Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 17, 1887, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 188 THE DAILY BEE.| PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERUB OF SURSCRIPTION ! Dally Morniag Edition) includiog Sunday Bir, Ono Yoar ... ... v 'or Bix Months £ ‘or Three Months .. The Omaha Swnday uddress, Ono Year.... ann OFFICE, NO. 914 AND 910 FARNAM STREEY. 5 TRINUNE BUILDING, Ew VORI OPFICE, ROOM FOURTEENTII STRERT. ASHINGTON OPFICE, NO CORRESPONDENCE! All communications relating to news and edi- torial mattor should be addressod 10 the Lbi- TOR OF THE BEE. BUSINEAS LITTENS! All business letters and remittances should he addressed 1o THE BEe PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAHA. Drafta, chocks and postofice orders %0 be made payable to the order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISHIVG CONPANY, PROPRIETCRS. . ROSEWATER, Eprron. THE DAILY BEE. Bworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, l" . County of Douglas. Geo, B, Tzschuek, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of the Daily Bee the week ending” Mar. 1ith 1857, wus as ‘ednesday, Mar. 0 Thursday, Mar.A10. Friasy, Mar. 11.. AVErage.......ocouen- Gxo, B, ‘TZ8CHUCK, Eubscribed in my presence and sworn to be- fore me this 12th day of March A. D., 1857, N. P. FriL, ISEALI Notary Publle. Geo. B, 'I'zschuck, w"fi first duly sworn, deposes and says that he Is secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual av- erage daily circulation of the Dally Bee for themonth of March, IB&I‘ 11,587 ‘AJrlL 1886, 12,191 copies: tor for M coples; for June, 1856, 12,208 Juz.‘ 1896, 12,314 coples; for Aurust, 1686, 13, coples; for September, 1856, 13,030 coples; for October, 1886, 12,080 coples; for November, 185, 13,348 coples; for Iecember, 1686, 13,257 copies; for January, 1887, 16,260 coples; for Fubruary, 1887, 1. Gro. B, TzscHUCK. Bubseribed and sworn to before me this 0t d-( of March, A. D, A SEAL.| P. Ferw, Notary Publie. 81. Louis is jubilant over I:l tast mail. It is a novelty for the old fogy town. S——— RAILROADS have captured the Missouri legislature. In fact, there have been no uncaptured legislatures in session this winter. em—e—— Tie Leavenworth Zimes is just now enjoying a $10,000 spring libel smt. Mr. Anthony proposes to keep up with his city’s boom. TaE accident on the elevated road in New York, in which ten men met their death, whispers a pointer to Omaha. Let us have the cable lines. NEw York 18 to have an Evening Sun. ‘This gives the metropolis two Suns and one Star a day. Some one ought now to start The Moon in that city. C——— A DALLAS, Texas, paper says: ‘‘Col- onel Frank James, the noted Missouri ex-bandat, is here for the purpose of in- wvesting in real estate.” Poor old Kansas City. SEpE—— ‘Tne Jegislature adjourned for two days. There would havebeen some sense in ad- Journing sine die. It is too late in the day, however, to expect an exhibition of good sense from that august body. Tk recent Monte Carlo earthquake closed the gambling houses there. Earth- quakes and members of some judiciary committees will ruin the gamblers, if something is not done to prevent it. A BILL appropriating money to main- tain the state militia failed to pass in Missouri. Unless something is done by volunteer companies, Missour1 will be without protection. Nebraska is willing to sacritice Colonel Colb) PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has finally suc. cumbed to the seductive influences of a “jack-pot,” and in a little game of “‘draw’ with his private secretary and several congressmen lost $46. The good luck of the man of destiny is certainly on the decline. EE————— THE discovery is made that Cleveland 18 & poker player. The star-eyed god- dess of reform ought to investigate this matter. The president, as commander- in-chief of the armies of the United States, has no more right to monkey with cards than & one-horse hieutenant. S——— Whaex Chicago found its hog business moving westward attempts were made to make that city a literary center. All ef- forts in that direction have failed, how: ever, aud Chicagoans have come to the conclusion that the hog after all is a more reliable source of profit than literature. A pisraten from New Bedford, Mass,, reads: ‘‘Rev. Matthew C. Julien, pastor of the Trinitarian church in this city, will receive a call from Plymouth church, Brooklyn, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry Ward Booecher.” To “ocoupy the vacancy” would have been a better expression. Thero was but one Henry Ward Beecher. E———— PriNcE BisMARCK gave a dinner to the leaders of the various parties voting for the septennate bill. And itis understood that Pat O, Hawes dined tho members of the legislature after they had passed his bill allowing him $4,000, Judged from the standpoint of due appreciation the only difference between royalty and a common lobbyist is