Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 21, 1887, Page 4

T AR b 5 T 0 12 TR THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1887. H—_—__———n——_————_————-—— THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERVS OF BUBSCRIPTION Dafly (Morniag Edition) Including Sunday Brp, One Year. ... o 8 ‘or Bix Months or Three Monthe ... sasipRIsvEEs he Omahn Swnday [k, mailed to any nddress, Une Yoar. Nn 918 FARNAM STREEY AfIA OvPICE, NO. FW VORK OPFICE, ROOM i, TRIBUNE BU 3 ASHINGTON OFPFICE, NO. 515 FOURTEENTIL 8 [ REE L. CORRESPONDENCE! All communioations relating to nesws and edi. torial maiter should be addrcssed o the Kbl TOK OF THE D) NBSS LETTERS! ATl business lettors and romittances should be addressod 1o Tug Bes PusL 0 COMPANY, OMAIA. Drafts, chocks and postoffice orders 0 be mado paywblo to the order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETCRS, E. ROSEWATER, Eptron. THE DAILY BEE. Bworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, }’ a. County of Douzlas. i) Geo. ‘Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear hat the actual circuiation of the Daily Bee for the week ending May 15, 1857, was as follows Friday, May 13 Average..... o142 GEO. 1. TZSCHUOCK. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 16th day of May, 1557. N. P. Frir,, [SEAL.] Notary Publie. Geo. B. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he'is secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that tlie actual average daily circulation of the Dally Beo for the month of May, 1556, 12 1886, 12,28 copies : for July, 1 X for August, 189, 12,484 copies; for ¢ ber, 189, 13,030 copies; for October, 1358, 1290 copies; for November, 1580, ' 13,348 copies; for December, 185, 13,337 copies; for Janu 1887, 16,200 cop) for Februarv. 107, 1010 coples;. for , 1857, 14,400 copies; for April, 1887, 14,316 copie G0, B. TZ8CHUCK, Subseribed and "lv:'&;“ to before me this 7th P. Friw, Notary Public. ToroNTO wants free trade. O'Brien wants free speech. —e Toe visiting strangers to Omaha ex- press themselves as charmed with our city. A PETRIFIED body has been found n Illinois. And the Illinois legislature is still in session. — QuekN KAPIOLANT has sailed for Eu- rope. She proposes to see the Wild West ‘‘as she is shown Tie SuNpAY BEE will be up to the usual standard of excellence. It is not an advertising sheet, but a model nows- paper. AN Jowa paper nowmnates Senator Allisoa for president. Padded booms aro not alone confined to towns and cities these days. Tae United States circuit court has held that the Georgia local option is con- stitutional, There will be many jugs relegated to the cellar. ‘THE religious gymnasts of Kansay City have greatly vexed the Zwmes’ editor. He declares that the Salvation army must go. But like the brook, it will go on forever. Rumor says the Atchison & Santa Fe will buiid into Nebraska. With all the railroad rumors in the air, the inter-state law is certainly proving disastrous to the railroads. ‘Tue Chicago Mail succeeded in bring- ing to justice the Cook county boodlers, but it nurses a delusion when it thinks Robert Lincoln stands any show of being nominated for the presidency. — Tur entire James family, of Mfssouri, was naturally bad. Jesse, son of the robber, is following in the tootsteps of his father, 1t is announced that he has gone to work in a Kansas City real estate office. Cuuren Howe, the Nemaha statesman, has returned from the south greatly im- proved in health. The fear of his sud- den demise, was dispelled by those who remembered the quotation to the effect that “‘the good die young.” —— Tak English holders of confederate bonds feel hopoful of their success in hav- mg our government redeem them. As we understand it the confederacy has suspended. Mr. Davis might postpone his war articles and contribute a letter on the bond question. ——— UNDER a recent Mexican Jaw the pen- alty for putting obstructions on a rail- road track, or in any way meddling with awitches or rails so as to endanger the lives of passengers or trainmen, is death. Accordingly, three Mexicans who under- took to test the law, in order to determine whether it was constitutional, were shot by ofticers the other day. THE city seems to be at present more than usually infested with thieves and burglars. Nuwmcrous operations of the latter class, in sections of the city that are entirely without police protection, have come to our knowledge within a fow days. 1t would seem that in antici- pation of increased and better police ser- Vica an organized movement is making Dy the criminal classes to gather the har- ‘vost while it 1s within their reach. Citi- wons in exposed quarters will do well to exercise more than ordinary vigilance, . and the police commission should see to it that the new force is fully organized at sihe required time, e——— Tue following crisp and sensible essay 90 advertising, from the San Francisco Call, is worthy of the careful perusal of every business man: ‘‘Advortisers ne- glect their own interest when they allow themselves to be seduced into giving an advertisement