Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 22, 1886, Page 12

4 THE DAILY BEE.| PUBLISHED E\}ERY MORNING. Dafle Morniag Fait Bep, One Ven For o M The Omaha W uid bo & e Drafts, chocks e 10 th And remittances eho PURLISIING COMPA 1 postofMce Order of the company, SHING CJT:?',‘V\”!\ PROPR EWATER nid OMATi A 0 be wade paya THE BEE POBY T ROS Livny Eprrc THE DAILY Sworn Statement of Gire State of Nebracka, 1, o County of Dougias, | * * Geo, B, Tzschuck, &ecretary of ‘The Publishing company, does solemnl that the actual cireulation of the Dafly for the week cndi 1456, Wi follows: Saturday, Dec Sundav. Dec, Mond Tresday Wednesd Thursday, Dee Friday, Dec Average, .. Subscribed and swort day of December, A, D., 1550, N, I, Fy ISEALI Notary Pu Geo., B, Tzschuek, being first duly sworn deposes and says that he is secrctary of the Bee Publishing company, that the aetual ay erave daily ciren { the Daily Beo the month of January was 10,373 copies, for Februnry, 18, 10,505 copies; for March, 188, 11,557 copics; 'for April, 1856, 12,101 comes: for May, 153, 12,479 ¢ 1 for June, 1856, 19,208 copics: for July, 1886, 12514 copies for Augist, 15, 1 copies: for September, 189, 1 for October, 15, 12,059 3 for November, 1556, 13,315 copies. Gro. B, Tzscne ek, Sworn to and subseribed before we this Gty v of Noyeinber, A, I, 18¢ SEAL| N. I’ Frar Notary Publt Boobrer McQuane will eat his Chirf mas turkey in Sing Sing with Boodler Jachne. Two of the gang of municipal bribe takers now wear striped suits with cight move to follow. GENERAL GoRDON's death at Khartoum 1y two years ago is tinally conlirmed by @ letter from the Mandi himself, The oflicial confirmation was unneccssary but the time taken for its re of the with which “‘oflicial” ne vels sometimes even m America The press invariably beats red tape, Usber the nEB 20. B, T78011 before me th slownoss W proposed metropolitan charter the Omaha board of public works will have more power and gr responsibility than the eity council. 1f the delegation ratifics the work of the charter committee it eannot be too care tul in guarding all the points to prevent the board from becoming a s Jobbery and arbitrary powor Tite close of the famous Campbell suit 1adrawn battle. The verdict of the jury relioves ench party from the charges brought by the other. 1t does not, how ever, relieye the public from the convice tion that the English aristocracy is a school of vice, which, for the public bene- fit, should be shorn of their pohtical priviloges and their position as the as sumed leaders of manners and ma — wee of als, Mz filing tieir amended articles of in corporation covering Northeastern Ne braska, the Bikhorn Valley line only an nounce to the pubiic what they havelong contemplated in private. The move to wards Yankton is to be made to cut out the Missouri Pacific extension and the proposed advance to IHastings and Seward will be m retaliation upon the Burlington for its invasion of the north west. Itisnot probable that the pros pect of these competing b will prevent the opposing roads from con- tinuing constructian. ‘The rmlrond situ- ation in Nebraska 15 one of dog eat dog, The contest between the roads which | for so long been fought on paper, will now be foight out with cold stecl riils, —— Rames may vise and rat fall but that revaarkable monopoly, the Standard Oil company, holds the whip hand even over the railvond companies. A suit has just been entered at Louisville by an oil dealer against the Lonisyille & Naushville railway company and the § rd Oil. ‘Che great oil monopoly was engaged in driving out of business one George Rice, of Marietta, O., a competitor in the trade, and according to its usual system had en listed the railrond company on its side Mur. Rice produces a letter from nn agent of the Standard Oil company to the rail road compluining that s had not been put up high nough on Rice and winding up with the sen tence “Please turn on another scerew The result was a charge of $68 for a ship ment of seventy made by the dealer while the Standard was char only $39.00 for the snme ser at the same time. Such instances as these furnish the best of arguments for the ne cossity of an interstate con Iation bill which will regul poor 43 well ws for the riek Buas were introduced in both houses of congrass on Monday providing meas- wres for extirpating pleuro-pneunionia and othier eattle discases. They author- fze the appointment by the president of 4 commission, to which ample powors are given for investigation, the establish mont of quarantine, destruction of in fected or sueh other proceodings as may be required Provision is made for paying the ownor: of animals killed, $160 being named as the waximum for those with pedigree and §60 for those without. Ponaltics ure provided for obstructing the commission- ors, coneealing the dis 1d fur trans orting or delivering for transportation disensed animals, knowing them to such. ‘The senate bill appropriztes $1,000, 000 to carry its provisions into 354 comprohensive measure an derstood to have been propared, the biil introduced in the house xesentutives of the Consol d Growers® association formed s month in Chicago. The opinion was gen: the late convention of carttly wveterinarians that the nid of the governmont was absolutely neces the most effective work for stamp eattle diseases, and the bilis presented are in responso to that view. Such s measure should be passed, und a iches exposed animals, and be ipt remmds us | thoroughly capable © commission ap fntod that will porform tho dutics car By nd v orously. W 1T WS OF DFORGEr - | UL e THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: neking the Thieves, wry. Roggen, chairman wrd of public printing. 