Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 22, 1887, Page 4

e i i 35 BU———— S ———— e —— THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY. MARCH 22, 1887. THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TRRMS OF SUBSORIPTION ¢ Daily Moeniag Edition) including Sunday BER, Ono Year.. ... i For 8ix Months For ny B, addross, One Yoar. ... OMATA OPPICE, NO. 014 AND 018 FARNAM STREPY. B YORK OPPICE, ROOM 65, TRINUNE RUILDING, ABUINGTON OFFICE, NO. 015 FOURTEENTH STREKT. CORRESPONDENCE! All communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should bo widressod to the Epi- TOR OF THE Bre. DUSTNEAS LETTERSE All business letters and remittances should be addrossod to THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAnA. Drafts, checks and postofiico orders 10 be made payable to the order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPAN, PROPRIETCRS, \E. ROSEWATER, Epiro! THE D. Bworn Statement of Circulation, Sigteof Nebraskn, 1y o County of Douglas. Geo. B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circuiation of the Dally Bee for the week ending Mar. 11th 1857, wus as follows: Baturday. Mar, 5. Sunday, Mar, 6., Monday, Mar. 7 ‘Thursday, Ma Friday, Mar, Average.. Subseribed in my presence and sworn to be- fore me this 12th day of .\lnr'l“h A. D., 1887, . P. FEIL, ISEALI Notary Publie. Geo. B, 'l'zschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual av- eraze daily circulation of the Daily Bee for the month of March, 1886, 11 coples; for April, 1856, 12,191 copres: for for May, 1888, 12,- 430 coples; for June, 1886, 12,208 coples; for July, 1886, 13,314 coples; for August, 185, 18,464 coples; for September, 1850, 13,030 copies; for October, 1856, 12,980 coples; for November, 1888, 13,348 coples; for December, 1886, 13,237 copies; for January, 1887, 16,260 copies; for February, 1 14,198 copies. GE0. B, TZ8CHUCK. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 9th day of March, A. D. 1887, L) N. P. Feir. Notary Publie. " A Poxca dinmond s the latest ntyl; brilliant. With an earthquake and a diamond field Dixon county leads the wost. Ir is reported that part of the rail- road lobby has been called away. All of the corruptionists should be driven from the capital. TuIrTEEN more of the Chicago bood- lers have been indicted. The prosecu- tion of these corrupt officials is u m atter of general congratulation. Tie monopoly press continues in its abuse of Van Wyck. Although the brass-collared politicians claim that he is a corpse they condinue their fight. West VirGiNia and Tennessee will vote on a constitutional prohbitory amendment in September. The moon- shiners will perhaps rally their forces and vote it down. Miss ALICE OSBOURNE, a very beauti- ful American actress, has just horse- whipped her manager. This is a novel advertising scheme and in no way re- sembles a chestnut. THE last legisiature of Alabama made the keeping of a gambling table in that , statea felony. The same law was in force inthat state forty years ago. But few vio- lators were indicted, and after a trial of four years the law was repealed. e————— It is reported that Mr. Crapo, of Mass- chusetts, will be named as one of the inter-state commission. It is thought among prominent lawyers that it will be impossible to secure good men for the commission, as the salary is only $7,500 per year, EE——— Ir, after the inter-state commerce law &oes into effect, the ticket scalpers are obliged to suspend operations, it is pretty generally understood that Gronimo will return to Arizona and resume his old bus- iness. The scalping industry must not be neglected. E——— It 18 gratifying to know that those two statesmen, Ben Butler and Carl Schurz, are out again, having fully recovered from the late toboggan ride. Mr, Sulii- van's arm will be out of the sling in a short time, and Canada can submit a proposition for war any time now. E——————— Tar city water company is just now fornishing & rare quality of aqueous molsture. Town lots, outside additions, sana bars and drift wood, in one mushy mass is pumped through the pipes. The total abstainer who wrestles with this Missourl river foculence ocalls for a selve and a filter. S— As AN organizer, Mrs. Helen M. Gougar, of Indiana, is 8 wonderful success. She has already induced 1,500 women to reg- ister in Leavenworth, Kan., and will vote every one of them in April. Leav- enworth has always been in the hands of the license element, and Mrs. Gougar's intention is to show the world that if women voted there would be no saloons. 