to a paper which offers to geint it cheap. Cheap advertising is the iearest in the world. Itis money abso- fntely thrown away. A newspaper pro- mflor who has a large circulation, knows value ot his space and never offers to docheap work. He knows he cansell all his advertising space at the market rice. If he begins to cut rates, it is be- ©ause hus ciroulation is falling off, and he B8 afraid the public is aware of the fact. A newspaper which ofters to take adver- gdsements atlow rates, practically con- fesses that it bas no circulation.” Governor Thayer's Offense. Where is Congressman MecShane? Does he sanction the brutal and indecent assault which his paper is making upon Governor Thayer, because forsooth he not appointed its editor on the police commission and thereby had blocked the conspiracy to place Omaha under the in- direct control of the lawless elements through Humphrey Moynihan? It se to us that Mr, McShane owes 1t to him- self as well as to his official position as representative of thiscongressional dis- trict, to treat the chiet executive of this state with common decency. It has come to a pretty pass when the governor of this state is to be lampooned by irresponsible hired blackguards be- cause he has had the backboue to resent their insolent demands in the selecion of the Omaha police com- mission. Itis no disgrace to Governor Thayer that he is an old man but itis a shame that an old veteran like Governor Thayer who was one of the pioncers that laid the foundations of this city and state should be vilified through Mr. Me- Shane’s paper by 8 man who hus scarcely been here long enough to vote. In giving mortal offense to the Roth- aker, Morrissey and Moynihan combine, Governor Thayer has not only acted upon his honest convictions of official obligation but has earned the gratitude of every law-abiding citizen of Omaha. Governor Thayer can afford to ignore the abuse to which he has been subjected but Mr. McShane eannot afford to allow his editor to repeat the outrage. — The Now Chief of Police. A great howl has been raised over the appointment of chief of police the pupers whose editors had been rejected candidates for the police commission. Who is Captain Seavey, they ask, and how long has he lived in Omaha? Coming from men who have lived in Omahaonly a few months longer than Ceptain Seavey this outburst of pent-up indigna- tion over the appointment of a tende: foot is, to say the least, decidedly amus- ing. How much longer has ** Captain Moynihan lived in Omaha than Captain Seavey? The preference for a comparative new- comer shown by the commission may, however, be criticised on the ground that Moynihan was not the only candidate, and others who have resided in Omaha many years should not have been ignored. On this point the commission can only justify its action upon the grounds that it exercised its privilege to choose who- soever in its judgment was best fitted for the position. The fact that Captain Sea- vey is not an old resident of Omaha does not militate against him. On the con- trary it may prove of material advant- age, both to the police force and the city. He has not mixed with any political fac- tion, and has had no part in any quarrel. He has no pets on the old police force and no friends to advance over their heads outside of the force. He comes entirely untramelled by any obligations political or personal. 1f competent to organize the force and maintain proper discipline he will en- counter fewer obstacles than an old resi- dent. The charter gives the commission fnll authority to select the members of the police force regardless of their citi- zenship. Any appointive office may be filled by non-residents. Thisapplies to the city engineer and his assistants, as well as 1t does to the chief of police, and his subordinates. This is eminently proper. We haveimported our school superinten- dents from Chicago, St. Louis and Cleve- land, why not import our chief of police from Califorma it he is better fitted for the discharge of his duties than men who reside among us. Omaha cannot be walled in by old residents, The majority of our citizens have located here during the past five years. It is another thing with elective offices and honorary positions like those of the po- lice commission, They ought to be filled by men who have by long residence established reputation. The citizens of Omaha have a common interest in the new motropolitan police force. They want good goyernment and any chief who will organize our police and make it efticient in the preservation of order will receive their cordial moral support. —— Saturday Half Holidays, The new law of New Y ork, providing for Saturday half holidays, goes into effect to-day. Although this act 1s un- derstood to have been promoted by rep- resentatives of the labor interest, it is not clear from the reading of the iaw in what respect this interest will be largely bene- fitted. The employes in the public offices of the state and counties, which are re- quired to be closed, will receive freedom from labor after 13 o’clock without loss of pay. The