Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 10, 1887, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERME OF SUBSCUPTION : Dafly (Morniag Bdition) including Sunday Brp, Ono \car eaveves For 8ix Month« veevae vers For Threa Months seirs G Tha Omah Swaday Tiee, mafied to any address, One ¥ var. vevenviveene $10 01 50 250 200 ATA OPPICE, NO. 14 AND 81 FARNAM STREFL Bw YORK OFFICE, ROOM @, TRIBUNE BUILDING, ABHINGTON OFFI FOURTEENTH STREET. CORRESPONDENC All communications relating to nows and edi. torial matter should beduddressed 1o the Ebl- TOR OF THE BEF. BUSINESS LETTRRSE ATl bueiness letters and remittances ¢hould b addressed 10 THE BE® PUBLISHING COMPANY. OMAHA. Drafts, chocks and oo orders 10 be made payable to the order of the eompany, THE BEE PUBLISKING COMPARY, PROPRIETORS, . ROSEWATER, Enirc THE DAILY BEE, Bworn Statement of Circulation. State of Nebraska, 1. o County of Douglas, | ° Geo, B, Tuscliuck, secretary of The Iee ublishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circuiation of the Daily Bee for the week ending Feb. 4th, 1557, wus as Tuesday, Fe Wednesday Thursday, Iel Friday, Keb. 4, Average Subscribed_and sworn to In my_presence this 3l day of Febriiary A. D, 157, . P. FEIT, ISEALI Notary Publie. Geo. B, Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, leposes and says that he is secrotary of The Bee Publishineg company, that the actual av- erage daily circulation of the Daily Bee for the month of Fubruary, 1889, was 10,505 copies; for March, 1856, 11,597 copies; for April, 1886, 12,191 copies: for for May, 1856, 12, 2,4 B14 copies: for August, 1856, 19,464 pies:for September, 1856, Oectober, 1856, 12,080 copies; for November, 1850, 13,348 conics; for December, 1886, 18,237 copies for January, 1887 16,200 copies. GEQ. B, TZ8CHUCK. Subscribed and sworn 1o before me this Sth day of February A. D. 1857, SEAL.| P, Frir., Not 13,050 copiess for Tubli Tuey may have spectral horses in S Louis, but it may be safely remarked that Chicago spooks carry sandbags. Ir Jesse James is in Arizona and Brig- bam Young in Lincoln, their departed friends are to be congratulated. AN Ed. Karns is in the Wisconsin legis- lature. A sigh of relief follows when we see that he spells his name with a “K.” ANOTI hip will soon be placed in ournavy. When it is completed, figuring from the present basis, the United States will then have two navi WiTHIN the next six months street car fare in New York will be reduced to 8 cents, and by the Fourth of July Omaha's street cars will be heated. THERE 18 talk of an extra session of the Jegislature. A constitutional convention bill will also be introduced. And the woods are a great ways from Lincoln. AMoNG the crowd of men always erying for the dear old flag and a dearer appro- priation, Bob Furnas extends an itching palm, and modestly asks for five thousand dollars, Tue Missouri legislatare is scriously considering a bill which proposes to do away with bucket shops. Colonel James seems to have a civilizing influence over the people of his native state. HENRY WARD BEECHER says winter is the cheeriest season of the year., Mr. Beecher is probably hedging, and trying to induce himself to believe that all the seasons will be winter bye and bye. WueN the Nebraska legislature ad- journs the members go to the bosom of their families. In Missouri both houses take their recess in hunting coons. And it is said that it is almost impossible to get a quorum as long us there 15 a cocn track in sight. T ambitious Henry Watterson says “Secretary Bayard lives in a peach-blow vase a thousand miles beyond the moon.” While Mr. Watterson lives in Kentucky with nothing resembling the sccretary’s castle, except, alas! a jug or two contain- ing peach-blow tin Ir is stated and not denied, ‘‘that Miss Rose Cleveland will soon marry a young olergyman.” Itis generally the case that the clergyman does the marrying. But since reading that poem we sec that Sister Rose possesses many attainments, She may be a justice of the peace, E— WueN Frank James paid the freight on a box of goode, the other day, from MeCook, Neb,, to Independence, Mo., he immediately appeared before a justice of the peace and with tears in his eyes solemnly swore that he never before knew what train robbery meant. NorruwesterN Nebraska is preparing for a spring boom of unparalleled dimen- sions, Reports from the most western counties are filled with news of a coming rush of settlers into that section, which five years ago was without permanent residents, Thousunds of acres of good Jand now unclaimed wiil be occupied before summer sets in by immigrants from the cast anxious to secure a free home betore the government lands are exhuusted, —ee P Rouse has passed the bill providing for the election of register of deeds in counties having 18,000 population. The vote given was decisive of the necessity which is generally