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

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF 8UBSORIPTION ¢ Dally (Morniag Edition) including Sunday Ber, One Year.. ............. ¢ For 8ix Months For Three Montha ... The Omaha Swndny address, One Year. 610 FARNAM STREFY TRIBUNE BEILDING, WATIA OPPICE, NO. 014 AN 513 FOURTEEN Ti STREET. KW YORK OFFICE 00N ASHINGION OFFPICE, NO. COMRESPONDENCE? Al communications reluting to news and edi- torial maiter should be widressed w the Evi- TOl OF THE Bk, BUSINESS LETTERS? All buelness lettors and remittancos should he addressod to Tak BE& PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAMA. Drafts, chiocks and postofiico orders 10 be made paysble Lo the orderof the eompany, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETCRS, E. ROSEWATER, Epitor. THE DAILY BE| Bworn Statement of Circulation. State of Nebraska, * s 8. Connty of Douclas, il Geo. B. T'zschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing cumlmny. does solemnly swear that the actual circuiation of the Daily Bee week ending June 3, 1857, was as Tuesday, May i Wednesday, June Thursday, June Friday,June 3..... Average, Subscribed and_sworn to before mo this 4th day of June, 1857, N, P. FEIL, Notary Publie, [SEAL.) Geo. B. Tzschuck, belng first duly swern, deposes and says thiat he Is secretary of Tho Bee Publishing company, that the actual average daily circulation of the Daily Bes for the month™ of for June, 185, 12,208 copies: tor '“"yh 188, 12814 copres; for August, 1556, 12,404 N»'plerl‘ for Septem- ber, 185, 13,030 coples: for October, 155 12,08 copiess for November, 188, 13,313 copies; for Decomber, 1856, 13,237 copies; for January, 1887, 16,206 coples: for February, 1857, 14,108 copies; for March, 1557, 14,400 gopies; for April, 1857, 14,810 coples; for May, 1857, 14,227 copies. Gro. B. Tzscnuck, Subseribed and sworn to before me this 4th day of June A, D, 1887, ISEAL.| N. P, Frin, Notary Public. A GRrEAT denl of Kansas City capital is Leing invested in*Omaha, There are some men in Kansas City who are very level-headed, ALL persons 1n favor of separating pol- itics from the public school manage- ment, will yote to-day for the non-parti- san school board. JonN SHERMAN'S boom is having a very healthy growth. 1f the carly bird catches the worm, the Ohio statesman is very likely to “‘catch on.” A MYSTERIOUS malady has developed among the imported horses in Illinois which is proving very disastrous. The veterinarians are unable to determine the nature of the disease. A general quarantine of animals affected 1s being established, THE San Francisco wheat shorts are being squeezed even more severely than those of Chicago. They were made to pay an adyance of 25 cents a bushel on last Friday and are threatened with a further advance of 40 cents. The syndi- oate that is managing the Chicago corner 18 in terested also 1» the San Francisco eal. —————— EASTERN yachting circles are intensely interested m the performances of the new English yacht, Thistle, which is to come into American waters to contest for the great trophy, the America’s eup. The new craft is undoubtedly a swifter boat than any yet sent over for the prize, but she will have to show better qualities than she has thus far to have a claim to be regarded as a certain winner against our fast yachts. Mg. BLAINE hasnot always commended himself to the estcem of Englishnien, but he will, nevertheless, be cordially received in England, and it he seeks popular honors will receive them. He will probably, how- ever, avoid publicity as much as possible, i order that his conduct shall not be liable to any misconstruction at home, ‘Where it is hardly necessary to say it will be observed with great interest. Tre political situation in Mexico 18 evidently not an entirely happy ome. ‘There are partly good reasons for be- lieving that the clerical purty, which in the nature of things can have no love for the republio, is doing a good deal of insidious work, designed to injure the present government. The idea thatthere any serious movement in behalf of Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender, is however, not at all oredible. Mexico will never again be good ground on which to establish a monarchy. — CHICAGO {8 taking great pride in the fact that it has had one conyention this year and is to have another. We have no wish to dampen the enthusiasm of our sister city, but we feel called upon to re- mark that Omaha has entertained two national conventions this year, and has one more in view, With every facility for entertainment, a delightful climate, aud a people running over with hospi- tality, it is not surprising that Omaha should have the preference as a conven- tional centre, WE are assured by our democratic cotemporary that there is no conspiracy against Chief of Police Seavey, and in proof of that Assertion the fact is stated that the BEr has published a dispatch from Santa Barbara confirming in part the statements which appeared in a Los Angeles paper regarding Mr. Seavey. So far as the publication 1s concerned there was no conspiracy, but there is a sus. picious unanimity and harmony in the warfare on Seavey by papers whose editors were left out in the cold by Gov- ernor Thayer, and whose candidate for