Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 8, 1887, Page 4

4 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: IUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1887. THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION { fly MIHIV Edition) Ineluding Bunday %, One Year. e .- 'or 8ix Months ... . Three Montha .. 260 The ('maha Sunday Bir, mufied to any address, Ono Year. p 200 OWATIA OPPICR, NO. 914 AND 918 FARNAM STREEY. W YORK OFFICE, RGOM 65, TRINUNE BUILDING, ASHINGTON OFPICE, NO. 513 FOUNTEENTH STREET, 10 00 e CORRESPONDENCE ! All sommunications relating to nows and edi- torial matter should be addressed 1o the Evi- TOK OF "HE BUSINESS LETTERS? AN buriness lette: nd remittancos should be to Tr Bes PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAHA. Drafts, chocks and postoffice orders 40 be made payable (0 the order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS, F. ROSEWATER, Enitor. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Oirculation. Btate of Nebraska, %& i} County of Douglas. Geo, B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of the Daily Bee for the week ending Mar. 4th, 1557, wus as s: Tuesday, Wednesday, Ma Thursday, Mar. Friday, Mar. Average ‘eb. far, e e 14274 "'.-o' B. 'TZ8CHUCK. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to be- fore me this th day of )ln|'0N|I Q.Fl)., 1887, . P. FRIL, SEALI Notarv Publie. Geo. B. 'Uzschuck, bcln‘ first duly sworn, deposes and says that he s secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual av- erage daily circulation of the Dallv Bee for the month of Fobruary, 1886, was 10,505 copies; for March, 587 copies; for April 1856, 12,101 copies for for May, 1886, 12,430 copies; for June, 1856, 13,208 coples; l’orJum 1846, 12,814 copies; for August, 1856, 13, copies;for September, 1880, 13 October, 1886, 12,989 copies 1886, 13,248 coples; for December, 1886, 13,287 wopies for January, 1887, 16,266 copies. Gro. B, 1Z8CHUCK. Subscribed and sworn to before me this Sth day of February A. D), 1887, N. P. FEir, Notarv Publie. 050 coples; for for November, Tne New York World gets itin a nut shell when it says “No one should hesi- tate in choosing between high license and low saloons.”” CoOLONEL GILDE! returned from his Arectic expedition in search of the North Pole. Itis needlessto say that he did not bring the pole with him, “‘ArTER all there is no place like virtu- ous old Missouri,” mournfully remarks the Kansas City Zvmes. It is to be sin- cerely hoped that there is not. A BrLL which would prove a boon to borrowers, regulating chattel mortgage loans, was introduced carly in the ses- sion. It has so far failed to become a law. A THRILLING romance, *‘How Geo. W. Peck Put Down the Rebellion,” is on our table. A kind and long suffering read- ing public would rather hear about Mr. Peck being put down. Mzg. GourLp has just purchased nine hundred more miles of railrond, the St. Louis & San Francisco with 1ts branches. e is getting ready for the inter-staté commerco law. THE voice of Belva Ann Lockwood is raised to say tiat ‘“‘America is better protected by its churches than by naval defenses.”” Can 1t be possible that Belva is hedging tor another struggle in 1888? SENATOR INGALLS will make another effort to have inauguration day changed from the 4th of March to the last 'Tuesday in April. The Kansas senator knows what a harmless hobby is, and he will in- 8ist upon his measure. - Tie Atlanta Constitution says ‘‘there is a custom 1n Nebraska of taking a senator each from the northern and southern parts of the state.”” There once was a custom. The railroad companies, how- ever, consider peculiar pliable fitness rather than geographical location. SEE——— WitHouT any question, Mrs, James Brown Potter, for an inexverienced ac- tress, has developed wonderful knowl- édge in the art of successful advortising. The cable each day devotes great space to the American lady, and as yet she has not even made her first farewell tour. —— DurinG the discussion in the senate of the soldiers’ home bill, just in the heat of the batile, it is said that gallant Tom Majors got between the lines, seemed puz- zled and was at a loss to move. His graceful straddle of the question for a long time, is described as being really beautiful. E—— Fi1GURES compiled by a New York gen- tleman indicate that the debt of the United States is only seventy-three cents per acro. It is evident from this informa- tion that Uncle Sam is not among the great capitalists who have been loaning wonoy and taking mortgages on large vortions of the varth's surface. e————— NEBRASKA wishes to remind doubting people who have regarded our legislature as the only natural curiosity of which we boast, that the **buffalo waliow” discov- ered at Norden, thjs state, is an attrac- tion not equaled on the continent. Ac- cordirg to our Monday dispatches, the water contained in the ‘‘wallow’ pos- ssses wondorful healing powers, After all it may be that the Chicago river was not made in vain. " Tue Mormona criticize the manage- ment of their delegate, Caine, and say it was not expected that the supplemental polygamy bill would ever get on the tloor of the house. The Mormon agents in Washington, however, cluim to be con- tent with the situation. They intend to contest the law in the courts, and state that some of its provisions and ponalties, intended for themselves alone, will be made applicable to the District of Colum- bia and other territories. By thus mak- ing the shoo pinch in unexpected places they hope to make the law odious. Fail- fng in this they propose to colonize Utan with Mormon voters from adjoining ter- ritories. It is cortain that no means will be left untried to retain control of terri- torial afl by the