Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 21, 1887, Page 4

4 DAILY BEE. —-ISHED EVERY MORNING. TERVE OF BUHLORTPTIC Dafly Marniae Edition) including Sunday Beg, One Yoar For 8ix Months For Three Mon(ha The Omaha Swnday 1 address, One Yoar. -~ 10 09 ¢ b0 ¢, matled to i naled t6"any . 14 AND, 018 FARNAM STRE JUYO 5, RIS E WO NO. 515 FOURTEENT1 8 TREET, CORRESPONDESCR! All communieationa relatin, torial matter should be widre TOR OF THE Brv. NUSINESS LETTH ATl Brieinees lettors and remiitances should be Addres 1o THE e PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMANA. Drafts, checka and postofiics orders 10 be made payuble L0 the order of the compn: THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER EW YORK OFFICE VASHINGTON OFFIC &mn\ OFFICT, N nowe ande: o the Eni- Enrror THE DAILY B! Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, | County of Douglas, § Geo. B, Tzsehuck, secretary of The DBee Publishing company, does solemnly sy that the actual cireulation of the Daily for the week ending Jan. 1th, 1557, was a3 follows: Satnrday. Sunday. Jan. ¢ Monday, Jan, 10 Tuesday, Jan, Wednesd: Thurs Friday Average, 8 8 Airh) 1050 3.5%0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Z3CHUCK. me this 10th . N. P. FE1L, ISEALY Notary Publie. Geo. B, Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of the Bee Publishin mpany, that the actual av- erage dnily eirculation’ of the Dally Bee for the month of January, 189, was 10,58 coples, for February, 185, 10,805 copies; for Mare 188, 11537 copies: for April, 185, copres: for May, 155, 12, for June, 4 copies ust, 1856, 12,464 copies:for September, 0 _copies; for October, 18, coples: for November, 1886, 13,348 copie: December, 1856, 13,257 copios, Gro. B, Tzscne Sworn to and subseribe day of January A. 1. 15 Al N Boopre got the Mr. Hearst has been eleeted senator, M. SHEDD was not given n chane terday to repeat his dirty trick of Wed- nesday. Excrresentat Lincoln is still at fever heat, and will remain so until the poul- tice of a nomination relieves the inflam- mation. — Parrick Garvey voted for MeShano on the third ballot. Mr. Garvey values his position in the railroad employ more than his pledges to constituents, Tur Douglas county delegation east an almost solid vote yesterday for Van Wyclk, only one member failing to record his vote for the people’s candidate for the senate. GENERAL VAN Wyek is making a m nificent fight inst the horde of rail- road attorneys and deadbeats who are spending money like water to enco mpass his defeat. ANTI-MONOPOLY Votes t for a rail- road attorney would be diflicult to plain to curious constituencies. This is the almost insurmountable objection to the Tharston boom. Ty is a large attendanee of the state bar at the capital, but law, cquit and jurisprudence all give way to the two pressing questions of “what do you know” and *‘what will you take.” TIr General Hazen's oflice 1s to be filled, Captan Greely would be an admirable appointment.” But the offico should be abolished. A brigadicr general of the weather is as much an absurdity as a eaptain of the horse marines, CoLonkL MORRISON i8 a ¢ the position of national railway commis sioner. The nomination would give gen- eral satisfaction if the colonel would pledge himself in advance to a “horizon- tal reduction’ of railw | ndidate for Noxe of the legislative committec have yet been able to hold a meeting, but the clerks don’t mind that, Their salary of $3a day continues without regard to wind, weather or business. Thatis the chief beauty of a legislative sinecure. For a candidate who has been killed ofl' a score of times during the past week, General Van Wyck exhibits remarkable staying powers. The Lincoln correspon- dents should change the brand of their favorite tarantula juice and get new in- spiration. Tre bill for oil inspection should in- “ elude a proviso for the investigation of the railroad oil rooms at the state cap- ital. Every boitle should be branded with its proof test for the protection of such members as are not case hardened 10 legislative liquids —_— BiLis to create oftices paid with the foes collected should be promptly amended by substituting the salary for the fee system. The stato 1s entitled to whatever fees may be collected from pub- Jic business. 'The fee system is being generally abolished throughout the coun- try, Nebraska can well afford to join the proce Scroow yentilation in Omaha as pre- sented by the report to the board of edu- cation seems to be at a heavy discount, The sanitary condition of our schools 15 of the highest importance, much more 80 than the employment of any particu- lar architect. The report of the com- mittee of the board of education should be framed as a standing memorial of the incompetence of former building com- mittees. Tue senatoriai struggle is still in prog- ress, Another ballot bas been followed by another adjournment. The strength displayed by General Van Wyck and the staying powers of his following have surprised and disconcerted his op- ponents, while they have