Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 18, 1887, Page 4

00 . A DS A s g T Y S T Moy ot e T2 T 6 a5 DT~ 4 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY. MARCH 18, 1867. THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED ETI—E-I_?Y MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSORIPTION © Dbfly (Morniag Edition) lucluding Sunday ke, One Yoar. ... 8ix Months .. 50 ‘or ‘Three Months 2 50 he Omaha Bwnda, nddross, Une Your. 20 O14 AND 918 FARNAM BTREEY. IHUNE BOILDING. E:uu orrice, WTEENTH STRET. EW YORK OFFI ASHINGTON O CORRESPONDRENCE:! All communieations relating to nows and ed!- torial matter should be addressed 1o the Evl- YOI OF THE Dok BUSINESS LETTERS All bueiness lctters and remittances ehould be Widressed 10 THE DE¢ PUBLISHING COMPANY, DMAHA. Drafts, cheoks and postofice orders to&e made payable to the order of the company., _ THE BEE PUBLISHING CONPANY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, EviTor. THE DAILY BEE. *Bworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, County of Douglas. }" s (Geo. B. Tuschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circuiation of the Dally Hee the week ending Mar. 11th 1887, wus as lows: 14.470 ‘ednesday Thursday, A Friday, Mar. RO, B, TZ8CHUCK, Rubseribed In my presence and sworn to be- fore we this 12th day of March A. D., 1887, . P. FRIL, ISEALI Liotary Publie. Geo. B, 'l'zschuck, Mlni first duly sworn, leposes and says that he s secretary of The Publishing company, that the actual av- eraze daily eirculation of the Dally Bee for the month of March, 1886, 11, coples; for April, 1886, 12,101 copies: forfor May, 1885, 13, coples; for June, 1856, 13,208 coples; for J“%’C 1886, 12,314 coples; for Aucust, 1886, 12, coples; for September, 1886, 18,030 coptes; for October, 1886, 12,080 copies; for November, 18,348 coples; for December, 1886, 13,287 copies;.for January, 1887, 10,200 coples; for February, 1887, 14,198 copies. Gro. B. 128CHUCK. Subseribed and sworn to before me this 9th day of March, A, D, 1887, [SEAL.| N. P. Feiv, Notary Public. “CoLoNEL" RUSSELL'S vindication will not vindicate. WE have an inter-state commerce law, but we have no commission to enforce it. Tuk senseless attack upon Speaker Harlan will do him no harm. Mr. Har- lan's character is above reproach, e—— Tue Lincoln Democrat regrets that Mr. Keckley did not stand on Colby’s mate- rial frame with both feet. The Democrat has a keen appreciation of the beautiful. Wit Jay Gould saying that money 13 a burden, John L. Suluvan carrying his arm in a sling, and “Colonel” Russell com- manding the G. A. R. of Nebraska, it is . certainly to be hoped that death ends all. UroN receiving a telegram announcing the election of Russell as commander of this division of the G. A. R., the Mendota carpenter exclaimed: ‘*‘Alas! had I but known the kind of material they wanted out there.” THERE is to be a lively city campaign. It is talked *‘on the corners'’ that several gentlemen will be candidates for mayor. ‘The candidate for this office of trust and honor must be clean and upright. No others need apply. eE—— AN illustration of the law’s delay is furnished in the death of Mrs, Mary Pel- ton, sister of the late Samuel J. Tilden. This aged lady died a veryshort time ago without ever having received one cent ot her brother's bequest. THe bill appropriating $5,000 to relieve Bob Furnas has been reported favorably by the senate. In a few days the great ex- lubitor who squandered $15,000 of the peo- ple’'s money two years ago, will doubtless banquet the legislature. Tre Bartford, Vt., railroad wreck again suggests the idea that too many bridges break down beneath trains of cars. The car stove, as has been proven by this last frightful disaster, is not al- ways the cause of death in these acci- dents. The government must finally ap- point comvetent track and bridge in- spectors. E———————sess— ‘Tae mouth piece of jobbers and corpo- rations at Lincoln attempts to intimate that the legislature is composed entirely of honest and incorruptible men. The Lincoln dreadful has been for years the recoguized apologist of the entirc band of unconvicted criminals infesting our state, and engaged this wimnter in cor- rupting our legislature, ——— ‘TuE Journal is not in the habit of blowing about 1ts business affairs, but when requested togive a few facts it is always ready.