Polygamists. They are fertile in resources, unscrupulous in wmothods and revellious at heart, but we think the new law, added to tbe old, tail off just behind A Scandalous Outrage. The action of the house in the Snell- McKenna contest, was a scandalous out rage. When the legislature met, McKenna, the democratic member from Sarpy county, was seated by virtue of his certificate. His seat was contested by Snell, the republican candidate on various grounds. After holding back its ro- port for nmearly a month, the committee on elections declared Snell entitled to McKenna's seat. The proofs to support this conclusion were over- whelming. It was shown by an abund- ance of testimony that a large number of non-resident repeaters had been voted in Sarpy county for McKenna. Most of these men were graders living in Douglas county and voted at Papillion. these men had doubtless been voted in both counties for Float Senator Campbell. Other testimony in support of Snell's claim was produced before the commit- tee, leaving no room for doubt as to the title of Snell to the scat fraudulently held by McKenna. By preconcerted trickery on the part of certain railroad republicans, the report of the committee was recommitted two weeksago. Butthe committee made a second report shortly after in favor of unseating McKenna and seating Snell. Whnen the final vote was taken by the house last Friday the com- mittee’s recommendations were reversed and McKenna declared rightfully elected, 1n the face of the notorious fact that he had obtained and held his seat by fraud. This result was brought about by a re- markable combination. The self-styled stalwart republicans united with the almost solid democracy to keep McKenna —a bourbon democrat—in his seat. The democrats who voted for McKenna have the semblance of excuse for their action on party grounds. But what de- fense can republicans make for helping to perpetrate such a palpuble fraud upoa the electors of Sarpy county, on the state at large and on their own party? It is hardly nccessary to add that the testimony in the Snell-McKenna case has borne out what we have before ussertea, that Mr. Campbell was not clected float senator from Sarpy and Douglas, but se- cured his scut by systematic fraud. Itis barely possible that the disclosures made by the Snell-McKenna contest had great weight with railroad republicans in de- termining their action. They did not propose to concede, by seating Snell, that Rosewater, and not Campbell, had been elected in this senatorial district. The Pacific Railroad Commission. The president has another important and delicate duty to perform in selecting the members of the Pacific railroad com- migsion. Itis reported from Washing- ton that the railroads will seek to control the appointinents, If they fail in this they will undoubtedly seek to control or munipulate the commission, and there- fore the president cannot exercise too much care in appointing men not only of the necessary ability, but of the very highest character, who will be proof against all of the many corrupting influ- ences and methods that may be employed to secure conclusions favorable to the corporations. We expressed our dis- approval ot this legislation while it was pending, on the ground that it could only serye to prolong to the interested corpo- rations the opportunity to plunder tho people, while withholding from the gov- ernment obligations long overdue. We do not anticipate from the investigation any 1mportant developments not alrcady known and easily accessible, But the in- vestigation by a commission having been ordered it is most desirable that it shall be thoroughly and faithfully prosecuted, and that the men upon whom this duty is devolved shall be of the requisite ability and unquestioned integrity. It is pre- sumed that the president fully appreciates this consideration, The bill provides for three commission- , whose duty it will be to examine into financial management of all the Pacilic roads that have received aid from the government in bonds, to ascertain whether they have observed all the obligations imposed upon them, and whether their books and accounts are, or have been,so kept as to show the net earnings of the aided roads, or whether there has been a diversion of earnings of aided roads to less productive branches, or to wrongful or improper purposes. The commission will ascertain whethor there is a discrimination of rates in favor of unaided against aided roads, whether any, and if 50, how much money is due and owing to the United States on ac- connt of mistaken or erroneous accounts, reports, or settlements made by said roads. It will also inquire into the kind, character and amount of assets, and what assets are now subject to tho lien of the government; also whether any dividends have been unlawfully declared by the directors or paid to the stockholders of the companies, and if so, to what extent and whether the amount thercof may not be recovered. It will ascertain whether any new stock or bonds have been issued without authority of law, what amounts of money or credit have been or are now loaned or borrowed by auy of said compunies to any person or cor- poration,what amounts of money or other valuable consideration, such as stocks, bonds, passes, and so forth, have been expended or paid out by said companics and whether the railroads have paid money or other valuable consideration, or done any other act or thin e purpose of influencing legislation. The comnussion will investigate and report all the facts relating ta an alleged con- solidation of the Union Pacific railroad company, the Kansas Paci railway company and the Denver Pacitic railway and telegraph company into an alleged corporation known as the Union Pacifie rulway company. It is also authorized to consider and report whether the in- terests of the United States require’ any extension of the time for performance of the obligations to the United States of said corapanies or any of them, It will be scen that the scope of the in- vestigation provided’ for by the law is very comprehensive, and if it wore at all necessary to expend $100,000 to obtain this information the law is doubtless all that could be desired for the purpose. 