Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 23, 1887, Page 4

Pl Y THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMBE OF SUBSCRIPTION © Dafly (Moeniag Eaition) including Sunday Brr, Ono Yonr. . [ llg 0 For 8ix Months 101 For Throo Months 20 The Omaha Swnday any dress, One Year. 1 ATIA OPFICE, NO, 014 AND 918 FARNA FW YORK OFFICE, ROOM 65, TRINUNE ASHINGTON OFFICE, k: CORRESPONDENCE! All communioations relating to nows and ed- torial matter shouid bo addressed to tho Loi- TOW OF THE DEE. RUSINESS LETTERS? ATl business lctters and remittanoos should he addrossed 10 Tux ke PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAnA. Drafts, checks, and postofico orders 0 be mado puyuble 10 the order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. E. ROSEWATER, Epiton. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, ls 8. County of Douzlas. st Geo, B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing flom!mny, does solemnly swear that the actual circuiation of the Daily Bee for the week ending May 20, 1557, was as follows: GeO, 8. TzsCHUCK. Subseribed and eworn to before me this 215t day of May, 1557, N. I, Ferr, [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 averago dally circulation of the Dally Bee for the month of May, 1386, 12,439 copies; for June, 1886, 12.208 copies : for July, 1886, 13,314 copies; for Am{uni 1548, 12,464 coples; for Septem- ber, 18%, 13,080 copies; for October, 1 12,089 coples; for November, 1886, 13,348 coples; for December, 1585, 37 copies; for quur‘y 1887, 16,200 copies; for February, 18%, 14,196 coples: for March, 187, 14,400 coples; for April, 1857, 14,316 coples, Gro, B. TZsCHUCK. Buhseribed Al.n}l) sworn to before me tuis 7th M&M Mi 3 EA. Frin, Notary Publie. e ————————— Tuoe people along the Elkhorn road should prepare their complaints, and give the commission some hard facts to thlnll‘(warwhen 1t makes its tour this week. THE wires are burdened with wild speculations as to the result in '88, A programme to properly observe the Fourth of July would come nearer being in order. Two members of the Illinois legisla- ture indulged in a rough-and-tumble fight the other day in the ocapitol at Svringtield. A bill to legalize prize fighting in the sucker state will doubt- less be passed before the statesmen ad- fourn. EE———— ON an cstimated assessment of sixteen millions, the tive mill police tax author- ized by the charter will yield $80,000 for the next fiscal year. Eighty thousand dollars will support a police force of sev- eniy patrolmen and ten officers, includ- ing chief of police, three captains and five licutenants, besides covering the ex- pense of patrol wagons. E——— Ir the people of any section of this state want to co-operate with Omaha in any worthy enterprise or project they should have sensc enough not to inflict a legislative boodler on this community as one of their prominentand respected citi- zens. Keep the boodlers at home or make them emigrate to some cooler climate. Omaha has no use for them. E— 17 is to be hoped that the suit brought by Marshal Ficld against the directors of the water works coiopany wiil not de- lay the much needed enlargement of the works. Nobody in Omaha outside of the stockholders cares anything about the 1nsido operations of the company, but every man, woman and child in Omaha i3 interested in the water supply. — TrE marshal has ordered the saloon keepers to remove the beer kegs from the sidewalks every Saturday night so that people going to church Sunday will not haye to stumble over them. No fault can be found wath this order. If the volice would also cause the removal of corner loafers and other unsightly obstructions from our sidewalks they would confer a blessing on the community. —— Mz. McSHANE'S editor denies that he is disgruntled about Governor Thayer because he did not appoint him on the police commission and he furthermore pronounces the statement that he was a candidate for the commission, as abso- lutely false. The mext thing we expect will be a point blank denial from Roth- acker that he ever was a candidate for the police commussion, As a mat ter of fact we have it from the very best authority that Morrisey's bosom friend Rothacker urged Governor Thayer to appoimt McShune's editor as one of the demo- oratic membors of the commission. This was done before the city election and every conoeivable pressure was brought upon the governor to make these ap- pointments. Possibly Mr. Morrisey will declaro that he never authorized Rothac- ker to use his name for this appointment. Possibly also he will deny that Rothacker and himself have cver thought of con- trolling the police force through Hum- phrey Moynihan. EE——— A VERY pressing matter for the atten- tion of the next congress is the necessity for mousuares for the relief snd enlarge- ment of the federal courts. It has been shown for sevoral years that the court business of the country has outgrown the origiual court systom, but although oon- gress has had this fact repeatedly pre- sonted to its attention, it bas neglocted to provido the required reliof. The pres- ent term of the United States supremc court will end this week, and the ad- Jourument will find the docket further in arrears than ever before. However dili- it the court may be, and it has never n charged with lack of industry, it cannot keep up with the growth of busi- Dess, sud there is consequontly a stendy adcumulation. Under present eircum- stancos a case must wait about three yoars for a hoaring, unless for some spocial reason it is advancod and taken up out of its turn. The way to a remedy may not be easy, but in any event a remedy should be found, for if it is not it will be only a matter of a few years whon nobody