Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 31, 1887, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SURSORTPTION ¢ Dally Moeniag Paition) including Sunday Brr, One Yoar we ¥or 8ix Montha v Yor Throo Months 0 The Omaha Swnduy Ly, maiied to any address, One Y oar. 200 OMATIA OFPICE, NO. 014 AND, “TRER B YORK OPFICE. 1000% ASINGTON OFFICE, NO 0 FARNAM G THIUNE BUILDING, 314 FOURTEEN TI STREET CORRESPONDENCE? All communieations relating to news and edi. toriul mattor should be addressed w the Lot TOR OF THE B RUSINEAS LETTERSE All bueinecs Jotters and remittances should he addressed 1o Titk 1Re PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAHA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders 10 be made puyable to the order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISHIYG COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. E ROSEWATER Entron. THE DAILY BE| Sworn Statement of Circulation, Btate of Nebrask laa County of Douzlas, {3 % Geo. B, ‘Tzschuek, secretary of The T Publishing company, does solemnly swea; that the actual circuiation ot the Daily B for the week ending May 27, 1557, was as follows: Saturday, May Sunday, May Monday, May Tuesday, M Wednesday, May © Thursday,” May Friday, May Average. ' ; Gro. 1. '1'z Subseribed and sworn to before 235t day of May, 1557, N. I, Frt, [SEAL.] Notary Public, Geo. B, “Tzschucl, bein 1 deposes and snys that he is secret Bee Publishing company, that tlie actual average daily eiren y 13eo for the month of Ma torJune, 88, 122,905 cop for August, ber, 15, 1 1248 copies} for November, coples; for Deceinber, 155 January, 1557, 3 copics: for February, 1847, 14,105 copies: for March, 1557, 14,400 copies; for April, 1557, 14,516 copies, Gro, B, Tzsenvex, Suhseribed and sworn to before me this ith day of May, A. 1., 1587, [SEALL] P, KL, Notary Public. Tenth sireet railroad cros bad advertisment for Omaha, Now turn attention to the vroper ob- servance of the Fourth of July. Govenrvxor HiLL's presidential boom had a short fuse and was lighted too Evex poor old Brownville, it is said, is slightly throbbing with an unboomed boo. 8r. Louts authorities are trying to get the spectral spooks out of the ®d town before Grover visits them. —— DECORATION day was generally ob- served yesterday. ‘The fallen herocs slept beneath a wilderness of flowers, SoME of the base ball clubs of the state refused to violate the law again last Sun- day, as the result of the games showed. WiieN Captain Humphrey, the Pawnee blatherskite, is made chairman of the state cential committee, the pigs will begin to {ly. Tnr Sultan of Turkey is the latest European ruler who is trying to get up sympathy by havingunskilled men throw bombs at him. Ir it had been one or two other certain newspaner correspondents instead of Ma- jor Poore who died, the country would have suffered no loss. Tur railroad commission, so-called, considered one complaint. The commis- sion is like & faith cure doctor. Honest people are afraid of it. At Findlay, Ohio, the board of trade will celebrate in June, the first anniver- sary of the big gas well, which has made the town double 1n population and more than treble 1ts valuation of property. Can't some town in Nebraska find a gusher? MR. Br.AcksurN was engnged in very emall business when he marched a gang of ward bummers into the board of edu- cation rooms Saturday night to choke off the movement for the election of a non-partisan school board. Whether Mr, Biackburn holds over or not it was very unbecoming in any member of the board to take part in the proceedings. Tk Reformed Episcopal church, at its general council in Philadelphia, have adopted the following resolution: *‘No minister of this church shall solemnuize marringe when either of the persons to be married is divorced, unless the former consort was divorced for violation of the Seventh Commandment, or is either dead or married to another.” ‘The festive justice of the peace, however, never inquires as to ‘‘previous condi- tion.” —— Tur aational dnll closed yesterday, and there will doubtless be some differ- cuce of opinion as to whether it was in all respects a success. {t showed that there is o fine body of eitizen soldiery in the country, which, if required, would form an excellent nucleus for & volun- tenr army, but the demonstration of this was not necessary. The fuct was quite well known before. The practical pur- pose of the drill was to infuse this sol- diery with a spirit of healthy emulation, to stimulate effort for higher attainment, and to encourage further organization. It cannot ba predicted witn certainty that such will be the resnlts. So far as the oonduct of the southern compauies was concerned, while it marred the harmony of the ovent, it was derogatory only to themsclves, Uf these southorn ‘‘gentle- men'" can feol any pride in their course, with the knowledge that all true gentlemen regard it with con- tempt, lat them do so. It is not a mattor that ought to be dignified by eiv- ing it serious atiention. T'he most serious charge against the management was in connnction with the Sunday proceedings, when u price of admission to the camp ground was exacted after the pablic had been told there would be no charge, ‘The popular attendance, howaver, was not so large during the drill as had been e pacted,and this last resort of the manage- ment was doubtless taken to provide against a throatened deficit. Itis to be boped the event, which was certainly an 