Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 2, 1887, Page 4

4 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY MAY 2. 1887 THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMA OF EUNSORTPTION ¢ Daily Morniar Edition) including Sunday Bre, One Year ¥ Lg10m Yor 8ix Months e ) ¥or Threa Montha . 5 26 | The Omaha Swnday Bee, m | address, One Year. 200 ATIA OPPICE, No. M4 A ML FARVAM STREET. W VORK OPPICK ROOM 5, TRIRUNE BUILDING, ASHINGTON OFPILCE, NO. £1) FOURTEENTS STRELT, CORREEPONDENCE! All communications relating to news and edi- torinl maitor should bo addressod 1o the Eoi- TOR OF THE Lin RUSINEEE LETTERS: remittanees should ba addressed to THE UBLISHING COMPANY, OuanA. Drafts, ch 8 and postofice orders %0 be made payabie to the order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISHING CONPANY, PROPIETORS. E. ROSEWATER, Eprron AN buein THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation, Btate of Nebra: le.w County of Dongins, | % Geo. B, Trechick, secretary of Tho Bea Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual cireniation of the Daily B for the week ending April 20, 1557, was as follows: Saturday, April % Sunday, Avril 24 Tuesday 2 Wednesday, Api Thuraday, A]-ril Friday, April 20 Average.. . 14221 GEO. 5. TZSCIUCK. Subseribed and sworn to before me this 80th day of April, 1557, N, . Fe1t, [SEAL.] Notary Publie. Geo. B. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual average daily circulation of the Daily Bee for the month of April, 1886, 12,101 copies; for May, 1556, 12,439 copies; for June, 1886, 12.208 copies; for July, | 2314 _copies; for August, 156, 12,464 or Septem- ber, 183, 18,050 copies; for October, 1455 12,00 copies; for Novemb 1586, 13, copies; for Dicember, 155, January, 1557, 16,206 copie 1847, 14,108 copies; for Ma copies, Gro. B. Tzsenoex. Subseribed and sworn to before me this 15th day of April, A, D., 187, (SEAL| P. FEir, Notary Public. A\Env;cnul;liénn should see to it that his name is registered. Tux workir;,rrunminfii(jmnha want a man for mayor who is not a born aristo- crat. REPUBLICANS should pay no attention 40 bugbears, and be on the lookout for roorbacks. servant. For ‘‘tried” read ‘‘tired.” Mr. Dailey is awfully tired of doing nothing, —_— Now that Con Gallagher has tagen charge of the postoflice, we will have civil service reform served up on the half shell. Tur office of police judge 1s an im portant one to the public, and should be held only by a man who has had experi ence on the bench, Mgi. ApAM BADRAU is getting himself into considerable trouble by lying about dead men. He should turn his attention to some of the living YouNG blood in polities is a good dning, but it should be pure blood. Bad blood is & dangerous thing in the body politics as well as in the human body. EE—————— Boorn made $27,000 out of his six nights acting in Omaha and Kansas City. In this case Mr. Booth had the gait of both christian, pagun and a real cstate agent, —e TuE papers have given Bill Kassanc, ‘he 'Frisco murderer, a rest. If the New York Chemieal bank preceeds with its action agninst him, he will probably se- cure a longer rest. ——— Poor Gail Hamilton, Already the author of “Siva’s” wonderful produc- tions and the letters of ‘‘Arthur Rich- mond,” and Mr, Blaine's eampaign not yet opened. Alas! And such is fame! Tux St. Louis Globe Democrat claims the honer of having first used the word *boow.” How a St. Louis paper would ever think of such a word in that dead old town makes the G. D.'s claim ques- tionable. SEe—————— ActiNG under the instruction of the secretary of the treasury, custom house oflicials in New York are unwinding ad- dational red tape. The quostions of a custom house officer, generally speaking, are chestnuts. EseT———— Tue talk about Mr. Broatch promising to appoint Pat Hawes or any other law- yer city attorney 1s all bosh. Mr. Broatch knows enough to know that he could not kecp such promises a profound secret for more than tweuty-four hours. examined John L. Sullivan's head to get points on his character. If the professor wanted to feel the bumps he should have exam- incd the heads of men whom John has met durmg the past fow years. S———— It is a settled fact that the next city council will be republiean. If Broatch is elacted mayor the municipal machinery will run on without friction, If Garneau steps into Boyd's shoes there will be 4 continuous dead-lock and the material interests of the city will be sacrificed in the contention between the mayor and eouncil, T Tom DAUEY was a member of the charter committee of fifteen. It is no- torions that as a member of that com- mittee he always voted with Mr, Pop- pleton on every proposition affecting corporation intercsts. He voted against the railroad taxation clause and the pro- position 1o make the railroads pay *for the approaches to viaducts. It is for the taxpayers of Omaha to ssy now whether & man who does mot represent t heir in- terests shall be re-elocted. SEE————— Om10 is prating of its milita. The mobs have always driven the state guards to bay. A week ago the same militia was helpiess before a mob. A