1t is said that enough testimony already has been secured to warrant the belief that at least one senator will be unseated, and it the examination goes to the bot- tom it is believed a long list of legal fecs will be discovered proving every charge made of the corrupting iniluences of these corporations in Washington, The ocomplex character of the investigation required, and the interests involved, per- sonal and otherwise, demand the highest '\. order ot ability and integrily in the com- mission. S——— Greatly Interested Eut Not Alarmed. The authorities and people of Canada are profoundly interested in the policy of limited retaliation proclaimed by this country, but they vrofess not to be alarmed. The matter takes precedence of all others in official and popular con- cern, and the opinion seems to very gen- erally prevail that the consequences of carrying out the policy will be quite as serions to the United States as to the Do- minion. One of the ministers is quoted as saying that ‘‘we can make it just as hot for the United States as they may do for us;"" and this official was able to sug- gest advantages that would resvlt from retaliation that would more than offsct the possible injuries. Another minister had no doubt Canada would live under & policy of retaliation, snd was not certain that the consequencas would not be quite as serious for one country as the other. The government organs insist that Can- ada cannot agree to yield to coercion, and that if nothing comes of the pro- posals she has submitted through the im- perial government, there will be left for the Dominion government nothing to do but to enforce the existing regulations, On the other hand there 18 a very large conservative element which desires the government to pursue a course that will avoid the application of aretaliatory policy by the United States and securo as speedily as practicable a satisfactory settlement of the difficulty. It is not improbable that this element will be found to have considerable influence, which may have the effect to induce the government to modify 1ts hitherto hostile attitude. The late clections showed a weakening hold of the government upon the support of the people which may also operate 1n this direction. It really rests with the Dominion au- thorities to determine whether or not re- taliation shall be put in practice. The measure passed by congress is nothing more serious than a timely and necessary warning. It doesn't propose redress for wrongs already committed against citi- zens of the United States, but simply that gimilar acts in the future shall be met by the same line of treatment towards citi- zens of Canada. It gives to the president | a broad discretion, which it is expected he will use wisely and firmly. 1f the Canadian government adheres to its present policy, it will invite retaliation to the extent provided for by the law, and if this is not found to be sufficient a more radical measure will certainly follow. The matter is in its own hands, and it is fairly warned that this country will no longer patiently tolerate the violation of treaty rights to the injury of its citizens and their interests. Cable Road Franchises. The decision recently rendered by the United States circuit court in the street railway and cable road injunction suits disposes of all pretense of exclusive rights on the part of the horse railway com- pany to the use of our streets for street- | car transit. The court has laid down the principle as fundamental that no exclusive franchise can be given by the legislature | or the city council to any public corpora- | tion or individual, under any conditions. This is the position which the Dek has | s aintained in regard to fran- chises granted by this city to vublic cor- porations which have contracted to sup- ply Omaha with gas and water, or to op- cerate railroads in our sircets. Now that the exclusiye pretensions of the horse railway company have been over-ruled, no similar claim is likely to be set up by the cable company, which holds a franchise for certain streetsunder an ordinance approved by a popular vote la: 1y a settled fact tha and right of way to as many street car lines, cable roads, clectric railways or | elevated roads s may be deemed best for | the public convenience. The question | that presents itself to the couneil, which 1s to take the iitiative in the grant of such franchises, is simply under what condi- tions and restrictions they shall be given. 