Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 14, 1887, Page 4

% i [ | | 4 THE DAILY BEE PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. FRRYR OF AUBMORTPTION | Dally «Morniag Edition) Including Sunday Big. Ono ¥ oar serseey 1 For 8ix Months 510 For Three Months s iviivie B The Omaka Swnday Tiie, meiied 1o any address, Ono Yenr. .. e 1 ) OMATIA OFFICE NEW Youk Orricr WASHINGTON OFFIC FAR¥AM ST NN E B No. 914 AND, 918 oornr All communications relating to news and edi. torial matior should bo addrossed to the Eol- TO1 OF ik BE TUSINEAS LETTRRSt ANl bhueineas letters and remittanees should bo Mddrossed 1o THE BE: PURLISHING COMPASY OmAnA. Drafts, checks and postoffico orders 0 be made puyable to the order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISKING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. E. ROSEWATER, Enrr THE DAILY BEB. Bworn Statement of Circulation, Btate of Nebraska, | County of Douglas, | * Geo. B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Tee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual cireuiation of the Daily Bee for the week ending Feb, dth, 1857, was as follows: Saturay, Jan. 20, Sunday, Jun. i Monday. J Tuoesday, ¥ Wednesd Thursd; . Friaay, ¥ 1. L 8 eeeenns 14009 GEO. I, TZ8CIUCK, Subseribed and sworn to_in my_presence thisbil day of February A, D., 155 N. P Frir, L1 Notary Publie. zsehiuck, being first duly sworn deposes and says i ctary of The Tiee Publishing company, that the actual av- erage duily eireulation” of the Dailv Bee for the month of February, 1886, was 10,595 copies; for March, 188, 11537 copies; for April, 186, 12,191 copres: for for May, ' 1850, 12,430 copies; for June, 1886, 12,208 coples; for July, Average. . I8 1856, 14 copies; for August, 1836, 12,464 copiesifor September, 1846, 13,030 copies: for October, 2,080 coples: for Nov 1580, 5 conies; for December, 185 copi Subs an 1! for January, 1887, 16,266 copi 5 Gro. B.1z5cnuek. ribed and sworn to before me this sth Februar AL\ . Notary Public. 185 flected Prices Prorerry values cannot be by plain and truthful discussion. may be hurt but values remain, spring the contractors’ ring is going to haye control of the city government. Say RaNpALL smiles pleasantly as he notes the approach of the 4th of March with no possible chance for tariff redue- tion in the present cong CoxpraiNt is made that the tural department seeds wont s planting of two or three commissioners of agriculture might help things. Trr battle before the New York legis- lature for high license pres the not unusual spectacie of the prohibitionists and saloon-keepers working together against the intelligent opponents of in- temy Arrer hearing the arguments in the telephone e, the supreme court ad- journed for afour weeks' vacation. If the veteran jurists return to a normal condition of mind in that time they will do well. It was the severest test of en- durance most of them have ever been subjected to. R and G T placed embargoes upon the exportation A, Aust ny having of hors it has been expected that France would adopt a similar policy. In view of this possibitity, Colonel Thomp- son, scerctary of the American Percheron Horse Breeders’ association, was sent ns a special commissioner to the French government to securc exemption for horses imported to this country for breed- ing purposes. A cable dispatch reports that in an ioterview with the French minister of agricuiture, Colonel Thomp- son was assured that the government has no intention at present of prohibiting the exportation of horses, and that in the event of an embargo Per ron hor: will be exempted from 1t, the French government desiring not to do anything to interfere with this important ndustry in the United State s will be ver, gratifying intelligence to the large inter- ests concerned. Secrerary oF War Expicorr ap- pears to be a good deal of an old granny in a business Ho has recently got anew frill, says a Washington correspon- dent. Not satisfied with sitting behind double-guarded doors at the war depart- ment, and making all persons who called confess to his usher what their business was before admitting them, he now spends most of his time at his residence to avoid the crowd. His friends explain that he is not accustomed to interruptions when at work, and it annoys lim very much to have a congressman or a senator break in upon him with some matter that 18 not the subject of his thonghts, Hoe therefore attends to the arduous duties of the war office chiefly at his house, whither a large bag of documents is taken in a government earringe, It was evidontly unkind to the suscoptible old gentleman to entice him away from the i quiet and ease of his Massachusetts homo to be burdened and vexed with the per- ploxing duties of our military establish- went, al seandal that comes from nd, in the anuouncement that the Princess Louise is seeking a divorce from Lord Lorne, appears not to have caused any surprise at the Canadian capital, where the couple sojourned when Lorne was governor gencral of the Dominion At)s suid that during the residence there of