Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 19, 1887, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1887 THE DAILY BEE.]| PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. . TERNS OF SURSORIPTION : Dafly Morniag Edition. Bee, One Year. For 8ix Months For Three Months goseiss : The Omaba Swnday TEx, matied to address, Une Yenr. ... OMATIA OFF Al sommunieations relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed 1o the Eoi- TOR OF 1THE Br BUSINESS LETTERS? All business lotters and remittances should be addrossed to Tux Bee F SIING COMPANY, OMAHA. Drafts, chocks and postoffice order: to be made payable (o the order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPAYY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, Enttor. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. State of Nebraska, | County of Douglas, | * Geo. B. Tzsohuck, aeoretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual cireuiation of the Daily Bee for the week ending Feb, 11th, 1557, wus as ol Tuesday I'eb, Wednesday. Thursday, Friday, eb, Average...... 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OwmanA workingmen will learn with interest that Pat Garvey was an ardent advocate of sidetracking the charter, ““Gon helps him who helps himself.” With a practical appreciation of this plous precept the corporation creatures at the state capital are helping themselves to everything in sight. 3OoVERNOR HiLr, of New York, is in vigorous training for the presidenti: race, and is showing a pace which astonishing his supporters of the patron- age and plunder brigade. Hul is a A Péw Words With Mr, Callaway. General Manager Callaway of the Union Pacifie is a man swith a reputation and character to mai He came to Omatia with the expre rmination of dealing openly and fairly with the people of this state and eity. He proved himself a railroad manager of ability, accessible, courteous and appar- has with the public. The impression which he has left on those who haye met him to discuss questions at 1ssue between the public and the railroads has been that of a man honestly desirous to heal up the sores whic previous managements have irritate: and to build up his road in the confidence of the community, Assuming all that has been said of Mr. Callaway by his friends to be trae, we desire to nut to him a few ques- tions on topies of general interest and of paramount importance to the eity of Omaha. Is Mr. Callaway aware that the cor- poration of which he is the local head, 1s ntain a gang of disreput- conndrels and political bilks at the capital to thwart the wishes of the people of Omaha in the matter of self- government? If he i cognizaut of the tact, how does e propose to evade the responsibili for their oils or to escape the ind nation among the taxpayers which their dirty work is arousing in Omaha and throughout the state 1f he now learns for the first time of the existence of a ratlroad lobby in which Union Pacific employes are leading fac- tors and who have banded together to defeat the will of the citizens of Omaha, will he see his duty in the light of his past public and private professions of fairness and honest treatment toward this community? How does Mr. Callaway and his rail- road explain the breach of faith by which the Douglas delegation was deliberately insulted in the lower house by the side- tracking of the charter in a committee the majority of whose members are rail- road men through the votes of represent- atives equally well known to be the creatures of the railroads? Does Mr. ( zen of Omaha, know that threats are being made at the state capital by the allied railroad lobby that the city of Omaha will be plunged into confusion, property values depreei- ated and legal complications innumer- able awakened by the defeat of the char- ter, unless the Douglas county delegation surrender their manhood and betray their constituents by yielding assent to the wishes of the corporation attorneys in matters of railway legislation? Does Mr. Callaway, the general man- ager ot a great corporation, largely de- shrewd politician not overburdened with scruples, and a thorough belieyer in the Pickwickian theory of always hollering with the largest crowd. TrHERE must be no deals or comprom- ises on the charter question. The Doug- 1as county delegation owe something to the state as well as to the city of Omaha. They cannot afford,and their constituents will not ask them to sacrifice their man- hood tojsave the charter from defeat. The responsibility for the'defeatof the charter will be laid on other shoulders than those of the Douglas delegation. NTIAL poll of the democrats of the Pennsylvania legislature showed a majority in favor of Hill for the next candidate of the democracy. The opin- ion of the supporters of the New York governor was that he would be very much stronger with the labor vote of the state than Cleveland. A large majority of the democrats in the Massachusetts legislature favor the renomination of Cleveland, with Hill most prominent as a second choice. The republicans in the legislatures of both states are largely in favor of Blame. Tne legislature shculd not adjourn without passing a law abolishing stoves and oil lamps in railroad passenger conches, Steam heating is practical and feasible. It is alreudy in operation on the Boston & Albany road and on several otherlines. It