—Lin- coln Journal. Well, talk to us just a moment. Will you please make affidavit to your circu- lation * Is it not true that you print less thau four thousand papers, and will you make affidavit that your bona fide sub- scription is over twenty-eight hundred ? It iv 18, please inform us how much greator--but bo careful to swear to your statement. We are anxious, also, to know if it is not true that the Democrat in your city circulates and receives pay for double the number of papers sold and given away in the entire city of Lin- coln by the Journal ? E— THE liver-padded barnacle and con- sumptive liar who writes hog wash for the Lincoln Journal, and who calls him- self Gere, is out with a long harangue on what he knows about investigating com- mittees. Mr. Gere undertakes to say that a secret session was not necessary. He maintains that an ‘“‘open” session would disclose all the facts aad accom- plish the same results. He says that it is fmpossible for witnesses to be spirited away, kor one of a firm which in seven years has drawn over $300,000 from the state treasury, Gere's candor is suggest- ive. But it will be remembered that had not one of the proprietors of the Journal company “‘spirited” himself away when an investigation was ordered to inquire to the state printing steals, an open sesslon or asecret sesslon would per- ps have disclosed some valuable infor- mation, When Gere's partner was los- ing humself in the mountains of Colorado to oscape au investigation, it was then, perhavs, th it the man who refers to Rosewater's demand to rid the state of solicitors as *‘a farce,” learned how ‘fiummm.mm of crim- A New Combination, Tt is now given out, a8 coming almodst directly from the proprietors of the dif- ferent Omaha newsp apers, that a “‘com- bine'" has been formed with no other in- tent or purpcse save to oppose all meas- ures advocated by the Beg. In this un- holy scheme a charming, if not sublime spectacle is presented in modern journal- ism. No matter how worthy a cause for which the BEE might labor, our alleged “‘enterprising” contemporarics give it out ¢tiffand cold that they propose by united and determined work, to defeat itsefforts. While of course they have withheld this announcement from the public, knowing such a course would be condemned by all honorable persons, they have thought it over, talked it over, and have determined that such a plan will be pursued. Should the Beg, in maintaining the pol- icy which has placed it so far in advance of its drowsy contemporaries that it would be undignified to recognize them as rivals, favor any. public enterprise, the *‘combine” would vigorously oppose it. 1t would depreciate city proverty, conspire to interfere with business, throw mud at a corpse or do any other thing, simply to embrace an opportunity to differ with the Bee. If a notorious woman of the town was referred to asa person of questionable character, the wrecking banditti, in a chorus, would loudly proclaim her virtue and argue that she only needed wings to bean angel. And all this time the ‘‘combine’ is to receive its support from the citizens of Omaha. It proposes to defeat all measures in which our people have di- rect interest, and at the same time ask them for their money so it can do it well. It was only recently that the BEE, to protect its roaders, exposed a shamelessly rotten insurance company. The ‘‘com- bine" immedintely reached out fits itch- ing palm and the next day appeared a paid editorial endorsing the concern. Hundreds of instances could be cited of where this ‘‘combine'’ has attempted to thwart important measures. But the BEE—the only paper in the state of Ne- braska voicing the sentiment of the masses—is not diswurbed by the bush- whacking methods adopted by its irre- deemable and readerless contemporaries. It only laughs at thelr folly. It is con- scious of the fact that the people will soon realize that the course of such a ‘“‘combine” will injure the growth of Omaha and result in loss of money and power to the dgily soalds, the editors of which have the impudaence to call them “rival papers.” Go on with the music, gentlemen. Keep your ‘‘combine” well oiled. And after you have finished parading all the bilks and bummers of the state in your columns as respectable men, and opposed all measures aiding Omaha's growth, come down and look over our subscrip- tion books. While our increase of sub- scribers will amaze you, at the same time the exhibit may possibly serve to teach you a needed lesson 1n journalism. The Chicago Boodlers. Through the patient investigations of several Chicago newspapers, diligently prosecuted for a number of months, and the commendable zeal of the prosecuting attorney of Cook county, developments have been reached showing the rascality of certain county officials which war- ranted their arrest. On last Tuesday afternoon indiotments were returned by the grand jury against the warden of the county hospital and insane asvium, the engineer of the hospital, and two other parties, charging them with conspiracy to defraud the county, and before night all of them had been taken into custody. This is underswood to be but the begin- ning, the facts in possession of the pros- ecuting attorney implicated a number of others; and before the work is flnished probably not less than a dozen persons who are believed to have in one way and another robbed the county will have to respond to the call of justice. The pros- ecution is reported to be entirely satisfied with the evidence submitted, and to have no doubt of its ability to secure the con- viction of the implicated officials. The public developments in these cases promise to be of an exceedingly inter- esting, and perhaps 1nstructive, charac- ter.