1 for and of de o ation stand the nmer rott A to Calif etary Roggen tl best to pro Wh the made up of the coucerns who were bidders for 1 cral state pr he has point refused to let o contract for printing bills and incidental work of the legisla ture for which the Lincoln Journal the sole bidder, lievin it had monopoly of this business, that shame. wcern had put in a bid which was higher than the amount for did the same work two At that time the offered to do th of printing during the session for As ther it s profit it those fig they would ion. The t I frustrate ‘ zards not entircly schen printing less cc 130 pe 6,000, wasa 1 of so raised ’ 1 itly thought margin too put ma bid for 311,000 r d very proper! its own printing of bills and legi<lative reports wherever it may see fit, If it de- at an enor mous | yve what i is worth it c loulder the responsibility, Better Building Neoded. One of our contempor for ten story buildings in Omaha be. Minneapolis has them. We don't waut them. Six and seven story structures will be quite bigh enough for safety and largo enough for profit. Land i Omiha dear as to demand such towering structures. Every city which has gone into the sky seraping busine is regretting it, and the tendency ih the other direction toward high buildings, substantially con rhted und ventilated and casy of sin every part. We can afford to be content with gix and seven story ed on ten story foundations nd walls and built to stay What Omaha with all tern cities needs m ost of all ut the present tune 15 better architeeture and construction Phere has been too much attempt atcheap display and gingerbread work and too little re ed for interior coavenience and exterior solidity. The building that issub- stantial, 8afe and convenient avd at the same time attractive in appearance is the one which finds the best class of ten antsand brings in the best returns on the ivestment, While the elevator has to adegree ambhilated distance and brought the fifth and sixth stories wit reach of the strect it has greatly incr fire risks. To reach even seven stories in height severe task for water works and fire steamers, Beyoud that distance fire protection is an experiment. There is ample room for improvement in the change from our low, squatty and com monplace looking business blocks to six and seven story buildings whose designs bear the stamp of originality and which from foundation to cornice are con structed of solid materials and with hon estworkmanship, vide: eides 1 iesisclamoring e isnot yot so now s wtely tructod well | struc tures loc: other w on roposed Pinancial Legisiation, There bave been introduced at present session of congress quite a score of bills proposing fiuancial legislation. Nearly all of these relate to providing the national banks with a new basis of cireulation and to making other pro- visions with regard to the system, Most of these measures will ibtedly o in the comm S0 many ambitious efiorts of crude statesmansiip are every year consigned to oblivion, A fow may be heurd of again, but with the exception of one or two they ure all an worthy of serious consic tion. There is no subject with which congress has to desl that tho average congressi so well likes to dabble in as a financial question, and there no other question that the average congressman knows less about or is less able to comprehend. One of the important bills introduced is that ot Mr. Hewitt, which is designed to cenable the treasury to dispose of the sur- plus, in the ovent of the probable failure of congress to keep down the assured ac cumulation by redueing the revenues This bill provides that the s ary of the treasury may antieipate so mueh of the interest of the funded debt of the United States as may be in excess of 8 per cent per annum, If ail the holders of the 4 and 4§ per cent bonds should avail themselyves of such an offer, the treasury would be ensbled to use 75,000,000 or $80,000, 01 icipating the interest of the public debt, Itis provided t st upon the amount pai uted at the r ver reinvested quarterly seeure to United States the b compound interest thereon, Thus the t would lose nothing in the T'he bondholders would be left with in torest, hut the cash payments would be a full equivalent for any prem nt the bond would bear in the m It is further