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

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. For Bix Months For Threo Months ... The Omaha Sunday I address, One Year. any ATIA OFPICE, NO. 014 A Fw YORK OPFICE. ROOM W N WASHINGTON OFFICE, 018 FARNAM STREEY. ¥ BUILDING CONMESPONDENCE All communiontions reluting to news and edl- torial matter should bo addressod 1o tho Evt- TOI OF THE BEF. BUSINERS LETTERSE All bueinoss letters and remittanees ahould ho addressod to Tie BEw PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAIA, Drafts, checks and postoffice orders 0 be made payable to the order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. . ROSEWAT Epiron THE DAILY BEE. Bworn Statement of Oirculation. Btate of Nebraska, County of Douglas. $ Lot Geo. B, Tzschuck, secretary of The Beo Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circuiation of the Daily Bee for the week ending Mar. 11th 1857, was as follows: urday, Mar. unday, Mar, Monday, Q\l{nr sday, Mar. ‘Thursday, Mar. 10 Friaay, Mar, 11...... Average. Veprsipen 1%0. B, 'TZ8CHUCK, Subseribed in my presence and sworn 1o be- fore me this 1%th day of March A, D., 187, . P. I'EIL, ISEALI Notarv Publie. Geo. I “Izschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes nnd says that he is secretary of 'The Bee Publishing company, that the actual av- ernze dnily circulation” of the Daily Bee for themonth of March, 1886, 11,557 copies; for A”Erll, 1886, 12,191 coptes: for for May, 1886, 12, - 430 coples; for June, 1856, 12,208 coples; for July, 188, 18,314 coples; for Aucust, 1856, 13,464 copies; for September, 1886, 13,050 copies; for Octobe 886, 12,950 coples; for November, 1886, 13,348 conies; for December, 1888, 13,237 copies; for January, 1987, 16,208 copies; for February, 1887, 14198 coples. Gro. B, 123CRUCK. Bubseribed and sworn to before me this 9th day of March, A. D, 1887, SEAL.| . P. Fein, Notarv Publle. A Kansas Crry paper refers to an hon- est Indian. The author of the ‘“clenr- ance' records of that town is now known. Our legislature will adjourn protty soon. But Lucy Parsons will continue to harangue the people. This life cannot be all sunshine. No MATTER what is said about the prosident appointing Trotter, the fact 13 at once apparent that Mr. Cleveland is not color blind. Two or three funnel-shaped political clouds hang over the city, and the man who predicts a quiet campaign in the city election lives to himself alone. AN castern paper says Bismarck ‘‘will not resort to yiolent measures.” That to which Bismarck most resorts is a quart measure. It will hold two pints of beer. —————— ArTER reading of the appropriations to pay members and employes of the Nobraska legislature, a Niagara Falls hackman thought of his own reckless liberality and immediately committed suicide. It mas been often noticed that acei- dents, like crimes, seem to take an epi- demic form. It would also appear that ‘when one legislator gets an idea that he should whip somebody, the whole assem- bly wants to fight. —_— SeENATOR CuLLOM says that the inter- state commerce act will in no way inter- fore with railroad companies desiring to give special rates to excursion parties, delegates to conventions, or large gather- ings of any nature. A roeM reaches this office on the “Oatlook of Germany,’ in which dish- rag is made to devetail with reichstag. 1t is supposed that the poem belongs to one of Mr. Agee's laborea spceches on railroad commission bills. A BILL has heen introduced in the New Jersey legislature making it compulsory for railvonds to have at least one chem- ical fire extinguisher in each passenger car. A law compelling railroad com- panies to heat cars with steam would answer the purpose better. The story goos that at a ball a ‘‘gen- tleman recently wore the swallow-tail coat i which he was married fifteen years ago, which seventeen other brido- grooms had worn, and which had done duty at forty-three weadings." Yetsome men want the earth. ————— __Rerors from Cairo say that Abdelka- der Pacha, minister of the interior, bas resigned on account of scandals fastened on him in connecction with real estate speculations. So it would appear that Kansas City real estate agents have been platting additions to their town as far eust as Cuiro, Egypt. Tuere is a bit of grim humor in the announcemoent that atthe recent banquet tendered the legislutors at Lincoln by Grand Island people cur own Pat O. Hawes, 1 a moment of excitement, drank the contents of a half gallon hand grenade, and insisted that it was a super- jfor brand of champagne. Tux stilted effort to make Russell and Caldwell out as paragons of integrity is slightly promature. The Republican ought to have kept its whitewash until somebody has aceused them of erooked work. A woman may be spotless us the driven snow--but when rakes and liber- tines who have been her intimates prate about her virtue, she beeomes a subjeet for just suspicion. Tur Dakota legislature which closed its sossion last week, was in many respoots above the average of law-making bodies. Many of tho laws enacted this winter are commendable. In order to place the ju- diciary beyond obligations to railways, the logislature appropriated $1,500 a year o tho justices of the supreme court for traveling expenses. This allowance will save the judges from the the humiliating acceptance of railway passes. In the matter of appropnation, the Dakota solons were very lavish, They en- dowed two insane asylums, two poni- tontiarics, two universitics, two normal sohools and a school of mines. They also ereated a pumber of new oflices, among which are thoso of voterinury surgeon - aud goologist. Senator