Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 16, 1887, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, MAY 16, 1887 THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMSE OF SUBSCRIPTIO! Daily Moeniag Edition) ineludin; Sundag i 7 r One Year . v !17{: 250 20 nths hiive or Throo Months T The Omaha Swnday Hie, mailed to oy nddress, Une Yer. T ) FARYAM STREeY s, TRIBUNE BUILDING. 0. 615 FOURTSENTH STREET. OMATA OFFICR, No. 014 NAw YORK Ov#1ee R VI ASHINGTON OPFICE, CORRESPONDENCE: All communications relating to news and edi- #orinl multer should be adiressed Lo the Eul 1R OF THE Bk BUSINERS LETTERS? All bueinesa lottars and remittances should ha fuldzessed to Tk BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMARA. Drafts, checks and postofice orders W be made payuble to the order of the eompuny, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS, ROSEWATER, Epiror. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation, Stato of Nevraskn, 1 County of Douzlas, | % Geo. B, fzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of the Daily Bee ior the week ending May 06, 1857, was a3 follows: Friday, Ma. Average. .14.401 20, 1. voK. Subseribed and sworn to before me this “th day of May, 1557, N. P, Frr, [SEAL.] Notary Publie. Geo. B, rst duly sworn, . s secretary of ‘The Publishing company, that the actual average daily eirculation of the Daily Bee for the month of May, 1556, 12,439 copies; forJu! 1556, 12,208 copies : for for August, 158, 12, ber, 18%, 13,00 copie 1208 copies N 1586, ' 1 coples; for De ber, 1586, 13,237 copies; for January, 1557, 16,208 coples: for February, 14,195 copies: for March, 1557, 14,400 * oples; for April, 157, 14 'fiu;i' 8, ko, B, Subseribed and sworn to before day of May, A, 1., 1887, AL N. P. Frir,, Notary Public. management of the state fair an- nounces as its intention to this year excel all former exhibitions. be monumental times. Bene- dict Arnold will be the next to have a stone shaft and a Jeff Davis harangue. Tk New York Sun publishes a list of the twelve most popular men in the United States. We rogret to see that Paul Vanderbum’s name 18 onutted. A Sr. Louis spook smote a young loyer, and 1t is fearcd that he will not recover. The spnok has disappeared. The girl's father complains of a sprained ankle. Brixp Tom’s mother is suing his manager, claiming that the prodigy has boen defrauded. Tom gots into the ‘ourts quite often, and declares that he @an't see why it is. Mg, CLEVELAND'S friends have it all figured out that he is to succeed himself. Now that this great question is settled, 18t the Fourth of July consume the atten- tion of the public mind. TRe Sporting World endorses Mr. Moynihan for chief of police. All the wports in town endorse him, for that iastter. Itisa pleasure to state that he {2as not yet been appointed. Ir now transpires that the Conger watch contributors desired that their names should never be divulged. Dur- ing the legislative days Mr. Church Howe told it all to newspaper reporters in his woom at Lincoln. He not only had the watch, but furmshed a list of the donors’ names to a gentlemanly reporter of the Ber. As a good general Mr. Howe makos a failure. — A BoOY, or rather a young man, has been arrested in New York on no other charge than ‘‘pure laziness.” The At- lantio Constitution applauds the officials ‘who made the arrest, declaring that there “is no rank, no condition of society, sither at the top of the ladder or atthe Sottom. where a thoronghly lazy man is welcome in this country,” Editor Grady should be cautious, and not talk so freely regarding tired people, just as he is wbout to be elected vice president. MONUMENTS to the future great men of the nation will have to be erected else- mhere than in Washington, unless the capital city increases its eligible sites for nuch memorials, The statue of Garfield 1a placed in an out-of-the-way spot, with surroundings not the most pleasing, and the commission to select a site for the statue to Lafayette is having some dif- dculty in linding a satisfactory location. ‘Lhe great circles, where such memori- als should be placed, are nearly all of them already occupied or are devoted to 8some other purposoc which excludes mon- uments. It may happen, however, that the corpa of great men who will deserve to be commemorated in marble and Yronze will not be so large during the mext half a century asto render the ques- tion of providing monument sites in Washington an embarrassing one. e——— A PEWTER PLATE editor up the country, Who has certainly been “‘employed’’ by Y1e railroads, and had his pass extended, 'itters the following words of wisdom: A railroad corporation has its rights nander the law the same as farmers, and there is a reciprocity of intorest between them. Each is necessary to the other, and neither would be a success without the other. The railroad isunder no more obligation to see that the yearly revenues of the farmers touch a satisfactory paying ‘point, than it is the business of the farm- ers to insure the railroads against a fail- ure to pay s handsome dividend.” No one disputes that the railroads have rights under the law. It is their reckless disre- gurd for all moral and written law that makes them public plunderers and com- mon highwaymen, instead of what the iaw defines them—public highways and ‘ommon earriers. It istrue that the rail- road is under no obligation to see that a farmor makos a living, but the high-sal- wried officials are not bound to figure out a tariff rate which will exact the last farthing from the producer, and keep him forever poor. Up to this date no railroad has yot exhibited