fairly retleeted the public sentiment throughout the state which, regardless of party, is anx- iously awaiting his election in response to the popular will. Up to the hour of writing the opponents of General Van Wyck bave failed utterly in combining upon a candidate who could hope to se- oure the Van Wyck strength in case of a break up. The situation remains practi- eally unghanged with the man of the peo- -ple leading all opponents by more thau a score of votes, A Motley Mob, A consetvative estimate of the number ot deadbeats and political bilke who are bemng maintained at Lincoln by the rail- roads places the footing at two hundred, men and boys. Sixty rooms in hotels and private blocks are at the disposal of the corporation runners-in, A horde of buttonholers and gin suckers, whose only employment during the scssion is to hang around the hotel lobbies and way- lay members, are supported out of the sceret service fund of the railroads in re- turn for what work they may be able to accomplish in assisting to further corporate legislation or to obstruct measures which fail to meet with the approval of the general managers and political attorneys of the monopolies. The ralroad lobby is omnipresent. It confronts the rural member at every point from the depot to the eapitol The political history ot Nebraska has never recorded such a gathering as is now assembled at Lincoln in the sts of the confederated mo- nopolies. Men who have been re, by their neighbors as unfit to repre them in the halls of the legislature, ofii- cials whose names have been subjects of nvestigation by grand juries for fraud in , briefless isters and small bore ward bums, without visible means of sup- rt at home and without the respect 1l contidence of their acqua wnees at home or abroad, are all on hand in the servico of the corporations banded together in the freemasonry of dead tism and hopes of future employment, Itis a curious and motley mob, Its rize 1l eh ter shows how thoroughiy the froads are out of pol T New Senators, Twelve states—Ncew York, Pennsylva- nin, Massachusetts, Michigan, Illinois, Maine, Missouri, Minnesota, Connecticut, ‘alifornia, Delaware and West Virginia —completed the choice of United States senators on Wednesday, In en of these states the present senators were re- clected. The other five will be repre- sented in the senate after the 3d of next March by new men, The vigorous bat- tle which was waged in New York for eral weeks between Miller, Morton and Hiscock resulted in favor of the lat- ter, After a numbver of ballots the sup- vorters of Morton went over 1n a body to Hiscock, and with one desertion from the Miller ranks gave him the nomination. Mr. Hiscock is a representative in con- gress, where he has served several terms. He is one of the nowledged leaders of the republican side of the house, and is a man of ability and force. He will suc- cced Warner Miller, and will doubtles: be an improvement upon that gentleman, who has not made a remarkably strong or brilliant record. Pennsylvania re- John I Mitchell with M. S, Qu: strength and claims con chiefly in the fact that he has been a shrewd and sucecessful manager of the political machine under Cameron direc- tion. Ie will undoubtedly continue in the control of Camcron in the senate, and there is no reason to expect that he will prove to be a great acquisi- tion to that body. Ile will, however, be an undeviating supporter of the particu- lar interests of Pennsylvania and her de- mand i| elected K. W, Stock- bridge to succeed O. D. Conger, who is one of the ablest and strongest men in the body. The senator-eleet is a man of large wealth, ample avoirdupois, and of genial and jolly disposition, His expe: ence of public tensive, and his uscfulness will depend upon the value of his judgment in practi- cal affairs, Samuel J. B. McMillan, of Minnesota, will be succeeded by Cush- man K. Davis, and from what is said of the latter that state will not lose by the change. Davis is a lawyer of high standing, and as governor of the s which oflice he was elected in 187 made an excellent record. He was com- mended to the convention as friendly to a wise and judicious reform in methods of taxation and as a pioneer in favor of the control of corporations by the state. The leading democratic paper of Minne~ sota spoke of him as ‘‘the ablest, as he is the truest, exponent of republicanism in Minnesota.’” The ancy caused by the death of General Logan will be filled by Charles B. Farwell, the term expiring March 3, 1891, Mr. Farwell has been in congress, and to his knowledge of public duties he adds a wide and successful ex- perience in practical affairs. The scnators who will succeed them- selves are Dawes, of Massachusetts, who received a large democratic sup- port; Hale, of Maine; Hawley, of Con- necticut; Cockrell, of Missouri; Hearst, of California; Gray, of Delaware, and Camden, of West Virginia, Of these Dawes, Cockrell and Hearst encountered a more or less vigorous opposition, and as to the first named he doubtless could not have been re-clected