1aterssting one, will have all the good roanlts expocted or desired, but as wo kave already intimated, this is not us- sared. Situation of the Treasury. A rcport ot the situation of the na tional treasury brought down to the 20th of the current month, with comparative figures for the corresponding portion of the last fiscal year, and estimates based on these of the probable income and outgo for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1848, will have an interest for all busi @ mien. Such an exhibit ought to po: an interest for everybody, sinee th is not a man in the country whose earn- ings, whether obtained from the invest- ments of eapital or from his daily 1 have not contributed to the results which the exhibit sets forth. Dry as figures always are to the average man, those that come from the national treasury ¢ u significance that should commend them to close attention, and never more than now, when the very serions problem 15 presented of what shall ho done with the already accumulated horde, and what can be done to prevent its increase. The peonle, not a portion or class, but all of them, cannot be too well informed as to the facts, and if they appreciate their true refations to the matter there is no other subjeet of present public coneern which they will more diligently study. Popular enlightenment on this question is the surest way to wise congressional action in the interests of the people. The country would not to-day be perplexed with this problem had the people been adequately informed as to the exact facts It is evident that at the close of the present fiscal year, a month hence, the surplus in the treasury will amount to at least £100,000,000. Up to the 20th of the current month the receipts were nearly $527,000,000, and as they are {lowing the rate of more than $1,000,000 they will undoubtedly reach a tot: the vyear of mnot lesy than 000,000, The e , the o of which 1s determined, will be $265,000.- 000, so that a surplus of at least §100,- 000,000 is ured. The govern ment up to this time in the year about $26,000,000 in excess of the expenditures for the same time in the preceding fiscal year, but the receipts have gone $6,000,000 in ad- vance of this excess, or in other words are about $32,000,000 greater than for the same time last year, and of this excess nearly $29,000,000 have come from cus- toms. Having reached the end of the current fiscal year, with $100,000,000 taken from the people and locked in the vaults of the treasury, what then will be the outlook? The same machinery by which the treasury has accumulated this necdless horde will still be in operation, and the government must go on collecting from the pco- ple in excess of its requirements and adding to the surplus, Ifany legisla- tion shall be adopted by congress for re- ducing the revenues, the promise of which cannot he regarded as altogether reassuring, it is not probable it will be done in time to become operative before the 1st of April of next year. In that cage there will be three-quarters of the fiseal year, beginmng July 1, during which the treasury will go on adding to the surplus, and if at the present rate, that incubus will be swelled by $75,000,- 000 more. The prospect therefore is that before a stop can be put to this excess of income over outgo there will be piled up in the vaults of the treasury $175, 000,000, for which there will be no legiti- mate use. Besides the manifest wrong to the peo- ple which this needless drain represents, there is the very serious question whether the business of the country will not suffer from it. The secretary of the treasury has not yielded to the alarmists, and he is said not to be apprehensive now of ny impending disaster. He has author y which will enable him to relicve the money market should an exigency arise requiring its exercise. But this cannot be done without some wrong to the great body of the people. Indeed no mere ex: pedients that may be applied to this problem will operate equitably for the whole people, the only just and straight- forward policy, that will work alike for the welfare of all, being a reduction of taxation that will relieve the pcople of the needless burden now imposed on them. It would be exceedingly gratify- ing if there was any immediate promise that this would be done e R — Van Wycks on the Inter-State Law. At the present time there are widely varied and divergent opinions given re- garding the inter-state law, its workings and ultimate results. After the law goes into operation under the ruling of an im- partial tribunal, and all its provisions tested, there will then be ample time for those interested to insist that it is of no advantage to shippers or producers. The New York ZTimes says a United States senator who took a strong interest and an active part in the passage of the inter-state commerce bill, and who 18 on terms of personal friendship with a ma- jority of the commission, expresscs him- self as disappointed at the results thus far achieved, which he thinks amount practically to nothing. He especially re- grets the action of the commission 1n sus- pending the long and short haul clause without first allowing 1ts practical effects to be tested. He says: ‘‘Instead of sus- pending it for ninety days, the commis- sion should have tried it for ninety days and then suspended it if it was found to work badly. As it is, they go down south and hear practically the same things they heard here and come back not