the princess and her plebian consort the strained relations between them were apparent on all public oceasions, neither appearing to take any interost in the other. Lorne was seldom scen in the company of the princess, and when they were together he was made conscious of Iis inferior social position. It was evi- dently, however, not altogether the pride of royalty that led Louise w keep her consort at a distance, but & warrantable belief that he was not absolutely faithful © his marital vows. There were inci- tdents of his life in Canads which would inevitably compromise a husband in the eyes of a wifo, and Lorne was far from discreet in the management of his flir tions. The prineess has always been re- garded as a most aniable woman, and should she press the suit for divoree it is 1o be fairly inferred that she has ample easons for do:ng so. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE The New Railrond Bill After all the talk and agitation in favor of repealing the bogus railroad commis- sion the legislature is about to foist upon the stite another railroad commission bill. The Italian hand of the railroad at- torneys was manifest in the method by which the new abortion was begotten. The two railroad committees were in- duced to appoint a sub joint committee, made up of three members of the ho and two senators. This was on its face a Lrazen violation of proper numerical proportion. The house is three times the si of the senate. and ther fore there should have been & members of the house to two senators. In such a committee five votes would have been a majority, and in view of the fact that the house committee ¢ railroads has only five or sixoutof the fi teen members who are known to be r: road men, the preponderance of the sub- committee would have been opposed to any bill reviving the railroad commus: sion. The sub joint committee held threo or four sessions, The railroad attorneys were politely asked to define their views but the other side had no hearing. As a result the committee presents to the legislature a erazy quilt made up partly from the Agee and partly from the Meiklejohn bills ~ The leading fea- ture in the new measure is the restora- tion of the railroad commission, con- sisting this time ef five'state officers with power to avpoint three clerks from the state at large who are to perform the actual duties of compiling statistics and king junketing trips. In order to con- ceal as far as possible the taste of the dose the commission is to be called a board of transportation. The duties and power of the board under the bill, so far as they are legal and constitutional, dif- fer little from those of the present board of railroad commissioners. They are to hear complaints, investigate griev- ances and make reports, In ad- dition the board given authority maximum freight rates under a ause making the rates of 1881 the basi The grant of this power is clearly uncon- stitutional. It cannot be exercised if the bill should go into effect and it would be worthless if it could. The state oflicers composing the board are exeeutive ofli- cers only. The power to fix rates is a legslative function devolving upon the legislature alone and eannot be delegated to anybody. Any changes in rates es- tablished by law which the board may make will bo illegal and void and cannot. stand the test of a suit. If any such at- tempt should be made and re- sisted by the roads the courts would doubtless sustain the railroads on the ground that the legislature alone has the power to exercise this function granted them by the constitution. Let us examine the clause and seo what it amounts to, even if the authority which it confers could be exercised. Scetion 11 of the bill provides that the board shall make for each railroad a schedule of reasonable maximum freight rates, which said rates shall not exceed the distance rate table of the Burlington & Missouri River railroad for June '81, “reduced by deereasing the rates for the various clusses of freight thercin con- tained for five miles, one-half of one per cent, and for cach additional five miles an additional one-half of one per cent. until the distance of 200 miles is reached, and for each ten miles from said 200 miles an additional one-fourth of one per cent.” Under the authority sup- posed to be given the railroad rates of six years ago are to be taken as a basis. These rates are exorbitant even when judged by the present prevailing high rates. The sliding scale of one per cent. for every ten miles applied to the sched- ule of 18581 would give a reduction of two per cent. on twenty miles distance, three per cent. on thirty miles, five per cent, is on fifty miles, ten per cent. at voints a hundred miles from the terminus and twenty per cent. reduction from the 1881 r stations 200 miles from tho riv 200 mile points the rates duced } per cent only on every ten mile i or } per cent on every fiv In other words, the heaviest ductions are to be made on long while the burdensome Joce: ari short hauls are to be decr cent and upwards, W ) the board could grant it under the