1t is predicted that her efforts will prove unprofitable and injure the cause of women suffrage. — A WASHINGTON dispatch notes the fact that among the visitors to that city from western New York last weck those from Buffalo manifested the least interest in the president and his aftairs. Under ordinary circumstances such an instance of the ab- sence of local concern and pride in a former fellow-citizen who had attained'the highest public distinction would be note- worthy as retlecting upon those guilty of it, but with respect tothe president it has a difierent significance. Primarily the people of Buffalo know a great deal more about Mr. Cleveland than anybody else does, and it is quite probable they do not find in that knowledge any good reason for extravagant enthusiasm regarding lum. But another reason for the indif- ference of the Buffalonians respecting their former fellow-citizen may be found in the fact that he has shown a sort of disdain for the city and the people toward whom he ought to cherish an endless gratitude. In the pride of his success he turns his back upon those who started him in the path of political honor. What more nataral than that they should repay disdnin with indifferenco. It is doubless & faot that there is hardly anwhere a comwmunity in which the president has relatively fewer friends thau in bis for- mer howe, Another “Combine.” The BEg receives reliable information thata “combine’ has been formed be- tween fifty-two members of the house who propose to subordinate all minor con- siderations of morality and conduct to the one object of political attainment, and personal popularity among the band of hoodlers. Ourinformation is to the effect that fifty-two members have signed a paper pledging one unother to assist in securing the passage of all appropriations, and agreeing to cast a solid vote on each and every measrire in which they have any interest. This new and illegal com- bination went into eflect Saturday, and its strength was shown in two or three steals reported favorably by the com- mittec of the whole on that day. The hope that the evils creeping into the legisiature from the day of its organization could be expelled, was without foundation. The advancement of corrupt and designing politicians has continued until the majority has finally surrendered itself into the hands of job- bers and tricksters, leaving no possible chance to restore honor or hope for needed legislation. Such encroachments upon popular, representative government make honest men shudder. Trembling and disheartened they look for the end. Eight days are yet left the boodlers to re- ceive their swag and squander the peo- ple's money. The honest minority 1s rendered helpless. All other legisintures sink into utter insignificance when com- pared with the twentieth session. Let the end of the eighth day come quickly. After devoting all their very valuable space for two or three days in abuse of the editor of the BEE the monopoly hire- lings now charge that Speaker Harlan “is subservient to Rosewater,” and their mud batteries are at once dirccted at him. The vampires lustily yell for a de- nial on our part and insist that their charges are true. We hardly deem it necessary to refer to such silly acousa- tions. All winter long these subsidized papers have pampered the greedy appe- tite of their corporate masters without re- gard either to morality or decency. They devote countless columns in catering for the gang of railway cormorants on whose favor their ‘‘popularity’ de- pends. To do this successfully it is necessary for them to attempt to blacken the character of some reputa- ble man., The shameless effrontery of these railrogue organs in their effort to belittle a gentleman of Mr. Harlan’s social and political standing is almost be- neath the dignity of recognition. The speaker of the housa of representatives needs no encomiums. Idle flattery would add nothing to his unquestionable nteg- rity. At his home his reputation for hon- esty is too well established. While Mr. Harlan has treated the editor of the Bee in a courtcous manner upon all occa- sions, he has never in his official capac- ity, forgotten his sworn duty. Any hon- est member of the house, 1f called upon to bear witness would testify that Mr. Harlan has discharged his duties to the best of his ability, in a fair and impartial manner, Mr. Harlan’s opinions of rail- way legislation are in accord with the views of the Bee's editor. This perhaps isthe crime of which the plunderers speak 60 gravely. Because he has re- fused to become the pliant tool of the railroad lobby and has refused to assist them in forcing up- on the people of Nebraska a meaningless ‘“railway commission,”” Mr. Harlan is branded as an outcast and the under- strappers in a chorus shout for “an inves- tigation.” Further comment is unneces- sury, except to say that the statement that Mr. Harlan by any public act has ever favored the BEE or 1ts editor in vio- lation either legally or morally of his oath, is simply another of the countless lies eminating from railrogue headquar- ters. Mr. Harlan is a gentleman and an honest man. Condemned to Death. A dispatch from London states that the czar had received from the chairman of the executive committee of the nihilists a letter notifying him that he had been condemned to death, and that fifty mem- bers were appointed to execute the