provided that these redvecd hall ho od by the comptroller of the curreney as sccurity for the 1ssue of cirenluting notes of any national banking association, and as they would undoibted mewnat atove par it is provided that the banks aro to be givon their par vatue in notes, inst of 90 per cent., 4s now required by liw In view of the possibility that th, i of bonds may not geucrally pt the anticipation of interest, suth on the secretary of the treasury to de with any national banking association any portion of the money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, upon sce ity of an cqual smount of honds or o fwdebtedness of the United States, such special doposits from the treasury at no time to 1 $100,000,000, and to b to call upon h n as the may presoribe. Thus two provided for dispesing of nd converting it from an idie sceumulation to the public use. In ihe one caso it would go ‘divectly to the the into com anoum cent govern transect bonds osit, exce Ar peonle upon terms whick would protect | the governent agsinst loss and be no TRehi Uy — ntage to the bondnolder would rench the dor in that the It is cort surplus tant to find of itin the t of Mr ome inter witt public 11 though d roduced the This authorizes the uy of the treasury to receive 4 and 41 per cont bonds and issue in ex chian th the h the tent was int in o therefor bonds bearing interestat per cent per annum, paying um equal in each case to present worth at the time f exchange of the portion of several quarter-yearly of nterest from w released by such ¢ uld in volve a T m the troasury lders a copted the 1 the | Hewitt of intoer would payments 1 States Ll bill ger disbursen it, than wou t for the 1 be o likely than fail of its object , whether ful neerned at Nat al Gas Field, people of Olio have reason to fecl seeure in position of that state third in union in population and wealth, and to confidently anticipate its further progress and prosperity. Accord- ing to a recent report of Prc o the Ohio Geologienl bureuu ral gas field of the state in extent with I'he the The the as ssor Orton, the 1 come aphi mits. formation belon to In the neighborhood of 500 fect below the sur Toledo at a depth of 1,100 [ to 1,200 feet. The greatest developments of oil and gas have been around the townsof Limu and Findia e western part of the state, not far Toledo. Valuable developme however, been: made at other points, n Cleveland paper having recently reported the development of a most p natural gas well near that city Lima region the production of o led that of gas, and fifteen joint stock compa 10w operatit velopment, the Lindlay region natural & ritory hs xtent twenty-six miles m I L miles in breadih, and of the twenty-seven swells that have been opened only two have failed. The daily produc the most prolific 1s 13,000,000 cubic of gus, otners 10,010,000 and for the rest the d Ve what les: is aa of it abundance and cheap! anished all other ma { illumination as well as all other f domestic and manu The demands of the community are supplicd without restrie tion, The charge is $1 a month for its ntu e its geol 1l s arian ngc Cincinnatiit lies | face, andat north from its bave, nuising In the lins ex ce I In th of en ion of feet feet, ome ily reason rooses s and 30 cents a month for lighting the whole house. Still the people regard these s extravagant : n agitating an organized them. ‘The cost of sinking about $1,500, and n, able manutactory in own well An extraordinary industrial growth has natarally followed this gas development, and almost every day new enterprises are springing up, or going into this terri tory from favored regions. Th supply keeps up steadily, and so great i the extent of this natursl gas territory that there is no longer an apprehension of the exbaustion of the product. At rious other points prospecting and boring for natural gas are being actively pushied, and the report of the state geoiogist will doubtless have the effect ot ing esplorations and aetivity in The manufacturers of and the Mahoning valley day feeling more urgently the need of this eheaper fucl, which now os Pittsburg so great an advantage, ana they will not be sparing of effort to find & supply if it exists anywhere in con tiguous territory If nutural gas shall prove to be haustible in the territories whereit i developed and developing, ther cor tain to be a radical change, in the not re mote future, in the conditions of compe tition which may be in the nat of un industrial revolution. The battle will be between the manufacturing centers that have this natural fuel, rather than at present against the foreizn manufac turer, who having to rely upon a dearer icl will no longer be reg: with ror us threatening to us the Ameri can market and destroy home industries if not shut out by tarift’ wall With augmented and cheapened production, 15t which England, Ge any i Bolgium, with their higher-priced fucl, cannot compete, th manufac turers of America may become ns carne in demanding the removal of the tarif