few years ago in Hamilton county & mob put a regi- ment to rout and burned the court house. Tho Nebraska milita once killed a harm- less old mnan in Omaha. But since it has becn reorgenizod—with Colonel Buflalo Bill and Major John C. Watson on the stall, nothing less than & flock of tame would put the Nebraska milita to The Ohio milita should lock upon Webraaka and disband. Duasinecas Activity General. The present business presperity is not confined to any particular section or been able to gunide his conduct with ab- solute freedom from the influence of lus military inctinets. Moreover, he socality. Itmay be more marked in somo | is most thoroughly familiar with Mexi- quarters than in others, but reports from all the trade centers show that the sea- gon's business has been exceptionally good, and that the trade movement is r ably well maintained. The time is reached when, of course, a quieter on is to be looked for, but the out- is favorable for a brisker summer business than has been experienced for geveral years, While it is true that country merchants bought very heavily in March, in order to get the benefit of the old freight rates, they have generally found the demand so large that a replen- ishing of stocks is found necessary. 1t is noticeable that the western trade centers are doing better than those of the east, and the teeling of confidance is stronger in the former. Lastweek closed with a firmer feeling in New York than prevailed the previous week, but still the situation in many lines was rather in favor of buyers. In Philadelphia the trade movement improved, and only from Boston among the eastern business cen- tres was {here a report of & dull n k The reports from all western were gratifying. The spring trade of Chicago was almost without a allel in extent in the history of that ci all classes of wholesale merchants report the movement still large. From Mil- wattkee, St. Pa Kansas City, St. Louis, Denver and San Francisco the statemonts are all similar in character and repre- sent an exceptional trade activity. Ex- pressions of dissatisfaction with the operation of the inter-state commerce law continues to be heard, but these are by no means universal with merchants. In some localities they find the law fa- vorable to their business. The wholesale merchants of Omaha are share of the general prosperity. some branches the increase of business over any former year is stated to be from 80 to 060 per cent, and thereis a steady growth. 1tis interesting to note that from no pownt is the report of the trade movement more satisfactory than from this ecity. There were fewer failures throughout the coun- try last week than for the previous week, or for the corresponding week of last year. A great deal of money is still going into real estate, east, south and west. In look Boston and Philadelphia the present spring has developed a marked activity in the real estate market and building. The southern boom, except at two or three points, appears to be receding. In the west, however, it is well maintained. A comparison of prices continues to show largely in favor of Omaha for pur- poses of investment. The vrobable duration of this gratify- ing condition eannot of course be deter- mined. [f it follows the cconomic law to which theve have been rare exceptions the reaction is mnot to be appre- hended for at least two, and possibly three years. It may be hastened by an excessive speculation under which all branches of industry and business would be unnaturally expanded, and from this cause its effects might be rendered ex- ceptionally disastrous. These consider- ations suggest a wise degroe of caution. A tendency to move or loss reckless ex- travagance, affecting every department of business and eyery grade of society, seems to be 1nseparable from a general and rapidly-ndvancing prosperity. It may not yet have beon manifested in the present improved industrial and busi- ness condition of the country. But there is danger now, as there alwaysis wm simi- lar circumstances, that it will be. An injunction to prudence and circumspec- tion, so that the gains of the present shall not become the losses of the future, may therefore be timely. TTe———— The Mexican Urisis. The republic of Mexico is approaching a political crisis, the throbbing of which are already bemng felt there, that may have a good deal of interest for the American people. Within a few years a large amount of American capital has found investment in Mexico, and in the security of which greatly depends upon the orderly and peaceful progress of political events in that country. In ad- dition to this the internatioual relations of Mexico and the United States, new entirely friendly, are of importance as affecting commercial arrangements ex- isting or hereafter to be established be- tween the two countries. Radical pol- itical changes mught seriously disturb these relations. The present government of Mexico is well disposed, assuming the sincerity of the assuranoes very recently given in his annual message to congress by President Dias, toward the pco- ple and the government of the United States, American