felt that the dut of county clerk and recorder be separated. In Douglas county and in geveral. other counties in the state the clerk has all that he can properly do in attending to the legitimate work coming from the county commissioners’ room. The work of ro- cording the flood of instruments which pours in upon his office « be largely hauvded over to the supervision of his deputies. The bill as pussed is free from the ob- jectionuble features of those proposed at other sessions. It makes the register a salaried ofticer and nov dependent upon | the fees. There is asaving to the county by this change of fully §15,000 a year. When the law goes into effect it is to be " hoped that instruments .will be more promptly put on record than it seems | possivle now to do under the ‘rush and burry whioh prevails in our present over- worked county clerk’s office. | comy | man e | lie, ' tor June, 1856, 12,208 coples: for July, | ey | negro bully. INFAMOUS, In the sixteen years since 1 have been editor of the Bee I have been through many personal and political conflicts; 1 have had my office burned down-over my head by a hired incendiary, have been assaulted by bullies and rowdies several times, and lampooned, villified and slandered by imbecile and envious But never has warfare been waged against me and this paper more maliciously, and never has there been such a desperate and disreput- able effort made to mislead the public with regard to my motives and conduct as that which the confeder- ated Omaha dailies are making in con- neetion with the new charter. It is simply infamous. A gang of dissipated adventurers, who for the time being have editorial charge of these papers, have banded themselves together with the job- titors. bers and railroad lobby at Lincoln to de- | feat the Omaha charter by means and methods which no decent and honorable n sanction or justify. At the out- s the charter was under discus; Omaha and the various provisions were given to the pub- they bad mo fault to find. When the committee of fiftecen had fin- ished their work, they commended it. When the delegation had made cer- tain changes they suddenly discovered that the whole charter was rotten to the core, honeycombed with jobbery and purposely drafted to advance my per- sonal interests. From that day on, not content with siandering me, they have heaped upon the Douglas county delega- tion the vilest and most uncalled for abuse, Senator Lininger, the head of the delegation, who enjoys the highest respeet and confidence of this community and state, was wantonly denounced as a mere brainless tool and an unpriceipled rogue. Senator Tzschuck, who has been secretary of state for four years and whose reputation for integrity and honor has never before been questioned, has been lampooned and belittled as a mere dummy. And the remainder of the delgation,who have maintained their honor against the most persistent pressure, have been dragged through the mire and hounded from day to day, because they had agreed to stand as a unit in support of the charter. But more infamous and disgraceful yet has been the course pursued by these sporting cditors i deliberately falsifying every provision of the charter for the purpose of creating prejudice among the people of Omaha and misleading the legislature. I will only cite a few of the many glaring false- hoods which have emanated from thes editorinl bushwhackers within the past ten days. They charged that nobody could be a councilman in Omaha unless he owned real estate worth $2,000. They have been proven liars on that point. They charged that the board of public works wonld have the city by the throat, and no im- provement could be made without their sanction, It was shown that this was equally untrue, and that the mayor and council, as they have always had, had the final veto power at all voints. They insisted that the charter was a raid on the water works company. They dropped this when it was shown that the clause was inserted for the benefit of the water company and at their re- quest. They have charged that the charter will give the councilmen and city officers an opporunity to enrich themselves by being interested in contracts. Section 171 of the charter pro- hibits any councilman, city oflicer or em- ploye from becoming directly or indi- rectly interested in any contract bid or letting nader penalty of removal, apris- onment and fine, They have charged that the printing clause would put $10,000 or $50,000 into the treasury of the BrE, Judge Savage, who is as impartial as any man in the city and who represented the opposition to the charter at Lincoln, publicly declared before the delega- tion that the provision on print- ing was as fair as anything could be. It does not award the printing to the paper with the largest circulation, but leaves the council to take into considera- tion the relative circulutions in