1t is conceded on all hands that every street franchise in a growing city like Omaha hasa value, The proper busi- ness course would be to let it to the best bidder. It is doubtful, however, whether capitalists would bid upon any such franchise unless there was a guarantee that no other franchise during a period of years would be given for the same streets to any other party. If franchises are to be given to several companies for the same strects, they would command a a very small bonus,if any. The prob- lem which the council is called upon to solve is first, under what conditions franchises are to be given, and second, to whom. It would seem to us that a liberal policy towards capitalists who propose to invest in cable roads would be in the end the most advan- tageous to the city. The boom which Omaba is now enjoying cannot continue unless we encourage every enterprise that promises to bring capital into active use m public improvements. If half a dozen companies are willing to risk their capital 1 building cable roads, they should by all m s be allowed to do so, providing that they are required to furnish proper guarantees that they me-#1 business and have the means to carry out what they propose to undertake. Make them give first-class bonds, with forfeiture clause, that they will construct so much cable or other street ratlway during the first year, and so much each successive year until a given number of miles have been completed. If the Omaha Horse Railway company desires the | ately embraced b privilege to convert part of its system or to build new cable road, no obstacles should be thrown 1n its way. There is no valid reason why that company should be debarred from adopting modern rapid transit appliances under the conditions which have been exacted from the Omuaha Cable company. Another Junket. A party of United States senators will leave Washington next week on a pleas- ure tour to Florida and Cuba. The Pull- man Palace Car company has generously, as usual, placed at the disposal of the honorable junketers one of its magnifi- cent and regal coaches, and the rml- road and steamship companies will doubtless vie with each other in making the junket an ovation long to be remem- bered. The inter-state commerce law, will of course not interfore in the least. Whatever *‘undue advantage' may be given by the transportation lines to this royal outfit, will of ocourse be within reach of the next group of senators and congressmen who desire to recuperate their worn-out constitations in the salubrious climate of Florida and Cuba. Nebraska fo this in- stance st least has been duly accorded her share of the favors through Senator Manderson, wha is to be one of the guests on this exclusive excursion A Pertinent Inquiry. The board of public works has taken it upon itself to recommend the rejection by the eouncil of the bid for Berea stone curbing, although it is twelve cents less per lineal foot than the Colorado sand stone curbing. Now tho entire tax for curbing is levied upon the owners of abutting property. The city does not pay one dime. Why should the council ask for bids on any stone, excepting Colo- rado. if it is a foregone conclusion that the higher bid will be accepted under pretense that the material is worth more money? Two years ago upper Farnam, west of Fifteenth street, was curbed with Berea stone. That part of the street has a great deal of traffic, but the Berea stone has been found good enough. Why then compel property owners on residence streets to pay twelve cents per foot more for their curbing than 1t can be laid for with stone that has stood the test, not only in Omaha, but many other cities? A ceriricaTE of character given the administration by Pension Comnissioner Black will be accepted in only limted circles, even among democrats. There is reason to believe, furthermore, that if the administration were asked to do 8o 1t would decline to reciprocate General Black's endorscment. The pension com- missioner is one of the striking examples of the early mistakes of the administra- tion in the matter of appointments, and quite as much as any other public official was for along time a troublesome and heavy burden. He was for a time one of the most zealous fricnds of the spoils hunters, and took such advantage of the toleration shown him that the president at last found it necessary to interpose tn order to save the civil seryice reform rep- utation of the administration from being | badly damaged. General Black has since endeavored to shine as a convert to the reform. His uncurbed partisanship was also conspicuously manifested for a time to the detriment of the administration, and to save his place he was compelled to hold his zeal in eheck. In his official ca- pacity he has mot placed the soldiers of the country under any obligations to him, and the record he has made in this re- spect will not redound to the advantage of the administration, if 1t shall come up for trial next year before the people. In short, General Black’s best service to Mr. Cleveland will be done by keeping | silent. THE president said he would not go to the capitol to sign bills at the close of the session, but he did, The senate said 1t would not pass bills in the last hours of the session that it had not time to fully con- sider,butit did. Truly the dread of an extra session was very potent, and Holman and Randall made nq mistake this time in banking upon it. Lut they had to yield on many points nevertheless, aud the chances are that they have won their last legislative game. IN his recent speech opposing woman sulfrage, Mr. Vest, of Missouri, elo- quently said that when he went home ho wanted to go back, “not to be received in the embraces of some female ward politican, but by the earnest, loving look and touch of a true woman.” Mr. Vest evidently thinks that his love and affec- tion would grow cold if he was passion- y a constable. NEC Y is truly the mother of inven- tion. Mr. Sid H. Nealey, a Washington newspaper man, has very recently se- cured patents on a very eftective sub- marine torpedo. ftis mamed the ‘‘Sea Devil,” and is capable of carrying 1,000 pounds of dynamite. It can also Ye used as a const defense in cditorial rooms where infuriated persons call to whip the editor. A SATLOR was recently taken very sick in New York, and it was supvosed he had yellow fever. The physician pronounced it ‘“pernicious bilious fever.” The re- porter of the paper recording the case had been a Washington oorrespondent, and the cold types made it read ‘‘perni- cious activity.” The case was