banks will close at noon, before which hour all bank paper falling due on Sat- urday, must be presented for pay- ment or acceptance, and of course the salaries of bank employes will not be affected. But so far as general labor is concerned the law really seems so have no reference to it, leaving the question of work and wages to be settled between the employer and employe. It is very likely that a great many industries, when not under any pressure, will regard this just as they do every other legal holiday, but certainly not all of such as do will have the gencrosity to pay thewr em- ployes for the half day lost. In these cases labor, will simply have secured the right to a halt a day of idleness at the cost of half day's wages, In the aggregate this will amount to a very large sum that the wage-workers of New York will pay for their privilege. On the other hand, the continuance of any in- dustrial business 18 not interfered with by the law, so that any establishment can refuse the half holiday to its em- ployes, and doubtless at the outset very wany will. 1u no way, therefore, as we read the act, can we discover what gen- eral advantage the labor interest expects or can derive from this new law. The convenience of the employer will de- termine whether or not the holiday shall be observed by lus emploves, except at their own risk, and his generosity or lack of it, will decide whether or not the employes shall receive pay if the holiday is observed. Perbaps no other plan was practicable, but it may be shown that in this matter the labor interest has really obtained an unprofitable privilege, if, in- deed, the arrangement sball prove to be a privilege to any large number of them. A Saturday half-holiday movement 1s being promoted in Boston, and doubtless others will be started elsewhere. The result of the experiment in New York will therefore have a widespread interest. If it shall be shown to conduce to the moral, material and physical advantage of wage earners, as its advocates claim it must, then a prompt and earnest effort will be made for the general adoption of the system. Meanwhile, the vractical results of the law which goes into cffect in New York to-day, will have an interest for all who labor and who employ labor. Benstly. The Omaha morning slugger vro- nounces the appointment of Captain Seavy as chief of police beastly. Why is it beastly? Is Captain Seavey a dissolute bummer? Does he hang around the Third ward dives and delight 1 the beastly companionship of sluggers and thugs? Does he carry a slung shot in his overcoat pocket to strike down defense- less men? Has he ever been known to leyy blackmail upon gamblers or lived upon the earnings of crooks? If so, his appointment is beastlv and should be revoked, As far as we can learn, however, Cap- tain Seavey does not answer that daserip- tion. He has no beastly habits or asso- ciations, but on the contrary, is reputed to be upright, manly and respectable. Tne boodle gang that tampered with the new charter at Lincoln last winter is now at work trying to defeat Mr. Louis Heimrod'’s confirmation as member of the board of public works. The orgamst of this disreputable clique has called upon Mayor Broatch to withdraw the name of Mr. Heimrod and backs this in- solent request by a tissue of libels upon Mr, Heimrod. Majyor Broatch is not likely to be influenced by this inexcus- eble assault. He knows that Mr. Heim- rod is a man of unswerving integrity and unblemished reputation. He is not an upstart adventurer in Omaha, but one of our solid business men. He has been honored time and again by the German-Americans ot Omaha. He is the president of the Omaha Turners' Society and has been president of the Maenuerchor. He has been actively ilentified with the German- American school and every benevolent and industrial enterprise undertaken by Omaha German-Am ans. In select- ing him Mayor Broatc h has notonly recog nized a large element of our population, but & man whom the boodlers and con- tractors’ gang cannot influence, AN ignoramus on one of the local pa- pers doubts whether Captain Seavey will be contirmed by the cou as chief of police. Captain Seavey is already confirmed. The police commissioners have elected him chief, and the council has no power to revoke the appointment, TueE Oklahoma Iand question is again being debated and Captain Payne's soul goes marching on. Tue 3[(;)‘71]!;!?