law, would the people experience? It is a question whether there would be any actual reduction from the freight rates now obtaining which, through compe- tition, have been materially lowered from the outragoous ligures of tho 1831 ‘tarils. Other features of the bill call for little comment. The inter-state commerce bill long and short haul clause linds a place eastrated of all power by the authority given to the board to sot aside its opera- tion m special cases. Pooling and dis- crimination are prohibited under the enormous penalty of $100 for each of- fense, while the injured party is author- d to colleet damages if he can get them. J The bill is a hotch-poteh of worthless provisions strung on a commission. Feat- e at om L ro to bs re- ures which have any merit cannot be en- forced. Thoso without werit have already been rejected by the -people of Nebraska, A “Benevolent” Humbug, From time to time complamts have reached this paper of the questionable methods of the Western Mutual Benevo- lent association, a life insurance com- pany located at Beatrice in this state. They have come from all parts of south- western Nebraska, varying from loud denunciations of the means used to se- cure business to bitter attacks on the operation of the organization, its lack ot faith to policy bolders and the insecure basis on which it is founded. The Bk has withheld comment beeause it did not desire to injure any Nebra institution without the most positive in formation that cxposure was neces- sary in the public interests. At the ontsot the company was vouched for to this paper by prominent citizens of the state ound, safe and relia Its ad- vertisements spoke of reserve funds, 1 issets, interest-b S and great be roster of oflicers bere the namoes of busi- ness men presumably bonest and respon- sible. Documents are now in our possession which convince us that the time for silence is past. Aflidavits, tables and figures are at hand which leave no reason- able doubt that the concern has been cngineered and managed from the start . in the interest of a few moueyed men und sharks, while its patrons have been wercilessly fleeced and their widows and orphans left de- pendent upon a rope of sand for their maintenance. In another column we prescnt to our readers a portion of the information secured. It shows that busi- ness for this “‘benevolent” concern has been drummed up among the poor and ignorant under a reckless system of the most villainous and false pretenses of benefits which could not accrue, and loans which were never intended to be made. TItshows that hundreds of men have been iaduced to join a mythical ersonal benefit fund” and to un- wittingly sign bonds to the association for $200 payable in case they declined to continue paying in assessments to the concern, It proves how ingeniously lan- guage can be used to conceal thought in a policy which gives a dozen chances to the company to evade payment of a just debt and leaves searcely a single hope for the heirs of the insured to recover the face of the policy. The facts printed evidence how figures can be juggled to give an appearance of security to second mortgages and notes covering propecty assessed at its full value. The money in this “benevolent” institution appears to come in briskiy through the forfeiture elause which forfeits all moneys paid in where the policy lapses by non-pay. ment of assessments, sented under this he, suggestive, The Bee calls upon the legislature to take the matter of a revision of our in- surance laws promptly in hand. It poi to the *‘Western Benevolent Assoc! The statistics pre- d are startling and of Beatrice as a fair sample of the total adequacy of the present law to protect the contiding and credulous, What We Want. It has been charged by the railroad or- gans that the editor of this paper and anti-monopoly republicans generally want no railroad legislation this winter. They are accused of anly making anoise, and it is said that they would be out of ammunition if the legislature should really puss some railroad regulation laws. The cue to this false report was given by Senator Meiklejohn, who exprescel his astonishment that the editor of the Bk should have declared that he would be content this year with a railroad bill that would cover a single printed page. Mr. Meiklejohn evidently labors under the delusion that to give the people of Nebraska relief he must cover ten or fifteen pages of type. In order that we may be clearly understood as to what we would consider satisfactory for tho pres- ent we will enumerate what in our opinion would serve the purpose: First. Abolish the railroad commission and do not impose upon the people any substitute under whatever name, No commussion can excreise executive or leg- islative powers under our constitution. Its and the can uggh functions must be clerieal, auditor or secrctary of sl compile all the railroad stati their clerks, Second. Ordain publicity of rates and prohibit changes without due and timely notice. Third. Prohibit rcbates and pooling under any name or pi This will effectively destroy