can be used efiectively on our Nebraska roads in spite of the pro- tests of the railroad managers. The single accident on the Vermont Central losu sixty lives every one of which could have been saved if fire had not been added to the horrors of the full, The car stove and not the broken rail wrought the dreadful work, Tue veteran Cassius M. Clay is infus- ing a good deal of excitement into Ken- tucky politics by an atiack upon bourbon rule in that state which is characterized by his usual boldness and vigor. o has been speaking nlmost nightly in various parts of the state for the past two weeks, arraigning democratic methods and goy- ernment as practiced for the past twenty years, and is said to have found the more intelligent and progressive democrats ripe for reyolt against bourbon domiuna- tion, Mr, Clay -is understood to desire the republican nomination for governor, and his candidacy would give to the cam- paign a national interest. It is not prob- able he could be elected, but he would certainly greatly reduce the democratic majority and thus start a disintegration which might ultinately redeem the state from democratic rule, THE recent announcement that the em- weror of China, through his various goy- ernors of provinces, had issued a procla- mation to the subjects of the empire and to the whole world that henceforth there should be no rehgious intolerance in China, is gratitying evidence of progress in that quarter of the world, It is pro- claimed that every city and village in the ‘whole Chinase Empire shall be free and open to christian missionaries, who will be allowed to lease lands and build churehes and preach the gospel; that the entire army and navy of China, if neces- sary, will be applied to the enforcement of this religions toleration, and that no merey will be shown to any who attempt to stir up religious strife. Perfect free- dom 15 assured to Chinese subjects to ac- cept christianity, and they will be pro- tected from violence and every form of intimidation, the only condition imposed being that if they become christians they shall remain loyal to the emperor. The government has fully indemnified the nussionaries and their christiau followers who recently suffered from outrage in saveral parts of the empire. The present emperor of China has given other evi- - dences that he is not the least susceptible among modert! rulers to the intluences _ which make for the enlighteiment and dyancement of mankind., pendent uvon the good will of the com- munities from which it draws its patron- age, imagine that such a position on the part of his road, with the consequences certain to result, will be a paying in; ment in the long run? Studying the Bill, Now thart inter-state regulation of rail- roads has become inevitable, both the railroad managers and their patrons have begun to study the bill with the care which its importance demands. The conclusions arrived at are interesting when compared with the loud protests of a few wecks ago. Then, congress was informed that the passage of the bill would mean cither the destruction of the railroads or the ruin of the west, through neral reduction ora general ad in all through rates ana a ruinous com- petition as the result of forbidden pool- ing. Now men like Pool Commissioner Fink; probably the best informed expert in the country on the theory of suceessful railroading, openly declares that thelaw as passed is clastic enough to aptitself to the conditions which may arise without materially dam- aging the corporations or injuring com- wereial interests, On the much abused long haul clause, Mr. Fink obsecrves: “1f it can be shown, for example, that it costs a railroad more to carry freizht for fifty milesover its road than it costs to carry the same kind and quantity of freight one hun- dred miles, this elause would be an author: tion for charging more for the fitty mile service than for the onc hundred mile servie or if it can be shown that the rate to the end of the one hundred miles of a road is water transportation, hardly suflicient to pay the railroad the cost of doing the work, with- out any, or without an ayerage profit in the capital invested in the road, therailroad com- pany would be justiied in making a lower rate to the station one hundred miles dis- tant that [t does to the station fifty wmiles distant, provided, however, that the rate to the fifty mile station s reasonable in itself— not as low as the cost of water transportation would be, but not higher than the cost of railroad operation and a reasonable interest on the cost of the rond. The shippers at the one hundred milo station enjoy the natural advantage of their location on a navigable river, while those who live in the interior are necessarily under disadvantage. This dis- crimination exists In the nature of things,— it is not unjust; it is not the result of the arbitrary action of therailroad transporta- tion companies, who arecompelled to regulate their charge in accordance with the circum- stances acd condition of the situation as they find them,” The clauses prohbiting rebates and discriminations will be generally received with favor, They cer- tainly will in Omaha, where our wholesale dealers are now suffering from the action of the Union Pacific freight department in rebating to Kansas City merchants the difference of 10 cents a hundred over Omaha rates on