that Mr. Hawes sports a silk hat and a gold headed cane. emmTese——— Tue Salvation Army, whether good or bad, 13 entitled to credit for its untiring perscverance. Regardless of the sneers and jeers of street hoodlums and the in- terference of city authorities, it continues to parade and hold its meetings. Re- cently, at Charlotte, Mich., 2 jury gave a Judgment agminst the city for $250 to James Catheart, captain of an “‘Army,” who was locked up fourteen hours for leading a parade in violation of a city or- dinance. — Inarecont interview Senator Edmunds, in reply to the question as to what he of the chances of the republican parly in 1838, said: ‘*‘Believing that the republican party represents the best principles of the government, and having confidenoe in the intelligence of the peo- - ple and their ability to disoriminate, I " expect the republicans to be restored to wer,” As a political prophet, it might well to remark in the choice und ohar- o gufiu dialect of this rowdy west, Mr. munds is 2o slouch. Call the Miscreants Away. The state capital is infested with drunken bummers and boodlers. They are there and have been there all winter long in the interests of railroads and other corporations. Beyond any question of doubt membars of the legislature have been corrupted by these wily scoundrels, Had the legislators represented their constituents half as well as these hire- lings and henchmen have served their masters, these last fifty day opelessiy squandered—would have resulted in gome good, But the horde of corm-rants have stood hetween the people and honest leg- islation. They have made a wretched and miserable farce of the proceedings, The state treasury 1s bemng raided to bear the expense of a sixty days' session. There are yet left ten days. In this time much good legislation could be sccured if the corrupting gang of vagrants and pro- curers ¢ driven away. A tax-ridden people would be pleasaed to hear plain and distinet answers to the following questions: Who pays the hotel nlls of Mr, Frank Walters? From whom does he get the money whi as made him the best cus- tomer at the Capital hotel bar? What is he doing there now, and what has he been doing there all winter ¢ What particular business did John Manchester have at the capital for some six or eight weeks? Is he not, and was he not then, on the pay rolls of the Union Pucific railroad ? What part did Mr. Pickerell, the Gage county striker play—and what is he doing there now ¢ To whom does he re- turn his expense account ? From whose bank account does Paul Vandervoort draw to liquidate his hotel bills ? Thrown on his own resources could he afford to play sixty days in a hotel bar- room, with champagne, brandy smashes and cigars hauled up by the porters to his quarters after midnight? What legiti- mate business has this bloated blather- skite at the legislature? Who keeps Will Guorley, Charley Greene, Telephone Crawfor Dave Mercer, Captain Lee, Boby Richardson, Ed Carns, Herb Leavitt, and a score of such roust-abouts at the leading hotel in Lincoln supplied with eatables, drinka- bles and incidentals? Have these men any legitimate calling that would justify their laying around halls of legislation? Why should a set of miscreants be allowed to ply their vocation, from dawn to day-break, in defiance of law and de- cency? Isitnot about time that they be called away by their corporate mas- ters? Omaha Gets the Keunion. Omaha has secured the next Grand Army reunion. This isthe first time that the metropolis of Nebraska has been so- lected for this notable annual gathering of the veterans of che war. That they will be handsomely entertained there is no ques- tion. The reunion will doubtless prove beneficial in many ways to Omaha. It will bring here many citizens of Ne- braska who have never been to Omaha, and who will be delighted at this oppor- tunity of secing one of the most prosper- ous cities of the west while they are at the same time enjoying the pleasures of the reunion. There is no doubt that the coming reunion will be the most largely attended of any ever held in Nebraska. We would suggest to the managers that, in conjunction with our leading business men, they endeavor to make this an inter-state reunion and invite the comrades from Iowa, Kansas, North Missouri and Dakota to attend. Thous- and of old soldiers would thus be brought together from the different states for the first time since the war. Old acquaint- ances would be renewed and old memo- ries revived. At former reunions in Nebraska old friends have met for the first time since they were mustered out of the service in 18656. If the BEE's suggestion is acted upon 1t is safe to say that the attendance will be nearly double what it would be if the reunion is limited to Nebraska That Challenge. A challenge appears at the head of the editorial columns of G. M. Hitchcock's paper which we cheerfully accept on legitimate business