enough cheek to ask farmer to insure it against loss, The railroads look out for that. Such a flimsy argument as is produced abov ®oes o limited way 1n proving to the plundered people that railway managers aro public benefactors. Hero and There, - The last session of the New York legis- lature contamed many venal and cor- rupt members. Their utter disregard for their constituents’ interests was & topic of general comment, and a den ial of tho charge which was street talk in Albany to the effect that corporations had treely lavished boodle upon the dis- honest members was not attempted. That the same state of affairs existed in Nebraska there is no doubt, yet because the BEE attempted to point out the r cals and paint them as they really were in their infamous attempts to levy black- mail from the gamblers hare, or a Suline land syndicate there, the hardened wretches of the state press who at- tempted to shield the rogues in their con- spiracies nst the state hooted at the Bek and eried “‘demagogue.’’ In New York the lobbyists' vocation of corrupting and debauching members 18 tame and admits of no comparison to the dirty and disreputable work bienally performed in Nebraska by such men as Walters, Palmer, Carns, Vanderbum and others of like character. We imagine that in New York an indignant and outraged constituency would rise in its wrath and ride out of the community on a sharpedged rail such untrustworthy and unprineipled lawmak as Agee, Brown, Caldwell, Russell, Tingle, Rob- bins, Vandermark, Fuller, Colby, and others who, during the late session, were the chumpions of all sorts of legalized robberics, Yet even there, that old staid and conservative paper, the New York Zumes, says of its legislature: T'he present legislature has thus far almost unitormly acted in flagrant disregard of the highest interests of the city and of the ap- peals and protests of its authorities. Lt has permitted itself to be influenced and guided rather by the politicians and corporate job- bers who seek to sacrifice the rizhts of the city and its people for the promoti on of their own seifish ends. When long petitions from the tax- payers, presented in person by the mayor of New York, bearing the strongest pos- sible representation of what the public interests required, were ignored, tre with contempt. the Times says: One discredited politician, represent- ng the Subway commission and the corporations which wish to have their schemes carried out to suit their own purposes, had more influence upon legislative action than all the public authorities of the city united. At his com- mand the public Interests and the protest ot the mayor and the heads of departments waere swept aside as of no consequence, and thebill passed the assembly In a form to suit the jobbers by a vote of 94 to 24 Yet there was no chorus of voices from the truculent scoundrels who conduct boodle newspapers—no threats to assas- sinate the editor of the Zimes because he fearlessly told the truth, and cautioned the people to be more careful in the fu- ture, in selecting men to represent them at Albany. The people of Nebraska will finally discover—what those fanuliar with Ne- braska legislatures have observed for years with growing apvrehension—that dishonest men capture conventions and accept legisiative ‘*honors” solely for the purpose of levying blackmail and get- ting their hands into the corruption funds. They will learn that only honest men with enough moral backbone to re- sist the influences of the lawless lobby, must be chosen to represent them, aud when this transformation shall have been wrought, they will then see that the Ber's untiring fight against corporate jobbery was well founded and alone in the people's interest. Ruined By the Dissolute Lobby. The Linooln Democrat paints the pic- ture of a young lawyer in Omaha, and the Bek sees 1n it the likeness of Mr. Gurley. Some time ago a nice young lawyer camo to Omaha, or grew up there. The Democrat doesn’t know exactly which, and it doesn’t matter. He worea7) hat, was broad of shoulders and sturdy, and was suspected of being gifted with bralus, With honest and steady industry In the practice of his profes- slon he was as sure of wealth ana honor as the sun is certain to rise to-morrow. Last winter he came to Lincoln as the paid lgbby- ist of a railroad corporation. He associated with a bad gank of diseased livers, stupid brains, mamelated stomachs, bad breaths and worse morals, known as the lobby. He 1s now spoken of as a rival to Pat O. Hawes for the position of assistant city attorney. 1f ne gets the place and fills it his future ca- reer will be watched with sad interest. The young man who seeks to avoid the tough work and hard knocks incident to'the early days of his profession makes a mistake. It Is these very things which give a man the breadth, strongth gnd endurance necessary to make him a man of much account. Even if he gets the placo, and it is not thought that he will, how could he per- form the duties cf his office? No doubt that Gurley has the ability to fill the place—no one questions that—but would he not now lack the most essential quality —moral stammna? What could we expect from Mr. Gurley if he were asked to prosecute the gamblers before the police court, in view of the fact that the gam- blers retained him at Lincoln as one of their paid lobbyists against the anti-gam- bling bill? Mr. Gurley has made a sad mistake. Let him reform his ways, and then, if he is deserving, the people will cheerfully reward him The Public Lands Question. It is desirable that public interest shall not be allowed to flag or to become in- different