Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 7, 1887, Page 4

4 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY MARCH 7, 1887. THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF BUBSCRIPTION | fly (Morniag Edition) Including Sunday ke, Ono Yoar. .. .. seeve .. 81000 Yor 8ix Months 6 00 For Throe Month 200 The Omaha Sun " ress, One Y MATA OPPICR, NO. 014 AND 918 FARNAM STREET. EW YORK OFFICE, ROOM £, TRINUNE BUILDING. ABHINGTON OFFICE, NO. 515 FOURTRENTIU STREET. RESPONDENCE ! All communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressod o tho Epi- TOK OF THE Bk, BUSINESS LETTERS! All business lettors and romittancos ehould be Bddressed to The BEx PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMATA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders 0 be made puyuble to the order of the compuny, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, Eprron, THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btateof Nebraska, 1, o County of Douglas. | Geo. B, Tzschuck, gocretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circuiation of the Daily Beo the week ending Feb. 25th, 1557, was as follows: gflurillv. Feb. 19,...... -14.200 Thursday, Feb. Friaay, Feb. %... EO0. B, 'TZ8CHUCK. Subseribed in my presence and sworn to be- fore me this 26th day of Fuhrufinr‘/ A': D.,1887, . P. ¥t [SEALI Notarv Publle. Geo. B. 'U'zschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he 1s secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual av- eraze daily circulation” of the Dally Bee for the month of Fubruary, 1886, was 10,565 copies ; for March, 1886, 11,657 copies; 'for April, 12,191 copies: for for May, ' 1836, 12,430 coples: for June, 1836, 12,208 coptes: for Jul: 1856, 12,314 copies; for = August, 1850, 13, copies:for September, 1656, 13,030 copies; for October, 1836, 12,989 copies; for November, 1886, 13,348 coles; for December, 1896, 13,237 copies for January, 1887, 16,266 coples, 2 Gro. B, 1Z$cHUCK, dand sworn to before me this Sth { February A, D, 1887, AL.| N. P. Fem., Notarv Public. ife, it really looks as though Omaha might get at least one cable railway. Tue “legislative train’ between Omaha and Lincoln has been discontinued. Can it be possible that the lobby has been called in? Tue house adjourned Saturday noon. It convenes Tuesday at 10 o’clock. Un- 1ess there is more speed at Lincoln that railroad lobby will drink itself to death. TaaT man Wiggins, who once laid claim to being a prophet, cautions pcople to look out for astorm the last of this month. Mr. Wiggins is a bore and his predictions are chestnu A BRIEF in the Chicago anarchist case fills over 500 pages. It is thought that rather than be tortured with such a lengthy document tho judge will act as Spies’ proxy and be hanged. AN effort is being made to change the name of tho Wabash road. As Mr. Shakespeare would have said, that which we call a railroad, by any other name ‘would exact the same ruinous tolls. ;LLY may finally be able 1o establish his claim that Bacon wrote Mr. Shakespeare's plays, but we have grave doubts about him proving that Col. Colby wrote the speeches for Mr. Cicero. Mg. I. DonN A @riM rumor has gained credence to the effect that Sister Rose will be married soon. That poetry she has been writing of late is now accounted for. The poetic muse and Cupid are on the best of terms. — Cor. JAMES expresses it as lus desire that the capital of Missouri should not be removed from Jefferson City. In respeet to this wish of the titled statesman, the legislature will continue to meet at the old stand, Kinag HuMBERT can continue to kmight Americans, But he should be careful about bestowing his rare titles upon Mis- sourians, In this land of boodle alder- men and pious politicians to be a colonel is greater than to be a King. It is predicted by knowing ores, that western Nebraska will this year receive n larger immigration than any one year has ever before witnessed. Already tho land agents are busy, and the spriog rush, it is predicted, will be really won- derful. ‘TuE five commissioners required under the inter-state commerce law will be ap- pointed within the next ten days. The only selection made so fur is ex-Congress- man Morrison. There is considerable speculation as to the remaining four names. IN THE Fiftieth congress the senate will stand 80 to 37 in favor of the republi- cans. However, this places the power in the sometimes doubtful and most always eccentric Mr. Riddleberger, of Virginia, to make a tie any timo he should feel so inelined. Tug legislature should recognize the importance of a law which will rid the state of bogus insurance companies and ulso prohibit wild-cat concerns of other states from operating in Nebraska, A bill to accomplish this has been intro- ducedy W ill it be passed? ONE of the disadvantages of Iowa's pro- hibition was portrayed in our dispatches yesterday. In taking a drink of water a Jady swallowed a lizzard. Copper-dis- tilled snakes are some times found in whisky, but amphibious reptiles, such as the lady awallowed, take to water alone. E————————— To-morrOW, James Russell Lowell be- gins in the Lowell Institute course at Bos- ton, a series of six lectures on the old English dramatists. A half-dozen peti- tions have gone up from St. Lows, - ploring Mr. Lowell to devote one even- ing to the Chicago river and the beauti- ful In pork. CEE——— Because of one week of beautiful weather all the long-haired woather oranks are predicting storms of unusual violence, The sublimely impudent, pre- warieating prognosticator, Mr. Foster, of Jowa, has actually frightened himself by reading his own prophecies. It would be with uncertain accuracy that Mr. Koster would predict the dato that the moon will fill. Al the