—“0“!:\0& -Morrissey combine is a bursted bubb! Other Lands Than Ours. he most important event of the week in Europe has been the Krench cabinet crl ‘Che fall of the Goblet ministry not wholly unexpected, It came into power only last December, and has since encountered a good deal of insidious opposition. It was the twenty-fourth cabinet France has had during the sev- enteen yoars® existence of the republic. M. de Freycinet has been asked by the president to form a new cabinet, and the result is awaited by Europe with a good deal of ans . Perhaps the most mmportant considera- tion connected with the formation of the new ministry relates to the question of how Boulanger will be disposed of. Nothing could better illustrate the great influence to which this soldier has at- tained than the fact that all Europe seems to measure the probabilities of peace or war by what shall be done with him 1n the organization of a new cabinet. For a man who not more than two years ago was little known outside of military circles, Boulanger has certainly had a most remarkable rise. He probably de- siresto remain at the head of the war oftice, but he will do soon his own terms. The disposition of the dominant politieal forces n France is at present peaceful. Grevy and M. de Freycinet have no de- sire to look for glory, either for the country or themselves, in & war. There is reason to believe that these statesmen would prefer to see the preparations for possible hostility less actively pursued. Boulanger is not in sympathy with them. He is a younger man than either and a soldier, and both ambition and educa- tion lead him in another direction. He moreover believes that war is inevitable, and is very sure, if he be given the oppor- tunity, to do that which will render it so. It is said to bo the opinion in Berlin that continued preparation for war must eventuate in war. The strain is already very great. The policy which Boulanger will main- tain if he remains at the head of the war office, will certainly increase the tension. This is undoubtedly the view that is be- hind the solicitude of Europe, and it is not questionable that the president and M. de Freycinet would, in constructing a new cabinet, like to quiet the prevailing unrest. But 1t may be hazardous to sac- rifice Boulanger. He has the army with him and represents the patriotic aspirations of the country. The majority of Frenchmen may not desire war now, but they wish to be ready for it, whenever it must come, and thus they are in sympathy with Boulanger's policy of adequate preparation. A ministry that shall abandon him will at the same time condemn this policy, and it is very likely would have a briofer existence than the one just fallen. Itis a dilemma that may prove exceedingly perplexing to M. de Freycinet. * s Three times the prime minister of France, and filling other public positions which have made him entirely familiar with all the machinery of government, M. de Freycinet isone of the most distinguished among contemporary statesmen. He is thoroughly in sympathy with republican institutions, and was at one time the favorite lieutenant of the ‘‘grand pa- triot,” Gambetta, sharing with that il lustrious man the glory of the work of national defense. Before 1870 De Frey- cinet was not much more than a civil en- gineer, but in September of that year he was given a prefecture, and within a few years he was at Tours aschief of the mil- itary cabinet and virtual director of the war. He did wonders in organizing the new armies that fuced the Gerwans in every quarter of France. Tn" less ‘than’| four months this man, who had passed bhis early lfe in building railways, writ- ing essays or making reports on the sewers of Tonflon, raised 600,000 soldiers, armed thend, and sent them 1nto the field. Subsequently as minister of public works he promoted great improve- ments throughount t‘%mco, many of which will remain for ggef monuments of his sagacity. Since then he has held the presidency of the council, has admin- istered both war and-foreign affairs, and has perfected his experience of parlia- mentary life. The prestige of his great labors, his social (position, the personal dignity of his charaeter, and his mature age, all contribute to give him irrosisti- ble claims to the highest post in the state, for which he is thought to be the coming man, » * Progress has been made on the coer- cion bill as far as to dispose of the first clause. As soon as this result was reached, notice was given of eighty amendments to the sccond clause, and the first of these brought forward was defeated after a brief discussion by the application of the cloture. There are no new developments in the situation, so far as the contending forces in par- Liament are concerned. It is reportea that Balfour, chief secretary for Ireland, conteruplates resigning, having grown tired of the position in which he has boen a conspicuous failure. Balfour 18 the eighth incumbent of this office since 1882, The others were Lord Frederick Cavendish, murdered by the Invincibles; Sir George Trevelyan, driven from his post on account of the Dublin castle scandals, with which, however, he was in no way concerned; Campbell-Banner- man, who went out with the Gladstone government in 1834; Sir William Hart Dyke, who retired in 1885 as the tory ministry was about to go to smash; Will- iam Henry Smith, who retired with the ministers a day or so after he was sworn into office; John Morley, who was scere- tary in Giadstone's home rule cabinet: and Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, who took hold with tne present minis- try snd who retired in March. The post is said to be the most diflicult in the gift of an English ministry. Every man who has taken it, with the possible exception of Morley, has suffered