shipments to Grand Island and beyond over a dis- tance of 125 miles greater than from Omaha, while our jobbers are completely cut out from Kansas territory. The Cost of Congress. The appropriation bill for th> legisla- tive, executive and judicial branches of the government aggregates over $20,000,- 000, In its present shupe it is nearly half a million dollars less in amount than the sum appropriated for the current fiscal year, and more than §500,000 below the estimates of the secretary of the treasury. Additions that will be made between the two houses will doubtless bring the amount fully up to the estimates, and may exceed them. The cost of congress is un nteresting part of the information derived from this bill, The appropriation for the senate is §508,369, which does not include $41,000 asked for to pay private secretaries to senators who are not chairmen of com- mittees, and which amount the senate will certainly add and the house will doubtless allow, The salarics of the seventy-six senators amount to $350,000. There are 216 officers and employes re- quired to wait upon. these . seventy-six | senators, at an annual cost of §300,330. ently frank and manly in his relations | It thus appears that tbree attendants are necessary to each sénator, the average annual pay of the attendants being $1,301. But as the attendants are employed not more than ten of the twenty-four months included in a session of congress, th average sf 8 cach for the time actually em N I'he house is relatively a less expensive body. The salary of a representative and a senator is the same 0) & year. To pay the 831 members of the house re- quires ar. But the repre- sentatives do not require, or at least do not have, <o much attendance as &et tors, and the employes are not asa whole €0 well paid in the lower as in the upper braneh. The house has 304 officers and employes, less than one to each member, and the annual pay roll for these amounts to #343 113, an average of §1,244 for cach. The difference in favor of the house is an a ze of §143 u year for each employe, amounting for the number of the senate employes to a total of §81,75 Members of congress aro atlowed twenty cents a mile both ways by the shortest route between their homes and the capital. This costs annually $14 It appears that the per as shown by the fignres of the pending bill, amounts to £131 and to representa- tives $533.20—the senators as usual ha ing the advantage. For contingent e penses, embracing a multitude of requiry ments, some necessary and some not, but for all of which the dear people must pay, the bill provides §60,980 for the senat which divided per capita would give itor #921, and for the house 37, which wculd give to each mem ber §312—a little more than a third of the senate per capita from this fund. The figures of the pending bill show the annual cost of congress o he $2 aad this amount is more likely to be in creased than reduced. They also show that exclusive of the annual ) senator costs the people to provide him with attendance over £5,307 per annum, and each member of the house §1,540. The willingness of the Ameny “house of lords"” to generously provide foritself has ulways been understoord, but the wide disparity in the relativ cost of the two houses to the people exhibited in the above figures, is not generally known or suspected. Such tacts are very likely to strengthen the opinion of those who rega the wisely or not, as a more ornaments than usetul i ot our governmentai system, while they can hardly fail to in- crease confidence in the popu ranch of congress as the more pradent and con- seryative guardian of the public purse. Shall the Lobby Rule ? For nearly six werks past the state capital has been besctand the two houses of the legislature b ed by the most disreputable and onealess lobby which has ever disgraced the political history of Nebraska. The ablest and most characterless of corvoration attor- neys, the most debauched and venal of broken down political hacks, reinforced by a horde of bums and dead beats, have formed the personal following and body guards of the railrond managers who have camped on the trail of the legis- lature to corrupt the people’s repre sentatives and - defeat the expressed will of the voters of this commonwealth. Forty rooms in a single hotel have been hired by the corporation managers to house their corruptionists who have swarmed in the lobbies of the Lincoln inns and alternated in their attentions to the gin mills and dens of vice and to such members of the legis] as they deemed suitable vietims I'rom the day when the senatorial con- test opened, the railroad lobby has been the most prominent factor in the work of the legisiature. With' a brazen dis- regard of common decency th flaunted th disreputable in the of the and cu on their harlotry in reckless defiance sentiment and private political procurers of the not hesitated to crowd the floor two houses at thestate capital, to stand bebind the ehairs of members and in the full light of publicity to debauch mem- bers under tihe shadow of the statue of justice and in (he very presence of the law making power of the state. No wonder that Senator Caspar, as he indig- nantly watched from his seat the prosti- tution of the sacred trust committed to the people’s representatives, exclaimed in the white heat of his passio **The mso- lence of these