Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 20, 1887, Page 4

4 . THE DAILY BEE PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION ¢ fly (Moeniag Edition) Including Sunday ®, One Voar. ... x Months For Threo Months The Omaha Sunday address, One Year. OMATA OFPFICE, NO. 914 AND. EW YORK OFFICE, ROOM 65, ASHINGTON OPFICE, NO. 513 FOI CORR All communications relating to news nnd ed torial matter should be addressed to the EDI- TOI OF THE BRR. BUSINESS LETTERS? All business letters and remittaness should be addressed to Ik BER PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMARA. Drafts, checks and postoffico orders %0 be made payable to the order of the conpany, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Olrculation. State of Nevraska, ) o Cy nl{ol Douglas. ™™ Geo. B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of the Daily Bee for the week ending April 15, 1557, was as follows: Saturday, April 9. Sunday, Avril 10 Monday, April 11 Tuesday, April 12 Wednesday, April 1 Thursday, April 1+ Friday, April 15... Average... 8. T Subscribed and sworn to bef 16th day of April, 1557, [SEAL.] blic. Geo. 'zschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of The Bee Publishing comrany. that the actunl average dally circulation of the Daily Bes for the month of April, 185, 12,191 copies; for May, 1836, 12,439 copies: for 12.208 copies; for July, 185, 12,314 copies; for August, {56, 12,464 copies: for Sentem- 184, 13,030 copies; for October, 1856, M0 coples: for November, 1886, 1 copies; for Decem! , 13,37 copies: 'for January, 1857, 16,206 copies: for February, 1887, 14,195 coples; for March, 1587, 14,400 coples, GEo. B. Tzscnvek. Subseribed and sworn to before me this 15th day of April, A [SEAL.| FriL, Notaty Public, "~ Mavor Bovp has left the ‘city, but Pat Ford still remains to look after his inter- ests. IN the scramble among candidates for ceouncilmen, there are a great many square pegs trying to get into round holes. — Tue recent cyclone in West Virginia and Ohio, in which several villages were laid te, is one of the harbingers of breezy and balmy spring. ——— Mg. BLAINE has recovered his health sufliciently to allow him to return to Chi- eago. It is supposed that he went many miles out of his way to avoid passing through St. Louis again. Tue Free Congo State scheme, with Stanley as chief manager, is as costly an experiment for little Belgium as the American opera, with ‘Theodore Thomas at a thousand a week, has been for Mrs. Thurber. — Tue name of the man who struck the lamented William Patterson may forever remain a mystery, but it seems that the man who stole the insurance bill just be- fore the legislature adjourned will be named in a short time. ——— WE learn upon rehiable authority that Mr. E. M. Bartlett positively declines the nomination for Mayor. We also discover that Mr. Bartlett 18 needlessly alarmed, a8 nobody has seriously thought of him in conunection with the mayor’s oflice. Tue judge for the First Judicial dis- triet has not yet been appointed. It is said that there is a lively scramble in that soction for the position. Hnmphrey, the Pawnee railrogue blatherskite, 15 on hand as usual with a lightning rod ex- posed, Tur republican state central committee loses its chairman in the death of Hon. A. J. Weaver. Although there is noth- ing imperative to require action at this timo, the committee will at its next meet- ing have to select a new chairman, — PEDRO GORCIA, the accomplished editor of the Observaldor Fronterizo, a paper puplished at El Paso, Texas, hanguishes in Cutting’s old cell at Paso del Norte, for insinuating in rather plain tanguage that a certsin Mexican mayor was a drunkard, and a tax-collector a robber. The case is the same as Cutting’s. It is not safe to stand on the Mexican line and oall things by their proper names. AN indignant liveryman St. Louis doclares that Governor Marmaduke, of Missouri, in his last campaign “incurred a liability of $3 on account of carriage hire, and that in the hurry and excite ment of the time he forgotto pay it.” The governor, who druws a salary of $5,000 a year, maintains an awful silence regarding the matter, and a law suit will donbtless follow. This is one ot the bills his excellency evidently forgot to yeto. — IN the intevest of the fruit and wine crops of California, the board of trade of Los Angeles has, it is smd, adopted a resolution requesting the inter-state com- merce commission to suspend section 4 of the new law. It would seem that ali parts of the country are drawing the line at the long haul clause. We would sug- gost a pipe line with sample stations at proper interyals, for the California wine raisers, definite rumor in New York City that Jacoh Sharp, the man accused of bribing the aldermen of 1881 to vote the Broad- way surface railroad franchise, and who will be tried very soon, threatens to con- foss unless the distrs torney *‘does not letup on him.” Here 1s an opportunity for an ofticial to do good by continuing not tolet up on the Sharp boodler and bribe-giver, Derrorr is seriously considering the advisability of underground wires, It is proposed to bury the wires used by the city for fire and police purposes, and afterward compel the telegravh and elec- tric light companies to follow smt. In fact, Dotroit is experiencing a general shaking up of dry bones with the burst- | ing buds and and vernal bloom of spring. The building inspectors have been exam- fning the fire escapes of the differcnt hotels, and are compelling landlords to put up red lights and cards showing the 'WAYS to escape, And, by the way, many cities, inoluding Omaha as well, coula, with profit, imitate Detroit in these t vory important matters. 