Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 21, 1887, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY. MARCH 21. 1887, i v ? THE DAILY BEE. :,n PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. : TERVS OF SUBSORITTION | i Daily Morniag Edition) including SBunday Bee, One Year. L8100 b For Bix Months 600 ) For Threa Mon| i " 200 { The Omaha S ay Lee, mailed to i address, One Year. .. veeeer 200 : ATA OPPICR, NO. 014 AND M3 FARNAM BTREEY. g AR TR TR AT ! ASHINGTON OFFIOR, NO. 613 FOURTEENTH STRIET. 00n1 PONDENCE: All communications relating to nows and edi- torial matter should bo addreseed to the Evl- TOR OF THE DRk USTNERS LETTERS! All business letters and remittances ghould be add to THE BER PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMANA. Drafts, checks and postofiice orders $0 be made payable to the order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISHING CONPANY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, Epiron THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. statoof Nehrasicn, 1y, County of Douglas, . Geo, B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circuiation of the Daily Bee }D{l the week ending Mar., 11th 1857, wus as follows: Tuesday, Mar, S, Wednesday, Mar. 9 . Thursday, Mar.}10. Friday, Mar. 11... Average...... 78 2O Bubseribed in my presence and sworn to be- fore me this 12th day of March A, D., 1887, . P. FRIL, ISEALI Notarv Publie. Geo. B, 'I'zschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he |s secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual av- erage dalily circulation of the Daily Bee for themonth of March, 1886, 11,637 coples; for A"Enl, 1856, 12,191 copies: for for May, 1558, 12, - 439 coples; for June, 1886, 12,208 copies; for Julfi.‘ 1886, 18,314 coples; for August, 1856, 18, coples; for September, 1886, 13,050 copies; for October, 1886, 12,080 November, 1856, 13,348 coples; for December, 1886, 13,287 copies; for January, 1587, 16,266 copies; for Fubruary, 1 GEo. B, TZ8CHUCK. Subscribedand sworn to before me this Oth day of March, A . D, 1887, (%EAL.I N. P. Friv. Notary Publle. Two or three hundred town lots from one of Sioux City’s most *‘desirable addi- tions" passed down the river yesterday. e——— ICHUCK, coples; for , 14,198 coples. Ir is said that Colonel Russell is enjoy- ing a boom for governor. The Colonel ‘will perhaps have a quiet campaign for a couple of yenrs. — MR. CALDWELL has rvecovered from the attack of Missouri ague which threatened to shake his boots off. Other wmembers of the judiciary committee have riecovered from their nervous prostra- tion, OMAnA’S city election will not take place until May 8. This gives plenty of time to prepare slates to be broken. There will be a city election this year, the like of which history has not re- corded. —_—— It is gratifying to know, that Mr. Agee - was allowed to take part in the discus- B sion in the house on Saturday. What- { eyer attainments Mr. Agee may not pos- 8 sess, the claim that he has lungs like a 5 Jackass, all naturalists admit. ———— ) It 1s announced by an eastern paper 3 that Ned Buntline has just completed e another “border” story. Itis to be pre- - sumed by this announcement that the late Mr. Buntline’s manuscript has been 5 rejected in the other world. Tne young man who shot the brute Randall, at Hastings, is a murderer, ac- cording to law. But as the law does not i vresume that such scoundrels as Randall 2 masquerade as men, the fact that his brams were scattered by the wronged girl’s brother does not imply that prose- cution will follow. — Tur majority of the members who howled on Saturday that Mr. Rosewater’s charge of bribery was ‘‘malicious’ ““out- rageous’’ and so on throughout the cat- alogue, were only fulfilling their part ot a winter's contract to thewr corporate masters. Pat Garvey is a noble specimen of manhood to question any man’s motive. The remarks by Knox only showed him to be a childish old man— harmless, but unhappy. KNOWING ones in railway circles say that the forthcoming election of a new Yoard of directors of the Union Pacific railway, which occurs the 28th inst., will again place the road into the hands of New York parties. Like every other change in this management, in years past, itis to be expected that the line officials will suffer a general shaking up. ‘Whea Sydney Dillon, representing New York capital, retired, and was succeeded: by Charles Francis Adams, there was a' complete reorganization. Thomas L. Kimball, traflic manager, who has for years been the recognized representative of New York bond-holders has been noticeably under a cloud ever since he 'was removed from the position of assist- ant general manager, in the days of S. H. H. Clark, In the event of the a cession of the New York people it is pre dicted that a greater over-turning of of- ficials all along the line will take place. The gereral anxiety manifested in these parts is not wholly without foundation. throes of a municipal election. the contest. his sincerity. he had talked that way before. Besides, it was noted that he was doing a good deal of coqueting with elements which might be very useful in promoting his nomination and which would naturally refer him. But the suspense was re- ved by the publication on Saturday morning of a letter from the mayor ad- the democrats of the city in which he emphatically declares that he has not been, is not, and will not be a Some of the newspavers are 80 uncharitable as #o say that this is the result of the failure of certain combinations which Carter has ‘been trying to effect, while others still doubt the sincerity of his avowal. We are disposed, however, to think he is in mfilnllu,udln;::l belief ten- . der congratulationstothe demooracy and _ the people of Chicago. They ought to be dressed to candidate before the convention. very grateful for the promised relief. CHicAGO 15 engaged in the mcipient Until