Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 6, 1887, Page 4

'THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY. MAY 6. 1887, O —————————————————————————————————————— S——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— e THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERVE OF SUBSCRIPTION ¢ Daily Mornlag Bdition) including Bunday Bir, One Year. . . For 8(x Months.... ¥or Throo Montha Tue Omaha Su diess, Une MATIA OPPICR, NO. 914 AND 918 FARNAM STREFT. Npw YORK OPFICE, Roow 6, TRINCNE BULDING. ASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. 513 FOURTESNTII STRERT. All communioations relating to news and edl- torial matter should be wddressed w0 the Evi- TOR OF TiE BRE. RUSINESS LETTERS? All business lottors and remittancos should be addrossod to Titk BEw PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAMA. Drafts, chooks and postofice orders to be made payable t0 the order of the compuny, THE BEE PUBLISHING CONPANY, PROPRIETORS, F. ROSEWATER, Epitor. THE DAILY BEE. SBworn Statement of Oirculation. Btate of Nebraska, }! a ummir of Douzlas. {5 Geo. B, ‘I'zschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing mln!mny, does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of the Daily Bee for the k ending April 20, 1857, was as follow; Saturday, April 23. Sunda il 24. ‘Monday, April? Tusday, April 20 Wednesday. April ‘Thursday, April 28, Friday, April 20. AVErage....oeiueans Gro, 8. T Subseribed and sworn to befor 80th day of April, 1857, N. P. Feir, SEAL.) Notary Pubiic. Geo. B, Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that thie actual avernge daily circulation 'of tho Daily Beo for the month of April, 158, 12,191 copies: for May, 158, 12,439 copies; for June, 1850, 13208 copless for July,' 18 314 _copies; for August, 1556, 12,464 coples; for Septem” be 5, 18,080 copies; for October, 1558, 49 copies for November, 1586, 5,48 coples; for Decembor, 185, 13,337 copies January, 1857, 16,260 coples: for February, 1857, 14,105 coples; for March, 1857, 14,400 copies. “for Gro. B, Tzscnuek. Subseribed and sworn to before me this 15th day of April, A, D., 1857, (SEAL.| '~ 'N.P. Frr, Notary Public. Tie senatorial struggle still Zoes on i Florida. Jones had a better thing than he thought for, if he had only pos- sessed sense enough to have neld it. Tue French crties think that the American artists make a poor showing inthe salon this year. The saloon is perhaps the place where the American artists make a better showing. A pArLy newspaper started in New York city devoted exclusively to base ball news, has suspended. Its editor probably grew disgusted uvon reading the reports from the Lincoln and Omaha on has gone ag far south as New Orleans. 1t is now in Memphis. When it returns there is every indication that it will know le about its duties than when it left Wash- ington, —_— Tk appearance of the star of Bethle- hem is expeeted at any moment, accord- ing to astronomers. A few of the demo- cratic candidatos saw the historic star and all others of the planetary system, Tuesday. NOTWITHSTANDING Governor Larra- bee’s assurance that prohibition is work- ing “like a charm” in Iowa, the Dubuque city council has licensed saloons at $100 each. Under Nebraska's excellent high license law, saloons pay $1,000 a year, E———— Wit an organized mob waiting to hang a negro for brutally assawlting a young girl, and after appearing at the jail, disbanding, it really looks as though Mr. Watterson's star-eyed goddess yet wielded an intluence over bourbon Louisville. E— ‘e Brooklyn Citizen thinks ‘it is about time to have the question answered, ‘Is Mr. Charles A, Dana the democratic party of the United States?’” Since Mr. McBhane failea to elect Garnean, we feel that it is our duty to inform the Citizen that he 1s. ACCORDING to the sober information of & southern paper, Jetf Davis was born on the 81st of June. Accordingly, the event will bo celebrated, It would have been a blessing to the country if the day had been the 33, which, up to the present tume, has not come round on the June calendar, IN Japan the marriage ceremony con- sumcs three wecks. The almond-eyed Japs could not very successfully imitate the American millionaire daughter and impecunions coachman with the irate father just three miles from the parsonage when the knot is tied, — Ir the inter-state law holds out, next season the Uncle Tom’s Cabin compa- nies will add more donkeys. The mem- bers of the company will then ride from town to town seated astride the sacred animals. In this case a long or short haul will make no ditference, after the mem- bers get used to it EEEEEp—— TuoSE who have been laboring under the impression that St. Louis was & dead old town, are very much mistaken, as this item from her representative paper, the Republican, witnesses: “One hun- ared and seven gentlemen aund ladies who assimilated too much buck beer on Suuday paid three hundred and twenty- one dollars into the city treasury Mon- day and swore off on Tuesday.’” aEmeTm———— HowEevER favorable may be the anti- German feeling of the French people so long as it takes a political direction only, when it savagely expresses itself in oppo- sition to art because such art is German in its characteristics it becomes ridicu- lous, to say the least. The popular demonstrations in Paris agamst tho opera of “Lohengrin” will give no addi- tional eredit to French patriotism, but must lessen the world’s estimate of the common sense of the French people. —— A MISSIONARY who has returned from Africa eays that when the natives are taught to read and write they become unfit for any manual occupation. They consider thomseclves a8 