Melkinjohn. Whenever a man in publie life has had the manhood and integrity to resist the debasing influence ot the jobbers and railway attorneys at the state capital, he 15 made a target of the organs that cham- pion the interests of public plunderers and monopolists, Scnator Meiklejohn has been no exception to this rule. His independent and fearless course during the present session on legislation affect- ing the masses, has arrayed against him the whole horde of vampires m the legislative lobby. They do not, however, dare to attack him openly on his effort to secure railway regulation and lower railroad tolls. But they 1il him maliciously about his bills to regutate and restrain insurance com- panics, The method of attack has its advantage. It affords the monopoly press a chance to punish Meiklejohn for refusing to p the railroad capper on the floor of the senate, It gives aid and comfort to the strikers who are playing stool pigeons for the railronds in change for annual passes. Last but by no means least is the opportunity to turn an honest penny by writing paid editorials on - surance legislation. It is notorious that some of the most unprincipled lobbyists at the state capital, at every Session of the legislature and at every convention, are general and loeal insurance agents. These men travel from one end of the state to the other on annual passes—year in and year out. While plying their double voeation they become more dangerous by reason of their pretended respectability than any other class of corruptionists. Exceptions may, of course, be found among insur- ance agents i all other occupations, but of those who pretend to take a decp interest in wsorance legislation at session, the majority belong to the vam- pire species, Mr. Meiklejohn ean well afford to incur the enmity of these cormorants. His insurance bill may not be perfect, but it is in the interests of the people. The fight made against him and his measure by the hircling press is a strong argu- ment in its favor. As we under- stand it, this bill simply acopyof the Massachusetts nsurance law. There is no danger that it will drive foreign insurance companies out of Nebraska, but it may drive some insur- ance frauds out ot the business. 1f the law is good enough for Massachusetts, where the insurance problem has been probed and solved by experts, it is not likely to prove very disastrous in Ne- braska. Senator Meiklejohn is doing good work at thig cession. He may not go as far as we would wish in support of some re- forms, but he has shown a disposition to discharge his duties regardless of clamor and abuse. He certainly is en- titled to credit for standing by his con- victions. A Web of Conjectures. In the absence of actual events the European correspondents are forced to fall back upon conjectures, the resources for which are always ample d the latest advices constitute an interesting, if somowhat confusing web. The center of interest just now appears to be the Aus- trian eapital, and the course of events in Vienna is evidently being watched with very ecarnest solicitude. The strained relations between Austria and Russia which have been a conspicuous feature of the European situation since the Bulgarian issue set the nations by the ears seem to be quite as tense now as at any previous time. The Austrisn preparations for a possible conflict have reference solely to Russia, and there can be no doubt that the popular sentiment of the empire acquicsce with the de- termination of the government to resist further dangerous advances of Russia for the control of Bulgaria and through that to virtuul domination at Constautinople. But in order that such resistance might be eflective Austria would require as- sistance. She could not successfully cope single-handed with Russia. If there is any value, however, in the latest opin- ions and surmises she must, whenever the exigency comes, elect to take this task alone or abandon it. The pre- vailing idea 18 that Germany has assured Austrin that the former is not, and can never in any way be, interested in the eastern ques- tion, and that she could render no aid to Austria in a war against Russia, brought on by this question. This is by no means an incredible view, when we consider that an ambition to extend the German empire might be gratified by the weaken- ing of Austria, which would certainly ensue from a conflict with Russia. Hold- ing herself in readiness, with all her great power unimpaired, Germany would find an opportune time to act before the dismemberment of Austria became in- evitable, and the price of her interposi- tion would be & material reduction of the Austrian empire, to the advantage of the German, Meanwhile, the surface of affairs in Germany and France wears an entirely pacific aspect. What plans the cunning and busy brain of Bismarckemay be ma- turing, time will develop, but nobody supposes that heis idle. On the contrary, the belief is that German diplomacy is working stealthily and industriously to effect results which, while involving other nations, could operate only to the ad- vantage of Germany. France 1s wholly without political disturbance, and the cordial reception of De Lesseps in Ber- lin has had a most soothing'effect upon French feeling toward Germany. The mission of the distingnished engineer to the German capital has not been dis- covered, and his own statement is that it is purely personal; but, however this may be, he has been -shown great considera- tion, with a gratifying effect upon his countrymen. A noteworthy feature of the situstion is the exceptiol apparent of Russia, whi in the light of experience, may be regarded