sen- tence. The condemnation is said to have been pronounced on kebruary 22nd, and the date of the letter is given as March 1. The fact of a plot to assassinate Alex- ander on March 13th having been frus- trated by the timely discovery of several persons having bombs 1n their posses- sion, gives a degree of credibility to the above, but it cannot be received with full faith when one reflects that such a pro- ceeding would be contrary to the methods of the nihilists, whose plans and pro- cesses are of the most secret and insidieus character. It has not been their custom hitherto to warn their intended victims, and there 18 no reason to suppose that the old policy, without which nihilism would be robbed of most of its terror, has under- gone a change in a less relentless direc- tion. Ouly on the assumption that the men who still maintain the principles of this order are greatly inferior in spirit and courage to thewr prodecessors can it be believed that they have departed from the most essential policy of this dark and mysterious cabal—that of unmasking its plots and dealing 1its blows without warning to the objects of its vengeance. It 1s not improbable that the czar may have been forewarned of a plot to kill him, but there is little likeli- hood of such information proceeding from a nihilist official. Nor was it neces- sary from any source, since Alexander lives in constant apprchension and is always hedged about by every precau- tion against danger. But regardless of this report there is reason to believe that the czar is indeed under condemnation of death, and that the late attempt to assassinate him will be followed by others as the opportuni- ties shall present themselves. A circum- stantial account of the preliminaries of the conspiracy recently disclosed was given to a New York Heruld representa- tive by a nihilist refugee now in conceal- ment in that city, which if true, and it bears strong indications of being so, shows that tho plot had been carefully hatehed in the inner circles of St. Puters- burgh, and that its purpose is to avenge the death of those nihilists who were hanged after the failure of the palace conspiracy of last November. Accord- ing to this refugee it was necessary to devolve the work of assasination upon a score of novices in the order, stu- dents at Kiew, Kharkow, Moscow and St. Petersburg, who were entirely un- known to the police. The fact that those arrested with bombs in their possession were youths aud that dotection was due in great measure to their indiscreet ac- tions, gives credibility to an impo:tant part of the refugee's statement, One thing, however, is assured, and that is that nihilism is not dead in Russia, and while it survives, the lifo of no Russian ruler under the present regime can be se- cure. To Depart from His Father's fath, The announcement that Mr. Charles M. Vallandigham, of Ohio, has deter- mined to leave the democratic party and aflibate with the republican, and that he willin a few weeks proclaim his change of political faithin an address before the Garfield club of Columbus, is a picce of political news of more than passing in- terest. This gentleman is the son of the late Clement L. Vallandingham, whose disloyal course during the war of the re- bellion was a source of no small amount of trouble to the government, and forced him to seek exile in Canada in order to eseape imprisonment, The boldly treas- onable example of the elder Vallanding- ham, who was a man of very superior ability and great force, was an inspira- tion to copperheadism throughout the north, and in that degree a help to the causge of the confedera The union cause had no more bitter and uncompro- mising enemy at the north, and in exile he did not cease to advise and conspire for its injury and defeat. Nominated while a refugee by the democrats of Ohio as their candidate for governor, he was defeated by the largest majority ever given in that state against any man be- foro or since. Such was the source from which Mr. Charles M. Val- landigham received his instructions in democratic doctrine. The son has been until now a consist- ent and active adherent und advocate of the political faith of the father. But having less ability and force than the senior Vallandigham, the son's democ- racy has not been so aggressive. He has, however, been engaged in democratic politics since he came to manhood, and with an element of the party the pres- tige of his name has always possessed a certain value for him. There was every reason to expect that he would live and die & democrat, and only some extra- ordinary influence could have changed him, That influence came wholly from his own party. ‘The atrocious conduct of the democracy in Ohio in recent years has convinced Mr. Vallandigham, as it must have convinced thousands of other demoerats having a conscience and self- respect, that it 1s an organization which citizens concerned for good government and the public welfare should not