respecting the policy that should hereafter be pursued regarding the public domain. Popular conour- rence in the views expressed by the presi- dent is well, but the executive power in the matter is limited, It is desirable, and to the attainment of all that should be done to completely rescue the public domain from those who wrongfully pos- sess it, us well as to romove all chances of the people being robbed in the future, necoessary that the will of the people should be vigorously exerted upon their representatives in congress. The source of all the evil and injury in this matter is found in the concessions that con- gress has made to corporations and other land ‘plunderers, and however earnestly and faithfully the executive de- partment of the government may be in carrying out the policy it has proclaimed, unless the representatives of the people are in sympathy with it the benefits can be only partial and may not be perma- nent. Itis to congress that the people must look for a thorough and enduring remedy, It must unfortunately be admitted that a great deal of what has been done, under the reckless polioy regarding the public domain hitherto, pursued, eannot now be undone. Oaly a very small por- tion of the mullions of acres that have been given away is recoverable. Rut whatever the amonnt may be it should be reclaimed, and there should be a revoea- tion at once of all withdrawals of lands for indemnity to railrond corporations. It is estimated that there are at I 150,000,000 of acres, most of it er land, and a large part of it as good as the best land in the country, which can be brought into the public domain within a few years without doing injustice to any one, This would furnish homesteads of 160 acres each to ore than 900,000 families. *When one considers the lim- ited area and the rapid absorp- tion of the remaining public domain switable for settlement, the great import- ance of this considerable addition that can with entire justice be made to it i3 forcibly impressed. By the time such addition could be made the country will probably have a population of seventy millions, and these lands would be in immediate demand by industrious and thrifty settlers, in whose hands they would speedily render a generous contri- bution to the national wealth. Towns would grow up, numerous industries would find enlarged opportunities, and it is conccivable that in time, when the population of the country shall have reached a hundred nullions, these lands may afford prosperity and contentment to fifteen or twenty millions of people. 1t is the duty of the representatives of the people to provide for this possibility, but in order to make sure of the performance of this duty there must be an earnest and persistent demand from the people for a vigorous policy of reform with respect to the public domain, Nebraska's Boom. y QOur correspondents this morning, writing from different parts of the staty furnish us with gratifying reports rogard- ing thegeondition of crops, the settlement of western and northwestern Nebraska, and relate stories of booms in older towns, most cheerful to read, ‘Throughout the length and breadth of this rich and prosperous state, in city, town and village, there is presented a map of busy life, which indicates in- creased population and valuation. New towns born with the early spring already are represented with different branches of business, while all the other towns are securing the more permanent improvements which age alone can bring. Farmlandsare being opened, and the number of ucres under cultivation in 1887 will far exceed the year of '86. With the steady settiement in Nebraska, land has increased in value; each year witnesses more and better buildings; the farmers are becoming better situated in every way; froit trees planted a few years ago are commeneing to bring re- turns, and in every way Ncbraska is a ble place for a home than last year. So it will be next year—and so it will be for long years to come. Yet those in the east contemvlating a change cannot do better than to come to Nebraska, and if they want to secure a home for little money our advice would be to come now. Next year land will ad- vance, and desirable homes will be more difticult to secure. At the present rate of progress and development within ten years Nebraska wijll compare favorably with any state in the union in point of population, and but few states will sur- pass her in wealth. The history of the past ten years furnishes the foundation for this prophesy. A Chance to Make a Precedent. It is reported that Sccretary Bayard has manifested a good deal of anxiety regarding the three Mexican officers sen- tenced to death for interference with the American suthoritics at Nogales. The offense of these men was in rescuing a Mexican who was a prisoner i the cus- tody of the sheriff at Nogales. The de- mand of the United States government on the Mexican government for the re- turn of the prisoner was promptly com- plied with, but notwithstanding the fact that the Mexican government was ex- plicitly informed that this government had po suggestions to make regarding the offending ofticers, they were arrested, tried, convictod and sentenced to death. At last advices the sentence was pending in the supreme military court of the republic, Clearly this would secem to bs a case in which intercession by this government would be wholly prover on the score of humanity, but while 1t i3 said the secre- tary of state foels great solicitude in re- gard to the fate of these men he hesitates to interpose an appeal that would save them trom death because he can find no precedent