difference between Eli Per- .kins and a weather prophet is that Eli adwits that he is a liar, The Side-Tracked Charter. When the Omaha charter was side- tracked by John M. Thurston and Char- ley Green into the judiciary committee, the managers of the Union Pacitic and B. & M. roads at Omaha disclsimed any intention to tamper with the charter be- yond amending the railroad taxation clauge. They assured our business men “upon honor" tnat the charter would be reported back promptly almost as it came from the Omaha charter commit- tee, Have the railway managers made good their promise? Have the: kept faith with the com- mittee of leading citizens who went down to Lincoln in their interest to har- monize matters by compromi Have they kept faith with the delegation which made concessions to them upon pledges by Judge Sayage and Mr. Henry Yates that the piratical warfare waged by the railroud lobby should cease? Under what pretext can the shameless course pursued by the infamous lobby that oper- ates upon the legislature, under the sonal direction of Thurston and Green, be justitied® Mr. Callaway and Mr. Holdrege may disclaim any personal respon v for the outrageous conduct of their understrappers and employes at Lincoln, but the citizens of Omaha will not exonerate them. They cannot plead ignorance as an excuse, because the less operations of their subordinates have been matters of discreditable notoriety. It is an cstablished fact that men under their control are cxerting a corrupting and demoralizing irfluence upon the leg- islature. The mercenary and lawless horde draws 1ts sustenance from the rail- road treasury. ‘These m cant hire- lings are allowed to levy blackmail upon and gather booty from parties interested in promoting or defeating legis This shameless pillage and jobb incidental source of profit to the railroad lobby is tolerated and winked at by the managers. [tis almost an open sceret that the mulitation of the Omuha churter has been corruptly contracted by parties interested. We have every reason to be- lieve that the Omaha attorneys of the two trunk lines are working under such a contract just as they operated on the last legislature under a corrupt bargain with sportingmen to defeat the anti-gambling bill. This is a disgraceful state of facts which effects all classes of citizens re- gardless of political ereed. In any other commumty such lawless corporate interference with material in- terests would be resented. How much longer will Omaha submit? How much longer will business men and property owners look on tamely without asserting their manhood through a protest which the railway magnates will respect and heed? How much longer will the honest and decent men in the legislature who are in the majority allow the wreckers of men and despoilers of the people to tam- per with law-making? Governor Thayer's Assailants, The assaults made on Governor Thayer beeause he has scen fit to approve the bill extending the lease of the peniten- tiary contractor are uncalled for and malicious. They are inspired by no hon- orable motive in the interest of the pub- lic. On the contrary, their sole aim is a cheap bid for sympathy from the work- ingmen who are opposed to convict labor. The course of the papers that now profess to be so indignant about the governor’s action is, if anything, more hypocritical than their pretended love for the laboring man. We never have approved, and do not now endorse, the bill extending the Mosher lease. It is in many respects ob- jectionable, from the standpoint taken by the BEE for many years. But Governo Thayer could hardly be exnected to veto a Dbil which passed both houses of the legslature by more than & two-thirds vote. The only complaint which Omaha working- men have laid at his door is for the al- leged undue haste in appending his sig- nature to the biil. On this point we have no means of reaching a correct verdict, because only one version has been pre- sented. One thing is self-evident. The papers which are so loud and bitter about Gov- crnor Thayer, after he had made the bill a law, were not very loud in opposition while the bill was pending before the leg- islature. A Serions Blunder. ‘The failure of congress to pass the for- tification bill is a deplorable blunder. Not only does it cut off all provision for new or improved works, but also the means for keeping in proper repair exist- g fortificatrons. The serious fact that our unprotected son and lake coasts must remain in their present defenscless -condition for two years longer is not all; the few and inad- equate defensive works existing must lose materially in eftectiveness for the reason that there is no appropriation for maintaining them at -even the present poor standard. We have simply in this matter gone from bad to worse, with the certainty that in restoring what will be lost before congress can make the neces- sary appropriation, the cost to the people will be considerably greater than would have been the case had the last congress made the usual allowance for coast de- fenses. In presenting the reports of conference disagreement in the branches of congress, the con- ferces of each endeavored to lay the responsibility of failure upon the other. The chiet cause of disagreement was stated to have been on the question of steel or cast-iron guns, the senate con- forees insisting upon the former and those of the house upon the latter, By order of both Louses the reports will be printed so that the country may be en- abled to judge where the responsibility for failure does rest. There is reason to belicve, however, that the difference of opinion regarding the material to be used in guns was not the sole cause of disa- greoment. When this matter was first brought