sus- tain. Election frauds, which even ex- Governor Hoadly was compelled to ad- mit and denounce, the attempt by revolutionary means to capture the legislature, the degradation of the su- vreme court to partisan purposes, the bribery of legislators in tho election of a United States senator, the scandalous mismanagement of the public money by which the state treasury was bankrupted, and a general course and policy destrue- tive of the people's interests and welfare —such in part is the record which has been made by the democracy of Ohio in the past three or four years. Of all this Mr. Vallandigham has been cognizant, sharing asa democrat the responsibility and the reprobation. He found a fair and honorable opportunity to revolt against the unworthy and unlawful de- mands of his party when, as secretary of the state senate, it was sought to make him a party to the revolutionary scheme to hold democratic control of that body by giving seats Yo men who claimed them on certificates based upon fraudulent election returns. He refused to enter the corrupt and lawless cabal, and stood squarely upon the line of his duty as an official. L'his honorable conduct had its effect in defeating the scheme, and gained for Mr. Vallandigham much more in general popular respect than he lost in democratio regard. Itis creditable to his manhood and his sense of right that he has de- termined to throw off an allegiance that may at any time require the sacrifice of both and in doing so he will enter an in- dictment against the democratic party of Chio of which the country knows it to be guilty. Misfortunes Never Come Singly. Accidents, fires and crimes, it has often been observed, take an epidemic form. Starting with the Vermont railway hor- ror, closely followed the frightful acci- dent at Roslindale, Massachusetts, where many lives were lost by a train of pas- senger coaches falling through a bridge. An accident on the elevated road in New York killed a dozen people, and papers have been filled with accounts of minor casualties the past few days. Last week the Buffalo hotel burned and some fifty persons were cremated. Sunday the dis- patches brought accounts of another hotel burning in the same city. The Grand Central theater at Troy, New York, was destroyed the same day and the entire block was in flames at last accounts. At Decatar, Illinois, a hotel was consumed by fire, badly scorching many of the guests, Alsoon the same day the salt works at Warsaw, N. Y., burned at a loss of $100,000, and at Erie, Pa., a very disastrous fire was beyond the control of the fire department. Omaha has been unusually fortunate this spring, no fires of any consequence having occurred. Yet the utmost precaution should be used as the spring gencrally witnesses many conflagrations. Why there is any foun- dation to believe that these misfortunes take the form of an epidemic, we are at a loss to conjecture. Yet in any event whether happening by mere chance or otherwise, certain 1t is the last month has witnessea a surprisingly large number of casualtics, —— ‘THE congregation of St. Mary's avenue Congregational church on Sunday pledged over fourteen thousand dollars in less than thirty minutes: for the pur- chase of a site for a new buwilding. The subscription list includes amounts rang- ing from $100 to $1,200, and is a remark- able showing of prosperity on the part of many of the subscribers, who only a few years were not worth the amount they have donated to this enterprise. It dem- onstrates also that their liberality in- creases in proportion to their prosperity. Th the proper spirit, and is worthy of emulation in all matters of public en- terprise. E—— THERE are eight days more more of legislation to be gone through with before that august body adjourns. It is said that when a few certain members return to the constituents they have betrayed, there will be an iuteresting, if not liyely time. . THEE BEE would suggest that the best punishment to be inflicted is to make it a point to attend the next election, and sec to it that dishonest men are kept in the background YestErDpAY the president appointed Mr. Geo. E. Pritchott United States at- torney for the district of Nebraska, Mr, Pritchett is an Omaha lawyer with a limited practice and a reputation con- fined within the' borders of his own A democrat without patriotism, a politician withbut a following and a lawger with but Httle ability, Mr, Cleve- has certainly excreised poor judgment in appointing Pritchett to this responsi- ble position. Goversor Crirr , of Missouri, says Owaha will have a population of 250,000 within ten years. Poor old Kansas City. Pronmition could never be enforced in Omaha while the Missouri river is in such n muddy condition as it is now. The lum- ber merchants on the bottom lands had better run down their anchors. OMAA people are of mua in their water. g a great deal PROMINE NT PERSONS, Preston H. Leslie, governor of Montana, used to be a ferryman, Senator