good as a white man, and think it undignilied to toil, and when not engaged in holding large and nolay prayer meetings, at which every maa wants to take histurn at preaching, they beg their hving, It will oot be long, at this rate, until the heathen s Americanized. An Interesting Contest. The trial in progress at Buffalo of prominent Standard Oil men, charged with conspiracy, possesses more than a Jocal interest. The alleged conspirs consists in the charge that one M who was employed in 1881 &s superin- tendent in the construction of the works of the Buffalo Lubricating Oil company, bribed by the Standard people—who had been unable to buy or freeze out the Buffalo company—to so construct the works that in case of an explosion and fire in the still house the whole plant would be destroyed. Miller alloges that he one day built an extra under onc of the stills and weighed and sealed the safety valve. He then took refuge in the Standard works near by to watch the re- sults. Theintended explosion took place, but the wind not being in a favor- able direction the fire was not communi- cated to the works. Thereafter Miller became the object of great care and solicitude on the part of the Standard people. He traveled, so it is sad, all over the country at the expense of the great monopoly, received large money for doing nothing, and for several years lived in idleness and luxury. Growing apprebensive the Standard people en- deavored to induce him to go to South America, offering to provide him with business there at a fabulous salary. It seems they finally grew tired of the load they were carrying and dropped it, whereupon Miller disclosed to the presi- dent of the Buffalo company, who had entertained a suspicien and been watch- ing him, the statements upon which the conspiracy indictment received. Many more cqually facts aro promised s the trial progresses. It is altogether a very remarkable case, involving as it does several of the wealthiest and most respected men in Buffalo, and incident- ally the whole Standara company. Meanwile a formidable war on the Standard has been declared by the oil producers of Pennsylvania, who ha organized a perm2nent union to protect their interests against the despoiling schemes of the greedy monopoly. A ‘e meeting of producers was held at adford on last Monday, and another at Harrisburg yestcrday, to organize for the war, which is to be wuged relent- lessly. The Standard Oil company has grown, by methods the most heartless and disreputable, to be the most formidable giant of monopoly this or any other country has ever known. It has for years seemed to be invincible, and indeed has been practically so. But there is very great probability that a vhange is at hand that will bring a repression to the greed and a limitation to the pernicious power of this unscrupulous corporation. Tenacious Bourbonism. The democratic party of Kentucky clings to bourbohism with remarkable tenacity. 1t is perfectly satistied with the past, and has no toleration for new- fangled notions. With Mr. Watterson as its “‘guide, philosopher and friend," it proposes to run right along in the old beaten path, asserting and maintaining the Kentucky *“idea” to the end of time. Mr. Watterson’s explanation of this idea is rhetorically fine, but not sufliciently explicit. In the simplest language it is to put the state before the nation and to make spoils the chief end of political success. It is an idea which in part the democrats of some of the southern states have shown a wise disposition to abandon, but which those of Kentucky, who did not have quite so bitler an experience as some others, seem to be as ardently wedded to as ever, That portion of the platform reported to the convention Wednesday which ful- somely endorses the administration of President Cleveland is insincere except in reference to his veto of pension bills. There can be no question that in such action he touched a responsive chord in the hearts of Kentucky democrats. But m the main the administration is not ap- proved by the democratic leaders in that part of the state. Mr. Watterson him- self has been railing at it for two years, on various grounds. Senator Beck has been one of the foremost opponents of its financial policy. Mr. Carlisle has not been explosively friendly to it, although as a discreet politician he has been in- dulgent and avoided criticism. A few days before the convention meta promi- nent democratic leader, Judge Fleming, stated the true sitnation in this way: ““We are willing to go on record as dia- metrically opposed to the president on Ius currency and civil service policy, yet we feel that the party cannot afford to throw him overboard. He is the only available man it has.” This was honest, and reflocts the real democratic senti- ment of Kentucky, Tho same authority dropped another fact which may explain the cordial attitude of Mr. Carlisle to- ward the administration, namely,that the gentleman will be vigorously pushed for the sccond place in the next democratic presidential convention. In a number of other states Mr. Cleveland will in due time be endorsed by the democracy be- cause it believes him to be ‘‘the only availablo man it has.” em———— In the Mield of Labor. The present spring has disclosed a good deal of dissatisfaction in the ranks of labor, and strikes have been wide- spread, some of them on a large scale. Many are now in progress. The most important of these, perhaps, is the gen- eral strike of the stove-molders, which has now been on several weecks. To combat this striks, which grew out of the refusal of the molders to work the patterns of a boycotted St. Louis estab- lishment, the