interests as related to Mexico would doubtless be most surely promoted and conserved if tho present government of that country were kept in power. Whether it shall be or not is the issue the Mexican people are now facing with a great deal of uneasiness. The consti- tution of Mexico fixes the presidential term at four ycars, and provides that no president shall be his own suoccessor. This provision was engrafted upon the fundamental law at the instance of Diaz, who, after its adoption, was chosen to the presidency, and retired at the end of fonr years, being succeeded by Gonzales. At the expiration of the latter's term, in 1881, Diaz was again elected president, his present term running until October, 1888, The president's party, which is in the majority in the congress, and doubt- less also in the country, now proposes to repeal the constitutional provision relat- ing to the presidential succession, so that Diaz may be re-elected, which he un- questionably desires. Against this there isarrayed a considerable party whose leader was the late Gemeral Cadena. The party supporting the president point tothe great success of his adminis- tration in promoting the material wel- fare of Mexico, and justify their pro- posed action with the argument that to insnre continuanee of the rapid progress which Mexico is now making there must be no change of presidents. The oppo- sition to Diaz denounce his ent as Cmsarism, and arraign him for bav- g in many ways violated the eonstitu- tion, trodden upon the rights of the states and the people, and otherwise proved himself as much of a tyrant as it may be possible for the president of a re- public to be. Itis mot questionable that Diax has governed with a strong hand. Ho was » trained aud succeastul soldier, and in civil aflairs he bas. undoubtedly not can character, and knows the value and necessity of strong measures to keep it in control. He has dealt more success- fully with atterapted revolutions than any other man of his time, and is held in wholesome fear by those who, from per- sonal ambition er some other motive, would vromote sedition and disorder, But on the other hand, there ean be no question that he earnestly desires to pro- mote the prosperity and welfare of the country, which certainly have materially advanced under his administration, He has established foreign confidence in Mexico and greatly improved the credit of the country, which unquestionably stands better to-day before the world than ever before. This gives him a claim upon forcign influence which is being used to his advantage. The con- test of the parties is very earnest, and the result will have an interest beyond the boundaries of Mexico. The indica- tions are favorable to the success of the Diaz party. ~ Unkind Cuts, That was the unkindest cut of all. refer to the cut or rather cuts in day'’s issue of the democratic organ. Mr. Garneau looks for all the world like a bottle-searred vetoran of the ecri- mean war, His father would not recog- nize him by that likeness. Louie Schroe- der’s picture will be taken readily by the Omaha acquaintances of Stanley Afri- canus as a fair bust of the discoverer of Livingstone. The artist must have copied a photo of Freight Commissioner Grifliths which he palms off for a picture of Charley Goodrich, The sad and woe- ful countenance of the late Governor Dawes is made to do service for the like- ness to Reed, the democratic candidate for police judge. We do like enterprise but these cuts are altogether too artistic. We Sun- Tre admirable letter of President Cleveland to the secretary of the interior, relative to the conflicting claims of Mil- ler and the Northern Pacific railroad to a tract of land occupied hy the former in Washington territory, is said to have caused some ill-feeling in the cabinet. The gentleman whose sensitivencss has been most severely wounded is said to be Attorney General Garland, whose opin- ion upon the legal aspects of the case, sustaining the claim of the railroad, failed to impress the mind ot the presi- dent as sound. Annoyed by the con- tumely heaped upon him, Garland vlucked up courage to say to an inter- viewer that the course taken by the presi- dent was really due to him, he having suggested to Mr. Cleveland that as presi- dent he should direct the seeretary of the interior to let Miller keep s farm and direct the rairoad to select unoccupied lands for indemnity. It 18 untortunate for this claim of Mr. Garland that public distrust of him is 8o great that very few will believe his statement, while 1f found to be true, not many would give him credit for honestly wishing to help the settler against the corporation. Tue Springficld, Massachusetts, Re- publican, writing upon the subject of legislative lobby, says: *The lobby and its operations is a matter dimly under- stood and too little feared,”” It may be down 1n the old Bay state, that the cor- rupting influence of disreputable lobby- ists has just shown itself, but here in Nebraska the people are famihiar with the dishonest methads by which design- ing jobbers push through unpopular meas- ures. The drunken and