forward in the house Mr. Ran- dall expressed strong opposition to com- mittingthe business of constructing the new folfications provided for in the bill to a board wholly constituted of army and navy officers, and in this as in most other matters coming largely under his direction, he scems to have carried a great Jeal of democratic sentiment in the house with him. At all events there is very good authority for the statement that the demoeratic members of the con- ference committee insisted that the pro- posed tortifications should be erected under the superywsion of a board, a portion of whom should be oivilians appointed - by = congress. the two It is now remembered that Mr. Randall was very explicit in stating his want of confidence in the integrity of military and naval boards, and this feel ing wus not removed by the fact that in carrying out the then proposed measure the board would be appointed by, and its decisions and conduct be subject to the direction of, a democratic administration. It seems evident that the views of Mr. Randall prevailed with the democratic members of the conference committee, hile the republican conferces were en- tirely willing to follow the line of prece- dent and leave the matter in the hands of the administration, The difference re- garding guns was therefore, perhaps, little more than a pretext on the part of the democratic members of the confer- ence committee, who thereby escaped an explicit declaration of want of contidence in the adminiscration. If such were the fact, the country will have no difficulty in locating the respon- sibility for the failure of the fortification bill, and again Mr. Randall appears in the foreground as the arch-obstructionist. But there 1s really very little satisfaction in this, although it scemed to be re- garded with great anxiety by both parties in congress, when one reflects upon the vast interests that are left prac- tically unguarded, if not indeed im- perilled, for another two years. Protec- tion for exposed property valued at more than a thousand million dollars is what the country asked and expected, and whether the responsibility for failure be with the republicans or democrats, the insecurity and the danger remain the same. The unfortunate facts that the country is left in a helpless condition, so fur as its sea and lake coasts are con- cerned, and 1t is a fact which every citi- zen who comprehends the situation must regret. Beecher Stricken Down, The announcement of the sudden and fatal illness of Henry Ward Beecher was a sad surprise to the hosts of admirers of this truly great man, And it was indeed a cruel blow to his relatives and most in- timate friends. Mr. Beecher stood fore- most among the preachers of the chris- tian religion in this country. e was unquestionably without a peer. As an author and editor he has occupied a prominent place in the history of American literature. Given credit for almost transcendent ability, marvellous and scholarly learning, he was a profound thinker and a teacher with a wonderful following. While sin- cere in his convictions, he buldly pro- claimed his thoughts—knowing that the greater portion of the civilized world was his audience. From the pulpit of Plymouth church his wonderful eloquence and original interpretation of the serip- tures has charmed and attracted larger congregations than had ever assembled in the United States. Fearlessly and elo- quently for forty years this man las ex- pounded the gospel. And during all that time Plymouth church has been the temple where he has wor- shiped. In 1847, when he became pastor of that church, he was young—just in the strength and primo and vigor of his man- hood. When stricken he was a gray- haired man, the burden of seventy-five winters resting upon his brow. Amanof noble and generous impulses, he assisted the poor and needy and la- bored to show erring ones a better way, During the dark days of the rebellion Mr. Beecher's voice was raised for the restoration of the union. He has been an active worker in the cause of temperance, and has always taken a prominent part in questions of national importance. During his recent visit abroad a hearty welcome was given Mr. Beecher and he was received by the most distinguished divines and citizens of Europe. In his long and useful career, in all his acts as a citizen and preacher, Mr. Beecher has, with one exception, ex- hibited the highest virtues which a man can possess. Of that onesad error—if such it was—nothing need now be said. A generous world can well afford to for- give ana torget, remembering that the accused now hovers near the portals of that gate, beyond which, as he has preached it, there is eternal life. ——— Presidential Vetoes. Ninety-eight years of congressional life under the constitution of the United States have expired. Forty-nine con- gresses completed the period. If Cleveland lives two years longer he will complete s president the cen- tury that wil! have elapsed since the first president was inaugurated. Nothing so completely marks the change of theory respecting the power of the presi- dent as a co-ordinate factor in legislation as the abuse of the veto prerogative since Jackson's time. Washington in eight years used his veto buttwice. John Adams in four and Jefterson in eight years not once. Madison in eight years sent in three yetoes, Monroe in his two terms sent 1n only one and J, Q. Adams in four years not one. Thus under the first six presidents, completing forty years of our constitutional life and ending with the younger Adams, the presidential veto power was exercised but six times, if we except some private bills not in- volving any party dispute or disagree- ment, which were sent back for necessary correction. With Jackson, the