ITale will next month go to Paris to see Mrs. Hale and his boys. Senator Warner Miller will visit Alaska the coming summer with his family. * Dr. Frank Abbott, one of New York's leading dentists, takes in $30,000 8 year, General Sheridan is to build a summer home on the Massachusetts coast, near New Bedford. One of Senator Vest's eyes is in an im- paired condition, and ho is under treatment in New York. James Anthony Froude has arrived in Havana from the Little Antilles, where he has been vlsiting, Ex-Senator Jones is generally regarded by the Florida papers as mentally irresponsible for hir erratic conduct. Banker Joe Drexel, of New Yorkand Phil- adelphia, plays the fiddle and five other in- stuments with facility. Dr. Colton, of New York, when in Cal- ifornia in '49, used to get an ounce of gold (816) for every tooth he pulled. C. H. J. Taylor, the new minister to Liberia, is only thirty-two years old, and was born 1n Alabama and studied law at Oberlin, Ohio. Mrs, Beecher Is about to take a trip to Florida. Mr.Beecher’s old home at Peekskill known as “Boscobel,” 18 soon to be sold at, auction. Mark Twain talks of endowing a home for pumped—out humorists—probably incited thereto by a careful regard for the near fu- ture of Mr. Samuel Clemens. ‘Theodore Tilton'when told of Mr. Boech- er’s death, and asked whether he had any- thing to say, shook his head sadly and an- swered: “Noj it will do no good now,” Chang Yen Woon, Chinese minister to the United States, is said to be the richest man in China. When he sat for his photograph a few days since the aggregate value of the jewels which adorned his person was about $1,000,000, Ex-Senator Dorsey gave a magnificent din- ner at his hotel in London, at which covers were laid for forty-four guests. The table, which was sixty feet long and six feet wide, was decorated lavishly with rare flowers and fruits. The menu cards were painted with a separate design, that of Mrs. Nellie Grant- Sartoris baving a very correctly painted por- trait of her father. B They are Simply Envious, Crete Vidette. Since the BEE is the only paper in Nebras- ka that gives the European news by cable, furnishes more national and state news than any of Ms contemporaries and publishes a sworn statement of its rapidly increasing cir- culation 1tlooks as if the Omaha press is envious of the BEE’s success and s simply yelping In its wake to distract attention and whistling to keep its courage up, The BEr has been built up by the abuse of its would- be rivals, ———— + A Disagreeable Stench. Blair Pilot. The Omaha Republican exhibits bad taste in trying to bolster up such a shystering fraud and blatherskite as Paul Vandervoort. Some day, in the not distant future, the Re- publican will feel it to be its duty to give ex- vression to a different opinion ota fester that has long since become a disagreeable stench in the nostrils of all decent people. The Republican may be able to annihilate the Omaha BEk, injure Church Howe's repu- tation for truth and veracity and retire Rose- water Zrom pubHe notice but it can never convince the Nebraska public that Paul Van- dervoort is anything but a dead beat fraud and blatherskite—unless there is' something ;x:u disgraceful and degrading that he —_— Omaha and Rapids Oity. Rapids City Journal, Late and reliablo advices from Omaha in- dicate that cinsidegable iInterest in Raplds City and her future is felt by prosperousbusi- ness men of that place. They like Rapids City for what her people have made her. They are watching rallroad movements, and wondering if the railroad will be extended from this point the present year. and, if so, what effect it will have upon Rapid City’s growth. In any event a considerable amount of Omaha capital will be enlisted in a Rapids City smelter enterprise,and itis probable that a feasible project will be heard of from that source soon. Of one thing the Omaha men who are inquiring closely concerning Rapids City may be assuread *Wbether the railroad goes or stays will make no difference with the future of this placey Rapids City is im- proving and will contiBue to improve. Pt 1 Wait for the Morning. James Whitcomd Riley, Wait for the morning—it will come indeed, As surely as the night hath given need. The )':lm;nén; eyes, at least, will strain their h g ) No more unanswered by the morning light; No longer will they vainly strive through tears, To plerce the darkness of thy doubts and foars, But. bathed In balmy dewsand rays of dawn, Willsmile with rapture o'er the darkness gone. ) Walt for the morning, © thou smitten child, Scorned, scourged ad prosecuted and re- viled. A thirst and famishing, none pitying thee, Crowned with the twisted thorns or agony— No faintest gleam of sunlight through the dense ln!lnll{ of gloom to lead thee thence— Wait thou for morning; it will come indeed, As surely as the night hath given need. ———eee Inter-State Commerce Bill ltems. 