Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 2, 1887, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY MARCH 2 THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERVE OF SUBSCRTPTION | Daily Morniax Eaition) Inoluding Sunday Bre, Ono Voar “ For Bix Monthe For Theoa Months . The Omahn Swndny B, mafled to any address, One Y ear. o 4 AN 918 FARNAM STR R Trinese Bt 11 FOURTRENTH STREET CORRESPONDENCE: All communications relating to news and edi. | torial matter should be eddressed to the Eot- | TON OF THE Brk. BUSINERS LETTRRS: ANl bueiness otters and remittanoes should be Addrossod t iy PUBLISHING COMPANY, | OMANA. Drafts, checks and postoMeo orders | 0 be made payable to the order of the comp THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPBIETORS. E. ROSEWATER, Entron. MATIA OPPICE, NO. F W YOUK OPPICE ASTHINGTON OFFICE, THE DAILY B Bworn Statement of Circulation, te of Nebraska, | ounty of Douglas, { Geo. B. Tzsehnek, secretars of Tho DBee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual cirenlation the Daily Bes tor the week ending Feb, 23th, 1857, was a3 follows: Thursday Friaay, Fet Average...... eeveraiisise vuies GrO. B, 'T28CHT Subscribed In my presence and sworn to be- fore me this 20th day of February A, D.. 1557, N. . Frir. ISEALI Notary Publle, Geo, B, Tzschuck, being first duly sworn deposes and says that he 1s secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual & erave daily eirculation of the Daily Bee for the month of Fubrunry, 1853, was 10,595 for March, 1896, 11,557 copies; 159, 12,101 copiés: for for May, ' 1886, 12 e for June, 1686, 12,208 coples: for Jul 1 copies; for August, 185, or September, 1856, 13,050 copie: October, 156 12,98 coples: for Novenibe 1886, 15,48 conies; for Decenber, 1856, 13,237 copies for January, 1887, 1 hles, 3 Gro. B, 123C1TUCK. Subseribed and sworn to before me this Sth day of February A. D, 1857, [SEAT P. Frar, Notary Public. brilliant | disgraceful | contra Oxatia should bid high enough to so- cure the next soldiers’ reunion. Useess a saving clause is found, ex- tending 1ts time, congress will adjourn on March 4. Trere are many Nebraska towns smil- ing over the flattering prospects of s curing competing lines of railroads this year. Govenxor Hivs would hike to be pr dent. But as there are many more men possessing the same mad desi ernor, IN a bogus attempt to hang hin: actor time.”” rescued, tears. 1f, an was recently rescued ‘‘just in When it was found that he was the audience was moved to BurrALo BinLhas chartered the steamer Nebraska, and will sail for Liyerpool with his “WilWost'" about the 26th of th month, sick Indinn would present “A MAN who fec! at he hasa mi is vory apt to become a nuisance,” re- marks the New York Zelegram. Can it be that the editor of the Republicar is hugging tho delusion that he has a mission? on Epiror ROTHACKER is just now accus- ing respectable men of “comingirom the gutter.”! To g se Mr. Rothacker of yuch an act would do him injustice. e 8 going the other way. CiAwGES of bribery have caused an in- vesligation to be commenced in the Kan- sas legislature, Those who profess to know 80 much about bribery in the Nebraske legislature may be call to “'a tale unfold.” 1IN the war between the saloon keepers and temperance peovle of Sioux City, it appears that the temperance element is the strongest. All the saloons of that town are now closed. It wasa long fight and a very © one, A wrograrcan sketch book contain- ing the brilliant of all the lc tors’ lives reveals the fact that th only six single members in the hou It is now made plain why the woman suffrage amendment was defeated. nE president has been accused of many things not at all tattering, but when he informs the senate that he would call no extra session unless some unfore- seen contingency arose, ho gave utter- ance Lo a seutence that certainly resem- bled statesmanship. Tk cheerful announcementis sent ont on eager wings of love, that a southern state proposes to enact a law, making it ulegal for a man or woman to get mar- riod within ten years after a divoree has been granted. Here of late the south is becoming cruelly and painfully pious. A REPRESENTATIVE of the Standard Oil company 1s suid to be in Lincoln fo the purpose of greasing the members, and socuring the defeat of the bill pro- viding for a state oil iuspector, If Mr, Henry B. Payne will remain away from <ne legislature, it is thought the unholy scheme of his representative can be throttled. Tar passage by the senate of the house bill to prevent the employment of con- viet or alien labor avon public buildings or public works, or in preparation of ma- terials for such ouildings or works, is another gep gained by the labor inter- osts of the country, Hitherto the law requiring oflicers of the government to 1ot contracts for public buildings or pub- lie works, or for materials for the same, provided for the acceptance of the bids ot the lowest responsible bidders, without regard to how or where their material was to be prepared. When the secretary of the treasury was appealed to to stop the preparation of stone by convicet labor for the public building in Peoris, he answerced that the law gave bim no such power. ien congress was appealed to, with the above favorable vesult. The Lill will undoubtedly be s by the president and will still further narrow the field of conviet labor. It does more, for it excludes aliens from employment on publie buildings or works, thus