manufacturers orgamized a defensive association. In a few locali- tics some of the men who went out have returncd to work, but the great majority are firmly mantaining the stand they have taken, and most of the founarics throughout the country are not in operation, whilo those that are doing snything, are working very much below their capacity. A dif- forence on & question of wages between the shoc manufacturers of Cincinnati nd their em ployees resulted in a lock- out on last Monday of 1,400 persons, chiefly girls. The strike of tho hod car- riers in Chicago was quito formidablo at the outset, and Las czused some delay to building, but there appears to be a great deal of this sort of labor offering, and the chances of the men securing their demand for inereased pay do not scem to | be good. At Milwaukee on last Monday aoout 500 coopors employed 1n private shops went out on & dewand for an ad- ous points in the east strikes prevail, very generally the 1ssue being that of wages. There are signs of dissatisfac- tion in other industrial em- ployments, and a general strike in the Connellsville eoke region was begun Wednesd. involving 13,000 men, One of the most remarkable labor con- flicts in record, in the extent of its dura- tion, is just reported from New Orleans to have terminated. It was the fight over the cotton trade, and has been main- tained for six years. There was not a continuous strike or lock-out during all that time, but an armed neutrality, sev- eral strikes and several labor riots. Fol- lowing the example of the cotton screw- men, all workers in the cotton trade or- ganized unions, and prior to 1881 these unions were consolidated into what was called the *‘Cotton Council.” This or- ganization included not only laboring nien of all classes, but the clerks in the cotton houses and a considerable capitalistic element, It grew to very large proportions, number- ing some 10,000 able-bodied and intelli- gent men, The couneil fixed the tariff of wages, and in 1881 the first conflict with the merchants took place. A struggle of two weeks resulted in favor of the coun- cil. Its subsequent demands were com- plied with, although the merchants never abandoned their hostility to the organi- zation. They were powerless, however, to overthrow it, and its strength and power grew from year to year. At last the mistake was made of admitting the cotton press assoclation, consisting of about a dozen capitalists, who very soon sought to use the council for their per- sonal interests. 'The result was dissen- sion and disintegration, the ecouncil dis- solving into its original elements, This gave the merchants the oppor- tunity they had waited for six s, and they have again the control of the cotton trade so far as the question of wages is concerned. Although the general business of the country is appurently experiencing no detriment from the prevailing labor differences, it must feel the effect later on from the reduced purchasing ability of the now idle labor, and these differ- ences are to be regretted chiefly on ac- count of this labor. It is gratifying to be able to say, however, that taking the whole field of 1abor into view there is less conflict now than there was at the corresponding time last year, and it may be hoped that this very general content- ment will continue. Plattsmouth to the Front. Plattsmouth did herself proud yester- day. The celebration of the opening of the waterworks at that place was an event of more than ordinary mterest, The expenditure of §100,000 for such a valuable improvement js only a stepping stone. The enterprising citizens of our neighboring city propose to immediately build a line of street railwav; new build- ings are in course of construction, and eral business activity pervades the atmosphere. The idea once prevailing among jealous rivals that Plattsmouth is or ever was a dead town must no longer be entertained. E indication points to permanent and increased pros- perity. Being favorably situated on the main line of the Chicago, Burlington & Quiney railroad, Plattsmouth 1s destined to grow to grander proportions than her most sanguine supporters ever imagined. The demonstration there yesterday was fully in keeping with the liberahty of her open-handed business men who have made the town what 1t is and who may well have faith 1n her future. It is just in season to remark that this is about the usual time for summer re- sort matrimonial schemes to bud. There is consequently much trepiaation seat- tered over the face of the earth; not par- ticularly peculiar, however, to the tender buds who are expected to be developed into full bloom during the season, but on the part of their maternal progenitors, and the elder sisters, who are still in the market. Watering places are one of the chief industrics of this country. They will soon open out with all their attract- ive beauty. Their surplus (or borrowed) money can be put in circulation, and managing mama’s can indalge in deli- cate diplomacy. The sced will, in the naxt few months, be sown tor a great many years of heartache and poignant grief. Yet it is hard to pursuade a vain mother that her child’s happiness can be secured in any pathway that does not lead to wealth. Society is inexorable, and learns but little by the experience of others, Only our own griefs impress us, ‘THEY say figures don't lie, but they do sometimes. At any rate figures quoted a8 election returns are not to be relied on in Omaha until we have a different method of bal- lot canvassing and clerks of election com- potent to write and cipher. The returns of the city election, as shown by the published tables, do not tally on any can- didate. The