without the votes of the opposite party. These elections do not change the relative standing of the political partics in the senate, nor is it apparent that the new material which ill be introduced, regarded as a whole, will very much improve that body. —— Proposing to Strike Back. A policy of retaliation upon Canada for its unjust and unwarrantable treatment of American fishermen has been formally presented to the consideration of con- gress. On Wednesday a bill was intro- duced from the toreign relations commit- tee of the senate to protect the rights of American fishing, trading and other ves- sels, and American fishermen. It em- powers the president, whenever he shall be satisfied that American vessels and crews in the waters and ports of the Brit- ish Dominions of North America are de- nied or abridged in any of the privileges secured them by the treaty law, or are un- justly vexed or harrassed in the enjoy- ment of such rights, or shall be prevented from purchasing supplies as provided for by treaty, to issue a proclamation deny- ing vessels and crews of the British Do- minions of North America any entrance to the waters and ports of the ited States, such proclamations to be qualified and hmited in the diseretion of the presi- dent, eral penalties are prescribed for the violation of sueh proclamations, ‘I'he report accompanying the bill con- strues the three-miie limit in the treaty to mean three miles from shore irrespec- tive of headlands. It aiso refers to Cana- dian legislation relative to this matter as especially adopted to harrassing and em- barrassing American fishing and other vessels, The committee found that eommercially the most important advau- tage to American vessels with cargoes of the privilege ot entering Canadian ports is where there are railway connections with the states, Otherwise the right has iter b aflairs has not been ex- little value. The matter will probably come nup for action at an carly d If congress adopts this retaliatory policy there 18 no doub! t it will, the cor uences will be more serions to the yessel interests of the Dominion than to those of the United States, and the Canadian goyernment will encounter in this an added element of opposi those now arrayed againstit. W not at hand data showing the num- ber of Canadian vessels which annually enter American ports, or of American vessels go into the ports of the Dominion, but it is probable there are three of the former to one of the latter. It scems impossible, however, that the Dominion government can have failed to see that the proposed action on the part of the United States was inevitable if it persisted in its unjustifiable poliey, and it must be assumed that it is fully pre- pared to accept any consequences that may result. Its whole poliey, aswe showed some days ago, has been to aggravate the issue, obstruct the way to a fair settlement, and force the United States into & retaliatory position, from At motive it is not casy to determine The object evidently sought seems now prett certain to be attained, with the effect of placing a new barrier between the com- mercial relations of the United States and Canada, to the greater disadvantage of the latter, Itisnot easy to conceive of a more blindly, foolish policy on the partof the government whose people can ill afford to maint an attitude of commercial hostility and independence toward a powerful and opulent nation with which they eannot hope to compete, but whose friendship would most surely contribute to their prosperity. Interest in the situation promises to be specdily confined to the Canadian people, who must determine from practical results whether they will endorse & continuance of the policy which has thus far brought them no advantage, has added largely to the public debt, and promises to be still more damaging to their welfare, —_— Centennial of the Constitution, The proposal to celebrate the centen- nial of the federal constitution is taking form in a way that promises the fulfill- ment of that purpose. On Tuesday the dent sent to congress amessage con- ing a memorial of the executive com- mittee of the sub-constitutional centen- nial commission proposing to celebrate the 17th of September, 1802, in the city of Philadelphia, “as the day upon which and the place where the convention that framed the federal constitution con- cluded their labors and submitted the re- sult for ratification to the thirteen states then comprising the United States.” The president expresses his great interest in the movement and the hope that “‘fitting measures may be enacted by cong which will give the amplest opportunity all over these United ates for a mani- festation of the aflection and confidene of a free and mighty nation in the ins tution of the government in which they are the fortunate inheritants and under which unexampled prosperity, has been enjoyed by all classes and conditions m our soci 27 In the senate on Tuesday a joint resolution was passed providing for the appointment of & joint committee of five senators and eight rep- resentatives