conditions. A wager of $1,500, in three parts of 8500 each, 18 propoesd to us that we can- not establish the claims made by this paper with regard to relative circulations of Omaha and Nebraska dailies. Messrs. N. B. Falconer, 8. P. Morse and John T. Bell are named as umpires. We regard betting asillegitimate,but we willdeposit $1,500 in any bank as against an equal sum to be deposited by any Omaha publisher on condition that if we fail to sustain our claim the amount de- posited shall be donated to the charity hos- pital and if we make good our claim the money deposited by the challenging party shall be paid over to the hospital and ours refunded. The comparison of rela- tive circulations must be made under the following conditions: General circula- tion shall be computed on the basis of aggregate bona fide subscriptions and sales during the period covering three months ending March 15, 1887, certified to in detail under oath by each publisher and verified by the publisher's books. City circulstion shall be restricted to actual paying subscribers and sales to news stands within the city, Computation to be made on the aggregate circulation for the period of three months ending March 15, 1887, sworn to by publishers and veri- fied by the subscription books and re- ceipts placed in the hands of the umpires. ‘The claim as made by the BEE is First—That 1ts general circulation is nearly double the combined circulation ot the Herald, Republican, World and Lincoln Journal.. Second--That the Bee's city circula- tion is four times that of the World, and about double that of the Herald, Republi- can and World put together, Third->That the gain made by the Ber duriog the year ending March 1, 1887, is Rgreater than the total bona-fide circula- tion of any other Omaha paper. We are ready to submitto a decision on these three specific points by the umpires named on the above conditions and on none other. The Bxx has made public its actual cir- culation from day to day during the last year under oath of its bookkeeper. No other paper has dared to publish or furn- ish a sworn statement of ciroula- tion. Wo mean business, but we in: sist that the unpires shall have 30ccess to the books and subsoription lists of all the papers. Let the challengers tome to time or drop ' the subject. - We will not bandy wordsto advertiso papers and concerns that are imposing on adver- tisers with bogus claims bolstered up by promiscuous give-away circulation, — Horse Sense and Horso Railways. Mayor Boyd has a queer of domng things. He signed the ordinance of the Omaha horse raiiway company for a cable franchise, but pinned to his signa- ture a buncombe message, which trans- lated mto pluin glish, would read about as follows: *“This ordinance does not meet my approval beeause it leaves the horse railrond company the ontion of not building the cable road for which a franchise is asked. 1 should veto this ordinance if it was not shoved under my nose just before the spring election.” Mayor Boyd's objections to the ordi- nance as it is drafted give evidence of good horse sense, but as he signed the message his annex is the merest bosh un- less the horse railway company shall see fit to act upon the suggestion and come forward with a guarantee that it will build a certain length of ecable road within a given reasonable time. This is really what the citizens of Omaha will insist on before they vote the franchise to the compan 111 Effects of a Narrow Policy. The consequences apprehended from the ure of the deficiency bill are being reallzed. The work in several branches of the public seryice which was thus left unprovided for is necessarily greatly curtailed, or must be omitted altogether. The effect isto impair the eficiency of the neglected services, while in some cases the loss to the government may amount to a considerably greater sum than the appropriation that will be saved. This is very likely to be the result from the in- ability of the internal revenue bureau to properly enforce the oleomargarine law. More officials are required for this pur- pose, bat there is no money to pay them. The opinion of the commissioner is that if the required men could be employed the additional amount of taxes collected would pay for theiv services and leave a handsome balance. The omission to em- ploy them will lose to the government this balance and prevent a full and 1m- partial exccution of the law. The fail- ure of this bill is also an injury to the signal service, which 1s forced to re- strict its work and give less information to the public than has been the custom. In other directions the failure of the de- ficiency bill is having results to the dis- advantage of the public service and the public interests, The cause of the failure of this meas- use is well understood by the country. 