Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 8, 1887, Page 4

BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING TERNS OF SUBICRIPTION iding Bunday The Omaha Swaday Tk manml u address, Ono Yes 018 FARNAM STREFY TRINCNE TU1LOING 3 FOURTRENTR STREET. CONRESIONDENCE? All sommunioations relating to news and el torial matter should be addressed to the E TOR OF THE Bie BUSINRBS LETTERSE All bueinees lotters and remittances should be addrossod to Tie BEx PUBLISRING COMPANY OMARA. Drafta, checks ard postoficn orders to be made payable to the order of the compuny, THE BEE PUBLISEING COMPAYY, PROPRIETORS, ROSEWAT) THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Clrculation. Btate of Nebraska, | County of Donglas, § * % Geo. I Tusohuok, secreta Publishing ¢ does that the utunlu 'III'\lInu of the llall\ for the week ending Feb, dth, 1557, was as of T hl\ Bee Sundav. Jan Averave... GEO. B, Eubeeribed and sworn to_in my_ presence thisdth day of February A. l}“ 1-‘“ ISEALI Notary Iublh‘. B, Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, leposes nnd says that he 18 secretary of the liw- Publishing company, that the actual av- erage duly circulation of the Daily Bee for the month ()fJanlulry 1845, was 10,578 coples, for February, 185, 10,605 coples; for Mare 1886, 11,5 bpln'!' for April, 18, coples: lnr May, 1556, 12,459 co) ll" , 12,208 copics; for July, 188 for August, 15, 12,404 copies: 0r 1886, for Oet rr, 1856, 13, 7 copies, g Gro. B, T28CNUCK, vorn to and huh':rnhl *d before me this 1st day of .lmu Do or June, 34 copies entember 1555, 12,089 i3 coies; for t issue is simply whether the railroad managers or the taxpaye: shall be allowed to make our eity charter, Mg. PorrLetonN objects to vigilantes and shotguns. Not quite thirty years ago this zood and venerable patriot be- Jonged to the Omaha eclaim club. That club was not, however, a band of citizens organized to put down road agents, horse thieves and outlaws, but a band of bigh- waymen organized to rob and plunder property owne! According to Captain Hanscom, who was in command of these pioneer vigilantes, Mr. Poppleton onee upon a time marched with a bayoneted musket on his shoulder to induce Bill Sweezy and Jim Chapman to hand over their title to the lots on which G. M. Hitchcock’s father-in-law has built a brick bloek on the corner of Capitol aye- nue and Sixteenth stre Claim clubs and muskets were all right, but shotguns and vigilantes arouse a holy horror in the soul of the grand old man who has drawn § + Credit Mobilier cornorations in salaries smece it loe in Omaha. Tue protracted illn; of Mr. Parnell led to reports that the grea i was suffering from incurable ailm and that his mind was seriously aflected. These statements alarmed the friends of Ircland everywhere, and the reassuring report that they are untrue will be widely welcomed. Those who have the best means of information say that Mr. Parnell inherited no vital disense, and that when the demand comes to him he will be found again at his post of duty. He has undoubtedly been a very sick man, but it is very much to be hoped that there is nothing more serious than the prostration due to excessive labor and the stramn of great anxiety. The loss of this distinguished leader might not be futal to the cause of Ireland. There are doubtless other men who could take it up and carry it forward to vietory. Being Justit must ultimately triumph. But there can be no question that the loss of Mr. Parnell would embarrass the caus and delay the consummation, and it would therefore be a circumstunce to be greatly deplored, Tue national senate seems determined to set the house a good example in the matter of putting the country in a con- dition for defense and preparing for a possible exigency, which recent events have shown may not be so remote as op- timists may imagine. Yesterday the joint measures appropriating $21,000,000 for ordnance and coast defenses were passed without a division, which demon- strates how strongly this matter has taken possession of the senatorial mind, Of course an adequate supply of guns and a thorough system of defenses will involve a much greater expenditure than this appropriation, but it will make a good beginning. It is very hkely, how- ever, that the house will increase the amount, there being now before that body a bill providing for the appropri tion of §20,000,000 for coast defenses alone. Having very thoroughly adver- tised to the world our weakness and noti- fied all mankind of our vulnerable point: the work of strengthening ourselyes can- not begin too soon. There