hirelings has become un- bearable. When [ see these pmid attor- neys hanging over the members and bringing pressure upon them I fsel like taking a club and cleaning out the whole outfit,” Senator Casper's indignation will be shared by the entive state, T'he question to which the people will demand an answer is whether the rule of the lobby shall or shall not be broken, even if a fow necks must be slightly strained to ac- cowplish it, Tue elections in Canada will occur next Monday, and the campaign is now in its very hottest stage. It has not been couducted with absolute regard for the amenities, but on the contrury hus ex- hibited not a few of those characteristics which politieal methods in this countr are charged with being largely responsi- ble for, but which really scem to be in- separable from polities everywhere, For mple the dispatelics report that the opponents. of the government haye dragged the wife of the premier into the contest, simply because she possesses a diwmond necklace given her by the prese ident of the Canadian c railway. The claim is that this was the price of concessiors secured by the railroad from the government, which as reflecting upon Sir John Macdonald might be passed as Justitiable campaign material, but there is something more implied in the decla ration of one of the opposition leaders that *Lady Macdonuld wore the price of her shame around her neck This is carrying the bratality of pohities beyond the American limit, and serves to show the bitterness of the fight in Canada, or more particularly in the maritime proy- in where the policy of the govern- ment has been most severely felt. The defeat of the government would not be surprising, as the present indications are, and it will certainly lose ground even if successful. ——e ONLY something like ten days and then this legislature adjourns. Tt is indeed true that a kind of Providence tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. Nothing personul in this regarding Mr. Agee, | ought to be promptly refunded. DoUBLE taxation is oppressive and un- just. The county tax for the maintenance of the insane should be abolished and the moneys due under the decision of the sapreme court from the various counties The legislature every session makes ample appropriations for the maintenance of the insane asylums, Itis absurd to tax the counties in addition by a special levy based on their representation of inmates. Enoungh 18 a8 good as a fea: NeBrASKA City has a school for the state's blind; Peru boasts of a state nor- mai school: Beatrice 1¢ the proud posses- sor ofa home {orthe feeble minded; Kearney glories in a roform school, while Norfolk is happy over her new insane hospital. Yet with this Jiberal distribu- tion of public buildings every other town in the state yearns for a state nor- school. Verily, whither are we ting? Wit the legislature should do, in- steud of wasling time on windy “rail- road commission™ bills, is to adopt a tariff for the Nebraska railroads to fol- low, Theidea of charging overone dol- lar to earry goods three hundred miles is surprising, and yet the figures tell their'story. Tie way some of the members are pleading for new insane asylums cer- Lainly sugg msanit A man tavor- ng these many wild bills should be com- pelled to plainty define his position. ACCORDING to figures being presented, a short haul is a very expensive luxury. The bill for along haul, however, loses none of its terror, Other Lands Than Ours, The roaring farce of ““I'rial by Jury" is once more being enacted in Ircland, where the cases of the crown against the nationalists are now in progress. The courts are organized for conviction under rulings from the beneh and harangues from the erown coun which would dis- grace apolice court in a troe country In tho first panel for o jury every name was thrown out because it bore the Irish prefixes of O’ Mae and Fitz, and every Juror finally sclected was only chosen after a rigid examination which scemed to prove his unfriendliness to the Irish canse. In the words of an Iri Nationalist the uces of convietion are a thousand to one in favor of the govern- ment with a packed bench, a packed Jury and subservient court oflicials. The seandal is so great that on Wednesday sixty British members of the house of commons at a conference adopted a reso Iution to call the attention of parlinment next week to the alleged packing of Juries m the eases against nationalists in Ire- land pledgeds themselves to arouse public sentiment in favor of fair play. sult of the election in North An- last general election, is in some respects aworse blow to the tor rnment th the recent repulse of Mr. Goschen in L erpool. The 1 previous vote 1,249 10 1,910 in favor of the conservative candidate, but now the same home raler s polled 858 for the « liberal-unionist, the gaininz onl i ‘his isa net ous toryand 424 f : combined oppos ast el gam of 633, 4 if the eanse of the Par aking headway in the Protest * =" Mr. Gladstone an d his supporters have evidently determined to make the Burn- ley election a test one with the tory- unionis They have selected their best man, Mr. John Slage, o wealthy manu- factur ot Manchester, which town he formerly represented in p ment, us their candids He is interested in vari- ous enterprises in the borough and is a generous and popular employer. Mr, ands, the late member, who repre- sented