Saturday last one of the most perplexing uncertainties with which the politicians had to deal was the possible relations that Carter H. Harrison would bear to Notwithstanding the oral declarations of that delectable person that he would not be a candidate for re- election, there was a grave doubt as to It was remembered that 1t 8hould Be Defeated. The report of the committee appointed by the legislature to investigate the pro- posed sale of saline lands will be made to-day. The Bee's Lincoln bureau has already discussed this subject, and our readers, ns well as the members of the legislature, are familiar with the scheme by which the West Lincoln stock yards company is attempting to secure 560 acres of very valuable aline lands from the state of Nebraska. Two years ago this corporation leased, according to law, 500 acres of saline lands near the city of Lincoln for a term of fifty years, The law expressly and emphatically says that these lands shall not be sold, but gives permission to lease them to any individual, company or corporation. Knowing the land to be of great value, and realizing the fact that from its loca- tion, two years herce it will be worth a much larger sum, the West Lincoln stock company is making a des- perate and determined effort to secure from the present legisluture permission to buy it. We understand it expeets to purchase it for about $70 per acre, When it is known that town lots adjoining the saline land are selling at from $600 to $1,000 ench, it is not to be wondered at that the company is making the great effort that it is. As the law is plain on this subject, and it has been generally understood that this land was the property of the state, set aside for the saline industry in Ne- braska, it certainly is wrong in principle to even consider the advisability of sell- ing it. It is true the company has erected large and expensive buildings, yet that fact makes its claims no better. It knew theland could not be sold, consequently took a fease for fifty years, Before the lease has expired, the present proprictors will doubtless be outof business, In the meantime they will derive as much benefit from the lease as if they owned the land. The state is amply able to hoid this property, and there is no ques- tion but what it should retain it. After the lease expires there will be plenty of time to make the sale. ‘We know that the parties interested in concocting this scheme huve been work- ing earnestly to secure the passage of the bill. We know ,that they have cajoled members and attempted plausi- ble explanations, and we also know that the whole scheme 15 a fraud. While the legislature has been heedless of all honest protests filed imploring them to stop in their reckless legislation, the BEE feels it its duty to point out this attemptea fraud, and in all eandor asks honest members to vote 1t down. The tax- payers of Nebraska are deeply interested in this matter. Itis not a good business principle to rob the rasses to enrich a company of individuals. The people’s interests should always be protected. Reported Favorably. The bill which gives additional judges to nearly all the judicial districts in this state has been reported favorably. It will without doubt become a law. The committee recommends it with but two changes—a slight modification relating to Lancaster and Otoe, and leaving the First district, Nemaha, Pawnce, Richard- son, Johnson and Gage with one judge instead of two, as the bill originally con- témplated. A glance at the docket in Douglas county shows beyond any ques- tion whatever that we need two addi- tional judges. And it may be possible that one other district 1 the state, in order to secure that promptness always desirable, should have another judge. But the idea of creating a dozen vacan- cles in order to care for a crowd of played-out politicians calling themselyes lawyers is a first-water fraud, Judge Gaslin’s district is to have another judge. Mr. Gaslin has stated that he had time to dispense with all cases and give consid- erable attention to his Coffice business. Judge Morris has said that 1n his district the business before the court can easily be attended to by him, and another judge is simply an ornament. Judge Tiffany, who a few short years ago was an insur- ance agent in southeastern Nebraska, and afterwards started the first news- paper in Auburn, and who at that time knew nothing about law, has been heard to say that the district where he is now judge had ample facilities to dispatch all business coming before him. Lancaster and Otoe counties two years ago secured an additional judge. Cap- tain Mitchell was appointed to assist Pond, and the work done by him was only of minor importance. This year Judge Chapman was elected and will perhaps be kept busy. Douglas county, as we have stated, doubtless needs two additional judges. But to give each dis- trict in the state increased expense with- out any good reason seems to us a trifle inconsistent. It has been published that Governor Thayer would feel it his duty to exercise his veto power and privilege if this bill should pass as it was originally introduced. Letus hope that the legis- lature will not put the taxpayers to use- less expense. Yet, where judges are ab- solutely needod, let the positions be cre- ated by this legislature. Carlisle and Randall. It seems evident that these two demo- cratic leaders, representing the extremes upon the most important question of national policy which divides their party, are to be brought into a sharper antag- of which they are the heads. It is ap- definitelyknown yet how many are identi- to belive that the number is large enough to exercise a strong influence, and it will probably be increased before the time for reached. The-course of Randall in the lust congress, with respect both to rev- enue reform and the appropriation bills, caused a doep feeling of resentment that one demanding