submitted to Mr. Cleveland. HKINGS AND QUEENS. Queen Victoria, during her approaching visit to Aix-les-Baius, will be known as the Countess Balmoral. Queen Margaret of Italy recently sent a story toa Roman veriodical, under an as- sumed name, and it was rejected. ‘The prince and vrincess of Wales will give a big ball at Malborough house on March 10, notwithstanding it is the season of Lent. ‘The princess of Wales I8 passionately fond of the odor of cherry blossoms, and London society ladies now carry tiny vials of the per- fume about their persons, » The new private ¢hapel at Osborne, by the queen’s desire, is to have as altar-plece a re- plica of Sir Noel Patron’s “Lux in Tene- bris,”” a picture that'was dedicated to Princess Alice. All the private chapels of her majesty contain memorials 9f one kind and another, ‘The emperor of China Is the shortest won- arch in the world éxcept the baby king of Spain, being onlv five teet tall. The tallest monarch in the woild is Emperor William, of Germany, who's six feet, just surpassing his great-grandnephew, the emperor of Rus- sla, by one inch. The emperor of China Insists on having bears’ paws, antelopes’ tails, ducks, tonzues, torpedo eels' eggs. camel’s hump, moneys’ lips, carps’ tail and marrow bones served on his table every day in the year. Then he drops off to sleep and dreams that he is shoot- ing down a 4,000 toboggan slide with a fifty- pound weight on his stomach, The king of Spain isto give a ball at the royal palace in Madrid. In honor of the oc- casion he will put on his first short frock. He can walk a little now, and, to be hospitable. he will distribute handsome memorandum books to all the children who come, Two grandsons of the emperor of Biazil and the sons of the Princess Imperial are to be there, Princess Miriam Likelike died at Hono- lulu, February 3, aged thirty-six years, A sis- ter of his Majesty King Kalakaua, she was the daughier of the hizh Chief and Chiefess Kapaakea and Keohokalole, Princess Like- like was married September 22, 1570, to the Hon, Archibald Scott Cleghorn, member of the house of nobles and of privy council of state, and is tho only member of the royal family having lssue. Hence her only child, the Princess Kalulani, who was eleven years old the 16th of October last, is heiress pre- sumptive to the throne. How Capitalists arc Made. North Wales (Pa.) Record. A correspondent wants to know what & capitallst Is, anyway. Well, in this country capitalist is generally a workingman who has learned how to live on less than he earns. - - A Hint to Sir Knight Pullman, Chicago News. As a matter of courtesy to his customers, Sir George Pullman, knight, should have his cont-of-arms engraved on the checks for sleeping car berths which his vassals ex- change with the publie for jingling coin. Going tur the Usurer. Chicago Tritnuie. Dakota has reached consideration of a law which should have been formulated long ago. The usurer in Dakota is about the most de- veloped specimen of his kind in the United States. He has swallowed many settler’s farm already, and the new law is intended to nake him reculate his appetite a little. =iy Better Than Gold. Columbus Dispatch. Surely, nothing 15 better than money, you say, And fondly you look at your gold Let me tell you, then, sometuing that far will outwelih Your wealth, though it may be untold. Just a single bright smile to some one in dis- ‘tress: 1ess ; A kind word to some rageed boy: Theso will often go further than money to bless, And fill a sad heart full of joy. Just a bunch of fresh flowers for an inva- lid's room § A lina to a dear absent friend: 4 “Tliese alone may do more to dispel pain and gloom ‘I'han all of the gold you can spend. b Joa"hfdion STATE AND T Nebraska Jottings. D. M. Amsberry has purchased the Custer County Republican. A long felt want in Fullerton is to be filled with a first-class hotel. West Point is swelling out to the pro- portions of a city of the second class. Malma is the name of & new town on the Omaha & North Platte road, seven miles west of Wahoo. The herdie is the latest common ear- rier in Beatrice. It is a one-horsc con- cern, and thrives on short hauls. There are 150,000 bushels of corn in store at Dorchester awaiting a rise in price to pay for transportation to mar- ket The Beatrice board of trade has ac- cepted a proposition for a canning factory and will take $2,000 stock in the enterprise, Beatrice takes kindly to a proposition to aid the Omaha Southern. The me- tropolis of Gage is always ready to lend a helping hand to enterprise, and there is money in it. The Crawford Cresent commends the generosity of the Fort Robinson con- tractor in supplying the soldiers with sets of steel teeth to masticate the rubber beet he furnishes them. The Beatrice Democrat of Baturday gave strong evidence of an eatly, pros- perous spring, by issuing a ten-page paper. Marrion & Burke are coming to the front like a team of thoroughbreds. ‘The Odd Fellows of the Republican valley will have a celebration at Alma April 20, the anniversary of Odd Fellow- shipin America. Extensive preparations are being made, and the aflaic will un- doubtedly be a grand success. Schuyler has a muchly married woman, according to the vpapers of that little burg. fda Stevens was first married to Horatio Saunders. Last summer she ob- ained a divorce, The laws of this state preseribe that six months shall elapse after a divorce before cither party can marry again. Ida wanted to marry Frank Waterhouse, and so they slipped over to Council Blufls and were spliced. Now comes Judge Post and sets aside the decree of divorce, and 1da has two hus- bands ou her hands, Cornell college h of §1,000 1 we the 1st of Octobe! The alleged natural gas well at Des Mornes has