variation belween these tables makes it 1mpossible to ascertain with any degree of certainty who are elected councilmen at large. Our figures show Hascall, Lee, Bailey, Burnham, Counsman, Bedford, Boyd, Van Camp and Snyder to be the nine candidates having the highest vote. The figures of other dailies vary materially. One of them gives the election to Gibbon and Unitt in place of Boyd and Snyder, while another elects Boyd and Gibbon. It will take the official count now to determine positively. Over five millions have been expended in this city within the past year for build- ing improvements, 1itis safe to say that the increase in real estate value within the year has been 30 per cent, The new territory enclosed within the eity repre- sents fully five millions of real estate In other words, the building improve- ments and additional lands aggregate ten millions, which, if increased at one- fourth, would add two millions and a haif to the tax list. ‘I'mirty per cent on tho last year's assessment would add a fraction over three millions. That wanld givens a total assessment this year of over fifteen million dollars, at the lowest calculation, providing always the assess- ors do their duty. ——— ALTHOUGH tho provisions about econ- demning land outside of the city limits for parks and boulevards was wiped out of the charter by the bocdlers of the judi- cimy committee, steps can and should bo taker by the new council toward laying out boulevards snd parks. ‘The right to coudemon property for parks withia the | eity limits exist and outside property vunce, In the building trades at numer- ‘ way be acquired by purchass. A propo- sition to issue a quarter of a million in bonds for parks and boulevards would carry at n special election, and the city could not make a better investment than purchasing land for boulevards and varks, | ONE campaign is hardly over before another begins, ‘We are already on the eve of another election. A new board of education is to be chosen on the first Tuesday in Juno. It will introduce sev- eral novelties, Kvery school house will be a polling place, all married women who have children in the public schools and all women over twentv-one years of age will have a right to vote. As most of our schoolmarms have invested in Omaha lots, they will have a voice in the election of members of the board of ed- ucation. Those who have not already invested will doubtless do so before the end of this month, — *“1F walls could talk,” it has been gen erally understood they would furnish valuable information on many subjects. If Frank Walters, who has recently left Omaha for Europe, would talk, his reve- lations would astonish the entire state. There never was a more corrupt and per- sistent lobbyist in Nebraska, On whoso boodle has Walters fed, that he has grown 50 great? Tne New York police have disguised themselyes, inveigled bartenders to vio- late the Sunday liquor law, and then thrown off their disguise and arrested them. Tlhere are two points about that which seem very questionable. One is that such a plan would be necessary in New York—the other that a policeman would so far forget himself as to make an arrest, Wirkie CoLrins, who ereated the eh acter of Ann Sylvester, proposes to h his share of Mrs, Potter’s free adver Z. He writes to the lady who so in- gioriously failed in her attempt to “‘ele- vate the stagy “Let me thank you for an impersonation of Ann Sylvester which has shown me a living woman as L had imagined her,” s- Tur New York Post s ‘The Mich- 1gan legislature has done a good thing 1 expelling Dakin, but if every state legis- lature should adopt a similar course there would be a great many politicians thrown upon charity.” The Post is correct, Had the Nebraska legislature expelled all the boodling Dakins there would not have been a majority of the members left. A New ORLEA paper wants some man of aninventive turn of mind to patent a mecharical contrivance that would prevent small boys from catching on behind street ears. The best way to overcome the nuisance would be to dis- card the mules =nud propel the cars a lit- tle faster than a miile n eight days. Ture city engineer 18 eminently correct in advising the council to make the neces- sary changes of grade on Fifteenth street before they attempt to build the pro- posed I'ifteenth street viaduct, No per- manent public improvements should be made on any street before the grade has been forever settled, Tug work of the scoundrels who tam- pered with the new charter is bearing 1ts legitimate fruit. Omaba will be afflicted with eighteen justices of the peace for the next two years and a half, and all county and state elections held this fall and 1n November 1888 will be carried on without registration Tuosk cheap wooden pavements are still the rage among economic taxpayers and real estate syndicates that want streets paved in order to sell their lota. But within four or five years it will be demonstrated here, as it has been else- where, that the cheapest pavements are in the long run the dearest. Now that we have another gas com- pany chartered the question is, what does it propose to do? Is this to be bona fide competition or merely a scheme to sell out to the existing gas company. CANDIDATES for membership on the new board of public works are craning theirjuecks. — PROMINENT PERSONS. Ex-President Hayes has quite recovered his health and now takes long walks, accom- panied by his devoted wife. Mme. Nilsson, under the terms of her marriage with Count Miranda, retains abso- lute control ot all her fortune. Lord Lansdowne, governor general of Canada, receives a salary of 50,000 a year, beside free quarters