awarding the bids. Instead of costing $30,000 the printing will cost less than one-tenth of that amount, and I have publicly, in case the Beg receives the award, guaran- teed to do the work for #5000 a year for the next two years. We get more than that from a number ot leading merchants at prices fifty per cent higher than the city will be obliged to pay. So much for the “‘prinung steal which 15 to enrich me.” And now these cut-throat journalists, devoid of all shame and decency, have the auducity to charge that the cowm- promise cffected between the Douglas delegation and representative business men of Omaha who came to Lincoln for the purpose of saving the charter was a corrupt © compact between myself and the railroads. This absurd story was concocted on Tuesday night at the Capitol hotel by the notori- ous Paul Vandervoort, who ten years ago narrowly escaped the pewmtentiury for inciting a murderous assault on me by a It so happened t on Tuesday night [ oceupied room 16 at the Capitol hotel, which joins directly with one of the rooms which the railroad lobby makes use of for their nightly orgies. Every word spoken was dis- tinetly heard in my room. It was then and there agreed, after the compromise had been announced, that this would be used as & voomerang against mo and thiat a jont effort should be made all along the line to wake it ap- pear that I had surrendered railroad tax- ation wod sold out the taxpayers in my set, whi sion at own interest. “This.” the gentle Paul Vandervoort declared wonld “‘breax Rosewater's neck with the working peo- pie who attended the rally last Satur- day.” I am therefore not atall surprised at the great stress which is laid by all the wrecked and readerless rivals of the Ber upon this outrageous compact of myself with millionaires and monopolies. ‘The truth and the whole truth about the compromise isthis: Theoutrageouslying about the charter, provisions, coupled with the pressure from the railroad lobby and the Omaha paving and street clean- ing gang, had delaged the bill and made its passage by a two-thirds vote in the o doubtful—=in spite of Saturday mass meoting and the monster petition of Omaha taxpayers and business men, At this critical juncture a delegation of heavy business men, headed by Henry W. Yates, C. W. Hamilton, P. E. Ller, W. V. Morse, and Ben Gallagher, came down to Lincoln with Judge Savage spokesman, to urge a com- At their invitation the Douglas tion was called together,and Judge vage appealed to them on behalf of our ty against antagonizing the railroad interest too much. He called altention to the fact that the union depot was about to be built, the Iowa roads to cross the river, and several im- portant railroad connections were on the point of being secured for Omaha. While admitting the rghteousness he doubted the wisdom at present of push- ing n sweeping eity taxation oclause which might be used against us by rival towns. He called for a comparison of views by the delegation as to what was the real meaning of Mr, Connell’s pro- viso. A majority of the delegation de- clared that they understood when they voted for 1t that it meant to tax the real estate of railroads, excepting the road bed or right of way occupied by tracks. Judge Savage and the other representatives assured tho delegation that they also wero in favor of taxing all lots owned by rail- roads that were not actaally occupied and used for railroad purposes. Upon this basis, namely, that in the future city taxes should be paid by railroads for all 1ds oceupied.by elevators, warehouses, coal and lumber yards, smelting works, ete., whether inside or outside of the right of way, Judge Savage drew up an amend- ment to the railroad tax section in the charter. The delegation, excepting Sena- tors Lininger and Tzschuck who had gone home, agreed to the change solely to save the charter, and they also agreed to stand as a unit and to oppose all further amendments at all hazards as a matter of safety to the charter. [ had no vote upon this question and, while I regret the concession, regarded 1t as an important advantage gained in the mat- ter of taxation and the best way out of the deadlock. The editors of the oppos- ing paperswere present. They heard the discussion and took partinit. Notone word did they say against the compro- mi But now these coparceners ofs tha paving and sweeping contractors, who attempted to throttle free dis the eharter meeting on Saturday, char me with betraying the people. Su shameless hypocrisy is without a pars in this state. Ltis a defiance of all the decencies of honorable journalism and comes with decidedly bad grace from men who have searcely lived long enongh in tho city to know the names of the principal streets. Fair minded men will not coun! nce such work. 1. ROSEWATER. promise. dele Are cy Endorsed? Senator - Caspar has gathered a largo collection of statistics