dishonest gang, composed of notorious and unprincipled railrogues which stormed the capital the past winter, succeeded not only in mak- ing itself disgusting and odious to honest men, but also carried all the measures planned by the more dishonest scamps who hold respectable positions in rail- wayjcircles and who look to the lower strata of the lobby to carry out their ne- farious ends. It will be regarded as the dawning of a new era when a legislature is allowed to escape from the poisonous effects of unprincipled scallawags and bummers, who are retained on railroad pay rolls, in order to breathe con- tamination on a body of honest men once 1n tWo years. E— THE state of Ohio grew jealous, it seems, of Sioux City's Haddock murder case. At any rate Dr. W, T. Northup, a prominent physician at Haverhill, in the eastern part of Scioto county, was re- cently murdered by Thomas McCoy, a saloon-keeper, and his brother Alfred, the postmnster at Haverhill, aided by the two sons of Alfred McCoy. Dr. Northup had ineurred the displeasure of the McCoys by being active in favor of local option. The trial promises to be long and ted- fous. It is hoped the evidence will be more satisfactory in the Ohio case than in the Iowa tragedy. Tur Michigan Central railroad has expressed itself through President Led- yard who says thcy cannot soll a com- mercial travellers ticket for less than $25 on 1,000 mile mileage books. Other Michigan roads grant the two cent rate, but President Ledyard says such is dis- crimination, and as there are 2,500 travel- ing men in Detroitit is plain why the road hotds out. The inter-state law_will never be condemned if people can only be taught to comprehend that railroads are interpreting it wrongfully, with the view of ita early repeal. o——— WicniTa, Kansas, furnishes the best 1lustration of a “‘town gone wild on a boom in the United States. **Desirable corner lots” in seven-mile-away addi- tions are being purchased at almost fab- ulous prices by the eastern greenhorn. There are many single buildings in Omuha containing more bricks than were used in building the entire “city’’ of Wichuta, The bottom will fall out of that town one of the days this spring—and fools who have bought long on remote corner lots will be employing cheap boys to kick them over t! wvortions of the town. Mx. BrRoATCH 15 entatled to the support of reputable and law-abiding citizens of all parties for the enemies he has made. The keepers of low dives and dens are united against him. They open.y say that Garneau is their friend, and they propose to make bim mayor at all has- ee— KEkp the corporation employes out of the conncil. A man cannot serve two masters. Nine times out of ten when- ever the fssue comes between a man's corporate employers and his duty to the people he will vote with his employers. It was so with Garvey, Knox and Young in the last legislatare. It has becn so with Daily and other railroad council- men. If workingmen want representa- tion they should support as their choice men who do not wear the brass collar, ————— Ax exchange says, “Whether Shakes- peare wrote the plays eredited to him, or whether he didn't, this fact is patent— the man calling himself Shakespeare wrote upon all subjects.” The exchange should look again. Mr. Shakespeare tor- got, it scems, to say anything upon the long and short haul subject, It is just possible, however, that Mr. Shakes- peare's pass was not 11 15 now reported that Mrs. Cleveland last wore an unbecoming hat, a black straw turban, covered with black velvet and black pompons, two stiff feathers and two bunches of black chenille upon tiny sticks. The fishing season will soon be on, and we will hear more about Dan and Grover, There is a season for all things, as Mr. Solomon has said. IN this age ot wonderful discoveries and enterprises, nothing soems impos. sible. The great Sphinx has been re- vealed, the sand of Egypts desert having been thrown aside. Up to this time, however, it has been impossible to veal how much boodle boouling mem- bers of the judiciary committee received from Neb Mucn depends upon the next city council. The twelve men to be clected to the council next Tuesday will control our municipal affairs for the next three years. Every voter, whether he is o property owner or not, has a vital inter- est in the election of honest and com- petent men to the council. ENA i Vest, the Missouri monument of clear-cut bourbon demo- cracy, is determined to keep before the people. Each day, here of late, ho au- thoritatively announces that Cleve will not run for the second term. Like the parrot, Mr. Vest talks too much. porary, Mr. Daily has made a record which entitles him to a third term in the council. Now we should like to know what Mr. Daily has done, except voting for every ordinance in the interests of his corporate employe: Don'r fail to register before Monday noon. Every citizen whose name is not on the register will lose his vote, unless he can swear that he has been unable to register by reuson of sickness or absence from the city. STATE AND RRILORY. Nebraska Jottings, Kearney will bore for gas. The Wahoo creamery is completed and ready for business. The school census gives Lincoln a population of 39,310. Tekamah is quietly debating the sub- ject of bonds for waterworks. 