for such action. Then let him make a precedent, and both Ameri- cans and Mexicans will applaud kim for doing so, The obvious motive of Mexico is to demonstrate her determination to maintain order and peace, so far as her jurisdiction extends, on the frontier, but this country does not require any such extreme evidence of good faith as is con- templated in the executive of these office! Had a similar offense been committed by American officers against Mexico the worst that could have hap- pened to them would have been court martial and dismissal from the service, and no greater punishment would be ex- pected by the United States for the Mexican officers. The sentence passed upon those oflicers, for what in fact was little more than an aggravated misde- meanor, is barbarous, and iu the interest of civilization the United States ought to intercede to prevent its execution. Sec- ayard may win some credit by making a precedent in this matter and do s0 in time to make it effective. The Seal Fisheries. The question of the jurisdiction of the United States in the waters of Alaska is in controversy. From the fact that the secretary of the troasury has recontly iszued instructions to the cruisers pro- tecting the seal fisheries similar to those previously issued by the department, it appears that the government is not yet disposed to make any concession or de- parture from the claim it has maintained since the purchase of Alaska, that all the waters which were dominated by Russia without aispute are properly<in the con- trol of the United States. The source of controversy was the seizure last year of three vessels—two English and one American—which were found taking seal in the waters where the Alaska Fur company claims exclusive priv- ileges under a franchise from the government, The American vessel was forty miles from land at the time, and the English vessels were, respectful- ly, ninety and 115 miles from land. The owners of the American vessel have saved the commanding officer of the rev- enue cutter, Corrine, in the federal court . of Massacheusetts, while the British gov- ernment has opened a correspondence to ascortain the grounds upon which we claim jurisdiction over the high seas. Tho result of the suit will be awaited with interest, and it is more than proba- ble that the British government will not urge the question of jurisdiction pending tne decision of the Massachusetts court, which may satisfactorily dispose of that issue. We have heretofore referre d to the fact that the claim of the goyernment, at least as prosonted by Secrotary Bay- ard, has placed the state department in a somewhat awkward vosition, since in respect of the thrae miles from shore theory, it 1s plainly inconsistent with the position ot the government in the Canadian fisheries controversy, ‘Ihe issue relative to the seal fisheries has developed the fact that unless the government shall maintain its claith this very important asset of Al must speedily become of yery little value to the United States, and will ultimately, at no very distant time, be completely destroyed. 1f the waters over which the United States now claim jurisdiction, and in which the seals are protected from reckless destruction, and thrown open beyond the three mile limit to the fur hunters of the world, it is very casy to understand what the result must be. The seals would be slaughtered promiscu- ously, ol and young, male and female and a fow years would sery to pr: ally destroy this industry. now of ‘considerable proportions. Th is a home as well as a foreign opposition to the elaim of jurisdiction made by the government, but to the monopoly en- joyed by the Alaska Fur company, and this is likely to be qu ite as troublesome as the demand of England to know the ground of our claim. It is not improbable that in time the goyernment will have to surrender its position. A NEWSPAVER correspondent has dis- covered that “our first lady’s note paper and envelopes have ‘Executive Mansion, Washington,’ on them in quite small sil ver capitals, The seal in white wax has b monogram impressed on if dently by her own dainty fingers.” The startling discovery will yet be made by some gushing space-filler that our first lady sharpens her own lead pencils. Mrs. Cleveland is a charming, sensible woman, and the silly twaddle of some correspondents grows very w earisome. BTATE AND TERRITORY, Nobraska Jottings. West Point has organized a board of trade. » Yugk‘s new jail is steel lined and cost 500, Seward has decided to build water- works, ji Red Cloud will season. Blue Springs is tfe latest cyclone town in the state. i Saunders county has a school popula- tion of 7,644, The festive trumap has opencd head- quarters in Blair, A forty acre patch near Hastings re- cently sold for §40,000. it The new tlour mill at Stella was stroyed by fire Friday night. The Aurors Raphublican has enlarged its shape und evil tendencics. Valparaiso authorities haye opened war on the poker dens of the town. The creamery at Ulysses, capacity 2,500 pounds per day, has started up. The Congregationalists of Seward have decided to invest $10,000 in a house of worship. Auburn is negotiating for a creamery and a cannery, with fair prospects of success. A thunderbolt made a cool strike in Crete Friday night. An ice house was burned. Stromsburg has a Fat Men's club of base runners. The combined weight of tho nine is 2,700 pounds. Nebraska City has another “gigantic scheme” in tow—the extensjon.of the Missouri Pacitic to Denver. The spring clean-up in Hastings un- coyered the body of a babe in a back- yard. No time for funerals there. The snide jewelry