3 The National Domain. At the recent quarterly meeting held in Boston of the American Statistical as sociation, Professor Hart of Harvard uni- versity submitted an interesting paper on the extent and value ot the public lands of the United States. At the date of the organization of the government the ares of the national domain was, according to the most trustworthy computation, 819,515 square miles, The first addition was made in 1803 by the annexation of Louisana. This added 877,268 square miles, The dis- covery of Oregon in 1803, made by the Louis and Clark expedition, enlarged the national domain by the further addition of 222,018 square miles. For forty years, however, our title to this territory was dispu and not until the treaty of 1816 with Great Britain did we obtain undis- puted possession of it. Our claim to West Florida, as a part of the Louisana pur- chase, was also not admitted, but it was annexed by force in 1812. Florida was annexed by treaty in 1819, add- ing 54,200 square miles to our domain, In 1815 we obtained pos- session of Texas, thereby adding 202,200 square miles, and the treaty with Great Britain covering territory north of the Columbia river, 1n 1816, added 58,880 square miles. In 1818 the cession of territory from Mexico added 614,439 square miles to the national area. The Godsden purchase of 1853 added 47,330 more square miles, and the acquisition of Alaska in 1857 gave us, as nearly as can be estimated, a further expanse of do- main of 531,40) square miles. The aggre- gate of these figures gives as the present area of the United States 33,001,409 square miles. There were contentions of a more or less serious character invident to the ac- quirement of a large part ot this dominion. It has been noted that our disputed clai in to west Florida was finally brought to an and by our taking forcible possession of that territory, while the remaining por- tion of Florida was sccured by treaty seven years after we had seized a part. But the most important difference, which long threatened to involved the United Btates and Great Britain in a war was with respect to the northwest- ern boundary, both countries claiming a part of theterritory to Oregon. Treaties were made providing for the joint occu- pancy and use of the territory claimed by both the people of the two coun- tries. This arrangement did not allay the irritation and controversy which, as al- ready stated, was kept up for forty years, sometimes manifesting great heat and bitterress. A treaty concluded in 1846 extended the boundary lines from the Rocky mountains to the Pacitic ocean along the forty-ninth parallel of north Iatitude. Anothor dispute, however, arose, and was continued down to 1871, when the Washington treaty provided for tho submission of the boundary ques- tion to the arbitration, for decision with- out appeal, of the Emperor of Germany. In 1872 the emperor rendered his decision sustaining the claim of the United States and settling finally the northern boun- dary line east and wost between this country and Great Britain. This ques- tion was really in controversy ninety years. A distinction is to be made between the area of the nativnal domain and the area of the public lands. Of the latter the United States had surveyed to Junc 80, 1830, 753,557,105 acres, and there were then remaining unsurveyed, estimated, 1,065, - 005,327 neres. At that date the surveyed lands undisposed of were estimated at 204,802,711 acres, which with tha unsul veyed made a grand total of 1,270,708,0: cres than the property of the United States and subject to disposition. The datu is not at hand showing the whole amount since disposed of, but the govern- ment is still possessed of nearly or quite athousand million acres, estimated to be worth as many dollars. Itis probable, however, that the estimated value of the remaining public lands is much too large, as nearly all the most valuable and till- able land has been sold or given away by the government. If all the public lands now the property of the government were available for settlement, 1t 18 esti- mated that they would provide about seven million homesteads of 1060 acres each. ‘I'o Junc 30, 1830, the public do- main had cost 1n cash $121,316,746 more than it had re: —— All Are Welcome. With the advent of spring, many peo- ple in the slow-going and over-crowded eust, doubtless have in contemplation a chunge of base for future operations. Before settling elsewhere, Omaha re- spectfully mvites all persons seeking lo- cations in any enterprise whatsoever, to call and see the advantages she offers. Here we have a rich, prosperous, boauti: ful city of 85,000 inhabitants in one of the best agricultural states of the Union. In all branches of anufacturing industrics, Omaha is weli represented, yet with rapidly increasing population and ex- tended territory, there is ample room for all who care to come, In many enter- prises there is already a great demand for increased representation. Omahais even now an important job- bingcenter. She demmands a large field in Towa, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Dakota and territories further west. Her railroad facilities are excel- lent, and she has flattering prospects for several new lines this year. Her social advantages and educational facilities are unsurpassed by those of any city of equal population in America. En- joying all the modern improvements pos- sessessed by larger and older towns, com- posed of a class of liberal, progressive and enterprising citizens, Omaha is des- tined to become one of the largest cities of the Mississippi. Her invitation to cavitalists and goo here is general and cordial. i ection Law, Olficial notice has beea receiyed from the secretary of state that the primary election law, enacted by lature, was passed with th clause, and 18 now in full text of this law will be found m this issue. The main features of the 1 law are: s 1st, The polls at all prinary elections in metropolitan cities aal eities of tue | tirst and second cluss,’ kept open from noon wntil m., standard time. 2d. No person is entitl=d to vote at a primary election uniess he is of lawfal age, and a duly qualilicd vot under the laws of the state, and under such rules und regnlations as may be pre- scribed by the parties holding such elections. 