one whit the wiser aa to what the working of the clause would be in actusl practice. They only know what it s said it would be ac- cording to the cry.” Senator Van Wyck, who 1s unquestion- ably well posted on railway discrimina- tions and abuses, cordially indorses this view, and adds an illustration in point. He sn; *‘T'he corporations are avoid- ing this law. The bill requires that the rates shall be reasonable, and that no greater charge shall be made for a short kaul than for 8 long haul. Heretofure the rate establisbed by the railroad ecom- panies themselves from Chicsgo to Omaha was 14 cents a hundredweight, they themselves being the judges that this was a reasonable rate. At intermo- diate points on the same route they charged 18 cents a hundredweight for a shorter baul from Chicago. That was no violation of law. To get over the diffi- culty thay now charge 20 cents from Chi- cago to Omaha, which is an unreasonable rate, 50 &8 to maintain their charge of 18 cents for intermediate points, thus vio- lating the law st both ends The cor- porations ask the comunssion to wain- tain this long and short bau! diserimina- 50 | effort had the desired effect. competition, and at the same time the United States is asked to expend millions a year for the improvement of rivers and harbors, so that they can successfully compete with railroads, These are some of the points I have been anxious to present to the commission in person.'’ The law's suceess depends alone on the ability of the inter-state commission to require the railroads to charge ‘‘only a reasonable rate.”’ 1t i3, of course, left to the railroad to determine what a reason- able rate xhall be, and there is no record of where a railroad company ever axhib- ited any desire to make a lower rate than was necessary for it to secure its share of business. Yet it may be that when the neat congress amends the law, the pro- ducers will be benefited as was the orig inal intention A Faded Hero, Jeff Davis has again accepted an in- vitation to deliver an oration, or muke n speech at a southern college. His last The petti coated hero of the collapsed confederacy has been trying very hard for many years to become prominent again in northern papers. By announcing that he intended to support the union here- after, good words have been snowered upon the lost canse traitor from many sources 1n the north. It certainly is a matter of total indiffer- ence to the union whether Mr. Davis is friendly or not. There have been thou- sands of better men than Mr. Davis die, and many of them are forgotten. SBecause a childish old fraud should say that he is friendly, especially after his misguided followers have been routed and made throw up the sponge and ac- knowledge they were whipped, it is not of suflicient importance to eyoke the columns of pane gyric that such a remark from the ex-president has called forth. And on the other hand, if the traitor- ous imbecile should announce that he did not aequicse in the establishment of the union, it would again be of no im- portanc There was a time when blinded men followed Davis and honestly thought he was a great man with grand ideas. They fought for what they be- lieved to be right. It was proven a fal- lacy and right triumphed. That should end i The day that he was captured in Georgia rigged out in his wife’'s best dress, Jefferson Davis beeame a chestnut, A generous people can afford to toler ate lus tedious harangues becxuse he is an old man. Gray hairs will always com- mand sympathy if not respect. It will be the privilege of the coming generation to view a monument erected over the ashes of Davis after they are Iain away to further decay. The fact that for twenty years or more his only pride was in a public exiubition of his disloyalty to the government from which he purloined peace, plenty and protec- tion will not be considered. His treas- onable exultations that the southern heart still throbs with disloyal 1mpulses will all be forgotten when the tottering old man finally finds that obscurity of oblivion which a few years will bring. A Farmers' Convention, Thereis to be held at Atlanta, G August, an inter-state farmers’ counven- tion, and 1t promises to be a most im- portant and interasting meeting. About four hundred delegates, representing the diflerent southern states, will be in at- tendance, and the result will without doubt be beneficial to all tillers of the soil. In the new south a meeting of the rep- resentative agriculturists, at which views on farming will be interchanged, and all the conditions of farming discussed at length by those capable of discussing the subject intelligently, is more demanded than a similar gathering at the north, yet the result of a like meeting here could prove only advantageous, The farmers’ institute is in many ways beneficial, yet as these organizations as a general rule find their membership in counties alone, the ficld for discussion is necessarily limited, and the institute be- comes more of a social gathering, which in its way is a splendid thing. The southern idea, where representa- tive farmers from many states meet and discuss the different phases of farming, exchange ideas 2nd relate experiences in handling new seeds, and 1n short con- ducting the entire work of the farm, is novel and will certainly prove valuable. Politicians are to be excluded, and none other than actual, hardworking tillers of the soil will be recognized. The man who farms by theory and allows weeds to grow and crops to spoil is also not in- vited. Such a gathering must result in great ood to the south, and a similar meeting could do no harm in the north. An Open Confession. Young Mr. Blackburn got the best of Mr. Rosewater's anti- partizan school board meet mg. He got there first and organized the- meeting againstthe Ber editor. 