will look to the fesleral courts for Shat prompt dispensation of justice whigh very citizen has tho rigbt s evmant. seriously affect the taxpayers counties through which these roads pass. Many of the counties traversed by the B. & M. extension and the Elkhorn Valley line have bonded themselves to aid in the construction of these rail- roads, and now they will receive only a very small proportion of the taxes which the railroads, properly assessed, should have paid. If the last legislature had done its duty and passed the laws recom- mended by Governor Thayer in his in- augural, the present board of equaliza- tion would have been wiped out, and a new board created more familiar with the relative value of railroads in Ne- braska. least one member from every organized county would have made an assessment based on the known valuation of the dif- ferent roads. gested by Governor The Railroad Assessment, The state board of equalization has once more gone through the farce of mak- ing an equalized assessment of the prop- erty of railroad and telegraph companies in Nebraska, does not, however, do them justice. It was worse than a farce. equalization of the railroad assessmentsis mn rea favor of certain others, and reckless partiality at the ex- perse of the tax To call their wor Its so-called ity downright discrimination in railroads as against \yers, Let us examine the figures. The main line of the Burlington road from Platts- mouth to Hastings is assessed at $1 per mile, which any of the roads are Union £11,155, and all other railw ably lower, The Omaha & Southwestern, which is as much the main line as any part of the B. & M. system, is appraised ot $0,150, and the Republican Valley ex- tension of the main line of the B. & M. at $5,850 or less than one-half of the assessment road Hastings. the Republican valley extension paid only 191 of the main line. worth $12,500 a mile, the extension of the main line west of Hastings 1s worth fully two-thirds as much. 0 This is the highest rate at sessad, the 1z rated at s consider- Pacific muin line against the same Plattsmouth and are 553 miles of between There If the main line is The Sioux City & Pacific railroad, which only returns twenty-six miles for taxation is mile, & Missouri extends state, is mlle. impos of the state? The Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley road 18 no longer a branch line confined to traflic between two or three villages, but 1n reality an- extension of the Chicago & Northwestern railroad. the B. & M. railroad. cisely the same relations to the Chicago & Northwestern as the B. & M.in Nebraska does to the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy road. Why should such a road, doing about one-third of the traflic of the state, be classed as a stub road, and assessed at one-third of the valuation placed upon the main lines of the B. & M. or Union Pacific? 50 o Slkhorn which the appraised at the Fremont, Valley railroad, 638 miles through assessed at only $4,4 Was there ever a more bar on attempted upon the taxps while It 18 as much a trunk line as 1t sustains pre- 1f it is not quite up to the standard of those roads, why should it be appraised at fifty per cent of the valuation of tho Omaha & Southwestern and way below other roads that are not doing onc-half of its traffict Why 1s it assessed $2,000 per mile less than the Missouri Paciiic, which does not carry half as muchtraflic as the Elkhorn Valley line? Years ago, when the Elkhorn Valley road was only extended to Norfolk, there might have been some excuse for its low classitication, but with a line 633 miles long, traversing a region in which it has the monopoly of traflic, it can no longer be classed as a poor little stub road, and should be made to bear its due propor- tion of railroad tuxes. These unequal assessments will very in the A state board made up of at The present mathod of equalization by three state ofticers is unsatisfactory and liable to grave abuses. Instead of a board of equalization, it always has been, and always will be, a board of discrimination. ‘Who Told the Pruth? Our morning contemporaries have made personal explanations in behalf of their respective editors with regard to their candidacy for positions on the po- lice commission. Mr, MoShane'’s editor denies absolutely that he was a candidate for commussioner, and supplements the denial by an attempt to treat the applica- tion which was made for him as a joke. Mr. Rounds' editor assures us that he 'was not an applicant for the position, and had not the remotest notion of pressing the candidacy of the democratic editor when his name was sug- Thayer as a proper complement to his own appoint- ment. This controversy would not in- terest the public if it did not involve the question of veracity between Governor Thayer and these disgruntled candidates on one hand, and afford proof positive that the vindictive assaults on Governor Thayer were inspired by chagrin over the failure to dictate the governor's ap- pointments on the police commission. Governor Thayer’s version of the per- sistent attempt of the late government printer and his partners to dictate these appointments was embodied in an interview published by the Bkk ten days ago. The following extract is iu striking contrast with the version given by the slung-shot editor: “What 1s the cause of the Republican's SaVAge assault upon you, governor, on ac- count of your letler addressed to the police commissioners?”’ asked a representative of the Bk last eveniug of Governor Thayer at the Millard hotel. “1 suppose,” answered the governor, “that it is because I did not appoint Kditor Roth- acker as one of those commissioners.” “Why, was he an applicant?"” “Yes, and a very earnest and persistent one,” replied the governor. “Did any one recommend him®* “No one except Mr. Cadet Taylor. That geutieman called upon me at Lincoln some weeks ago and requested me to appoint Mr., Rothacker, 1 discouraged it at that time, Durirg my late yisit bere, when I spent some several days 1n Omaba, considering the sub- ject ot the commission, Messrs. Taylor and Rothacker called on me and the .application was renewed. I gave them the reasons which bad led me to couclude that Mr. Koti- acker's appointment would not be judi- clous.” * w & & # “yell, did that end the matter?” 1 supposed that was the end of It. I re- tarned to Lincoln on the evening of tho day of the city election here. Two days after that I received a most pressing telegram again renewing tue request for the appoint- 1ment of Mr. Rothacker, but I found no res- son for changing my determiuation.’” The pressing telograws relerrcd to bought out Yost & Nye's Kepublican printing establishment eight months ago. Rothacker’s candidacy was not a mere whim of a Moynihan maniac but a deep laid boodle scheme whick reached down among the keepers of gambling nouses who have cntered into a combine to control the police force and continue in the business in defiance of law. The governor flatly refused to play into the hands of the conspirators. He ignored the arrogant demands of Rounds & Taylor, and made choice of commis- sioners on his personal judgment. Then the mud batteries opened, and a shower of abuse was hurled at him by Mr. Me- Shane’s paper, while the ex-government printer gently hintea that Governor Thayer was a superanuated old granny and had no business to meddle with the aflairs of Omaha. In the very face of this jusult and while being denounced for meddling with the local affairs of the city, Governor Thayer was importuned by Rothaker and his personal backers to use his influence with the commission in favor of Moyniham for chief of police. These facts will probably also be de- nied, although the full particulars re- garding this “‘pressing deputation’ that called uvon Governor Thayer at the Millard hotel were sccured by our re- porters, It is now simply a question of veracity between Governor ‘Thayer and his malingers. Governor Thayer's repu- tation for integrity and veracity is not likely to suffer. A Difference of Opinion. Congressman Butterworth, of Ohio, appears to have started a campaign in behalf of reciprocity with Canada. Last Thursday evening he spoke in New York in advocacy of the policy proposed in the bill which he introduced in the last congress, providing for the aboli- tion of all customs duties between the United States and Canada. Mr. Butter- worth states his position very clearly and torcibly. What he desires to have ac- complished is full and complete recipro- cal trade and commerce between the two countries, so that for all purposes of trade, barter and exchange they shall be asone. He would remove all custom houses along our 3,050 miles of Canadian frontier, and do business with our north- ern neighbor on an absolutely free trade basiz. Ho admits that such an arrange- ment would nvolve an assimilation of tariff rate and internal revenue taxes, and possibly an arrangement for po ing the recetpts from customs and a di- vision on some equitable basis, but these conditions he thinks present no serious difficulty or embarrassing problem. The contidence of Mr. Butterworth, however, would more reassuring if it were not confronfed by serious objections from intelligent and influential sources in Canada. There has recently developed in the dominion a large sentiment favor- able to trade reciprocity with the United States, and indeed the cuitivation of moro mtimate relations generally. We have no doubt there are a great many more people there now than ever before who are ready to favor almost any proposi- tion, fiscal, economic or political, which would bring the United States and Can- ada into a closer intimacy. But a great many of these people look only on the surface of things, and therefore escape observation of all underlying ditliculties, It is never safe to assume a great deal on the strength of a sudden popular clamor. Only a few days before Mr. Butter- worth spoke in New York there was pub- lished an interview with Mr. Foster, the Canadiau minister of marine and fish- eries. He hails from a province where the teeling is strongly in favor of reci- procity, but this fact does not blind him to certain obvious difficulties. In the first place an assimilation of tariffs would mean a very lurge increase in the present tariff of Canada, which wouldl be fought by both the free-traders and the moderate protec- tiouista of that country. Butif this con- dition were complied with 1t would in- volve an extreme discrimination against Great Britain to which very serious ob- jection might be made. ‘The imperiai government offered no objection with the adoption of the present taviff, but it is hardly to be expected that it would be so amiable if an attempt were made to establish prohbitory duties. But the most serious difliculty, in the view of Mr. Foster, is presented by the question of revenue, Where is this to come from 1f Canada has free trade witn the United States and a high protective tariff against foreign trade? Canada nceds annually $35,000,000, two-tiurds of which comes from customs duties. *“Open our mar- kets to the United States free,’’ says Mr. Foster, “‘and a large proporuion of the goods which now pay shese duties would come from the United States, contribut- ing nothing in the way of revenue.” Ho believes, also, that tha result would be disastrous to the industries of Canada, which could not withstand competition with those of the United States. Inasmuch as the question