re- serving to our own citizens the employ- ment rightfully belongiug to thew, and to that extent tending to restriet our ex- Qessive immigration. He Failed to Explain. When the cuttlefish finds himself in close quarters he darkens the water around him with an inky fluid that baffles his finny pursuers. As un imitator of the cuttlefish the fresh, flashy and fast young man who edits the Republican is success. He has shed great quantities of ink and filled a whole column with glittering gali to cover his flight from a com in which he has been worsted. The exposure of his knavery has left him no place to stand on. He has utterly failed to mect the charge about that sent through John Sahler to a certain ctor. That message, we are sured, was a provosal to the party to si- lence the guns of the Republican in their harmless bombardment of the peniten- tiary bill. The elegant young man, whose associates at Lincoln have been chiefly bar-room bummers, notor- jous jury fixers and low dive gentry, talks a great deal about his social standing, but forgets to explain that tell-tule message to Contractor Mosher, The chaft about what John Sahler said to some other oil-room com- panion before a witness has no bearing on Mosher’s statement with regard to the rejected prope for hush money. In- asmuch ns ile advised Mosher to decline the thousand-dollar ten- der of peace and good will, it would seem t the message was not fabricated by Sahler for his own benelity as such proposals are lable to be when the go-betwyeen who carries them wants 10 pocket the greater part of the buodle. Nebraska 1s not as good a field as Colo- rado for negotiating peace proposals at 50 much per piceo. One Chance Left. There are yet remaining one or twvo days in which bills may be mtroduced in the legisiature. Will the people of the F through their repr dives, s cure any relief from the reckless piracy of railrogue mghwaymen? Will the brief time remaining in wh s can be introduced, be taken advantage of, or will the sume ruinous and extortion tolls be exacted for two yes it possible that the vagabonds who swarmed around the state house and the dram shops at the capital, have abso- Tutely checked all honest legislation? If, us it seems, they have gained the end sought by their railroad masters, a dole- ful parody it ison justice and decency and sobricty. And when the adjournment takes place how can the legislator explain his posi- tion? After silently consenting to le; such frightful robberi re be committed every day, how can est man eyer face those by whom he v elected? Must it again be recorded that one hundred and thirty-three men, the chosen represontative of the people, as a body, have lost their in- tegrity and surrendered to the common enemy ot every producer in Nebrask Have promises, flattery and passes de- feated within forty days that which hon- est men and unbought newsp: havo labored unceasingly for two years to ne- compish? Tho recorded procuedings of the legislature have so far answered these question Yet one ray of hope s left. The one remaining day may bring forth the long desired remedy. The chances are against it but we will still hope. The Bek has already shown by figures obtained and printed expressly for that purpose, that the farmer now gives over one-half his crop to railroads, in order to market the remaining half. It hasshown that railroad companies are dealers in and owners of all the coal the people of Nebraskaburn. They place any price they choose upon such a necessary arti- cle, and wll there is to do is to accede to their greedy demands, or, that whis i mpossible—go without. We hav message ase cent of the article’s value. The who pays the bill is only an agent of the produc The producer is the con- sumer. Before obtaining possession of the articles, he pays the freight charges. The appalling picture pre- sented is sumply this: Fifty per cent to ship his crop to the market. Whatever amount Lie spends out of the remaining half, 25 per cent of it goes to purchase the necessaries of life. The margzin left ig small mnde His protests agaivst the robbery are as idle as if he would ** the moon.” His pleas fall upon closed ears, All of the extravagantand drunken lobbys maintained at Lincoln, during legislative sessions, are paid for by the same farmer who voted for a represent ative from whom b3 of rig it expected re- licf, Many members of the legislature pockets full of passes on different lines of railrouds. Pullman car gratuities are numerous. These members are wined and dined and the farmer pays the bills, The wrongs mentioned actually exist, To recount them requires no vivid imag ination. An almost impoverished and plun- dered constitucney asks for redress and demands that some relief and proteetion be afforded. This is the forticth day. Will the afternoon witness Justice visit the capitol have Two Years of Trial, On Friday at noon of the fourth instant orty-ninth congress passes into his tory, and one-h Cle land’s term will have expired. The - coming of the lirst democratic adminis- tration since Buchanan retired was hailed by that party withsomething akin to the joy of the Israclites when their long wanderings in the wilderness were concluded. Duaring the forty years of their travels, however, the Lord’s chosen people had this advantage, that the land to which they jonrneyed was a goodly Laud, flowing with milk and honey and other desirable things; that the Lord's promise of their ultimate possession of it was sure, and