discrimination and favoritism, and give competition fair play. Fourth. Fix the maximum rate for pas- sengers all over the state at three cents per mile, whether y gers purchase tickets or pay fare, Yifth. Tix a maximum tonnage or car- load freight rate for the four stapl lum- ber, coal, grain and cattle. The tonnage rate per mile is the true basis for fr charges and with a reasonable lowance for short hauls and swite could be made fair and just. ixth. Provide suitable penalties for violation of these provisions, Leave the courts open to every complainant and r quire state and coun ty attorneys to pros- ccute offenders. Such a bill can probably be put on onc page. It certainly would not take more than two printed pages. It would be simple and would afford shippers and railroad patrons redress without the in- tervention of any commission. The Height of Tmpudencs, The paving contractors and the hood- lers who make up the lobby against the Omaha charter boustfully assert that they are getting up a new charter for Omauha which they will try to force through the legislature over the heads of the Douglas delegation. For sublime impufence this certainly will eclipse anything ever at- temptod in this state. What interest have fugh Murphy, Seayenger Fanning and their editorial catspaws in honest gov- ornment? Who are preparing this new charter? Con Gallagher, Murphy and Colby! Why do the paving and street sweep- ing contractors take such an interest in this charter, any wa, hy did the Join the railroad gang to control the citi zens’ meoting n woek ago? Isn't it plain and palpable that there is some brenk in the new charter that would prevent a contractors’ raid on the taxpayers? But en if this attempt to dictato a charter framed in their interest was not decidedly suspicious, it is the height of impudence for them or any other set of men to try to ride rough shod over the dclegation from this county. It is only in keeping, however, with the importance of the three editors who made themselves so conspicuous nt the tax-payers’ meeting, when all of them together have not paid ten dollars of taxes in Omaha or anywhere else for that matter. And why should our delegation be subjected to such insolence? Why should Omaha countenance any atteapt to disgrace and humiliate them before their colleagues in the legislature and their own constituents? urs For more than forty the Con tra American republies of ragua and Costa Rica have been 1n eontention sbout their boundary lines, Several attempts have been made to get a settlement of the dispu but no agreement could be reached in determining the mode of sub- wission until a proposition was recently made to refer the dispute to President Cleveland, He has indicated his willin ness to accept the trust. A settlement is regarded @s ot some moment at this juncture, while the Nicaragua canal pro- jectis pending 1n the senate. Tuere is a very strong disposition shown in New York to improve the con- dition of the canals of that state, which for some years past has been permitted to doteriorate. A very earnest move- mont in the mntorest of these water ways Wiks inuugurated two or three years 8go, in which the late Horatio Seymour took an active part, and it seems to have taken firm root. A bill is now before the legislature, and will- probably pass, ap- propriating 8550,000 for ecanal improye- monts, e g It is understood that Speaker Carlisle will not continue the corresvondence with the Randall faction, from which he thinks there is nothing to be gained. e s his object was to harmonize the di- vergent element, and he is still aisposed to do thig, but he does not propose to takoe any further notice of the mode of treating the question adopted by Mr. Randall. As the speaker has clearly the better of the situation as it stands he cyn well afford to let it rest where it is. e Mg, Wa RSON'S paper is authority for the statement that editor's eriti- cisms of the administration e borne good fruit. They have not only set every- body in Washington talking about the ad- ministration, and pretty much all one way, but they have made a profound impression upon the president and his otficial household. Among the qualitics which distinguish the Louisville editor, broad and very hard cheek must here- after not be accounted the least, AN American who recently ted Gen- eral Van Moltke was a good deal sar prised that the great soldier mentioned no names of Amcrican generals except those of Grant and Hancock. Of the former hie said: “He wasa great gen- cral. He was one of the greatest that has ever hve, Of the laiter he re- marked smply: “General Hancock was u brave soldier.” i Nottine but kless obstruction the city’s needs can stop the onward march of Omaha's prosperity. Is the legislature of Nebraska prepared to shoulder the responsibility for giving her metropolis a black eye solely to gratify personal spite? lue more eable lines the better, of course. When spring opens let us trust that the first one will be dug out of “the snow to be followed by many suecessors. STATE AND TERRL Nebraska Jotting: A broom factory is to Bloomington. Hastings declared in favor of the bob- tailed strect car. Chadron is gazing anxiously down a prospeet hole for conl, Rumors of new railroads “to bloom in the spring” bave revived business in Ouakland. *Th part of Nebraska,” Wayne Herald, “is anxious burning Omaha’ coal.” Beatrice is promised a new paper. 