is very cer- tain to make, sooner or later, a some- what urgent demand on public attention, itis well to clearly understand the tines upon which it will be discnssed in the two countries. These are very clearly presented by Mr. Butterworth and Mr. Foster, and the difference is so wide as not to warrant very great faith in the immediate success of the former gontle- man's arrangement. The Natlonal Drill. An event, the preparations for which have boen in progress for months, and in connection with which there have al- ready been several incidents of general interest, will be formally inaugurated to-day. ‘This is the national drill at Washington, the most elaborate enter- prise of the kina that has ever taken [ place in this country. It is understood that all the regiments and companies that will compete in the drill, represent- ing thirty-one states and numbering from five to six thousand men, will be in eamp this morning, and for the ensuing week the national capital will vresent a more military nppearance than it has at any time since the review of the armies after the close of the rebellion. While the ap- pomtments and convemiences of the cump are such as are required for the proper accommodation and comfort of soldiers in poace, the regulations neces- sary to military obscrvanees and disery vline will prevail, so that a» usefut experi- onee in camp duties will be imparted. General Angur is the commandant of the cump, with a staff composed of experi- enced soldiors from wost of the states reprosented. Drills will be held daily, the grounds for this purposs being the finest in the country. Each might wore sigued by Bounds & Laylor who | there will be exhibited the grand pano- THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY., MAY 2, 1887 rama in fire of the contest between the Monitor and Merrimac in Hampton Roads. Wednesday will be governor's day, when the president and executors of anumber of the states will review the troops. The camp oxercises will be con- cluded on Decoration day, when the volunteers with escort, the Grand Army en route to Arlington cemetery in the morning and in the afternoon receive the y 08, Theso consist of flags, stands of colors, gold, silver and bronze medals, and over $26,000 in cash preminms, which will be presented by the president to victorious commands. It is to be hoped the event will be favored with all propitious conditions. The purpose is good, and if the drill is successfully carried out according to programme the result will undoubtedly be useful. The military instinet cannot be suppressed, if thore were any sound reason why it should be, and since men will yield to it, it is certainly well that their soldierly attainments shall be as thorough at possivle. Competitions such as will take place at Washington this week are a stimulant to the best en- deavor. Rivalry quickens energy and zeal, The victorious companys in this week’s drills will return proudly to their homes with the determination to main- tain their reputation. ‘The defeated will return with an equally earnest deter- mination to better prepare themselves for a future trial, and they will hav learned bow this may be done. A citizen soldiery, proud of its acquirements and constantly striving for higher attain- ment is a good thing for the republic to have. Whatever conduces to the pro- motion and elevation of such a posses- sion is therefore to be commended and encourag ed. A DELE A ne county is now in the aity to secure the co-opera- tion of Omaha in the projected railroad connection between this city and Yank- ton. Thisis a move which our citizens should encourage by every means at their command. 1t is to be regretted, how- ever, that the citizens of Wayne should have sent to Omaha, as one of their spokesmen and representatives, Slater, the legislative boodler who tampered with the Omaha charter last winter, and held those midnight conferences with the Omaha gamblers, It is an insult to the board of trade and the merchants of Omaha to ask them to treat with such a corrupt scoundrel. THE effort of the democratic officials of Richland county, Ohio, to discredit the returns made by Senator Sherman to the assessor resulted in fheir ignominious de- feat, These ofliciuls, doubtless prompted from the outside, ot inspired by news- paper fictions reganding the sendtor's in- vestments, got it'into their heads that Senator Sherman owned stock in a New York national bank and in the Union Pacific of which he'had made no return for taxation. An authoritative statement had been made and widely published that the senator oyned no such stock and never had, but this was not sufli- cient. He'was cited to appear before the county auditor’ ‘and make oath that he did not own the stock, which di of the matter and placed the officials anything but an enviable position. 1t would be ridiculons to pretend that this action was prompted by a sense of duty. ‘I'he motive istoo plain to admit of any such explanation, But a good purpose was served in the opportunity given Sen- ator Sherman to fully and finally dispose of the gratuitons statements, made with the design of injuring him, which were floating around regarding his business affairs. ‘This contemptible sort of war- fare is at an end. STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings, The first of the six spans of the Rulo railroad bridge is in place. A\:I;usl Gruner, a Wisner butcher,was taxed $25 and costs for peddling discased meat. The speculators of Wayne are said to have cleaned up 060,000 in real estate deals recently. ng Kee is singing low in Rusaville just now. He ison trial for shooting a locul tough some wee 1Z20. Bill Stout and his partners have pur- chased ground and will open limestone