- A great many facts will be brought out in court that the newspaper investi- gators have rot been able to get at, and the latter have already given to the pub- lic a large amount of entertaining in- ‘The case of the warden of formation. the insane asylum is likely to proye peculiarly interesting. The exposure of this individual is to be credited chiefly to the detective work of the Tribune, whose columns have already contained an ex- tended story of the warden's generous friendship for a Wabash avenue widow, all at the exponse of the county. There will be some salacious facts elicited in this connection, which will not lose their relish from the circumstance that the warden is a family man. The facts in general which have thus tar been pub- lished show that most of these officials been for years pursuing a svs- tematio course of stealing, from which hat the taxpayers of Cook county have been robbed to the amount of tens of thousands of dollars. 1t shouid not be lost sight of that the discovery of the operations of these boodlers is chiefly due to the news- papers. No Oause For Alarm. to the treasury method of statement to be carried over to the next fiscal year, Then will begin the payments under the new appropriation biils, some of which' particularly those for pensions, will be large. These bills call for a fraction over $247,000,000, to which must be added the permanent appropriations, swelling the total to $364,000,000. It is estimated that the receipts from July to December would have to reach $10,000,000 in excess of expenditures to bring the surplus up to that of last Augusi, which is not atall likely to be the case. There is evidently nothing i this state- ment of the situation to excite alarm. It shows that from now until July the ex- penditures of the government will very nearly equal the receipts, and that if the policy of paying off the maturing bonds is maintained the treusnry will be- gin the next fiscal year with a very mod- erate surplus, allowing that it will have the largest amount estimated. After that there will undoubtedly be a steady accumulation, but there is no good reason to apprehend that this will be so large as to be very seriously telt in the money martets. The highest estimates of the excess of receipts over disburse- ments range from $6,000,000 to #8,000,000 a month, and it is not probable that the average will be above the first of these amounts. If, however, the accumulation should interfere with the free operation of the money markets it is in the power of the secretary of the treasury to remedy the difficulty by the purchase of unma- tured bonds to such extent as the exigen- cies of the situation might require, anc he would doubtiess use this authority to avert any tendency toward panic. The probability, however, of such a contin- gency is extremely remote. At present the supply of money is not abundant but the situation does not appear to be grow- ing worse, and prime mercantile paper is negotiable in New York at 53 to 6} por cent., while bankers balances are loaned at an average of four per cent., and even lower. These quotations do not indicate any serious stricture. Ina word, there is nothing in the situation as it is, or in anyjreasonable view of the out- look, that should give any trouble to the legitimate business interests of the coun- try. But the argument of the’situation ponts with increased force to the necessity for legislation that will remove all possibil- ity of dauger by reducing the revenues of the treasury to the proper require- ments of the government. Every inter- est alike of the government and the peo- ple, every consideration of financial se- curity and national prosperity, enforces the duty of providing this legislation. e —— Lucky Deaver. If the size of the appropriation measures tho ability of the representative, Colorado's one congressman and two senators did a great deal more for the Centennlal state dur- ing the Forty-ninth congress than Van Wyck’s boasted independence was able to accomplish for Nebraska, with whatever as- sistance the rest of the delegation gave him. Denver secured, for instance, no less than $575,000 for a public building and $200,000 for a military post. What can the republican delegation of Nebraska in the forty-ninth congress show to offset this exhibit?