ought to be no danger to this result from tho intru- sion of _ politics nto the question. The patriotism of every citizen should respond to the demand for the common defense. Mg, HENRY WATTERSON was present at the complimentary dinner given in Wash- ington last week to Senator-elect Hiscock So were Mr. Murat Halstead and Mr, Whitelaw Reid, Some time agoit was reported that these editors had a mutual understanding in the interest of Mr, Bluine, to whose supposed presidential aspirations Mr, Hiscock is understood to be most friendly. Subsequently Mr, Wat- terson declined to attend a banquet of a democratic club, giving as a reason therefor that he might feel compelled to say things which would not be agrecable 1o the ears of some so-called democrats. The hostility of Mr. Watterson to Mr. Cleveland he has repeatedly avowed. Yet he predicts the renomination of Cleveland. Putting these things together, what do they suggest? Perhaps they are meaningless, and yet when so strong a partisan as the Louisville editor eschews the companionship of his party friends and publicly afliliates with the opposition on a public oceasion that is sure to give prominence to lsaction, it is obvious that ie at least intends to thereby emphasize his displeasur Amlv\xmnaunf).lm:mduus puch a thing he may go much farther, dhese circumstances way have a more rital interest heroufter, SHE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY. FEBRUARY S, 1897, What Then? ONr of the conscquences of the defeat of the proposed charter for Omaha will be to compel Lineoln to come under the provisions of the old charter for Omaha, or to compel Omaha to continue its cor- porate existence and improvements under the charter proposed for Lincoln, or be utterly without any corporate ex- istence. Either of these results would be di ous. The proposed charter for Lincoln applies to all eities of more than twenty-five thousand and less than sixty thousand inbabitants, and being fr: evidently with reference to the repe the present act relating to cities of the first class by the proposed act for citi of the metropolitan class, contains, in itself, no repealing clause. The result of a failure to pass the act relating to cities of the metropolitan elass, and of the passage of the act proposes «d for Lincoln, would be two acts in force, both applica- ble to cities having a population upwards of twenty-five thousand. Shounld the courts hola that the present law relating to citics of the first class, which by 1ts express terms is avplicable to citios hav- ing more than twenty-five thousand in- habitants, would, by implication, be repealed by the new act intended for Lincoln, then Omaha would be obliged to come in under the provisions of such act, or would be utterly without corpor- ate existenco. On the other hand, should the courts nold that the act proposed for Lincoln was amendatory of the present act re- lating to cities of the tirst class, and by 1eason of not bemng in the form of an amendment, and repealing the present act would therefore be void, Lincoln would be obliged to come in under the provisions of the present char for Omaha, or remain a city of the second 188, The com plications presented by the de- feat of the new charter for Omaha, are of a serious character, and worthy of serious consideration by delegations from Douglas and Lunc counties, Comparative Railroad Earnings. The claim is made by the railroad man- agers through their organs that the tables compiled from Poor’s Manual and published in this paper are misleading and fictitious. At first they charged us with doctoring the figures to suit our al- leged purpose of raiding the railro: 'I'hh has since been moditied by a p! admission thav our figures we! act and correct as they appear in Poor's Manual, but were incorrect because in- complete. Now we are not responsible for the manner in which Mr. Poor makes up his figures, They are or where cited by railvoad people the standard authority on railway traflic, earnings and capitalization. The figures have published are given by the librarian of congress i his American Almanacs, which rank as the approved authorities on the subjects embodied therein, Admutting that Poor’s Manual on agaor arnings and traflic by states i te, we still haye very substantial proof in what cannot be puted by railroad managers, that Ne- braska and the region west of the Mis- souri has been enormou sreharged by railways for the business done. We will take as a basis the year 1885, whi is the latest year covered by Mr. Poor's statistical At the end of 1885, 2,937 miles of Neb: as and afloating debt of 5 Aganinst this we have 7,503 miles of railroad in Towa with stocks amounting to $4¢ 974, a bonded debt of $49,780,208 & lul Xlu:\lin"‘ debt of §6,512,87L. The cost of the 2,087 miles of Nobraska railroads, mlhoqmpnwnu is'quoted at §177,457,960- while the total cost of the 7,503 mi an the Iowa roads is only quoted at ! 