quarries near Weeping Water, A new bank, a Masonic temple and walerworks are promising improvements in Falls City. The city is free of debt, Nebraska City will shine up with elec- tricity on or about the 1st of October. Crete hus contracted for a similar plant. The Hon. P. F. O'Sullivan is doing somo lively work in the mail line in West Point. He'is invaluable as un assistant to the postmistress. Senator Paddock paid $30,000 for a cor- ner on Sixth and Court streets, Beatrice, on which he will erect a combination hotel and opera house. ‘The large hearted local liar of Valen- tine has succeeded in distancing all com- petitors with half-pound hail stones, wearing ten-inch belts. ‘Lhe university cadets are camped near Weeping Water. The sheriff and a posse of constables have ked the town to prevent the kids tearing it up. Dora Posousky, a wicked young woman in Wahoo, took a spring bath in a creck near town and swallowed too much of the fluid. Her body was recovered. Waest Point proposes to take a hand 1n l))uahing the wheels of the Yroposud maha & Yankton road, and will send a committee to this cityrto talk business, At the Norfolk 'totirnament of north Nebraska sportsmen Judgo J. B. Barnes, of Ponca, won the ‘gold medal by shoot- ing straight rifteen Peoria blackbirds, eighteen yards rise,. The Fremont Herald threatens to put on a spring suit. The cast off’ will form the nucleus of & myspum of antiquity in the normal school, {The Herald is the Tom Murray of journplism, Lionel Schauman, an imported mouth- organ, temporarily 8topping at Wisner, has been bound over to the district court for preaching anarchy and chaos. A bail bond of $300 hps been plastered on his “'gob.” 01l An extra tine fish story was spoiled near Loup City last week. Three young ladies returning in a buggy from a fish- u;g tour were l?“lufl out and the trophies of the hook spoiled by the shock. The world thereby loses a massive feminine fib in the piscatorial line. ‘The Chautauqua asscmbly unds in Crete are being improved and beautitied for the coming meeting. A number of nobby private ootm‘:l are going up and a number of mle&y uildings contracted for. It is expected that the State press association will erect quarters. Fred K. Fox, of Kc‘)ubllenn City, enter- tained a gang of night hawks a few nights ago. He whistled to keep hi courage up while they cracked the safe and took a gold watch and chain, a gold rlnf. four “revolvers, several pocket knives and $35 in cash as mementos of the visit, Walter Long, of Nebraska City, brought out a rusty reminescence of the war and attempted to discharge it. The musket failed at the tirst pull but when Walter gazed into hing interior, it was not long getting there. His nose was seattered among the clouds and one vlye filled with painful memories of the day. Preparations are being made in overy town and village in the state to appropri- ately observe Decoration day. [t isa pleasure to note the widespread interest all elasses take in the day. Not only the comrades and relatives of the soldier dead, but fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters unite in devoting one day to the beautiful ceremony of decorating the graves of loved ones and reviving the earthly memories of thuse who haye gono before. The North Bend Flail pays a neat trib- ute to Charley Atkinson, of Lincoln. He was called to North Bend recently by the death of his uncle, John Long, and tind- ing the only legaey left the widow was in unpaid bills and destitution, paid all im- mediate expenses and left sullicient means with the sorrowing wife to give lier a new start. He was indeed a bright sunbeam amid the gloom of death and nis gencrous and unseltish deeds will re- dound to his credit in the world to come. The Hon, John €. W atson, of Nebraska City, member of the legislature, has se- cured additional prominence by inducing his wife to leaye him, Heisa dashing socicty man, liberally gifted with gab, and a weakness for the fair sex. Mrs. Watson was a Miss Hamblin, and 15 now stopping with a brother in Omaha pend- ing suit for a divorce, while her ftickle lord is said to be actively arranging for another spouse. The new charmer is said to be so captivating, fresh and flip- pant that $5,000 would be considered a mere tritle in purchasing his liberty. The Luther-Wagner libel suit in Dodge county has proved a costly draw game. Wagner proclaimed from the housetops and posted on & bridge a placard declar- ing that Luther curried his wife with his fists, Detectives were employed, the libeller run down, and a suit for %30,000 damages followed. The court at Hooper last week was crowded with witnesses, and the lawyers were loaded for fecs when the announcement was made that the case was settled. Wag- ner agreed to retract, each pay- ing half the costs of court and witnesses. Luther has squandered fully $5,000 to re-establish his domestic char- acter £nd Wagner is out one-fifth of that sum. Both are wealthy farmers and seemed perfectly content to pay a good price for experience. L Towa Items, A county seat war is brewing in Harri- son. Belle Plaine’s vlugged. A quite heavy frost nlrped reen things in the vicinity of Kagle Grove Wednesday morning. R. P. P. Ingalls, a prominent Des Moines clergyman, dicd in Kansas last Wednesday, Lake City raised $5,271 to secure the lo- cation of the round-house ard machine shops of the Chicago & Northwestern railway at that town. The common council of Atlantic has passed an ordinance exempting from city taxation for five years all industries and manufactories investing $5,000 or more. ‘I'he Des Moines papers are loth to admit that their base ball players are not a match for the Milwaukees, and blame the three successive dofeats upon the um- pire. A