heroio treatment. The whether or not the Fennsylvama con- gressmen, with a handful ot followers, shall be permitted to continue hs prac: first step toward a solution is to deprive speaker, onism than ever, with the certainty of intensifying the hostility of the factions parent that a determined effort1s to be made by the democratic opponents of Mr. Randall to degrade him in tho next congress, to effect which the acquiescence of Mr. Carlisle is necessary, It cannot be fied with this purpose, but there is reason the assembling of the next congress is will last, and convinced those opposed to his policy and conduct that the case is question which it is proposed to solve is tical domination of the majority. The him of the vantage ground he possesses as the chairman of the appropriations committee. This, it is proclaimed, Mr. Carlisle will be asked to pledge. himself to do as a condition to receiving the neceasary svpport to reelect him The serious question is, will Mr. Car. lisle have the couraze tocomply with this demand? Ile would undoubtedly be very glad to see Randall dethroned, but to assume the responsibility thevsfor is a matter which will probably give him pause. Desirable as e might deem such @ consummation, it is not unlikely that he would see sure danger to himself in being an active party to it. Mr. Randall would be'‘seratched, not killed,'* by such a proceeding, and as he would certainly reject any consideration at the hands of Mr. Carlisle in another direction and hold himself free to exert to the farthest limit his hostility to the faction secking bis humiliation, it is not difficult to un- derstand that he could make the situ- ation very interesting for his opponents, who will not be so strong in the next congress asthey were in the last. The present indications are that the matter is likely to prove extremely distressing to the democracy when the time for its de- termination arrives. Meanwhile Randall is receiving a great deal of public atten- tion, even though much the greater part of it is not of a commendatory kind. He has also a present cause of self-gratula- tion in the victory he has won over those who sought to destroy him by placing him in a repunlican district, and the ob- vious inference that the republican pro- tectionists of Pennsylvania have entire confidence in their ability to use him will not in the least degree dimimish the satis- faction of Mr. Randall with the result. The democratic party has a heavy a troublesome incubus in the Penn statesman, but how to | a perplesing and embarrassing problem. It may be doubted if Mr, Carlisle has the nerve to take upon himself the responsi- bility of an attempt to solve it. A More Choee g View. The panic predictions of a weck ago have been succeeded by expressions of an entirely different character. It is true that the gloomy prophesies were not gen- eral, but having the professional author- 1ty of responsible sources they attracted attention and created a momentary feel- ing of concern. A lttle intelligent in- vestigation of the situation, however, speedily disclosed the very small ground there is for any apprehension even of a serious monetary stringency during the present year, to say nothing of u panic. Within the past feyg days prominent of- ficials of the treasury have expressed themselves regarding the outlook, and they concur in the opinion that there is no danger in the near future. A number of bank officers and leading merchants of New York who were interviewed by a journal of that city all agreed that the talk of a probable panic was idle. Said one of them: ‘It is the unexpected that occurs. Panics usually come when you least expect them.” The fact that con- gress failed to reduce the revenues 80 as to prevent the accumula- tion of money in the treasury was characterized by these bankers and merchants generally as unfortunate, and a somewhat tighter money market in the autumn as the consequence of locking up funds in the treasury was thought to be probable, but none of them expressed any apprehension that this would have any serious effect upon the business of the country. With hardly an exception they represented the present situation of business us being satisfactory and the promise good, These assurances seem to be justified by the authentic re- ports from all the trade centers, so far as relates to legitimate busmess. With regard to our home merchants, we believe they are having as good, and perhaps a better trade than is usual at this season, while there is ample encour- agement for them in tne rapidly growing markettribute to this metropolis. With Ne- braska adding daily nearly or quite three thousand to its population, the business men of its metropolis haye certainly no reason to regard the outlook otherwise than as in the highest degree reassuring, and this we are glad to know is the gen- eral feeling among them. In short, the year begins well for the entire country, and the promise is that it will be a period of generous prosperity in every section. Much Ado About Nothing. The committee has made a favorable report on the bill creating new judges in the different districts of the state. In the original bill a provision was made for an additional judge in the first district. Judge Broady insisted that two judges woukl be only an extra expense. He was idle a large portion of his time. But as drowning men gasp at straws so some of the ambitious politicians whose life dream has been to be a ‘‘jedge,” wrote out long petitious, and with the assistance of friends succeeded 1n flooding the dis- trict with them, asking names of law- yers. It is understood that Judge David- son had successfully worked Gage, Ne- maha and Johnson. He saw what to him was the ripened persimmon. The pole he carried seemed of sufficient length to reach it. His petitions were long and apparently covered the ground. Captain Humphrey the Pawnee blatherskite who nursed an