canonized saint of the democratic party, began the abuse of the veto power. He it was who first asserted the right to dictate to congress by his veto what its legislation should not be, and this not in matters involv- ing great constitutional questions but merely party differences. He opposed congress in eight years with eleven vetoes, se of them being of the kind first used by bim and then first desig- nated as “'pocket vetoe Webster said in regard to these that “there was not a single instance, prior to Jackson, in which a president omitted to sign a bill and yet did not return it to congress with his objections.” There had been in- stances 11 which a president, unwilling to approve and yet not prepared to veto & measure, suffered it to become a law by Iapse of the ten days, during tke session of congress, bul Jackson was the first president . who commonly resorted to the veto as an assertion that the executive discretion was paramount to congres- sional discretion, The custom rapidly grew with the democrats, so that in the forty years, beginning with Jackson and ending with Johnson, there were over fifty vetoes. Tyler had nine, Polk three, Taylor and Fillmore none, Pierce ten, Buchanan four, Lincolu one direct and one inadver- tantly by expiration of congress. John} son had twenty.one direct and two pocket votoes. At the end of the first pssion of the Forty-ninth congress veland had far surpassed Johnson in the number of his vetoes, pocket and di- reet, and at the close of that congress his record foots up 132’ vetoes. Thus in two years he has directly and indirectly set up his personal diseretion and judgment against the action f the people's repre- sentatives, thereby defeating thewr will, 1n twenty-one more instances than all his predecessors combined did during ninety- six years, d In all (‘Iv\‘(-[}lld‘s vetoes there has arcely been thdsemblance of a consti- tutional question involved. They have been purely and solely assumptions of a judgment and discretion superior to that of a cong sent direetly from the people and the states to enact laws for the pub- lic welfare. Whother it wero the erec- tion of a public building for tho use of the government and the convenience of the people who support the government; ncreasing the facilities of interior cities for direct importation; the relief of set- tlers on the public lands from the con- sequences of the government's own acts or errors; the issue of a few thousand dollars worth of seed to a stricken com- munity in Texas, or pensions to deserv- ing soldiers, their widows, orphans or dependent parents, it was all the same. He claimed to know better what was the right and duty of the government than 50 out of 76 senators and 216 out of 325 representatives, since it would take ono more than each of those numbers to override his veto. The democratic party has always de- clared its opposition to the encroach- ments of executive power, It had its origin in hostility to the overshadowing influenco of the presidential office, de- claring that it was ‘‘aping royalty in its manners and copying monarchy in its prerogatives,”’ yet the democratic presidents from Jackson down have been notorious for their arbitrary use of the veto, or “one-man power,” and Cleve- land, the latest, surp: all the rest. There is another noted example of demo- cratic presidential assumption of auto- cratic power. The constitution says that congress shall have the power to declare war, yet James K. Polk alone actually began war with Mexico. He ordered our troops into territory claimed and occupied by Mexico, and when they were attacked, as he expected them to be, he forthwith declared by proclamation that “‘war existed by act of Mexico.” That is the kind of party, those are the kind of presidents who prate so loudly and in- cessantly about submission to the peo- vle’s will ! L Mg, Caper TAYLOR'S mission to Lin- coln last week was purely of a business character. In laboring so carnestly with members to retain ithe old board ot pub- lic works, with 1§ well-known loose methods, he merely supplementing the efforts of Hugh Murphy and the con- tractors' ring. Mr, Taylor himself would scarcely exhibit such activity about that provision of the charter had not some- body made it an object. As far as we can learn, Mr, 1’ayl‘¥ has no conception of the wants of Ommuha in the matter of charter reform, and he has no practical knowledge of the supervision of public works and public improvements in any city of 100,000 population. His interfer- ence with tho work of the Umaha charter committee, and his efforts to have the Douglas delegation overruled, can only be constrned in the one way. There is evidently a darkey in that woodpile. AN elevated rairoad in Omaha is the latest proposed enterprise. It can be built for 65,000 a mile. Itis quite prob- able that the scheme will take a definite shape in a few weeks, and in that event the city council will be asked to grant the right of way on certain streets upon condition that at least two miles be built within a certain time. It is quick transit that busy people want 1n this busy age, and the elevated railway 18 the coming method of passenger transportation in all progressive cities. Besides eleyated railways tend to centralize business, and that 13 what makes a busy city. Ir the oil inspection bill which passed the lower houso of the legislature last week is defective in any essential partic- ular it should by all means be amended. Petroleum inspection has however be- come a necessity. The expense which in- spectior: would entail on consumers is too trifling to be taken into consideration. utare has relieved Nebraska's perpetual claim agent, Pat.O. Hawes, we hope Governor Thayer will relieve all future