1t was held back until the last day of the session and finally passed too late to be engrossed. But the primary fault in this matter lics against the policy of the appropriations committec of the house in paring down appropriations to the lowest figures for which there is any appearance of reason, regardless of the eslimates of the heads of departments and chiefs of bureaus. The wotive for this i3 not wholly economical, as was quite con- clusively shown at the last session, but takes also a political direction. A part of the purpose is to throw the responsi- bility for apparent extravagance upon the senate, which as to nearly all appro- priation bills bas found it necessary, in the interest of the public service, to in- crease the amounts as they came from the house. It will be remembered that this matter was earnestly discussed by senators during the last session, and there was a quite general expression among them that if the evident policy of the house shall hereafter be adhered to the senate may determine to let appropriations pass as they receive them, thereby throwing on the house whatever injury may result to the publiz service from inadequate allowances. The remedy for annual deficiency bills 1s to be found m placing more confidence in the judgment of heads of departments and bureaus as to the requirements of the services under them, Experience has shown that when the estimates of these officials have been largely cut down it has rarely happened that the public ser- vice did not sufter or that efficiences and & proper execution of the public business were not maintained upon conditions which rendered necessary a deficiency bill. The lnter-sState Commission, ‘A hopoless patriot” writes the Now York Herald as follows: I have been forty years in business. During that time 1 have seen the railroads take absolute possession of this city. I have seen the rallroads gain control of the state of Pennsylvania. Ihave seen the railroads of the nation direct the legislation of the government at Washington. Nobody will dispute me. Now, I wonder how long it will take for the rallroads of this country to capture the five men to be called ‘“the Inter-state com- merce commission.” ‘The Herald responds, ‘‘Alas! we do not know.” Yet it might be well to say that if railroad corporations continue in their greed and avarice, the time will be short indeed. The fact that the government has passed the law, gives reason for the hope that 1ts enforcement will be carried out to the letter. If it were left to the average legislature—say like the one at Lincoln—"'a hopeless patriot's” question would need no answer, Tue boodle gang at Lincoln, in collus- ion with the members who are working for needless and extravagant appropria- tions, has managed to overturn the ac- tion of the house in ordering the legisla- tive grand jury investigation of the bri- bery charges. The known object of this move was to give the boodlers and bribe solicitors a chance to harmonize their stories before the committee and throttle the inquiry by the customary device of spiriting away important witnesses. The how! about open sessions and against star chamber proceedings was & con- certed effort. It was agreed on Tuesday night in room 28, Windsor hotel, be- tween Russell, Bowman, Slater and one or two others of that peculiar stripe. 1f that session ih the Windsor hotel, had been open the house would hardly have dared to play into the hauds of the con- spirators, Ny —— ANOTHER street railway company has been incorporated. It is called the Omaha & South Omaha company. The incorporators are men of ample eapital, and evidently mean business. The pro- posed railway will give » great hoom in South Omaha proverty, in which the majority of the members of ‘the com- pany are heavily interested. A Disgrace to the State, H. C. Russell, who goes by the title of colonel without aver having been . a cor- . R this department G, Never was a poral, has been anj‘.»n as communder of | more unworthy wmad re zed and hon- ored by any organiation in Nebraska. The idea that a brazbn hyvoerite and an unmitigated fraad jshould be chosen to | fill such a position must make every hon- est old veteran blush with shame. The boon compafiion of dissipated bum- mers, who have demoralized and de- bauched the legizlature with their orges, honored with a position which had been made respectable by Governor Thayer. The intluences that have brought that ex-spy and political Benedict Arnold to the front g he same as those which have made Nebraska a neve pro- vince of corporate monopoly. The rail- road henchmen within the Grand Army, of whom Paul Vandervoort is the ac- knowledged leader, have elevated and knighted Russell for the aid and com- fort he has given them in their nfamous work at the state capital. For wecks these influences have been at work to make the Grand Army subservient to their personal ends and the interests of their corporate employers. Mr. Russell's elevation will not, however, vindicate his reputation or