fakir has kooked all the suckers in Neligh. It was the softest snap he struck outside of ¥remont. The Greenwood Hawkeye is doad. Cause, lack of support. A town without DApers is as noiseless as a cemotery. Arapahoo has decided on a waterworks plant. It will cousist of reservoirs, windmills and a chemical five engins. It is reported in Blair that Omaha cap- italists will resurrect the National bank of that town with a eapital of $100,000. The towe of Calhoun is torn up over a report that the treasurer is short several hundred dollurs. An investigation is tatked of. There are 3,02) persons enrolled in the Sunday schools of Suline county. and there are 4,184 who will never be ace d of early picty. The Republican ciation have declarc one ballasted roads. e is sole-rending. ‘he Indians on the Winnebago reser- vation are said to be muking » much greater success than usual in their farm- ing operations this spring. ‘The Missouri Pacific has completed two surveys for the broposed cxtension to Crete. Work will be comme 13 s0on as the town votes a bonus of 35,000, 35 blocks are going Ihe coming of the ad has produced con- tho building line. John 18 booked for a lecture in I It is understood that he will ayoid all reference to his profitable work in the last presidential campa The Patrick brothers of Omah: Ve purchased Congres: Dorsey’s farm of §J0 acres in Dodge county, which will ade the nueleus of a large cattle h. try prohibition for & de- Valley Editorial asso- eternal war on The uncven sur- siderable activity Ex-Governor S ad bridge over the Missour: river at Rulois progressing rap- idly. The third picr is nearly completed, and work on the iron spans has com- menced. Horse thieves are actively engage Dahkota county.;A pair from Sioux City, weo visited several barns and ran off two horses, were captured 1n Yankton and brought back. D. R. P. Butt, of ‘Benkleman, disputed the vight-of -way with a flying train at the station Thursday. Theengine smote him on the hip, cut " a four inch gash on his head and landed him in the ditch. A Kml%e(lvo damage suit may induce i live. Columbus is waking up, The merry bells of street railways will soon heard. A company of strong capitalists has been organized Lo build and operate a motor line. Packing houses and stook- yards will undoubtedly follow before the summer waues, The Lyons Mirror mournfully asserts that “‘a disposition 18 manifested on the rt of our contemborarios to make ght’ of the immense coal find ut this place.” Why not? Minnie Miller, the precocious Dayid City OIIIIFIIGI‘, who tried to join the :npl'u with a revolver, because her father reprimanded her for disobedience, is slowly recovering. The crop of snakes has largely in- creased in Knox county since Creighton corked the kegs in town. A ten foot spotted adder was killed on the highway near Kemuma last woek, Miss Christina Ruchert, a German girl residing near Belvidere, while steering a sulky plow attached to a spirited team, was thrown from her seat and her skull crusl Death took her in. During a storm at Benkleman last week, a flash of lightning struck Jim George on the head and cremated his pompadour topknot. The nude aspect of his erown Jim now ascribes to recent piety. He will travel as a lightning rod agent. Will N. King, a democratic freenooter, who was hooted out of Red Cloud last summer, has met with a sim experi- ence in Holdre where he attempted to run a newspaper on credit, ‘The grip of a mortgage tightened on his tongue and hushed him, The Lime Kiln club of Aurora now holds its regular meetings on the green sward outside the town limits, The pres- ident vents his pleasure with a gavel on a keg of beer und the secrctary chalks the proceedings on the faucet. Patriotic speeches are sandwiched with Iiberal po- tations, vineyards in Wilber and vicinity are suffering” from & peculiar black cut worm which burrows into the vine near the leaf stalk ana follows down the pith, killing all above where the worm enters. They are about a quarter of an inch in and a little over one-third as wide, usually ack vines in - portions less an three-eighths of an inch in dinmeter, The soldiers of Madison joining counties will pienic in Webster's grove, ten miles from Madison, on Ju and 4. Each family will be expected to bring double rations that none may go away hungry, and all persons who ?\:\n' or can obtain tents will bring them so that amuole shelter may be had for those pres- ent. A man named Snyder met a horrible death in Butler e ast Tuesday. He attempted to res tailion from the burning barn of A, C. Fenderson, but the animal, frantic with fear, crushed him into insensibility in the sta On recov- ering he managed to crawl from the building, but was so badly burned that he died ina fow minutes.” The animal also perished, An Ottumwa, [a,, young man named Charley Stoops, aged 19, became too in- timate with a David City miss of 16, and when the young woman was found to be in a deheate condition Char] fled to Denyer, The young lady's mother wouldn’t have it so, and with the girl went to Ottumwa and interviewed the fugitive’s family, The two mothers came toan understanding and in company with the not. wisely-but-too-well sort of a girl made & trip to Denver, found Charley, and the hotel parlor was the scene of quict little wedding. Both families are wealthy and highly respectable, “‘Omaha has paid no attention to the ridicule of outsiders,” says the Broken Bow Statesr “but has gone ri; with the investigation of the coal find, and has demonstrated, at least to her own satisfaction, she has not only coal, but an abundance of it of a good ality. It begins to look like