8d. Any person offering his vote at & the last primary st be seven p. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20. 1887, primary eloction may be challenged as a non-resident, minor or suspected ro- peater. The judge of election is em- powered to examine the challenged party under oath, and make reesrd of his re- sponses. Any person who attempts to vote under another name, or falsely tes- tities as to ns age or residence, is liable to prosecution and punishment for per- jury. 4th. Tampering with ballots, falsification of returns, or allowing persons who are not entitled to vote, to cast a ballot at a primary election, becomes a misde- meanor punishable by fine and imprison- ment in the county jail. This marks a new era in our vo- litical methods, Heretofore primary elections in Omaha have been worse than a farce. During every exciting campaign, hundreds of men were marched from poli to poll, and allowed to vote when- ever the judges of elections thought they were favorable to their own faction. At some of the y aries the same men were allowed to vote a half dozen times, under as many different names. Ballot-box stufling was quite common, and in some instances the ballot-boxes were smashed and the ballots scattered to the four winds by the judges, when they discoy- ered that the opposite faction had garvied the ward by a large majority. Such outrages can no longer be pe petrated with impunity. Primary elec- tions hereafter wiil represent, in some degree, the wish of the majority of the party. What Is “reeholder? Nonrr B, b., April 16.—[Editor Omaha Beg:|—Will you in the daily Be explain and define the meaning of the word “freeholder,” as it is used in % 1, chapter 50, entitled liquors, compiled statutes state of Nebraska, and greatly oblize, yours re- spectively. Hexey E, Syt Our version of the meaning of the word iolder, as applied to the high license- a person who owns real-estate in fee-simple. Such ownership need not represent real proverty of any speci- fied value, but simply a clear title to land. The high license act which re- quires each applicant for hicense, to pre senta petition signed thirty free- holders, contemplates, in our opinion, ‘T'ne oracular utterances of Mr. George William Curtis to a correspondent of a Cincinnati paper, regarding the outlook for certain gentlemen who have been named as possible candidates for the vresidency, are receiving rather more at- tention than they appear to us to merit. ‘There is nothing in the record of Mr. Curtis as a politician that we can now re- call which entitlos him to be regarded as a particularly wise judge of public opinion or an especially shrewd political prophet His ability to discern self-evi- dent fuacts is probably as good as the av- erage, but the cultured gentleman lives too far away from the people to know much of the under-currents of vopular feeling. The failure of Mr. Curtis to im- press his importance as a political force, and to draw all men under his banner of reform, has evidently rendered him pes- imistic. No one appears to him to pos- sess quite the attributes to fit him for the presidency. The country 18 barren of statesmen of the Curtis standard. All of her distinguished public men have some unfortunate defect that disqualifies them for presidential purposes. With John Sherman the fault 15 a lack of personality’. He is not responsive in his methods and wants those qualities that attract admira- tion. One cannot read such comment without reealling Mr. Conkling’s charac- terization of Curtis as a “‘man milliner" and admitting its justice. There is reason to believe that neither party will call upon Mr. Curtis for council in choos- ing its candidates, and it is not question- able that the eampuign can be conducted without his assistance. It will be a gan all round if Mr. Curtis shall take himseif entirely out of politic: ONE of the great merchants of the county is John Manamaker of Philadel- phia. He gives employment to 4,500 peo- ple. This large body of employes he has just taken into partnership by adopting the profit-sharing system with them. He proposes to shure profits with all who have been in his service seven years and with others whose term of service shall hereaftor reach seven years. This di- wvision will be made nccording to the value of the services rendered and the usefulness and faithfuluess of employes. He proposes to add to the salaries of all each week a sum graded by their sales, Marked business ability and efliciency are to be re ‘ded by advancement. The amount to be divided annually Mr, Wanamaker says cannot be less than $100,000. This principle has been tried in a number of manufacturing cstab- lishments and found to work well. There appears no good reason why it should not do so in a mercantiie business. It offers an incentive to industry, thorough- ness and