relating to Ne- braska railroads. They are full, inter- esting and instructive and are used as a s for an excellent argument for the ailroad regulation demanded by the people of the state. But where did Mr, Caspar socure his figures? Have they been endorsed as correct by the railroad organs and secured the seal of approval from the offices of ge I man rs? Is he certain that they include every item which is tabulated in freight aunditors oflices, concealed under the ‘*‘slush fund” account or adroitly incorporated under headings not intended for public consumption? These are vital questions. On their answer must depend the value of his figures. Recognized aunthorities have no weight with Nebraska railroad managers if their tables furnish an argu- ment against the extortionate imposts under which the people of this state are An industry which collates and an energy which compiles are “‘malice’’ and ignorance if the result is an arraignment of corporate abuses. No figures which do not lie on the railroad side will be permitted to go unchallenged during a session of the Nebraska logisla- ture. The railroads hire statisticians by the year. They do not propose to permit their province to be invaded. That Printing Steal, 1here is one section of the city charter, and one only, which lies at the bottom of the opposition of the Omaha press to that much needed reform measure, That is the section relating to the city adver- tising, The business proposition that papers bidding tor the city's advertising shall accompany their bids with a sworn statement of circulation sends cold chills of horror down the backs of the Brg's envious comemporaries. They insist that such a rogulation would bar them out of the competition because they dare not expose to the public the wretehed pretenses under which for yoars they have been” attempting to gull advertisers and readers. When reputable papers throughout the country are voluntarily printing day by day their circulation statistics in order that patrons may kuow whether they are get- ting tho worth of their money, this pro- viso eannot be denounced as unfair or unusual. The city is as much entitled to the knowledge of newspaper values as advertising mediums as the mearchunt to a knowledge of the values of the goous he 15 purchasing. As a matter of fact, however, the charter proviso on printing does not require that the city advertising be given to the paper having the largest circulation without regard to the price charged. It requires only that circula- tion shall be duly considered. It proteets the eity still further by insisting that the paper securing the city advertising shall not charge the city a higher price than the lowest rock-bottom price charged to any of its patrons. Nothing could be fairer or more liberal to competitors or more carefully watchful of the interests of the eity treasury, ‘The wmilk in the precious eocoanut of the opposition of certain editors to ehar- ter retorm was fully exposed when the claim was made that such a provision would take the city advertising out of the list of party perquisites and put it on the level of business competition. 1In the eyes of honest men this will not be considered a grave objection. Randall to Carlisle. When we referred yesterday to the cor- respondence between Mr. Randall and Speaker Carlisle, representing the divis- 1ons of the democrats in congress on the question of revenue reduction, the pected letter of the former in response to the communication of the latter had not appeared. It has now been made pub- lie, Mr. Carlisle stated for himself and his followers that the revenue measure framed by Mr. Randall would not be ac- ceptable to them without certain changes and modifications which were su ted. He proposed two methods of testing the opinion of the democrats of the house on the bill, one to submit it to a caucus, all parties to be bound by its action, and an- other to go into committee of the whole. As anticipated, ncither of these prop- ositions was favorably regarded by Mr. Randall. He could see no necessity for a caucus in this case when it was not re- quired to deal with other important sub- jects, as the silver and pension questions. he bill in question provides for the re- peal of the tobacco tax, and Mr. Randall desired to get this proposition before the house by a suspension of the rules, The plan was not favored by the speaker and failed. The letter of Mr. Randaall eXPresses regret that the speaker could not see his way clear to allow this plan to carry, talks of the grave responsibility of opposing the desire of two-thirds of the house, asserts that the country is watching with intense interest the action of the house on this subject, and aflects solicitude for the “oppressed taxpayers” who would be re- lieved. of taxation to the amount of $28,000,000 1f the tobacco tax were re- pealed. Never bas Mr. Randall