infant idea that he too might be judge, report says, had everything ready to rush down upon the governor and demand a commission, Colonel Colby who was once hopelessly snowed under as a republican candidate for the samo ofhice thought he might induce the governor to ignore all other claims and appoint him on the grounds that he was a militia man, Judge Appleget who has been Davidson’s political opponent in Johnson for many years kept his petition at home, but still viewed the prize with hopeful anticipation. But alas for all human enterprise. The judiciary com- mittee with what to the candidates seems questionable wisdom, cut the first district provision out of the revised bill, and unanimously signed petitions are accord- mgly for saie, em——me——— The Bald Knobbers. Taney and Douglas counties, Missouri, are now infested by the most disreputa- ble band of marauders and outlaws ever having existence in any civilized country. It is comprised of what was originally a vigilance committee—the Bald Knobbers. Their home is in the Ozark region. Their mission now is to murder, steal and com- mit all the érimesin the catalogue. Dur- ing the war Missouri was the home of the most desperate characters ever figur- ing in the history of our country. Horse thieves, murderers, road agents and bush whuokers held high carnival. Sinco the fires of soctional strife have been smoth- eredby the lapse of years and law sup- planted lawlessnesin many places, it was hoped that a purer moral atmosphere was to be found among the mountainous re- gions of that state. [licit distillers of whisky, counterfeiters of money, and dense ignorance belong to a pastage, Missouri has been unfortunate in freeing | herself from the open disgrace these day- hignt erimes have fastered npon her. In. stead of advancing, the lust ontbreak ot the Bald Knobbers ws that the spirit of twenty years ago largely exists, There has been too much winking at erime. Tho James boys should nevor been idolized. The name of Josse mes, the most notorious bandit of an is re- vered, while his brother Frank s rezarded hero in the eyes ot Missouri “'ehiv Striet enforcement of law always brings good resulis. Sympathy for anun- fortunate man oradrairation for a brazen outluw should never be allowed to thwart justice. Of course there 18 a large ma- Jjority of Missouri's citizens respectable and law-abiding—yet the disgraceful fact remains that in many places the law has little terror for the cvil doers. Mr. Rosewater's Charges, [Republished from The Sunday Bee.) The attempt on the part of the organs of the boodlers, jobbers and railway cor- porations to make capital in the interest of the parties who have been charged with bribery and conspiracy in connect- ion with the anti-gambling bill, because the editor of the Br it to go cust on private bustess, is in keeping with their course ever since the legis- lature has heen in ses More than three weeks ago Mr. Rosewater made known to various parties that he would be obliged to make a business trip to Chi- cago, and perhaps further east, between the 15th and 20th of March., Among these parties were Senator Liningoer, W. J. Connell, red W. Gray, Frank Murphy and a dozen others, The charges were filed on Monday, March 14, The next morning, just as soon as notice was served on bim that the commitlee was orzanized, Mr. Rose- water appeared before that body with a carefully prepared memorandum giving all the particulars and details which formed the basis of his charges. He pub- licly stated to the committee that this memorandum would enable them to send for all the witnesses and cary on a very thorongh investi- gation in case anything should befall him personally, or if for some rea- son he could not be present. At the re- quest of the committee Mr. Rosewater went before the clerk of the supreme court and certified under oath that this memorandum contained the facts known to him in this ease. It will be remembered that the house adopted the original resolutions, after a long and full debate, to make the investi- gation within closed doors. Acting upon the belief that this procedure would be strictly followed, Mr. Rosewater took pains to prepare his. memorandum, but when the house rescinded its action and directed the committee to take no testi- mony unless the members of the judici- ary committee were present, he withdrew his memorandum, as he had a right to do. Had he left it with the committee the parties implicated would at once have been placed in possession of all the proofs which were likely to be brought against them. They would have been enabled to concoct a story of their own to counteract and contradict the proba- ble testimony, and to Llock the wheels of investigation by sending away witnesses or controiling such as were willing to become their tools. The fact hat the reactionary work of the house was the result of a plot got- ten up by members of the judiciary com- mittee who had become frightened over the prospect that their crooked work would be exposed to the public if the in- vestigation were carried on within closed doors and each witness testified by him- self without knowing what any other witness had told. It ‘would have been utterly impossible for the conspirators jn the separate examination to agree npon any story that could not have been broken up by cross-examination. If each one, however, could hear what the others testified or read the testimony before he testitied it would be but natural for him to adopt lus answers to the explanations given by his confederates, So far as run- ning away or evading the responsibility Mr. Rosewater expressly declares in his letter to the committee that he will re- turn in a few days and hold himself ready to proceed, even if the house per- sists in carrying on the inquiry under conditions which on their face are in- tended to frustrate the main object of the investigation. The fact that a re- sponsible