1t long felt wunt apparently, fringed with weeping willows that bloom in the fall. Robert Lucas has ered his connee- tion with the Chadron Demoerat, and will return to his home in Towa to prac tice law. An intelligent jury in Burnett has de- clared that Tlenry Troutwine “dicd in a fit.” The dispatches had it that he died in the Davis house. A new bank is to be O'Neill at an early day, for John Fitzgerald, of Lincoln, most of the “rocks.” A telegraph operator named Kavan- augh, emvloyed in Red Cloud, has tum- bled to a stake of §8,000, with ,000 1 prospective, by the death of a relative. ‘I'he examination of the acconnts of ex- Treasurer King of Antelope county, de. veloped a shortage of #3,600. s bonds- men are good and they have beeninvited to settle up. The Plattsmouth Waterworks company is pushing the job 1 all kinds of weather, determined to finish the plant by the 1st of April, the limit of the extension granted by the court. Claus Boltz, living cight miles from Grand Island; was killed by & runaway team last week. He was thrown from the wagon, breaking his skull, three ribs and a wrist, Black Hills ore shippers complain that the Omaha reduction works are unable to says the to begin estublished in 1+ Hon. 1L furnish handle their consignments promptly, and 1o more shipments will be made il a partial clean-up 1s effected. Gebhardt Foss, of Cuming county, has joined the roll of vietims of winter’s stifi- ening blasts. He partook too frequently of the liquid hilarity of a wedding feast, Iaid down by the roadside and perished. A man named Holfman was killed by the cars at Fullerton lust Wednesday. While switching ears at that point, his pants caught in a bolt in the rail, throw- ing him to the ground, and the whe canght him betore he eonld recover. Kearneyites are uplaying stores of rood deeds for the hereafter, with areck- css disregard for the present. The weather out there has grown so warm since the bezinning of the Methodist re- i that 109 persons have repented and oned for fans, or fourrastic suckers at K nibbled at the bait set for them by u glib tongued swindler. They were hired to co to Iduho to drive horses, and raisca” a purse of $45 and a shotgun to entertain their employer. He borrowed the cash and the gun and struck out for new fields, The meeting of the Baptist association in Grand Island last week to consider propositions for the location of the pro- I..m,u university, adjourned to meet in Lincoln May 7. Grand Isiand oflered a bonus valued at $163,000, Omaha $200.000 and Nebraska City §40,000. A decision will be made at the adjourned meeting. Keith county’s eraving need just now is girls—woo-able girls. The valleys, can- yons and hilltops echo the mournful cry of lonely homesteaders, and hundreds of outstretched arms und longing eyes mutely appeal to the east for succor, Good, strong, bangless girls are wan! —and they can't come 0o soon or too n'uquenll{. Itis related that a party of theatrical barnstormers recently stopped over night in the county recently, Three of the stars were elegible and the country boys captured and married them, and broke up the troupe. The stomach pump must go, The w and feeble mlmlml.wmr,\‘Uhih s crooked highway, are entitled to the easiest and most expeditious route to the hereafter, There is Bert Gibbs, of Nebraska City. He made three unsuccessful attem pts 10 join the caravan on the shining shore He dashed in frout of a locomot to fall in the ditch uninjured, a rope and a rafter were tricd, but a measly friend cut him down with the tle in his throat. His only sa! poison, and on Saturday night h dose, ‘I'ne stomuch took a pump rushed in, nabbed his soul by the beard, and stopped His iaterior is sudly ured, and he longs for the open ie and a raw arctic wave. lowa ltems. Clinton is strugghng with 145 saloons. The school enrollment of Cedar Rapids for January was 3 Tue feather-weights of Burlington have organi a base ball club, The government reports eredit to Towa the loss of 339,481 Logs by cholera last year. ome Tama county farmers are push- ing their calves 1o o finish at & year old, its upward flight. dist pr They will weigh about 800 pounds and sell for baby beef, It is an. experiment that is thought will pay. The bee men of castern Towa and west- ern lllinois met at 1 nport on the 23d and 24th inst, A suryeying corps of the Burlington route are running a line from Sioux Uity to the Floyd river. The schools of Osceola eounty, sixty- three in number, used & for run- ning expenses last year, The officials of Sioux City are dilutin Missouri river water with whisky anc other invigorants. All captured liquor is confiscated and poured into the stream, Look out for a spring rise. Young Stovens, who attempted to mur- der Carson in a freight car