2 A Schuyler youth with more howels than brains ate thirty-two bananas on a wager. The Milwaunkee & St. Paul railroad sur- veyors are viewing the lay of the land in Holt county, Miss Vanie Fulmer, of Schuyler, was caressed by an _unmanageable horse and had ene rib broken. Blair, Kennard and Arlington propose to give Fremont a_lively whirl for the trade of the Elkhorn "valley. Boycott ‘em. y As an evidence of dramatic growth on the frontier, Ainsworth has inyested $300 in scenery and joined the circuit of barn- stormers. ‘Ihe Masons of Arlington dedicated a new hall last week. Delegations from Omaha, Blair, Fremont and™ West Point were present. Joseph Lefiler, a farm hand in Saun- ders county, fell aead while harrowing a field near Wahoo, Friday afternoon. Heart disense. i The Dundy County Pioncer celebrates its third annual with an extensive write up of the surrounding country and its business men. A furious prairie fire blackened a large section of country south of Ainsworfln, but was knocked out by a timely shower before much damage was done. The Norfolk Gazette has turned out its tiny toes. The scarcity of democratic readers and an over due mortgage pro- duced congestion of the financial thorax. Arapahoe is the headquarters of a gang of watch swindlers. They are stem- winders as well as their goods, and drive a profitable business among the timeless fools in the neighborhood. Arapahoe had another destructive fire last week, during whieh four horses were cremated. ‘The principal loser was Ed Haymaker. A few more fires like the last will probably induce the mossback residents to invest in a system of fire pro- tection, . Otoe county 1s developing another Shellenberger. His name is Joe Brand, and he is cursed with the cowardly habit of cruelly beating his sixteen-year-old daughter on the shghtest l;mvocatmn. His neighbors threaten to ride him out of town on & rail. - “‘Is the story straight?”’ Shouts thein- teriocutor of "the Nebraska City Press, referring to Manager Clark's statement that the Missouri Pacific railroad will locate shops in Omaba. Come up and see, my boy, and # bath in sulphur springs will banish ull doubts from your mind as well as rheumatism from your limbs. Harry Ingalls, a typve sticker from Omaha, after a probationary season as ‘‘chief localist” on the O'Neill Tribune, has launched the Shamrock Picking in a thriving young towsi in Holt county. Harry possesses the ability and experi ence to make a sucepsaful publisher, and the residents of Shumrock should give him prompt and generous support. Among tho arrivals at the Genoa Indian school recently were a man and wife married Indian style in their teepees in Wyoming. To ¢onform to the civil- ized rules of the school they were mar- ried by a minister last Thursday. The ceremony was particularly impressive and conveyed to thie young children of the plains the full import of the act. An Oakdale lunatic named Muggen- burg, in the town jail, mounted the col- lar of Harvey Barous and led him mna hively dance.” With a No. 12 cowhide h, turned a tasty double shufile on Harvey's , The cotillion was getting one sided when Ed St: s tripped in. Mug- E::znr. embraced him at ence, tied a kerohiof about his neck and nearly Sow saloping e reedom ‘ot 4 separats now e! a separal room snd' a straight jacket. Railroad wreckers and horse-thieves are heing rushed to the penitentiary at a lively rate. Following oclosely on the trail'of Hofiman and Bell in Otoe county, comes the Union Pacific wreckers from Columbus. It will require seven years for Heldt to pay the penaity of his folly. Bowman, the survivor of a horsa raid mear Valentine; goes up for soug term of years, followed by Alyah Beeman fora similar offense near Hartington. The climafe of Nebraska is gotting deliciously tropical for the read agents. The encrgetic botter-half ot P. F. O'Sullivan, ex-editor of the Progress, has been appointed postmistress of West Point. ~ The friends of Pete in both parties, and they ave legion, will rejoice at this late recognition of faithful and pioneer work in Cuming county. The democracy has no representative truer than he, and the farmers and working people lost a staunch and zealous advo- oate of their rights when he retired from the Progre Mrs. O'Sulliy every qualification necessary to su fully manage the business of Uncle Sam in West Point. A rank instance of wedding bliss turned to blisters is made public in S ward county, H. ¥. Maynard decla that Lisette Maynard wants all I worldly goods. Heo is willing to give h all the law allows. “I married her, Henry confesses in a public notice, June 15, 1854, and for the tirst three yer she done well enough, and [ might hs been well fixed hud sho not always worked against my interest and quar: reled with me, even to flourishing a butcher knife in my face. My father gave me a farm, a span of good horses and money besides, while her father gave her a bob-tail cow when she was married, and willed her $5 in 1882, 1 cannot live with that woman, and for that reason I don't want her, lowa ltems, The state treasurer of the Irish National league collected $3,813.00 last year. The county superintendent’s conven- tion at Waterloo has been adjourned to May 24, The fifty hydrants of the city of Cres- ton have been located and active work on the plant will commence in a week. The Sioux City driving park associa- tion hasfiled articles of incorporation with the auditor of state; capital stock, $25,000. It has recently been discovered that the hard winter has killed all the blac berry bushes so extensively cultivated Delaware. The state railroad commission has finalty decided the union depot site ques- tion at Ottumwa, and the building will be erected at once, The immense shops of the Chicago, Builington & Quiney road at Lefller, just nd the corporate limits of Burling- ton, occupy about forty acres and cost a half a million in money. Della Blair, the seven-year-old daugh- ter of Lafe Blair, living near Newton, Jasper county, was horribly burned last week by her “clothing catching fire from a brush heap, around which sho had been playing. Hopes are entertained of her recovery. Next Wednesday has boen set apart for the observance of prayer for the repose of the soul of Rev. Father Weymann, at Carroll. Over fitty priests are expected to attend from abroad. A novel feature of the ceremony will be an address by ther August Polton, colored, who His remarks will A farmer living near Mt. Pleasant found six of his neighbor’s horses in his pasture. He stretched a barbed wire along a portion of the fence and forced the poor brutes through it, The fence was carried quite a distance by the barbs sticking in the flesh of the horses, li ally tearing their skin and flesh into shreds. Much against the better {udg- ment of the neighbors the fiend still en- joys hfe, liberty and the pursuit of hap- piness. Dakota. Fargo will go down 2,000 feet for nat- ural gu Miller’s artesian well flows 1,000 gal- lons a minute. Yankton business men are trying to work up a boom. on Junction is well fixed with a ry and cheese factory. Sioux Falls will be required to pay a bonus of $30,000 to get the Duluth road. The Chi; , St. Paul & Milwaukee track expects to reach Miller by Au- gust 1. The Deadwood Times makes this pro- vhetic allusion: By way of caution we will state that the late fall of snow, wet as it is, will all go into the ground where it lies, unless a rainstorm should set in., I'ms snow will make water and the water will go down into the ground. Two young ladies of Rapid City be- came ex , erated, wearisome and sieepy over the nightly howlings of a couple ot dogs belonging to the chief of police of that bumane hamlet, and rising and dressing at 2 o’clock in the morning, they marched forth with axes and bat- tered down the pen in which the brutes were imprisoned, They forgot to hit the brass-buttoned oflicer one for luck, e pid Fransit, San Franciseo Chronicle, George W. Pullman, of palace car fame, and Charles Francis Adams, of the Union Pacific raitroad company, have put thewr heads together and devised what they call the *‘Asiatic Limited Ex- press.” Their p!anisto carry passen- gers from Liverpool or Havre to Yoko- hawa or Canton inside of a month, and with but two changes of conveyance— one from steamer to rail at New York and the other from rail to steamer in San Francisco. These trams are to be made up on the Jersey City wharf and to come across the continent in 100 hours. They are to run weekly or fortnightly, as may be thought best. The question wiich chiefly concerns us is the shortening of the time between New York and San Francisco, The schedule time now by the Central Pacifie, Union Pacitic and eastern roads is six days. By the Asiatic Limited it will be shortened to four days and four hours. ‘The question will then arise: If so great a reduction in time can be made once a week or once in two weeks, why cannot the time be shortened e dayt Even if it were lessened only twenty-four hours, it would be & decided gain, for most people going east or coming west are desirous of reaching their destination as soon as possible. There have been several propositions for shortening the time of the trip, but for one reason or another they have all fallen through. Sometimes the diffi- L of Chicago, sometimes be- 0o and Omaha, and some- re else; but it was always somewhere. Now if it is dewonstruted that the overland journey can be made on this short schedule the people of this coast will have a right to insist that & re- duction in time shall be made for their benefit as well as for the comparatively few passengers going to Japan and China. At any rate, if the new timo table i once established, it will result in dimin- ishing the time for the regular trips, as otherwise the Asiatic limited will carr] the greater part of the passengers boun for California, and those bound east as well. Most people would prefer to wait a week for the sake of avoiding sn extra day or two on the road, and vatural consequence will be that the fast trains will be packed full and the siow ones will go