—Omaha Herald. It was not in the province of Senator ‘Van Wyek to specially look after Omaba’s interest while Omaha was supposed to be represented by Senator Manderson. Why did not Mr. Manderson do his duty to Omaha? Did he not let the matter go by defaunlt simply out of spite because his pet scheme of moving Fort Omaha in the interest of a land syndicate was not successful? THE harmony which prevails among all the other Omaha pupers in denounc- ing the grand jury system of investiga- tion by the committee,is very suggestive, if not significant. Why do these papers all join in one chorus to do the very thing which every intelligent person must know will prevent the proving of the offense which has been charged? Why do the very men who are most anx- ious to suppress the inquiry work so hard to open the doors of the committee? They knew that the prosecuting witness would naturally be asked to give the names of the parties who could substantiate the charge, and that was the very thing wanted by them. Once in possession of the names of all the witnesses unon which the prosecuting witness relied to make out his case, they would be in con- dition to scatter some of tho witpesses from Iowa to Texas, and exercise a con- trol over others so that their answers would be no answers at all. On the other hand the conspirators of the judi- olary committee who were implicated would be enabled in the open session to sustain each other by oarrobontlng each other's story. If, however, they were separately examined they could not pos- sibly make up a story that would hang together. But of course the boodie gang and the boodle press will elamor for the open session and against any method of inquiry that would expose the rascals and bring the guilty parties to justice. —— THE legislature will re-convene to-day. It is to be sincerely hoped that the crowd of drunken vagrants will be driven away. The BEe has no personal inter- est in this matter, 1t is only for the pro- tection and preservation of the state's reputation that it raises its voice and de- On the authority of reports emanating from Washington, said to represent the views of treasury officials, certain news- papers have proclaimed a possible panic before the close of the year as the result of.a withdrawal of large amounts of money from the people into the treasury in excess of the disbursements to be made by the government. The exact amount that the disbursements will reach cannot be stated, nor can it be accurately known what the receipts will be. The most recent trustworthy statement of the treasury surplus placed it at $26,000,000, which is many millions less than it was last August. Officials of the treasury are quoted as believing that the excess of re- ceivts over disbursements will not be so great during the remainder of this year a8 1t was last year, and from the same source the opinion is obtained that the payments due on bond ealls will reduce the surplus by July, the beginning of the next fiscal yoar, to $16,000,000. Senator Allison, chairman of the senate committee on appropriations, states the possible rev- enue for the remaining time of the pres- ent fiscal year at $120,000,000 and the probable expenditures at $105,000,000, | and concludes that it all the 8 per cent bonds are paid out of the current reve- nue of this year there would be left July 1 only a surplus of $4,000,000, according mands that the hirelings should be bod- 1ly fired. THE prol on party is sing great disturbances in Des Moines. We advise moderation in all these little differences of opinion, and would suggest that both partiesstep up to the bar and take a drink, diluted with cold water. THERE {8 oon at Me- Cook. Qur dispatches state that demo- cratic committees and saloon keepers go hand in hand. When separated there is no other hope than for trouble in the camp. —— It is now evident that Acting-Secretary Fairchild has been offered the position of chairman of the inter-state commerce commission. However, Mr. Fairchild de- clines without thanks. mm——— ‘WE observe that the Baltimore & Ohio transfer is delayed only by minor details One of these details is the simple plank- ing down of $16,000,000 in cash—a mere trifle, as it were, E————— Bernard Doras. Bernard Doran, who was injured in the SONS, Rosa Bonheur has just fimshed a great ple- ture named “A Picnic Party.” Cyrus Field and Mrs. Field have gone t, Bermuda, where they will visit Wi, R. Tra vers, now sickat Hamilton. Anna Dickinson says she has had several offers to go upon the dramatic stage. She thinks she will zo to Europe. Ex-Queen Isabella of Spain I8 descrived as a coarse, fat elderly Avoman, plainly dressed and vulgar in every movement, Lot Flannery, the Washington senlptor, is completing a bust of Xieneral Logan, which was modeled twenty<pne years ago. Captain Jackonska, of the German army, is in Washington. He was sent over to in- spect our fortilications, but he hasn’t found any yet. Ion. John W, Bookwalter, of Springfield, 0., will send his great collettion of art works and curios to Cincinnati for exhibition at the museum there. Tenry Ward Beecher had no idea of the value of money. He would buy pictures and bric-a-brac without thinking of the price, and give the articles away to the first pereon who fancied then SR, Huggin, Deluston, Washington Crit A man usually hugs a delusion when ho gets his arin around one of these fushionable girls. PRULDY The Triumph of Faith. San Francieco Alta. Just look at the trade dollar! It has limped around remarking “in God we trust,” and its taith is rewarded by