obstry y now are in urging vetention, and the most persistent in ask ged and cheaper transportation order to get their surpius markets of the world iesin the uatural ment if it shall and wtes o b he region has its less inereas this direction Cleveland inex now vored ction as the ties in ucts to the o great possibili w8 develd Lold out continu wdition of trade during the week n favorabl ording to re- m the principal business cen how inerensed business, ularly noticeable in retail ! oy pproach i vol has attracted little demand except for the immediate wants of the loows. Holders are not urging business t the exvense of prices, partly t i of & prevalent expectation of nest wonth and partly bec tocks are owned by “dealers who them at comparatvely full prices and cannot aford to let the market go lower. The proportion of consigned wool awaitig sale inthe custern nall this year. The dry goods ably quict, but a good many fers are being recorded for the future delivery of fabrics sdapted to the spring and summer trade. The market as a whole is firw, with cotton especially in earing improving markets is 1 compmittod in Oakland AT, Pres. A = | of hetore going ¢ emaianised asibe beat Saraapariliainthe warkes | WEDNESDAY good position as regards yok for sustained strenth in prices tons of stecl isito than it was at t The partial with support on ac ey in th of cc ce among re of wintet of a farther increas y, and the expecta legitimate demand until after the bolild have contributed to this result, The esport demand ha been vory fair, and cansiderable busines has been done at all Atlantic ports 1 presence of this demand and the con tin prevented have not of last drawalof specul the and the weakening holders by increas wheat, the promis in the visible tion of It str money market fider ys L strength of foreign markets have more serious decline, but 1 suflicient anfluence to sustain or advance the market. Corn prices are & to § of a cent lower ow liberal reccipts at Chicago and the weuk ness in th market, but there is pres ¢l tiiis cereal, which onfronts th of an increasing ¢ consumption and an early impr wnd. There hasbeen comparatively little ep: the attention of op gely directed Lo ¢ riled strong pts of Chica The h trade dis on of provisions keeps up well, and exports of lard exceed those of responding v last year, Ttis to be hoped the city cotnc slow m letting any contracts ing or curbing for whichno il no bonds have yet that t city will er by delay will not satisfy the tax pavers. Wealways favored pushing pub- lic improyements and we propose to ad- here to our policy m the future. There i<, however, a limit beyond which it is not and the council should draw the line at that point Wi do not know to what extent Sena tor Manderson's chances for re-cl two years hene to avanced by the vindictive warfure which his rejuven- ated Omaha organ is waging upon Sena- tor Van Wyek, bat do know that there is not a single vote in the coming logisl which in fluence one way or the other wieat prospect Ve culation in corn, ators has been Hog produ moderate for future p money is availabi Leen voted, The safe or prudent 1o go, we wure Munderson cun vy Lincoln liave rd at the for Jim Laird. Jim b been known to spread himself oy hilarions condition, sed tiat Jim hasn't rooms, sinee the B, & M fund is large enc rooms hotels I beds when it We are only hired more india-rubbe he d sur Pat Forv is by nt and city council ng to pose as the of the it to st membes ewel that o solid brass moun only dec be sct na. PROMINENT P Mrs. Manning is mentioned 1l thie favorite ot the cabinet ladics. Evangelist Moody will hold revival ings at Ithaca, N. Y., in January, The tour of Christine Nilsson through Holland and Belgium has been remarkable for social ana ofticial attention, Senator McPherson of New Jersey was well-to-do buteher tweity years ago, 1le 15 millionaire now. Kate Field holds phione stock, and cun Mormon wonster huts him or not. Congressman it of [ ao was stenographer for & house committe but he married & woman_ with cash and he cutered the political arcua® Jolm Peter St. John is leeturing in Towa in behalf of three interests: First, for a good admission fee; second, to advertise himself; third (and incidently), for the temperanco cause, Ben Butler b cason as meet- $100,00 worth of tele- aflord to shake up the occasionally, whether she s discarded bis black slonch hat, and now ay ars crowned with an enor mous beaver hat, sueh is worn by the tronti It gives his comical fisure the appearance of a funey perfumery bottle with o stopper, Susan B, Anthony ares with some thing approaching ghoulish glee, that when women have the right to vote they will not alliliate with either of the present political parties, but will cast their batlots for the purest men who offer without regard to their olitical views. Henry M. Stanley ean well afford to forego even the profits of a lecture tour in this coun- try at the bidding of the king of Belgium, He receives $20,000 4 year aeting as the