as por- tentous. On the whole, the indications at this time are not promsing for the ful- fillment of the prophecy of a European war to be insuguratea this spring. A Novel Decision, An important but yet noyel decision has just been rendered by a Pennsyle vanis court. The question involved was the right to recover damages, by reason of the explosion of watural gas, The ease in point was that of Wesley Greer agairst the Canonsburg, Pa, Gas com- pany. ‘The plaintifl, Mr. fircer, was awarded $6,902.34 dumages, mflicted by the destruction of his residence. The ue- cident was as singular as the suit just de- oded. The pipo line of the. gas com: pany which conveyed the natural gas supply to its consumers, was fully 125 feet away from the building. But tne gas found its way through the loose carth into Greer's cellar, and after ascending to a room above, came into contact with a coal fire. This brought on an explosion which wrecked the whole building. The decision in this case, in holding the company liable for the accident, will make the supslying of natural gas a risky business, Talk About Competition, “The epublican has procured a $17,000 perfecting press. Any paper with less thau 5,000 daily circulation has no more use for tast presses than a dog has for two tails. Had the managers of that sheet been content with merely blowing their own horn in order to keep up the confidence game which they are playing upon eredulous advertising patrons we should indulge in no comment on their vaunted enterprise. But when they pur- posely o out of their way to make ma- licious statements concerning the alleged decline of this paper, they are entitled to no professional courtesy, The effect of so-called competition upon the business of the BEE can best be shown by com- parison. For the year ending February 18, 1886, the total income of the Bek from daily subserijtion, was $43,741.13, from 4 , from ad- vertising, $63,572.85; total receipts for the year, £143,803.78. For the year ending February 1, 1837, the total receipts from aily subseription were $61,208.48; weekly advertising, 2; total receipts, $210,734.91. other words the gain in subsc the year ending February 1, 1887, was $35,611.04, and the total guin from sub- seriptions and advertising over the pre- ceeding year, $67,841.13. We venture to assert that the total receipts of the Re- publican for the same period do not equal the gain made by the Be Now about circulation. On the first ot Llarch, 1884, the total circulation of the DArr BEE was 10,505 copies. The average cir- culation for the' week ending Murch 4, 1837, was 14274 copies, a gain of 3,679 subscribers in twelve months, i issue alone 1s larger by more than 500 than the entire circulation of the Repub- lican. Thes> gains in the BEE'S circula- tion have been steady and are about equally divided between the circulation in this city and outside. In the city of Omaha alone the gain made by the BEe during the pastyear is larger than the total city circulation of any other daily in Omaha, among which the Republican occupies the rear rank. Its city circula- tion has been smaller for the past year than it was fifteen years ago when Major Dalcomb owned the paper. The fact that no other Omaha daily ex- cept the BEE Las ever published a sworn statement of circulation, affords striking proof of the imposture which is being practiced upon advertisers. I'he truth 18 that the BEE can, with its perfecting presses, print the entire daily cight-page edition of the Republican in six minutes by the watch. It takes forty minutes on both these presses to print any single i's eight-page edition of the daily We can print the entire weekly eight-page edition of the Republican in five minutes by the watch, while it takes one hour and a half on the same presses to print the WeEKLY Bee. In view of these facts and figures all the talk about the effect of local competition on the Beg is simply ridiculous. Another clincher. The BEE is the only paper that dares to take its patrons into full confidence with regard to its busi- ness. Its books and press room are al- s open to public inspection. IN awarding contracts for paving the council has a plain duty to perform. In every case the lowest bid should be ac- cepted, provided that the party making such bid gives a good and suflicient bond for the faithful performance of the work. A sufficient bond, it seems to us, would mean a bond that will enable the city to have the work done by the highest bidder without loss. In other words the amount of the bonds should be equal to the dif- ference between the contract price of the work proposed by the lowest bidder and the cost of the work computed bv the rate of the highest bidder. For instance, if the amount covered by a paving contract is estimated at $200,000 under the lowest bid, and the highest bid was 25 per cent above the lowest, $30,000 would be an ample bond. Now if the signers of such a bond are worth $75,000 above their lia- bilities, the council has no option in the matter. No matter whoa contractor is, such a bond would entitle him to the contract, —_— WiLL Congressman John A. McShane please explain what his editor refers to when he says: Representative Garvey’s good nature may yet give way and enuble him to win that gold-headed cane promised him by his col- leagues in the house. Does this mean that the boodlers and blackmailers of the house, and the oil room procurers at Lincoln have raised s fund to reward the man who repeats the Cury assault on the editor of this paper? If Mr, McShane’s editor is a party to such a plot as Paul Vandervoort was to the Cury assault, we would like to have Mr.McShane's opinion as to such conduct. Does Mr. McShane propose to continue at the helm of the Herald a bravo who incites murderous assaults on his col- leagues? TrHE change which was supposed to have taken place in the management and policy of the Herald, is not visible to the naked eye. That paper still plays Sia- mese twins with the Republican in the praise of rogues, drunkards and bum- mers who are disgracing themselves and the state at Lincoln. The political com- plexion of the HMerald always has been and is yet only a vencering, It HAS been suggested that President Cleveland would call an extra session of congress in September. ‘The New York Herald very sensibly says upon the sub- ject: “We do not believe the president would do what would derange the fall business of the country and cause a great deal of financial trouble.'’ The fact, how- ever, that Mr. Cleveland never figures on results, but goes ahead to suit himself, makes an extra session probable in most any month, E— A St. JoE paper writes an article on “An Englishman and an Ass." [t a pears that Representative Caldwell’s reputation extends as far east as Mis- souri. e Dangerous Combination. The location ‘of state institutions at various points has/brought about com- binations which are becoming more dan- gerous from year to year. Almost at the outset of every session delegations and members who represent localities where state institutions already exist, or have been projected, pool their issues upon up- propriation bills. Thus, the delega- tion from Lancaster, who chief mission is to secure appropriations for capitol extension, penitentiary en- largement, university wings and msano provements, organize a pool [alo county on reform school, Gage county on home for feeble minded, Madison county for insane hospital, Otoe on blind asylura, Nemaha on normal school, and with all other coun- ties whose members have appropria- tion axes to grind. This combina- tion is, however, not confined to the supvort of appropriation bills, but members in the poll are usually dra. gooned and dragged into support of all sorts of vicious legislation. Such a com- pact body of freebooters can do a great deal of mischief. No matter how worthy some of the objects for which they are Iaboring; no matter how essential some of the expenditures may be, there alwuys will be schemes ot plunder linked in with the legitimate appropriations. It is with a view to check and prevent sach inexcusable raids on the treasury that counter combinations have to be formed in legislative bodies by members who desire to see prudent management and economy in public af- fairs. The safest policy for the welfare of the state is to let every tub stand on its own bottom. If an institution is entitled to liberal appropriations at the hands of the state they should be granted without ying up with any other institution. If an extravagant or uncalled-for appropria- tion is asked, 1t should be voted down without regard to locality. This stute is not wealthy enough or old enough to maintain benevolent institutions that are not absolutely necessary. Older states than Nebraska still lack institu- tions that are sought to be established here on very slim foundations. The time may come when Nebraska can af- ford to tax herself for eight or ten nor- mal schools and asylums and homes without number. Buteyenif we had the means without bankrupting the state to carry out every project, the pooling of localities to achieve this end would be ex- tremely dangerous. ————— A s1LL has passed in the legislature of New York raising the salaries of the clerks of the speaker from $6 a day to $10. The bill was jntroduced and passed without a word of dissent in one minute. When Nebraska législators think of their opportunities they will doubtless be sur- prised at their moderation. E—— Miss CLEVELAND Is writing a novel. It is sincerely hoped that brother Grover will veto it. STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings, Ice cream signs are ripening. York is sure of two more railroads this year. The Methodists of Dakota City propose to build a $2,000 church. Street railwuy is one of the early lux- uries ripening in Fremont. Sutton is talking fora canning fac- tory—sounding for tin, as it were. Final proofs to 274,610 acres of land in Holt county were taken out last year. The question of questions is, *‘Will Norfolk combine against the combined?’’ Creighton has orgamized a board of trade to boost the town and Knox county. A prominent minister in Fremont 1s credited with being a good one to tic two. Hard coal 15 $16 a ton n Ord. Provi- dence is allied with the consumer at the present writing. Norfolk schoolboys indulge in boxing matches. They tend to straighten the folds of the ears. A prohibition fight is on in Sutton, and the school fund has been enlarged with several $50 fines. A faith-cure female humbug has hung out her sign in Oakdale. Her faithis measured by a bank roll. The waves of Omaha's real estate boom are washing the shores of Elkhorn City. Farm land is up to $100 per acre. A stock company has been organized in Gordon to grow buffalo for beef. The company has 100 head to start with. A. J. Miner, a stock dealer from Nel- son, lost a leg while disputing the right of way of a switch engine at Edgar. Greenwood, Cass county, will decide by a vote on the 6th of April the ques- tion of planting $1,500 in water works. The work of setting the grade stakes of the Omaha cut-off of the Elkhorn Val- loy line began at Arlington last Tuesday. Dakota City had a sevore spasm of re- form last week and a raid on bums, hhugs, gamblers and saloons is on the i8t, H. M. Roberts, of Brown