'This re- minds the public that the celebrated charter meeting was captured the me way.—Her- ald. Thisi1s an open confession that the school board meeting was packed byjinter- ested politicians, It is the first time, also, that the paper which has all along up- held the infamous attempts to throttle public sentiment 1n the framing of our charter, has admitted that the exvosition building meeting was purposely packed. And who headed that move? The two rowdy editors and one of G. M. Hitch- cock’s roustubouts. Supported by Hugh Murphy and his gang of roughs,and Bill Fanning’s seav- enger brigade, they took charge of the meeting and placed Con Gallagher in the chair to rule down the respectable citi- zons. It was at that historic meoting, we are credibly informed, that the rowdy editor of the Republican swung his mur- derous billy in open view when the ex- cited crowd, exasperated by Gallagher's outrageous rulings, demanded a division of the kouse. The open confegsion of his contederata was doubtless a slip of the tongue. It shows what these political desperadoes are capable of deing. 1f young Mr. Blackburn i3 following in their footsteps, he is in afair way of going to the bad. e An 1lI-Advised Move. A prominent member of the eouncil has publicly stated that eleven members of the council have mutually bound themselves to defeat tae appointment of Chief of Lolice Seavey. Exactly how thisis to be brought about we do not know. Itis an ill-advised move, calcu- 1ated to vrecipitate a conflict of authority in which the council would pluce itself tion, 80 thut they can defy waterway |wuppmiuon to the letter and spirit ot the law and in opposition to an over- whelming public sentiment. It would be a serious blunder which would lower the council in the popular confidence and esteem The charter vests the control of the po- lice force from chief of police down to patrolman in the police commission. The commission may, 1f disposed to do so, consult councilmen as to police appoint- ments, but the law does not contemplate that the council shall have a voice in these appointments, directly or in- dircetly. They may disagree with the commi ssion ahbout: the rules governing the police, but they cannot make rules for it, much less prescribe qualifications for police officers which are designed to nullify the appointments made by the commission, Right here let us warn the council against taking any coursec that that would justly subject its mem- bers to the charge of collusion with the lawless elements which are no- toriously conspiring to prevent the or- ganization of an eflicient police under a chief who has no sympathy with them. The great mass of our citizens want good government, and they will not tolerate, much less approve, any action by the council that would demoralize the police force and place the community under the dominion of the rowdy and desperado element. —e Proressor Bruskk has a perfect right to aspire to the superintendency of our public schools. But the patrons of the public schools are satistied with Mr. James and will not countenance any scheme to supplant him even by a much abler man than Mr, Bruner, ad now, the first in tory, at least for many years. A telephone company will soon be oper- od there, and the Chinamen yet has hopes of civilization. —_— Decoration D a) Written for the Omaha e, Hark!'tis n.a rtial music,surely that I heard ! All my puises quickened; all my life-blood stirred ¢ And my mem'ry hasten’d,like a flash of light, To the days wlen red-hand war filled the Jand with blight. But again I liston, and the solemn strains, “Thrill me with eniotions near akin to pain; For, in dirge-like sadness, on my ear they fall, O’er the ;:lr[maus spring-time spreading asa pall. Slow, and sad, and solemn, comes a mighty throng, Moving, like a phalanx, powerful, grand,and strong; Towards the lovely resting-places of our fallen hest, Gallant sons ot F'reedom,dying at their post! Here, n holy silence, sleep our noble braves; Here, in gratitude, ‘we meet around the clust'ring graves, Blending tears in unison with the morning 0w, And their deeds of daring, bring to mind anew. Ohlmy fi len brethren, not vainly did ye die! Not in v n your ebhing blood, your quickly glazing eye, ! B Not for naught your Agony, your sufferiug, and death, For in your hour of dying, to Freedom ye gave breath! From your bitter struggles, from your awful waes, Freedom, gra arose From your shri of anguish, from your groansof pain, Peace. the Heaven-sent angel, smiled on us again nd and glorious, Pownix-like, On this bright May morning we assemble \ere O'er our fallen heroes todrop affection’s tears Keeping ever fragrant the mem’ry of tho past, And on your lonely pillows our floral trib- utes cast. Flowers! types of resurrection, from seed interred in earth! Flowers! emblems of the purity whence Freedom took her birth! . Flowers! symbols of the beauty which *round your mem’ry glows! Flowers! heralds of the glory which man o'er valor throws! Whilo this earth remaineth, the glorious deads you've done Shall be told in story, blazoned ’neath the sun; Told to childish innocence, soon