to consider the expedien of holding in 1802 an interna- tional exhibition of the industrie and productions of all countries. The steps thus taken will introduce the mat- ter to public attention and discu we ean sce no good reason to suppose that the patriotism of the country will not vespond favorably to the project. The hundredth anniversary of the as- sembling of the convention which framed the constitution will occur on the 14th of May next. 1t was composed of delegates from all the states except Rhode Isla and was presided over by George W ington, The eonvention completed its labors and submitted the constitution for the ratification of the states on the of September, 1787, and two years later the organic law framed *‘to form a more verfect union, establish justice, insurc domestic tranquility, provide for the com- mon defense, promote the general wel- fare, and secure the blessings ot liberty to ourselyes and posterity,” had received ion of eleven of the states and went into effect. The work of the con- vention De Tocqueville declared to be “a great discovery in modern political science,” and Gladstone has said of 1t that 1t was *'the most wonderful work ever struck off' at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.” The wisdom of the anthors of the constitution is at- tested by mnearly a hundred years of successful government under it, during which the nation hasachieved un- paralleled growth and prosperity. If the proposed celebration shall take place in 1892 the great work accomplished by the representatives of little more than three millions of people, very poor in all mate- rial conditions, but rich in courage and patriotism, will be commemorated by a great nation of nearly sixty-five millions of people, of almost boundless wealth, and with every resource at command that can msure a still further growth and prosperity the extent of which it would be idle to attempt to forecast, There is danger of one obstacle to the proposed celebration, as intimated in the message of the president, and that is local competition. There may Lo a strong opposition from New York to the plan of centering the celebration at Philadclphia, on the ground that the first president under the constitution was maugurated in New York and therefore the government had its constitutional beginning in that eity. As between these two cities, however, it is probable the popular verdict would be in favor of Philadelphia, where the great work of the constitutional convention was entered upon and consummated. It is an interesting political fact that no United States senator from Massachu- setts who has been elected to serve a full term has failed to be re-elected, if his party had a majority in the islature, as long as he could or would serve. He was continued in the office until he died or resigned, unless he was superceded by & senator of different political allegiance. It i3 this poliey,” says the Boston Her- ald, “which has given the state an infl ence in the national councils out of all proportion to its population and wealth.” 1tis also noted that New York has re clected but three of her senators—Silas Wright, William H. Seward and Roscoe Conkling. There are other states be- ides Mussachusetts “which iu former years pursued the policy of re-electing THE OMAHA DAILY BEL: senators and in cvery case to their ad- vantag It ‘is unguestionably a wise course where men prove faithful to their | trusts an‘l to the interests of the people, all as Now Jersey too given toit in th orts ot its legislatives do For a state much space ciated press ings e e e, FIELD OF INDUSTRY The chairmakers have had a busy, early winter, T in Florid A new structural steel plant w erected in Chicago. s factories are 1o be e cted The produetion of coke in 155 was 50 por cent greater than in 1855, A Wheeling nail firm turned out week be fore last $,000 kegs of nails, Technical education is recelving a creat deal ot attention in Germany. fee-making machines of extraordinary ca- pacity are being erccted In the south, The Cineinnati tinners will demand an ad yance of 20 per cent in wages on May 1, Piano makers have had quite a rush of or ders: a great many pianos have been sold ltely, Tho electric lghting companies are expand ing their capacity and in some caces doub- ling it. A Boston concern has just an order from Denmark tube radiators, Textile manufacturing establishments are quietly inereasing their machinery in view of a heavier demand. The western jobbing interests elaim that they did 25 per cent more business last year than they did in 153, Nearly all the industrial the country demand the re-establishment ot the progre ¢ income tax, Krupp, the German manufacturer, has taken an order for 50,000 tons of stecl rails from the Victorian government, An Alliance (Ohio) firm is completing shears of 950 tons which will cut steel plate 10 feet long and 13 inches thick. The Knights of Labor or their leaders are advising greater secre tly because of the disposition of newspapers to criticise them, A Dubuque concern will ship next week