more com- pletely shown the shallowness and hypocrasy of his professed desire to re- leve the people of burdensome taxation than in the present instance, and so nearly confessed himself driven to the wall in the effors to find a convenient subterfuge by which to obstruct and de- feat the effort to secure a needed revision of the tarift for the reduction of revenne. Every sentence of his letter to Carlisle denotes conscious weukness and reveals palpable insincerity, Defeated ata dis- honest game, with the instinct of a trickster he seeks to divertattention from himself by charging responsibility on another. He will not succeed. All - telligent men, protectionists as well as revenue reformers, understand the trick he sought to play and its pur- pose. know that his scheme is from t to last a mockery of the urgent demand of the people to be re- lieved of umnecessary and oppressive taxation. A repeal of the tobacco tax would reduce the revenue, but it would give no relief to the people. As Mr. Manning correctly said in his annual re- port: “Nobody pays a tax on tobacco except the consumers of tobacco. They are willing to pay for the luxury,and ask norelief.”” The abandonment of this tax would probably not make a difference of adollara year to the largest consnmer of tobacco. But the loss of the revenue from this source would help to fortify Mr. Randall and his protectionist follow- ersin their hostility to a reduction of tarifft duties, from which the people would obtain relief, and it is sol this end in view that their efforts are directed, The country is to be congrat- nlated upon the fact that they have been foiled, and that their failure has served to bring out more clearly and unmistakably the hypoerisy of their professions, KINGS AND QUEKENS, The Emperor Willlam has changed his habits, and now sleeps lua warm room and takes food every two hours, Prince Albert Victur of Wales has com- pleted his tweniy-third year, but is still one st known members of the royal Idom appears in public. ‘The baby king of Spain, says the London Graphic, is a fine, handsome child, who en- .joys robust health, and does credit to the im- mense amount of care with which he is sur- rounded. Prince Alexander, late of Bulgaria, ccn- templates a visit tothe United States next autumn, 1is mental as weH as his physieal condition is reported badly shattered by the events of the last six months, The emperor of China is the shortest mon- arch in the world, being only five feet tall; the Emperor Willlam, of Germany, Is the tallest, being just six feet; Prince Albert, of Germany, nephew of the emperor, is six feet six inches tall; the emperor of Russia is nearly six feet, Queen Kapiolani, of Hawail, will leave shortly for a four month’s visit to England, She gives the United States the go-by, prob- ably because she feels more at home on a right little, tight little island, Queen Victoria has ordered from a Lyoms firm 2,800,000 pocket-handkerchiefs with her picture on them, for the occasion of her coming jubilee, thus preparing the way for the hardest and most extensive blow her dynasty has yet received, ‘The empress of Austria has been studylng the English language, and she is said to have surprised the emperor the other day by call- ing out: “O, dry up on that old chestnut!” She will find ita beaytiful lan.uage when she gets down to the foundation, On April 4 Queen Vietoria will sail for the continent on the royal yacht Vietoria and Albert. The publie eclebration of the queen’s jubilee will be held Juhe 20, the day tixed for the thanksgiving service in Westminster abbey, which her majesty will attend. Queen Vietoria’s bonnet might not fit her eldest son, but snonld she take a notion to doff her erown during the jubilee year no doubt the prince would make the royal bauble stay on s bald spot. Abdication is believed to be among the possibilities, Princess Beatrice and her husband occupy @ most sumptuons suite of rooms at Windsor castle. The drawing room is decorated with the most delicate tints of gold and very pale blue. Speelal apartoents have been set apart for the royal baby; tuese, too,are luxuriantly furnished, Prince Henry, of Battenberg, has fallen Into sad disgrace with Queen Victoria. When he went to Buckingham palace to rep- resent the queen at the Iddesleigh memorial servicos he staid out two nights, going one evening to the theatre and the other to the circus. ‘The queen was exceedingly wroth, and the reckless young man will not again be permitted to carry a nizht key. - Shrewd Mauning. Chicago Tribune. Secretary Manning has never been sus- pected of a lack of shrewdness, He knows that a good, solid bank 1s not going out of oflice two years hence. A Hint to the Ladies. Washington Republican, If ladles in our street cars would try to be about half as polite to'each other as gentle- men are to the ladies, the situation would be marvelously