0 Chicago News. J. Gould Perkins, general ticket and pas- senger agent of the Slabville & Four Corners railroad, was in our wmidst yesterday retail- ing chestnuts among the reporters and try- ing to get his name into the papers, 1t 18 stated upon seemingly good authority that tne president of the Podunk Grand Trunk route was born In Connecticut and used to peddle door knobs for fresh eggs. Edwin Forrest Goodwlin, the well known tragedian, ran into the night express train on the Oshkosh & Paw Paw narrow gauge last week and severely sprained his ankle. Atthe time the accident ocenrred he was traveling in the same direetion as tho train, People having cows, steets, heifers and othier live s citled or maimoed by railway trains will confer a boon by repoiting same to us at once, giving name, sex and maxi- wum value of deceased. We understand that the affairs of the Racine & Hannibalare in a very shaky con- dition. The engincer and brakeman had to take their pay in old ties last week. A superb barrow, owned by Farmer East man and intended for breeding purposes, was run over and killed by a gravel train on the Roodhouse Short line, near Bureau sta- tion, last Sunday night, The utter disre- gard of life manifested by grinding railroad monopolies is past all endurance. ot a—— BTATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings, Prairie fires are ripening. Farmers are sowing wheat in Cheyenne county. . Albion has organized a loan and build- ing association, The West Point mill turns out 1,500 tous of paper annually. Eight saloons will stimulate the boom in Norfolk this season, Hugo Shultz, of Bl a buzz saw and lo Columbus hu prohibition ticket in the field with the Platte banks full. The Blue Hill Times and Winner have consolidated, with George L. Burr as ed- it , toyed with airmont’s waterworks bonds, to the amount of §10,000 sold at a premium of 1} per cent. As an evidence of the spring freshet West Point breweries will turn out 8,000 kegs of beer this month. A prairie fire swept a ten-mile strip of Webster last week, destroying a large amount of property and stock. Kearney had a $1,000 fire Saturday. started 1 the barn of Ingram Bros.~ Six- teen hos and a thoroughbred bull were cremated. A corps of railroad surveyors is brows- ing in the suburbs of Red Cloud and vis- ions of new railroads fill the dreams of eill, induced her ex- husband to give her $4,000 as a bonus to waive all right, claim and title to his *‘affections and hereditaments thereuntu belonging.™ A party of sentimental youths in Albion while out on a serenading tour, collided with a loaded slop jar and subsided, Subsequent proceedings were pierced with mufiied oaths. Charles Pool has soldione-half interest in the Johnson County Journal to H. L. Cooper, an fowa newspaper man. The Journal is a purveyor of simon pure de- mocracy and one of the best in the state. W. J. A. Montgomery, editor of the Clay Center Democrat, introduces him- self with a wood cut presentment of his moustache and burnsides. Thereller was too soft to give an impression of his fea- tures, W. H. Miles, the Frontier county thug, attacked W. 8. Gee at Mooreticld and attempted to force an apology with a flourish of pistols. Hefailed to secure it, but the police court canght him for $40 and trimmings. William Matthias, of Elba, commtted suicide by cutting his throat with a poclk- etknife, "A Welchman by birth, forty {cnrs old, financially well fixed, but a achelor, 1li health, despondency and alone in hie suffering he chose the tragic route to the end. Towa Items. Dalrymple, the bonanza farmer, is buying horses in Iowa. The second competitive test of car brakes will begin in Burlington May 19. The first piles for the new bridge across the Mississippi at Fort Madison were driven last week. Hardin county has 6,602 school chil- dren, Franklin county 4,812, Butler county 5,321 and Grundy county 4,608, ®Nat Hudson, formerly pitcher for the Keokuk club, has fallen heir to $60,000 and will abandon the old-time sphere for one of greater usefulness. Towa horse breeders are liberally sup- plying distant markots. Shipments have rocsnl.u been made to Washington terri- tory, Montana, Dakota, Colorado, Ne- brasks, Kansas, ete. Clinton, Towa City, Marshalltown, Mus- catine, Oskaloosa and Waterloo are the cities in Towa entitled to the free deliv- ery system under the recent extension by the postoftice department. All but Jowa City have made application for the ser- vice. The citizens of Davenport have com- pleted their part of the contract which insures the location of the Rock Island shops in that city. The bonus comprised property valued at $10,800. The com- pany has accepted. The plans for tho buildings comprise & machine shop 162 feet long, 101 feet wide and two stories high; a car shop 104 fect long, 100 feet wide and two stories high; an upholster- ing and paint shop 128 feet long and 75 feet wide. All these buildings to be of brick and stone. An idea of the increase of the company's plant over the present shop dimensions