in the meantime they were fed upon manua and quails. To our wan derers for more than half the years that the Israelites tramped, the land of office looked equally attractive, but there was no guarantee that they should ever reach it, and meantime they had no quails or manna, but had to root in private hife or Ve, But they reached their haven of hope at last, as much to their own surprise as to others, only to find, however, that their leader was handicapped with what they contemptuously regarded as s hobby, and that while the milk, the honey, the sugar and the luscious grapes were there, a large number of the heathen stdl sits at the public table while the foot-sore wanderers look ou with bungry eyes. Can it be woadered at that they doubt the true democracy of their leader, and feel that the rewards of their accidental victory have been denied them and that the Dead Sea fruit has turned to ashes upon their lips? And yet what can they do? Becanse they cannot got the loaves they dare not strike the hand that withholds them, lest they tay not get aven the crumbs, And so they take here a little and there a little, mean- time casting about in every direction to find a truer exemy of their faith, a spiritual son of the sainted Juckson to tako the place of the vencered Cleveland | two years henece, ause the Israelites rebelled it ed that they should abide in rness until all those who came iy pt should have passed away, leav ing to their children the fuliillment of of the promise. But of onr democrats thousands of the Old Guard still remam, and they have been faithful to all the shifting ereods, tortuous way se pre- tenses and corrupt practices of their party during these wea twenty- five years of hope deferred. Their backs are overgrown with moss, their limbs are stiffened and their feet are covered with corns from annual marchings in proces- sions that ended only at the place of be- ginning. To these faithful old cam- prigners Mr, ( nd said that past party services established no claim upon offices, and straightway they looked to see if the sun shone, if water ran down hitl, and if sced-time and harvest and summer and winter had not failed. These old democrats do not under stand Mr. Cieveland; it is doubtful if he understands himself. Notwithstanding his allianee with and pledges to the mugwumps he has followed democratic precedent just enough to show that he could go much farther. He violated the tenure of oflice law aud detied the senate in order to put democrats into ofiice, but having practically won the victory he disappointed his party in failing to use it for the party advantage. He has origi- nated no national policy, he has fulfilled none of the pledges of his party’s national platform, and he has largely re- duced his party’s majority in the house Al this in two years; what promise does it e for the next two? Clearly the promise of & glorions republican vietory in 1888 was the out The President Angry. Authentic Washington sent the president us very angry with the democerats who voted to ov the 1o of the dependent pension bill. He is said to have expressed his vi in very decided language to those who have called upor him, while several have felt the force of the exccutive displeasure, It is charged that two bills providing for public buildings were vetoed to punish their authors who voted against the veto, and other measures supported by demo- erats who could not go with the president in opposition to the dependent pension bill are thought to oe in peril of a veto ould they get to the excecuti He is 3 Az rst Matson, the n of th lid pension commi tee of the house, who in the course of the report adverse to the veto produced an endorsemient which Mr. Cievland had made sev rs ago accompaning his signature to a petition for the passagze of a general pension bill. There will be a difference of opinion as to the propriety of having eited this endorsement but their appears to be no doubt that the c¢ir- cumstance very greatly exasperated the president and has marked Matson as an outeast from the exceutive favor. This is not o new revelation of the cholerie tendencies of Mr. Cleveland, and he is a8 obstinate in his anger as in all other respeets. He has shown his disposition m this particy he heeame president, toward the s and the newspapers, and its exhibition has rot always been m adue regard for the dignity of L 1t1s his misfortune that he cannot hrook opposi tion with & patient and munly cquanin- iy, leaving hig vindieation to time and events, His supreme self-sufliciency ren- ders him intolerant of any question as to the justice and completeness of his judgments, whieh generally bear the im- press of a dogmatic will, and all ense of deference or nimity toward opposing But the question sugeested this last ebulition of exccutive wrath is, how far ean Mr. Cloveland go, having consideration for his future, in this matter of ant democrats? If he hoves to remain where he is, hasn’t he gone al- ready considerably beyond the line of afety? It 15 a good deal less difiieult now to designute his encmies than his friends. The forier are the most numer- ous element of his party in his own state, ani they have a leader who seems to be toadily making headway. Among the democratic newspapers of the country the ablest and the strongest are unfavor. able to him, and are exerting their - fluenc y to his injury. ‘The leading democrits in the national senate are not his friends and have not hesitated to pro- claim