figure- head called viee-gencral of the and is said to exereise o wonderful over the untamed Afric Congo state intiuence ns. Big Business on » Small Capital, i lunger 000 by cnge selling 50,000, hels of wheat on only capital, greatly the democratic party and the disproportion between the task of run ning the governument and ita stock on hand atr 5,000 resembles of brains otisi An Object of Comp Iuston ecord. M. Cleveland's ambition i 1 Hehad it In his powe democrats to nominate' liim. Iliat 1e now depends simply uvon their love, 1le will have to o still loyer ta get that, and uitis not woith baving. We pity Mr ssion the is wone, Blithe Christmus Joseph IRt O blessed day! O blesse at though, with ea rine ws whiter round my bre thougl the wrinkles there, rrowed with thought or the ¥ care Thou O blessed 0 blessed time ! Dear to the beating hears Ly coming and thy che 1 wait lmpatient now As when no fugrowini care brow In days of youthtul year - Juy Gould's Methods, mond Wh When Mr. Gould watered Western to aluiost double its actual value, and ved the thousunds of em- in order to declate o dividend on the thus watered and bull it in the warket, lie was engaging in a rate robbery for bis own finaneial aggr 1t is the lemce and shameless repetition of shese ntie frauds that breed discontent among the people, multipiies the causes of disquie tude, and converts thousands of houest aud iudustrious wage-workers inta rank com- wunists, ‘Ite suprewacy of Jay-Gouldis bas about reachied its zen untry, ime retuy de hand 1d'st are deener now? ay Union then ployes idizement P Omant, N oo cs and the | and Jidze Groeham's d | DECEMBER 700S ATIRACTIONS, | THE but gite legal | he stood guard with big roy not s ave,but it was evid crept o very aitk rt et f sion to an in had e made a &} Waiting at the Door. luot Detroft T he AND ALLABYS, Street M a4 Co Meesongers . and ITis nkoy ipanions. ¥ groen « Claus® Gitis, y 1 1 Ihore wrrivals at mes were y ; v tinguished the Zoo of the city a Uhe most notable that cred were two polar bears, Th hide and seek with Arctic welers in snawy Northern Siberia and were captured three by a most | small band of extied Russian anie. I'liey woere sont to St. Petersb where they were 1 nent for our \toly od in words to which nad Ju by the said that to hope for it of time e peonle who lieve that the time will ¢ manag and the | era conmyp. ny on no b of Chy thesc Clau when e Others specim and pric very sm W <ed to play might by be a wastc ring e th searc t of 8 months ago pe and strongth, even is i in and roally fin , or pine trees sell the other & ranging in up to §1.50, which will purchas n nificent specimen, The very lar stich as these used for Sunday school eot S cbrations of course, worth moro, U 1 opera ns man say §1 or £5. These trees are cut i Wis Ao not, on consin, Michigan and the northern lum ection, appear o differ wateri ber countries. Very few of them are cut other hunian beings. They in the vieinity of this _eity, With oacl which has been more or le tre small iron standard is gold, which cultivated, but so have thousan holds the tree firmly by clamps, | Tl people who never sang a note and never 11 for 25 and intended to sing. However excellent | “Chyrstma their woik on the stage may be, they are | an L more popular cvery year id not more to be praised than are many | dealer yeste rday. We expect sell gther people in their own peeuliar lines. | o 1arge number of them this year, They beir prominence relieyes them from | are inexpensive, an th tin none of the amenitics of life, but rat ve n better show the display imposes upon thew the more inexorably. | Brosente, than does old-f Skilled as they are and talented as s tocking plan.” of them may be, they are still at thewr = best nothing more than masters of their own business, and are not entitled by th fact to put on gre 1rs than the mas ters of any other business. It appear howeve it the man or woman wl oun liddle or sing imagines as soon as some reputation has been gained that th next thing to be done is to demonstrate to the world how uneivil a so-called great werformer can be, I their peeuliavitios of the kind over held h do ot take this dircetion "they force on | o Of the kind ever held | the public their privgte griefs and [ "¢ b ] ) quarrels, if anybody could by any ing hard to insure the sibility beint tedin them, «glromgthe | event, and there is no doubt but that the greasy fiddler to the painted prima i will be well attended, Espe donna, through the entire’ range of per tions are betng made for the d formets, one would sippose Irom theit | oration of the west pavifion. Instond of iekerings that every person connected A 5 Y tion was ataminute’s notice to | ALY 16 i 2000 ."‘.',’. engage in anything, from o ton-round | B¢ Fthie i e APIES knock-out n.l:. baie-pulling mateh. 1t is naistinge otk OuM Clur ,;““(‘!