as it can now Right from wrong to separate; chaff from wheat to blow. Told to youth's wild fanes, firing 1t with zen To emulate your virtues forits country s weal; Teaching it that glory cometh to the brave And no bourne’s 30 honored a3 a soldier’s grave. Told to smiling maldens, loving deeds, ol to widawed motherhood that n anguish ceds Told to stricken fathers, mourning for their mighty ead, Told to blighted households, grieving for their head. Told 'mid glory’s halo, sanctified by blood, How 'mid death and danger, ye for §our cnunlr¥ stood ; How for the loved and dear ones, fear ye llBillV spurned, ‘While for liberty and right, nobly burned. Ifheaven’s highest treasure-house doth grades of gifts afford, Surely those for heroes brave are by arch- angels stored, Crowns to deck the victor's to strew their way From the darkest paths of life to the realms of day! your hearts so brows, wreaths Noble m:\nfr-nrmy ! legion, gloriots! bright! On fame's highest pinacle, clad in glorious light. Stand your names forever, recounted year by year, By beat of drum, by tramp of feet, by sympa- thetic tear! For Freedom, home and country, your blood ye freely shed : £ ‘Your country showers Its benisons forever on your head; ‘ Your homes, though sadly blighted, cannot their dead forget, And Freedom, pricelebs gem, in man’s dia- dem is set. i Sleep on, then noble army! sleep on and take your res Beloved b, nllblllmn t 0 It s Sleep! with Nature smiling upon the lowly t, oving, blessed by all sod, Cherished lw your country, guarded by your God! Farewell! yet once again, ye dead! the life ye freely gave, Was waiting for your taking up, the other side the grav: Whera 'mid assembled vvj;:onm where peace hath perfect swa! Ye ever keep, in heaven ve,one long etor- val day. OMAHA, May, 1837, . e e— FORTUNE AND MISFORTUNE. Andrew Carnegie gives his wife $30,000 a year pin monoy. Zola is still much abused, but his income 18 300,000 francs a year. Mrs. Grant has so far received $394,459.53 a8 profits on the sale of ‘‘Grant’s Memoirs.” The duke of Connaught has a fat berth In Bombay. He gets $50,000 a year besid-s his parliamentary allowance of §125,000, Crown Prince Rudolph, of Austria, during three days at Berczencze recently, shot witn his own gun forty-seven head of roebucks, a feat unpreeedented in the annals of Euro- pean sport. While ex- Senator Jones was wasting bis J. N. CAMPION, time courting Miss I'alis in Detroit,a young | in a prescribed woman of Florida fell heir to £3,000,000 and married a local assemblyman in Mr, Jones' own city, Jonas G. Clark, of Worcester, Mass,, who recently presented £1,000,000 to that city $for the founding of a university, has made & further gift, consisting ot §500,000 worth of real estate, books, and works of art and £500.000 in cash, for the establishwment of professorshipss John Anderson e¢ umulated €5,000,000 by the manufacture and sale of a certain brand of chewing tobacco. To his granddaughter, Mrs, Mary Maud Watson, he left the in- come of 000, She is now seeking further “solace” by o suit to break the will, claiming one-fifth of the entire. According to the British chancellor of the exchequer there are ninety-five persons in England with an income ot over §500,000, or about €30 an hour. Yet it is said that these very wealthy people are really poor. Their responsibilities are always involving them in expenditures which it is difficult for them to meet. They manage their wealth, but do not enjoy it. il i SBTATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings, The new Masonic temple at Hastings will be dedicated June 24. Ulysses creamery butter sells readily in New York at fancy prices. The question of waterworks in Seward will be submitted to a vote of the people. “The school census of Gage county foots up 8,8 The girls lead the procession with' a total of 4,865 against 4,560 boys. Jefl' Sheddy, a Beaver City crook, grow ‘estly in the narrow_quarters of the ed the door off the hinges and »d off. It is rumored in knowing quartess that he took with him a coat of tar studded with young quills, sprig of a lawyer in Homer- wled with gas and a desire to distinguish himself, invited the court to step outside and secure a pugilistic pol- ishing. The court fell on him at long range, imposed a heavy fine and ordered him w0 jarl until the cash was paid. “You will never catch him in a hole with thumbs up,” remarked a member of a switching gang in the Union Pacilic yard, pointing to the foreman. ‘‘He dropped them on a drawhead years ago, and has been on the mov er since. “Thumbs up" is a private signal for a lay oft tosoak the wlistle. Miss Zadie Winslow, aspirited school teacher 1n Sheridan county, tackled a cowardly gossiper of the male persua- sion, who had circulated falschoods in regard to her character. She brought him into court and secured a diet for $500 damages from a Rushville jury. It is probablae the verdict will bridle his foul tongue for some time. A peculiar comncident in the life of “Skip" Willard, the murdered editor of the Sh 1 County Times, is related by Rev. Mr. Niles, of Hornellsvilie, New York, one of the delegates to the Presby- terian general assembly. Willard was the son of a Methodist minister, and born at Watertown, W On the evening of his birth the father w 8 denly called from the pulpit of church, and Mr. Niles was called on to h. On receipt of the news of the c death of Mr. Willard last Satur- . the duty of prepari eteh of his life fell to