in reputation. The cause is that all those appointed are Englishmen or Scotchmen utterly unacquainted with lreland. They have to cope in debate on Irish affairs with well-posted, clever I[rishmen lke Healey, Sexton and O'Connor. They cannot possibly do it successfully. They have to rely on the Dublin castle hacks for their information. That is often mis- leading and manufactured. Morley suc- ceeded because he wentto the people and their representatives for the facts and was in sympathy with the nationalists and opposed to the castle. Balfour’s dudish manners and superior airs aroused the hosBlity of the Parnell- ites from the start; { They have succeeded in laughing him 1nto’a resignation, it ap- pears. Ritchie, whoyis to be his succes- sor, is a Scotchman of fair ability, and a vrotege of Lord Randolph Churchill. He may have better success than his prede- cessor, if he has the help of his political patron. E L e Gloomy reports come from Germany rogarding the industgial situation in that country. 'The fiseal' policy of Bis: marck seems to have led to overproduction in nearly all departments of industry, and the result is serious trade depression throughout the empive. The soda industry, the iron trade, the slate and stone works, the musical in- strument manufacture, the fancy goods business, including its album and leather branches, the mastic asphalt works, the Portland cement fabricators, the jute spinning, the great weaving mills of Greiz and Gera, the wool weaving mills of Old and New Rens, the Upper Silesian linen industry, the lignite converiing companies have all been reported as groatly suffering. The 1ssues of lute Berlin commercial journals week after week, simply repeat the most doleful records of a trade depression, which, according to the Berlin cable- grams, reached its culmination on the 16th inst, in the failure of seven or cight large woolen houses in that city, one for the sum of 1,000,000 marks, the others for larger and smaller sums. In fact, tho report is to the effect that there secms to be no end to the failure of business houses and to the ruinous suspensions of banks and business firms in other parts of the country, which have been pulled under by this Berlin panic. * o The wear and tear of the gold coinage in Great Britain has at last brought par- liament to seriously consider the ques- tion of authorizing the issue of one- pound notes. 1t is certainly strange that with the oxample constantly before them of the convenient and by no means harmtul employment of one-pound notes in Scotland, the English governinent and veople should have adhered to the five- vound limitation on bank notes until the loss of gold by abrasion, hastorced them to comsider a method of prevention which has been practiced ‘successfully for generations by their nearest neighbors and kinsmen. The original objection to the one-pound note was largely hu- manitarian. That is, when counterfeit- ing was a capital offence people recoiled from putting the temptation of small notes in the counterfeiter’s way. It seemed worth while to hang a man for a five-pound note, but not for a one. The objection has survived§ as is not uncom- mon in England, JoBg after the reason has been forgotten. In, matters of finance John Bull is not merély couservative, he is absolutely deaf. ¢ Mo does not even now hear the a! nts in favor of small bark notes, only feels that he has lost a plie of mbttey by carrying so much gold in his -breeches pocket, wearing out the #qid and tearing out the pocket af!the same time. A statement of the fighting strength of Italy shows very plainly that the power which attacks 1taly in the coming European contest will not have a walk- over. The Russian army only is numer- ically superior to the Italian. The availa- ble strength for defensive purposes which Italy can bring 1nto uction amounts to a total of 2,887,832 men, and she has a per- manent, though not permanently active fighting force of 893,687 men. The generals of tne Italian army are Morozzo della Rocco, Cialdini and the Duke of Gaeta. The First line, the Mobile militia, and the Ter- torial militia are the army departments, and in h of these the periods of traiu- 1ng are so arranged that nearly 1,000,000 men are kept in a constaut condition of efficiency for immediate service, The Italian sencoast, turther, is traversed by railways which would aid greatly in the repulse of an enemy. The navy, too, is strong, and surpassed only by the British navy. The three departmental com- mands of the Italian seas are at present under Viee Adm G. Acton, Viee Ad- miral F. Acton and Rear Admiral Ber- telli; the head of the acdmiralty is Rear Admiral Racchia, and the commander in chief is Admiral, the Prince of Savoie- Carignan, " England has at last agreed to fix her maximum limit for occupying Egypt at five years. Much may occur in the inter- val that would induce the porte to con- sent to prolong the term, so that the literal execution of the present compact can hardly be counted upon, Still, since the beginning of the present year Great Britain has voluntarilv reduced