““{'l‘j el of aflairs and one | ONSISHUTE O 1 S DO B b utinued, will bring the whole ul: '\,"I”“‘{ "i‘ N " 1‘ “1‘ |\I e, g ohaler Garnean, jr., appointed last week 1o con- )f the enormous H‘H‘\ of duet the ar maements for the IXIks' first \ 1y of m annual ball February 7, has organized by agized m- performances on the f RS PRl Beruary 7, bas, 2y The teason for much of | UMK, O McClure, cliaivman; I, G this vanity docs not appear, but it cannot tprotary and Urank Colpotier be denicd that It theso e Kponents of rt | auir, and tickets will be sold to rules of good breeding they would nave | Hemen at 5 cach A gentleman he A e T O (T, ul]l 1ese tickets is entitled to take discermble at this time IRy . SHE WK{é A PRETTY GIRL. « nevertheless moods are e s of ov b, it by an perform ny will be al small for 25 | home shipped I'he 1884 1l fmmo & iron-bound ¢ \ polar bear of the Zoo died 178, | doath was due to paralysis society prie cents last His ult of aind in Prices f heve in a in the r struck partner on u stormy of When re reloased from simult the country without g row. The ers or performers 0 a singl tof lightning, which killed his morning in th Arctie L therr traveliing box they leaped into the pool of water that itre of their new quarters, A Ibath was a great after their I Koeper Byr Miny in honor of grizzly bears they will not be friendly their imain diet, varie dish of five pounds of fish each It would make Magistrate Bob St the friend of the oppressed wives, indig nant if he should sce how Frank, the new Siborian arrival treating his better half, Minnin. ilo not only gives her pe riodical beatings, but frequently confis cates her fish or bread and wilk,” He ig a domestic autoerat, His conduct 1s in withering contrast to thatof George, the handsome stalwart king of the garden, who capers about his better half like o leonine cavalier, and always allows her the first picee of old horse,” It was just about ten years to the day since the rival of the fivst pair of polar bears,which were Killed by the lightring stroke, when their successors were put in the pit. They promisc to live iong and prosper, as they are but four years old, are in good health and have come to the country at the pro per season to become acclimated for coming hot waves. FOUR NEW KANGAROOS, CAh, there!” was the slang salutation of Stonewall Jackson, the veteran and loquacious parrot,a pet of the late Signor Blitz, when a quar f kangaroos, four noosing cusses' from Austraha, took up their ‘quarters m- the snake house yesterday, The immigrants from the tipodes are of a veculiar type of bush tailed kangaroos and eame direct from little town seventy nnles from Melbourne 1he jumping animals have a quiet and subducd appearance, but are pi They are natural collar-and-clhc tlers and 1 bouts yestorduy afternoon, Il m nettled by the re ception given them by Stonewill Jack son He seldom u~\~|'1‘uvl4nw].mg| : but yesterday he slandered the fricnds of Western teague, she | Ap(imus Ward sty vigorous that hard fight to make. Mr. | it would have madean Arizona cditor George Kay, of this city, has written to | how! with impotent enyy th The kangaroos were wecompanied by Tianatias two cousins, Australian wallubys, the TR s only specimens of their kind in captivity hie major e clubs now composing | Phair ¢ is next Lo that of the inguaui, the leagrue are in favor of the which, by the way, 1s in a surly mood of Puchlo instead of Hastings, He is a big, drab-colored offshot of the to be the general that lizard famly, that was sent from Indy would sustiiin a series of games bot fow months ago. Heis wepicurean with than would Hastings, At ‘any rate th a very dainty ite. As the number of matter will be thoroughly diseu bougiiots bougzht by star actresses to be ata meeting of the leagne (o he handed over the footlights to - themselves soon, either in Omal r Lincoin on first nights increased, the price of Hastings ¢ t she is alveady o | eminot roses went up and the so member of the league, laving been ad { ciety, in order to avoid bunkraptey, had mitted last sprin, vote of the ma- | to change the bill of fare. The igaana 1s jority of clubs, Mr. Kay states that it je | & mean-looking, bustle-backed erecper true that Hastings was so admitted, but | and at first objeeted, but finally had to with the_condition that she put up the 10 down to bunanas or sturve. Anob &300 foricit money. T'his. it is claimed, [ ject of interest in the snake honse a the Hastings men have never done, | lavge landscape of an Indian forest, though they have been requested to | Which is being painted by Keeper Thomp do so. son, who is a natural arfist. It will soon form the background of the anaconda and python cage. The work is so well done fhat the big reptiles will no doubt be deluded and “try and curl their fat bodics about the imaginary trecs, while they will have an ambitious struggle in endeavoring to crush the life out” of u counterfeit presentment of *Stoncwall Jackson FEARS FOR A BARY Head Keeper Byrne w afraid that Daisy, the cute cub bear, was going to die on Friday. She was sick, but yester day she had recovered and wasin g trisky mood. Dauisy is a great favorite, and