empty. The trains will have to run daily as at present, for mail contracts and the like will compe! the running of trains every day; 80, unless the time is shortened on the daily trips thore will be one enormously heavy train each week and six very [ight ones. We hope Adums and Pullman wil! sue- ceed 1 starting the Asiatic Limited, as the necessary cffect must be to give more rapid tranmi across the continent for all who have to mahe the journev- SUN-STRICKEN SUFFERERS. Three Gold Hunters Left to Perish on a Trackless Desert. “MEXICAN JOE'S" Throe Days Without Water--Thrilling Tale of Southwestern Advent Rescued by Custom House Men ~—A Faithfal Dog. MALIGNITY, New York Sun: No mortal being, un- less he has travelled the length and breadth of Mexico within the past six months, can form any correct idea of the widespread drought which has prevailed there. The tourist over the Mexico Cen- tral ralrond has, of course, looked out on each side of the roadway uson the vast dusty plains that stretch into the dim norizon, or end abruptly at the base of the voleanic rock ranges. He did not know, however, that the deop dry basins from which he saw the dust wreathing in columns as smoke from huge caldrons were the beds of Inrge ponds, which here- tofore at this scason have been many feet deep with water, and covered with every variety of acquatic wild fowl; that the banks of the acequias, which irrigate the large ranches, no longer were strewn with the golden leaves of the cottonwood, remmding one of Tom Tiddler’s ground; that these ditches were as dry and parched as the bleacked bones of the cat- tle strewn in the mesquite brush; that the century plants and Spanish daggers were of a paler green, and that even the gr burning boulders in the arroyos seemed with all nature to pant for moisture. Last year these now grassless plains were dotted with large bands of antelope and tracked by myriads of quail. Now, no game can be scen far or near, for what has not perished has migrated long since to the ever watered districts. This direful condition has necessarily been destructive tothe stock, and made the lives of the rancheros a burden of make- shifts and disappointments, A STORY OF GOLD. It was carly in the drought that Mexi- can Joe, a restless wanderer on the plain on_ the northeast part of the state of Chihuahua, eame to El Paso, Texas, with story of a gold find that sot the three listeners to whom he confided his seeret, wild with the most hopeful anticipations. He told of a spot far out on a forty-mile wide desert where the sand was mixed with gold dust, and of which no one knew the existence but himself, To no better subjects could he have told his tory f dence, for all of them had ed with the prospectin, and mining fever from their childnood. The dust, he said, was rich; indeed, the specimens he showed were of an extraordinary character. He added that the gold sixty miles from water, thus showing ‘the necessity of carrying water in great quantity on the suggested prospecting tour, It took the party a w to it out, and then it started from El Paso. The outfit con- sisted of an mteiligent Cahfornia mining expert, an Paso merchant, and a man called 5 Joe, 'I'hef' had a good team of horses hitched to a long box wagon, and three bronchos to ride. The prepur- ations for the trip had created some cur osity, and it took the party several day: to dodge the men who were found lowing them. It occupied over a to reach San Antonio Springs, THE WATER BARRELS AND CANTEENS were filled before entering the' desort. On the evening of the second day out from the springs the party made a dry camp at a promontory of rocks which jutted out into the burning desert. Up to this time Mexican Joe, the guide, had refused to say anything, exceptn a gen- cral way, as to the location of the gold. Now, he told the party that it lay twenty miles out in the desert from the point of rocks. He proposed that, as the conntry was rough, the muner, merchant, and Swiss Joe, should ride to the spot in tho morning d collect what specimens they pleased; that he should drive north along the base of the rocky range to an- other point of rocks, which he pointed out, and that the party should cut across the desert from the gold fidd and meet him the In other words, he was to drive along one side of a triangle while the miner and partners were to travel the two other sides. All this was agreed to., Shortly after sunrise the next morning the trio “started out, tull of hope and courage. What little wind there was cawe from behind, and the dust nearly choked them. The glare of the sun on the sand was almost blinding. It was noon before the party reached the spot where the gold was said to be, A few minutes’ hunt convinced them that all Mexioan Joe had said about its abund. ance was true. The sand, as far as could be judged without an assay, was rich. Several hours were pussed in collecting specimens, and then the party started buck to meet the wagon. Knowing they had a sufticient supply of water in tho barrels in the wagon, the horses had been liberally watered from the can teens, and the party had drank freely This had nearly exhausted the supply with them. It was night when they reached the point where they iad agreed to meet the wagon, BUT NO WAGON WAS IN SIGAT. It was subsequently learned that Mexican Joe had at the last moment repentod of telling the secret of the gold, und that he had become suspicious of his partners, fearing thoy would leave him out in the oold and defraud him of his share. This foar moyed him so suddenly and strongly that in a moment of regret and despair he determined to leave his partners to a horrible fate out on the waterless desert. Then again he would be the only owner of the seeret of the gold dust. He there- tore turned his back upon the meeting place, and took the trail back to San Antonio Springs. 