team driven by David Fry, of Fair- field, an old man nearly seventy, became frightened at a bicyele rider and ran away, throwing the old man out and in- {licting injuries from which he died a few hours after the accident. The fourth reunion of the ‘‘Crocker’s Towa Brigade will be held at Davenport on Wednesday and Thursday, September 21 and 23 Tho annual address will be delivered by Stephen A. Marine, private of company G, Thirteenth Iowa. Louis McKinney, a night messenger of the United States expross company at Keokuk, was arrested Wednesday morn- g charged with havingstolen five pack- agoes from the oflice containing $315.45. In default of §800 bonds he was’ commit- ted to juil, A party of West Liberty young folks went fishing on Big Run, about eight miles from the town. During the dey a rain storm came up and the young peo- ple sought shelter under a “large tree. Che horses had been unhitched and tied to the tree under whose boughs the party had souget shelter from the rain. The boys thought to vlay a good joke on the and ;ir-uing hold of the tongue of vehicle dragged their load of fair freight into the rain about a hundred feet distant from the tree. They had just gotten out from the shelter when a thunderbolt came crashing down through the monarch of the woods, shivering the troe entirely, killing the two horses, stun- ning the young gentlemen, one so l)ndly that they thought him dead. Had the party remained under the tree a minute longer not one could have escaped. big well has been Dakota. An opera house has just been completed at Deadwood. Deadwood and Sundance are to be con- nected by telephone. A new Episcopal church building has been commenced at Aberdeen. Thirty-two thousand acres of wheat have been sown on Dalrymple’s little ranch in the Red River Valley. Twenty year railroad bonds to the amount of 60,000, recently issued by sim:x Falls, sold ata premium of 3} per cent. Pierre, at a revent election, voted $25,- 000 to aid in securing the extension of Ol.zgu Manitoba line from Aberdeen to ierre. Rapid City has raised a bonus of $15,000 to start work on the Rapid City, Wyom- g & Western railroad. Surveying par- ties will start out this week and” grading will commence not later than July 1. e . In Russia 1t is said suicides are increas- ing in number every year. The propor- tion to the population is now greater in St. Petersburg than in any other Kuropean capital. Of late years even boys and girls from eight to sixteen take their own lives, generally on the idea of the cruel troatment of their parents. The causes assigned for this state of things are the wretched social conditions of modern Russian hfe and the pessimist views and anarchist tendencies em- braced by many in early years. el AL When the Cornell university base ball nine were in _Elmira, Y., recently, they thought it proper to serenade the college girls. So, after dark, they as- semb) in front of a large buildin, which was lighted and hegan with 1’| Await My Love." Beforc they got through a man came out and asked them to make less noise, because they were disturbing a prayer mmtix;f. The boys had mistaken Rev, C. Boecher's church for the Elmira female college. el oy It is said that a citizen of Augusta, Ga., dreamed the other night that he was standing at the grave of his father, who lived in a distant city and whom he had not seen for years. On the following night the dream was reneated. Early the next morning he went to the tele- gnph office to send a dispatch home, but fore he had filled out the blank the operator handed him a message an- nouncing that his tather had died sud- denly the night before. —— A lobster firm st Rockland, Me., shipped from the 1st of October to March 26, 8,300 barrels of lobsters to New York dealers. The lobsters. 247,500 10 number, were valued at $39,600, A TERRIBLE ~ CONSPIRACY. Five Prominent 0il Manufactarers on Trial at Buffalo, STANDARD Ol PROTEGES. The Rockefellers in Court—Noted Lawyers in the Casce—Rich De- fendants—Generosity Not Appreciated. Buffalo Express: It is gencrally be- lieved that the great Standard Oil com- pany 1s on trial in Buffalo for the crime of conspiracy. The reason for this be- lief 18 in the tact that five promuinent o1l manufacturers—Hiram B. and Charles M. Everest, of Rochester, John D. Arch- bold, Henry H. Rogers and Ambrose Me- Gregor, of New York—were brought to the bar of the court of the oyer and terminer last Monday to answer to the charge of conspiracy to blow up the works of the Buffalo Lubricating Oil company and to ruin its business. The presence in the court every day of John D. Rockefeller, president of the Stand- ard Oil company, and Wilham Rocke- feller. mis brother, of that gigantic mo- nopoly, with five of New York state's most noted lawycrs, confirms the belief that the Standard is on trial. Probably never before in the history .of eriminal jurisprudence in Erie county, haye five men, each so pre-eminently dis- tinguished for wealth, been arraigne:d for an alleged erime. Something of the per- sonnel of these men,including the Rocke- fellers, will make an interesting story. There is a peculiar misconception about the Standard Oil company. It was originally organized in 1871, and is now conducting the business of refining oils nd for domestic use. The pres- ent capital stock is $3,500,600, and John D. Rockefeller, is president of the com- pany. There 18 also a Standard Oil com- pany of New York, which has large re- fineries at Long Island Ci and which T oil {:rinciplll,v for export trado. William Rockefeller is president of that company, and the capital stock is $5,000,000. ‘T'he Standard Oil trust is not a corpora- Rt L) A0 calls that eity his home. His residencs is No. 4. Wost Fifty-fourth