chief of police was left out by the com- mission, ————— Ir is likely that William E. Chandler will be chosen to represent New Hamp- shire in the United States senate for the unexpired term of the late Senator Pike. Mr. Chandler’s ambition has for some time taken this direction, and from the vantage ground of the senate he will doubtless make himself felt in the na- tional cam of next year. Itis also surjifsod that he will keep & shasp eye on Secretary Whitney and his reorgant. zation of the navy department. There are people who do not regard Mr. Chandler as 8 model statesman, but he is unques- tionably o man of decided abllity and a nlh'?: who can be depended upon not TSP RIS PR AP A Base Slander Refuted. On Sunday, May 20th, the following statement appeared in the Omaha Herald in its bushwhacking column, conducted under the caption of “The Casual List- “The Listener heard yesterday why Gov. Thayer Is 5o sore on Editor Rothacker. ¥When the gambling bill was before the governor for consideration, Goodly Boker went to Rose- water and asked his assistance and influence with Thayer. Ilosewater, so the story runs, told Boker to send down §2,50 to Thayer. ‘The money was raised among the sporting fraternity, and Rothacker having heard of it, decided to checkmate the Rosewater-Buker racket. He went to Lincoln with this aim and told Thayer that he had positive evidence that the $2,500 had been raised and sent to Lincoln to be given to him (Thayer) if he would veto the bill. Rothacker told him that he would print the whole thing if the bill was not signed. Thayer, under this stress, did sign the bill and the money was returned to the Omaha contributors, but Thayer has had it In for Rothacker ever since.” So the story runs! Who concocted this story and by whom was it circulated? ‘We venture to assert by none other than the *‘Casual Listener” and his runaway mate the rowdy editor who never will forgive Governor Thayer for refusing to appoint him member of the police com- m on, It is the most audacious and villainous attempt ever made in this state by any man or paper to blacken the reputation of a chief executive, and inculpate the aditor of a leading daily, in a conspiracy to bribe a governor. A letter enclosing copy of the siander- ous article was promptly mailed by the editor of the BEE to Governor Thayer, who made the following response LiNcoLy, Neb, June L—tlon, E. Rose- water, Omaha, Neb,, Dear Sir: In reply to your letter of the 80th ult. I have to say that I noticed the eharge made by‘‘Listener” in the Omanha Ierald that a fund was made up to be used to defeat the anti-gambling bill, and that you said “put down 82,500 for Thayer,” and that Rothacker threatened to publish the whole thing if 1 vetoed the bill. 1 never heard of any except your state- ment that a fund bad been raised to steal the bill, until I read in the Herald by ‘Listener” that I wasto be paid to veto the bill. You never mentloned the subject to me, and you never said anything that could be distorted into such a statement. On the contrary yon wrote me, strongly urzing me to sign the bill. Mr. Rothacker never mentioned such a subject to me. He never threatemed me with giving that or anything else away. There was nothing to give away for the reason that the whole statement, in every particular, is one of the foulest slanders, without & shred of anything to hold it together. The charge is as infamous as the source from which it comes. 1 never had a doubt about signing the bill, but delayed it on account of parties in Omaha, who telegraphed me, asking how long a time I could give them to be heard. I replied, “till 'Tuesday night.” That was the Intest time within which I could act on it. My mind was fully made up to approve the bill, though John McShane telegraphed me to veto it. Respectfully, JoirN M. THAYER, This letter reached Omaha while the editor of the BEE was at Chicago in at- tendance at an Associated press meeting, hence the unavoidable delay in making it public. Goodly Brucker, who is represented as having been advised by Rosewater to bribe Governor Thayer with $2,500, de- nounces thatstatement as an unnutigated fabrication and is ready tq testify at any time that ho nover talked with Rosewater about the governor, and never advised with him. or sought his influencd or ad- vice to induce the governor to withhold his signature from the bill. [t strikes us that the best the Herald can do, under these circumstanoes, is to make an un- qualified retraction The Pacific Railroad Debt. The Pacific railroads commission is prosecuting its work with commendable industry, but thus far to really little effect. What small amount of informa- tion it has been able to extract from the gentlemen with uncertain memories who have appeared before it, that was not previously known to everybody reason- ably well posted regarding the history of these roads, i3 of very questionable value. The New York Commercial Advertiser remarks that one conclusion at least ought to have been reached by all who have tollowed the delving process of the commission, and that is, ‘‘that con- gress can hardly be expocted to bring the railroad debt complications to an early or satisfactory settlement. Far from aid- ing such & consummation the commit- tee's revelations are likely