mlI be gained when it is stated that the old shops embrace an area of 16,809 square feet, while the new shops will embrace an area of 43,600 square fevt. The estimated cost of the now buildings is $50,000. Dakota Dakota Yankton has plunged into tho addition business. The new Catholic church at Parkston is completed, Towns along the Missouri are prepar- ing for the tlood. The spring rush of home scekers to the territory has already set in. There is a stiff demand for houses in Sioux Falls, and rents are flying high, The Yankton land office has just re- ceived 460 land patents from tho general land oflice for distribution among the farmers of that distric Wyoming. The Masons of Cheyenne propose to build a temple of brick, three stories high, Edwin Booth is booked for a night of the legitimate at Cheyenne on & guaran- tee of §3,000, Ten thousand dollars have been sub- scribed for the erection of a wool ware- house in Rawlins. The territorial printing was divided among the Cneyenne and Laramie pa- pers, and harmony roosts high. The Casa Grand Land & Improve- ment compuany, capital $25,000,000, has filed articles of incorporation. Thecom- pany proposes to engage in and conduct all kinds of business connected with the purchase, saleand improvement of lands, and in addition thereto will take all necessary steps according to the powers granted by the charter to irrigate and re- claim all [ands of which it may be the owner, where such reclamation is neces- sary. The operationsof the company are to be confined to Crook county, in the territory, and the headquarters will be at Sundance, S LR Chesley, Canada, has a clergyman who from his pulpit recently characterized a recently orgunized chess club of that vil- lage as a “hell elub,” Experi in a Gl hospital b Sxperience in a Glasgow hospital has uuu{fbn J. 8. Nam that goilad or fried tish is a dangerous diet for weak per- sons, but that steamed fish is harmless. T ey City Clerk Southard was reported as slightly better to-day. The President’s Pair of Dences. Chicago Tritune, 1t fs related that the president not long | since, foeling the need of relaxation, en- gagod ina quict little gamo of poker with Daniel, asenator and two representa- tives, This disposcs of the statement was pinochle, an innocent o | binations, not requiring much skill and well adapted to the social cir The little game ran on until midnight with varying fortunes, when a jack-pot was suggested to close the might's play. When the pot was finally opened every one staid in, and the president was the most vigorous better of the lot. Wien the call was made Daniel showed a king full. The senator n full. Oue representative and the other two pair. The president showed up the of hearts, nine and seven of diamonds, and the deuces of clubs and spa 1t is needless to say that Dani raked in the pot and that when the pre dent cashed in his chips he was $46 out— twice as much as he sent to Charleston. Evidently the presidency is an expensive matter for him. "he president's situation in the little game of poker is not unlike his si in the adimmnistration. He went in with nothing in his hand, and has been run- ning things with a pair of deuces ever since. For the last two years he has been blufling demoerats and mugwumps with the lowest pair in the pack, and neither has dared to call. He has played them against one another very success- fully. He has blufted the spoilsmen with concessions to patronage, and he has bluffed the mugwumps with alleged de- votion to eivil service reform. ith his pair of httle deuces in his hand he has clamored as loudly for political morahity a he held a straight flush. ~ For two years he has succeeded in impressing democrats and mugwumps with the con- viction that it would be unsafe to call. But somehow the impression is now gaining ground that he holds nothing, and is merely Wuiling, Hill, Watterson, Dana, Pulitzer,and the other fellows about thetable are beginning to stiffen up, and even Curtis, Schurz and the other mug- wumps, who never bet very high and would rather play for buttons or beans than cash, begin to suspect that he is playing it on them with nothing 1n his hand to speak of. Before the next two years are out some one will pluck up heart of grace to call and rake in the pot with the discovery that the president will only have a pair of deuces after all; and then they will wonder how they ever let him into the game, and why they didn't freeze him out sooner, Thatsuch old Bln,ycrs as_Hill, and Watterson, and ana, and Pulitzer should be blufied so long by a man with a pair of deuces is as- tonishing. The moment one of them calls the game is up. There 18 nothing in his hand, and there hasn’t been sinco he began the game. He had nothing to draw to when he started. Perhaps Daniel knew it. l’crhngs they all realize now that Grover has been playing the deuce with them. —————— The Telephone Monopoly. Chicago Tribune. The recent legislature of Indiana was not a