faithfulness which cannot fail to make better employes® This must operate to the advantage of the business, so that the benefits will be mutual. An- other good effect of the prineiple is in bolding men to their employment. In making every man in a sense a party to the business, there is created a desire to remain in it. It establishes an ideatifi- cation that promots to self-respeet. The result of Mr. Wanamaker's experience with this commendable system will be interesting. It is not doubted that 1t will be gratifying, and if so his example may b.a largely foilowed. Our board of education is disposed to be extravagant. Because a large revenue is derived from the liquor traflic, under the high license law, the board acts very much like a man who has 1uherited a fortune. The proposed purchase of a school lot on Leavenworth street, for $25,000, strikes us as a reckless project. There 1s no need of locating our school buildings on the principal thoroughfares, ! unless the city already owns the lots. lven then it 18 a questionable policy. [n other cities the school buildings are us- ually on side streets, within two or three blocks of traflic streets. Schools located on side streets within easy reach of the street railways, are, in fact, more desir- able, because their surroundings do not distract the scholars. Such lots, within a few blocks of Leavenworth street, can be had at from $5,000 to $10,000. To pay out §25,000 for an ordinary school lot is an inexcusable waste of money. Tue mayor's proclamations have uow been published just three times in the two morning dailies tbat smuggled that little printing steal through the council committees. Their vills for these three publications at legal rates amount to $102. 1f they are ng:; ed to keep on with this printing steal bills on the third of May will amount t4 over $1,000, and if the afternoon tenda# in the combine is also included there will be $1,600 chipped out of the pockets of ghe taxpayers. In- asmuch as the cithhas an oflicial paper, which reaches everybody, this is a little 100 too for anything. Tik battle of Shilop, which has been fought so many times, is to be fought over once more, timo the engage- ment is to be belween Jeft Davis and General Beauregard, They are shooting at each other at very long range through the columns of a southern paper, It was all brought about by Mr. Davis making some impromptu remarks at the unveil- ing of the Johnston statue reflecting se- verely upon Beauregard's manner of handling troops at the battle of Shiloh, It is understood that in this smokeless skirmish Mr. Davis will not wear his pe- culiar uniform of petticoat and boots. Mi. McSHANE'S organ offers an insult toits own patrons by intimating that the circulation of the Bee in Omaha is confined to places of ill-repute. There are not one hundred names on the car- riers’ list of Mr. McShane's sheet that are not also regular subseribers of the Bek. Henco the fling aimed at the Bee isa boomerang. Right here let us also re. mark that there are more than 4,500 reg- ular subscribers on our city carrier de- livery routes who never see the syndi cate organ, Cur Douglas street contemporary tells the republicans of Omaha that they need pay no attention to the new primary law, becauso it has not boen adopted by the republican city committee, and therefore does not go into effect. ‘I'bis is the first time we have heard that an election law which makes repeating and fraua at pri- maries a criminal offense does not go into effect until it has been adopted by a political committes, *“A little learning is a dangerous thing." UNDER the provisions of the new char- ter, it 1s necessary for persons before erccting buildings within the in limits to secure a building permit. residents of the annexed territory should understand the importance of this, and save the building inspector much time and trouble, by complying with the law. Tk appoitment of J. . Cochran, as judge of the Eleventh judicial district, will be favorably received. Mr. Coch- ran is an old resident of McCook, engag- ing in the practicc of law at that place several years ago. & ‘Tue death of Aléxan'der Mitchell, pres- ident of the Chicagn, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad, removes one of the most vrominent railroad men and bankers of this country. Tuk wonder on the Pacific coast is not so much what Kissane has done—as what the law will do With Kissane. —— The London printers work fifty-one hours a weel. 1 Workmen from the interior towns are be- ginning to flock to the cities tor hizher wages. English skilled labor of various kinds is making inquiries on this side as to oppor- tunities of employment. Krupp, the German manufacturer, has taken a dontract for 52,000 tons of rails, to be made at 18 at the works, tor the Victorian Rovernment. The prospects for the Irish woolen trade were never fairer than at the present time. ‘The textlle goods manufacturers are tinding demands crewding in on them and their mills, Gold, silver and copper mining companies are springing up in the west. St. Paul capi- talists are preparing to operate new mines near Boulder. A $10,000.000 company has been formed to work Nevada mines, Small locomotive engines are being shipped to Mexico and Central and South America from this state in suceessful competition with engines from England and France. ‘I'he engines weigh from five tons up. The Vermont marble workmen, number- ing 3,000, have organized, and propose to strike unless wages shall be advanced from 15 cents to 85 cents. Store orders, high rents and tyrannical managers are complained of. The German hardware and