improved. - Modern Uhraseology. Boston Herald, When you want to be complimentary you say a man has a large brain; when you wish to be the other thing you call it & big head. Modern phraseology s mizhty queer, any- how. Above the earth, purseless and col Low bends the gray, storm-browing sky, While nature's forces manifold In icy bondace silent liey In gleaming phalan, far and wide Strctches a nebulous, snowy tide. But underneath this shroud of snow +* Throbs promisc of a sure increase; And life In eyery active glow Flows from the source which cannot eaase From tiniest root to topmost bough 1t swells the red brown leaf buds now. On, mortal! of but surface sight, Tell how is wrought this miracle; How underneath the winter’s blight Spring vulses sure, though mysticals flow nature's force, through storm and ealm, Works out its grand, triumphant psalin. 2 Seadbelid STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings, Ord is on the lookout for a creamery. Loup county’s expenses for 1887 are estimated at $4,150. The Union Pacific stock yards at Scotia have been enlarged. Fifteen Grand Army posts haye been instituted in this state during January, The Otoe Count association has been reorganized with a capital of §25,- 000, Bloommngton has sent Jamesand Abra- ham Landreth to the penitentiary for three years each for cattle ste Superintendent O’Brien of the state fish hatcheries has gone to the northwestern part_of the state to plant 85,000 young speckled trout. A cr«-nnmrly company with a cavital of $7,000 has been organized at Aurora. D. K. Ulmer, of Hastings, is the moving spirit in the enterprise. ‘Ihe Hastings waterworks, at a recent test, sent aloft three streams with a pres- sure of seventy-two pounds, The works are pronounced first-class and the best in the state outside Omaha., f Mrs. Bill Kelley, a Grand Island pau- per, quarreled with Monroe Taylor be- cause the county had not sent her grub with suflicient promptitude to appease her appetite, and when ylor told her to “get out and slammed the door in her face, she stamped and raved and tore in the door with a pistol. The ball sed within o few inches of Taylor's pie-pan. A hungry lunatio is as dan, ous as a mad dog and should be muzzled. A mammoth specimen of the Trisoculus Bostogomgus has_been unearthed from the boitom of the Missouri river at Rulo. To the clever wood carver of the Bridge- man, scientists and the rest of mankind are indebted for a paralyzing picture of the beast. This antideluvian monster is described as part beast and part reptile, with a neck as long as a winter’s coal bill and the teeth of a cross-cut saw. The Darw n links look like the plumes of a baad master on parade. The stom- ach denotes the capacity and assurance of a railroad lobby. A" brief streteh of an imagination can sce the mighty Bos- togonigus plowing the billows of the Council Bluffs bottoms, chewing sun- flowers here and corner lots there, with a desert of “‘interjncent loci.” Will wonders never cease? Towa Items, Dubuque has four lines of railroads. Atlantie’s system of waterworks, which cost £100,000, have av last reached a pay- ing bas! Fort Madison is looked upon as the site for $30,000 knitting factory by In- diana capitalists. Red Oak has regular monthly live stock sales and the peovle of the county find them highly advantageous. “Shall We Bore?” shouts the Burling- ton Hrwkeye. It is needless to say that the town will continue busiuess at the old stand. There were thirty-six boys and thirty- soven girls born in Scott county last month, and forty-seven funerals’ and thirty-one wedding ‘The Clarinda Herald has invested in a Cottrell power press with folding attach- ments, and issued a twelve-page town booming edition to celebrate its vrosperity. A blooded cow on a Poweshiek county dairy farm has given birth to a tailless heifer calf. Those who have endeavored to extract the lacteal (luid in fly-time will hail this as a needed reform. T'he total number of sehool children in Towa is 637,878, of which 824,973 aro males and 312,005 females. The numb in Polk county is 18,717, of which 9,5 are females and 9,141 males, The perma- nent school fund of the state is $4,183,- 044,61, Your of the county superintendents elected in the state last fall have resigned their positions, which are now filled by appointments made by the board of sup- ervisors of the respective counties. The resignations are: D. Miller, of Jasper; W. J. Mede, of Leo; Mary C. Brown, of Van Buren, and H. T, Toye, of Kossuth. The grandlodge of the Iowa Legion of Honor will meot in Des Moines, com- mencing March 1. It will hold its session in Good Templars® hall, and probabl; re- main in session three or four days. This organization is confined to this state, having fraternal featurcs as well as an insurance of $3,000 to each member. It has a membership of nearly 6,000, and there will be 1 the neighborhood