the fact. T'he treatment accorded the chief policies of his admimstration in the house has dem)nstrated that he is not particularly scrong there, and now he invites n further weakening of his 1old upon the party by declaring hostili- tics against the thirlysix demoerats in the house who could not conseientiously sustain his veto of the dependent pen- sion bill. With regard to some of these democrats we suspect the president will not carry antagonism to a very great length, Randall and Holman, for ex- ample, voted to pass the bill over the veto, and it is hardly probable they will suffer seriously from execcutive dis pleasure in consequence of their action There are a fow others who will also es- cape. But Mr. Cleveland ean really not spare any of them if he tinue where he ie. If some of the organs are not grievously m n he is losing fast enough in the party without driving men from him. But nobody ecan cer tainly say that Mr. Cleveland wants any- thing more of the party, and there are some circumstances which suggest that he does not. spires to con- Doctor Miller Retires. Anothor notable event in the press cir- cle of Omaha occurred Monday by the sule and immediate transfer of the Omaha Herald, and the retirement of Dr. Mil- ler from its editorial management. It is but a few months since we had occasion to note the sale of the Republican, and the retirement of Messrs. Yost and Nye, Dr. Miller's withdrawal from the journal- 1sm of Omaha is, however, more nota-, ble from his longer connection with the paper be bus becn chiefly instrumental in building up from small beginnings. For more than a quarter of a century Dr, Miller has been a prominent and power- ful factor in the politics of Nebraska, and an influential citfow®in the building up of Omaha. A man of positive charactor and pronounced individuality, prolific in resources and aggressive in methods, yet of kindly impyilsgs, just in character, and above all meangess in pursuit of his aims, won the esteem, respect and aflection of thos#in™his profession and the community af large. He had just enough of the small weaknessesof human nature and of personal peculiarities to make him gompanionable and lovable ns aman, When such a man has wrought long, faithfully and well in his chosen avoea- tion he has earned the right to rest from his labors and to the peaceful enjoyment of the fruits thereof. And yet there will be general vegret that his familiar form will not be seen on our strects as of old. Our good wishes go with lim in his retire- ment, and our hope is that his days may yet be many in the land By the adoption of Mr. Riddleberger's resolution for the publication of all the papers and documents on the senate files relating to the rejection of the nomi tion of Jumes C. Matthews, Clevels colored striker from Albany, to be re- corder of deeds for the District of Col- umbia, the senate took a step i the direetion of public exccutive sessions, for if publicity is not objectionable in one case, why should it be in any? Mr. Rid- sted against the confirmation, not for the reasons assigned by some other senators and a portion of the press but beeause charges had been preferrved against Matthews to the effect that he had gone to colored men employed on a public building in Albany and had threatened them with discharge unless they voted a certain ticket, and he de- sired that his constituents should know the reasons for his vote. Mr, Cleveland's anxiety to recognize the wan will thus be shown to have a very sub- stantial democratic foundation. Whena colored man ean be found in the north capable of coercing the voters of hisrace on the public works to vote the demo- cratic ticket, he 18 too uable an ally for that party to negleet, and we ar sure that Mr, Cleyeland will still find a ¢ to care for his protege. colored I is very likely that the bill passed by the senate to ereate a department of ng- riculture, which should embrace the labor bureau and the weather buresu, and be in all respeets on an equality with the other dopartments, will not get through the house. 1t is said the president is not. friendly to theJmedsure, and that he had notified the éhatfman of the Louse committee haying the bill in charge that he did not want it to pass. This state- ment is not aecompanied by any intima- tion of the president’s reasons for oppos- ing the bili, and 1t is not easy to make a satisf v surmise of what these n be. Itis probable he does not regard the proposed change as promising any real advantage to the interests affocted, while it would add something, though not great deal, to t 1" expenditures of the government. 50, he does not find any ple contemplating the adaition to his oflicial houschold which the bill provides fo. It might mar the harmony that now prevails. But the fact is the agrienltural interests of the country haye shown no united or very earnest interest in the matter, and in . fault of this the friecads of the bill in con- ress have labored at a great disadvant- age. AtE resolutions calling upon the seerctary of state for information have not recently been suecessful in securing the knowledge sought for, It is the priv. ilege of a department to decline giving information ealled for by congresson the ground that to do so - would not be com- patible with the public interests, and within a couple of weeks the state de partment has twice refused requests of te on this convenient subterfuge. renson to believe, however, that the unfriendly feeling in