legislatures by cancell- ing the Hawes agency. With threc mem- bers of congress and two senators to rep- resent her interests at the national capi- tal Nebraska can dispense with the ser- vices of claim brokers. —— THE most impressive wooden Indian ever gracing the front of a cigar store, would have been moved to tears at the eloquence of the forty members who wrung their hands and made piteous ap- peals for the re-appointment of a page in the lower house. Such devotion to the youth of America is well worthy of emu- Iation. IN denying a pardon asked for a forger n the Western peniténtiary of Pennsyl- vania, President Cleyeland said the crime of forgery was so hateful and so danger- ous he could not bring his mind to grant- ing a pardon in such g case. Thereis a little logic occasionally in the utterances of our president. ) STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. The Ewing Item hus been sold to A, N. Bohn. " The Baptists have dfganized a church at Chadron. i The Bloomington Justice has been sold t J. 8. Goodwin. = Weeping Water has é:.mght on to the rise in real estate. . Faurmont has voted aid to the Kansas City & Omaha road. Falls City is reaching out for water- works and a grist mill. Falls City has declared for suburban train service to Omaha. Logan memorial services will be held n Fremont this evening. O'Neill has contracted for an artesian well—""no tlow, no pay.” Nine horses and a stable were crema- ted in Hastings last week, The belligerent O'Neill editors are now slinging ink at forty paces. The Union Pacific has promised Beat- rice a round house and depot. Holdredge is banking on a population of 10,000 by the spring of 1892, The Daily Unijon, published by J. C. Burch, at \Wymore sud Blue Springs, is out, and giyes promise of being a happy one. Twenty-nine marriage licenses were is- sued in Witber during February. The state insane asylum is full and patients must scek other quarters, The Hartington by band has caught its second wind and is again in full blast. ‘Threo thousand dollars have been sub- scribed for a canning factory at Hebron. The Western Wave has changed hands. H, Porter is now tumbling in the surf Every town in the state is ‘putting the house in order™ to welcomo the spring boom. W. 0. Cudd heavy handw Herald. ‘The North Nebraska traveling men’s association is fitting up a club room in Norfolk. The country democratic papers unani- mnusl{ ery, “Let’er roll, Johnny; the black list is dead.” Excter has voted aid to the extension of the Elkhorn Valley road. The town is happy in consequence. The conundrum, *'Is Auburn Dead?"’ propounded by the Nemaha Granger, is referred to Browaville for information, Hardy has received assurances that the Rock lsland extension will cross the B. & M. at that point and make it a great junc- tion city. Dr. Stone, of Wahoo, has been appoin- ted by the governor a member of the board of medical examiners of the State university. The authorities of Nebraska City are endeayoring to induce the Burlington management to add a wagon way to the railroad bridge. The York Democrat promises a spring boom edition, on the 31st inst. it will be a sixteen page picture of the sons of York and their progress. The first March breeze from the up- lands caught furmers sowing wheat in Maple Valley, Dodge county. The ker- nels were wrapped in furs, Stockville has tightened its grip on the county seat of Krontier county. The commissioners have declared that a ma- jority of the people favor the town. Grand Island is preparing a coat of tar with trimmings for a beastly vagabond who has been exhibiting his shape to women on one of the side streets. The trial of Spencer . Bryant for dousing T. D. Colby, of Wymore, with vitriol closed in Beatrice Saturday, re- sulting in the acquittal of Bryant. Superintendeut O'Brien, of the state fish hatchery, bas gone north with 25,000 i'mmg trout to be planted in the Stuart, Bordeaux, Chadron and Verdigris streams, The town of Creighton is in a bad way. Cesspools of corruption reck the air, and unless the hog-pens are fumigated or fired out of town an cpidemic ot disease is certain, The Chadron waterworks well is down 1,000 and the money has been raised to sink it another thousand fect. The enter prising borers did not feel content to stop short at a five-foot vein of coal. The_thirtieth wedding anniversary of Rev. George Scott and wife,of Sutton, was celebrated Friday evening. Among the gifts from friends were a purse of $200 and an elegant easy chuir. The citizens of Wayne, in mass meet- ing assembled, declared that the Union Pacific could build through the town on its way from Norfolk to Sioux City. This generous declaration will relieve the anxiety felt at headquarters. A collision in the yards of the B. & M. in Plattsmouth, Saturday morning, resulted in the death of Engineer Dick Ledford. He jumped from the engine when he saw that a collision was inevitable, but was n:\u%:lt by a falling car and crushed to death. Tecumseh is recovering from a sensa- tion. A fast young man with a wife and child to support uttered forged notes to the amount of $1,000 and skippea the country. His father-in-law took up the pnllos and is ready to welcome the prod- igal. The Sutton board of trade has called the attention of the legislature to the im- rortunue of developing the coal interests n the state. It is a waste of breath. There is no lobby to back the interests of the many against the assurance of the pampered few. Editor Hyatt, of the North Bend Flail, was treated to a stunning surprise on the forty-eighth nnuivsrsnry of his entree mto the world, last Tuesday evening. One hundred or more friends_and neigh- bors caught him ‘‘at home” and pre- sented him with a massive pen and mimic sword, typica! of