cutlery manu- facturers are making a great commotion in British manufacturing and trade circlas be- cause 200 ironmongers have been discovered dirtributing German goods with Sheflield trade marks. Seventeen persons [n every 100 engaged in the tobacco industry are children. During the last decade for every two additional men setto work five childreu were employed. ‘This was partly due to the increasing effect iveness ot machinery. Labor is daily coming into more active demand. Spring and summer orders are crowding in, and skilled workmen are find- ing employment in all kinds of machinery establishments, locomotive works, car works, foundries, implement works and mills, The New York master builders have agreed with the bricklayers union. Wages are to be forty-ive cents an hour for nine hours, ex- cept on Saturd ‘The joint arbitration committee is to meet on the third Thursday evening of eazh month to settle all matters of difference. Over 100 large European firns practice profit sharing, of which ope-half are French. Mr. Goden, of Guise, has 1,500 men employed this way. The profit alotted to labor varies from 2 to 75 per cent. ' American employers are picking up all the factd in regard to these experinents that they ean ind. ‘The largest gun ever made has just been turned out at the Woolwor}h arsenal. 1t is weighs 11 tons and requires 600 t0 900 pounds of powder fpra charge. The gun and platform weighs #5 tons, and the projectile weighs 1,800 pounds, which will o throngh an armor plate ' 33 inches thick a mile away. i The two extremes In" roh are mails and rails. ‘Lhe nailinakers ar@ restricting pro- duction and the mllm;hm have many months work ahead. A general movement will be made among ironmakers for an ad- vance in wages this summer. Eastern pud- dlers are indifferently organized. It is rumored that a good many English ana Welsh puddlers will immigrate to this side. v 1t Never Bolts, Oh, No! Custer Leadar, Lincoln eleeted a democratic mayor, thanks to the State Journal, that self-styled stal- wart Journal that never bolts a republican nomination. Gere is much the same as other politicians. His honesty of principie can be New York World, It appears that draw poker insidiously nvaded Chautauqua last summer as the serpent invadad Eden. Can it be that even the Concord School will some time learn the philosophical significance of the flushness of the flush and the fullness of the full? o<l A Shallow Pretense. San Franciseo Chronic The Southern acific Railroad company has found that the so-called emigrant ex- cursions Injure the first-class business. Ience tha sale of such tickets is stopved, but not without putting the odium on the inter- state commerce act. This is the shallowest pretense yet. - The Vision of Gutenberg. J. B. Clymer, in *“Poets of Printerdom.” ‘The futnre passed Before his gaze in solemn majesty. With propliet’s eye he saw his printing press, ‘The miliion folded duplicate of thought, Of progress, fact and fancy. Sight took words, And thus he spake: “Its million tongues of sacred flame Shall territy the tyrant wro Its million double-¢dged swords " Shall save the weak and slay the strong: 1ts million torches, bright with hope, 1tlnme the moonless, starless nikht: 1ts million thonzhts, new born, full grown, Procure the future reign of light; Its million type on vellum trace "The thoughts and deeds which glory gem; Its million voices, trumpet-toned, Sway sceptre, throne and diadem ; 1ts million suns shall turn to day ‘I'he night of ignorance obscure: 1ts million altars, sanctitied By burning truths, shall make men pure; Its million steel-barbed spears of wrath Shall pierce corruption’s coat of mail; Its million powers, by Heaven ordalned, Make truth and [iberty prevail; 1ts million multiples of good Inereasing through all coming time, Shall usher in carth’s paradise; And men be gods—oli, thougnt sublime ' He censed. The vision passod, And, like the blue Ithine rolling at his feet, Hle went forth to his toil and destiny. bRty STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. The school census gives Red Cloud a povulation of 3,300. Grand Island is planting street rail- , gas works and electric lights where they will do _the most good. The town Incks a belt line on paper to equal Hast- ings. An unknown man was hurried into the better land by a train near Inavale, Web- ster county, last week forty years of age. A lotter in_his bore the address of F. Schmidt, and on the lining of his cont was found the name ot (i. Cahoon. The three-year-old daughter of Charle: Glencoe, Dodge county, upset a kettle of scalding water over itself Wednesday, [t lingered in great pain until Thursday, when death relieved it from all sufferin, Fremont is stry brain to hold the commerce of the Elk- horn valley. A committee of leading citizens visited Seribner last week and challenged the town to a foot race. The innocents swallowed the *‘defi’’ and were thoroughly taken in. The Fremonters made a long haul of $300 and the town booms in consequence. The enterprising city on the Kaw river is pushing another feeder into Nebraska. Articles of incorporation of the Kansas City, Wyandotte & Northwestern were signed 1n Wymore recently, The incor- porators arc Gen. A. D. Yocum, of Hast- ing; B Burch, of Wymore; E. S. N. Drouth, of Wyandotte, K 3. Summer- field and C. F. Hurthigs, of Kansas City. ‘The line will run from the point at which the Kansas City, Wyandotte & North- western intersects the state line in south- wesrern Pawnce county through the towns of Custer, in Custer county, and Keya. Paha, in Holt county. The line runs through