her forces in the khedive's dominions. She does not like the cost of occupation, and her presence there is a constant source of irritation to France. Yet the control of the Sucz canal and the insuring of a stable government for the Nile valley are points of absolute im- portance to her. Probably the arrange- ment that would suit her best would be the right to throw troops into Egypt whenever she liked. That, however, would imply a protectorate, with grave responsibilities as well as rights. * tu The anxiety of the Italians because the Spaniards are trying to get a naval foot- hold on the Red Sea wonld be inexplica- ble but for the supposition that the latter have hit on a region which Italy had already picked out for herself. There seems to be a general disposition toward the acquisition of coaling stations in the Red Sea, Russia having a little while ago been susvected of seeking a foothold J The nation which everybody seems ready to bar out is Abyssinia, which I acent, yet has no outlet on the coast. Meanwhile this anxiety for naval d coaling stations on tho Red Sea may suggest what may happen when 4 canal greater than the Suez, opens a highway from the Atlantic to the Pacitic between the two Americas. * »* An immense amount of treasure, esti- mated at $25,000,000, which has been se- creted in the palace of Gwalior, India, by the late Maharajah, has been discov- ered. It was buried beneath stones in pits filled to tho brim with silver, chiefly freshly coined rupees. In each pit was a plate recording the amount of the treas- ure, and the names of the oflicials who had assisted in secreting it. The English government in India has taken the hoard as a loan from the young Maharajah. The native papers protest against this, and the question will be raised in parlia- ment as to whether the taking of itasa loan be not another name for seizure. e An cffort is about to be made to enforce the German law against duelling. Under the sanction of the Uberhaus two mem- bers will stand judicial trial for provok- ing a duel, but it is certain toend in acquittal. In a recent discussion of this case 1n the Landtag, Count Schalenburg declared that it was the ancient and in- alienable right of the German nobility to decide questions of personal honor at the point of the sword in spite of the fact that duelling was punishable under the penal code, and his declaration met with approval. STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Red Cloud has declared war on dogs. The Missouri Pacific is booked for Crete and beyond. Nebraska city has given a five-year franchise to an electric light company. Holdrege i3 negotiating with Babcock & Strang, of Omaha, for a water-works plant, The territorial capitol at Cheyenne is almost a copy of the county court house in Omaha, "1t will be a beauty. The Hastings Gazette Journal declares 1t is high time there was a genuine tight- rope performance in Omauha, to thin out the murderers. A young Seandinavian, employed on Mac Cameron’s farm near Blair, was killed by lightning in a stable last Satur- day. His two companions had just left the building when the bolt descended. There seems to be solid ground for the reports that the Santa Fe road is heading for Omaha. Surveyors of that company are staking a route through Gage county. Committces have been appointed by towns on the proposed road to talk busi- nesa with the company. Two Ceresco mon were engaged in settling a dispute a la Sullivan, when Ed Pound, a clerk in the drug store of one of n_m'uom:)ultlgnls. rulshn out and fired a pistol at his employer's antagonist. Nobody was hit, bulpth’; pugilists were sufliciently scared to suspend hostilities there and then. Pound ‘was tuken in charge by the sheriff, and will be asked to explain, George Kalin and one Seifert, young country boys at Anslay; during oft hours made love to a buxom country lass, and their bumps of destruction enlarged with their hearts. Jealousy rankled within their pates, and each sighed for blood last week., While plowing in adjoining fields it was minutely and mu- tually agreed that the day and hour was ripe for a funeral. Kalin, loaded with a whippletree, ad- vanced on Seifert. ‘The latter retreated in good order to the house, secured a shotgun, and Ylnnmnl a charge of fine shot in the body of his rival. The wound 18 painful but not dangerous. Seifert has crawled into a gopher hole to avoid the sheriff, lowa ltems. The Sioux City constables are raiding the breweries and taking in tanglefoot by the barrel. A fiery-eyed brunette and a six-foot country dude are on trial in Dubuque for lewdness and the show attracts full houses. Of prairie lowers 1n Towa there are seventy-seven varieties in bloom in Muay, 131 in June, and 165 in July. The flora of Towa is now listed at 1,176 spo- cies. There will be a great anti-coercion meeting in Keokuk next ‘lhursday. Father Nugent, the silver-tongued orator of Des Moines, will be the principal speaker. In trying to stop a runaway horse S. L. Watt, of Sac City, was knocked down, had his jaw broken, several teeth knockes out and his face badly