of nearly 200 delegates in attendance, Mr. C. L. Zorbaugh, the winner of the college oratorical contest at Des Moines lnst week, was overloaded with an en- thusiastic welcome on his return to Fair- field. When the train palled into the depot the band played the “Conquering Hero Comes.” He wasplaced in a cutter to which was attached long ropes, and the hero of the occasion was drawn to the city by an imnmense delegation of students and citizens, preceded by the band and followed by a torehlight proces- sion. Fireworks and red lights were set off and the town painted a brilliant hue. Dakota, Turner county 18 in debt $34,000, Lennox shipped 74.963 dozen e, year, . Water sells attwenty-five cents a barrel in Gettysburg, Farmers of Yankton county say the snow is plenty to show a good™ start on crops in the spring. Lincoln county has §14,000 in its treas- ury, a fine court house and a quarter sec- tion of land syitable for a poor farm, The Indians are surely becoming civi- lized, Upin Bagnor, the other day, a gang of squaws brought coal into town and traded it for corsets, The total number of original entries at the Aberdeen land office in 1586 amounted 10 445; total number of acres newly en- tered, 70,800.76, There were 680 linal proofs, representing 87,800.23 ucres, & last Montana. - Northern Montana is covered with snow to an average depth of twenty inches. What is known as the “annex" of the Internationu) hotel at Helena was burned recently, involving a loss of from §12,000 to $15,000. Coal is scarce at $60 a ton in Benton The thermometer was 60 degrees below zero on the 3d. “'Never before,” writes a resident, “‘have we had such a pro tracted cold -uur of equal severity. The loss among cattle wust be dnudl’uL To make the matter worse there is a grow- ing scarcity of fuel and provisions in town and the spirits ot the people are at low ebb.” Two cowboys in Montana each de- posited $200 with a friend, with the agreement that the first one to get mar- ried within ten months was to get the boodle. They both tailed to ecateh on, and therefore, according to the contract, the stakeholder received the 400, A prominent cattleman who has driven ecattle neross the Crow reservati ing the past season, estimates that the Crow nation has during the summer season of '8¢ about $10,000 as a revenue for permitting cattle to cross the reservation. - AN ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING. e Cretans Crying for Competition, CrETE, Neb., Feb, 8.—[Correspondence of the Bee.]—One of the most harmon- ious and enthusiastic meetings ever as- sembled in Crete, met in Band's opera house on Saturday night to deyise ways and means to induce hither one or more of the railroads now looking towards the central part ot Nebraska, Speeches were made by several business men who were willing to vote aid to any reasona- bie amount for this purpose. A com- mittee of fiftcen was appointed for the |\Ilr}msc of gathering statisties and to confer with various railroad mannge- ments. Crete is possessed of the very best water power in the state of Ne- braska. At present two grist mills, with a capacity of 200 barrels of tlour per day each, situated only a half mile apart are rumnnfi night and day. They do not util- ize one half the power of the dams, which could be greatly icreased them two or three feet. in the bulk of the send out many hundred —cars of flour and feed during ~ the year. Being located in a splendid corn growing district the eattle, hog and sheep interests are by no means insignificant, The stockmen as well as merchants and lumber dealers are_esp Ily -anxious to have a competing Jine to Om: and re- ive the benetit of your excellent stock ket and eastern” roads. The largest nursery in the state at this point employ from sixty to eighty hands and is an tensive shipper. 'T'wo large elevator many thousand bushels of erib corn, brick yard, brewery, and whole: i ot, are also important attractions for freight handlers. Doane college with its 140 students from various parts of the state, a German ninary, and_the per- manent establishment of the Nebrask Chautauqua, are a_few of the features which will muke the passenger traflic to and from this place a special inducement. “ho pobulation of Crete precinets no rly four thousand, and of Saline county more than twenty thonsand. The low assessed valuatnon of the preecinet and county is $450,000 and $23,000,000 re- slwmn-ly. It is estimated by experts that if twelve foot dams were located along the Blue, at necessary intervals, upwards of two milhion five hundred horse power could be obtained within the limits of Saline county. Our people are anx ious and willing to confer with the m agement of the Missouri Pucitic, North- western, Rock Izsland, Milwaukee & St. Paul or » ‘ other line of road that will come to this city and partake of our patronage Strong resolutions were unanimously adopted, and there is a united determination to have another railroad. The brick is now on the ground for a new creamery backed by a home company with £10,000 capital. A large seed house has been local is plac and a canning factory i First come first seryved. mention the agricultural imp! houses as a factor in the line of freight in- ducers. There are tive establishments of this kind in the city, and one firm in formed me this ~morning that its freights into the town amounted to more than one thousand dollars last year. Rajlrond by raising These miils ship wheat used and e Grand Island Items, GRrAND IsLAND,Neb., Feb. 9.