081. Grant, if you please, that l]m trunk lines are not included in the Towamileage and thatthe Barlington sys- tem is not included in the Nebraska mile- age as quoted by Poor, the stabborn fact still stares us in the face that the people of Nebraska are compelled to pay interest and dividends on ove 200,600,000 of stocks and bonds representing less than 000 miles of road, while the people of Towa are only paying mterest and divi- dends on a capital of $105,000,000 for double the railroad mileage. The Ne- braska railroads including and excluding the Burhngton system are bonded for over $43,000 per mile, and their bonds and stocks together for trunk lines and branches exceed $65,000 per mile, when they could be built and equipped for less than one-fourth that amount. But we will drop Towa and take up Cal- ifornia, the worst monopoly ridden and oyer-taxed state in the union in the matter of rmlway tolls, The Central Pacific, Southern Pacifie, and all the minor roads are covered by the figures in Poor's manual for that state. ‘The Central and Southern Pacific earnings, if they include its entire lines, would be a fair offset for the Union Pacific if the Ne- braska figures include all its earnings, as is claimed by the railroad papers. In 1884 California mileago 1s quoted at 3,102 miles, a mere fraction above that of Nebraska, The total freight earnings of California railroads in that year aggregate $14,414,837 as agamst the total earnings from freight carriage by the Nebraska railroads of $12,274,828, In other words the great state of Califo) uin, with its billions of wealth in mineral and agricultural products, has paid only a fraction over 000,000 more to the railroads for freight traflic than Nebraska with the Burlicgton system left out, It is safe to say that the Burlington system has taken out of Nebraska over §1,000,000 in that period, wlich goes to show that the earnings of the railways were greater in Nebraska than they w in California, The net arnings of California railroads for 1884 were £9,5800, The not earnings of Nebraska for that year,excluding the B. & M., were 9,076, With the B. & M. included the net profits of Nebraska roads would doubtless have been several millions above, Now let traflic with that of as railway Nebr: In 1835 is quoted at 5,110 includes the Texas and all branch lines. The earn- ings of the 5,110 miles of Te. roads are Ziven as $1.076,938 from passengers and ;m 'I-J,um |rmn fr( '\. |-r.x~h-|, wuh us compare Te earnings lruul , from freight §13, ‘Texas railroads, with double -nut mile- age, earned a trifle less than the Ne uska roads exclusiwve of the Burlington 'y suggestive fact is that ail the railroads in New England which have in use 2,515 passenger cars, 93,458 freight cars, and 1,993 engines,with double track steel rail mileage of 6,404 miles, are only bonded for 186,606,813, which is only eight millions more than the Nebraska railroads without the B. & M. ‘hese facts and figures may not be in- tendeo for the public use, but can only be understood by railroad experts, as claimed by the corporation papers. We take the liberty, however, of giving them to the people as proof positive of the oppressiv tax levy to which they are subjected by reason of extortionate rates fixed to meet the require ments of ioterest on mon- strous bonded debts and dividends on watered stocks, The Printing Job. All the howl made by the railr organs about the so-called printing j the merest bosh. The following is the on of the new charter relative to the city advertising: o 1 at tho commence- ment of each ye: as soon thereafter as may be, shall designate some newspaper printed in the eity as the official paper of the city in which shall be publisihed all general ordinances and all notices or other proceedings required by law or ordinance to be published and it shall be the duty of the publisher of such paper, or the agent or hook- keeper of such paper, having knowledge of the fact to make and file with the city clerk an aflidayit attached to a copy of each publi- cation, showing the length.of time the samo was published, and such aflidavit shall be prima fac evidence of the taets stated thercin, and no elaim for such pub ication shall bo allowed by the comptroller