and six_people were overcome by lieat, but in no case are serious resnits anticipated. To-night the second illumination of the city occurred, continuing from 3 o'cloek until midnight. “The Flawbeau battalion gave & parade and exhibition on the most prominent Hioroughtares of the west end,” Ivanhos commandery of St. Louis, held a grand re- ception which was largely atiendod “and proved a brilliant affair, while ail local and tin:z commanderies kept open house. ‘o-morrow a grand parade will follow the plans made for iho parade interrupted Tues- “To-morrow night whil oceur the trades ssion and another parade of the Flam- heau club. ‘This afternoon a notable recep- tion was given by Oakland “commandery of California, at which thousands of eallers were entortained in the most mugnificent style. st 1oipressive Initiatory Services. St. Louis, Sept. 22.—Five thousand mem- bers of the Aneient Arabic Order of Kuishts of the Mystic Shrine, one of the highost or- ders of Masonry, are in aitendance upon the ~ Knights “Temular ~econclave. The order is of Arabic origin, ~and as the Arabic year ended to-night = at 12 o'elock the initfatory ser vices at that bour wore of unusual interast, ‘Two hundred caus c: from this city, were intiated, were con ducted under the fedinn Temple, of Chi 4 by Lmpenal Poten- tal Samuel Briggs, of Cl Ollo. All of the paraphernalia, ¢ and_Jewels being in , s Toeal templo were utilized 1 conferring the order upan eandidates. ‘The elaborate cos: tumes, tich jewels, mystic emblems and ntes | rendered the ' services most imp! Previous to the cerenon les, the shilners, as they call themselyes, formed in procession at the Southern hotel and pa- radedd the p al down-town streets, vach templo belng accompanied by a band, The costimes aud uniforms were of many varie ties, the only article worn in_common bein o red fez, ‘The two tenples which attracte the most attention and received the most gen- Jus applause were those of - Baltimore and Chicago 0RroRs. ATKINSON, Sept 21.—[Corre- spondence of the BEk.|—Atkinson Iy still growing ..41{, new additions are be fog laidont and lots sold very fust. We are destined to have a nice litte home like ety in the near future. A force of bricklayers are rapidly moving the new brick sehool house to completion, and the earpenters hammer is heard in every band. We want more earpenters he and wages ure good, from §2.50 to §3.00 per day. We tnderstand the editor of the Holt County Evangelist will soon bave a new press 10 running order to gupply the de mand he has for pen portraits and re- ligious news in general. Success to the undertaking. Atkinson now hes about ants, and steadily growing Our settiers are mostly ‘/\murluum, and the business men are wide awake, in- dustrions me Come to / castern privi 800 inhabit- kinson if you wish to enjoy Zos in a Woestern state.