—[Special.] —The Grand Island Independent is about putting 1n a new two-revolution Hoe vress, and when they getinto the new building, which will be very soon, the will turn their evening daily into a morn- ing paper and run the dispatches. This will be & very desirable change and a great convenience for the counties to the north and west of Grand Island. The increase of population in Grand Island for 1886 has been between 50 and 60 per cent, and there are now in tkis city about 8,000 person. Tew towns in the state ean make such & showing. The Buptist college did not materialize for this city at the Lincoln meoting of the committee of that church on the 8d inst., and the postponement till May s very liable to throw Grand Island out of their list of bidders, as we understand the Evange Lutheran church has gone to work like beavers to take in the offe made by the people of this city to the Baptists; andf they decide to locate in this city before Muy we learn they can have the bonus and that will™ give Omaha a clear field for bidding on the Baptist college. The people of our city is largely Lutheran, and will lend an earnest support to a college to be man- l\Fed by that the denomination, Tk the Lutherans, are also desirous of locat- ing their state publishing house here, and as they have a valuable property in the business portion of the city on which to locate it, it will be among the probabili- ties of the near future. There 18 great interest being taken by the people gen- erally for an educational institution in this city, and it will get a hearty sup- port, The railway prospects of “Grand sland are very good, and we have fine prospects of at least twolines the present season, but nd Island 15 not flourish- ing any artificial booms not substantiated by facts. Our city does not believe in inflation of prospects to deceive, but those muking their investment here find them worth one hundred cents on the dol- lar. There is no doubt but Grand Island is the best business center in the state of Lincoln, as evidenced by the ount of business actually done. Over thousand were shippod and s city duri yeur 1856, ceeipts for the city under X round up prises in the way of manufactures, unature of these will be fully deseribed by your correspondent as soon as they get on an active footing which will be in the 1y spri he new board bas three timés the pof any sim ization and the interest Shown 15 far beyond the cxpectation of the most sanguine. The city el ns are \u-ml{ discussed, but the ‘issues will be purely local and deal only with the method of manage ment of the eity government. It looks now as though it would be a contest for ihe raising of the present license of §500 10 $1,000. Some of the saloon men favor this and a public sentiment is growing in tts favor. It is generally conceded there are too many saloons, & fact known to those favoring their continuance as well as those opposing. ‘There will be & weeding out of more than half by the change as none of the smaller concerns can afford to pay the $500 and should it be doubled only the most profitable and best managed could exist. The Baptist and Presbyterian churches are holding revival ngs. ‘I'he for- mer with some success as u:huiuna to the fold amount to about seventy-five. 7 oot AW, Cumpbell sheriff of Sarpy county, Was in lown yesterday morning, THING! That Coal Has Been Dis- covered in Omaha no doubt. The most skeptical are ready There can now be to admit that such is the case, and the future of Omaha is Man- ufacturing of all kinds will bo solved beyond a doubt. in full force within one year. Packing houses will spring up like magic in South Omaha. In fact we can not hold Omaha down. Now is the time to buy Do not wait, as property is ad- vancing every day, and you are loosing money every day you wait. WE HAVE SOME oice Baroais SOUTH OMAHA. Iofon Place TAKES THE LEAD. Everybody is rushing for lots in this addition on account of its location. Be sure and look at this addition, Lipten Place, before buying elsewhere. First come, first served, is our motto. We Have Bargains in All Parts of Town In improved and unimproved the door at all times to take you property. Carriages at ut. Call and gee D. R. Archer AND C.H. Sobotker ROOM 9, REDICK BLOCK CP-5TA188,