to furnish an almost insurmountable obstacle.” It thinks the facts regarding the bits of jobbery connected with the Kansas Pacific oconsolidation and the Missouri Pa- cicific complications, ‘‘‘while not at all new, and not especiaily pertinent to the discussion, will furnish speech ma- terial sufficient to last the Vances and Riddlebergers of the next congress through the entire session.” It is not probable that this promise will in the least degree annoy the cotporations. The longer they are talked at the better thoy will be pleased. Praoctical legislation in the interest of the people is what thoy fear, Assuming that congress is not likely to bring the question of debt settlement to a vote, our New York contemporary sug- gests that it remans for the railroad managers to plan what they can do on thewr sido. It urges Mr. Adams, of the Union Pacific, to take the initiative and make plans for floating & public mort- gage sufficient to rotire at its maturity the whole government deby of his road. This, our contomporary believes, could casily be done, and probably at a low rate of interest, in the present condition of the company and of the bond market, ‘'The trouble with the Commercial-Advertiser 1s that it does not know what it is talking about when it tackles the Union Pacific debt settloments. ‘The next congress will in all probability make some provision for solving the Pacific rallroad debt problem, ‘The subject has been under discussion during three preceding sessions, and the issues involved are as thoroughly under- stood mow as thoy ever will be. Mr, Adams has presented his plan of settle- ment to eongress sevoral times, but ho has not been able to convince the na. tional legislature that his plan is in the public interest. Although the Pacific railcdad committees have recom- mended Mr, Adams, fundng scheme, leading members view il fn another light. Mr. Adams insists that ancient history, as rclating to Pacific raiiroad management, should be expunged, and the entire debt, whether honestly and legnlly incurred or fraudently coutract- ed, shall be logalized by congress and d0 o TH& OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1887, funded at low rates for eighty years, In other words, Mr. Adams proposes that the enormous Pacific railroad debt,which is fully three times as inrge as the actual value of the road, shall be salted down for three generations, and interest and principal taxed up against the people in the territory tributory to the road. The holders of Pacifio railrond stocks which represent fully twice as much capital as the roads could be duplicated for to-day would come in for their regular dividends. This feature of the funding scheme is the stumbling block to a settlement, There are those in congress who insist that the govern- ment has no right to legalize the Credit it and impose upon the peovle of the trans-Missourl region the payment of these debts in excessive tolls. The government having failed to protect itself against these robberies of its debtor, should either make an effort to recover the fraudulently gotten property or compel the stockholders to make good the theft out of their own pockets, the same as the stockholders of a national bank would be obliged to do if its man- agers had robbed the bank. This is the keynote of the situation. A proposition to fund the honest debt of the Pacific roads will meet with no objection, but the scheme to pile a mountaiu of fraudu- lent debts upon the company and compel its patrons for the next eighty yearsto groan under the burden is unjust and utterly defensible, —_— Restricted Rights of Way, The council passed a resolution at its last meeting directing the Union Pacific and Burlington roads to comply with the provisions of the ordinance which grants them permission to bridge Thirteenth street. That thorougfare has for years been obstructed by stone piers and wooden piling regardless of the condi- tions under which the right of way was geanted by the eity and in violation of pronases repeatedly made by the raillway managers. 1t remains to be scen whether the roads will now comply with the order of the council. Inthisconnection it muy be pertinent to call attention to the im- perative necessity of proper safeguards in legislating franchises and granting rights of way to railroads within the corporate limits, Cincinnati af- fords a striking example for Omaha in this respeet. A few yoars ago Cincinnati graated extraordinary privi- leges to the Big Four railway company in the way of allowing streets to be closed and others occupied by the road, for the purpose of securing to the ecity a union passenger depot. The act granting the franchise explicitly stated that the depot should forever be open to all roads cen- tering at Cincinnati upon fair and rea- sonable terms, and upon completion of the building and approaches thereto the Baltimore & Ohio, Ohio & Mississippi, Cincinnati Southern and the Bee line, to- gether with the Big Four, occupied 1t with their trains and harmony prevailed. But about a month ago the Big Four, being the owner of the track approaches to the depot, notified the Ohio ‘%c Missis sippi president that after Juue 80 he would not be allowegd to use the ap- proaches, which will completely shut that road out of