redemption. il 2 did) ler. Philadelphia Record. The decision of the Unlited States supreme avor of the right of druimers to drum up trade in any part of the union, state law to the contrary notwithstanding, is a set- tler. Interstate commerce must be conducted on a free-trade basis, e -— Moments, Oh, there are moments in man’s mortal years Wlien for an instant that which long kas ain Beyond our reach, Is on a sudden found In things of smallest compass, and we hold I'he unbounded shut in one small minute's space, And worlds within the hollow of our hand; A world of music in one word of love, A world of love in one quick, wordless look, A world of thought In phrase, A world of memory in one mournful chord, A world ot sorrow in one little song, Such moments are man’s holiest; tue di- one translucent vine And first-sown seeds of love's eternity. pRAITTET e BTATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Waunetta offers an exccllent water power to mill men. High and low license will be the issue in Wahoo at the spring clection. The proposed Fuhrman bulding in Fremont, one of “the finest, will cost $12,000. A. H. Shoemaker, wife and children, of Broken Bow, went down with a bridge over Clear creek and into deep water. They were rescued from the bath thor- oughly chilled but uninjured. A Minden young' lady, desirous of try- ing tobogganing at home, procured her mother's ironing bodrd and began slu!infi' down stairs. The street door happene to be open at the time, and the young lady did not stop until she made her debut in the street in a sadly mixed up condition. The Scribner News has mapped out a new main line tor the Chicago & N western line 1in Nebraska. The Blair bridge is to be made a stub feeder for Omaha, while the main line will crosson a new bridge at Onawa, strike Scribner on the bullseye and leave Fremont on a side track. The munagers will doubt- less reward the imaginative News with a tie pass after April 5. An amateur dramatic club in the north- ern part of Burt county tackled a war- like play Saturday night and developed a tragedy not down on the bills. The captain of the mimic braves firnspnd a musket in the hands of one of the soldiers as a reprimand for oarelessness. The gun was overloaded with a blank cart- ridge and paper wads and was dis- charged too closc to John Montgomery, an old man, completely shattering his arm. He is not expected to live. The legal rates for hugging matches recently published did not include the wrath of the “old man” or the booted emphasis of the “big brother.” Re- cently in the center of the state a hufi(- ging matck raised the objection of the girl’s old pa so hard that tho huggee and the huggist were violently separated by two fists flying 1 different directions. The huggist got up and dusted, but the huggee she fainted and spit blood. The church has censured the old brute for his nhrl:Ftnuss. leaving a small minority un- decided whether or not it would be well to bring suit for damages for destroying a lucrative business. West Polnt:ompen and sewing so- ocieties are enjoying a good seized chunk of scandal. For some time a yonnfi man named Barney Lammers has paid his at- tentions to Sarah Reeson, a girl of sweet sixteen, against tho wishes of her var- ents, who live near town. Thursday Sarah went to town and their suspicious movements caused her il keep close watch on them. They put up at & hotel at night, using but one room. The old man was onto their racket and had the sheriff drop in before they dozed off to nle'ip aud read them a warraot of arrest. y wore invited to put on their duds and Lammers was lod off to jail. lowa Items. Forty-five Jowa towns ure operating a system of witerworks. Emmet county's tax for this year amounts to $43,757.83, Prophét Foster insists that a number of sovere storms are on the list. He 1s built that way. The receipts of Dubuque last year were $217,000 and disbursements ~ $204,000 ‘The bonded debt 18 $300,000. The Turner societ; fi" Davenport has raised $54,000, and erect a theater, turner hall, bowling alley, assembly rooms and socieyv oflices this year. At a recent meeting of the Des Moines Jobbers' and Manufacturers’ association resolutions were passed and forwarded to President Cleveland urging the appoint- ment of Hon, Peter A7 Dey to a position on the board of national railway commis- sioners. . ‘The barn on the Flannery farm, four miles east of Guthrie Center, was dis- covered on fire about 1 o’clock on Satur- day afternoon last, and including a granary and large sheds, was entircly de- stroyed, The loss takes into account six head of valauble horses, plows, planters, binders, 300 bushels of wheat, of oats, 200 of corn and seveyad tons of hay. Dakota. Yankton has organized a street car company. The Jim river has overflowed and much duufi;lhu resulted in Hutchinson and Yankton counties. There is a total by actual count of 553 live range cattle on the Bear Butte range and forty-five dead ones. An effort is now being made to secure the