establish his character, The high regard in which the veterans of the late war are held by all loyal Amer- icans will not palliate political betrayals or corrunt conspiracies. Tk new act of the Kan legislature which grants to women the right of suftrage in all local clections, authorizes the authorities to exclude from registra- tion as voters, all women who were not born In this country. It was to have been hoped that know-nothingism had had its da Shades of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Helen Gougar! Can this be the result of your long life dream ¢ Has it been left for female shrickers to say that foreign- born educated wives and daughters of naturalized citizens and taxpayers are to be excluded, while ignorant women are to be enfranchise! only because of the privelege of birth? The “freedom” for which these women have wailed and howled for years and years is accepted in Kansas by native born women, while those of foreign birth are held in the ‘‘chains of bondage’’ of which they have always prated. In passing alaw grant- ing to women the elective franchise, the legislature of Kansas was, as Mr. Bumble would would say, ‘‘a idiot—a ass,” but the man or woman drafting the bill, was not only a native but a natural born fool. THE recent enaulfion! ofa law exclud- ing all causes from United States circuit and district courts which involve less than 2,000 will greAtly increase the bus- iness of the state lablrts, especially the district courts. Tius innovation will have a direct bearing upon the dockets of this judicial district, which are now many months behipd. Ar the private funeral of Henry Ward Beecher, the Beecher family wore none of the traditional habiliments of woe. The Philadelphia Record, commenting on this departure from a custom so gen- erally regarded, says “‘outward trappings of sable black do but poorly express, after all, the inward sense of desolation.” ALr members of the legislature are to be congratulated upon the happy fact that during the discussion regarding the investigation Mr. Agee was absent. And if Mr. Agee's jaw bones were capable of appreciating a good thing they aiso would rejoice, THE Illinois legislature has decided to submit to the voters of the Sucker state the question of adopting a prohibitory amendment. Chicago without whisky would be like sheol without fire. How- ever, the amendment can never be car- ried. TaE names of the incorporators of the Omaha & Council Bluffs Bridge com- pany are an assurance that the bridge will be built. This enterprise would prove a great benefit to both cities, and the work should be begun immediately. 1r the Mendota carpenter could be in- duced to return to Nebraska, his chance to be elected commander of the G. A. R. would be excellent, judging from the high standard of the last selection. STRICT attention should be paid to the enforcement of the fire limit ordinances. The rebuilding of fire-traps and the erec- tion of any class of frame buildings within the limit should not be allowed. ‘TRAT union depot location ought to be definitely settled at once. Various enter- prises are awaiting the determination of this important question. THE report of the discovery of a plot to bombard the czar of Russia, is confirmed. Uncasy lies the head that wears a crown. EE————— THE city assessors have taken a step in the right direction by increasing prop- erty valuation 20 per cent. — FAsT presses and heayy bank accounts don’t make newspaper circulations. ——— PROMINENT PERSONS, M. Tennyson persiétd in belng an excess- ive consumer of tobacco, (Carl Schurz is still ;suffering considerably from his recent accident. W. W. Cole, the young showman, neither drinks, smokes, chews nor swears. Ex-Governor Hoadly’ began work in his New York law offices on Thursday. Professor Alexander' Agassiz, of Cam- bridge, Mass., has retuyped from Europe. W. L. Greeley, & grand nephew of Horace Greeley, is the villaga;barber and fiddler at Spring Creek Station, Pa. Munkacsy gave & gueat banquet in Paris when he heard that Wabamaker had bought his *‘Christ Before Pilate.” Francis Murphy’s son Tom has wound up ablue-ribbon campaign at Vincennes, Ind., where 4,000 persons signed the pledge. —_— Simon and Don, New York World, (General Simon Cameron says that his son Don would have been great man if he had not been born rich. This remark should edify the Increasing number of people who regard wealth as the basls of greatness. Vandervoort. Lincoln Democrat, The Ber says 'aul Vandervoort is a eandi- date for trustee of the state soldiers’ bome. In the name of common decency it is hoped he will not get the place. The sight of Paul Vandervoort for once doing an, honess day’s work would cause the morning stars to break out once more | skip like lambs, ng and the movnat: cago Herald, Omaha s fmensely pleased because Kan- sas City has failed to Keep its place in the base | ball league. In the upper Missouri view of the case a town which loses its grip on the | league is hopelessly lost, whether its bank elearings increase or not. —— - Rather Mixed. New York Commerclal Advertiser, A man has justbeen cremated in Buffalo who will find it difficult to prove his exact aflinity in the next world. He was born a Jew and married in that faith in S& Louis: then he went to Utah and became a Mormon and married two wives. His first wife got a divoree, and pretty soon he got one from the other two and joined a Protestant chureh in Omaha. This didu't suit him and he became & Sviritualist, and after this he became an agnostic and died. S - How Easy It 1s to Spoil a Life, How easy 1t 15 to spoil a day ! 