1t is not diflicult to imagine the feel- ings of the three men when they found that the wagon was not at the agreed meeting place, Numerous were the con- ectures why it was not there. No one clieved that Mexican Joe had lost his way, for the trail was too pluin sailing, and the point of rocks where they were to meet never out of sight,” They thought perhaps that the smugglers who skirt the desert had followed the wagon trail and murdered their guide; that some poisonous snake had killed him; that he had been taken suddenly ill; in fact, they conjured up cvery reason for his absence but the right ove. That they never ounce thought of. They cursed their ill luck, as well they might, for their position was a very desperate one. They were ninety miles from water, un- der a burving, sun, and scarcely a cupful left in the thi canteens. Besides they had nothing to est but two small tor- tillas. The miner, who wasawan of considerable AND ENEERGY, otlast said: *“There is nothing for it bu aloas far as possible to-night,)’ and the gy started on their almost hopcless oYrtnev ncross the yast plain. After 0ing thirl( wmiles the hronchos, which fi.d up to that time been led, were unsad- ded and bridled, and left to find their vay to water if they could, When morn- the party sat down to rest. ded the tortillas equally, ana onelt took a sip of water. ‘They had gone abont forty miles, i SUN WS NOW 80 hot it was decided that it wus belter to | wait until evening beforo resuming their journey. After nightfall the party strag- giod onward. Twenty-tive miles wore ac- complished, but the pangs of thirst were terrible. The merchant's tongue began to swell and oraek. The miner could only speak in whispers, and Swiss Joe was tho picture of stoic despair, All three were very much chafed and foot-sore; but the merchant’s feet were covered with blis- ters, the soles of bis light shecs having been torn off from travelling on the rough ground, On the morning of the second day the vparty staggered blindly onward. Occasionally they would sink down on the burning sand to rest, only, however, to get up again a moment Iater, as the thought of perishing thero rose before them, On that day and the third night they traveled twenty miles and were now but five miles from water, But these miles seemed { they were a thousand. The merchant's tongue now filled his mouth and throat, and. threat: ened to choke nim. Swiss Joe could erawl, His eyes were blood- shot and he was out of his mind. The miner could not spoak. He would stag- 1:<-r ten foet and then fall backward. On )ecoming conscious ho wonld ercep under a cactus for shade The party made one mile in seven and onc-hait hours, when, by the merest chance, they were found by a body of Mexican custom house guards, ‘The three gold hunters were taken t camp some miles off, where they st until able to return to El Paso, ] miner, who suffered the most, said that on the third day he thought he was walk- ing through fire, and that when he lay down in the shade of the cacti he could hear running water and see a table cov- cred with smoking dishes and iced wines, over which a little Mexican dog kept guard and would not let lnm touch an thing. The suflerings of the party were 20 great that not one of them since has even suggested getting the gold, which they know is a reality, It wassome ti before anything was heard of Moexica Joe. Heis now said to be in Sonora. i criticising {he conduct of cortain registrars the Brer found fault with the registrar of the Iirst district of the Third ward, Persons who claim to know what they are talking about maintain that the information given the Beg regarding this registrar was inc ot, and that ho is a very careful, impart and painstaking man. o S———r 3 MOST PERFECT MADR Prej Mwlmmdwmmxmn and Hoalthfalnoos. Dr. Price's Baking coataing 0 Amimon um or Phosphates. Dr. Price's .y lavos dolioloaaly. 0y, oMafiA. »E " | Arrive T Leave Owaha | Omaba — Bt UNION PACIFIC, Depot 10th and Pierce sts. Expre: 7:50 am' 8:20 pm 20 pm 10:55 am 00am; 5:05 pm r_Kxpres *Local Express *Except Sun B. & s R. R. R. Depot 10th and Pacilic sts. Mailand Express. . d 5:45 pm 10:00 ain Night Express. .. 10:00 am 7:45 pm Mall ang Expre Chicago Expross. K, C.8t. J. & C. B. Depot 10th and Pacitc st ail.... C. 8t. P. M, & O. Depot15th and Webster st. Sioux City Kxp! 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