administration cireles toward the senate had quite as much or more to do with these refusals than concern for the public interests. So strong is this fecling that some time ago, as will be remembe rd went asiray from 4 precedent in sending the original copy of an oflicial communica- tion that had been enlled for, referring o the fishery question, to the house and the duplicate to the senate, It was a puerile way of showing his disrespeet for the body of which ather and he were members, but the seeretary was piqued, and he has demonstrated that in that con- dition he ean do petty things quite as casily us men in less exaltcd positions who have not so much chal stake. Waatkves else fails, itis always safe to count upon the suecoss of the river and harbor bill. [tis the medium through which nearly every member of congr nabled, directly or indirectly, to com- mend bhimself to his constituents, and no othergeneral measure ever quite so strong a hol: this one upon the solicr tude of a majority of corgressmen. This was illustrated yesterday by the way in which the eonterence report was pushed to its passage despite the efforts of Mr. Randall to postpone action in the inter- est of other bills. The appropriations under this bill for the next fiscal year are not much in excess of last year, but the meusure ns add importance from the appropriation of $50,60) for the Hen- nepin canal enterprise, which has been knoc the door of congress for sev- Ii the Ditl receives the ap- proval of the prestacut it will comm t the government to the construction of the nal, and probably necessitate the en- ment of the Illinois and Michigan lor the imyrovement of the upper Nlinois river. The advocates of the pro posed waterway, however, find an ob struction in the president, and thus are not without appreheunsion, Tue army of clerss which has tilled the corridors, the galleries, the el and committee rooms of the state house, will perhaps be mustered out in a few days The men and women, boys and girls comprising this rauk aund file, upon curing their discharge will return to their several homes, Oth with their occupation gone. ceived from the state “pensions" to the amount of $15) per capita, There were 111 cmployes in' the senate and a corre- spondingly large number i the house. An increase of at least 25 per cent. over two years ago, Iu1s sald that the girls “attainments, but h and women worked hard—chewing gum, looking intelligent and drawing their sal- ary. The men and boys also worked hard keeping up personal appesrances 50 as not to be mistaken for legislutors. ANTICIPATING falliugoff in commerce with the United States, in view of the pro posed retaliatory legislation which is now almost ceriain to fail, € da has had in contemplation the granting of subsidies to a line of steamers to the British West Indics. 1t might be a good thing for her to do 1n any event, but thelastnews from Washington will suggest to the Dominion government that there is no necessity for precipitate action. The indications are that she can continne to do business with us just as she has boen doing, regardloss of her own conduct toward this country hitherto or hereafter. Tue United States senate on Monday passed two import measures in the in- terest of the labor of the country. Both originated in the house, one being the ar- bitration bill and the other the bill to pre- vent the employment of contract or alien labor upon public buildings or public works, or in the preparation of material for public buildings or public works. Both moasures have been publiely dis- o and very generally approved, and went through the senate without amendment. They will undoubtedly ve- ceive the approval of the president, .\1‘(7|=i.\l1 LITERARY TASTE. nator Ingalls likes old English and is well up in sclentitic literature. Senator Hoar is regarded as the best thonity on American history in the body. Senator Hale has one of the finest libras ries in Maine, and is well read in general literature. Senator Eustis speaks and reads French like a native, and is fond ot yellow-covered novels, Senator Ransom runs to Latin and dotes, especially on Hc whom he is tond of Yuoting on his specehes. or Beck is fond of poetiy and can ro- ; “Lady of the Lake” without a slip from beginning to end. Scoator Joo Brown, of Georzia, spends most of his time perusing musty volumes of public records aud documents. Among the senators who write for maga- zines or other periodicals are Sherman, Hoar, Ingalls, Ransom and Hale. Senator Vest is a great reader of the Bivle and knows wholo chapters by heart. All seriptural facts in dispute aro referred to him. Senator Sherman is a elass’eal scholar and reads French. e seans the newspapers, but does not believe in reading a book until time lias tried it. Senator Joe Blackburn is well informed in shorting matters and can tell the record and vedizree of every fast borse in Kentucky without looking it up. Senator Payne is not noted for his literary is fond of biography and travel, and has more reminiscences to tell than most any man in the senate. Only a Side S Chicago Times, The Jersey leislature may be a great attraction in t east, but it Is only a side show to the cireus at Indianapolis. novels au- w. Honest but Miaguided. )\ York Merald. These prohibitionists are honest folk—no one doubts that: but their voliey is fatal to social progress. They want the millenium pure and simple, and they want it all atonce, ol Mean, owell € ou meet the fellow who is