Pawnee, Gage, Jefferson, Fillmore, Saline, Clay, Adams, Hall, Buftulo, Dawson, Seward, Custer, York, Polk, Merrick, Howard, Nance,’ Boone, Greeley, Wheeler and Holt counties, If any county fecls slighted it will be ac- commodated with a plug roadfor a lib- eral bonus., lowa ltems, Waterloo claims 8,000 inhabitants. Webster City peovle will invest $1,000 in a base ball elub. The 'Third lowa cavalry and Sixth lowa infantry will hold a reunion at Center ville this summer, butthe date has not yet been decided. The Sioux City Journal ascribes the fall of Judge Labour, of Des Moines, to whisky. The Journs so asserts that lowais a prohipition state. The time for laving the corner-stone of the soldicrs’ home at Marshalltown has not yot been determined upon, notwith- standing reports to the contrary. Des Moines county’s poor-house con- tains thirty-two inmates, hteen of whom are incurably insane. The expense of running the farm last year was §2 5 Towa Water company, of Ottum- , has filed articles’of incorporation with ry of state. The capital is .000. purpose ot the company to supply water power in the state and outside. The jewelers ot Towa have organized a guild ‘for the protection of themselves and their patrons from bogus jewelry, They think they have already succeeded in riusing the quality of chesper sold without increasing the pri guild has a stamp of its own which is & guarantecof genuineness,and many goods are manufaciured for it expressly, Dakota, Work has begun on anew hotel in Yankton. A fatal cattle plague is raging in Tur- ner county. Thne introduction of quail in Dakota is heing encournged by gun clubs through- out the terriiory. The farmers of the southern counties report prospects of zood crops better the coming season than for many years of the past. The Yankton woolen mill has bezun operations for the spring, summer and fall of 1887, and the season promises to be n prosperous one Brookings has sent abroad a committee to look up the best points in the differen electric light systems. It is mtended to establish a plantin that town this sum- mer. Wyoming. is threatened with a deluge et railways and belt lines. The corner stone of the capitol build- g in Cheyenne will be laid in accord- ance with Masonic rites and ceremonies the 18th of May. ‘The Cheyenne tension of the Union ¥ sl.-ted to the Platte river by the uly. ‘The plea of “'self defense” w felly worked on u jury in Rawlins in the case of John Tonnar, a German, who slaughtored three of his countrymen near the Yellowstone Park in May, 1556, The Wyoming, Colorado & Pacific, supposed to be the Denver & Rio Gr: has been incorporated in the territory. ‘The proposed road will enter Cheyenne from the south and then build northwest. ‘The contract between the anthorities of Cheyenne and the B, & M. gives the new road the right of way on Morris street to ne, northern limit of the city cres of land when the road is completed and 1 operation. rthern road, an ex- citie, will be com- 1st of success- - Board of Trade. The first board of trade meeting in the new building will take place this evening in the room which is hereafter to be used as the restaurant. A number of the lessees of the offices of the building are now moving in every day and before the 1st of “H nearly all the rooms in the structure will be oceu THE TWO FEDERAL JURIES. Grand and Potit Jurors for the May Term of Court. The following are the lists of the grand and petit jurors, for the May term of the federal court, as drawn by the United States jury commissioner and turned over to Marshal Bierbower yesterday: IRAND JURORS, milton, John Dennis, J. J. S rick, F. K. Parker, John B. Furay, L. S. Schw Adam Mor- C.W. 1 Brown, A, & Thos. F. Boyd, Reed, T rell, John ben Allen, L n, Chas. H. Dewey, Chas. Ferris, George W. Roberts, PETITJURORS, - M. Robling, Ernst Brandt, Charles P, Thirman, Omaha; M. Bonsfield, Auburn; Albert Davis, McCook; G Enslow, Alexandria; 0. A. Cooper, Humboldt; Charles Hals Tecums F.W. P Slavens, Pleasant Hil} . F. Shepherd, Lincoln; E, T. Mitchell, Falls City; John M. Snowden, Culbert- son; John Burton, Dorchester; W. C. Heddleson, Lincol French, Wilbur; R, Elliott, Merri Samuel Strat- ton, Ash acock, Falls City; J. K. P H ican City. SHE BAYS SHE LIED, The McNight Girl Faced and Backs Out, Homer Kirk, the manager of the barber shop at the Arcade hotel, one of the hotel proprietors, and two reporters for the BEE to-day called upon the girl who rep- resented to a reporter that she was either Kirk's wife or had been deceived by him, She stated that she was not k wife, and that her child was not Kirk's child. She admitted that she had told a repor- ter that she was Mrs. Kirk, and was mar- ried to him at the Commercial hotel in Lincoln, as she supposed; and that Kirk was the father of her infant, Irs. Spotts, with whom the girl lived a few weeks in Omaha last fall, stated that Miss MeKnight told her repeatedly that she was Kirk's wife, and that he was the parent of her child, Yesterday, in the presence of the girl, two persons stated that she had told them more than a week before the reporter saw her, that she had been married to Kirk in the Commercial hotel in Lincoln, a8 she supvosed, and that he was the baby's father. New Chemical Engine, Fire Chicf Galligan, in conjunction with the committee of the council yesterpay ordered a new chen engine, from the Holloway Manufacturing comvany of Chicago. This will be light and easily hauled about by two norses, and will consequently be of great service in handiing small or incipient fires, It will hold 100 gallons of chemical mixture, which it will throw a distance of seventy- five