county, made a sudden dash on the road to salvation {ut weck and landed in the insane asy- um. It is authoritatively given ont that Nor- folk will not banquet the legislators. The state must yield the palm in that respect to Grand Island. Live grnsslmg‘pau are the latest dis- covery near Rushville, Evidently the edi- tors of the northwest are preparing their soles for the abolition of passes, The Fallerton Telescope has changed hands and forty leading citizens are now crowded in the obsdrvatory. Heretotore the paper has not been worth a Schuck. Buffalo Bill’s agént is negotiating at Pine Ridge agency for a band of forty or fifty Indians for ‘a summer tour in }‘:I:’l‘npc. Of course they will be painted red. The B. & M. shops at Plattsmouth are crowded with work, and §15,000 worth of machinery has boea=purchased to meet the demand for rolling stock and re- pairs, The standpipe f the waterworks in Plattsmouth has rdagehed the refreshing height of seventyi.fget. leaving ten feet more to complete il The town is look- ing up. Fremont is deteriflied to be fresh and fashionable. A niMhber of capitalists have organized acomsuny for the manu- facture of brooms, and a clean sweep of all rivals is a foregone conclusion. Blue Springs is bubbling over with im- provements and business activity. Stock- yards, roundhouses, machine shop and depot are under way, and also a number of business houses and residences. A religious editor and a profane at- torney locked arms and rolled in the gut- ter in Auburn last week. The mud bath cnred them as readily as ihe cleansing waters of Norden's buffalo wallow. The North Platte board of trade was resurrected Thursday evening, and the rropomion of Buffalo Bill to advertise he town and Lincoln county at the American show in London was endorsed. The spring rush of settlers to central and western Nebraska has been produc- tive of two “singular” incidents and one pair of tw on hoard the cars, since the 1stof March. Let the good work o on, A gang of small boys with | and cowbells were fined from ench by the dispenser of peace 1n Fair- view, for rattling the honcymoon of o newly married couple, Receptions of the upper tin order are frowned upon by fashion, sometimes with a shot gun Dr. Pickett, who has been browsing on the larders of physiology and relating his experience to the amateur scientisty of West Point, is described as a ‘“‘verit- able ducky daisy” in exqu low tail and dveskin_pantaloor now fluttering in Fremont, married. Chadron is convinced that her coal find was a vain_speculation. The an- of & specimen by Prof. M. H. holson of the state university shows that in carbon it is below the average of merchantable coal. Its heating power is too low to generate suflicient enthusiasm to mine it, The Oakdale Pen and Plow intimates that the sueveyors working in that neigh- borhood is a ‘quiet ecffort to galvanize John Horbach's} line to Kehapaha, wia Oakdale. This is an outrageous assault on Horbach's enterprise, which is hcre- with hurled in the teeth of the allegater. Jol]m is a broad gauge builder of air lines only. Jimmy Ramsey, alias W. . Parker, deserted his wife for a handsomer girl n Alma, and moved towurd Mormondom. He camped in the suburbs of Cheyenne, but his uoney gave out anda landlord collared him. "He soon heard from home in the shape of a warrant, and together with his paramour, a Mrs. Bradly, turned his face and teet eastward. Two farmers with the taking names of Hans and Grip settled down in Madison county some months ago, and diligently cultivated the acquaintance of merchants in Stanton and Madison. They mort- gaged the farm to a dozen different ver- sons, secured horses, harness and other articles and $150 in cash and then made a dash for Dakota. Oflicers are on the trail. The peaceful slumbers of the editor of the Nemaha Granger were broken one night last week by an unexpected ecall from a burglar. He did not rise up and smite his lungs for help, not he. Knowing that his quoins were safely boxed under the stone, he quietly chuckled at the disappointment in store for his visitor, rolled over, and snored away the yawning hours till daylight streaked through the old Mackinaw doing duty as a window pane. The dep- redator lunched on free puffs and de- varted without leaving his name. lowa ms, The police of Keokuk cost $500. Rents are on the rise in Davenport. Eagle Grove has a population of 2,000 There are eight incorporated towns in Story county. The water works at Independence are nearing completion. The Rainsbarger trial in Marshalltown cost the county $7,000. Citizens of Keokuk are moving to ma- cadamize the country roads leading to the city. In Des Momes last Wednesaay 247 cases of beer and several barrels of whisky worth $1,000, and as m: fights were emptied into the Coon ri The Rev. Talmage, of Brooklyn, is booked in various towns in the stato for a series of eloquent gymnastics the latter part of March. His Brooklyn sermons will be delivered by the box as usual. Up in Pocahontas county there were some map peddlers who promised the farmers that they would survey the roads and sloughs, and obtain exemption from taxation on the same. And there were enough fools believed them to make their work profitable. Phillip S. Evans, a printer of Des Moines, who has traveled extensively in both this and foreign lands, and who once figured prominently among the leading journalists of this state, isat present. on%n ed in writing an autobiog- rnph{ of his life which contains many startling incidents pertaining to his travels. ‘Wilbert Cleary, twenty-one years of e, son of & commission merchant at Washington, committed suicide Tuesday morning at