earnestly declaring that he owes no man anything just cently that the na- tional debt averages about $25 per head. -~ Grover Must Ask David's Consent, York Sun. eland get the New ¥ ork delegation? He certainly cannot if Gos nor Hillis not willing. And it Isn’t certain tie can even if Governor HIll is willing. tis about the way the thing stands. — The Model Buckeye State. Cleveland Leader, Wlhen our contomporaries of other states talk about eertain Ohlo statesmen for second place on either ticket for 155, they will pl ¢ remember that this is the state of more good presidential timber than any other in the unfon, The next time Can President Cle - Not Fond of Work. Lonisville Courier-Journal, Because a few monkeys have been em- ployed in Kentucky, it should not be unde d that the people of this state have any desire to interfere with labor. Indeed, Ken- tuckians have no disposition to monkey with the labor problen, bt e el » Patrick Proetor Alerander, Come to me now! O come! benignest sleey And fold me up, as evening dotir a tlowe From my vain seif and vain things which have power Upon my sonl to make me smilo or ween. And when thou comest, O like death be deep! No dreainy boon have L ot thee to crave. More thin nay come to him that in his gray Is heedless off tho might winds how they SWOOD. I have not in me half that cause of sorrow Which fs In thousands wio 1uust. not coin- plaing And yet this moment, if it could be mino To lupse and vass in sleep, and 5o resign All that must yet be born of joy and pain, arcely know It 1 would wake 10-morrow. Nebraska Jottings, Two hundred tour mills ave in tion in the state, Hard cloyes are aspecifie for mild edi- | disturbances. Kearney has three brick sehool houses, seventeen teachers and 763 school ehul- dren, Serious doubt exists in O'Neill whether u prize ring and a bank will thrive to gether in the communit The O’Connor Democrat is now owned and controlled by M. G. Gearon, who swung the editorial mallet on the Omaha Dispateh a few Norfolk’s proposed hotel has shape. [t will cost §30,000 ana will b m sixty to eighty roowms, with all mod- orn applitnees for comfort and suicide, Muny of tho small cities of the state,” says the Beatrice Democ fare trying to emulate Beatvice and On in the tate boom. Lincoln, Hastings and braska City are among fhe number.” The board of directors of the Chadron works company have commenced sary legal proceedings in claim- ing the state award of §4,00) for the coal discovery, Plattsmoutners talked of t & mass meeting Saturday night, It was a strange subjeet for the pa s and was tenderly turned over to committees with power o act. Custer 18 probably the banner county of the state for newspapers there is now one to about every 1,100 of popula- tion, with a good prospect of averiging one o eyery 1,000 soon. The first number of the Western Re- sourceg, & publication just issued at Lin- coln by ex-Governor K. W. Furnas and H. 5. Reed, has appeared. It 15 a six- teon-page monthly, and will be an im portant factor iu building up the entire west. It starts out with an initial edition of 10,000, “Lhe Plattsmouth streol rallway oo opera- to take future at ny has been incorporated, capital 000, The signers of the papors are muel D, Mercer, of Omahs; C. E uires, George K. Dove Frank Car ruth, Robert B. Windham M. Patter son, D. Hawksworth and almer. The com y propose to build as soon as a franchise is granted. Rushville has a genius who modestly hides behind the name of Sylvester Pres ton. Recently he compounded s mix ture of powder and grease to wean the ealf of bis feg. In an absent minded moment he rosted it on & hot stove. The seene following was elevating. Preston went through the door without li the latch, and the stove is far removed from repair. The experinrnt thoroughly ned hin. The last number of the O'Neill Frontier ng. & poem of Dprosperity in Ttcomprised glowing ch r he Poor Man's Mecea: A Land Flowing With Milk and Honey; Holt County the Eden of a Garden State; Its Resources and Advantage O'Neill the County Sext, [ts Business Men, Citizens in General, Social and Religions Advant. ages and Schools.” No better adver tisement_for the county has been issucd and it should e pianted generously in the crowded east. ““I'he Pipe of Peace™ is the appropriate name of o littlo 9x12 paper issued by the managoers of the Indian school ut Genoa. It contains a number of contributions from the scholars and news of the school in gene! Mary Jones, a Yankton Stoux maiden, writes, ‘‘Something for Boys to Remember,”” and gives the fol- lowing advice to young braves: “Some hoys never care to take of their hats when they enter avoom. It is not polite for the boys to wear their hats in the hous And when they see or meet anybody the should touch their eap or hat and mak bow to them instead of never thinking that he or she is a gentleman or lady and not even saying anything kind wiich will make them glad and happy.” ‘Thomas Sissons, a Roscbud Sioux, writes that ‘‘cows are 1 vory u. hd well-known animals. Thiey have ears, horns, cyes, mouth, tail, logs and nose. Some cows have long horns and som 't have any. They are of diflc . The cows are some times W f they roam about th fiel nd hills. They were little calv once, but they became cow, Towa Items, Dubuque county schools cost §106,- 980).82 in 1886, The receipts of Dubuque county for 1585 wore $225,145 and expen 274,85, ‘The Turners of Davenport have raised £40,000 of the required $60,000 to build their