Mr. Sils ",“ s, son of Rev. Mr. Niles, and telegraph edi BEE. lowa Items. he city council of Jetlerson has appro- priated $500 to sink an artesian well within the city limits. Red Oak is making an effort to raise £1,000 to be used for prospecting for coal and gas in that neighborhood. Hon, W. W. Junkin has just completed the thirty-fourth year of continuous edi- torial service on the Fairfield Ledger. There are seven candidates already in the field for the seat on the bench made vacant by the death of Judge Rodgers. The Burlington Odd Fellows dedicated their new building on Thursday. The property cost $43,000 and is one of the finest edifices in-the city. ‘The editor of the Missouri Valley Times has been in the newspaper business twenty-two years, and says if he pros- pers financially in the next twenty-two years as he has in the past the county will have to pay his funeral expenses. The board of trustees of the agricul- tural college at Ames has tendered the position of professor of agriculture to Prof. K. M. Snelton, who for several years held this position in the Kansas Agricultural co&l(-gc, It is not known whether he will accept. The Independent Order of Reformed Soaks is spreading rapidly throughout the state. The rigid enforcement of pro- lhibition made unity of action necessary to secure an cye-opener oceasionally. A correspondent describes their mystic methods thus: *In order to get suthir.’ soothin’ the boys have to go around be- hind a shoe store, crawl over a barrel, under a dray, dive through a back yard, and give several distinet knocks at a cel- lar door, where, after giving a haling sign and taking an oath, they are allowed to pay fifteen cents a drink for some fearful poor whisky."” Dakota. The Rapid Civf' mining school's survey of the Black Hills is under way. The acreage of cultivated land in Brown county has increased 3834 per cent. over last year. At the election last week the people of Fall River county voted bonds to the amount of $10,000 to erect county build- ings at Hot Springs and start a summer resort. Snit has been commenced against the Sioux Falls Water Power company and the city of Siou Falls by John W Sniith for the loss of his planing mill ana stock, valued at $0,802.50. A suspicious character was arrested at Fargo and a valise which he had shipped to Averdeen was opened and found to contain a Smith & Wesson revolver, file, six drills, a box of cartridges and a pow- der horn. An increased demand for Yankton real tate since the Omaha vroject material- ed, is causing an advance in prices above the advance occasioned by the opening spring demand for property The market1s firm and buoyant and it is the buyers who are crowding transac- tions so says the Press. - Postoffice Changes in Nebraska During the week ending May 28, 1887, furnished by William VanVleck, of the postoflice department. Postmasters Appointed—Adams, Gage county, Rupert C. Pearson; Garner, Booue county, Oliver E. Walters; Mil- lard, Douglas county, William Peters; Pickrell, Gage county, George W. New- com; Pleasant Dale, Seward county, Thomas A. Blackburn; South Bend, Cass county, 8ilas C. Patterson; Summerhiil, Dougias county, H. M. Hunter. Discontinued--Meseweirlle,Guge county 10WA. Postmasters appointed in lowa during the week ending May 28, 1587: Avon, Polk _county, Newton Deaton; Delaware, Delaware county, Clara Mar- shall; Fayette, Fayette county, ¥rederick Holmes: Golden, Delaware county, Michael F. Sheppard; Graettingér, Palo Alto county, Herman N. Osher; Holmes, Wright county, David Mowers; Leonard, Taylor cuunlz, James Whitecotto Nashville, Juckson county, Murtin Fox; Panora, Guthrie county, Johu D). Lenon. sy ol bl 1t is said that London is to have a *‘hy- gienic restaurant,” where dyspeptics will dine. When they enter they will tell their symptoms toone of tnaattendant doetors, who wiil plan out proper dinners for them, which they will then proceed to cat nner. CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY, Perbaps the Most Remarkable Reoord, NEARLY HANGED FOR ANOTHER. Case on An Interestng Story of the Early Days on the Pacific Coast tecalled by the Death of an 01d-Time Judge. The death of Gordon N. Mottin San I'rancisco a few days ago recalls an al- most forgotten merdent in which he figured in the days when the Caueasian was comparatively new in Californ Mott went with the first tide of gold hunters in 1849, and settled at Auburn, where he engaged in runing operations, In 1850 the people wanted a county judge, and he was elected to that place. Ho gave such satisfaction that & year later, when it became necessary to choose a cireuit judge, the appointnient fell upon him. Whnile ho held this office he pre- sided at a murder trial which develope one of the most remarkable eases of mi taken identity ever heard of i that regioa. prominent miner in the wvicinity of Maryville had cleaned up $£5,000 worth of dust,and had started for Sun Francisco, where he expeeted to take ship for his home in the states. On the way ther and whe rany miles distant from N s attacked by highws an, killed and his gold was taken from him. When his dead body was found a few days Iater thero was in tense excitement among the miners, but for u time suspicion rested upon no'one. Every stranger and every hard citizon ned to no purpose. At authorities had well- lea of canturing the pointed out a de: ate looking character as the notos Jim Stewart, a man who was known to be & murderer and thief, and b