proven a natural outburst of wind on the part of its owners. The police of Du port cost $10,826 last year, ‘I'he salarics of the rest of the city oflicials amounted to $7,608. Mrs. Alexander Chisholm, of Albia, fell from u step-ladder about ten days ago and sustained 1njuries from which she has since died. The remoyal of a $4,000 soap plant from LeMars to Sioux City is b as a blessing in _disguise. There is a wrofitable field right in town without shipping A Amclia Zimdars, a woman of about forty-live or tifty years of age, hung her- self to the rafters of a barn at Dubuque on the 3d inst. She had but lately ar- rived from Oshkosh, Wis. No cause is known for the act. Ex-State Fish Commissioner A. E. Aldrich recently received from Washing- ton 100,000 rainbow trout, which will be immediately ‘)qud in the old hatchery formerly used by the state near Anamosa, where Mr. Aldrich is carrying on quite a fishery independently of the state. Jown hog growers ought to feel en- couraged by the advance of the price of pork. Hogs last week touched the high- est figure that has been reached since 1884. "All hog products except lard arc advancing, and are liable to improve considerably more in price, Pork is §7 a barrel high¢r than the price November 1, 1886, and has gained over $1 during the last week. as reccived an average in contributions since Dal Kimball has voted $5,000 for a school house. The Salvation Army has bombarded Plankinton. Last week's treasure coach from Dead- wood carried $175,000. St. Lawrence is in the midst of a coal famine and mld weather. Brule county’s banner town is said to be a panorama of decayed vegetables, ash heaps, tin cans, hoop skirts, bustles una other sweepings. A citizen of Lennox did not enter the church the other evening because no one answered his knock at the door. In s estimation the people of that church are the most discourtcous set of heuthens ever heard of. L HAD TO STEAL. A Plea of a Prisoner in Police Court— Notes, “I plead guilty, judge,” said F. M. O'Hara, who was arraigned i pohce court yesterday charged with stealing a harness from Dan Hurley. *But,’’ he continued. ‘“‘there are circumstances which are in my favor. I'had to do this. I was driven to it. My wife and children were at home starving w death. I could not get work and I dared not beg. I had to steal to raise money to buy them some- thing to eat. I hope you'll be easy on me.” The judge put him off with a sentence of twenty days in the county jail. Charles Clarke, charged with stealing an overcos s given thirty days in the county jail, Seven drunks were ar- aigned. Two paid fines and two were sent up: the others were discharged. Charles Cook, a vagrant, was sent up for thirty days, and four other men accused of vagrancy were discharged. POPULARITY POLITICS. Katoff's 1nfluence in Russian Affairs Boing Practically Illustrated. POWERFUL AND POTENTIAL PEN. The Man Who Makes the Chancollor Shake—Prominent in Litorature— Lelation to Nihilism Snored in the “‘Reds’ Eye.” Moscow, Feb. 12.—|Correspondence of the BEE.]—Outsiders in general seem to have just discovered Katkoft, it we may judge by the discussions going on throughout Europe over his rocent ar- ticles on the Kuropean situation. Al- though known only to a limited number of people in other counutries, 1n Russia, his name has long been a houschold word. The extent of his influence may be measured from the fact that, of late, tize fail of more than one minister may be laid to his account. They did not choose to adopt certain measures strong- ly advocated by the Moscow Gazette, and their subsequent loss of offico was the ro- sult. According to Russian ideas this s a natural result, but ono which at first caused considerable surprise among the more superficial of the European politi- cians, who—liable to run into extremes —now attribute it to personal influences and even to a remarkable ascendency over the czar himself. THE FRENCH PRESS ve gone so far as to describe Katkoff as the chosen confidante of the emperor's innermost thoughts and his most trusted councillor, the only man to whom ho looks for advice! ~ Now, although the czar has rais Katkoff to a position never before held by a plebeian, by ad- mitting him to the imperial council, and is more ready to take his opinion than that of nnyone else (save, perhaps, Paledonoszef, his ex-professor of law), in all matters connected with the dail routine of government, Alexander 111, is not a man to allow any one such extra- ordinary privileges. Itis even reported here that Katkoft' has somewhat strained his position with the emperor by continu- ing to publish anti-German ~ articles, after the oflicial communication to the press, made a short time ago, and that he was not_admitted when ho last asked tor an audience, though the czar an- swered his subsequent letter with the as- surance that he would always set great vilue on his opinions. Be this as it may, KatkofI's influence is not to be disputed. NO SOCIALIST IN RUSSIA or elsowhere, ever gained for himseclf simlar power, or knew how to wield it so well, although he may not be —as he has Leen (hescrfi;cd—tha real nu- tocrat of the empire. On the other hand, there i8 Lo douot that he is the most dan- gerous enemy of Prince Bismarck and his policy, for the whole Russian nation hangs upon his words, and he represents public opinion far more surely than the majority of an elective parliament. Katkoff's first famous articles levelled against tho chancellor, which was pub- lished last August, was a trumpet call that found 1ts ccho in the very heart of the country. Since then he has worked hard to undermine the favor that Berlin hag long enjoyed at St, Petersburg, and has so far succeeded, that a very little more would lead to an open