without the filing of such copy and aflidavit. Before desivnating such ofi- cial paper the council shall invite and pro- enre proposals from publishers of daily news- paners. No bid shall be considered unless accompanied by a detailed exhibit of the city cireulation through carrier delivery, certified to under oath by the publisher or manager of per, said_statement of circuiation to cover a period of six months prior to the date of the bid, and in awarding the contract for aity advertising the relative cireulation of competing papers shall be duly considered. Provided, that no hicher rate shall be paid by the eity for its advertising than the lowest rate charged by the official paper to any vatron for like service during the period covered by its conty Threateming Manning. It is not pr iming anything ne that the administration of the t ury department under Mr. Manning has not been in all r ts satisfactory to a large number of gentlemen, mostly of his own party, in congres The general finanecial policy of the secretary, formed agreeably to the views that prevail in Wall street, and pursued in consonance therewith, when it was possible to do sp without a palpable evasion or violation of law, has more than onee ealled ont reproof from leading democrats in both houses of congress. It has been vigor- ously assailed in the senate by Mr. Beck and Mr. Vance, who had the concurrence of other als in that body, while rdly a score of demoerats in the house approve it. ‘There i< perhaps no instance in the history of the government of a of the treasury being so widely nee with his party in congress as Manning has been regarding the of condueting the financial opera- of the government. On this account, it can hardiy he unfortunate for the lLininistration, certainly not so the harmony of its part that Mr. Manning will re tire from the treasury, since his suc- cessor, whoever he may be, could not be more obstinate than he has been 1n opposing the financial views of the m jority of the party, wkhile there 1s gi probability that a new man would s the expediency, in the interest of har- mony, of conforming his policy lo the views ol the party, rather than of main- tainine a hopeless conflict with them. The chief cause of the issue between Mr. Manni nd his is the |1|1|\I wble hostility of the se y to sily e cardinal fact in his publie curcer is his warfare upon this currency. The latest chy is that in furtherance of this hostility he has violated the 1 Some two we ago the house of repre- sentatives adopted a resolution asking the seeretary of the treasury to inform congress how many one and two dollar notes have been eanceled and destroyed since the passage of the act of August 24, 1836, and whether notes of like demomi- nation were issued in their stead. 1n his reply, submitted last week, the sceretary seems to successfully dispose of the eharge that he has yiolated any law, but he has also made it apparent thav he has not been especially zealous in promoting the in- tent of the last legislation of congress, which was to strengthen the position of silver in the currency by replacing the one and two dollar legal tender notes with similar denominations of silver cer- titicates, There is in the failure of the secretary to give the legis- lation of congress in the interest of silver its broadest possible effect certainly no ground for impeachment proceedings, as Washington dispatches haye said were proposed, and of course under existing conditions, with the resignation of Mr. Manning in the hands of the president, such a movement would be absurd. It may, however, be sufliciant reason for congratulation upon the early retirement of Mr, Manning from the treasury, and there can be no doubt that this feeling is very lurgely entertained. Meanwhile, it is promised that this matter will bave some further airing in congress, probably during the present week for To Tug people of this country the is- sue between the imperial government and the parhament in the electoral con- test now going on in. Germany is a strange one enough, In no government i which free prineiples exist, could such an issue possibly arise. The members of the majority in parliament have declared their willingness to vote every man and every dollar asked for the army estimates, but they are not willing to make an ap- propriation for a longer term than three years. In most governments the appro- priations are for one year. At the end of the three years, the parliamentary party says it could then reduce the burdens ot war expenditures if no danger should exist. But Bismarck and the