and numerous perquis- its. Fred Douglass, who is now in Naples, is exciting a great deal of public attention. ‘The Italian papers allude to him as*ll Dous- lass.” Ex-Secretary Manning has written a friend in New York—the first letter penuned Ly his own hand in many months—saying he is in a better condition than at any time since his attack. M. Katkoff, the Russian editor, is a man of medium size, with gray hair brushed back from a broad forehead, ashort white beard, anda face bearing the wmarks of ageand overwork. Mgr. Capel Is again spoken of at Rome for a missionary bishopric, It Is said that the erratic prelate has become an expert fisher- man, and that he ispreparing for a season with the trout of the Adirondacks, i Keep Out of the Past, Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Keep out of tho past! for its highways Are damp with walarial gloom. Its gardens are sere, and its forests are drear, And everywhere moulders a tomb. 'Who seeks to regain |x= lost pleasures Finds only a rose turned to duss, And Its storehouse of wonderful treasures Is covered and coated with rust. Keep out of the pastb'!1t is haunted. He who In its avenyes cropes . Shall find there the ghost of a joy prized the most, Aud a skeleton thrork of dead hopes. 1n place of its beautifuf rivers Lie Is that are stagnant with slime. And those graves gleaming white in the phos- phorus light Cover dreams that were slain In their prime. Keep out of the past. It Is lonely And barren and bleak to the view, Its fires have grown cold and its stories are old, ‘Turn, turn, to the present, the new | To-day leads you up to the Dilltops, Thl{lfl! kissed by the radiant sun. ’l'(»d-yb:hown no tomb—all lite’s hopes are in bloom— And to-day hold a prize to be won. Reports of mills shutting down because of the Inter-state commerce law should be taken with considerable allowance. Recently a nail Tactory in the Schuylkill Valley was (closed, and the statement was widely efreulated that the suspension was due to the severity of the new railroad law. But the starting up of the mill, with additional machinery and+in- creased capacity, would indicato that the law holds out encouragement to legitimate enter- Prise by guaranteeing uniformity and stabil- ity in freight rates, il How the Short Haul Works, St Lowis Globe-Demoerat, The long-and-short-haul clause has re- ceived a new meaning to the local democracy since the beginning of the trials for clection frauds, The long haul means to Jetferson City for two years, and [he short haul means to the city jail for a year or less, skl -~y Nothing in the Newspaper Does. Merchant Traveler. Nature would make a good editor. Noth- ing in the universe gets crowded out for want ot space. ———— STATE AN Nebraska Jottings, Ruslville is scouring the cast for fac- tories. Corn planting1s all the rage in the country. Weeping Water is negotinting for a towel factory. The saloon license in raised to $£1,000. The Masons of Fremont have decided to build a temple, Lincoln hasa board of trade and freight bureau in running order. Fremont has added a street car com- pany to ber list of spring blossoms, The Anheuser-Busch brewing company will build a §30,000 store house in Platts. mouth. Putney, who was tried at Neligh for the murder of an illegitimate child, was Blair has been attsmouth complains of the inefli- ciency and indifference of mail facilities between that city and Omaha, a City 18 so tickled with diluted that the waterworks will be en- larged to supply the demand. Nick Cox, of Weeping Water, collided with the business end of a frisky colt, and gave the town doctor a prolitable job of needlework. Albert Murray from the back of fence. The bar ear and tore ofl' a shade. A corkscrew oyclone threw dust and chips i the of residents of Strong, last Sunday Tne hool house was stove in, some shanties unroofed and three ladies stripped of their skirts. "The Wayne Gazotte spanks the ‘‘protti- est’ in the following: “And now Fre- mont has boycotted Omaha! It is lmril]v probable, however, that Omaha will ever find 1t out, unless some one takes the trouble to tell her.’ Ernest Weise, the Scribner rapist, at- tempted to Sescape the penalty of his crime through a flaw in the cowmvlaint, but the oflicers blocked his plans with a new complaint. e will be tried at the next term of the district court. Nearly every town in North Nebraska is anxious| g a north and south road trom Oma the very near fu- ture; but if all their hopes hang on this slender peg, the anticipated booms wiil fail to matel e for the great majority of them.—[Wayne Gazette. ive cyclone cavorted through ty recently and perpetrated A farmer jumped on hold it dow The cd off his coat tails and sus- pender buttons, and would have taken his scalp had it not been hairless. He saved the 5 That_distinguished Nebraska jurist, “Jedge Jumbo Cooley, was dehberate), slighted and insulted by the ma ers of the Plattsmouth celebration. ¢ lumin- ous mangler of Blackstone wrote to the committee, pufling “‘old Cass"” and the 'n, and begging for an invitation to is jawbone on the multitude. ely for the crowd the committee deelined the inflicuon, and kindly per- mitted the jedge to “‘attend to his other legal business.”” lowa ltems, Ottumwa’s artesian bore is down 875 feet. Mrs. Major Dale, the pioneer salvation- ist in America, is shouting and swinging the tambourine in Keokuk, It is expected that the soldiers’ home at Marshalltown will be ready to receive occupants by the 1st of October. The Des Moines city council has voted a gold medal to Fireman Lynch, who rescued a young lady from the burning Foster opera house on the 20th ult. Barney Kennedy. of Dubuque, arrested