contempiated hall. The old trees that have served their purpose as hi landmarks in Lolk county are f. i ames Garneau, jr., of Omaha, has in- vested $8,000 i a chunk of Sioux City pstate, and airy visions of a branch crac| tory arc tickling the tender- feet. oux City is troubled with what the timid beheve to be tremors of the earth, when in fact 1t is delivium tremens knocking at the back door for soothing syrup. Charles Donnelly, of Buchanan county, convieted of manslaughter, being denied anew trial by the supreme court and a pardon by the governor, has located at Anamos: Bisbop Cosgrove,of Davenport, has ad- ministered the rite of confirmation to an average of 210 per month sinee his elev: tion to the episcopate two and a half years ago. Prof. Foster’s storm for March 1 b been shipwrecked on some foreign shor for which the natives are truly thankful! The professor gives ’ important storms this month, as follow: 8, 13, 19, 25, 31. J. Sharp and wife, boarding at Tracr, wi ofiicer of Garrison and taken to that | ce, where the wife's father and the wisband’s other wife will put the second et on the board Last week at Ames an association was formed to be known and to do business under the name of the Central Towa lm- porting and Breeding company, with capital stock of $160,000. Headquarters are to be at Ames. Frank Hedge, of Oskaloosa, known as Frank Henry, a saloonkeeper, made abet that he could drink a gallon and a half of whiskey within two hours, He won the bet, but died within half an hour after taking the last drink. At a school examination m Avoca the question, ‘What are the chief products of the United States?'’ was asked, th answer to be submitted in writing. ' On of the scholars, a very honest boy, and in good faith, submitted the following answer: “Presidents, governors and congressmen, " Regarding the report of the ercetion of another Catholic diocese in Jlowa, Bishop Cosgrove stated to a reporter of the Day- enport Democrat that there was no foundation for it. *“I'here has been no request from any source for another diocese in fowaj if there were Bishop Hennessey and I would be apt to know it, for, in fact, the request must be made by both of us, for a new diocese must be composed of parts of the diocese of Dubuque and the diocese of Dayenport. Yet this report would have the publie be lieve that the project has been considered at Rome, sanction and the appoint- ment of a bishop is all that is lacking to consummate it.” who have been e arrested by an Dakota. Kimball proposes to invest §5,000 in a school house. Hotels and saloons capture most of the business of the Hills, he legislature is doing Montana at the expense of the Northern Pacific rail- road. 1t comes high but it pay The Keystone Bachelors' club is busted. Everything but the minute book has married. Too many blizzards. There is more snow in Miner county than at any time since the winter of 1880, Farmers and every one are sanguine of good crops. It is thougnht the present winter has yielded the lurgest number of cases of death by freczing than any in the history of the territory, An owl was captured at Madison, nearly pure white in color, that meas- ured six feet from tip to tip of its wings. It is elassiliod with a species known as the Arctic owl, thut on&»‘ visits tins lati- tude in the severest winters, Cheyenne's five alarm system will soon be in working orde Two thausand acres of the ranch at Chimney Rock are to be s with fa to sk Inspector Towner reports stock in excellent condition on the ranges ad- jacent to Laramie. Cheyenne proposes to cultivate and assist nature in ifying the purk sur- rounding Lake Minnehs Dounglas is kicking like a gi fly time aboutesnow blocl Hurrold eded y mule in delayed males is displayed in Cheyenne, visit the cell of MeCoy, the border des orado,” who killed Constable Chas. dunn at Douglas, and endeavor to mak a hero of him. Such maundhn idioc hould be rigorously excluded from tho inil. PLATT ENTER, Letter from Town. Prarre Center, Neb,, Feb. 28 spondence of the Ber.]—Everybody is standing on tiptoe trying to find what will be the outcome of the survey somo railroad 1s making by way of Platte Cen ter. The surveyors are running a lir from Schuyler up the beautiful and m fortile Sheil Creek valloy by Platte C, t If this road is built, which is almost A certainty, Platte Center will be thor road center of the county, 1t 1s reported that a large eattte ranch will be locatod within a quarter of & milo of the town as s0on as spring opens. Cat tle men are negotiating for about 1,00) acres, with the intention of feeding an- A\ Newsy a Thriving [Corre 18 and « r he Elkhor wait for the rather thun ‘The recent blizzard is said to have ban- isned sicknessin Cheyenne. Death itself could not resist for a moment the elevat- mg fury of & woderate *Magic City” breeze. W. P. Carroll, poet, jour: doctor and cowman, 18 again gracing the staft of the Cheyenne Leader. Life. to him outside the reportorial den was a dreary, profitless waste. The usual lusacy of sentimoutal fe- inconvenierces. road prefers to to raise the blockade hovellers more than sun piy alist, lawyer, nually between 5,000 and 10,000 h Our representatives in - the e, Sullivan, Fuchs and Bowms raised a powerful and telling indigna- tion among their constituents. Our county is overwhelmingly Van Wyok. Our represontatives know it,and yot not single man voted for him., W quu Sull- van's and Fuchs' names are registerod on the Omaha Herald's roll of honor, they. are