a carload of harrows to St. Petersburg; their plows have already & good sale in that country., The trades and labor assemblies of the Ohio valley and Wheeling and vicinity will hold a grand fair and industrial exhibition on February 14-19, The jobbers in dry goods and carnet ete., west of the Mississippi river are deal- ing more largely with the distributive centers along the Atlantic coast. The introduction ot eleetrie lights into fac- tories and mills throughout the country has been reported, and every precaution has been n to prevent the possibility of fire, The sugar producers of the world are to hold a world’s convention sometime soon in Belgium to consider the best means of con- trolling that rapidly increasing industry. A vear or more ago Wheeling manufac- turersof iron trembled because the steel rail had crowded out their puddling furnaces, Natural gas has caused the startine up of all of them, And still another silk mill is to ne started at Linden, Union connty, N, The exodus Trom Paterson cannot be avoided, as it is - possible to svin all the silk required for manufacturing operations in that city. The increase in the manufacture of win- dow rlass during the past two years was as 26 to The glass manufacturers hard problem to solve in wetting bett prices withonut letting in more foreizn « all River print eloth manu d 1,000,000 pieces for future deliver and the productive *capacity is trom 9,000,000 to 10,000,000 pieces per Stocks have not been as low for ges have been inereased 10 per cent, Some shrewd Japanese have been visiting the Paterson siik miil Two of the party are silk manufacturers, T e here to pick up points., The Cooke 1N frames, making 10,000 to 12,000 revolutions a minute, filled them with wonder., A Philadelphia firm has now under con- tract seven large steel plants, both Bessemer and open hearth, and has inquiries from a £ood many companies who contemplate in- vesting larze sums of money in iron and steel making enterprises during the yea A seheme is on foot to supply New ('Ili‘ I natural { o lay 250 miles of si for corrugated brass- organizations of York The company expect “inch mams cipable o withstanding a pressure of one pound to the square inch. knough gas will be turnished each afternoon tosupply the mght's require- ments, The cabinetmakers and furniture manu- facturers have disposed of the bulk of thei fall supplies, and are sold up much cleaner than usual. " The employes went the w and hours of labor settled now or soon, and by way of preparation are strengthéning thelr association ‘The lumber hay wfacturers and dealers business enougli beforo them to keep prices, for good dry lumber especially, ver firm. ' Large lumber, regions have bes operied in Virginia, Tennessee, Michigan and Wisconsin, and factories nearer to the woods, A Philadeldphia corporation has opened a vein of iron ore in North Carolina 00 fect wide, waich gives 40,000,000 tons of ore in sight. It makes a superbsteel, A railroad is being built from South Carolina througi this ore region to the Ohio river, by which this ore will be delivered to furnaces that may want it, Several new iron-making establishments are to be erected in both northern and south- ern cities. and a large volume of money will be invested as soon as the season opens. The demands for piping are 5o far ahead of the facilities for supplv that no less than seven new works are talked of in various parts of the country, The Pennsylvania railroad mmamlly has just built thirty-one sixty-ton engines, with four driving wheels, which can draw forty- tive loaded (rl'lfht cars with as much ease as the largest enging now on the surface can draw thirty-five cars, ~ All the bridges are being strengthened to stand the weight of these monsters, P’rices in some British manufacturing cen- ters have taken an upward turn, Linings, worsted coatings and cheviot cloths ave being exported in increasing quantities, ‘I'he Brit- ish textile manufacturers look for a sharp im- provement in demand during this and are quite confident that prices will be ~better, “The farmers have been eyeouraged to culti~ vate flax, ; ‘The wages of common labor have been ad vaneed throughout the country, south as well as north, and should the present industrial activity continue for a few” weeks longer or toward the opening of spring it is quite probable that a turther advance will be de- manded, especially as common laboris much more generally organized now than it was 0ne or two years ago, "The best reports concorning co-operat are going pterprises are not encouraging, The workingmen themselyés are slow to put schemes on their feet, anid they raise numer- ous objeetions and thraw innumerable obsta- eles in’th ay of thesenmdertakings, While they have creditable evidence ot what ean be dorie, the great bulk prefer to hang on to the weekly stinend and drag along the best way possible, In commereial eireles the possibility of a decline in the value of raw materials in spite the present general fproving tendency been recognized. Just at present the anutactursrs in