ar- rested. As soon as the word was passed around that Jim Stewart was in the vi- cinity, every one knowing him said that he was undoubtedly the man. Justas most people had made up their minds that the murderer had been were congratulating the authorities on the result, it was 1 the isoner denied that he wa rt, To heriff and to a number of minors who called on him he declared that he never knew J art and that his ,’n name was Tom Berdue, At first his sfory was not believed, but in the course of time men who knew Stewart began to dispute with each other on the question of identity, and the public gave up the problem and turned it over to the court over which Judge Mott presided. ‘The trial was the first of much impor- tance in the st Berdue was ably de- fended, and the prosccuting attorney had two or three assistants. So far as direct testimony was concerned therp was very little. “The whole thing scemed to turn on_ the identity of the prison 1f it was Jim Stewart, then he guilty and must be hanged. If it was not Stewart, then the verdiet was to be an acquittal. For every man produced by the state who swore that the prisoner was Stewart the defense brought for- ward a man who swore that he wns not Stewart. Twenty-two_ such witnesses swore on hoth sides. ~ Many of them ex- plained how they could identify Stewart. One man said he had known Stewart in the east, and that he had a peculiar lump shoulder, a hard substanee under in which, nevertheless, was mov- able. The prisoner was told to lay off his coat and open his shirt. On his shoulde: just above the blade, was the identic: Tump. *“Is it there?” ed the witness. “Yes,” 1 the examiners ““I'hen that is Jim Stewart,”” con- elh"llud the witness, counfident it was set- tled. Other witnesses were equally positive, and for equally good reasons. It was thought that the testimony favorable to the prisoner was so strong that the jury could not convict, but in this the out- siders were mistaken. After a short de- liberation the twelye came into the court and announced that they nhad found the defendant guill% of murder in the first degree. Judge Mott remanded the pris oner to jail, and fixed a day ten days in advan, the time when he should pass sentence of death upon him. On the day before this ceremony was to have taken place some arrivals from San cisco reported the operations of the vigilance committee in that city, and among others of its victims included the name of the notorious Jim Stewart. Steps were at once taken to verify this report, and it was found that the wigilantes had indeed taken, tried and exterminated the mur- derer and robber. Judge Mott post- poned sentencing the prisoner from time to_time, until there was no longer a doubt that Stewart hud been hanged in San Francisco, and then, on motion of an.attorney, he gave the defendant a new trial, and the” prosceuting attorney at once dismis the case. Tom Ber- due was glad enough to get out of the scrape. He made his way to San Fran- cisco, where the story of his adyenture had preceded him, and for a long time he lived comfortably on the donations sympathetic people made to him. One of the witnesses who swore that Berdue was not Stewart now lives in San Francisco, and he says that the resem- blance between the men was most strik- ing. In speaking of the matter he sud: “I'ean give no reasonable explanation of my conviction that the prisoner was not Stewart. I'simply did not behieve he was. 1 had seen Stewart, and. though at first, or even ut second or third glance Berdy looked like the outlaw, there was some thing about him-—his manner, his spec his gait, or what not—that did not s to me to be the same; so I swore that he was notStewart, though all the time 1 was doing it I was expeeting that, likely as not, someth would turn up to prove that I was mistaken. No two men e looked more alike, “I remember that one witness who knew Stewart well said that if the oris- oner was the fellow whom they took him for they would tind a long seur on his head well cove by his long huir. He knew that Stewart hiul that s he had given him the blow that produ it. Berdue's head wus examined, there was the adentical scar. Ano! witness identified Berdue a r looking at hns hands. He had short, stubby figers, with nails, and that there was mark on each hand between the thuinb and the forefinger. Berdue had the same tingers and nails, and there were Indin ink marks in the places i “On the other side B e en who swore that the defendant was not Stewart, beeause while the resemblance was close, there were certain marks on Stewart which they could not find on Berdue. I remember that one gwore positively that the prisoner wis not Stewart, said that the latter had a big powder mark on his chin on which no beard would grow. Berdue was looked at by stveral pcople, and ut length it was announced that thers were powder marks on his elin, hut heard had well nigh concealec The witness who had just sworn that the prisoner was not Stewart, then took a look himself and said that he beiieved he had made a m On agking the jndgze what he that worthy told him to give m in of all the s, The witness start to explain, and after & whil mixed up, grabbed his hat and (eft the al, mutiering that ho would by ssed1f he know what be did think and | Nothiug was said to him a8 be took uis | the Fulton market Noedan ) talking. »atie v to certify that | dana it seat with the crowd, but a good many weonle, including Judge Mott, laughed.a jttle. Some otiers got mixed upin the same way. It wouldn't have taken much to have made all the witnesses change daces and sawear agasnst each other }r-»mvhfl.