there was iing in it. A hole bored at the stockyards has tapped a coal vein that corresponds to the one discovered at the bridge, three miles away. If in reality the coal exists, as reported, Omaba is destined in the necar future to become the great rival of Chicago.” lowa 1tems, The city council of Webster. City has ordered all barbed wire fences within the city limits to be removed. _ The Gate City prophesies that ‘‘if the inter-state commerce law stands ten rg Keokuk will have 100,000 people.’” ‘The total assessment of the railroads in the state last year was $33,000,000. this year $38,370,000. he mileage last year was 7,500, this year it 1s 7,011, The business men of Keokuk think a free bridge at that voint would materi- ally enhance the prosperity of that city :‘\nd un effort is to be made in that direc- ion. On Wednesday a car load of very fine beef cattle, bound for Chicago, took fire between Colo and State Conter, on the Northwestern road. Some of thc cattle were burned to death and others so badly injured that they nad to be killed. “'Sioux City voted to extend its city limits on Tuesday last,” suys the Bur- lington Hawkeye, “'and now the place is six miles square. That means thirty-six square milesor 22,040 acres, As the popula- tion is probably 20,000, including men, women and children, each inhabitant has more than an acre to kick around in. They evidently beliove in lots of elbow room up there in Sioux City." Dakota. voted $15,000 for a city The third annua! territorial fair will be held at Mitchell, September 26 to 30. The sum of $18,000 is offered in premiums. The Aberdeen artesian well has ceased its mammoth operations and only runs o small stream. It is thought the tube is choked at the bottom. The new artesian well at Yankton, de- signed to furnish vower for tha electric light muchinery, is down 400 feet and a lay-ofl is being taken in order to repair the drilling machinery. The Dakota Bell received a subscrip- tion recently from an association whose letterhead bore the following remarkable legend: *'Oflice of the Brule County Horse Racing association (successors to the Young Men's Christian association). The totul indebtedness of the city of irand Forks is §43,000; assessed valua- tion, $1,400,644: money in the treasury, $12.000. Tre outgoing councii leaves the city in a prosperous condition, finan- cially, the assets in waterworks, etc., in- dependent of cash on hand, being $150,000. e Among the Centenarians, . Polly Crommett, one of Newark's, settlers, died last Wed- ay, aged 80 years. She was one of throng that welcomed Governor Clinton on his passage along the Erie canal when it was first_opened. Charles Webster, aged 85 years, who od v St. Joseph, Mich., a faw days ago, was the oldest person in the county. One of the oldest por: i Engiand i3 Mrs. Betz Averill, who re- I sbrated her 100th birthday at ew Preston, Conn. The state Indi ation passed resolutions of respect. liss Catherine Heathorn, known far and wide as the “Maid ot Keut'' is on the first quarter stretch of her one hundred and fourth year. She is said to be enjoy- wng good health. Mutthias Graef, aged ninety-four years, died a few days ago at Lancaster, Pa. He was a veteran of the war of 181 Three aged ladies died in Palatine, N. Y., last week. Mrs. Elizabeth Reck died Thursday, aged eighty-two years; Mrs. Margaret Dillenbeck, Friday, aged cighty years, and Mrs. Jobn Gray, Friday, agea about eighty years. One of the oldest ladies in Pennsylva- nia was Mrs. Amy Engle, who disd near Beaver a short time #go. She was ninety years old. Up to the time of her death she never experienced a day's sickness. She left a large number of descendants. Hiram Spicer, a resident of Platte,Mo.. was eighty-five years old when he die last Saturday. He was a resident of Platte county for nearly forty-five years. Protem, Mo., lost an old_citizen Sun- day by the aeath of “Old Father" Jack- son. He was in his ninety-sixth years, Atone time he was & Mormon preacher, He had been biind thirty years. ——— _ It hus been observed that banquetin is becoming more and more a feature of sociul lifc in this country. AMBITION SLEW THE ANGELS And it Likewise Brought to Grief Stage Robber William Johnson. HIS MIGHTY BRAIN WORK. A Notorious Rond Agent Who Soared too High—Cursing His Ambition and Regreting His Departure From His Pamiliar Labors, MinNepOKA, Idaho, April 80.—=Judge ys, of this circuit, has just sentenced tolong terms in the penientiary three men who say they have had the worst run of luck that ever overtook anybody on this carth before. They were stage rob- bers and all-round desperadoes, who finally attempted a picce of fine work and got caught at it. The leader was Bill Johnson. His two assistants were Tom Lovett and Sam Young. Johnson was sentenced to twenty years in the penitentinry at Boise City, and the others to eight years each. After sentence had been passed Johnson fell into a wedita- tive mood, and in conversation with the Sun correspondent he thus describes his adventures: “I was led into this game by the reflection that stage robbery was going out of 1on. Lots of the boys hadn't been n ing their salt, Stage afler stage been held up without™ getting a nickel, and it seemed as though all the money in the country was in the hands of the banker: railroad managers or the express companies, ed to live down cast and 1 rememb that when men in my line wanted thing down there they had to bring some brain work into lay, and so 1 thought out an elaborate eme. | got Lovett and Young, and when I had explained the thing to them they joined in mighty quick. Now, what I want to be set aright on is this: My scheme was all right, but if anybody else ever played in worse luck than T did from the beginning to the end of this case, 1'd like to hear from him. As soou as 1 had put Lovett and Young on guard down the road I tixed up a money package, marked it 5,000, and after dy ing it to myself in care of the First National bank of Laramie, Wyo., 1 handed it to the agent of the Pa. citie Express company at Albion, and got his receipt for it. 