all ections have the ad- vantase and are endeavoring to hold it, ‘The new productive caj that will be added after April 1 will overtake the demand, 1o matter what it may be, and create a reac- tion whieh will be more or less severe as our expanding eonsumptive capacities determine, Oue of the largest engineering undertak- ings now in progress 15 the construction of the Illinols steel bridge at Cairo. ‘The i proaches will be a mile and ah and the bridge proper a i tive bridge four wiles lon above hich water mark. The strueture will be the finest on the Ohio. 1t will be linished within three years, Another extensive rail- road bridge is to be builtat Fort Madison, and fitty-two feet FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1887, Tota, Tt will be bulit by June 1, 1855, About twenty very heavy railrond bridees are pro- jeeted across the western rivers, to be cone ructed during the next eighteen month and no doubt all of them will be built if the present encouragmg condition of things shali cont - A Plea for “Casties in the Al .\v-llxlllhl- myriad troubles that meet us day by day Who would not turn Away, And in a far-off fairyland, where men no . burdens bear, Forget awhile our’ tears and toil in “Castles in thea t a mom from the cor When many a bright-hued prospect fades fast bevond our view, And hoves which nearcd fruition prove shadowy and untrue, May we not in that dream-land, beyond ail clon d eare, Behold our wdise restored in “Castles in the air? 0, there are lonely ehambers in every home and heart And in life's song of bear a part; But hark ! what ‘mystie melodies soon hush the voice of eare, As parted hands are ‘¢ “Castles in the orrow each one must once more in Then nover grow discouraged though fortune favor not, And we pursiie 1ifo's pilgrimage unnoticed or forgot We hav ur of yictory and lustrous laurels w For all are kin and conquerors in “Castles in the air. - STATE AND TERRITORY. State Jottings, The new Standard theater in Nebraska City was opened with appropriate flour- ishes Monday night. A Council Bluft put np and operat for abonus of £1,000, The tournament of the association will be held e, and its next st Plattsmouth, A drought of news is raging press at the present moment torship absorbs all the cne ity of the fraternity. capitalist wants to a foundry in Siduey ate Firemen's it Kearney this ¢ convention in state he ul abi The bachelor boys of Sidney have gone thi son hike the leaves from the trees and the harvest of in a November galo fees gleaned by the ministers a'more boantiful nd justices has been one. Jobhn Melllreey run in by the she the chargre of hor: veteran crook been chief of polic some time ago. “How aoes the thermometer stand®” inquired & meek and mild-eyed wifo of her stealing. John'is a himself, having Nebraska City husband after a brief _experience with a western blizzard. “D-d-darned i-i-it 1 knew they had legs,” he answe jerks; “1'd-d-don’t know how the: in the east, but in the w-w-est w ‘em."” Towa Items, The new Catholie church will be dedicated next Sunday. The Union Investment company of Des Moines, capital 10,000, bas been incor- porated. A Des Moines constable was fined $10 for failing to appear in court and testify to the merits of beer drank by him. Mayor V- i, of Council Blufls oned the oftice of curator of the ity, owing to liis removal to at Creston 4 1 on a deserted bar i Sioux City Monday netted two kegs of beer. They were escorted to the sherift’s oflice with ists of Centerville have en- tered into un sment not to apply for @ permit 1o sell inte ing liquors of any kind during this year. At Marshalltown on year-old daugiter of Mr.ana Mrs, Charles Peterson died under circumstances stuspicious that the neighbors made com- plaint. An investization is now in_pro- gress and the testimony thus far indieates that the child eame to” her death from severe and excessive beating, 1y alittle five- Wyoming. The pious residents of Donglas have put up the wherewith for a $5,000 church, The Boston Land & Improvement com- pany of Cheyenne, capital 125,000, has been incorporated. ‘T'he Albany National bank of Laramie, with a cay thorizes Cheyennese | 8 Ay aided the cause of salvation in heathen paris by contributing toward the building of a church in Douglas. The Wyoming Central is making no arations to build on west of Douglas year, and the opinion is gaining ground that Douglas will remain the end of the track until the season of 1888, Albany county stock ranges ave noted, even in the grazing regions of the Rocky mountains, © At nt they suppo 91,820 head of , valued at §1,575 9,808 head of horses, valued at $30, and 90,305 sheep, valued at al of $100,000, has been wu The cattle growers of Wyoming, in the Cheyenne Sun, have made i the opinion of th two serious mistake The first w ng of pustures by wire fences second was the attempt w acquire to government land under the present laws and high prices, Montana. The Anaconda smelter consumes 180 |lnus of coal and 125 cords of wood per dav. The total assessed wealth of Montana over $55,000.000, and