the passenger station. Tba Big Four admits the right of the Ohio & Mississippi to use the rail approaches thereto, and since all the available ground is occupied by the Big Four it fol- lows that the mere right to use the sta- tion building amounts to nothing. The mistake Cincinnati made was in not in- cluding the approaches to the station in the franchise. Omabha should profit by the experience of Cincinnati and hereafter grant no right of way or franchise without proper instruc tions and specitic_conditions as to the rights of connecting lines. — The Alien Land Law. We have referred to the npinion given by Congressman Payson, author of the act restricting the holding of lands in the territories and the District of Columbia by alicn persons, associations er corporations, that the law goes to the extent of prohibiting such aliens from investing in mining prop- erty in the territories. The case brought to his attention was that of a mining company organized under the laws of Texasand running mines in New Mexico, which was endeavoring to dispose of shares of its stock to Knglish investors, who were about to purchase when the existence of this law was brought to their knowledge. Tlus put a stop to the transaction, and the view taken of the law by its author may be expected not only to stop all investments of foreign capital in the stock of corporations own- ing real property in the territories, but to prove exceedingly disquieting to those who now hold such investments, ‘The pro- visions of this agt are embraced in four sections, in substaunce as follows: Section 1. None but citizens of the United States or domestio corporations can acquire any land except such as may be acquired by inheritance or in good faith in the collection of previous debts, provided such restriction shall not apply to cases where the right to hold or acquire lands is seoured to citizeus of other countries by treaty. Sec. 2. No corporation or association more than 20 per cent of whose stock is owned by alieus, ean acquire such real estate. Sea, 3. No corporation, except for construc- tion or operation of railroads, eanals or turn- pikes, ean acquire more than 5,000 acres of land in the territories, Sec, 4. Any violation of the act is punisha- ble by forfeiture. It has undoubtedly been the popular impression regarding the purpose of this act that it was intended to provent the acquisition by aliens of large areas of land in the territories, a practice that has grown to be a serious abuse which called loudly for a remedy, ‘The debates on the bill in congress dwelt entirely upon this practice, Mr. Payson himself having pre- sented & tabulated statement showing that aliens and foreign corporations had over 20,000,000 acres of land in the United State, and stated that the list should in- elude some 10,000,000 acres more. If, however, the view of Mr. Payson re- garding the meaning and scope of the law 18 correct, it assumes an importance much more grave and far-reaching than it has been generally supposed to have. If mining companies owning real estate in the territories cannot dispose of shares of their stock to foreign capitalists, it is evident that neither can railroad com- panies having land in the territories. Tho principle under the law, as con: strued by its suthor, that applies to the ohé form of corporation, musy gbviounsly apply w0 the other. What effect thid must have upon the tinancial interosts of the country becomes a very serious ques- tion. ‘The purpose of rescuing the agrieul- tural lands of the territories from the grasp of alien owners, whether individu- als, associa‘ions or eorporations, was wise and necessary. The misfortune 1s that such action was not taken years ago, before millions of acres were ab- sorbed by these foreign speculators, who have thereby wvastly increased their wealth to the detriment of our people. But whether 1t s desir- able to carry the exclusion from investment of foreign capital as far as Mr. Payson's construction of the law would carry it is a question that needs to be very carefully considered. A San Francisco contemporary thoughttully ob- soryes that the principle which applies in securing the agricultural lands against alien possession cannot obtain as to mining ground. It “The mining law of the United States limits a single claim to 1,500 feet by 600, about twenty acres, and as a rule mining ground is useless for any other purpose than min- ing. Mining, unlike farming, does not produce immediate results, unless in very exceptional cases. There is gen- erally a long series of calls or assessments before the first dividend, all of which money is spent in the country for wages, machinery and other operating expenses. Every dollar in dividends represents a large antecedent as well as contin- uous outlay, and the payment of a great many men.” It may be remarked, also, that except for the investment of foreign capital i this direction develop- ment would be very much slower, Itis plainly a very dufferent matter whether a million of dollars of foreign capital 1s employed 1n opening mines, taking the chances of success or failure, or is in- vested in agricultural lands from which a profit, to be exacted of the people at the will of the owner, is assured. It will thus be seen that this law raises