had she died hundreds of little patrons of (h zarden would have nourned ber loss while it wonld have inspired Low-water Muldoon, the poctical keeper, to writ y poem ipher Charles Crowthers and Artist 7N, Hess had u busy tme at the 700 yestorday leveling the camerq at the leading objccts of interest. An oid oken-footed mule had been brought to len to be fed to the animals, sur- prised the keepers and his former owners by the vitality that he displayed while photographer and the artist were urging him to pose for them, When Head Lyrne dropped that Carpenter pnkey mto the mammoth fornier cocanut throwers at yesterday he didn't intend aviot, But it is a matter of his tory however. About a dozen of alleged relatives of our aneestors tricd to kn out the little stranger und he was on saved by the keeper and a thick pold The setilement of the monkeys at the Zoo has the pugmlistic eraze as much any of the padded shouldered b Eighth and Vine strec John LS van, the heavy-weignt champion, malke daily additions to his list of vietims, but Keeper Bryne believes that Dominnck McCafirey, 'the bine-nosed buloon recover his lost luorels. Dominick fircy wus boss of the monkey out Tour months g when | knocked out by John L. Sul ple w tantly e in 1y from | have an art | carefully s of other \ spection S S y ¢ new lins W neously s¢ m the e 30 cents trecs aro hecom luxury to them onment. Head I them, Frank and two friends. L are treacherons and Bread and i d by an no baptis for the of PWO BIG itor The Charity and Elks' Balls ry and February. Arrangeime I been for the grand annual charity held January 14, 1887, in building. 1t promses to surpass inJanu- A ball to he the exposition iy cments is work of the suced Y0s- is is state its grow st of the ics as he eh TINGS Ot PU Which the Must Decide, before Hastings na A Question Leagu s probable t1 cedinto the will have a GLO? Western i A Stage Coach Adventure Which Su prised a Vigitant Guard “Well, what T started out to say was that Jimmy had n deal with a mighty pretty girl once,’ d o resident of il | lon, M. T, to a New York Sun_ corre- spondent. “He was down in Virginia City and was to escort a treasure conch through to Helena, ‘The country was full of tough citizens—that v vefore the boys ticd up the gang by the neck—and it was known that stages with money aboard were nost certain to be tacked. On the coaeh coming up was young lady i deep mourning, about the prettiest girl that we had ever scen here, and as there was no - treasures Jimmy ot pretty well acquaint her. She could not have been more than twenty-six or twenty-seven years old, and she was that handsome that when sheé got to the tavern at V na City the boys went into the dining-room and ate an extra supper all around just for the chance of sceing her, Jimmy haa learned someth hout her, She told him that she widow and that her errand was to find Colonel Savage, who was said to be in this section. He was her uncle and the administrator of her father's estate, and business matters made it necessary that she should see him. Jimmy didn’t know n, but he said “he might be retary of the league concerning nd that oflicial states that y of the el tniission v Tt seems opinion Puecblo Leid Active Good Temvlars. Monday night quite a number of mem- sof ¢ Boatlodge, No. 150, and their friends assembled 1 the Novth Proshy- . That evening he was terian chu _-h to listen to the Rev, Seott, y attentive to her and most of the boys | ©f Sutton, Neb., who was the lecturer of hung about the place half inclined to be | the evening. Mr. Seott made an earnest jenlons. speeeh and related some interesting bits “The next morning jusi as the stage bout the liquor trafiie. Mr. Scott zand was about to start and Jimmy with his s to the money that from the liquor shot gun was stunding by it< side, the | sale yearly went into the school fund, 1 treasnry box having been”serewed on and | do not want o educate my chitdren. swith the driver being in” his seat, the young | money that has bronght ruin sand s woman came running up, excliiming | grace to some mother's heart or sony that she wanted to return and would be | family cir ' 'T'he speaker was rightly 1y 1n ten minutes if the stae would | enthusiastic when he said that, if all wait. The driver grambled, but Jimmy | saloons were closed, we would not have yielded, and the girl soon made her ap- | a gambling hell in the city, and would b pearance. ‘There were no other passen- | spared the unspeakable pain of secing fors, Aftor sho had boen seatod the boys | familics robbed of happiness and purity, stepped up, hat in hand, and said_good- [ Mr. Scott, in coneluding, made an clo- by, while some of them—Jack Fergus [ quent plea to the audienct to join heart, wias one of them, 1 remember—went so | hand and abilities to fizht the saloons. far s to express regret that she was not fter the lecture was over, a mass meet to stay longer. She laughingly replied | ing was held i the basement of the that she might return, and waved a little | the church, handkerchict out of the conch window as itrolled away. That was the last we ever saw of her, Jimmy was inside of the couch with her, and we all thought that he was the luekiest chap that ever struck Montana, “But I thin six BEATR. 