rupture. One of M. Katkoff's greatest titles to popalarity, and one of the reasons of his success as a leader of public_opinion, is thut he belongs to no party. Previous to the insurrection in Poland, he was a lib- eral, and his liberalism, according to some accounts, was strongly TAINTED WITH SOCIALISM. After having combatted absolute gov- ernment for years in the Burki Wietnik, and made himself the apostle of repre- sentative authority, this change of tac- tics was so startling as to call forth the blame of some of his best friends, But the nihilist movement was in full pro- gress, snd Katkoft seeing the danger, concluded that the only power capable of erecting a barrier against the inroads of the revolutionists, and of restoring the shaken confidence of the nation, was that of the czar. From this time for- ward, the Moscow Gazette, of which Katoff had become proprietor in 1833, was looked uvon almost as the ofli organ of the popular party, and his in- intluence increased so much that three years later he became the principal in- strument in the overthrow of M. Valon- 1eff, who had dared to suspend the publi- cation of the Gazette. Katkoff may be described as the intel- lectual head of the Russian nation, A HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN hang upon his words. Above all he isn Russian, a Russian patriot, ardently de- sirous of maintaining the integrity of the empire, which the Polish insurrection in the first place,and the cowardly attempts of the mhilists in the second, had putin jaopnrdf. It is because he detests the chancellor's influence in the desire of Austria to push its way to the Balkans, that he was the first to attack Prince Bis- marck, to denounce him as the great cnel:y of his country, and to set ap the cry of alarm in spito of every opposition and caution. And his dread of Prince Bismarck naturally draws hin towards an allianee with France, If this can be accomplisked he considers that the peaco of Europe wiil be assured for some time to come, In literature Katkoff is as much a slavophile as in politics. No one has contributed more than he to the prepagation of Russian literature; and the growing taste for it eyen among the higher classes where foreign authors used tobe preferred, is due to him. The words of Tourgueneff, Dostoiewsky, and Tolstoi were all published in the Russinn Messenger. A MAN OF WONDERFUL POWERS in all he touches, a scholar as well as a publicist and a politicinn, he has carried on for years a campaign in favor of clagsical education. In this matter he was not content with mere word war- fare, but has founded a college of his own, in which several hundreds of Rus- sian youths belonging to the highest classes, rececive a t-rute education. He himself personally superintonds the studies at the Nicholas college, and a considerable portion of the many hours which he daily devotes to hard work are given to the school, Although a man of sixty-seven, he is able to exist with two or three hours slecp, so marvelously is his physical constitution fitted to the wonderful and varied career which he has chosen to follow. It is & curious fact that although Katkoff was the man who has shown himself the most determined y of nih ,and has done more than anyone else to paralize the work- 1ngs of this occult society—and has the fore, according to their tencts, deserved death many times—no one was found who would carry out the sentence of the nihihst tribanal. His popularity made him sacred even in the eyes of these men, who are usually rendy to sacrifice human lite without the slightest compuuufim. YK, e L LAMPASAS JAKE'S SERMON. A Cowboy Revivallst in New Mexico With “Wild" Texts, Lampasas Jake, the eowboy rovivalist, returned to Farmington, N. M., the other day, writes a correspondent from that place, after a protracted tour through the northern camps, and began preaching to such cirowds as would li to him. Some of his reeent experi may be unlxllurswofl from the stories that he tells. “Up on the Northern Pucitic two weaks ago," he said in one of his sermons, saw A mun who hud sat in the car right ahead of me jump v 7 quick and start for the mountain side. o ran like a deer. ‘T'he thermomutor showed that it was 302 below zero, and we all knew that nny man who ran to the mountains in that weather was doomed to death. So we went after him. At _first we couldn't gain on him at all. He couldn't have fmm any faster if a pack of Indians had been after him. Finally we caughy him and took him back to the ears, where wa found that he was crazy. It had come on him like a flash, and he had no time to sco the doctor aboutit. If we hado't overtaken him where would he have hoen now? Just where you fellers will be if you don't take & tumble as quick as Lo did. You have got to skin right out like a wild man for the mountains if you cx- vect to be saved, “When 1was up on the Yellowstonoa talking to the cowboys I saw them cut holes in the ice, and then lm-(l_y soon n lot of cattle would come down™ through the snow beliy deop and reach out their long, bony necks for a drink, On top of the ice the snow was four feet deep, but where the hoBs wero there was water twice that depth and running liko a mill race. Now, did these cattle creep up there softlike and nose around anil paw and try the ice and Jook back and whimper and say they would come again some other day? Not any. They just rushed right up to the holes, and some of them were 80 eager Lo get at them that they slipped and fell into the stream, and were carried along under the in the twinkling of an eve. Glory! glory! That's what I like. hen i 8¢ you fellers as eager to get at the water of sal- vation, and when 1 sco some of you t under and carried away, then I lvuder yet. Pown in Wyoming, just