editor would prefer a grave criminal charge against members of the committee, face them on thé floor of the house when the charges were presented, and remain about the capital when threats were freely made against his life both by members and outside parties, is in itself a sufficient answer. Mr. Rose- water not only presented those charges in good faith but was ready to prosecute the case in equally good faith, He had all the proots within his reach to sustain the charges. The rogues and their apolo- Rists may make themselves merry over his absence but he will return soon enough to plague them and refute all the slanders they may heap upon him. It was Mr. Rosewater’s intention to o to New York immediately after the investi- gation, but because of the adjournment of the house from Tuesday to Friday he decided to go onlv as far as Cleveland and return in time to take a hand in this business, if a fair chance is given. He will be absent just one week from the day he left Omaha, unless something unavoid- able occurs to detain him, As to star-chamber . sessions, it will be remembered that two years ago, when Mr. Rosewater was called as a witness in the school land fraud investigation before the legislature, he “refused to testify un- less outside parties, including reporters, were excluded. Heingisted that he would not disclose the nnms;io( his informants for the benefit of the agcused parties, who might take advantagde of their knowl- edge and induce thelwitnesses to place themselyes beyond ghq reach of the ser- geant-at-arms, The committee carried out Mr. Rosewater's request and held the - vestigation with closed doors. It is true that the committee afterwards did open the doors and thereby make a complete farce of the investigation just as was in- tended by the parties who had manipu- lated the committee. — THE anti-gambling bill has, by unan- imous vote of the judiciary committe , been recommended to pass. — Sxow starms are reported throughout the west. The spring round up is at hand. A Virgini tice of the peace has fined & l:fé‘::r. -’:."; #7 for mf:ui i D moon any £ do with the obb and flow of the- tides: STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebras Jottinga, Chadron has invested in a fire engines Pon as invested in a board of trade with members., Albion is promi horn Valley extension by May Blair struggling along preach: nd three empty pulpi “‘Booming like bl tersely ex- presses the present condition of Creigii- ton, A portion of the bridge over the Nio- brara at Grand Rapids is sailing down to the gulf. . Tracklaying on the Rock Island road is completed to Nelson, seventy-five miles west of Hastings, Missouri Pacific surveyorsare mapping a line to Beatrice, to connect it with the Nebraska City extension. Tom Wocd, of Clay county, has a hog that grunts at 785 pounds. He wears three rings on his fly brush ‘‘Elephant socials" are the latest freak in Beatrice, The animal is especiaily useful in stepping on pocketbooks. W est Point is about to don the frills of a city of the second class. The style comes high but the town must have it. The school census gives Fremont a pop- ulation of 6,500. The prettiest is stepping on the corns of Lincoln at a lively rate. Coul has been found on Applo. creck, Holt county. Come to think about it, these finds™ are whiskered and fiavored with the mold of generations. Tle supervisors of Platte county. spell of enthusiasm last Tuesday, the liquor licnse to $1,000. The up next day und reduced it to $500. Covington manages to keep the Sioux City dronght with moderate proportions, It requires considerable jngglery, but there 1s money in it and much demand, Between nihilist boebs at home and the wood cut butchers of Nebraska the life of the czor of Rus: not worth a crown. Hc deserves an easier death. John A, Hoagland, a farmer near Au- rora, pushed a loaded shot gun, breach foremost into his wagon. His left palm will be useful hereafter as a skiwmer. York’s cannery will start up next week and endeavor to supply the demand for spring booms in two-pound cans. Seec that the name is stamped on the cover. The belles of Sidney are mortifying themselves and resting their chins by swearing off gum chewing during Lent. ‘The innovation 1s quite jawly, you know. During the tirst twelve days of March 532 cars of stock and houschold traps of immigrants, bound for the smiling up- Iands of Nebraska, crossed the river at Plattsmoutn, Mrs, Eugene Moore and daughter, of West Point, swallowed enough coal gas a few nights ago to ferry them over the Stix, but the doctors cut the cables lead- ing to the other shore. A low-down beast, keeper of a dive in Blair, was pelted with decayed spring chickens by the young kids of the town one night [ast week. It was a_ polite in- vitation to shake the town and he took the hint and his odors with him. The editor of the McCook: is ruhhclymmrrnnlccd a bloody nose un- ess he keeps it out of the affairs of a hot and bibulous resident. The knight of the elivpers has levied on delinquents tor sufficient coin to purchase a celluloid smeller. Sioux City real estate speculators are endeavoring to give back bone to their deals by sending out surveyors to stake i nary railroads on the Nebraska The boom is a tender nursling which the Missouri flood has al- ready chilled. The North Bend Flail has mortally oftended the doughskin dude of the Lin- coln Journal by complimenting these jottings. Hereafter newspapers “of like fuith and order,” I submit their com- pliments to the envious Lincoln censor, or suffer excommunication form the meal tub of the stalwarts. The papers of Burt and Wayne coun- ties are vigorously kicking against carv- ing of both to give shape and substance to the patch quilt county of Thurston, as proposed by the legislature. It is de- nounced as n square unconstitutional steal, and Governor Thayer will be asked to use his veto if the house ‘*eudorses the folly of the