- it standpoints. Nobody was vory sure “Beforg he was lynched, Jim Stewart confessed sov I of his crimes, but ho did not have anything to say about the murder on the Maryville road, so that to this day it is not known who committed the atrocity. After Tom Berdue came to this town he was mistaken once or twice for Stewart, and finally to save himself further trouble, he shaved his face clean, eut lus hair and got a Scotch cap. He was g harmless follow, and I guess no body knows what beeame of him."” - - The Governor Heard From. Fremont Tribune Govornor Thayer has finally given his side of the story concerning the attack of some of the Omaha newspapers, notably the Republican, made upon him, 1f it were only a matter which concerned the relations of Governor Thayer and the editor of the Republican to each other the Tribune would not eare a snap of the finger one way or the othes t the at- tuck, to the extent that the Republican professes to be and is & representatiye and exponent of the republican party of Nebraska, makes it of that much concern to the party. From the governor's plain to be seen thit the tight n statement it is the real animus of de upon him comes from his refusal to appoint Editor Rothacker, of the Republican, as a member of t police " commission. Rounds & I the proprictors of the paper, labored hard with the governor o accomplish this end. To fortify bis statements the governor exhibats this tele Oyana, Neb, May 5 Governor Thayer: We strongly renew our oviginal request on appointment of poiice com- missioner. This 15 an earnest personal request Rovsns & TAYLOR. ‘I'nis is suflicient to convinee the pubhe that the dirty fight upon the governor is prompted by purely personal spit I'he harm that may grow from it can come only from members ot the party being misled by the Republican. When the facts ave known, however, we be lieve there will be fow people Who will endorse the Republican’s meanness. What vight any way Rothucker to an ofl He has only been in the state just barely long cnough to be entitled to a vot IFurthermore, he is a democrat, and why he should be made an objeet of special favor from a republican governor is not appurent. Rothacker, it appenvs, is only a political adventurer—unless he be called, also, a professional rowdy— and the Kepubliean as a newspaper is to be used asa medium for extorting offi- cial preferment. ‘The Rengblican has fallen mto base han fo g The Alicn Land Law. Denver Lepublican, The attempt to account for the failure of the Swan Brothers Cattle company by attributing it to the ahien land law en- acted by the last congress does not pro- sent o satisfactory arguinent against the law. It may be true, as is claimed, that if it had not heen for this law one of the Swans would have been able to make a sale to foreign capitalists which would have put him in possession of $300,000. This amount, we presume, would have saved the company .LFnu bankruptey. But to use this as an illustration of the bad poliey of the law involves the as- sumption that our iaws should be framed to protect from bankruptey financial ventures which are tottering upon the verge of ruin. If the Swan Brothers Cattle company nhad been in a healthy fi ial condition it would not have necded a sale to foreign capitalists to it from ruin. Possibly the foreign capitalists are feeling grate- ful that they were prevented from mak- ing the purchase. This Iaw does not prohibit the mvest- ment of foreign capital in the United States. Its effect is mercly to prevent foreign capital from acquir sition of power,through the pos: real property,as might endanger fare of the country and the liberty of its citizens. It stould be remembered at all times and under all circumstances that this country is the home of Americans and hat i ongs to Americans. Foreign ot complain of not having re- 1 suflicient encouragement in the United States. It has b cncouraged and welcomed, and it has by ro means been driven out by the law referred to. It is welcome now; but it must come, if at all, with the understanding that this i3 America, and that it is not Holland nor England. e heaviost Tocomotive in the world , and is on the Can- an Pacilie, next heaviest s the Southern Pacif 000 pounds; the the third weighs 145,000 pounds and is on the Northern Pacific; and Irazil owns the fourth, weighing 144,000 pounds. st M The duchess of Galliera and 83,000 of her countrywomen have presented a pe- tition to the municipality of Genoa ask- ing for the restoration of the statue of the Madouna above the gates, in recogni- tion of the preservation of the town ing the recent ur- -— Hard crabs are $2 per one hundred in New York City. THE PERFECT Self Revolving Charn Dasher Quickest Selling Article Iver Invented. PRICE OF DASHER, $1.25 ¥ ia tho Prottiost Showing e 00 L M ket Omana, Neb,, April 2%, 1857, =-"T'his is we, the undersigned, have day’ witnessed a churning by * Selt. Revoly Charn Dashers, hich resuited in prod 515 pounds of st class hutter from one zalion of cream t one minute and fifteen seconds s, L Agt It Uul, “oe Worl, Torald* Will 3. Do ¥runk e 1w, logers, Tl Or Testiare State and Cavnty 1ights for Sale, Progits 186L surprlse Yo AGENTS WANTED. Call or write 1 us a1 once, Qu ck sales profite Very tiniy, 1. W. & A, Poruas, Pr Koow ) Crognss Bicak. N, 10 ke Nob