imperial party, which he leads, insist on an ap- propriation for seven years, and will take nothing else. On this 1ssue the two par- ties have appealed to the country, The danger of a war with France is the red rag which the bloody-shirt party is flaunt- ing before the German people. If Bis- marck were sincerely desirous of peace with France he has only to propose to @ disbandment of Lalf the armies of both countries. - Republican France would gladly embrace such an opportunity for reducing her heavy military expendi- tures. Germany is the only nation in Eu- rope which France has reason to fear. But Bismarck has no desire to reduce the German standing nrmy. The threat of war with France is an electoral campaign ery. The army is the imperial instrament to keep 1n awe the German peonle when they grumble over their burdens, and this fact accounts for the obstinacy with which Bismarck insists on the seven years' appropriation. e e Tue act ot congress incorporating the Union Pacific Railroad company ex- pressly provides that the rates of trans- portation for the government “‘shall not exceed the amount paid by private per- sons for the same kind of servico.” The same provision exists in the charters of all other Pacific railroad companies, As these corporations have taken advantaze of the governmentin overy other rospect in which they could evade their obligs tions, no surprise will be oceasioned by their violation of this provision The Washington correspondont of the New York World shows, from the ofi port of the Union Pacific Railrond com- \v for 1835, that this corpor persistently and habitually ch government in charges for t tion of troop In the six 1880 to 1885 inclusive, the av for transportation to the government was from 40 to 50 per cent. above the rate ver mile to private persons. Investi, tion would doubtiess show that this pra ice had been going on for a much longer »d. But the Pacilie raitroad attor- who practice in the senate of the United States do not want any investi ion of the aflairs of their clients. WieN Con Gallagher was in the legis- Jature some years ago he went there pledged in theinterest of the taxy and laboring men. e turned a somer- sault into the Iroad eamp, betrayed the men who clected him and worked winst the public interest and with the monopolies. Now he is trying to get the Douglas delegation to follow his disrepu- table exampl His conduct as chair- man ofthe citizens meeting, was simply infamous. 1tisso pronounced by men who eame *here to oppose the charter on various grounds which had been mis represented to them. Some of these gen- tlemen are closely allied with railroads and very friendly to them, but they were shocked at the villainous tactics of Galla- gher and the empt of the railroad press gang to suppress honest and cussion and shout down men who were trying to speak in behalf of the people. It is just such work t has embittered the people of Omaha 'l methods. Tobody iowa this botter than iallagher, that the people of Omaha ask thems now is whether ving contractors shall dictate the or have it mutilated to suit them- Is it in the interests of the tax- payers that Con Gal ner Murphy are fighting side by side against the chartery Isit in the interest of the workin, whose littie houses and furnitur v benefit? ated the wsporti- from neless Tie question Covnern Bru real estate boom, that Omaha's her lively the lesson a lurge has learned prosperity is in Y. sense her own, This is what the Ber has been urging for vear: The two eities are (0o closely allied by mutual interests to be anything but warm co-labore friends. Isane Barnes, an cceentric Bostonian, was urged by his Baptist wife to subscribe fo new ehurch, He agrecd to subscribe $5, on condition that baptisms should take place in hot water. A New York man some time ago invested S1%,000 1 fon and coal ventures in Ala- bama., Dissatisiied with what he afterward thonght a wildeat venture, he =ave it to his who is now drawing 520,000 & montn on all Miss Matilda Johnson London 116 years old. ) her intended husband died sud made a will giving her entire tortune to he Military hospital and dirccting that “Love Killed Her” should be engraved on her tombstone, A man belonging fo a band of ice-cutters at work near A 0 1L, et out a bloek of ice on three s and then laid o saw on it, remarkin “Some fool will 2o to pick up that saw, and in he'll go.”” For- getting his trick a few minutes later he him- self stepped on the ice-cake and went down in seven feet of water, Misg Clara Doane, of Harwichport, Cape Gud, colevrated licr hinety-ifth birthday