feet, in u one inch streaw. Attached to the engine will be 800 inches of hose. The engine will be here in about a month and will be stationed at the house of the No. 8's. Chief Giallizan says that it will be a valuable addition to the apparatns of the fire department. ————— Stone Masons Organizing. The stone masons of this city have no labor organization. They have several times attempted to organize one, and lately they have been particularly im- pelled in this direction by certain ques- tions which have arisen between them andeemplovers with regard to daily wages. At present there 18 no regular le of prices, some men_ receiving less n others and for superior work. For purpose of effecting a chunge in this state of affurs, a number of members of the trade have decided to make another attempt to establish a union, and a meet- ing for that purpose willl be held at 1210 Douglas street on next Thursday night. A Pelican of the Platte, . Field, the well known builder, has elican which has been known to have come to this city. It is on exhibi- tion in the show window of Penrose & Hardin’s, and measures eight feet from tip to tip. Its ugly looking jaw scems cupacious enough to stow away a_bale of hay. The bird was shot near Rogers, about sixty miles out on the Platte. Mr. Morseman’s Purchase. At a meeting of the directors of the Woodman Linseed O1l works held yester- day, Mr. E. M. Morseman, of this city, was duly elected a director of this com pany. Mr. Morseman acquired the stock formerly held by Mr. Lloyd Tevis, of San I'rancisco, THE NEGRO MESSIAH Who Has Thrown the Colored People of the South intoa Frenzy. “‘Yellowstone Kit,” the negro mounte- bank who has startied several southern ies by appearing in the role of the iah and doing works meet for such pretension, is the sensation of the day at Jacksonville, Fla, ‘The colored popu- Ince of the city and suburbs, even for wiles into the country, seemed to be pos- vi s of frenzy over a man who has the reputation ot i sight to the blind, making the walk and curing by the laying on of hands, So far “has this man worked upon these people that he lectures them on their moral duti voting, social conditions, rights and re- ligious beliefs, He harangues violently, with o peculiar flow of words; dresses gorgeously and gives away ols of bread, erackers, meat and dresses to col- ored women and colored servants in ho- tels and families, The latter leave their work undone to such an t, while they hover about the speaking stand,that complaints come in nun usly to the ty authorities on the matter. Sunday zht over 4,000 whites and blacks, many espectable eitizens among the former, were gathered about his” stand, when some one threw a stone, aimed at “Kit,"" but which, striking an clectrie light, de- molished the globe. In an instant a wild uproar followed, people crowded sbout thinking an it was in- on him. Riot was imminent whe came over, but by his loud out- Messiah’ hushed the crowd and had the blacks pletely under control. He lectures in favor of gamblers on coming elections, and is the talk of the day. He f slender build; dark, swarth I cy particularly, fairly b diamonds, The east of wild talk are belief among the colored [wnlrh' that he is “Messinh," as well as his alleged cure. In Key West excitement ran so high that tactions ve formed and B Fla., Bainbridge "and other sections the same ment existed among the colored pe all claiming that he Mesaiah, peculiar ¢ the companies desire to abolish, and sus- tains all the points which they prefer to be continued, For instance, they after prayerful deliberation, that | well and proper to continue to issuc s to members of the legislatur while that body is in session and cun vote for their measures; while it is necessary to call in tho same passes the moment that the legislature adjourns, when it is beyond the power of the member from Cranberry Centre to do them harm. Likewise they discover that the law wiall compel them to put a stop to the sale of all sorts of commutation school and other tickets which they ha long been desirons of abolishing,” while it will force them to raise freight rates all along the line. According to their read- g, the law says turkey for the corpora tion and crow for the public every time Now this sounds first rate, but as chanco will have it there is a commission which will have a thing or two to do iu the premises,and itis just possible that under its rulings the people will now and then sceure a share of the goodies, - NSydney Smith as an Exaggerator. Temple Bar: No man, we think, ever equaled Sydney Smith in the wit of ex travaganza. He understood better than any other the artistic use of exaggera tion. Mere exaggeration is not wit; nor can we lay down any law for making 1t become so. 1t succceds, when it does succeed, not by rule or method, but by a certain natural happy instinet, impossi- ble to analyze, but which acts by intui- It was in this faculty that Sydney Smith excelled all men, We will take a fow examples: *The Scots would have you believe they can fruit; and, to be candid, I must own remarkably warm summers [ have peaches that made most excellent vickles.” Part of the effect of this is due no doubt, to the art with which it 1s ex- pressed—to its air of candid confession, which seems to be yielding the point in favor of the Scots, at the very moment when it tells so judicrously against them. Again: “When so ——— app no garrison horizon is i howy a woman as Mrs. a place, though there is hin twelve miles, the ediately clouded with ase it is not so much aggeration which gives it its as the vrotesquerie of the picture it presents