questions of the greatest importance, touching vast financial interests in two continents, Its cardinal principle the American people will insist shall be ad- hered to, but it may be found judicious to soamend the law that it shall not ovperate to the exclusion of all foreign investments 1n this conatry in which real property in the territories is involved. WE are informed that several assessors have simply copied last year's assess- ment roll, which is returned this year without formal change. This is gross negligence, to call it by a mild name. Quite apart from the substantial im- provements made 1n every part of the ity in 1856 the advance in the market value of real estate was fully twenty-five per cent over the preceding year. There was also a very general subdivision of acre property into town lots. Land that had been taxed on a valuation of $100 per nora was last year subdivided into lots which readily sell for from $500 to £1,000 each. In other words the acre property assessed for $100 has been sell- ing for from §2,500 to $5,000. To list such proporty at the assessed valuation of 1886 shows either eriminal neglect or nexcusable partiality. Witk Omaha is one of the healthiest citics in America her city authorities should not negleet the ordinary sanitary precautions, There are a nnmber of wretchedly built tenement houses in this city, crowded from cellar to garret,where malaria is bred and epidemic aisease is stored for want of drainage. These tenement lodgers are compelled to drink the water drawn from wells, into which the contents of closets are filtered. Our health officers should take some steps to compel the owners of tenement houses to provide proper drainage for their lots and buildings before the hot weather sets in, — “WE do like enterprise,”” but that pink- tinted mammoth Sunday edition, with its acres of sign boards of Omaha, Cheyenne, Hastings, St. Joe, Chicago, Grand Island and Red Oak business houses recalls the graveyard song of the sexton, “We Have Taken Them In! We Are Taking Them Inr It is very probable that were President Cleveland to go to St. Louis during the meeting there of the Grand Army he would hear some things not conducive to his peace of mind. Butheisn't going, 80 far as he knows at present, and it is well for both the veterans and the presi- dent that such is the case. —————— PaT ForD’s objection to Chief Seavey is that he dyes his whiskers. That's a fashion Pat considers abominable. If the chief of police had only dyed his nose a bright Frank Walter's ruby he would be all right. THE patrons of the public schools must smash the party siates by electing the non-partisan board of education ticket. The managers of our public schools should be kept out of the political cesspool. ————— INTELLIGENT and conscientious citizens must rebuke bourbonism in both parties to-day. The intrusion of political hacks into our school management is an out- rage, —— STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jotrings. Red Cloud has contracted for electric hights. > Hastingw real estate is ruling high and changing hands rapidly, The electrio lirlu. plant in Columbus will be ready by July 1. A soldiers’ and sailors’ reumon will be held at Ravenna, beginning July 4. The assessed valuation of property in Columbus this year smounts to §301,457, The striped ground squirrel is harvest- ing a fair share of the crop in Dundy county. Hog thieves mnde several long hauls in the vicinity of, Weeping Water last week., Hartington will blow up $300 on the Fourth. Omaha will send $10,000 by the same route. ) QThe Kansas City ‘& Omaha railroad graders have reached MeCool Junction 1n the southwest. A book agent wus run in at St, Edwards for peddling the *‘Life ot Christ'' without s license and relieved of the profits on a woek's sales. The Newton hotel of Central City, a lll"fo three-story building, is completed and will be dedicated witl banquet to- morrow night. Plattsmouthers are talking of sending out an expedition in search of the street railway company recenily lost in the wilderness of the boom. The Elkhorn Valleyroad from Fremont west is being ballasted with gravel, fifty carloads a ¢ay being distributed along the track. ThE¥o4d Will soon be in first- class condipron. A Kansas sufferer with an innocent myg and a team of horses tarried in Benkleman long enough todispose of the animals and fall into the arms of a sheriff, He had borrowed the team. Creighton, Knox county, proposes to head off rival towns looking for the Omaha-Yankion road by surveying a portion of the road and ‘presenting the right of way to the builders, The commissivners of Dawson county have plowed up considerable indignation and ugly terrogations by purchasing scrapers in Omaha for $0 cach which could be bought at home for £6.50, An expert cracksman made a safe call on E, W, Do Witt's store in Neligh a few nights ago, and extracted $¥0 from the cash box. As usual in such cases, the rude intruder forgot to leave a clu Pawnee City recently sent a train-load of products to Chicago, bearing on the outer walls banners with strange de- vices, among others the following slip of the pen: “Hogs pay the taxes in Pawnee county.” E. R. Biton, a prominent farmer of Platte councy, was suddenly robbed of dyspeptic symptoms last week by a kick from a_horse. 