street. It was bougnt by Mrs. C. P, Huntington, wife of of the Union Paciftic millivnaire, and cost £0600,000, Itisafine old mansion with grounds about 1t % “The house had been magnificently furnished by Herter, and is, in its way, a miracle of ingenuity in frescoing, panel- ing, and decorations, and is tull of unique furnishings and costly paintings. “*Besides the old Cleveland home on the corner of Euclid and Cass avenues, he owns a fine country residence eight miles out of that city on the lake shore. Many men in Cleveland remermber when he was a poor commission merchant down on the wharyves near the viaduct. John is not yet fifty years old, “‘William Rockefeller is different from John in almost every way. e, too, is very rich, He hves'at his country home near Greenwich, Conn.eight months in the year. There he has a farm, raises stock, has a race-track, and he will talk ‘horse’ all day with anybody who will listen to him, He likes nothing better than to get into the country with his family. His home in the city is a twenty- foot front brick house, No. 680 Fifth ave- nue, corner of Fifty-fourth stre It is trimmed with brown stone, and 1s not at all a pretentious mansion for New York. William bought last year the estate of the late William P, Aspinwall, known as Rockland, in Mount Pleasant and Ossin- ing townships,on the Hudson. 1t 1s near G stone, the home of the late Samuel J. Tilden, and consists of about eight hundred acres. He paid $250,000 for the estate, which is less than it cost Aspin wall twenty years ago. William owns some of the finest pictures in New York —in fact, his tastes all run to horses and victures. Hoisnot as good a financier as John, and [ guess John directs all their investments. “Many people think that William is self conceited, arrogant, and unneces- sarily brusque, but such is not the fact. He is affable at all times and polite. He stands straight,throwsfout his chest when he walks, and has the air of a man through whose veins healthy blood is pumped. What is considered brusque ness, is simply the natural aggression of a man of extreme buoyancy of temper- ment. Continuing the conversation, Mr. Dodd turned lp Henry H. Rogers, who is by all odds the handsomest man of the defendants, if not, indeed, of all men to be seen in the court of oyer and term- iner. He is junior partnerin the firm of tion. The stocks of the various refining | Charles Pratt & Co., recently incorpor- companies are owned by a large number of individuals, who in 1831 put them in the hands of trustees and entered into an agreement defining the duties of those trustees. business whatever. Henry and John D. Archbold, two of the pres- ent aefendants, are trustees under that trust. Besides ownin, Ol comflanv of Rochester, and perhaps some other oil property, Ambrose Mc- The Standard Oil trust does no | Fairhaven, Mass.,, near New H. Rogers | and he is turning quite ated ns the Pratt manufacturing com- any, of Brooklyn. His check Is good or $2,000,000, and ho has made most all of his fortune inoil. He was born Bedford, gray, though hLe is not an old man. He 18 geutlemanly in all his ways and is sensitivo to a degree. He feels much humiliated at bein stock in the Vacuum | brought here to Buflalo on this crimina; charge, as he positively know nothing about the Buffalo company’s doings, nor Gregor is simply a practical o1l mumi and | did he care. There are nearlya hundred a superintendent of the Standard Oil company’srefineries, Rogers, Archvold, and Mc(x‘-rngor, representing what called the ““Standard Interests,” in 1879 bought 75 per cent of the stock of the Vacuum Oil company, of Rochester, and have sinee become directors of that com- vany. The practical conduct of the business isin the hands of C. M. Everest, who lives in Rochester. His father, H. B. Everest, receives $10,000 per year as the nominal president of the Vacuum company, though his home is in San Bernardino county, California, where he isinterested in fruit farming. The Ever- ests have no other connection whatever with the Standard Oil company or with the Standard Oil trust. own or control 25 per cent of the stock of the Vacuum con\&l;nl{. John D. Archbold lives in a brown- stone house on West Fifty-third street, New York, near Sixth avenue. He pai $75,000 for the house and is considered worth $600,000. He is a medium-sized man, about fon_vfimnrs old, with a clean- shuven face, dark, bright eyes, which laugh whenever he does. He is a genial is | nection with the Standard. such small concerns ail over the country manufacturing oil, but they have no con- Rogers, too, is liberal with his money. Recently a public school and library was cowmpleted at Fairhave and given to the town b Mr. Rogers. The buildings cost $100,000. “‘Rogers, too, is very fond of his wife and family, and they spendmost of the summer near Fairhaven. His mother still lives there, in an unpretentious, old- fashioned frame house. She will not leave the old home. I expect the houso is a curiosity, for 1 am told that Henry builds a wing or an addition to it almost every year, in some hope of making his old mother more comfortable. In New They simply | York Mr. Rogers lives at tho corner of Fifty-second street and Madisou avenue in an elegant old house which he bought a few year ago for 70,000, and on which he has spent about §30,000 in fitting ||l|. ‘‘These men on trial here in Buflalo are not such monsters of greed and rapacity as they are commonly believed to be. Thev have riches, butthey earned them by hard work. The Standard com- pany is the result of combined industry fellow, and 18 considered a regular boy | as well as of wealth, Talk about strong by his ussociates; in fact, he was a mes- senger boy and collector for a coal