to the mind’s eye. “Such is the horror the French have of our culsine, that at the dinner given in honor of zot, at the Athen- wum, his cook was heard to exclaim, ‘Ah, my poor master, I shall never seé hini again after an Enguish dinner?” " It is, !n haps, scarcely necessary to say that Guizot's cook, of course, never “exclaimed”’ anything of the kind, and that Sydney Smuth invented the whole story. Anda fine exumple of artistic ex- aggeration 1t i —————— ‘Wild Bill's Ace Full, El Paso Cdrrespondence St. Louis Re- publican: “Did you ever hear of Wild Bill's ace fully” asked & local manip- ulator of the cardboards. ‘‘The story mav be old, but it's true. It happenoed in 1876 at Sioux City. Wild Bill had a weakness for poker and knew no mors about it than a baby. The consequence was he was a picnie for the sports, and they fleeced him right and left. He was repeatedly warned that he was being robbed, but he always replied that he was able to take care of himself. One night he sat down to play with a fellow named McDonald, a fine worker and ex- pert. McDonald did as he pleased, and the scout found his pile getting smaller and smaller as the game progressed. As he lost he began to drink, and midnight found him in a stato of intenss but re- ressed excitement, a condition that mado him one of the most dangerous men In the west. Tt was at this juncture that MeDonald, smart gambler as he was, made his mistake. He should haye quit. r. Wild Bill’s apoarent coolness thim. Finally the scout seemed to get an unusual hand and began to bet hil,'fi and heavy. McDonald raised him back every time, until the tov of the table was about out of sight. At last there was acall. ‘I've got three jacks,’ said Mc- Donald, throwing down his hand. ‘I have an ace tull on sixes,’ replied Bill, ‘Ace full on sixesis good,’ snid McDonald coolly, turning over his opponent’s cards, ‘but T sec only two aces and a, six.’ ‘Here's the other six,’suddenly roared Bill, whipping out a navy revolver, ‘and here,’ drawing a bowie knife, ‘is the ong spot.’ “That hand 15 good,” said MeDon= ald blandly, arising; ‘take the pot.’ " Reflections of an Imperial Sportsman Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria, in his new book on “Hupting and Obscrya- i addresses the following remarks modern sportsman. He has been deseribing the scene of one of his sport- expeditions, and continues: **Some- what sadly we looked at the beautiful forest, the mighty river; every one of us would gladly have turned back, once again to penetrate the interesting ro- ions, and to continue as long as possible i changing i different from tho common daily routine. 1t is only on ex- peditions fike thesc that onc begins to understand what 1t means to have real interesting sport. Where hunting has scientific interests, whero it means the exploration of unknown districts, the absenco of all and often the necessity of hi fatiguing work, -it bccomes enjoy- able, and a past-time superior to all others. But except in our glorious Alps there is no such sport to be had in central Europe. In all the cts which have been reached by culture the poor beasts driven into narrow hiding systematically tamed, have most like domestic animals. A d that he carried away $23,000 from Key West. e — The Corporati and the Law. Boston Globe, ludicrous side to the prepara nce with the inter-state 'he great magnates have i numerous meetings to dis- cuss the situation, and in almost every one of thuse thay have devoted the major ortipon of the time to interpretations of the law's provisions. Strange to say, they discover that the statute forbids ail the existing custems and measures which There is tions for compli comfortably arranged sporting expedi- tion, with a large number of attendants, 1 pleasure, because 1t requires no exertion, no work. It is simply a shooting match and an armed walk. ‘Lherefore he who would ve real, manly sport should go to districts where the beasts are still free and untamed— where man has not yet begun to take care of them—to séek sport which re- quires such exertions which not every- body would like to un " e Vacatod. of the general ended to the sce- at suits be insti- Liand Patonts t Commissioner Spar land oflice, has re ry of the interic in the t r Mexico to vacate the patent 1o about 550,000 acres of land i Coiorado and Mexico, alleged to have been orrone- mcluded in the survey and patent of the Tierra Armilla grant d. ' ary, 1881 his recommendat upon a report of Surveyor General Julian ot New Mexico, from which it appears that the patent embraced the common Lands that were loft tree to the public by reservation ot the Mexican government, which, therefore, could not puss under the grant and ation. Ac Muldrow has recom- general that suit he instituted to cancel the vatents for twenty-two hon wl entries made in the township bounded on the east by Raton creek and on the west by Turner's c in the Pueblo (Col.) land district, It is charged that these entries, with one exception, were all made in the names of fietic.ous persons, and that the main por- tions contains the largest and finest coal deposits 1 the southorn Colorado—the coal cropping on the surface. Mention is made of the statement, us signiticant, that E. B. Sopris, the reputed owner of these lands, was, in 1873, a deputy United Statos surveyor, und s such surveyed these lands,but made no meution of their mineral character, . men ——— Fro?luently accidents occur in the household which cause burns,cuts,sprains and bruises; for use in such cases Dr. J H. MoLean's Voicanic. Oil Liniment hag for mwly years becn the constant favor~ e family remedy,