the constitueney for eleven years and who was very much liked, only seratehed in last July by a majority of forty-three. bably win the seat this time for the G onians. He contested the Darwen division of Lanca- shire last July against Lord Salisbu son and deserves the preseut preference, e The German elections next Monday are awaited with feve anxiety throughout Europe. The appeal which is to be made to the Gorman electors by their emperor can hardly prove wholly fruitlessf it takes a different tone from thatof Bismarck’s speech in the reichstag, Som jeets who eare little for the di nce between a septennate and a triennate may b ate to deny what is hikely enough to be the last request of this character that he will make of them. Yet to postpone the manifesto until Saturday is a little hke the device against which the American poli- tician warns his followers when he tells them to “‘beware of roor! s published too late to contradiet.”” It is quite cvi- dent that, when even the pope and em- peror are bronght m to help him, Bis- marck is making a tremendous eflort to carry Monday's cleetions, 1t is clear, too, that there is o great deal at stake for Germany in this contest, The cause of ap militaris has been committed to the suecess of the current elections in an unusual way, The issue made by Prince Bismarck between parliamentary and imperial control of army matters doubtless need not have b defined, but havihg b the sequences of the struggle be more momentous. It is evi dent % that the tde is setting strongly in favor of Bismarck and his military machine. The progressists are evidently weakened by internal dissen- sions, and only the socialists, of the op- position factions, are fighting with great enthusiasm and hope ot gaining ground. It must be remembered, however, that the news from Germany is likely to be colored more or less in the interests of the government, and the ecase of Dr. Windthorst's followors may not be quite so dubious as it looks from this distance. France is gving the army par little campaign material, and it wo seem that the German electors must soon weary of the attembts to excite their must ¥ patriotic fears of invasion, * *e Brussels 1s now the prey of a war ex- citement hke that prevailing in Paris and Berlin, - Belgium has not only *put her forts;in readiness but has even mobil izod her troops to protect her territory from violation by belligerents, The task sct for the little kingdom is a trying one. The elaborate eoncessions of her neutral- ity in divers FEuropean state papers she feels to be worthless; the presumed pa- tronage of that neutrality by England might have been worse than worthles since it might have led & less alert cou try torely on it. Belgium, however, 1s aking betimes her measures of self-pro- tection, and is even talking of a general conseription. Her unpromising outlook is the pettiness of her utmost force nst the resolute attack of either of her powerful neighbors who may wish to use her territory as a highway. But this is probably outweighed by a con- sefousness that eit of them will think twice before intruding upon her soil at the peril of giving its opponent Belgium as an ally,.with her vast advantage of a flank position. " e Austro-Hungary has at last taken the threatening step long ago anticipated and wholly prohibited the exportation of horses, Russia set the example several days ago, and it looks as if somebody was prevaring for a cavaly campaign on a hugo seale. Nevertheless, peace may be mamtained for an indefinite period. Prelimimary war measures are too com- mon in Europe to mean much. *" The volumes written in Canada during these exciting days of the political cam- aign may be boiled down to this: The als when in power accumulated a debt of § ,000, or the rate of $1,446 - 100 a year; the tories have contracted a ic debt of $176.556,000, or $12,600,000 per year. The tories reply that they haye ralroads and other things to show for this great outlay, and the liberals retort that the other things consist ot oflicial jobs, useless wars and bribery funds. W, The death of the Mhce of Wagram, a son of one of the marshals of the great Napoleon, reealls the extravagance of the first empire and the heavy burdens that were laid upon the people in order that imperial favorites might bo sup- ported in luxury and idleness. Unlike some other mushroom families which thus ennobled, but which rapidly beeame extinet, the Wagrams have clung to existence and to pensions with wonderft n now a de- scendant remains to inherit the annual income of $60,000 that has been paid from grandfather tograndson for the last ighty years. aty It has been a very rare thing in the history of English politics that an amend- ment to the queen’s speech has been 3 xdin the house of commons, and th defeat of Mr. Parnell’s amendment not, therefore, so very insignificant. The debate b et of showing that the tory srmined that it will grant no concessions to Ireland, while the ealm and dispassionate utterances of Mr. Parnell and his followers cannot fail to haye an influence on public opin- ion attempts to enforee further senting his bill to the legislature. 