last week for the murder of his wife, has given his prn})cl"_v to his children, and his iawyer a fee of $300, to be increased to §500 if he is cleared. The committece of the Dubuque Job- bers’ association have returned from Mil- waukee without having succeeded in gi ting rates, admitting them to competi- tion for the Minnesota and Dakota busi- ness. A young woman was arrested at Hop- kinton, Delaware county, on a charge of horse stealing. Sho was endeavoring to soll a team of horses she had in her pos- session at the time of her arrest. The woman is said to live in the neighbor- hood of Worthington, Dubufi county, and as her people are well own she may not be prosecuted. Dairy Commissioner Sherman has is- sued a circular letter to dealers in butter and cheese. Ho snys certain parties are selling a recipe for making butter, and calls the atlention of those who had bought the recipe to the section in the new law forbidding it, He says Ander- son & Newcomb, who live near Cedar Rapids, manufactured a spurious article last winter at Garrison, and warns buy- ers to beware of them. He also says that Illinois parties are adultering milk and selling it for the purpose of maxsing cheesc out of it. Dakota. Sturgis has contracted for a new hotel Sioux Falls is organizing a base ball club. A vinegar factory has started up n Sioux Falls. Yankton's hoard of tradeis rustling for a bonus to capture an oil well. A delegation of business men from Wayne county, Neb., are in Yankton talking railroad. Montana. The Montana Stockgrowers' associa- tion has 337 members. The Anglo-Montana mining company, blew $75,000 into a salted holo near Bald Butte and then collapsed. 'T'was Eng- lish you know. Butte’s bullion shipments for last week were 63 bars, $107,810, as follows: Lex- ington, 16 bars worth §31,824; Bluebird, 22 bars worth $35,648; Alice, 17 bars worth §27, Moulton, 8 bars worth $12,640. Ex-Governor Hauser says that this will be the greatest year in the history of Montana, The product of its mines alone will be 40,000,000, besides the 0,000,000 to be spent in ralroad build- ing. Arrangements are being made by the Northern Pacific to run a branch line from the main track right into the heart of Helena, where the passenger depot will be located. The present depot is nearly two miles from the ceunter of bu: ness. This move is to head off the Mon- tana Central, whose pussenger depot is to be loeated on the north of Main strect. The two roads will run up Last Chance guich side by side, the Northern Pacilic coming further into town than the Mon- tana Central, of Ewing, slioped lorse on 0 A wire ught the folds of an arge slice of his sun- ODDS AND ENDS, Stray Leaves From Reportorial Note Books. “I'think," said a citizen yesterday morn- ing,“that propositions for franchises, ete., should never be submitted at general elections. Just think of eight or nine diflerent propositions being submitted at the late election, Of course careful vofers required time to read each one. Then they had to be explained to the doubtful ones and the cranks imagined that there was something wrong in all these different batlots. Tais monopolized too much time from the regolar voting for oflicers, Then again, some of the ‘nrliw asking for franchise privilegoes, had workers at the polls who took up more room and bothered the voters more than the regular ticket peddlers. There s i ng it, there were too many ets inthe field i the late clection and some law should be pro- vided for special voting in these cases.” * * Saild anold uulihcix\:x yesterday: “Won' it be fun when the women vote at the school election in June and the ticket peddling is at its height. Whll the work- ers wear swallow tails® Will there be any invitations to bibulous They do say that Pat Ford 1s training for this coming elcetion und that already he has made bets that he will re e his lost honors of Tuesday Iast. The ludies of the Third must re- member that Pat has proven himself a charmer on many an clection day.” win A good joke is told on a local real es- tate man, which is too rich to keep under the surface, It cannot be said, however, that one would be safe in vouching for the truth of the story. Lo be candid, it sounds rather fishy. It is said ti. gentleman from the east came to Nebraska to invest money n real estate. He first went to Lincoln, looked at some suburban property there, but was not satistied and came to Omaha, Here he applied to one of the army of busy, and bustling real ostate man, who promptly agreed to sell him some_ chean and desirable property. The two jumped buggy ~and rode out ern city limits, farinto the country. The capitalist grew uneasy d was continually asking when the cheap and desirable property’! was to be reached. The real estate man told him_to be patient, for they would soon get there. At last the would be investor called a halt. ‘‘Hold on,’ he said, “this land looks familiar! 