senute.” The B. & M. and Kansas City & Omaha roads are already skirmishing for terri- tory in the southwest. The former is trying to head off its youthful contem- porary by building 1 coveted territor, without nskin;,z aid, while the latter is hampered with a limited pocketbook and a vromising future. Both companies are cross-sectioning Phelps county. A branch of the Salvation” army has opened permanent quarters in Wahoo, and there is lond demana for the resur- rection of the Rangers, who wrung peace from the waves of anarchy i Omaha in days gone by, How dear to our hearts is “their beer mecllowed memory; their bottles and brawls on the bottoms about; their vahant raid on the bar stranded steiner. till Gabriel’s shout. A rascally swindler named Montgoms ery is working the government detective dodge on homesteaders in Phelps and- Kearney counties. His .phn is to frighten settlers into the beliof that they have made a wrong location and _extract for a bogus ‘‘quit claim.”” He has had a Elemnt and profitable career thus far, ut he knows not the moment that lea poison or a hemp choker will curl his pedals. The Daxkota City Eagle says the indus- trial school at the Winnebago agency 18 in a “‘nefarious and filthy condition”—a pest house in which a dog could searcely live. Since the imported superintencent took charge the atlendance of children has dwindled down from over one hun- dred to seven. The management of the school is denounced as a disgrace and the treatment of the children cruel and in- human. The Indian authorities inight take a long range peep at the institution without materially injuring the wards of the nation. A horde of venomous spotters are abroad on the Union Pacific, and it is al- most a certainty that a number of punch- ers will be invited to walk at an early day. One of these characterless miscre- ants met a conductor off duty at Schuy- ler a few days ago, and mistaking him for one of the gang, became confidentisl and detailed his operations, the number of vietims on his list, and especially those who refuseéd to plug his mouth with eagles. The spotter’s confidence was re- warded with a black eye and a scalped nose neatly turned with a punch. He did not report the incident, however, and his usefulness as a detective 18 gone, J. M. McDonough has sold the O'Neill ‘Tribune to S. L. Bahon and Jas Killoran, The announcement is a surprise and a source of regret to the profession. Mr, McUonough has made the Tribune one of the neatest ana liveliest weeklies in the state. He has proclaimed 3emocrnc from hilltops and valleys, and elevate the quality and character of the news- aper supporting the administration. He Ka.« fought a dozen or more battles with brawn and brain, enforcing decency and democracy with a vigor peculiarly his own. It is doubttul if he will remain out of the harness very lonfl. The field is wide and inyiting, and his l!.mflv in this state can ill afford to loose him. Samuel Reeson and Herman Lammer, cultivate adjoining farms near West Point The former has & buxom daughter of seventeen, the latter a son aged twenty- five. It was natural that the youthful hearts should come together with a thrili- ing bump, n refused to smile on his prospective son-in-law, and showed him the door when his visits became too uent. Young Lammers at once re- solved on nightly deeds of valor if neces- sary to secure his Reeson. The waning wilh one d trains on the Elk- Let them rest in their graves _— March moon smiled upon them as they skipped oyer hedgorow and gully on the way to West Point for a permit and a | préacher. They were foot sore and weary when they struck town and retited to rest. It was fatal to their hopes. The an swooped down upon them like a wtor on an oil room, warmly anked the daughter ana put Lammers | in jail. The were too slow and too \lvrn\'iuua. Lammers was released on | buil. lowa ltems, A second starch mill is looking fora suitable site at Ottumwa, The notorious Polk Wells is kuitting in kort Madison penitentiary. Work on the $150,000 union depot at Ottumwa begins next week. The lakes and ponds in western lowa are well covered with ducks and geese. The artesian well at Clinton is now down over 1,000 feet, and has an increas- ing flow of fine water, George B. Douglas, a prominent far- mer living near Kent, rid himself of the worry of a law suit by suicide with a bul- let. The Irishmen of Des Moines contem- plate the establishment in that mf of a newspaper to be devoted entirely to Irish aftairs, The Morning Herald, a new democratic paper, has appeared in Sioux City with th ran Colonel Keatley, of Council it the helm, The present assessed valuation of rail- way property n the state is §32,000,000. ‘The state excéeutive council has decided to raise the valuation about $6,000,000, It is said there are in the state 3,300 en- gines, which the council assumes are worth $6,000 each, making a total $19,- 854,000, while 106,500 box cars at $400 apiece, renders them worth $12,600,000. Of passenger coaches there are 1,3 valaed s §3,000 each —$4,050,000, maki in all a grand total of 66,500,000 1 vested in ordinary rolling stock. Dakota. Nebraska hay at Deadwood is quoted at $22.50. e, who victimized a num- 1 Hansen and Davison £ the insurance dodge, was ar- rested and taken to Alexandria, where he gave bail, A party by the name of Walker, hail- ing from Huren, who has been cutting a large swell in prospective real estate deals at Yankton, left the hotel Tuesday morning at an early hour and has not been seen since. Deadwood claims to be the boss Chin- ese town in the country. The Mongols have drowned out opposition in the washee business, they compete success- fully in the silk, tea and othher lines, run restaurants, raise pigs and chickens and patronize opium dives and joss houses. d i CENTENARIANS. Longevity Among Women More Com- mon Than Among Men. Popular Science Monthly: Among the centenarians on our own