1tis hoped that it will be KINGS A ar and czari; are to visit Austria and Germany i the spring Queen Vietoria will buy some of Frenel crown off, Empress I eth of Anstria is going to Amsterdam to be put through the massage cure, The king of Corea has made a study of for- 2u inventions, social eustoms and political ations. Prince Henry of Windsor eastle next Knight of the Garter. King Lonis of Portugzal has conferred the order of Knight of Sauntiago on the Ameri- can doctor, W. J. Hoffwan, The festivities attending birthday anniversary of the emneror of Ger- many will last from Mareh 19 to 26, The prince of Wales has set the fashion of wearing a big double watch chain across his vest, where it can be painfully visible, Queen Marg of Italy, does all her own shopping and is very well able to take care of herselt in managing lw:x;‘ dUH.IL‘SUC the ramonds soon to be auctioned Prussia is going to month to be mnade a the ninetieth ss Elizabeth of Austria will go to Amsterdam at the beginning of March to re- ceive for the second time the massage cure of the tamous Dr. Metzger, Tsni-tien, the sixteen-year-old Chinese em- peror, assumed the responsibilities of goy- ernment. His wife is a great beauty. He selected her from a lot of over one hundred 5 sent to him for inspection, King William, of Holland, will, February 19, celebrate the seventieth anniversary of his birth, In almost every Netherland village and town there will be great festlvities; in every church a service will be held: and there will be a general distribution of bounty to the poor. A Nebraska Jottings, Ashland’s waterworks will cost 13,000, Lincoln is trembling on the brink of a real estate boom, Mindenites are cndeavoring to revive the board of trade, Thirty-six converts were scored at six weeks’ revival in York. A branch of the Irish National league has been organized at MeCook Nebraska City is promised a large box factory. ‘I'his will facilitate the planting of kickers, A county seat Frontier county, with Curtis anc ville in the ring. Mus. Johin Conley slid off a load of | on the road to Seward and died of the juries sustained. Lincoln real estate went up sev. s Thursday night. The town treated to a shower of mud, The short horn gamble kicked out of Crawford, bu tessionals stand in to watch the MeCoo k's new band go outside the ion limits to § co und their contest is raging in Stock- quence. A verdant Lincoln youih, while visit- ing relatives at Ceaar Rapids, Ia., was Leld up by footpads Monda relieved of all his valuab) Plattsmouth’s mossbacks are unfurling s Lo eateh the distant rumbling I rise. Prici e suflening with the approach of spring. The temperance freshet i Thayer county engulfed 1,000 tipplers in thirty days. As a consequence & bushel of corn will now bring three straights and a schooner. Her name is Mrs. George Clark and she bosses a farm near Niobrara. Her claims to fame rest on 700 bushels of corn husk; last fall to replenish the family purse and to break the monotonous round of do- westic dutie: The new and elegant Grand Army hall y night and in Hastings will be dedicated next Tues- day. Hon. John M. Thurston will desert the railroad lobby in Lineoln long enough to preach to the veterans on the beauties and benificence of republican institu tions, lowa 1 N Fort Madison is planning for a new college, Van Buren connty has 9,843 residents who were horn in lowa. I has twenty-seven evening and n morning daily papers. sport has a cooking school, and gentlemen are invited to attend and re- ceive instruction, A veteran of the war L. Chapman, died near Davenport lately at the ripe age of eighty-soven years, Hardin county now has nineteen 1n- mates in the insane asylum at Independ- ence. They cost the county about $3,000 annually. At Des Moines a boy is dangerously il from what the physicians decide is in- flammation of the covering of the stom- ach induced by constant exercise at coasting, Captain Adam Hine, an old river man, steamboat owner and captain, died at Keokuk Sunday night, aged sixty-seven years. Ue was postmaster at Keokuk during President Polk’s administration. During the recent heavy sleet storm a Kka county man came upon an eagle moyements seemed to be curiously hampered in a manner that rendered his flight impossible, The noble bird had been out all night and was enveloped in a complete cont of mail so heavy and thick that he was almost helpless. o ;\0'-\' adorns a fine cage in that citizen’s house, of 1812, Leander 1 Dakota. Twenty-four inches Sully county. Frozen whisky is sold at 10 cents a chunk at Redticld. A colony is being formed at Pierre to locate in Alaska. It will leave Pierre about May 1. The fourth annnal encampment of the Dakota and Army of the Republic will be held at Jamestown March 22, 23 and 24, Out of a list of seventeen bachelors at Keystono who three years ago resolved never to marry, eleven are now marriced and two arc soon to be. The storm was so severe in Hughes county last week that many of the settlers were obliged to tunnel their way out of snow drifts that nearly buried their houses. The territorial legislature is wrestling with the railroad regulation problem. As usual, the monopolies control the upper house, as is shown by a single sentence in a late dispatch: “The Elliott railroad bill, fixing the r imum rates, will pass the house, but will be killed in _the sen- ate " Dakots has copied the Nebrask method. of snow covers —_— - A World or Seemi H. A. Blood, in the Century, It is a world of seeming, ‘Che changeless moon seems cl ‘The sun sets daily, but sets So near the stars and yet so far; So