his home. His mother hear- ing the report of nglstol in the dining room ran there and found her son on the floor, dead. He had placed the muz- zle of the pistol in his mouth and fired, the bullet passing upward and through his brain, A new system of train dispatching be- came operative on the Chicago, Burling- ton & (!umcy lines the other day, which an exchange describes as follows: The scheme is called the duplex system of train orders, and it succeeds the old sys- tem which has been 1n vogue for years. According to the new device there are to be no more running orders, and when an order is sent 1t will be received simul- taneously by all railroad men and at all Folms affeoted by it. Trains, whether reight or passenger, will leave terminal points on the time prescribed in the schedules and not wait for orders, as is now the case. Freight trains as well as rusen er will be obliged to run accord- ng to the time tables in the future, and not orders, o lungs to 35 Dakota, SIfnl of spring are not yet visible in the territory. Mule Head 15 the name of a settiement in Charles Mix county. The legislature has passed a bill abol- ishing the capital commission. A colony from Mt. Pleasant, Ia., will settle in Logan count this spring. The payroll of men engaged in mining in and around Deadwood, is estimated at $300,000 & month. A sheep man on Spring creck, Law- rence county, who started in with 4,000 sheep in the fall, has lost one-fourth of them, and they were fed and sheltered. The United States prison atSioux ralls recewved two new boarders on the 8th inst. from Omaha—Jacob Runkle and Caldwell Hepner—sentenced for six months each for counterfeiting. The bountiful qupIy of snow in the hills and in the valleys is said to arguc well for the cumingl crops in that section, the summer sfin’s slow melting of these congealed masses forming a vapor to descend upon the maturing crops and ef- feoting the fuilest development. It thought farmers may plant with full con- fidence in an abundant harvest this year. “The prospect of Black Hills mines,” says the Deadwood Pioncer, ‘‘opens fir better this year than any previous year. The indications of successful mining sur- round us in every direction. But we are not different from most mining camps in the world, Confidence is being restored in the big money centers of the world in mining enterprises, which are justas successful as any other business, if con- ducted on business principles.’ Wyoming. The festive juck pot is flourishing in Douglas. Laramie is discussing plans for sewer- age and bounding the city to pay the bill. The Cheyenne branch of the United Workmen propose to build a $25,000 lodge. The new mull and smelter in the Silver Crown mining district has begun opera- tions. The money appropriated by congress to pay the Mongolians damaged bi\; the Rock "Springs rioters, was distributed lust week, Territorial convicts have been sent out from the Illinois and Nebrasks peuni- tentinries. . The territory must build & jail for its own crooks. FOOD FOR THE WASTE BASKET The Fate Which Surely Awaits Many Moasures in tee Legislatura, SPECIAL ORDERS NOW THE RULE Mattors Pertatning to tho New Oity Charter of Lincoln—Sent to the Penitentiary © Spring Mu- nicipal Campaign, | FROM TIE BEF'S LINCOLN BUREAT,| Of the thousand bills that the ay of Iawmakers have introduced the present session, the open question is how many will escape a snowing under when the cloquent gavels snhall sound the welcome notes of final adjournment. The period 1 the session has arrived when special orders are the ruling methods of work, and half the coming week in the house is already laid out with work of this char- acter, Previous to adjournment Satur- day the house took up a special order of the bills that had been favorably reported from the claims committee. There wore eighteen bills of this character and, when the house adjourned, only one of the number had been considered, and that was not acted upon. This is a fair index of the progress that is made under special orders, and is a fair eriterion to judge as to what can be accomplished in the two weeks' remaining time toward clearing the docket. From the few remaining members who Sundayed in the capital city, the dritt of talk seemed to be that the coming struggle of the next few days would be in the pooling business. The success of the bears on Friday and Sat- urday in knocking out two of the appro- priatior bills, and frightening the back- crs ot other measures of like nature, has caused a bull movement to appear upon the gusty horizon, and it looks as though the friends of appropriations, primarily, and of the tattered old flags, sccondary, would be exhibiting a bull movement on the marketand e ing a peol of their own to put through every appropriation, regardless of other measures, in which event, the closing scenes of this long-drawn-out session would be in the house a battle of pools. The sen- ate is ahead of the house in work a complished, and it will undoubtedly rest with the senate to attempt the decision whether the Agce-Meiklejohn railroad bill shall be agreed to as passed by the house or whether the senate shall insist upon the Conger bill as passed by that body, or agree to nothing at all and allow the present abortion in the shape of the commission bill to bleed the peo- ple another two years. It is understood that Senator Majors will unlimber from the wall his sword used in the late.un- pleasantness and be in future prepared to maintain the pence and win the ap- plause from the gallery. The capital city enjoys a session of the legislature: 1 fact, it fairly revels in a session of law- makers, and the old