'l'hcf %hm;zhtluss words ‘of & cherished riend, The seliish work of & child at plnf, The strength of a will that will not bend, The slight ot a comrade, the scorn of a foe, ‘The smile that is full of bitter things— They can all tarnish its golden glow, And take the grace from its airy wings. How easy it fs to spoil a lifel— And many are spoiled ere well begun— In home light darkencd by sin and strife, Or downward course of a cherished one; By toil that robs the form of its grace And undermines tiil health gives wa, By the peevish temper, the frowning face, The hopes that cares that stay. STATE Nebraska Jottings. Grand Island willvean. West Point is on the lookout for stray railroads. Callaway has been offered a roller mill for a bonus of $2,000, Ainsworth has voted to build a $10,000 court house for Brown county. Broken Bow is counting heads with a view to incorporating as a city The Platte river is making a pretly generally sweep of the bridges. The urmy of home seekers now pour- ing into the state is what tickles thegsoil. The sod in the hay flats of Cherry county makes an excellent article of veat, A Rushville tough named Meeter was cowhided by a woman at Hay Springs last week. Twelve of the members of the Nebraska legislature served in Iowa regiments dur- ing the war. Tom Brown has started a museum in Creighton with a coon, a skunk, trick mule and a baby. Alderman Twamley, of Fremont, hav- ing made #$8,000 in 6mnh| real estate, has decided to move to the metropolis. A match and a handful of gunpowder in the hands of a small boy, son of R. H. Miller of Broken Bow, combined to per- manently disfigure his face. The first accident on the Rock Island extension in this state occurred about 6 o'clock last Saturday evening. It was near Ellis, a station about six miles west of Beatrice. August Arensen, an em- ploye, fell between the carsot a boarding train coming this way and was fatally in- jured. He was passing from one car to another, and fell apparently lengthwise of the track, as one leg was badly crushed. He died that evening. A hugging society for church purposes is a late novelty in Pleasant View. The soclety is a pressing necessity. The pub- lishedrates for a straight hug of two min- utes is as follows: Girls under fifteen years, 20 cents; from sixteen to twenty- five years, 75 cents; schoolmarms, 40 cents” each; old maids 8 cents each. Each class is fully entered and no one need be disappointed. The preachers are barred. She wc&fncd 200 or over and wabbled into a real estate office in search of bar- gains. In a beer-mellowed voice she bid on one which was being transferred to a urchaser. “Igif you hun’erd tollar.” ‘Don’t want to sell.” “I gif you dree hun’erd.” “No.” = “Then go to th’ difel.”” ‘‘Madame,” exclaimed annoyed buyer, ‘I have never had the misfortune of meeting your friend, and cannot ac- commodate you.”. Iowa Items. Dexter is pushing a coal prospect hole. The monthly enrollment of school chil- dren at Des Moines amounts to 2,745, Carroll county 5 per cent bonds, to the a‘/‘mount of $50,000, s0ld at a premium of 105. Thae common council of Des Moincs 15 wrestling with cable street railway ordi- nances. The late SJudge Call left $10,000 worth of realty for establishing a state normal school at Algona. Red Oak councilmen get 20 cents an hour for actual work with their lungs. They talk against time, The state board of underwriters has re- moved the embargo from gasoline stoves, Hereafter no gasoline permit will be re- quired to an insurance policy. This will s:rihke the head of the household about right. Dakota. A bedspring factory is Yankton's. lat- est. Five hundred sinners vrofessed re- pentance during a late revival in Fargo. Another bunch of Nobraska quail have t«on planted by sportsmen ncar Rapid City. A number ot business men in Canton have been indicted for gambling and card playing. Sioux Fal car loads of purposes. tract.; Samuel A. Dickey, brother of ex-Con- gressman Dickey of Pennsylvania, was convicted in the United States court at Bismarck of selling liquor to Indians, Mad Bear is said to be the wealthiest Indian 1n the territory, being the pos- sessor of extensive herds of ‘cattle and horses. Itis hard to see why he should be