the h inst, She received ler cuests with an old ceo pipe in her mouth and smoked throughout her reesption. She said to one of her horrified lady caliers: —“I've been a smokin’ now nign on to eighty years, and if there's anything that's kept me alive all 0." Let the anti-to- ) ernsaders make a note of this, the howling evangelist of tly trying to oufdo Sawm ln a late l\llt'gml sermon he ridieuled ea of purgatory, and ssid the unregen- erate wan wouldn's’ be comfortable in hei- ven. ‘I'he first thing a business man would want would be a chisel, 50 that he might dig up the gold from the strects, — The first thing adrunkard would waut would be adrink He wouid the angel for it, ana when he found there were no barrooms fie would eo back to Denver immediately ladies when they got tl they wear thew | time? Whieh wa the way out.” has just mm! in Wa T come'y Blankety-Blank, Chicago Times, Jay Gould’s wroubles with his blanket mortgages have naturally caused himto in- in a blankety-blank sort of feeling ard judges and courts, San Senator Riddiebe reatens to resizn because folks don’t invite him to dine. We are sure the error will be corrected, Mr. Riddieberger should have let it be known that he eats. 1is talents were supposed to be responsive to invitations to drink. - - Society News From the Capital, Washington Crilic, A life-preserver is useful when you get into the swim. R 8. V, P, stands for victuals presently.” P. I C. means fectionery.” - - Whar High License Will Do, St. Paul Pioneer Pre 1ts complete enforcement in St. Paul will probably reduce the number of saloons, now about 700, at least f, and possibly two- thirds, If it reduced the number one-half, this would put $350,000 annually into the ci treasury—five times the sum now collected from liquor licenses —a sum sufticient to pay all the annual interest on our city debt and to build ten or twelve public sclicol buildings annually besides. L would euable the iy “Recelve some “Ple, pickles and con- :o adorn {tself with a maguificent system of blic parks. Accumulated for three years ll would build two briages over hall a mile long and 100 feet high across the Mississippl, Accamulated for twelve years it would wips out the city debt. Considered from a_purely financial standpoint, its benefits to the city would be simply incaley - An Ungallant W Kaneas City Times, It is amusing to read that Grace Haw- thorne has succeeded in securing the lease of the Princess theatre to the exclusion ot Wil- son Barrett. Miss Hawthorne has no metro- politan reputation, although she was consid- ered a fair actress in Kansas along the line of llr'fl Harvey's eating houses. If England ‘Il throw her in with the next codfish treaty. - A Winter Twilight. Clinton S lard in Brooklyn Magazine. The silent snowi(lakes glance and gloam Adown the ehilly northern air; The west has thrown its dying beam Athwart the forest gray and bar And now a eradual dimness veils The wintry landscape near and far, And while the windy daylight pales Out glimmers clear a sinzle star. Lalled by the sound of tinkling strin s Where nimble fingers weave their speil T quite forgot the North that stings W ithout the cosey oriel, And on the wings of music borne, Aglow with floods of wold, 1 sea The blueof skies that rarely mourn Archio'er the slopes of Italy, The melody seems wafted down I'rom lanrel heights whe yses blow, That shimmer like an emerald crown Above embowered Bellagio. A motten sapphire Como lies, And opal sails across it skiin Green sGir on stair the moiintains rise Aud eut the calm horizon’s rimn. Alldims as dias the rapturing strain “Once more the deepening dusk 1 sees q the silent ehords again, dream of Ttaly 1 IRITORY, Nebraska o 0. Burke has purel est in the Beatrice lh moc he taxes of the lnmn Pacific in 1o county amounted to §21,000. here ar Baptists in the s and 5,652 enrolled in the Sunday sc Iumh The Daily Refleetor, published by George Gurd, has made its appearance in Falls City, Lee Gulky was the fi vietim son disease on the Rulo bridge. He sent to Omana for treatment. he grading on the Grand Island ex- m of the B. & M. is completed to nn tive miles of the Wyoming line. idney has received assurances that ny will build s and commodious depot there next sum- half inter- of the “ullerton ‘‘the history » indieations at the spring will uzher in lin the are th healthiest of the town." The Cheyenne County published hy C. F tson at Potter, 15 out. It will advoeate publican weiples in words of 1 nes: Georze Plumme the drop or Journal, \o 4 ings, ot ck rabbits, e entered T'he ene acer corp of the Union