timers felt like hav- ing the mayor issue a special thanksgiv- ing proclamation when it was found that Vandemark’s recount had extended the haleyon days a month longer. There is, however, a surfeit to everything, and a couple of comparatively new residenters, who believe 1n the city for its sure and certain every-day work, were heard to say that the sun would shine the brighter and it would be very good for all when the legislators should go hence with their hand-painted cuspidors under their arms and the long and reckless session would be ended. CONCERNING CHARTER MATTERS, The city charter of Lincoln is not yet a law, but it will presumably be passed in time to hold the city election under its provisions. The instrument was delayed somewhat on the part of a few partics who sought amendments of no possible moment except to let a few of the parties advocating them have a finger in the pie. The State Journal has risen to exclaim that a salary of $1,200 a year for the mayor is altogether too large, and it probably would be unm-cessnr{ if the city were to adopt the plans of that con- cern and elect a mayor, who, eitker as a salaried B. & M. man or some one who could handle the contracts, could aflord to do the work for the outside power the Eosluon would command. Unquestiona- ly the railroad influence in Lincoln would be glad to furnish a mayor and see that he did not suffer for a salary for the privilege of having a leverage of that kind upon the city, but charters are not framed for that vurpose. A salary of $1,200 is not too groat to pay a good square man for doing the duties devolv- ing upon the mayor, and there is not ono citizen in ten in Lincoln who believes for a minute that the amount is too high. Men of wealth could take the office for its honors, and men directly interested in some individual corporation could take it for the power and prestige it contains, but what the city needs at this particular point in 1ts history is a equare business man uninfluenced by corporation or any element of the kind, and no honest man can afford to take the office at a less salary than the char- ter provides. o ask & man to takes an office of that kind at a pittance would be simply bidding for some man who could make it pay in other ways. The efforts made by a few of the guardians to have the charter changed to allow councilmen elected at large was defeated, notwithstanding that Messrs. Hathaway, et al., gave a portion of the delogation notice that a compromise must be made on such matters. Recent legislation has that pnssed thescnate, and allows cities of the second class of over 5,000 population to paye the streets, will proyide a way in which Lincoln can pave regardless of the charter, and if it is de- feated or delayed in coming into effect until fall, the city, under the above l bill, can be enabled to pave in any event, When the charter was framed the cor: porations had full swing in 1ts building, and the effort to cut off the mayor's salary so that an honest man could not afford to take office comes with very poor grace, SENT TO THE ITENTIARY. Saturday the district court closed an eventful week’s work with the first con- viction that has been made the pres term, with the appendage of a t the penitentiary attached, Reade! remember the riot which took pla the immediate vicinity of one of the criminal roosts in the West Lincoln bot- toms some time since, and in the miscel laneous knock down at the the time a robbery was committed, and the police afterward captured a party to tho rob- bery who gave his name as Robert Spoves. Atthe trial held Saturday a vigorous defense was made in the case, but the jury found him guilty under the indictment and Judge Pound sentenced him the minimum in such casos--three years in the penitentiary. A colored man was tried the same day and convicted of vetty larceny. His sentence was the county jail for thirty days. BOOMING THE SPRING CAMPAIGN. The prohibitionists are already in the field in the capital city lnylr‘)lg the wires for the -Prin campaign, aj omising to make it as lively as possible for every one who does not believe in their partic- ular way of regulating thin, For the past two or three weeks their Sunday meetings have savored greatly of politics and they are now arranging for & mass meeting on Sunday afternoon, the 20th, at the llutroEoliun rink, which they Kmmun to make a rip-roarer. The pro- ibition central committee have decided that a large number of public mectings shall bo held, and to' meet expenses they have issued an invitation for the believers in politieal proliibition to the number of 500 to contribute $1 each for an amuuni- tion fund. The encrgy the prohivition- ists are oxercising causes a depross feeling on the part of the saloons ABOUT THE CITY The charitable work of Elder Howo iy an excellent work, but it gives a good opportunity o parade therr ¢! ¢ the publie, and 1t is very noticeable that when some banker or ‘cent per cent parties tuke to ol for popularity that the donation is alway seen in print and commented upon as much righteousness. It 1s but a very o that a poor lrish boy who or general assistance in his primitive way in the generousness of h's heart divided his day’s profits with an uncouth tramp. Whether the tramp waa worthy or a beat does not d f t that the boy he ches, and yet there was no elder or layman to' go avound and publish tho fact. That 25 cents given by the boy was as much more than a §10 noto from banker as the manner of giving and pare ading the fact was one above the other. 