beforo Christmas, there came up a cold rain that froze as it toll, and the grazing was mighty hard, Some of the sheep herders got worried about the flocks, and tho boys were ordered out to look after tho sheep. I went along. There -« Bicker's boys, Jewett's boys and Boliver's boys and Thomson's hoys, and Leggett's boys, and they all knew their brands. When they saw” one of their own sheep disabled or suffering they just took him up and piled him into a wigon and car- ried him back to the ranch. But thero wis ouce in & while a sheep that didn't have any brand on him, and what became of him? I know andi you know. Every one thought that he belonged to some- body else, and he was left to rustle for himself. No shepherd for him, you bet. He just lay out in the rain and shiverod, and when he croaked no one cared for him. What brand are you fellows wear- ing this season? Have you got the cross on you, or are {'ou roaming about with- out'a brand? You'll run into a cold rain yourselves one of these nights when the clouds will be d and the ground cold and icy, and who'll you belong to then? “Over in Virginia City the other day some robbers set out to hold up a man who was going along with what they had been told was a big bag of gold dust, They waited for him on the high way until they saw him coming, and were on the point of jumping on him when one of them saw another man coming right behind him who had a great deal heavier load. He's the man, they said, and they let the man with a rather light burden go and waited for the one who was toiling along with as heavy a load as he could stagger under. When he eame up where they were they mounted him, and what do you supposo they got? Nothing but a lot of low grade ore he was taking into town to have examined. The man with the light traveling bag had the gold dust after all, He that hath ears to hear let him hear. Not the man who has the most_eattle or the most gold or the most silver, but the man who has the most righteousness, i the one who has the least trouble in world., The cattle and the gold and the silver weigh him down powerfully, and attract the attention of the devil and his hosts, while the man with righteous- ness goes along unsuspeceted and un- harmed. “In the Gunnison last fall a man named Wild Tom jumped out in the md- dle of the camp one afternoon and said that he was spoiling for a fight. He n't had one in three weeks and he felt Tenminutes atter that I was preaching his funeral sermon. on a side Inll. He _had had his tight and it was one that would last him for all time. Now [ say to you what I said to the survivors there, " that when a man stands out as a sinner heis only invitng the devil to come down on him. “On a Northern Pacific train that got snowed in for thirty-six hours I saw « poor woman who hid two children. She wagn't pretty, and her littlo children did not have any fine things, but when they got cold what did they dor I saw ons old sinner untie his neckerchief and sneak 1t into the woman’s hands for thu little ones. Then a big feller who sat in the nuddle of the car got up and said that no snoozer from the camps could get ahead of a man from the range, and he whipped off his overcont and gave it to the woman to wrap the children up in, What did that mean. Nothing at all, except that try as you may you can- not keep yourselves from doing right when you think of it. Half an hour after this I saw the old feller a shlvnrluf;. and I asked him if he didn’t wish he had bis coat, and he said not so long as he could see thekids a sleeping so comfortable like. That kept him warm and kept himi from freezing. That deed would keep him from burning in the next world." Jake speaks in parables and has many listeners, He said to- that after ho had learned the habits and customs of the country he would go east & wuys. e College Discipline in 1512, One noyel feature in the internal dis cipline of Brasenose college was the 8ys tem of pecuniary fines introduced by the statutes. Fines varying in amount from a farthing to two pence were imposed for coming late to lecture, for omitting to wear a surplice in the chapel, for neglecting any ritual observance, for en tering the butte the pantry or tho kitchen without leave, tor lingering in the hall after u meal, or for speaking in sh in any public place within the s of the college. Books were so Vi at & fine of o shilling was im- posed upon any student who omitted to close his volume or to fasten the windows of the library before The uso of opprobrious langu was pun tine of eight pence, A scholar who struck another was muleted 4d. if the off e was committed hand or foot, in 65, 8d. if with a stick or & stone, in 138, 4d, if the blow drew blood and these fines were proporuionately heavier if a 1ellow one of the parties concerned’ Personal violence to the principal or the vice-prineipal was pun- ishable by expulsion, In cases were & pecuniary fine scemed unsuitable or in- suflicient, the principal and the reader had power to inflict corporal punighment with a rod. All the scholurs of Brasen- ose college who did not belong to the foundution were under the charge of some fellow who was held responsible for the puyment of their dues and fines. Kuehl's Messrs. Drexel & Ma rived yester- day a letter from H. D. Farrell, a Buflalo, New York undertaker, in which the lntter says he received the remains of Fdward Kuehl in good shape and had them cre- mated according to the wishes of the dead mugician's request. He says: “The itor of the crematory, being of the English stamp, says he will rake hout the hashes in the morning and place them in the burn, when they will be shipped ns directed.” Tl Buffalo pupors noted quite oxten: sively the arrival of the body and the subsequent cremation,