mad. Since cold weather set in last fall Sionx Falls has consumed 833 cars of coal, or 16,648 tons, and 432 cars of wood, amounting to 8,888 cords, making u g;amd total paid for fuel the winter $154,- 9. quarries will furnish 4,000 anite for Chicago paving maha also takes & big con- With hard hearted vigilance commit- tees in sight horse thieves occns_mnnllx ply their tricks in the Black Hills, couple of them have been captured at Long Pine, Neb., and are being returned to the Hills, The Jamestown artesian well is now down 1,850 feet and it is believed that 400 feet more will have to be sunk before sufficient water is found. A third of a mile isa long way to go for alittle warm "X i Indi Kills-the-ecnemy-at-night, an Indian who has been in the Benuwood Jjal for the past eightten months under the charge of having murdered another scalp-lifter at Pine Ridge Indian agency, was lately discharged from custody by .the cot:’rt onmv.ne grm;nc} that hgln :lue was nored by the grand jury. This way- ‘gurd son {:f tha‘;eluln wilds 15 said have eost Lawrence county $2,000, ‘Wyoming. D, C. Kelso, while probate judge and treasurer of Carbon county, stole $4582, He was captured in Denver. It is estimated that the winter loses of stockmen whose herds range south of Green River City will not exceed 7 per cent. feass that changes in the U:“lm::l.flo management will swop the building of brances and a number of loeal improvements, The decaying carcass of Chas Thong, a murdered Chinaman, was found near Cheyenne last Monday he throat was cut fromear to ear, ‘The crime was com- | witted several week A thorough examination of the ranches of W, Joknson Fisher, some nee from showed that the stock pulled thr winter in good condition. Not one head was found weak enough to justify driving it to the corral. ¢ Some young scoundrels at Cheyenne, says the Leader, have been trying to in- young girls to go to Denver for im- purposes, Forthis terrible crime vere tried and one of them fined while the other wast\dismissed. Such chaps as these should be sent to the penitentiarvy for life. Colorado. The Colorado Humane society has been revived, A miner s hospital to cost §10,000 is to be built at Ouray. Nathan Falk, a commercial drummer, took a tumble from the chamber of com- mercoe building in Denver Monday, in- lemllufi to finish his career. He was pretty badly bruised but no bones were roken. Joseph Pratt, an elderly man and well known resident of Denver, quarreled over a petty mortgage on a wagon. While pulling against a team_of horses he was knocked intoa well by a hay- {x}(‘k and the water foreclosed on his ife. J. H. Hartman, a Breckenridge miner, last week struck lead of almost solid gold, as rich as any ever found in the west. The lucky miner has been living from hand to mouth in the district for seven years, and the find is an ample re- ward for toil and privations, The Western Colorado railroad has been added to the Union Pacific system. The Jgurnow of the consolidation “is the building of a railway and telegraph linc from the boundary line of the territory of Wyommgxr to the North Platte river, thence up Muddy Creek valley to Grand river, thence up the valley of the Grand to Salt Lake City in Utah, with branches along the aflluents of the North Platte, Muddy Creek and Grand river to Aspen and Dillon; also branches into White River valley and the valley of the Yampa or Bear river, and by way of Cameron Pass to the Cache le Poudre to Fort Col- lins or any other %zint on the Colorado Central that ma determined on. The consolidation-of the two railways virtu- ally gives the Union Pacific access to a new country and is regarded asa direct cut at the Midland and its proposed con- nections. ——— A PERKEGRINATING PEN. Contrast Between East and West in This Day. JACcksoN, Mich., March 11.—[Corre- spondence of the BEE.]—About one week ago Istarted from Bloomington, Neb., a beautiful little village in the Repupli- can valley, for the east. After crossing the Missouri river the country appeared to be hardly worth owning and continu- ally grew worse. The monotony of only an occasional bog of lana above pools of water can only be imagined by those who have witnessed the same scene. In Illi- is almost every farm was inundated with water to such an extentthat the ma- chinery of the present day is not equal to the task of farming 1t. Chicago, the wost wonderful of western citios, is like- wise one of the most disagrecable and dirty, and is surrounded by one of the worst malaria-breeding districts in the world, ‘We are hurried through dismal swamps toward Michigan. We oconstantly read and hear of the awful blufls of Nebraska, and hardly expect to come back into the country where these reports originated and find a basis for their uvlngfl; yet when we near Michigan City and find the sun and daylight shut out from our sight by enormous barren sand mounds, and the scene ropeated as far as eye