'The express had to go by stage from Albion to Minne- doka, where it caught the Oregon Short Line train, and U had arranged to have Lovett and Young hoid up the coach somewhere on the route. This they did in great shape, as we all thought at the time. They came out suddenly on the driver,and wade him throw up his hands and the passengers get out. Then they seized the express box and made off with it. I waited a while, and then,on receiv- ing word from Laramie that my package had not a: d, I made a demand on the company for the money, threatening a suit in the United Stutes court if it was not inrllwnmmg immediately. I gave myself a heap of style, but it did not last long. Before I got out of the office they had me under arrest, and two days later they brought in Lovettand Young. Just about that time I began to wonder what special weaknessthere was in my scheme. I found out pretty quick. *“T'he agent up at Albion had suspected that the package did not contain money, and he had examined it only to di that it was full of paper, but he sent it just the same. Then it so happened that of the three passengers on the stage that morning one was Judge Hays and an- other was a detective. They just let m boys have all the fun they wanted wilfl them. At the same time it was all fixed that when I showed up with an indignant demand for ndemnitication they would clap me into jail, and that 18 what they did. The deteotive had been on the trail of Lovett and ,vuungfi and he brought then: in ns soon as he wanted them. They tcok the whole of us to Blackfoot after a while, and it was there that we broke jail. “To" show you somecthing about luck that perhaps you never thoughtof before want to say about this breaking jnil that we hadn’t gone more than three miles from town before we stirred up a party of fifty Shoshone Indians, wild as colts, who took us for horse thieves, and chased us over four or five counties, un- til we _finally circled around and took refuge in their camp, where they kept up such an infernal racket that before an- other day had passed every white man for a hundred miles was at hand. As soon as 1 saw what a devil of afix we had got into I tried to coax the redskins to lotup, ana once whon L thought thoy were willing to listen to reason I started out in the open to talk with them, but they began firing, and before I could get back to cover they had me wounded in o couple of places. ~ Young got a_bullet, too. I'll bet a hundred to one that no other white mun who ever broke jail in s country ever had the luck to fall right into a tribe of savages who wanted fight, and wouldn't let up. Well, they got us again, and then we had to nurse our sores for a time, “I had begun to feel a little down- hearted, but as yot [ had kept up a bold front and had resolved to make a big fight in court, when at the very opening of the proceedings the prosceuting attor- ney laid on the table the identical pack- age that L had left with the agent at Al- bion. There”it was in my handwriting, the ‘§35,000" looking s big as a circus bill, When it was explained that tnis this package had not gone in the safe at all, but was in the driver's pocket, and that the envelope which Lovett and Young had got and had burned up was a spurious one, 1 began to weaken. The thing was getting a little too deep for me, and 1 found myself wishing that 1 had kept out of schemes of every sort. The evidence agamnst me was tolerabl straight, but it was nothing in compari- son with what they had on the other fol- lows. The detective who arrested them was the chap who was on the coach, and all h had to do was to identify them, but the worst was to follow. 1didn’t know until the judge began to talk that he was on the stage, too, and then I saw that there was no Judge Hayes is a fair man, no . but I don’t expeet a man who has nin a hold-up to lean very much toward the fellow who fixed the thing, He didn’t either. I just though that the best thing for me to do was to keep my mouth shut. With the luck that I was playing in I might say something that would hang me, and so 1 simply bowed my head and took the twenty yeurs, “1 suppose nothing can save me now, You see | got twelve years extra for my brain work. If I had kept in the line of plain stage robbing | would have been ree yet. When I get out Idaho will be a state, no doubt, and there won't be much of a chance then, If you ever hear of a fellow who gets it in the neck like I have, 11 thank you if you'll send me & paper telling all about it. I'm the rankest sucker this side of the National park.” FATE OF FAITHLESSNESS. A Kentucky Romance That Ended in & Washington Tragedy. The death of the venerable Judge Jos, H. Bradley, of Washington, rccalls the celebrated case which was tie central fact of his career and which obtamed & national renown., He was the oldest member of the bar in the istrict of Co- lumbia, and a gentleman ot excellent re pute and high standing in the commun- ity. His ability as an advocate, which always ranked well, was put to » hard test and did not prove lacking in the case to which allusion has been mado, and with the details of h the couns try was ringing twenty-three years ago. Along during