of this ,000,000 is tepresented by live stock investments, ©The famous Drum Lummon mine paid 25 per cent on its capital stock last year, besides laying up a reserve fund of # ¢ mine shinped eighteen bars of silver Saturday worth $25:381, bring- ing the day's shipments 6,500, The week's shipments agg §150,000, I'he Union and Northern Paci have agreed 1o haul the Monts tral’s iron for $11 per ton, Last spring they wanted 35, This will enable the road to go right ahead with track laying as soon as the weather will permit, e A Fat Oflice Abolished. ieago Tribune: The oflicer having the unique title of o1l inspector of Minnesota made his report for the two years of his incumbeney on Monday, and set all classes of people to talking by the foot- ing, which showed that he had collceted, i fees, the appalling sum ot $14,000, but a trifle of which weat for elerk hire. Last year he pocketed almost twenty thousand dollars after deducting all the expenses of the oflice. In all of this time but one bateh of oil lemned, and yoet fc 1 annually this almost half as muck the United States, thought about the x he as the president of T'he more the people atter the more they got exeited, and half a dozen boards of trade passed resolutions daemanding that the oflice to be abolished, Governor Me- Gill, discovering the sensation “the afla was ereating, has so far failed to appoint anybody to the office, and to-day mem- bers of both houses of the legislature made the most popular move of their sareer by iutroducing bills to abolish t oflice, and the pressure brought by the masses will insure its almost” unanimous : Itis certain governor will never have an opportunity to make any body oil inspector of Minnesota. - A ring tait monkey from dime musenm got loose chureh in that pla Sun just before services, and after fruitiess” efforts to capturg him he was decoyed back. to capuvity by the use of cakes und candy. 4 Providence nd entered a | cerely hoped the matter h A FAMOUS OALF-CASE * Renewed Preparations to Take up a Very Oid Lawsuit, Axavosa, Ta, Jan ence of the 21.—|Correspond- Sk, ]—Preparations are again being made by Attorney Foster, of Chi- cago, to commence anew the famous Jones county calf-case that has been in the courts of this state continuously for the past twelve years, in the district court Waterloo. This ease has com pletely bankrupted several farmers, not Ic ving them even their farms, and its continuation promi to ruin several more. Last winter the supreme court rendered a decision setting ment of §11,006 for the pla cious prosocution, they ha and tricd him thirteen vear: calves, he being acquitted the case has been on tris side & judg tiff, for mali ing arrested ro forsteal Ty tim It was s t dropped, s 1t is Known its continuation must ruin some of the defendants. The plamtifl is already about ruined financially. D. 1 Young, of this county, who made ignment severaldays ago.leaves lia over and above hisassets, of about A liti 215,000 W, 1 days ago ITamilton, of left for southern Kensas, leay ing behind him Labilities to the amount of about 00, with assets at about $2,000, Ilo was always supposed to be finaneially olid, and & man of integrity Jones county has never had such a great tide of financial depression before that of the last y HE WAS A PIRATE KING. The OId Story of Henry Watterson's Little Game of Poker. Chi » Herald: Like all thoroughbrod Kentuekians, the editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, Henry Watte is n great poker pls One ening some ) ago he was in New York City, and went to see the tirst production of Gilbert & Sullivan's_opera, ““The Pirates of Penzance.” Being an admirer of protty women and pretty musie, the verform- ancy ight him,and he was especially taken with the song, “I Am a Pirate King.” He hummed the air between the 'ts and between cloves until he had it down put. Lt wason his lips when he left the theater after the performance, and the melody swelled up from s broad chest as he” dropped into a well known resort and encountered a number of professional friends. ‘Ther ¢ Nod Harrigan, Nat Goodwin, N Thorne and other choice spirits, and to them Mr. Watterson lauded the new opera and chased snatches of the “Pirate King” through his puckered lips, Soon a mod- estgume was suggested, and the er todiin of the star-eyed goddess of 1 hand. art, and form willingly consented to tuke Luck was not with him at the the stack in front of him_dwindled vereeptibly, He warbled his favonte song, but the melody brought no sub- htial s Pretty ack vot. The editor picked up ind, shd the squeezers past his goo and \ to softly whistle the “Pirate hing.” Ned nd N and stayed horne dropped out. Tony Huart, who was dealing, remamnedin with the others, Nat bet ten, and Harrigan saw him, Then Mr. Watterson passed his cards in review before his valuable optic, musi eally declared himself a pirate king, and shoved up a §20 stack. ‘Teny Hart gazed at him searchingly over his hand, saw that twenty and held his breath, Nat W Harrigan passed out, whiie Billy 1 v shifted to the