com- puanyin Titusville once, and youthful looks and ways have stuck to him. From a messenger he became a broker in crude oil, then he organized the Acme Refining company of Olean, of which he is yot president. John D. Rockefeller was the original organizer of the Standard Oil company of Cleveland in 1871, and of the Standard Uil trust in 1881, and ho holds the largest individual interest of any man in the oli business in the world. He 15 one of the trustees of tho Standard trust, and has been the head man in the business from the beginning. His unbounded confi- dence in the success of the Standard, his pluck and daring have been the principal corporations! The Standard is really weak. Every man’s hands are against it, and it has got to such a pass thatno legis- lation can be enacted in which the Stand- ard is known to be interested without a dmand being made forsboodle. Here's Titusville and | an instance to show the narrow and sus- giclous ?ml of untagonism against the Standard : Charles Pratt, the scnior partner of Mr. Rogers, and prominently connected with the Standard Ooil interests, is an old man. He is rich, and, like Peter Cooper, in New York, hc desires to build build a temple of science and artin Brooklyn. He has philosophical ideas of perpetuating his philanthrophy, and one scheme is to turn in the income from a large number of modern model dwelling powers which have made the name of | houses which he owns toward the sup- 'Standard Oil” synonymous of riches, wealth, fortune. thusu‘nport of every man in the con- cern,” representative of the Standard interests, yesterday. ‘‘Every other stockholder has weakened at one time or other, but John D, Rockefeller has held right to his beliefs and has made every one con- nected with him prosperous. It was his faith and nothing else that cansed the investment of $30,000,000 in tanks in the oil territory and in a pipe line to the sea board, when it was uot ; known that oil would hold out for two years. He is showing the same faith in the Ohio oil situation. He has caused tanks to be built and 1,000,000 gallons of that new sulphurous oil to be actually bought and paid for, and coatly“bulld- ings and refineries erected, and he mnor any one else knows what can be done with theoil. The secret of refining it has not yet been discovered. Chemists are trying to desulphurize the oil, but as yet they have not succeeded. The Stand- ard’s principal chemist has given it up, and says it ean’t be done, but Rocke- feller has put his foot down and says, “‘It shall be done.” Mr. T, C. 8. Dodd, attorney for the Standard Oil company of New York,thus told of the Rockefullers yesterday. “John D., despite the common beliet hat he is aristocratic and proud, is in fact a quiet, timid, retiring man in private life. He is unassuming and modest. His wife was a school teacher when he marries her. She cares nothing for so- ciey and nnlly seeks to do good with the morey they have. ie is & wonderfully sweet little woman, and her children are like her in gentleness. John is a strong Baptist amflm contributes generously to the supvort of the church. "He recently built a theological seminary at the Rocli- ester university called Rockefeller hall, at a cost of §25,000, and gave it to the city. To him no prosperity is too good for a faithful honest employe of the Standard, and it is lns desire that all who have contributed to build up the fortnne of the company shall share in it. “John 1l"). Kockrlullurl is not lw»x;\lh 50 much as he is commonly rated. As an actual fact he is worth about $40,000,000, if his trust certificates are valued at their present quotation—220, If he tried to sell out any portion of the stock he couldn’t get nearly that sum. The certi- ficates are quoted ut that figure because they are not on the market. The; not listed on any board of trade, and are not speculative 1n any way. Thoy can be bought and are sold every day, but not through the exchunges. ; “John has lived n Cleveland for thirty years, and stiil spends the summer months there with his family. The house is the same modest one he lived in whon a clerk twenty years ago, and is not us good as any of tifty houses on Delaware avenue here. Mis friends wonder why he does not build & more elegant home in Cleveland, but he says he likes the old house, His children were boin there, and his old fricnds !ye near there, Me has lately moved to New York, and now “His faith has been | willin, port of the proposed institution. Ho s and anxious to spend 4,000,000 on Brooklyn: and to outshine Peter said Mr. Daniel O'Day, the Buffalo | Cooper in generosity, but would you be- lieye it, that man cannnt get the legisla- ture to incorporate his trust and make his ambition possible of accomplishment! Why? Because the cry has been raised: ‘Standard Oil! Standard Oil! Kecp clear of the octopos! Thero issome kind of & schome back of all this philan- thropy.' " S e The Boston papers have come to_the conclusion that T, B, Aldrich and John Boyce (J'Reill{ are just now writing bet- ter poetry than those English baras, ames Russell Lowell and Alfred Tcnn{~ Th not saying much for Ald- ch an 'Reilly, but it is true as far as it goes. THE PERFECT S Revolving Churn Dasher Quickest Selling Article Ever Invented. PRICE OF DASHER, $1.25 Needsno talking. butreally is the Pratuest Showing Article on the Oxsana, Neb., April 23, 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 84 pounds of first class butter from one gallon of cream in jnst one minute and fifteen seconds. Wright, proprietor “Omu) maniger "omaha Dajr Nadhil A DT a jobraskh ropriotor . . taaon: Uarey Mirrie, editor “Pithiun Will J. Dobbs, K. R. t unk . Green oralt Dr. J. W. 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