Pacifie that has made a sorvey irom \u| olk to RO G 0L SRntonvIhey twil Bruniin line from Stanton, which” is the first ation below Norfolk, to Covington, king a more southerly line than on the day evening, nto the ditch and dragged several rods before n_come toastop. Carsten eseaped with slight bruis n on the B, 3 eanght e ngeronsly !v|rl|~ul while 1'u|1|lln|" cars at La Plate y. He s forty-four of unmarried, and has a brotuer in . His skull was fractured at the of the brain and Dr., Livingston s hie cannot recover. Hastings boasts of a_man who perpe- ated e act of self-sacrifice” in ssing the wife of his younger ) aptured, married and lives happily with another man. She thonght he had been dead for years, buf, Enoch Arden-like, he turned up grey- hiaired and pensiy Itis presumed hoe peepe irough the side window, saw young and lively links of bial bliss inside, wiped away b y and ation (it was summer), and d the town before giving the snap ska City Press reporter he thed from the records of the state d commission the following fig- “Nebraska City received from hin the state 10,105.14 tons of Jive stock. Omaha and Sonth Omaha to- ther got from the B, & M. 10,900.14 tons, Lincoln’s sh was only a few hundred tons, I'he total number of tons of freight forwarded from \ulu.nlm( ity to points in the ‘The total numbaer rec J he re- ceipts were a litile more than a third of ‘Omaha's during the same’ period from the same_road. 'lullnnmulh for- warded 2 .88 tons aud received 7,153.87 tons. Beatrice's forwardings were large, accounted for by her lack of home manu* f ies, 10,881.64; but her reccipts were 21,24 tons, about a seventh of Ne- City's. Hastings forwarded by M. 4,045, and received points w brask Towa It county h treasury. 'lln-| «nl“u(-u of C. P, l(in": in wood, i by fire Kriday Ida unml\ had §18,8 in its treasury atter the January settlement, well at Belle Plaine flows on as e contractor having failed to Glen- are 030 patients 1n the insane U Mt Ple it, and 751 at Inde- pendenc It is estimated that lost over $10,000 by hog lust year, The Woman's Relief corps of the de- p:xrlun nt of ln\\u had sixty-four organi 4 a total xpended in enarity during the ropre- and turned over to G, AL R. posts $106.4 The total number of families assisted wa s number of soldiers and members of the tamlies assisted, 516 The total number of discharges during the year was 215; total gain, 1,417, Mahask: chole in county the Dakota, Snow is two feet deep on the level in Campbell county. Weasels are thick in Sioux fattening on chicke Last week”. » coach from Dead wood coutuined $140,000, The German Catholics of Yankton are planning to build a church, A four-months-old town is Delors um, a few miles north of Bottinean, It has over 100 houses, seven stores, four hotels and six stables. McLean county is agitating the 1dea of funding its outstanding indebtedness by the issuance of bonds at 4j to 5 per interest. Its outstanding debt wmounts to §15,000. 8. R. Brown leaves in a day or two for Los Ange! Cal., where Le gxpects to spend a few wonths falls and - cent | KEEP 1T BEFORE THE PEOPLE Extortions of the Railroads--Sixty Millions Wrang From Nebraska in Ikree Years, CHARTERED HIGHWAY ROBBERY. lowa, With Double Mileage and Twice the Population, Has Paid Los Than Twenty Millions in the Same Period, The people of Nebraska do not realize to what monstrous extortions and oppres- vo tolls they have been subjected by grasping railway corporations. 1t is only by a careful compilation of the facts and figures furnished by the railroad manuals that we can form a correct esti mate of the enormities which the people of this state have patiently borne for years. We doubt if the railroad manag- ers themselves have any idea to what ex tent they have pillaged the producoers and shippers. The standard work on American railway statistics is Poor's Manual, made up from oflicial returns from the railroad oflicers themselves, angl will theretore not be called in Guestion by railroad men. ‘T'he followin From Poor” following turns oxhibit speaks for itself: Manual we compile the acts concerning railroad re- FOR THE YEAR 8¢ Nebrask tal mileage, capital, $66,040,400; funded debt, 814,885; total investmant, $208 cost of road and equipment, $109,9 carnings—passengers, §4,6¢ |~l fr-vwm« £14,414,208; from all fourc net earnings, $10,764,66; dividend on stock, onl mlh- 20, .!,l!ll; 3 funded debt tmont, $116,802,035 costs of nd m]\n]um nts, *]nvvll‘,l,‘.l‘ltl, earh- lrvlzhh 430: 2,481 &lvln- unm-q ] $1,262, 1881, "ot || mileage, 248 ; funded do ebt, § Sl' freight 5,100,646; L A Total