other foot, and be ean to take a deep interest in the fun Watterson carefully “skan his rds again and called for “one paper.”” t breathed o n of relief and wanted two eards. It was the latter’s bet, and refully with “‘one seced s melody and uneertain 1 a blue stack. Tony elevated him back. Then the editor again used his good eye as - reviewing d, and the tive cards moved by n he felt his w The man with t vision hoisted Iy ¢ fdile. Agamm the air wloch had ned the Louisville editor floated up- on the atmosphere, and he shunted two biue stacks to the leeward of the rake-oft’ aperture. Tony looked him aghast, and simply ealled, throwing upon the table, face upward, three large nees two fives. Watterdon adornéd the g baize with four wart ind hummed I Am a Pirs Tony witnessed his appropriation of the pot, he responded “Imd——d if I don’t think The Outcome of an Aral London Times: A typieal case of Arab revenge was tricd the other day at the Constantine assizes, the prisoners being three Kabylian natives of pronounced Arab features and complexion. The story it eame in the evidence, was a dramatic onc. Ten vears brothers, named Mohamed™ and entered into an agreeie hor med Mohamed ou Rabah for sl plot of land. A good many misun- andings arose as to the réspectiy rights of the three holders, and carly this year the two brothers attempted to eviet Mohamed ou Rabah, Thesheikh ot Ton- dea, before whom the case was brought, decided, however, that the latter w reaily the owner of the land, whereupon the two brothers lett the court, decla would have their revenge. k after this scene in court Mohame ou Rabah was attacked and murdered by a number of persons while on his way, carly in the mormng to his oil mill. Suspicion at once pointed to the two brothers, who were arrested, together with a third person who had consented to join them ir mmitting the murder. They had endeavored to establish an alibi and der guilt to th but the evidenc s too strong, their garments being stained with blood and lfi’mr ante- cedents being very bad. Two of the tiree were sentenced todeath, butare not likely to be exceuted, as M. Grevy rarely signs a death warrant, you L Cross-Liyed George, Chicago News: A curious bill was in- troduced m the house to-day by Mr, Cald- well of Tennesso who has been the anthor of sev 11 lative oddities, It was to direet an |l|:fmr\' into the 8 and means by which a statue of the father of his_country became cross-eyed. As cverybody knows, the Greenough statue of Washington stunds at the eastern en trance of the eapitol, a marble figure, nuked to the waist, with the inseription “First in war, first in peace, und first in the hearts of his countrymen,” The preamble of Mr, Caldwell’s resolution recites that somo impious vandal has been monkeying with the figure till it now looks cross-eyed, and the bil direets that the vision be'corrected, ol it sgindy A Phenomenal Tri Friend (to author)-How is vlay progressing, Charley? Author—Finisned,and i3 & great sueces npi your new Friend--A great success? Author—Tremendous. 1 read it toa lot of professional critics last night and none of them liked it -~ A man she had never seen before stabbed a girl in the bank in New York the other evening. Her thick clothing prevented a dangerous wound,and owing to her fright it wus some time before she knew she had been stabbed The man escaped. -~ The eastern standard time was oflicially adopted at widmght of December 31, in Pittsburg, and the length of the old year was shortened by about twenty minutes, when the city ball elock was reset, -~ A horse helonging to Jacob Smith, of Perrysville, Ky., got out of the field the other day and” went hunting, and, aftor being gone hulf a day, returncd witn a nocketbook containing §14.in his weuth. PLACE. Situated within 4 blocks of tke Lip on & Fowler packing houses, and within 8 blocks of the new B, & M. depot. All the lots ave very fin, On Easy Terms Which will be worch double within a year, making several hundred per cont profib on the cacl invested. umber Yard A splendid location for a whole- sale lumber yard, as the R. R. company has 150 feet right of way each side the track, afford- ing excellent facilities for load- ing or unloading. Brick Yard. A fine opening for a brick 1joins the addition. Cotner & Archer's ADDITION, We also havea few choice lots left in Cotner & Archer’s addi- tion.Have sold very rapidly, and are increasing in value every day. People are buying these lots for homes, consequently they will prove a good investment to any- We also have ARGAINS In all Parts ofthe City. OF Improved and Unim- proved Rroperty. Call and sce us before purchas- ing elsewhere, Baker- Place Situated within 5 blocks of the Walnut Iill depot, on the Mili- tary road. Benson's street rail- way will be completed and run- ning within 6 months, Prices from #300 to $500, One tenth cash, bal easy terms. These lots will be worth #8300 as soon as the street cars are running which are guarantecd to be running within 6 months. 0. R. ARCHER AND H.SOBOTKER Room ) Rediek's Block 1509 Farnam St, -