can reach, we wondernot at their rash asser- tions. In four years of travel in Ne- braska, from east to west and from north te south, both overland and by rail, Thave never encountered such an apparently God-forsaken country assurrounds Mich- jgan City, Ind., snd in fact all alon, the line of the Michigan Central, Of course our old homes are inviting and awaken memories which are dear to and cherished by us all. The treasures of youthful memories are like untu precious gems which we would not sell for moun- tains of gold. The old school house, with its rough board desks, whitened and marked by mischievous hands, ap- ears to us as though in a vision, and wo Eva over again the sunny days of the ast, But erasing the poetic part and reating on facts, we cannut but look upon our boyhood’s dreams as feriile im- agination of budding end_ inexperienced youth; for everything which we once be- came 80 enthusiastic over wears a changed appearance. Decay and desola- tion are the prominent features of ninety- nino out of every hundred of the farms wo pass, and in none do we find the brightness which characterizes the farms of Nebraska. We pass what were once the pride and flowers of manufacturin, towns, and find that the once busy mills have long since dao?ad and fallen to iaces, the old brick flues towering kigh wards the skies, as a continual menace to_the passer-by. In the whole distance from Chicago. thrnufh part of Llinois, Indiana and Michigan, we were unable to discern a portrayal of a single one of the beautiful scenes depioted in the prosperous and growing west. Farm buildings were un- painted and weather-beaten; fences wero tumbled down and a disagreeable system of looseness seemed to prevail. On few farms did we notice the refreshing stock scencs of Nebraska—stock ing the more conspicuous on sac- count of scarcity. The towns have the same sluggish and forlorn l})uenrnncu as the tarms. A good illustration of the appearance of the soil was shown by oces sown to fall wheat, where the soil 18 the more plainly seen, and it reminded us of the occasional () barren saud-bars in the Piatte river. Just why people will live and work in the crowded east, where a living is hard to be gained,and where a farm is not much larger than an average sized Nebraska barn-yard, is something inexplicable. The atmosphere here in the east is as full of malaria as are its marshes and swamps of reptiles und frog- onds; and the lofty crags and peaks of E:olormlo are like pigmies atghe side of the great Michigan stone piles carefully culled from vast fields of stone. To the farmer who has never scen the paradise of the west, the familiar scenes around nis eastern home become only monoto- nous, His thoughts perhaps never range further, But to the person who has broken the servile chains, cast off the yoke of oppression and found for himself # pleasant ane in the beautiful west, it would require the entire treasures of Solomon’s mines to persuade him to again take up his abode in the east. ’l“fnflue are not fancies, but stubborn facts which prove themselves on every trial, N. A, CoLr. Five New Novels for 156 Cents. b:-NEW :-: NOVELS.-: Allcomplete in the April Nuiber of the FAMILY LIBRARY MONTHLY Only 15¢. Of all newsdealers or THe INTErRNATIONAL NEWS Co, N. Y. aresid, beed s Caneti Book. Prices Addresy, J.G. A CARD. TO THE PUBLIC— With the approach of spring and theincreased interest man- ifested in real estate matters, I am more than ever consult- ed by intending purchasers as to favorable opportunities for investment, and to all such would say: When"putting any Proper- ty on the marl&ut, and adver- tising it as desirable, I have invariably confined myself to a plain unvarnished statement of facts, never indulging in vague promises for the future, and the result in every case hasbeen that the expectations of Were more purchasers than realized. I can refer with pleasure to Albright's Annex and Baker Place, as sample il lustrations. Lots in the “Anmex” have quadrupled in value and are still advancing, while a street car line is already building past Baker Place, adding hun- dreds of dollars to the value of every lot. Albright’'s Choice was se- lected by me with the greatest care after a thorough study and with the full knowledge of its value, and I can consci- entiously say to those seeking a safe and profitable invest ment that Albright's Choice offers chances not excelled in this market for a sure thing. Early investorshave already reaped large profits in CASH, and with the many important improvements contemplated, some of which are now under way, every lot in this splen did addition will prove a bo- nanza to first buyers. Further information, plats and prices, will be cheerfully furnished. Buggies ready at al) times to show propufly. Respectfully, W.G. ALBRIGHT SOLE OWNER, 218 8. 15th Street. Branch office af South Owa- ha. N. B. Property for sale luall parts of the city