blacklisted by every hone farmer in this county, and could not be elected again for hmast The bill (house roll No. 110) itroduced by Representative Sullivan and wire worked through his branch of the house, and now pending in the senato, is one of the most outrageous moasures ever concocted. By this bill Mr. Sulli- van is trying to compell Platte county to build abridge across the Loup river almost within her corporate limits. This bridge is for the benefit of Columbus at the ex- pense of the entire county. Over cight hundred petitions and hundreds of Tot- ters from our most influential farmers, protesting against the passage of the bill, have been sent to the legislature, but Mr, Sullivan refuses to represent the entiro county, and is working for the bill. A man who thus ignores the wishes of lis constituents,would ride a rail in first-class of the rave its y night John Fitzgerald branch Irish Nutional Land leagne first annual entertainment Mon of last we An imme: ling to overflowing Hon. John P. Sutton. tonul secre! made an addres Center and viemity, presented the league with a very bhandsome flag. The hall was beautifully decorated, After tl exercises were over, something like two hundred couples ced vntil the small hours of the morning. M John A. Kui‘mn and_ Miss May Dufly went to Omaha to hear Patti. The young men of this town I granized a brass band of twelve pi Their uew instruments are expected in a day or two. ‘Tho subject of removing the county seat from Columbus is being discussed by the citizens in every part of the county. Platte Center stands a good show of getting the prize, if put to a vote, Platte Center lots are being sold rapidly and bring zood prie Several n nd other entor- prises will b n the spring. A large brick shoot house will be built; also a new roller tlour mill and a brick yard to be run by steam power, CLONTARF. Ve or The Latest Theory of Earthquakes. ] Chicago News, Professor G. H. Durwin, in the last number of the Fortnightly Magazine, gives what are considered the lastest cons clusions of scicntific men concernlng carthquakes. These seem to be that seis. micdisturbances ave the result of con- traction and of the pressure on portions of the carth by tidal and barometrical changes. The high temperature found in ‘‘those little tehes in the earth's surface we ceall mines” is taken to prove istence of suflicient cnergy to pro- commotion in the earth's erust, “Ihis energy is supposed to develop in the gradual shrinkage of the earth in its slow cooling, which, owing to the lack of homogeneity of the upper luyer, does not £o on with uniformity. Onc part of the carth’s surface settles su , und there you have an carthquake, Professor Dar- win further remarks that “the sesmi ribbons are probably lines of weakness u]]nn;:y\\'llu'h cracking habituality tukes place."’ D Mioro s anothor force bosides grayita: tion working to cause disturbances of the surface of this firm earth which we in- habit—steam. When water gets into tho hot ball our carth ineases, steam is gon- erated and yoleanie eruptions, in which lava and ashes are vomited torth, are the pe valves which save us from a gen explosion. [n this view volcani uptions are a safeguard against more serious troubles, Professor Dar win is of the opinion that vibrations of the earth are going on overywhero at all times, only wo are in blissful ignorunce of them. We are in the happy condition of bemg shiken, but, not knowing we are shaken at all. Wa must be thankful that these oscillations are so slight a8 to bo_imperceptib pecially when we considergthat the vibi tion of a quarter of aninch brings chim- neys tumbling to the earth, and anything beyond that would topple many of our sk ping buildings KR e e, dations. e fit of a Building Association. ago Journ “There are thous- ands of mortgages made to building and loan associations in thiscity every year,” said a lawyer to me the other day, “‘and they ars ly given by men with narrow incomes and small capital, but it 15 very seldom that one of theso mort- ages is foroclosed. As one would ex- pect the most defaults in there y loans are among this class, bec ested in the watter, and one day a the president of one of the largest buitd- ing associations i his oxperience ac corded with my observation Ho told me the proportion of mortgages that his company had been compelled to fore- close was onefifth the number that would have tound the way to the courts if they hud been made by an ordinary loan agent and he thought his experience of all building socic ason for this that he could give that the system of monthly’ or <y payments enabled borrowers to ¢ paymonts whon they receivod their » benefit these building associations do in encouraging wage-workers o save re homes is not gen- D! ) contnued this goen- tlewan. rstand there hundi associations loeated | itha pmd up e al of several - lions, which is all’ loancd out to small stockLolders, There are thousands of comfortable homes here that would never have existed but for the aid rendercd their owners by building and loan asso- ciations, aud the larger part of thom ar among a class of poor foreignars who will be be ns If they own their nomes and have a direct pecuniury inter- est in good government, ‘Lue s0sinlist and anarchist, I am told, find a poor field for the propagation of their doctrines among their stocknolders. L All gentlemen who enjoy well polished collars and cufls should have them doue up, with Electric Lustre Starch, ly re