cut. He has re- tired from the business of heading off runaway horses. John P. Hunt, a Victor clothing mer- chant, suicided Monday night, a result of tinancial difficulty and dissipation, He left a note on his table saying: *l1 am neither drunk nor erazy.” "He was a wid- ower with one sor. Herndon has five gas wells at a depth of from 120 to 219 feet, and the natural Elé is used extensively for lighting and eltin‘.l The wells cost less than $150 each, The gas is found in a bed of fine sand below the blue clay. Dakota. The Sioux Falls polico devote a large portion of their time to shooting dogs. The rest of the natives keep within doors during the cannonade. A 810,000 court house, a $10,000 college building, a $5,000 creamery, a three-story hotel—these are some of the 1887 im- provements for Redfield. The city treasurer of Bismarck, George Reid, was found to be a defaulter and suddenly left the city for parts unknown. He was over $2,000 short in his accounts. Deadwood complains that the quality of coal oil served up there does not fur- nish light enough to swear by. The aver- age Deadwood oath loses its sulphurous power in the darkness, The finding of natural gas iu Sully county recently 18 attracting considera- bie attention from abroad and e n parties are writing to Blunt with a view of developing the tind, It is proposed to form a company among Blunt capitalists and test the matter further. The scheme to haul freight up the Mis- souri river to Pierre, and thence by bull trains across to Rapid City and other Black Hills points, is looked on with considerable fuvor by local freighters, who that this method will beat the railroads for cheap freights, A farmer living northwest of Ordway last week placed a feather bed out doors to a1t while cleaning house, and in thirty minutes afterward it was cap- tured by a neighbor three miles aw who had to mount a horse to overtake it. The next time that man puts a bed out- side he is going to stake 1t down. E. B. Chapman has submitted a propo- sition to the citizens of Rapid City to build and equip anarrow gauge road thirty miles long from Rapid City west, if they will give him a bonus of $15,000. They nccepted the proposition and forth- with }vlm zed the money and are now ready for Mr. Chapman to fulfill his part of the contract, 'The road is tc be known as the Rapid City, Wyoming & Western. The Pacific Coast, A six-legged horse is one of the sights at Woodlaud. The new county court house to be built at Los Angeles will cost $320,900. Cochise county coutains more acres of illable land than any other county in ona. The trout of Donner lake rigidly ob- serve the Sunday laws, They refuse to bite on the Sabbath, Chrome ore is bemng shipped in large quantities from Port Hartford by steamer to San Francisco, thence east by clipper ships. The chrome ore deposits are found in San Luis Obispo county, and are proving to be a source of wealth to that locality. S el Railroad Shylocks and Their Pounds of Flesh. Phlladelphia Record. The simple plan by which the Union Pacific railroad and other transportation companies work their short haul policy was to charge shippers at interior non- competitive points the through rate for the long haul, and, in addition, the local rate for the short haul. Of course, goods were not carried through from New York to San Francisco and thence back to the non-competitive point in the interior,but the charges were us much as if they had been carried on past the non-competitive point and then back. A carload of goods for some such interior point as Elko. Nev., would be dehvered there, but it would be billed from New York to San Francisco at the through rate, and then there would be a separate local bill of lading for the short haul. It was a mere fiction of railroad bookkeeping. Here are a few examples furnished by Senator Bock, of Kentucky, in_reply to Senator Platt, of Connecticut, in the debate on the inter-state commerce bill. They may be found in the Congressional Record, volume 17, part 4, page 4817: Through rate New York to San Francisco, 3,300 milos, $300. Short haul,San Francisco to 3 Total freight to Elko, York, $500, Through rate, hanl, San g miles, $416. Total frelcht to Winnemucca, 2,825 miles from New Y ork, $710. Through rato, 3,300 miles. Short haul San Franeiseo to Réno, 306 miles, $336, Total from New York to Reno, 2,994 miles from Now York, $536. Agamnst o law that is dosigned to sup- ress a gigantic iniquity like this the encficiaries, advocates, organs and tools oad monopoly have arrayed them- :s. A railroad ‘built by the money nds of the United States is made an instrument for harrying and robbing the inhabitants along its route. Farmers and mechanics in the interior m double, and sometimes treble, the rate o freight across the continent from coast to coast because they are at the mercy of u mononoif‘ created by government sub- sidy. And when a law to abate the iniquity is put in force all the hirelings of monop- olycry out in d ululations over the mischevious effects and consequences of such legislation. Instead of reducing the rates for the