near Aspin- wall by beating him over the head with a_coupling pin, plead guilty and was given ten years in the penitentiar, Creston is determined to mount the of prosperity now surging west- A new railroad, sewerage, water- works, & packing house and a canning factory arc on the lList for the present year. Dakota, The Yankton coilege boarders, The indebtedness of Lawrence county ),000. artesian well at struck a flow A 210,000 stock company has been or- ganized at Lisbon to run a creamery. The Seventh Day Adventists twenty-two churches’in the territory and a good-sized membership, The Sioux I'alls eracker factory expeets to turn ont a carload of baked stufl’ ever) day as =oon as it gets under way. Deadwood is reported to be experienc- ing some trouble with Whitewood ereck ich stream are eneroach- s as thoy can reach, aims to have invented has forty-one St, awrence has ing on s A an apparatus for boring that will revo- lutionize the method of sinking wells, A vreliminary trial was mad LL t week, and it bored throngh five feet of frozen crust and down about 160 fect in four hours, Mr. Wolzmuth, of wrenee count went into Spearfish two or three ye ago & poor man, having been ove by misfortunes. He purchased th flouring mill there on credit. suce in obtaining a I stock of wh menced making flour and put his price up to some $10 1 barrel. fle succeeded and to-day has the reputation of being one of the weaithiest men in the house, having, it 1s s; about $150,000 worth of Wyoming. The Almy wreck cost the Union Pa- :in round numbers 8,000, while the Leho smash-up showea up with $2,000. Two loaded handears_collided on the Cheyenne & Northern, F r, resulting n the death of Thoms gh, Three others w seriousl, The Chicago, no sooner said to be plowing Clieyenne ward, than the little giant—Denver & Rio Grande—talks of coming also. A dangerous conflict has arisen in high injured. Burlington & Quiney is society in Douglas, owing to the scarcity of ladies. The proportion of men to women is three to one, and the nivalry among the cowboy aristocracy is so what straned and gory. The railroad oflicials are unanimous in praise of the dust burning engines of which the Wyommg division of the Union Pucifle now has eight in opera- tion, Owing to their well developed heating capacity, these engines will do more work, and do it easier with a ton of the vericst slack, than other engines will with a ton of the best coal which the Union Pacific mines supply A corre- prevailing passengers Life at Lask is quite lurid spondent thus pictures the style “Last night six 1from the castern train, Lach Winchester repeating rifle in They looked —anxiously aw nothing suspicious, and rted for the hotel. Arriving there, all xcept one deposited their guns with the clerk, The sixth man gave up his vali but vositively refused to part with weapon of defense. After nursing gun for several hours he was finally in- duced to leave it with the elerk while he took needed refreshments, Another in- cident: One of our business men as signed to a Chicago firm and they de- red to send some one here to look” after their interests. They called on one of their bookkeepers, but he flatly refused to come, saying that e would Tesign his position before he would risk his life in such a place.”” —_— The U. P. Dump at Waterloo, WarerLoo, Neb., Feb, 12.—[Corre- spondence of the B, well attended meeting of the sufferers from overflow caused by the Union Paciiic railroad dump near this place was held here Fri- day evening, everal speeches were made but no definite plan of action was agreed upon. A resolution was offt to the eflect that, “‘as all lawful means to have an opening made in the railroad dump had been tried without success, that other than lawful mcans be em- ployed.” This resolution though favored by many was laid on the table. A com- mittee was appointed to mvestigate what action if any the railroad company pro- posed to take and report at arother meeting to be held hereafter, Early in November last a hearing of the gricvance complained of was had by the state railway commissioners, at which the railway was represented by their chief attorncy, A. J. Poppleton, and Chief Engiacer Blinkensdorfer and his assistants, The commissioners gave the matter a thorough investigation, ree- ommending the opening of the dump and their decision was accepted by the railroad company. Mr. Poppleton is re- ported as suying ‘‘that the company, since accepting the decision, had decidéd to do nothing unless the commissioners would stato how large an opening should be made, This, 1 view of the fact thut the railway = company have a large ~ corps of - engincers who should know how large an_ opcning is necessary looks strange, although if the same chief engineer is in charge that d in with solid earth the 400 feot of tlo through which the surplus water passed it would probably not be out of place for the commissiviiers or some cor- pete gineer to give him a httle - struction Iu less than sixty days the Elkhorn river will be by this dumip again foreed out of its banks at this point, and great damage will result unless something is done to remedy the matter. A CrrizeN, ———e St. Vitus's Dance Cured FARMINGDALE, L. I, N, Y., Sept. 2, 1835, 1 have been troubled for several years with an atlection of the nerves which no doctor or medicine could ecure until I tried BraNvretu's Piies. 