list the intellect is stated to have been high in eleven and low in five only, Twenty are reported as strong, sixteen of average strength and twelve only as feeble. Several were remarkable for mental and bodily ac- tivity and energy during their long lives. Many had been engaged in hardy bodily toil, or mental work, or successiully, in various occupations and, in different ways, had FI:\yuxl their parts effectually on the world’s stage to the end of the long drama in better plight than the poet has represented them. 1 often wish Shakespeare had lived to give a brighter version of Lis seven stages, and to por the old man not lean and shippered, but well favored and booted, keen in life’s interest, and happy in promoting the welfare and enjoyment of others, Even in the bedridden state, of which the tables give seven examples (four males and three females), one of whom has been bedridden for seven years, all is not cheerless. The quiet coziness, the even temperature, the freedom from ex- posure, and the reservation to the vital organs of nerve, energy and nutritive material, consequent on the diminished use of the muscular system contribute to prolong the lives of feeble persons who still retain the pleasures of intellec- tual occupation and social intercourse,to say nothing of the enjoyment of sleep and the gratitication of the appetite; and it is curious, though not infrequently to be observed, that persistence in bed actually increases both sleep and appe- tite, Some aged people lie in bed in the winter; and, 1 the duil routine of the workhouse, many old people drift into the bedridden state. In our tables, as usual, in records of longevity, the women preponderate over the men (thirty-six to sixteen) in spite of the dangers incidental to child bearing. This is obyiously, in great measure, to be attributed to the comparative immu- nity of the women from exposures and and risk to which man is subjected, as well as to her greater temperance in eat- ing and drinking and her freedom from the anxieties attendant upon the wortd’s labor and business. ‘Chere appears also to be a greater inherent vitality in the fe- male, as evinced by the fact that even in the first year of life, when the conditions and exposurce of - male and female infants are the same, the mortality of girls is less than that of boys. A somewhat large number of boys are born, but they are more difficult to vear, 8o that the females soon take the numnierical lead, and they maintain it with almost steadily increasing ratio to the end. Itisalsoto be learned from this analysis of the tables that the elasticit: of the thorax, as evinced by the oondfl tion of the costal cartilages, and its ca- Encny for dilation during inspiration is etter proserved in women than in men. In the matter of the arcus senilis, also, the women have the advantage, but in the condition of the arterial system,much difference is not shown. Of the thirty-six women,twenty-six had been married, and eleven had large fam- 1lies; and it may be some consolation to young mothers and their friends to find that eight of the twenty-six married be- fore they were twenty—one at sixteen and two at seventeen. The dangers, happily diminishing, which are ncidental to child-bearing, must not be forgotten; but irrespective of these, the process itself and the attendants thereon do not seem to mitigate against longevity. Indeed, the canucity for the full exercise of this, like that of the other normal functions, is one of the requisites for attaining to great age. One only of the married women was childless; but neither the age at which she was married nor the duration of her married life was given. It might be anticipated, indeed, from the matrimonial tendency, and the pro- lifle quality evinced by the tables, the average number of children born to each, whether male or female, being six, that there would be, through inheritance, a gradual increase in the centenarian breed; and it is probable that this is the case, and that the duration of life is, from this and other favoring causes, gradually being extended. The life- period of the childron we have no means of determining with accuracy, the re- turns being, from various causes, imper- fect; but we may safely accredit them with, at least, an average longevity, It 18, moreover, a8 point of some interest that many of the centenarians were members of large families, averaging in- aeed, seven or eight; those desiguated as “only children™ being limited to two. Of the fifty-two, forty-one had been mar- ried, and eleven, of whom ten were women, had remained singlo; but we cannot from this draw any inference as to influence of matrimony upon lonqcvny. Possibly something may be gleaned from the anaiysis of the numerous re- reports I have received of persons be- twen eighty aud one hundred, THE THEATRICAL TIGHTS. Not the Kind Worn "'in the Head,” but on tho Limbs, DE LUSSAN'S DIREFUL DECISION Bad News for Bald-headed men—A\ A Refusal Which C ¢ An Operatic Earthquake. Good-bye ldeals, New York Sun: The celebrated Boston Tdeal Opera company is blown to pieces by nn explosion of jealousies, Its earcer wiil end with the season. Barnabee, Tom Karl, W. H. McDouald and lus wifo (Marie Stone), and Samuel L Studley, the leader, have given Manager W. 1, Foster notice that they will only com- plete the present contract. Barnabee, Karl and two or three others will form o new company. Foster will have another, retainiug Zelie de Lussan. She Is the prime factor in the demolition of what was once the most harmonious and col lectively strongest light opera company in the country. The trouble began where Agnes Huntington was torced to withdraw from the Ideals; it culminated when Barnabee, who had held a finan cial interest in the trip, managed to clear himself. Practically there witll be no Boston Ideals next season, even though Poster retains the title, and though Karl and the others form a