0t Tound With Oleomargavine, On next briday, at 9 o'elock, Collector Calhoun will sell four fikins of olcomar- garine, containing about 115 pounds, which were seized by the government be ¢ the packages containing the ma al were not marked according to law e property was seized in the carly part of November, and, us the soriboes, thirty days’ notico was nto all per sons wio mizht have anything to sn against its forfeitnre to make the sam: known, im havin made the proverty was forfeited, and on next Friday, the ten days’ notice of sale, re and Jimmy was only a man. He rode on | quired by will haye expi by law, and the inside of the coach most of the way | the material will be duly knocked down until about the widdle of the afternoon, | to the highest bidder. “The officers fecl when he got ot Then she complained | that Johizon is an innocent party, having | Ca of loneliness and fear, and after a while | bought the oleoms rine froni dealers hie got insid i many minutes | in this e lo represented to him that afier there and a yell, the | it was butter. He cseapes the penalty horsc sudden ‘halt. | in this instunce, be A the early dute Jimmy's on his gun, | in which the d ry was made, but at | time, The old gray-h and “was the point” of [ will bea fine and imvrisonment for any | known as Jem Mace, iwas sw making a j hen the fair one by | person who is hereafter caught in the | httle Tommy Warren by the 1 his side raised one of his vevolvers, which | same predicument day when Donuniek MeCaflvey w she quickly removed from his belt, and - him anil o knocked him silly with & savage “no, you don't! terday Mace waited untl Joln 1, at his head.” For a second Jimn V't | am J. Haskett, a lawy hodied | van took bis duily nap, when b know which way to turn, but it was only W York, left a will coltaining this | on hum from the top of asecond. The driver was a good one, curl worded elause most chewed ofl the rel und e was already at work with a Colt's | “1am informed that there is a socicty | John, L.S s tail revolyer. — Without hesitating Jimmy | composed of young men conneeled with | keepers of the monkey house ex tried a dangerous experiment, As he | the public p and, as in early life I | soon bury the undiplomatic Jem held bis shotgun, its muzzle pointed to s connected with the papers, I have a the window where the girl lie saw at 1 recollection of the toils und troubles L glance that to fire it would not kitl ber, | that bubbled them, ver will bubble, bt it could be discharged 50 as 10 seare Lin their pottage the life out ot her, providing she was not m, and, as Ldesire to thicken with L regular wildeat, which he didn’t believe herb their thin broth in she wus. A good deal quicker than I cun a legaey, 1 do hera bequeath tell he pulledthe trigger, nt the same mo- | to the New York Press Club of the city of ment reaching for the revolver which | New York $1,000, puyabic on the death of the young woman held, knocking it Mrs, Haskett of hand. The crash of the gun Monsica r Colombies, a territie, and as it went'off not more t chant, died leaving o i 10 # lady who twenty y cighteen inches from her nose it para: Iyzed her. She fell by nu | fused to warry im, “throngn which,' dead taint and Jimm irans | states the will, “I was enubled to lyve in- was o the ground in dependently and happy as o bachelor. minute the g saw i R The folloiving very whimsical tim they a0k to cover m 4 Scotch them. They kept up a bvely ars ago an Eogl fow moments and then Jimmy went back | queatiod to his Ly weight in €1 ng A to the stage, expeeting to find ivd there, but she had disappeared. The | per weights bas never been s | MGod g the clder daugltor ot £31,20, 1.nd. the | ply the g friver, who had mounted his box and " wis holding the linesin &is teety le | younger £50004, L Meet 1. of something, Loss is hours after that pretiy little darling suiled ont of Virginia City look g as sweet and gentle luinb, she wis holding one of” Jimmy’s big pist 1o his ear, and he was looking (wo ways for Sundiy n afeaid he wasn't watel ing things'as close he onght 1o have done, bt nobody blames him in those duys. We'd see i woman like that ahont as often as we would a fock of id me tell you No el been coming hani just W - Whinisical Wills, ity Buckin he second of the now In progress at th rthe leading of Ry well attended last evenin of the previous meetin tained. Rev on from Rey 18 shall inherit upon the upon the ps noble Christan lif that those who (roni the ran men and women, step into the Christ church, need this determination of pur pose s cortainly a8 those w rebuild npon. the rocky foundatic Chriat's love, ‘livos. w nigh w and ruined In su, Notoes. of Parisian mer Juest of £1,900 sars befora had neeessit t of all ng 5 0f mora finer DS eveniing 89 sorounced,