small thev seem, s large they are! Itis a world of secming, And so it secms that she Is dead, Yetgoseems only: Her life 18 just begun ; 1s but an empty chr While she, unseen t¢ a Now wins her way in brighte Beyond this world of seeming, e e Her Hospitality, Detroit Free Press: “*Ihese moun- taineers are the most hospitable people on earth. It is a rude but genuine hospi- tahity. They would share their last loaf with a stranger within their gates. The lateh string hangs out for all.” We were riding down a steep Rocky nountain trail, my friend Clate and I, when Clate made the remark quoted. He was an enthusiast over che nobie trait of the honest miner and mountaine Certain experiences of my own had maae me skeptical on the subjeet, _Atthe base of the mountain stood a te, *'I'll prove my the- dinner time, and we're woly I'll'wager any- you e that we'll get a good Hmuul at that cabin free ot er we stood before the closed door of th L “Hello!” roared Clate. ‘There was no reply. . ““Hello, Isay!” This time Clate rapped loudly on the door. There being no response, e lifted the lateh, when the door swung open, showing no one within, although the cabin was evidently being oceupied ‘CAllL right!” Clate cheerily. “Come right on in, Ned, and we'll forage ‘round what we can find in the The folks won't care. t the door open on purpose ers like us to step in and help It’s just like them. It's rner who knows what true hospitality is.” Clate “foraged around” for some time, but all he could find was a piece of dry salt pork and a few potatoes, “We'll help ourselves to what there is,” said Clare, cheerily. *“You build a fire, N We're welcome to what we've found,’ I'll bet on that, for—'"" He stopped. A tall, lank, grim-visaged woman, with a leathorn-looking face,sud- denly appeared at a back door. She saw Clate, and yelled out: “Drop them taters!” A “Why, madam, I—I—" “You drop th®n taters!" “We are strange and - “*Drop "em." A shotgun hung on the wall. She snatched it down, brought it to her ehoulder with a jerk and said: “Drop them taters too quick.” Clate dropped them, “Drop that pork."” Clate dropped it. ow you fellers git,” “I had’ already got, but Clate, abashed and rebuked though' he was, lingered until the shotgun w again: pointed to- ward i aod the woman nuiJ “Clear yourselt! Il learn you how to 1k into 2 body’s house and help your- self to one's vittles. That bacon and them taters ain’t to be bought for love nor money, let alone et up by you uns fer nothin’, Now you light out " We “lit out,” hungry and erestfallen, and Clate has been dumb ever since on the subject of western hospitality. o , madam, Stanley As a Bmoker. Pall Mall Gazette: I never allow the luxuries of lization to demoralize me, and 1 never was a gourmand, shall be happy when I set foot once more on Af- rican soil and I fall readily into my old nowmadi W of life. ~ Tea, coflve, wilk, tobacco, but stimulints seldom. ‘es, here | smoke six cigars a day. In a ) have my pipe and mild tobicco. not begin to smok il [ was twenty-five, and could not pple with @ pipe until 1 was thirty. Since then | have always found tobacco a sol and an aid to concentration. I remember when I on one journey down the Congo we were just about to enter a most dangerous country. I knew that s fight was ineyitable and told my men to r ready. 1 took au obseryation, lighted my pipe and simoked for five minutes to settle myself for the action. We w. Arrested for Dee frauding an Insurance Company, Superintendent Cornish, of Pinkerton's detective ageney, and Chief Inspector Hanscom escorted to police headquarters a man who, according to the certificato of death, was drowned more than four months ago, says a Boston dispateh of February 9 to the New York Sun, At headquarters he mot the man who hal sworn to sceing him drown, and wiio way so mad that he exclaimed: “You fool! It you got out of the way why didn't you L out?’ These two men, with two othiers, were arrested for conspiring 1, defraud the United States Mutual Ac dent association out of $5,000. One of the conspirators took out a policy for that amount, and soon afterward was ported to have been drowned, Applica. tion was made for the insurance moncy, but the conspirators made one or two blunders and failed to get the cash, The story of the conspiracy, as confessed by the supposed drowned man, is this: Early last summer Henry J. Thomas, of Cambridge, Charles L. Frost, of Nortit Andoyer; and Walter E. Bray and Eugeno L. Saunders, of Chelsea, were discussing schemes for making mone They de cided to try & plan for defrauding United States. Mutual Accident ass tion, of New York. On June 8 The rocured a blank application, and Saundors filled in the necesaary answors to interrogatories concerning “his health ana general condition. A policy of $5,000 was taken ont, and Mary Leonard passed as Thomas’ intended wife, # made the beneficiary. It was understood that Thomas was to die at a certain time, and that the money would be equally dit vided among the conspirators. Two as- sessments were paid, and then the men thought it was time to act. On the morn- ing of September 30 the four men met in a saloon in Boston and decided to drown Thomas in Beverly harbor. —Thomas wentto his room at West Springfield street, packed all his things, and took them aw. Then he went to Beverly, and met Bray and Fro: They spent some little time in