opening of & portion of the Sioux res- erval under the severalty bill, n| ace value of- whicl nnnl.enled $350,000, for four Pierre lots, and the lota wero not on the corner or in e g AR Cl with excitemen over the r‘&’ut dhoovaiy' of rich silver deposits near the city. ery inch of the district has been d. aud prospectors are flocking to the region, Vtah and Idaho. Ketchutm, Idaho, is building a $12,000 | school. ville capitalists, A syndicate of Lou 1 work some of with millions in stock, w the Wood ri mines this ceason. The snow is o deep and hard_at Bear Lake, Idaho, that people travel around regard of fences, which are buried far out of sight, The contractors on the Union Pu depot at Ogden have gone east. ific All | work on the building has been ordered stopped by the company. Horn Fred T. Dubois writes from Wash- i at the president refused to sign ion bill, and never will sign one, probably. ' Idaho, in conse- quence, will remaim Idaha—during his term at least. It is said that 144 whisky flasks were found in the Idaho legislative halls after adjournment. No claimants uld be found to the tal reeeptac except in one instance, the owner calling for one beeause it was not quite empty. Last week's local mineral out ship- ments from Salt Lake were thirteen cars bullion, 1 pounds; one car common lead, 27,881 pounds; twonty-thiee cars silver ore, 694,357; pounds; five cars cop- per ore, 115,100; total, forty-two cuars, 1,172,059 pounds. The slipments out from Salt Lake City for the week ending Saturday, Marc nclusive, were twelve cars bull- 7 pound cars iron slag, pounds; eighte s silyer ore, L0350 pounds; live ecars copper ore, 120,000 pounds; total, thirty-eight cars, 1,093,953 pounds. It is reported that the Chicay western railway wiil begin extension of its line west of Fort Fetter- man on April 1. Oune object is under- stood to be to buil round 1nto ldaho, to connect with the Oregon Pg c. The line will cross the Snake River near Eagle Rock, Idaho, and run thence in a nearly direct line to Boise City. Montann, The Abbott company scooped §9,000 in Butte. Silver bar shipments from Butte last week amounted to $157,280, Meagher county has $10,000 of school funds--$10.81 to each child of school age, It is expected, according to the Helona Herald, that 1,000 miles of railroad wiil be completed in Montana this year. The spring thaws are gathering all bridges over Jarge and small streams. The Northern Pacific has lost several. The totul enroliment for the public schools of Butte for February wae 1,600 pupils. The ayerage daily " attendance was 1,123, Hundreds of elk have starved to death the past winter in the Henry's lake sec- tion, west of the National park, the snow being so deep they could get no feed. Helena's building boom for 1887 prom- ises to outrival that of 1886, when up- wards of $1,000,000 was expended in business houses and residence homes. The o1l discovered last summer in the No Wood region has been used this win ter by a large majority of the settiers for illuminatiug purposes instead of coal oil. Proposals are invited in Hélena for the construction of a 8,000. foot tunnel on the Butte branch of the Montana Central. It will be almost double the length of the Mullan tunnel. One of the 08 of the Abbott com- pany attempted to woo the tigerin Butte, and dropped his roll aud all he could borrow. He was detained in town two days to cash a poker chip. The Granite Mountain Mining com- Efluy of Montana paid last week dividend 0.°27, of twenty-five cents & share, or #$100,000, making $300,000 paid this year, and $1,900,000 paid to date. Lewis and Clark county has $48,709.60 in the treasury and its outstandin, debtedness amounts to $245,926,6¢ hi; makes the net indebtedness $197.14T‘0'5§‘ of which amount $150,000 is for the new court house at Helena. T. J. Bryan, president of the - Stock- growers' associntion, in a recent letter written from Miles City, reviewing the stock outlook, says: “From men now on the ranges, and from those who have been there all winter, I have estimates of 25 per cent losses up to the time of gath- ermE in the spring. This, of course, may be changed either way by the condition of the weather.”” 1nspector Bnrnely's ro- port from Billings: “There is a loss in cattle nmon‘%thu older and weaker young she stock, but nothing like what the croakers claim, The heavy losses are confined principally to localities where feed was very short when winter set in."” The Pacific Coast. Surf bathing has commenced at Santa Cruz, OIMonsignor Capel is traveling and lec- turing in Southern California. A new directory of Portland, Ore., gives the povulation of that city at 37,505. Thousands of head of cattle haye died recently on the ranges of eastern Oregon, There is talk of moving the capital of Washington territory from Olympin to some other point, More than 700,000 tons of nickle ore are said to be visible in the nickle mines in Churohill county, Nev. An Oregon firm has imported a qnan- tity of wild rice from Minnesota. It