1 would be taken with a violent pain in the middle of my spine and my arms and legs would twitch violently, * It acted something like St.Vitus Dunce,for I conldn’t control my limbs, It would come and go once or Wi month, lasting two or three days at a time. Finally, al the beginning of one of my attacks U took five Biran- DRETH'S PILLS. As s0oon as theyac freely I found myself almost well. continued taking them for & month—one ortwo a night. It is now a year since | have had an attack, and 1 attribute my cure to BRANDEETH'S PiLLs, Frances Woob, - sh eggs 174c per doz. at Wm, Ueman's. BENEVOLENT ~ INSURANCE, A Life Insurance Gonoern Which R Rotten Foundation. FARMERS FOOLED AND FAKED. A Demand Foe Prowpt Action on the Part of State Au thorities, BrATRICE, Neb,, Feb, 12.—[Correspond ence of the Bee.]—There is in the “stat of Beatrice,” located near the pellucid waters of the beautiful Blue, an institu tion known as the Western Mutual Benevolent association. Its general man ager is A, C. Sabin, This Western Mu Benevolent association excrcises its charity in insuring lives. It hasa wide ficld of industry, and as its benevolent methods are somewhat peculiar, 1 will devyote a little space to the elucidation of them. This institution is sailing under mutual” tlag. ‘I'his feature consists insurces mutually and continuously pouring a stream of money into its cof- fers in Beatrice. The “‘mutual” part consists in receiving this mouey taking good c 0 pay out as little possible. ‘L'o make it plain, the business is done by sharp soliciting agents, who £0 to the county seat or central busine point of the district they intend to work, and ascertain all that they wish to know of the circumstances, cl ‘ter, ete., ot the men whom they hope to rope in. If it is a German or Bohemiun settlemient, they ovtam a German or Bohemian terpreter who posscsses the confidence of his countrymen, and by high pay for a short time, secure his aid 1o 1filuru the unwary. Prepared beforchand, they drop inupon the innoeent and unsuspect- ing farmer, That he should be in some- what pinclied circumstances, as is often the ease, is rather an adyantage than otherwise to the solicitor. The ugent de- picts in glowing colors the advantazes of a §6,000 insurance upon his life and that of his wife. Al THINK OF 11! Twelve thousand ars laid up for n ainy day 4 for a mere song. In case of the sudden death of either, the survivor will receive within ninety days, $6,000. In case of the death of both, their ehildren will be Lifted ont of penury and want, above caro and labor, exalted among the blessed of earth, through the benevolence of Gen- Manager Sabin, whose horn of fed vy a little rill, can continu- pour out an ocean. ' O, the n of transcendental finance! Wha simple farmer got to do to re future fools’ paradise of dollar only to pay an admission fee of each §6,000 policy (which the obliging agent will take 1 & bankabie note for thirty, sixty or ninety days, or even si a year) and pay the re ath rate ussessinents, which the sures him are so like angels’ visits, t Lzent wand far between, they will_not be lhere is also a semi-annual s 17, which agents hardly ever mention, but which the nsured learns about when he receives a policy and a possible reserve fund. Of cour K0 A. C. Subin must have a reserve fund. He may want to 20 1o Canada sometime, And the farmer bites. The jaws of the trap come together, and he gives his note for £35 or §70, wineh the agent pock ets 1 tof the job, and he makes an application which'is tract binding him to the y and assessments, and conse he fail to pay prompt] any time, the absolute forfeiturc of all former ments and the cancellation of the p IT GATIERS THEM IN. So alluring is this bait of $6,000 without labor—a great deal of something, for nothmg—that in one little neizhborhood in southeastern Pawnce county thirty or torty German and American farime tof the con yment of dues ting, should to nabbed it, and pard their dues and oft- reeurring assessments for awhile, until the real nature of the promise contained in their policies dawned upon them, and most, if not all of them let their poli . La numbers of these people took polic upon their own ar -‘ their wives™ liv One old German s such a bonanza in the scheme that he took four policies his family—$24,000. How these n numbers, illuminating the smoky w of his humble cabin, brighter of his toil. But, alas! some read his policy and the 1 his slow mind” that as far as any actual iability of this be: olent socintion was concerned, it might just as well b in gic 1ls ed the honrs Smar-Ale a trickled into written $100,000 in cash of his polic $6,000, and he ceased puying his annual dues and assessments, He stopped throwing good money aftc did most of his neighbor: inated walls assumed the smoky hue, and