the profession. A year ago Sheriff Perm, of Custer county, took to the state asylum a luna- tic named Curtis Bradshaw. ~ On the way to Lincoln Bradshaw swore he would take the sheriff’s life at the_first opportunity. Last month he escaped from the asylum, but being peaceable was permitted to re- turn to his family. Meeting the sheriff in town last week he extended a friendly hand, while the other clutched a revolver in his pocket. Thz ominous click of the gun saved the officer, He grabbed Brad- shaw by the throat, disarmed him and took him to jail. Dakota, The poor of Lake county cost $2,500 in the lust twelve months, Cattle are suffering from snow and cold weather in Dicky county. The freezing of the town gump in Pierre has doubled the price of beer. Sioux Falls has laid 1n a stock of dyna- mite to demolish ice gorges auring the spring flood. Rapid City people now eat Nebraska flour, feed Nebraska hav and grain, and use Nebrasksa butter, eggs and fowl. Contracts for the right of way for the Minneapolis & Pacific railway between Fargo aud Grand Forks are about com- pleted. The Marshall county sufferers are still destitute, subsisting on rabbits and pota- toes alone. They have appealed to the legislature for aid. There are 265 fami- lies—about 4,700 souls. They lost all by the hail The Rapid City Electric Light com- pany at a recent meeting decided to re- duce the price of light and will hereafter charge only $10 instead of 15 a month for each light of 1,200 candle power. The lights burn all night, Out of a herd of 175 cattle which Mr. Lenehan, of Mandan, proposed to winter, all but fifteen have been found dead, caused by a lack of food and water. He put up about one hundred tons of hay, and when that was exhausted he left the stock without food or shelter to get along as best they could, ‘The mayor of Deadwood has notified parents to keep the boys at home at night or to make themselves responsible for their appearance at home not later than 9 o'clock in the evening. After that hour the police will see that the roaming scctions ‘of disconnected families are cared for at public expense. of Doniphan, will do the ng on the Grand Island e An Embezzler Captured, Detective Valentine, of the Union Pa- cific, retnrned Saturday from the Mexi- can border, where he succeeded in cap- turing a defaulting agent of the Unmion Pacific. The ageat was J. Conn, who skipped out from London Junction, Colo., in December, taking about $500 of the company’'s money. Mr. Valentine was put on the case February 1, and traced his man to El Paso, Tex., where he arrested him on February 12, just as he was starting to cross the Mexican border. He was taken to London Junction, whero he waived examination and was bound over to the district court on the charge of ewbezzlemeut. l A CHAIN OF HILL CITIES, The Black Hills Encircled By Young and Thriving Communities. THEIR POSITIOM AND PROSPEC1S Some Noted Characters New and O1d =The Conflict of Tenderfeet and Mossbacks -Boy- cotts and Budge, Raem Crry, Dak., March 3.—[Corre- spondence of the Ber.]—Recent growth of sottlements in the Black Hills is much more in the agricultural than in the min- ing towns—a fact that speaks for the varied resources of the country; agricul- tural, stock, lumber and building ma- terial are destined to ri her precious minerals as sources of wealth. Thus, while Deadwood and the populous min- ing camps around it remain the mining town of the Hills, the trend of settlement is along the foothills, A cordon of new towns has within a few years almost en- circled the Black Hills. Hot Springs, on the extreme south, then Buflalo Gap, Hermosa, Rapid City, Sturgis, Minnesala (on the extreme north) and Sundance, make the circuit. A town to be somewhere near Jenny's Stockade, Wyo., or at the Salt springs on the south- western margin will complete the corral of the Hills. Of the towns named all but th: ire county scuts, and of those three, Sturgis is reaching out for the honor by the division of Lawrence county (a bill for which is now pending between the governor and legisl ature of the territory while Buff alo Gap or Hermosa, as capi tal of Custer county, would be, like “*Bar- kis,” willin’, Hot Springs has its peculiar prospects 1n its thermal springs and romantic re- sorts. Buffulo Gap is the railroad station for the Southern Hills and has prospects in its stone and building materinls, which arc at once nearest to market and best of any in the hills, especially its variegated marbles. The town is only over a year old, no debt, has never levied a tax and its license roll nearly meets all expenses; so that its credit ought to be A No. 1. " But it ian’tbecau of a blundering financial policy, which allows town script to be redeemed gardless of date of issue or order of trator. The surplus warrants not needed by the liquor scllers have no market value, no one buys at any price; hence the town is in default and the liquor men control its entire finances. They are the only taxpayers and the only buyers of seript. Hermosa and Rapid City build much on the growth of agricultural interests, The latter has the advantage of ample water power and will add manufactures —if she can manage to suppress a few of her factional “leaders,” who are inclined to the canine-in-the-feed-box policy. Her strong position as the entrepot of the central and northern hills seems about to be enhanced by fresh movements for the development of her nearer mines, which have been overshadowed by the rapid development of the upper hills, A special letter needs to be reserved for these movements, Minnesala, the capital of the nortt most hills county of Butte, has lately been taken in hand by the Minnesala Townsite and Improvement company, organized by Hon. John