short haul to the lnnf;-haul rates, the Union Pacific and other corporations have raised the through charges for freight so as to make them agree with the charges for the lesser distances. This they have a perfect right to do under the law. But they can no longer charge shippers twice or three times as much as the through rate for hauling goods over only & portion of their lines. In the case of the Union Pacific there is onc obstacle to the accomplishment of 1ts programme of conforming to the law by increusing the rate for through freights to the local standard—shippers in San Francisco have the choice of water by the isthmus or around by Cape Horn. = Transit on that line is somewhat slow, but it has the ad- vantage of cheapness. When the Union Pacific railroad company shall find the rain, wool, wine and other staples of 5nlifnrnin taking the water route they will soon come to terms. They will again fix their rates of through freight to com- pete with water transportation, as they have done heretofore, and in doing so they will be obliged to abandon their op- pressive short-haul bu]i(?. Thus one great object of the law, the relief of the people alongthe route of the Pacific rail- roads, will have been achieved. A little patience, gentlemen, and the inter-state commerce law will be found an excel- lent institution , - Provincial London. Boston Advertiser: London is as senti- wental as Boston. The truth is, Horace —or. rather, Horace convenicntly per- verted—is right: “Man does not greatly change his mind when he changes his country.’”’ Sentimentalism, cultivation of Baconian idols, affectation, are all proofs of our refinement of civilization, and are as characteristic of the England and France that we envy and look up to as they are of our own Boston or ever were of Athens of old. It is very doubt- ful, by the way, if Paul would have been able to guther together so large an audi- ence as he did at his open air discourse upon the Areopagus had he been speak- ing in & city less cultivated, less polished, less vervaded with the daintily fascinat- ng tint of epicureanism and eunui than Athens. But the Athenians wanted some new thing; and so they listened to the Pauline exposition of the new religeon. The Bostonian is eager for a change, and foes the round of Browning clubs,esoteric uddhism, cheisosophy and the like, ever eager for the titillation of a new sensa- tion. And London is not very different. Of late we have been hearing of several events in tho great world-capital which show that this tendency is rife even there. 1t is amply the note of provincialism tha makes the whole world kin. In London Buffalo Billis the lion of the Not long ago_he was here with Taylor, king of the cowboys, and hus followers, Ogila-ga, the Sioux chief, and the puinted band of Arapahoes,Chey- ennes, Shoshones and Ogalallas, riding wildly and lassooing in the most mock- heroie fashion over Beacon park, many wont to see him, but who remembered him save as the hero of a circus? =~ Dis patehes reach us daily of the wondertu) ess of his exhibition there. — Yester the quoen went to see him, and ex- pressed herself as dehighted with the wild show. Mr. Gladstone has been on the grounds conversing with the chiefe and dehivering a urnmtlu-un‘m speech in praise of American instutions, decidedly in the “Big Injun® vei But this 1s not the wl “*Buf- falo Bill," says London World, *is en- joying London life thoroughly.” He has supved at the Garriek and at the Lyceum with M ing; he has been able to com- pare tl nferno” of Mephistopheles ar the “Paradise” of ‘“The Forty Thieves'; and he has made a personal acquaintance with “The Butler." Ed. mund Yates thus deseribes the scene at Drury Lane the other night: “Mr. Cody sat in the royal box with Mr. Whistler and Mr. Salisbury. = ** Mr. Henr Chaplin came up from the house with le_truth. Colonel Hughes-Hallett to make the ac- quaintance of the men of the Wild West. Lord Royston and Mr. Herbert Wilson ore x\mun;;\sl the audience, and Mr. ylor and Mr. Cody were surprised to find themselves uncomfortably dwarfed by Mr. Oswald Ames. The Americans revelled in the capers of Paul Martinetti and Charles Lauri; and when the twa ‘jubilee’ Indians appeared in the proces- sion they were greoted with a shout of delight by their friends in front, The evening will be long remembered in the ‘ranche’ at West Kensington." At sale in Paris the other day a splen- did dish of the rare old Rouen ware fotched £304. It was twenty iuches in diameter, and was beautifully painted with cupids and flowers, MOST PERFECT MADR s R THE PERFECT Self Revolving Churn Dasher Quickest Selling Article Ever Invented. PRICE OF DASHER, $1.25 Neodsno talking, but roally s the Prottiest Showing ‘Article on tho Market. OmAHA, Neb., April 28, 1887.—This is to certify that we, the undersigned, have this day witnessed a churning by “The Perfect” Self Revolving Churn Dashers,” which resulted in producing 814 pounds of first class hutter from one gallon of cream i d fiftcen secon oarch, Dr, 3 . [l amilton . K. 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