similar troupe. But the immediate cause of the disruption is not commereial; it is artistic, and relates principally to a dispute over the reason why Zelie de Lussan, the prima donna, declines to appear in tights, She has re- fused to take any role requiring the abscnce or ummodest shorten mg of her skirts, advancing the theory that no woman 1s justi- fied in doing on the stage what she would not do in a polite parlor. Somebody in the company sent to a theatrical journal an anonymous letter chargi that her real motive was the concealment o kneck knees. This insinuation was ob- scurely published, and it brought the in- ternal troubles of the Ideals to such an earthquake that only the pieces are kept togetlier with difficulty to the close of the tour in March. The company originally came together singularly as the result of an inspiration. A vright, unmarried Boston woman, Miss E. H. Ober, was the inspired one. Prior to 1879 she was the assistant manager of James Redpath’'s lyceum bureau, in Music Hall place,Boston. There gathered from time to time eminent lecturers and concert singers, to all of whom Miss Ober was well known. and by most of whom she was liked a8 a shrewd, honest little woman, who would earn a dollar whenever she could. Miss Ober's idea owed its birth directly to the “Pinafore” craze of 1870, “Pinafore” was bein, sung all over the country, and it seemec a8 though it was never going to wear out. Nearly everybody who managed a thea. tre wius making monoy out of it. Miss Ober thought she saw_her way clear o getting some herself. She "conceived the project of giving performances of ‘“‘Pinafore’ by a4 company of “ideal” musical = people; that is, she intended that in the cast all attention should be paid to their sing- ing abilities, and that little or no heod should be taken of their qualifications as actors. It seemed like a big scheme to her, and perhaps she deemed it altogether original: but as a matter of fact it had al- ready been utilized, though with a slight variation, by John Gorman, who had al- ready sent out the Philadelplia Church Choir “Pinafore” troupe. However, Miss Ober worked with a will on her plan, Tom Karl, the tenor, Myron W. hitney, the basso, then only heard in concerts; George Fiothingham, a good singer comedian, then known to no stage other than the Lyceum platform, and some others, were buttonnholed by the energetic woman, and they took to the idea right off. There was one decided obstacle in Miss Ober’s path. She had little or no money to putinto the venture. In her dilemma she talked to Tompkins and Hill, managers of the bl%,lloston theater, for they became the backers, pledging gmmpl payment of sal- aries—which were of good size for the principals—and commissioning Miss ber to hire the performers. She did so, and ‘“‘Pinafore” was given on the stage of the Boston theatre April 14, 1879, with this cast: Sir Joseph Porter, H. C. Barnabee; Captain Corcorsn, Myron W. Whitne{; Ralph Rackstraw, ‘'om Karl; Di Deadeye, George Frothingham: Josephine, Mary Beebe, Little Buttercup, Isabel © McCul- loch; Hebe, Georgin Cayvan, Napier Lathian, the Boston’s courtly leader, unde:took & the musical coaching of the company,and it was not until they went on the road that Sam Studley, who has ever since re- mained with them, took up the baton. Adelaide Phillips was originaliy caste to lay Buttercup, but she fell ill, and Isa- l{do(}ulloeh. (once a wife to Brignoli) assumod the role, Both she and Miss Phillips are dead. As Josephine Mary Beebe made her first professional appear- ance on the stage of a theatre, She had been a fuvorite soloist in a_church choir 1n the hub, and her new departure cre- ated great surprise. She is yet in the profession, and has since had un unplens- sant matrimonial experience. Previous to her departure from the company Miss Ober. tried to straighten out her senti- mental affairs, but found them such a vexation that she finally gave them over, and invited her to retire. Mias Ober gave u&) the management last season, and the Ideals started out lust season without her, She had made a snug fortune, but she declared that the trials of opera di- rection would surul{ send her to her grave if longer continued. She is now in Cali- fornia enjoying life. Her home is in East Boston. Zelie de Lussan, who has caused the trouble,is the young and strikingly pretty daughter of a veteran opera singer. She was born in Brooklyn, and was educated musically with the utmost care here and in Europe. Her home is with her mother in a pleasapt flat in West Forty-ninth street. sang in concerts occasionally, but her tirst work on the opera stage wus at the commencement of the present sea- son with the Ideals. She has been a su cess. All accounts from inside the con pany agree that Manager Foster fell im- mediately mn love with her and tie opin- ion is that the pair are engaged to marry. Every evening an _enormous (vmnulf of flowers are lis gift across the footlights, and the daily cost of this offering is esti- mated at a_hundred dollars. The other soprano, Miss Stone, demurred at this foreing of attention upon Miss de Lussan, and the row began. Miss de Lussan’s ro- fusal to don any other than secemly fem- inine costumes was efdorsed by her mother, but was ridiculod by her fellow artists as foolish vrudery. During a whole month, it is said, the other princi- palsof the party never exchanged a single word with her except in the mimiery of the play; and the mock devotions of Kurl, atie iover,though accompanied by the stipulatod caresses, thinly over- Iaid a mutual hatred which would have appropriately been_expressed by bites rather than Kisse In this way the tour of the Ideals nears ita curious end. —_—— Mrs. T. C. Lapham, of Queen City, sends milk thirty miles north to her son in a flour sack. The milk is first allowed to vongeal in suitable cakes. These are thawed as needed, and make fresh, pure and good milk.