H. King, of Rapid City, who has purchased new lands and water power and secured the removal of the town thither. One of the advantages of the new removal is that it lies in the track to the Hay Creek, (Wyo.) coalfields. There is already a road organized and surveyed from Deadwood thither via Minnesala; and the same fuel district 1s the objective point of all roads reaching toward the hills. I have seen correspondence with the head of the Northern Pacific, which foreshadows the company's intention to strike for this sec- tion from Manda They lately sent an expert to examine the Hay Creek coal, and the tests are said to have been satis- factory, as this correspondence followed. The Northern Pacific has long had a “‘weather-eye' turned this way, not only for the coal, timber and ore exports, bat to protect its large caltle shipments from Dakota and Wyomin;i which are al- ready invaded by the Northwestern and prospectively threatened by the B. & M, Union Paci and other trunks. The distance across to the hills from the Northern Pacific is only 210 miles and the route lics through the rich valleys of the Little Missouri and Belle Fourch. Sundance, Wpyo.,, is the capital of Crook county, a good range, mineral, petroleum and agrlcultural area of 10,000 square miles—larger than Mussachusctts, New Jersey or Maryland; it would ma five Delawares. There is already emi- gration from this section to Sundance, and much buildingis in progress or pro- posed. ¥ These foot-hill towns, except Rapid City, are all small yet; there are no *'booms’’ on; but we have leavned in the west to ‘‘despise not the aay of small things,” and to dread the hind end of a boom and a mule that has been prodded too much. A BLACK-HILLS CHARACTER. The sudden death of cx-Probate Judge Benedict, of Pennington county, removes a prcturesque character and a disturbin clement in republican politics. His ad- munistration of Rapid City school funds in his hands was one of the chief causcs of the defeat of almost the entire ticket last fall which he had been renominated to head. Ifenr that the rebuke went far to break the old man’s heart. He was a very large, unkempt person with a thin, strident voice, un earnest manner tesque speech, that combined to n a character on the stump or in court—for he graduated from the bar l)lncer to the bar legal. Hi, heart wasas arge as his frame, and his oratory as ex- pansive and untrammelled as these grand Hills—albeit, unconventional and defiant of petty grammatical limitations. His metaphors invariably reached the anti- climax and generally brought the re- ductio ad absurdum and the house down —aresult not less ludicrous because evi- dently unexpected to the earnest speaker. His extravagant kindness and extrava- gant sayings will be alike long remem- ered in the camps. Referring to the e itor of the Republican, with whom he once had a controversy, he said: ‘‘He thinks he's done o big thing, and he’s gone out therc onto the strect with his countenance shining like a new tin milk pan in the mid-day sun, looking as wise and pensive as a settin’ hen, 1 might as well try to convince a small boy that his corn-stalk fiddle was not sweeter musie than his mother's piuno as to convince that man that he is not the greatest journalist 1 the countr; He was foud of com- imring the se of his ent or party to larney Peak and the other side to the point of a cambric ncedle, or various other exceodingly diminutive objeots. The general verdict is, “We could better have spared a better man.” With him passes sway one of the landmarks ot the old regime in politics, law and society. “The old order changeth The newly elected dist attorney of Custer county takes n novel method to recoup for 1oss of salary, the county com- missioners having reduced the same. Ie proposes to adjust his services to the re- duced pay, and the other day in a pre- liminary "hearing in a criminal case ho appeared and put the defendant through up to the rmnt where a motion to com- mit would have been in order, when the district attorney suddenly changed front, and sunouncing that he Knd followed the case as far as his reduced pay weut, or- dered the discharge of the prisoner, This makes the punishment fit the crime FORTY ROD VS L The liquor se e Rapid City Electrie Taght company has col- lapsed, and many of the doused glims again shine, ‘The liguor shrank from the conflict they had invited, One of the expatriated Stonx City saloon men who had just opened a place at Rapid City, took the electric hght in the face of the boycott. When remonstiated with by his spirituous compatriots he is re- ported as -:umf: “For God's sake, don't suy nnvlhmi: about fighting the prohibi tionist I'll tuke the electric light and anything elso for peace. I've had cnough fighting prohibitionists ' OLD-TIMERS VS NEWCOMERS. ‘The smelter project at Rapid City is in a state of syncope between the contend ing factions of “Old-Timers" and “New- Comer This is not the only enter- prise that is thus “sat on.” The country could 1 export a choice lot of piggish old-timers and toofresh new-comers, While the smelter sleeps one or two train-loads a duy of ore for reduction are pussing through Rapid City to Omaha, and other millions of tons of low-grade ore that w not bear transportation charges are lying on the dumps or un- covered in the mines—the measure of nen's »acity to be blinded to theirown nterests by nar and passion. MRS. GREEN'S MILLIONS. She Has Added to as Well as in New York, Chicago Herald: Hetty Green, the richest woman in America, comes to Chi- cago once in & while to attend to her enormous real estate interests here When in town sho usually stops at the Soutnhern hotel, & humble but respectable hostelry, where she takes a room without fire, and for