1y d with felonious al to-day in dis- yin his case being im fore thic adjournment of court ¢ evening, The case of Mrs Y 3 sells paper chellenberger has not yet been set for hearing, Bishop Skinner held his usual tempor- ance meeting at Red Ribbon hall yester- day afternoon, and it was characicriz by n very large attendance and much thusiasm, The bishop's meetings causo to feel at home, and hough y were a part of 1t and ar ways success, Mr. A. G. Wolfenberger, for several years the editor of the New Republic, the prohib organ, has stepped down and’ out and will devote himself to the work of organizing the stato for that partieul:r political Lobby. New additions to he city are stantly ng platted and placed the mar the product in the last two days in this line being Cherry Hill Place, a portion of the David Remick tract, and Elmwood, located in southwest Lincoin, ‘The Iatter adudition is the product of Me- Bride & Melone “Zatka,” a play of the nature of “Si- beria,” under the management of Harry Miner, was prosented to a very large Linco!n nudience at Funke's opera house Saturday evening, and was received with much satistaction by the large audienco mattendance. One hundred and tifty teachers of Lan- caster county held their rogular monthly teachers itute in this city Saturday, the nmcfil;fb ng held in the business coilege. The teachers' institutes the present winter have been characterized con- upon at all sessions as largely attended and of much intere: The attraction at the Funke opera house the coming two evenings, Monday and Tuesday, will be the inimitable Lotta and her own'company of unexcelled art ists. Monday night ‘‘Mnsette” will bo resented and Tuesday evening “M'llo atouche.”” The opening sale of seats for these entertainments was large. Joscph Scott, commussioner of public Iands and buildings, advertises for bids for furnishing supplies to the differant state institutions the coming quarter and Joseph Smith, commissioner of lands and buildings, advertises for 100 tons of coal for the capitol building. The State Jour- nal should correet itself and have the work done by one commissioner. The Nashville coiored students, who sang in the city Friday evening under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A, guve a con- cort on their own responsibility tho People's theater last evening to' a large audience, The coming week the members of the Lineoln nine will be among the arrivals in the city, coming as they do from the different sections to report at headqnar- ters for the season’s work. A good deal of preliminary practice will immediately follow and the new grounds are expected to be completed for business the pi week. The past week was one of the bus the season at the West Lincoln packing honses and the total receipts of hogs for x days amounted to nearly 10,000 The prices have been stiff and v on the advance, and a large num- ber of new shinpers have been among the week's patrons. The BEE is apprised of the exact loca- tion where some of the city bloods and bums make night hideons. Some of these parties who congregate at that block would not be happy if their nnmes were 1n print, but they are hable to drop into sight at any time. e S I Ladices should reflect well before using any preparation that is appplied to so delieate a surface as the skin, Any cos- s will at first impart a beautify: offect and ot apparently injure th but in a very short time little blotches and discolorati appear on the face which conelusively show the poisonous drugs in their composition. It n bo safely said that mora than {wo-thirds of the tace powders contan th injurious ingredients. Pozzoni's medicated com- plexion powder 13 not only absolutely free from all delcterious matter, but its principal ingredient is an active cura- {we lnr all” diseases of the sl It has stood the test of years. Sold druggists, and at the depot 607 N. street. ixth —— A Blind Critic of Pictures. Detroit Tribune: Detroit boasts of a blind art connoisseur named Coyl, who is also a good patron of art. Whenever and wherever there are good paintings to bo bo seen he can always bo found. Meot- ing him at one ot the galleries a few days ago, & Tribune reporter found him seated in front of u small Hart, which had just been received at which he was looking intently seeming to enjoy it with the rest of the company. “Here's a new Hart,” said he as the re- porter advanced to shake hands. *‘Good, 1sn't it He paints stronger than he did Don’t you think so?"" The reporter wonderingly nssented “The distance here is good,” he con- , “and the water particularly so. ture is small but treated with fecl- Hart's pictures are all alike—two , ared one and a white ono or two color, a bit of water, und fol A D''Yes," said a lady of the purt ca.l his white cows ‘Sunday’ cows and v dny cows. " r. Coyl, with consider- re not his Sun- L for they were bright e world could u blind rindie cow from a white one Is there n gixth sense? Prof. Foster, of Burlington, is gainmg considerable prominence as un elaboraty weather s oithe But h man tell a b in a picture? e the National Disease But Many Others. It is said that ayspepsia 1s our national malady. Well, GraNgeri's Pioes will cure the national malad 1t is said that consti is the curse of our sedentary Well, Brano- reTi's PILLs certainly cure constipa- tion. It is generally conceded that rhevma- tism comes from acid stomach and sud- den changes of temy RETII'S s huve corrected all this and willdo it Chronie dise cured by taking two to four of Miaxnuri's Puis every night for a monti The South Omahn Land company have appointea C. 5. Mayno sole agent for the salo of theirlots. - He will show the prop- erty and furnish all desired information upon applic: [Signod ] Not Oniy n. W. A Pax71oN, Presidont, A