1 have s this pmrcrly before, “Yes," replied the real ostate man, ‘‘when “Well” answered the capitalist, *‘if ou must know, it was when [ was look- ng at Lincoln city lots.”” The real estate Smn was too mad to make a sale that ay. ol More Pacific Railroad Piracy. Chicago Tribune. Notwithstanding the interested denials, there is only too much reason to believe the rumor that the Pacific railroad ring has completed a vlan for evading the vayment of dues owing to the national treasury, and finally unloading on the government a wrecked and ruined secu- rity, The scheme is to use all the re- sources of the corporation to build up a system of branches, and then let the government seek the satisfaction of its debt by foreclosing on the wrecked main line—a plan well worthy of the Wall street manipulators, and which they will certainly put into eflect if allowed oppor- If not permitted to continue ing” the Pacitic railroad corpora- tions according to the methods followed for the last eighteen years, the watered- stock giuttons in New York and on the Pacific coast, will no doubt bend every effort to bring the long-continued colos- sal robbery of the government to a good “finish.” "Their aspirations will be real- ized when they retire in possession of a profituble system of branch roads, while the government vainly secks to recoup for loans advanced b{ taking possession of the worthless, bankrupted main line. ‘The Pacific railroad investigating com- mission cannot get to work any too soon, and it needs to giwve this last-rumored wrecking scheme careful, prompt atten- tion. Congress should not be permtted to remain heedless and unconcerned while the pirate crew of the Union Pa- citic and allied Iines blindfold the gov- ernment and tie its hands in preparation for the closinfi catastropne in the the colossal swindle of the century. The commission should be ready to report all the facts at the next session of congress, and recommend proper measures to foil this last plot of the Pacific railroad job- bers. First and foremost the govern- ment must be prepared, in case the Union Pacific main line is ever unloaded on its hands, to proceed against the holders of watered stock for their unpaid subscriptions. Let the commission give this matter special in- Vestigation. In 1870, _immediatoly after the completion of the Union Pacific its share capital was reported at $36,- 000,000, which had all been issued in vio- lation of the terms of the charter, which required the stock to be paid for in cash at the full nominal value. The road was built on the first mortgage and govern- ment bonds, the stock bcln)i only so much boodle bagged by the Credit Mo- bilier ring. Notwithstanding the plain requirement of the charter that stock should be full paid in cash, the only sum paid_into the treasury of the compan; was 1 per cent on 2,180 shares subscribec as a condition precedent to the organiza- tion of the company, and this was paid only to get control of the corporation and elect directors. Consequently every dollar of the stock is fraudulent and its holders are in arrears. If the goy- ernment must take the road, it should be ready to sue for $36,000,000 of unpuid subscriptions, and also for the 19,000,000 of bogus dividends paid on this stock. Similar action should be taken regarding the $10,000,000 of land grant bonds and the #16,000,000 of income bonds. All were equally frandulent and illegal. If the government will prepare to pro- ceed against the guilty holders of the stolen property, it need suffer no loss in foreclosing on the Union Pacific. ‘There are no ‘‘innocent holders” of Union Pa- cific stock. and responsibility eannot be evaded by passing it from hand to hand. ‘The books of the company show on their face that the stock was fraudulent and issued without consid: jon. A promis- sory note with such equities attatching to it would be worthless in any hands. 1f timely precautions are taken: the gov- ernment can secure itself and thwart the attempt of the wreckers to unload a wrecked security on the national treus- ury. — The lmitative Young American, New York World, That is a very suggestive story of the two little Boston boys of *'good fami- lies,” aged eight and nine years respect- ively, ng in the ancient and respect- able suburb of Roxbury, who, having been deeply interested readers of the fine old religious classie, *“Fox's Book of Martyrs,” developed in o remarkable manner the imitative habit of the Ameri- can small boy, With their imuginations kindled by the stories of the martyrdom of the saints the little chaps thought they would see how the thing worked 1n & sort of kindergarten fashiov, as it were. Proceeding to the hennery of a neighbor they *'took two of his pet pullets and,tying them to a stak built afive and roasted them to death Thig incident goes to prove that it is not the dime novels and penny drendfuls alone that operate upon our impression- l household duties. able youth, moving them to becoma miniature ‘‘Indian fighters' and higl waymen. If “Fox's Book of Martyrs can lead boys to roast chickens st the , why may not the influence of ’ilgrim's Progress” be dreaded? Fancy the feclings of the heads of “good fani- lies"at hearing of the mimic production by their offspring of the decds of Giant Despair, or an imitation of the tacties of the confidenco chans whom Pilgrim en count 1 in his perilous journe May not “Gulliver's Travels” ‘suggest to tho imitative instinet of little hoodlums a Lilliputian tormenting ot some Brob dingnagian bully whom a swarm of them might overcome? There are wonderful adventures narrated in *“Mother Goo: that would scarcely stand rehea: the nursery. The Roxbury incident plainly teaches that the boy of the period needs a whole- some admixture of hard facts in his read- ing, and to have his emulating instinets carofully guided. — - Long Stories Made Short. The carclessness of traveling B men was illustrated at Salt Lake, A nmrn}uis mquired of the Walker ho clerk the other night: *‘Say, me friend, do you know whawt has become of me brown valise? 