discussing who should Thomas in his voluntary sacrifice. st was chosen, and he and Thomas went to the doc Frost and Thomas spenttwo hours in examining the yacht Mayflower, which lay along side of one of the wharves, and at sundown they went to the ralroad bridge and hired a boat, That was the last that was seen of them until to- 5 ite that night Frost returned to the bridge alone, and re- ported with every appearance of grief, that the boat had capsized and thut his companion was drowned. He said he rehied for the body, but without suc- All he could find was his friend’s hat, which was in the boat. After telling the boatman where to look for the body, he drew a wallet from his vest pocket and paid the man with a note that had not been wet, The boatman did not no tice this important fact until after Frost's departure. The papers announced the death of Thomas, and on October 2, Mary Leon- ard telegraphed to the secretary of the msurance company, claiming the amount of the poli The agent visited her to make the usual mquiries, and found her restaurant at No. 86 Dover street. 1sked her how sho had learned of the accident, and she promptly replied that she had seen the account of the drown- ing in the Journal, which was taken reg- ularly by the proprictor. The agent had not seen it, so he went to the proprietor sked for the paper. The man said he did not take it. The girl's confusion made the agent suspicious, and an inves- tigation was begun, After patient shad- owing, a man who partly answered the description of Thomns ‘was scen visit- ing the woman, and was traced to Taun- ton, wi he went by the name of ecently moved to Cam- police went there to ar- , you are looking pretty well for a man who has been drowned four months,” said Chief Inspector Han- seom. Thomas recognized IManscom and turned as though to run, but the in- speetor stopped him. e ' pretended he didn’t know what the inspector meant. He_denied being “Thomas and stoutly maintained that his name was Thompson but when Detective ‘Thornhill produced a picture of him, taken before his alleged departare from this world, he confessed., ¢ said that he and Frost rowed around the barbor until a sp ed hour. Then they rowed to the shore and got out and met Bray y then jumped overboard * m water up to his waist, und eareened the boat until several buckets of water had been shipped. ‘Then he got in again and rowed back to the bridge with mis sad tale. Frost was arrested in North Andover y, and protested until confronted ith Thomas in Inspector Hanscom's of- fice. The men stared at other with- out a sign of recognition. Then Frost went up to Thomas, touched his face and 1, facetionsly: = “He's alive, that's “Yes, I'm alive,” was Thomas’ tighting for onur lives a few minutes afte wards and the battle went on for hoy Livingstoue never smoked. " - Editor Carroll E. Smith; of the Syra cuse Journal, is & candidate for congress to succeed Frank Hiscock. retort, The woman heard of Thomas' arrest and fled. ———— A Team With Golden Horse-Shoes, From the Colomial Muml: In the ye 1855 a storckeeper named Cameron, carrying on business in w was known as the Woolshed, Victoria, was elected first member of parliament for the Ovens district, and he had the bonor—unique in the history of the colony—of " being driven in” triumph from the Woolshed into Beechworth in a gig with tandem team, the leading Lorso of which was shod with gold. Just before the election an eccentrio individual, known as Tinker Brown, who had made a lot of money on the diggins, suddenly purchased a circus, with tents, horses and wagzons compicto, and, com. ing into Beechworth with his company, he offered to drive his newly eleeted member, and supply golden Lorseshoes for the oceasion, The Woolshed bosses, who were greatly elated av the result of the election, warmly took up Brown's iden, and they resolyed in uxhni.m, to nt thewr member with a diamond searf pin. The horseshoes were made by a work- ing jeweller named Toticld and weighed nine ounces each, The team was driv from Woolshe /g far as La Sere On removing the shoes of the i or (a piebald circus horse), they were found to have lost a to- tul of one und three-fouths ounces. Be- foro Tinker Brown died he willed them to a married danghter keeping a publie house at Waggn Wagga, They i existence until about four years ago, when the owner had them melted and turned into sovereigns, L : Searchin r Buried Bonds. St. Joseph Gazette: When (' Ebenezer Blackiston died some two wecks ago it was thought that his 1ite wonld be worth not less than $200,00, but, Judging from the way matters look now, it will not yield more than one-half that amount. It is believed that he had about §100,000 worth of government bouds which cannot be found. Iu 1871 he had over $75000 mvested in 520 sovernment gold-bearing bonds, which ore interest at the rate of 6 per cent. His son-in-law, William N. sworth, helped him cut the semi-annual interest coupons in that year, which amounted to $2.500. The bonds have never be heard of from that day to this. His heirs are under the impression that he had them buried sowewhere in the neighbor- bood of his late residence, but on sccount of the suddenness of his death he could not tell his family where 1o find them. In e by he had s habit of burying his money and valuable pupers. During the war ho was knowu to . bury 000 i Elwood, Kan.