it, with board, pays $1.25 a day. The last time Mrs, Gregn' was here the weather chanced to be wintry, but she went around town wearing an old black straw hat, a black ve shuwl. Sometimes she stops with a sis in-law on the West Side, a poor woman who has a pretty hard struggle to get along. Stopping there is even cheaper for Hetty than at the Southern hotel. When at her sister's she docs her own washing to save luundry bills. Just after the great fire of 1t Green loaned about $500,000 on m in Chicago real estate, gilt edged and at a stiff rate of interest, On a portion of these loans sho finally foreclosed, and gradually pur- chased other property, until her tc - vestiment here reached something like $300,000: This )m)&mrly is now worth nearly a million. Much of it is down- town business property, earning a hand- some revenue. It 15 to look after this property that Mrs. Green oo casionally visits Chicago. Her agen- never knows when she is coming, as sht has a habit of droppingin on him una- wares. She is a\'crf‘ keen old woman, She goes about to building after building, inspecting walls and floors, looking after the work of the janitors, ete. Her last visit to Chicago is gre: regretted by a colored janitor employed in one of her buildings. He saw a cranky-looking old woman prowling about premises one day, and, not getting sa replies [t terrogatories, he threw her into the street. The janitor was not discharged —he was a faithful man—but he had his wages cut down #$1 a week, and they have been cut ever since. When the activity in- Wall street began last fall she her New Hampshire tarm and went to New York in order to be near the speculative heart. i tel bills in the city she went to I cheap boarding house at 'ar Rockaway. Mrs. Green never willfully wasted a dol- Iar since she came into the possession of the fortune of her father, who slew whales for a living. Whaling was a big business in the days when Mrs. Green’s gruff parent sent his eraft out from New Bedford and )l(nllfl'ud his clay pive until they came back with cargoes of oil to add to his big pile, Wheu he went hence he left $6,000,000 to his daughter Hetty, and an aunt of the latter subsequent] added $6,000,000 more when she bade adieu to worldly cares. Miss Hetty, for she was & spin- ster then, did not let her heap of gold. mildew. 8he kept it in such constant use that the milling was worn off' the edges, and when she wedded she could have signed her name for a check for $20,000,- 000, if it had pleased her to do so. Just as soon a8 the nuptial event was over she resumed her money-making ways, and succeed in adding “$10.000,000 more to her tortune. She prodoses to continue her monay-getting occupation so long as she 18 spared to do it. e was formerly the great power in the stock of the Philadelphia & Reading railrond. which is now promment in stock speculative operatious. She cor- nered with great regularity about three times a year, and made speculators who were short of it pay for being on thoe wrong side. Everyone of her stock squeezers brought vast profits to her, and she naturally caused a repetition of of them as often as practicable. When she had extracted all she could from Reading as her stock she transferred her oporations to the stock of the Louis- ville & Nashville railroad. She is now the practical owner of the property and also of the Georgia Central, fler opera- tions in Louisville, to use the brokers' abbreviation, have made her famous, She has run the price up and down, and made hundreds upon hundreds of dollars by the process. There has been a big, long bull movement in Louieville during the past few months. It has been said all along that the steady rise in the stock was due to buying for London account. ‘There is now, however, little doubt that Mrs. Green has been the power at work in the stock. She is estimated to have made at least $1,000,000 in her big deal. The stock was moved up in the face of adverse con- ditions, for the showing of the road has not been good. The only thing that she had favor in was the general market, but that would not have carried the stock up. ‘I'ne operation was a plain one, but it required great boldness and the use of vast sums of mon The strect at la had no confidence in Louisville and w disposed to bear it. The higher it went the reater the drov would be, speculators thought, and they kept increasing the shortinterest. Mrs. Green bought the stock that the bears went short of. ‘I'he bears had to borrow to make their deliveries to Mrs, They relied on a smash in the P to buy the stock to return that which they had borrowed, and they als hoped to buy it at a less price than th sold. In the latter case the difference be- tween the selling price and -the buying price would have prevented the profit of the bears. The smash, howover, ne came, Mrs Green hadu grip on the stoc! like iron. 8he kept W(fikinz the price ap until she had got the beurs all scared lhc{ saw their losses getting bigger, and finally began to try to return their bor- rowing before their position became even worse than it was. Mrs. Green supplicd the stock that was required, and the dit ference between the price at which she bought and the price at which she soid represented her profit, and the loss of the boars, Mrs. Green dresses as comfortably #s an industrious washerwoman, but no more fashionably. She wears her cloti until they are worn out, and by that l:;::’ they are ready for the pa wil 5 rides down town in a horse car, and :Elh )' have with her 1,000,000 in | v|xAs‘11¢i:5"'.]:l in & piece of newspaver. 4 bod 1\ o supect her of being worth LU csnts. What you Tneed is 4 pure, eflicient, reliabie. Such ]Iuv“u‘ s Sarsaprilla, v possessvs peculiar vurit tive powers, medicine which =