will be planted in unfrequepted places for the purpose of attracting ducks, In boring a well near Pine Grove, FEs- meralda county, Nev., steam of a hot enough temperature to ' cook potatoes was struck at a depth of sixty feet below the surface. Szn Diego enjoysunlimited turtle soup. She is supplhied three timos a week with fresh sea turtles from the Iagoon near Todos Santos, in Lower Cahfornia,where they congregate in inillions. A Carson mint employe has discovered that drill pomnts heated to a cherry rod and tempered through being driven into a bar of lead, will bore through the hardest steel or plate glass without per- ceptibly blunting. Petroleum o1l developments in Ventura county are destined to take on more and more importance as the county is opened up by railroads. - A pipe line is now being bnilt from Tar creek, in the Sespe district, to the railroad, a distauce of about ten miles. Two newspaper men of San Diego have purchased the town of Lugonin, San Ber- nardiro county outright, paying therefor 30,000, The “site embraces w\'ent{- five acres of most valuable and desirable land, which is to be laid out in & regular town site. A prominent feature of the enterprise is that the stroets will all be named after the different newspapers in California. e Fields of Exploration. 0 News: If anyone thiuks that rth of Chio the fields for exploration on this ours have been exhausted by the of the nineteenth century let h at China. The little island of Chusan, which Bismarck recently gobbled from the celestials, although™ only [ifty-two miles in circumference, contains 200,000 inhabitants—a miniature world in itself— and a Chinese newspaper recently con- :?hiinnud an mmuntholhu:lo rbo&lllll:g o: a ese explorer who ha un n- otrate one of the 1nner lands of Thibet. The government recalled him because it did not wish to lose his services with his life, whioh would certainly be torteit if he persisted in his researches. He had already discovered, however, a new land and & new people hitherto unknown, ot et ealy, e halt oal 3 s fire world ‘docs not kiiow Low. the other Patesnta and Principles: Roston. Advertiser, The confusion arising from the popu- lar notion that a principle cannot be patented has given rise to*many hazard- ousand indefensible infringements of ex isting patents, As a well known m- stance, wo may recall the fact that com- petitors have joined issue with the Bell Telephone company over and over again, i ining their mdependent ri Yet the supreme courtin a decisive mun nanimously v rsing a previous on, has held that a claim for a prin l\h- or process is not limited by the s apparatus described or used. The ruling was made in the case of Tilghman vs, Proctor, the court holding that 'Tilghman having discovered a sub- stantial principle-—the decomposition of fat by hot water alone--was entitled to protecti against infringers availing themselves of this prinflnfu in any form of apparatus. Upon this decision” Judge Gray of thus city based his opinion sus- ining the broad claim of Bell to the s of conduction used in the Beil phone. The judge has summed up the existing 1 on this subject so conciscly and cle rlfv that his preface should be pre- served for reference ““‘Few legal rules have been oftener misunderstood and misapplied than the maxim that you eannot patent a princi- rlu. But the confusion on this suvject as been so effectually cleared up by the ecent judgment of the supreme court, delivered by Mr, Justice Bradley in Tilghman vs, Proctor (102 U. 8. 707), that itwill be suflicient for the purposes of this case to state the conclusions there announced. Thel can be no pat- ent for a mere princivle, The dis- covercr of a natural force or a scientific fact cannot have a patent for that. But if he invents for the first time a process ch a certain effect of one of the of natureis made uvseful to man- snd fully discribes and claims that process, and also describes a mode or which it may be usefully within the meaning and t the patent law, *'a per- invented or discovered and useful art,”” and any he'is entitled to a patent for the process of which hes the first inventor, and is new ricted to the particular form of ism or apparatus by which he carcies out thet process. Another per- 501, who afterwards invents an improved form of apparatus, embourylng the same Ix}-ucvsn. may indeed obtain a patent for his improvement, but he has no right to use the process, in his own or any other form of aparatus, without the consent of the first inventor of the process.’ **Under the old decisions of the su- K‘rema court in Morse vs O'Reily and Mitchell vs Tilghman, 1t is very doubtful if the broad claim of Bell's patent would have been sustained. “The disposition of the supreme court as now constituted seems to be to protect broadly and fully meritorious inventors who have made substantial imvrove- ment in the srts, and to construe stiictly patents for inventions which have no other claim to validity than the applica- tion of well known devices to some new and analogous useg,” All 1s Vanity and Vexation. Atlanta Conatitution, The vanity and vain glory that reside in riches were never better cxemplified than in the case of A. T. Stewart, who wasonce the richest man in New York City. Being childless he must have been a miserable man. He lived with his wife in a marble palace, the atmosphere of which must have been cold and uncon- genial. He indulged in some ostenta- tious alleged charities that were as far removed from genuine charity as the clouds are from the stars. He builta hotel for women, but few women ever en- joyed its vencered hospitality. It wasa failure because there was mnot a drop of of the milk of human kindness in Stew- art’s breast, He was cold, selfish, nar- row-minded and calculating. He raised such barriers around his hotel for women that no self-respecting woman could take adyantage of the chilling beneficence. When the hotel experiment failed Mr. Stewart-turned his attention to building a city on Long Island. The scheme was a grand one, and it was carried out on a large scale. But see the vanity of it all! The store that was his pride has changed its name. His costly residence 1s to be turned into a club "house. His picture gallery, which he sought to make the wonder of Gotham, 18 to be peddled off in an auctioneer's room. The old clothes that belonged to himself and his wife are to be aired and sold. His city in Long Island is to be broken up into small lots and Adinsmsed of, and there will nothing left but the costly cathedral that Lvns built for the purpose of hiding his ones, His bones! And yet no man can say that his bones repose there. When the poor man died, and was buried his bones were stolen, and, if all accounts are cor- rect, there was much higgling between the thieves and the representatives of the Stewart estate. It was maintained on the part of Stewart's friends that his poor bones were not worth as much as the grave robbers supposed, and the prob- ability is that the example of parsimony which Stewart set to his family pre- vented the recovery of his remains, Somewhere in all this there is a moral; but the reader will have to search it out for himself. e e The Standard Oil Company's Greed. New York Times. The capacity of the Standard Oil com- pany for absorbing established industries and founding monopolies over which it holds supreme control scems to be al- most boundless. 1t apparently has more money than it knows what to do with, and is constantly reaching out to grasp new means of adding to its enormous wealth at the expense of its less power- ful neighbors. It has gathered in the petroleum business of the country, and the fuel-gas enterprise is completely within its control. ~ Now it has a scheme for buying up the sulphurie acid manu- factories and absolntely dictating the price of that commodity in the market. he plans for doing this have been al. ready formed, and the old system of - ing & Irrnw-,rt_v for the sake of getti cheaply have been worked to perfection. Backed by its immense capital, and ruided as'it is by unserupulous motives, ,l'h( is little doubt that the company will succeed in this Iast attempt to drive all competitors from its chosen ficld, as it has done 1n its past enterprises. The consoling reflection in all this is that every monopoly established is a new warning to the community of the danger which threatens it, and hastens the time when the people will grapple with this enemy and crush it. fuke -Gl Salvation Oil should be the companion of every trayeling man. It extinguishes pain, whether resulting from a cut, s urn, a bruise, or a sprain. Chaucer says: “‘For *old in phisike is a cordml.”” r all that suffor from - hoarscness, cold in the el , ung trouble, or bronehitis, Dr. Bull's U""'b" Syrup is golden ‘“‘phisike.” Price 25 cents. "7 FiveNew Novels for 13 6:-NEW :-: NOVELS. - &l complete in the April Number of the FAMILY LIBRARY MONTHLY Only 18c. Of all newsdealers or Tuc INTERNATIONAL News Co, N Y. A CARD. TO THE PUBLIC— With the approach of spring and theincreased interest man- ifested in real estate matiors, I am more than ever consuit- ed by intending purchasers ag to favorable opportunities for investment, and to all such would say: When[putting any Proper ty on the market, and adver- tising it as desirable, I have invariably confined myself to a plain unvarnished statement. of facts, never indulging ir vague promises for the future, and the result in every case has been that the expectations of purchasers were more than realized. I can refer with pleasure to Albright's Annex and Baker Place, as sample il- lustrations. Lots in the “Annex” 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 lotin this splen- did addition will prove a bo- nanza to first buyers. Further information, plats and prices, will be cheerfully furnished. Buggies ready at all times to show property.' Respectfully, W.G. ALBRIGHT SOLE OWNER, 218 8. 15th Street. 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