the light of golden 1m- agination went out of “his life of daily toil. He will not talk with a strange) about the Western Mutual Benevolent sociation now. Once assured, however, that the stranger is uot a prying agent or attorney of that odorous concern, he finds tongue to call it “von tam swindle,” and YOUF corresponaent acquicsces. The moderation of th mutual” con- cern is us astonishing as it is commenda- ble. By the addition of a simple “ty" they could have made “six” sixty, and would not have cost them a cent more. T'he following extract from their policy shows exactly the extent of their liability to the assured, nothing esscutial being omitted: bad, and' so ind his illum rold dul and PECULIAR POLICY, _Death Benefit. Upon receipt at th fice of the association . . of satisfuctory proofs of death , . ‘the association will pay to blank, his executors, administrators Or assigos . . o the net proceeds of one full assessment at schodule rates, upon all contributing members at date of such death, and whicl is received within forty-five dayy of the date of the notice thercof, to al amount not less than the actu monnt said wewmber shall have paid into the assoe n, and not exceeding six thousand d 1o be pald within ninety days thereatter at the oflice of the association, . . That is all there is toit. That is just as near as the beneficiary of this grand of- bencvolence gets to 6,600, But there is another cog in this benevolent wheel of Manager Subin's which is worth looking info. It is called the “'Personal Endow ment Fund Certificate A policy holder applying for the benefit of this fund may after havieg paid all dues and assess nts for a full consecutive term of fif teen years, receive $:3,000 in cancellation of policy and all liability on the part of the association. This application is made the pretext of seeuring from each applicant, unknown to himsclf, a bond in the sum of §200, conditioned on the prompt and continued payment of dues and assessments. 1t is sale o say that any person coming into southeastern i Pawnce county to enforce one of these bonds would be promutly tarred and feathered, But do they not constitute a art of the assets of this mendacious concern? And would they wot be good against the maker's estate? ‘These queries are puzzling the brains of some of the holders of lapsed policics. The *Endowment Fund Certificate” recites: “The holder of this certilicate has made application for the personal endowment benent, and is the legal Lolder of certilicate No. —'in_the W. M. B, ion, and in addition thereto has exe nd delivered to said association the persunal endou beaefie eontract in the s of two hundred dollars,” ele., ele, A AFFIDAVIT CO Tappend aflidavits by Messrs nent ROBORATIVE, Charles Boat it too I propert either v Of wh thereas ficult to Socin to pay * tdate S soun of th spark « does nof impairs holders, chinery tend all impunit icures Aol But th port of the he which censing o Viewed the laps the exte associat as t ¥ sum o associat pockets charity past, pre sharp m gages or ioose u commur horde o de give ubs ot their v schen the wor! sessuient contribuin company do WOrLZAZe notes thus on bonds and morty ending December id their amount as $7, and forfeiture of all moneys pr a cut-throat institution hk devise son proverty 1s NG for w 5, Q0K Lt L ntively immatering use is o guarantee fund when hing w g mieet I is dif m that ts Benevolent vibing. It of one [ sutin ow Promises full us members s fast and cense to - bo wembers the liabihty Here is a little rainly, If the of as polic SSUCIALION G oS, f watualit 1oes not receive the mouey it U lave 1o pay it out. 1f sny trifle the coutidenee of its policy and they cense paying, the 8tops. So its stockholders may e mort please witi v. But this #100,000 worth of at doubtinl valuations m the report to tho auditor as stock puid up 50 figures under " thus: *“*Loans and s (lirst liens,) on real 10,0007 Also, under “Other As “Interest due and accrued i ; EXHIBIT OF POLICIES he most interesting item in the re this benevolence for the year 31, 1836, is found under al of “Lxhibit of Policies,” states the number of policies 10 be in force by death as cighteen and the num 10 be in by lapso their amount us Y08, 00, in connection with the f that e of a policy ks an absolute wously paid, sed ent of the benevolence of this on muy be app d. Taking 10 average admission fee on each s dues and wd we e the ited the nd allowing on ) ssents, f §119,036 fort ion in one yo of the deiud without ent or future to ~taken out of the 1 victms of this any return whatever, Is it not about time that the law should step in and stoy this whole le swindlingy When a few en ean by depositing a few mort. 1 their houses and ots organize 2 this and turn pon the farmm nd laboring 1ties of tiis und ot states a f cheeky ngents who stop at no to win their end, and who olutely ny consuderation for the they receive, the public saould nic ure of protection for Do the gentlemen whose morigaged to further this waat their mes published 1o id J. 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