1 cawn't afford to lose thawt, y’ know. It has awl me money an’ jowelry in it.” When asked whoro he saw it last he said: I saw it fired up on tawp the bus, y' know.” The valise soon reached the hotel, having come on a different bus from the one tae English- man rode in. The following is a proelamation made ket Cross of In ary, Scot- than a hundred years ago. Te tither a hoy! Ta hoy three times ! an' to h Whist 1! By com- mand of his maj King George, and her Graco te Duke o' Argyll: 1f any- body is found tishing aboont te loch, or belaw loch, afore te loch, or ahint te loch, in te loch, or on te loch, aroun’ te loch, or about te loch, she's to be per- secutit wi’ three persecutions ; first she's to be burnt, syne she’s to be drownt, an' then she’s 'to be hangt—an if ever sho comes back she's to be persacutit wi' a far waur death. God save the king an’ her grace te duke o' Argyll."” Solomon Lewis, one of the earliest set- tlers of Huntington county, Ind., and a well known Dunkard, was visited last Wednesday morning' by a couple of sleek-looking gentlemen, who wanted, they said, to buy his farm. Wlile nego tiations were in progress another drove up, and, atter exchangi tions, pulied out a p: of asked the two men if they h new game. Of course thoy hadn't. He then began to explain it—the three-card- monte game—and, after a while, § occeded in getting the Dunkard enougzhin- terested to make a small bet, which he was allowed to win. He was soon per- suaded that he could easily make a fow dollars by betting the new-comer out of s money, and, hurrying to the bank, he procured 3,000, and his sabsequent short experience cost him all of it. One of the threo sharpers was Iid Kirby, of Logans- })urt. who has been in j: core of times or working the soap racke ““The worst case of abs I ever knew o nt-mindedness said a hotel keeper in Elgin, 111, “occurred in my house a few weeks ago. The perpetrator was my night porter. I was at the desk one niglit when a man came in so drunk he could not sign his name. He was a_ travelin man whom I knew and so, of course, decided to take good care of him. ‘John,” says I to the porter, ‘take this man up irs and put him to bed and put his va- in the check room.’ “Just then by the sickness of a member of my family, and 1 thougnt no more of my guest nor of the porlur( whom I saw attending to his usual duties an hour or so later. But next morning a strange discovery was made. The ehambermaid on the second floor reported that in the bed of Room 16 she had found a valise, and that there were no signs of any person having oc- cupied the room duriag the mnight. It tlashed over me in asecond that that poster of mine, who was a quegr sort of ellow, had made some blunder, and I went upstairs to investigate. There was the valise, sure enough, but no sign of the traveler. I hunted all over the house without success, and had about given up in despair, when [ happened to o into the check-room for something, and there lay my traveling man aslcep on the floor with valise check No. (8 carefully tied around his neck.” e Joe Goss' Stubs, Pittsburg Dispatch: ‘“Talking about & pugilist saving his frlends,” said Old Sport, “‘the slickest thing I ever saw was done by Joe Goss in his fight with Paddy Ryan down m Virginia in the spring of 1880, I didn't like to sce old Joe going up against the young fellow; but T knew if he was beaten there would be a game fight before the battle was over. You recolleet there was n good ‘[vilu of money bet on first blood, and aliof Joe's friends were betting that he would draw the claret from the young Trojan. “Well, that was afight and no mistake. ‘The brave old veteran took his punish- ment and fought like a hero. At the end of the third or fourth round he motioned for Johnny N—— to come to his sido as he sat in” his corner. He mysteriously took Johnny's hand, carried it to his mouth, and” with his tongue depusited something in his friend’s palm. Johnny was bothered. He could not make out what the old fellow meant, and began to think that the fight had set him queer. Johnny kept his hand closed, and jammed it into his coat pocket and held 1t there until he had a chance to step one side and examine the contonts, Cautiously withdrawing his hand, he slowly unctosed his fingers, and glancing down sideways, so that no one would observe him, he saw what it was. ‘I'he mystery was explained in aninstant, and old Joe's clear head and forcthought could not be too highly commended, In the second round Ryan had swung a stinging right-hander on Joe's mouth, and there, resting in Johnny's hand, were three old tecth had been knocked out, and Joe carried them through two rounds until he got a ehance tu get rid of them with- out displaying the fact that Ryan had drawn first hmu!. He thus saved his frieuds that much of their money at any rate. “Johnny quietly presented the teeth to another friend. Afterward, when they had to send old Joe outside of the city to catch a train in order to keep him from Johany remarked to the cteran when they were fillul&nlmnrd: hat was that you gave me Joo?" “Idon't know. hat was 1t said Goss. *‘Why, that you gave me out of your mouth down in Virginia." ““Oh,” rephed Joe with a chuckle, ‘them bloody old stubs. 1I'm 7Iml the young feller " knocked 'em out, fur they was always achin'.'" -~ Qure of Spinal Weakness. YA;:“!. ORLEANS N. Y., March28 1 My wifo, five years ago, was contined to her bed with inflammatory rheuma- tism of the muscles of the back, ‘I'he doctors thought her case hopeless snd doomed her o be a bedridden invalid. ‘I'be violent pain kept her awake almosu overy night. She lost over tbirty pounds in weight. To ease hoer prin I thought 1 would put on Avrcock's Porous Pras- TERS. | covered back with them, To my great delight she began to sleep well, 'l‘qu Pain very much abated in one week. I then took the plasters off, washed her back, and put on fresh ones. At the end of the second week ahe insisted on got ting up, and by tho third week was linfiy well and able to attend to her E. ¥. WooLsTON,