very creditable affair in many res- pects and its adjournment was a relief, but it may at least be credited with hav- ing served the interests of that state by refusing to repeal the law limiting tele- phone rates to $3 a month, the courts having declared the law to be constitu- tional. In Indianapolis,as in most other cities, the people were taxed by the tele- phone company to pay rates that would yield profits, not on the actual values, but upon millions of watered stock. The company in that city which whined that it could notdoa profitauble business on the $3 rate was trying to make the pco- ple pay dividends on $10,000,000 of stock, of which the Boston Bell company, the parent glutton, held $3,000,000. The difference between service on watered and unwatered stock is illus- trated by figures quoted by the New York Times in the cases of the companies in Providence and Boston. In the former city 2,007 subscribers are served by a company whose stock 1s only $250,000, and tho stock earns 20 per cent a year. In Boston 2,204 subscribers are served b; a company whose stock is $3,895,300, an the rates are more than double those in Providence. The cost of the Boston ex- change was $129,550, but when it went into the New England combination it was capitalized at $83,895,300, and the people of Boston have been compelled to puy rates that have yielded 100 per cent on net cost. Our own legislature has thus far done nothing to relieve the people of Illinois from the greedy squeeze of the Bell money-gluttons. ~ Two-thirds of the Chi- cago telephone stock is owned by the Boston Bell company, which charges a royalty of $14 a year on instruments cost- ing less than $3.50, It is already moving to force the Providence company to in- crease its stock. How long will'it be be- fore it makes a similar move here and compels subscribers to pay increased rates, 8o that higher dividends may be paid upon a stock of half a million which already earns 80 per cent? Itistime that the legislature came to the relief of the Eeople and cut off the chance that the oston oclopus may get them into its deadly squeeze. e items From Anamosa, ANAMOSA, Ia., March 19,—[Correspond- ence of the Bee.]—The modus operandi of another swindle on the farmers that has been worked in this part of the state, is as follows: One sharper agrees to buy afarmer's land, and pays him $20, down to bind the bargain. Another comes along and offers the farmer $500 more for the land than the first offered him, and the granger then begins to try to buy oft No. 1, who says he will sell for $200 and the $20 paid down. It is paid, and the farmer sees no more of No. 2. He is out just $200. ‘The funeral services of Mrs. D. J. Bis- seel, who died in theinsane asylum,where she has been tor some time, occurred to- day from the Frst Congregational church. - s Sumner Told He Was Too Lato. Perley Poore in the Boston Mr. Sumner entered the senate United States on the 1st of De- 1851, the day on which Heury it, and was sworn in as the suc- cessor of Daniel Webster. Soon v he nad took hisseat in the arena, which had just been made famous by the political champions of the north, the south, and the west, Mr. Benton said of him: “You have come upon the stage too I all our great men have passed aw Calhoun and Mr. Clay and Mr, W aregone.” Calhounand Clay and Web- ster did indeed pass away, but Chase ar Seward and Sumner took their places, to engage in struggles more momen- tons llfln those supposed to have become extinct. Mr. Sumner had but two co- adjutors in opposing slavery and in ad- vocating freedom when he cutered tho sem\tc.fimt before he died he was the leader of more than two-thirds of that body. Iam told, however, that at the outset of his senatorial career he was treated as a detested fanatic, and rofuscd a place on any committee, a8 “outside of any healthy political organization.” He lived to chairman of the scnate committee on foreign relatious, and to sce men of African descent elected Lo seats in the senate and house of repre- sentatives, commissioned as foreign min- isters, and admitted to practice before the bar of the supreme court, which had declured that these very persons had no rights which white men were bound to respess, heretofore made that his favorita game | air of com- | A CARD. { TO THE PUBLIC— With the approach of spring | and the increased interest man. ifested in real estate matters I am more than ever consult. ed by intending purchasers as to favorable opportunities for Iin\-ustmnnt, 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 in vague promisés for the future, and the result in every caso ~ 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 valueof 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 secking 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 all times to show property. Respectfully, W.G. ALBRIGHT SOLE OWNER, 218 8. 15th Street. Branch office at South Oma- ha N. B. Property for sale fuall parts of the city v