mileage ,000; funded I:mllul' debt, westment SURE THING! That Goal Has Been Dis covered in Omaha There The most skeptical are ready can now be no doubt to admit that such is the case and the future of Omaha it solved beyond a doubt. Man ufacturing of all kinds will be in full force within one year i [ Packing houses will spring uj like magic in South Omaha In fact we can not hold Omaha down. Now is the time to buy Do not v it, as property ix ad are passengers,§4 4" wrnings from mileage, ; ; funded m»m ; floating ‘debt, $6,542.8 vestment, £105,6 05t n{ railroads \ml equipments, *u,,muul earnings— $1,337,74. ights, ings from al net'carnings, §1,698,418, SUMMARY FOR THREE YE. —Passengor earnings, $18,- 16,100, LII!HIIL\ 5,444, freight, g‘ irees, $17,036,194; net earnings, £5,173,- - KEPT HER POST. A DBrave Sailor Lass Meots Death With Spartan Heroism. 1to the New York World, Jan- uary 15, trom Victoria, B. C., says: The sealing schooner Maggie Darling went ashose on Pebaloff’ island last Monday ight. A fierce storm was raging at the time, and when the wreek was boarded xt morning her captain, who w an young woman, was found dend at the wheel, to which she had clung till the The mname of this heroine was McDonald, and the story of her S 4 curious one, ptain MeDonald, Calin's spent all his life i the seal industr, was the owner of tie M'l;_'v'u- Dinrling, nd seventeen years ago in was born 1 the schooner’s snug lmh eabin, Four s later, it is said, Mrs. McDo: cloped with a government agent and nothimg mor ard of her. Calin, therefore, sy rest of her life on with her father, her ot the world outside its wood- consisting only of what she ef visits 10 the shores She was —bright, thorough A spe of the s Ve ns aman. n was \)u. with a full knowledge igation, and she stood her watch regularly with the rest of the erew, con- sisting of two men. About six months ago ptain McDonald died and Calin took command of the schooner. She pursued the seal industry with an enthu- siasm that surprised eyei the old hunte and the sailors obeyed her with alacrity. ale was raging last Monday night, y seas mado rough w the schooner. With difliculty she yul about and headed for P The seas ran higher and higher, night came on, H. Jackson, one ui the sailors, was washed overboard, Calin stood lumly at tho wheel, while Hine, the only remaiming sailor, tried vainly to ep control of the sails, — About mid- night, iu spite of the endcavors of tho hipleks pair, the schooner was blown on a reef and firmly wnl"o(l At the mo. ment, the mainmast went by the board, and Hine was carried into the sea by the wreckage, He succeeded, however, mn reaching the shore, after hours of expos- ure in the freezing waters. When morn ing broke the wreck was sighted and o boat's crew put ofi to save the skipper, As they approached the wreck it wasno- Toal hal thG orAmaes A Tallen a0 lny deck 1 the aled Joud lin, but , and it w red that en washed overboard, v volunteered to board the d with difliculty they suceecded, only (o find the form of Calin hanging over the wheel, erushed to death, The body of the girl-captain was taken on shore as caretully as the eircumstances would permit, and the old salts mourned a brave lass, and as ul Parson. “A country par son,” in eucountering a storm the past season in the vovage across the Atlantie, was reminded of the followin ymen was so unfortunate as to asevere gale in the voyage . 2 water was excecdingly rough, and the ship persistently buried her n a. The rolling was cons! and at last the good man got terribly Tul ved they were des He ave. He askod captain if ho e prayers, T captain took him by the arm and led hun down to the foreeastl where the tars were singing sud swe “There,” d he, *'when you hear swearing you may know there is no ¢ r.M “ He went bank feeling bett but the storm increased his alarm. Disconsos Juted and unas od to sty The ancient mariners vio as over. “Mary," he am.’ as he crawled into his borth, 16 his sympatiictic wife, after taek ing aeross a wet deck—“Mary, thauk Go! they are swearing yet." Happers A tined rancing every day, and you loosing money every day you wait. WE HAVE SOME ice Bargains SOUTH OMAHA. ton Place TAKES THE LEAD. Everybody is rushing for lots in this addition on account of its location. Be sure and look at this before buying elsewhere. Fi addition, Lipton Place, come, first gerved, is our motto. We Have Bargains in All Parts of Town In improved and unimproved property. Carriages at the door at all times to take you out. Call and sce D, R, Archer AND C. H. Sobotker ROON 9, REDICK BLOCK CB-STAIRS, Y