the war there was a young unmarried man named Burrows, in the employ of the government heres He was a clerk in the tres depart- ment, and was engaged to bem d to a Kentueky el named Mary Harris, Burrows himself was a Kentuckian also, I believe, but I am not sure as to this pomnt. They had been engaged for along time and it had been understood between them that as soon as possible after he had gained his expeeted clerke ship at Washington, and had got settled and a dittle “ahead” financially, he would notify her and the marriage would then take place. BURROWS GOT HIS POSITION and kept i long while, but the stipu- lated notitication was not fortheoming. Months elapsed and perhaps years, but he seemed not to be able to get “settled enough to marry—ut rate the Ken- wirl heard no news of the desired \‘although they corresponded con- stantly, as bethrothed lovers, and his let« ters, as well as hers, were all tha could wish them to be. But thongh Burrows apparently had so much difticulty in getting things ready for_his marringe with Mary Harris, ho had found it easier to manage in the of another fair damsel whom he had met in this city, and i the light of whose smileg he had allowed the vision of his faithful Kentucky girl to fade and vanish away. In other words he changed his mind, and proved fickle to Mary, and that, too, without informing her “of the fact, cither directly or indircetly; and his mairiage to the other lad t last ap- pointed for a certain day in 1874, But mn an evil hour for him Mary Har- ris in some way received information of the pertidy of Burrows, and of the date of his proposed nuptials—the time then be. ing near at She did not col 50 or spend any time in lamentation or con- ferences with her kindred and triends, As soon as she heard the news she started .nr\-(-u“- for Washington, just asshe was. She did not change her dress, nor did she stopto “‘pack up.” Withou: baggage or change of apparel she went at once from her howe to the railway station, uully stopping on the road to buy a pistol, anc TOOK THE FIRST TRAIN EASTWARD. Upon her arrival in this city she went to no hotel or restaurant; but, without any dallying and at the same time without any perceptible excitement 1n her man- ner, proceeded straight to the treasury building, walked into one of the en- trances, found her way to the right cor- ridor, sent word into Burrows' room that some one wished to sec him outside the door, and when he responded in person, after exchanging a few sentences with him and learning from him that the news was true, she quietly drew her pistol and shot him dead, almost on the cve of his wedding day. She then turned on her heel and walked off in a business-like way, but made no effort to escape and was of course soon arrested. The tragedy and the unusu circumstances attending it made a pre found impression on the public far and near. ‘The trial was highly sensational and attracted spectators from all parts of the country. Mary Harris’ counsel was JudgeiBradicy, and although the evidence Was strongly fgainsther and the senti- ment of the public, which mi been on her side if she had not cool about it all, was also rather against her, the judge brought her through tri- umphantly ~ on the theory thot though perfectly sane before and after the occurrence, she was at that time suf- fering from a temporary acute attack of *‘emotional insarity.” This was the fitst instance of precisely this line of defense and the phrase beeame a byword every- where, Notwithstanding the popular in- credulity as to the existence of such a thing as momentary “EMOTIONAL INSANITY." and notwithstanding its apparent we: ness as n plea, it was successful in this case und was subsequently applied with frequency and success in “similar casos, the case of Laura D, Fair, who killed ex- Senator Crittenden in California, being perhaps the most conspicuous one. But Marry Harris did not get off scott free immediately. She was adjudged innocent of murder, but still insane, and accordingly she was sentenced to con- finement in St. Elizabeth’s asylum in this city. The scene at her acquittal wasa most extraordinary one. here was a reat hubbub " the midst of which udge Bradley kissed his fair client and exclaimed that if there were more like her there would be fewer scamps in tho world—which proposition would seem to be undeniably true. Miss Harris was subjected to nominal confinement in the asylum for many years, although in reality she was under no constraint. She could come and 'fo when she liked, and if she had chosen to she could have eseaped at any time. In fact, she often passed whole months away from the asylum at Virginia Springs or other summer resorts, Al- most everybody felt sure that she was notn the least insane. ‘The sequel may not be known to many but it is one of the most striking parts of L lur{A After some years Judge Brad: got Mary Harris legally dischargec from the asylum a8 restored to sanity, and then married her. And to-day the heroine of the tragedy of 1865 is bending tearfully over the death-bed of the faith- ful man who suved her life and has been devoted to 1t ever since, THE PERFECT Self Revolving Churn Dasher Quickest Selling Article Ever Inveated PRICE OF DASHER, $1.25 Needano talking butreally (s tho Preiiost Showing 'Arvlclo on tho Market. OmAnA, Neb., April 2%, 1857.—This is to certify that we, the undersigned, In'!\'c this day witnessed a churning by “The Perfect” Self Revolving Churn Dashers,’ which resulted in producing 3! pounds of first class butter from one gallon of cream in jnst one minute and fi W. 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