'The animal planted his shoe impressively on his pit for good luck. The Nebraska City News grows weary of the talk of booms. After careful ob- servation and due regard for truth, the News fails to see a genuine, substantial boom, outside of Omaha. Other towns are simply progressing. The progress of woman's rights in Ne- braska is suflicient to warrant Mrs, Clara Bewick Colby in clmnglnt; the Woman's Tribune from a monthly to a weekly ]nlbliv:ll(on. Clara hopes to hammer a arge hole in the prejudices of mankind before many years. May Shoemaker, a McCook waiter, made a pincushion of her mouth and swallowed a point. The doctors laid her outon & bench, slapped her vigorously on the back, dosed_her with emetics and pumped her dey. The pin was finally expelled and May blossoms in June. The town of York has entered into a contract with the Strang company, of Omaha, for a system of waterworks. The company has secured a franchise for twenty-flve years. Five miles of pipe will be laid and fifty hydrants put in, for which the city pays $3,000 per annum, The Hastings Independent calls loudly for a protective asylum for fools, with whom the city seoms to be overstocked. This does not include the number taken in by the railroad fakirs lately. It refers solely to those speculators o followed a brass-mounted sharp and invested $300 in snido chains and Waterbury watches last week. R. G. Carr and Herbert Sargent became involved in a fistic dispute at West Union. Sargent displayed considerable eloquence with his palms and was about to close witha brilliant peroration when Carr palled a knife, knocked down his adversary and skashed his back in a hor- rible manner. Sargentis in a vrecarious condition and Carr is under bonds. A bunch of commercial drummors set- tled down for a day's sport by a dam site in Wayne, londed with bottled bait. The chroniques of the time aflirm that they put to the test the presidential method of wooing the festive bullhead from his lair. They disposed of the bait themselves, threw the bottles into the creek and returned to town loaded— with fish stories and snake bites. Platte county’s man-eating stallion con- tinues business at the old stand, With a| unquestioned record of three men chewe up and digested. he thirsts for more gore. Last week he [lv]:mwul his teeth on Peter Moran’s shoulder twice and sccured a mouthful. Pete managed to escape with the remainder, The animal is said to be too valuable to kill, and he will continue his cannibalistic career unmolested. Creighton is a rank prohibition town, but an occasional jug is snaked in to stimulate the natives. One evening last week a well-known squire was seen hug- ging the shadows of back Yun(! on his way home, with a suspiciofis looking ves- sel'in his grip. A party of nosegays in- stantly started out to head him off.” The judge gracefully uncorked and passed the jug around. It was loaded with but- termilk, liberally mixed with croton cil. The Dundy Democrat rushes to the rescue of the scalp editor of its Lincoln namesake with a vietim of nborlifni:ul af- fection. His name is James ily, an old-time scout and Indian shooter. ay back in the sixties a band of Sioux tied James to a stake, warwed his shins and shied tomahawks at his flowing locks. In a spirit of charity they peeled his pate and left him to the tender care of a cav- alry company, which came up unexpect- edly, Daily survived for a worse fate. He is now said to be in Omaha actively engaged n sealping interiors with whisky straight and erooked. The Plattsmouth Journal smotes tho air with double leaded lines proclaiming that Cass county needs a court house. One year ago, in _an hour of inspired liberality, the city offered o build and equip commodious quarters for the county oflicials, but they spuraed the innovation nngk urrowed an extta hole in the clay bank supportin, the moss covered county building, an settled down with rheumatics for com- panions, Back of their primitive ideas was a secret desire to maim, with drop- sical quarters, an ofheial noted for his grip on public pap, but he grew fat vhysically and financially on the job, and the commissioners, it is belioved, are now ready to take anything that is offered. The perrenial blush of John L, Minor, a bashful clerk in_the store department of the B. & M. in Plattsmouth, has wilted 1 the sunlight of recent developments. During the frigid infancy of the year Mr. Minor contracted a sevore dose of cold feet and quietly sped to St. Joseph for treatment. His early return to duty con- vinced his companions that the trip was successful, 'or four average months John kept locked 1n his bosom the thrilling shadows of a great secret, and frequent mysterious trips to Atchison intensified the belief that gomybqu was about to ‘‘drap.” Last wéek he braced up, hurried to Atchison and rewrned Sunday with Mrs, Minor, nece Miss Emmwa D. Hobbs, They were married on the 24th of last January. The harvest of graduates has com- menced. Every school of prominence 1n the state has its contingent and a score or more laborious essays have already en- liveneda the colums of the country press. The 1lls of the human race and govern- ment, monarchial maladies and repub- liean reform. ancient and modern eras, and other topics of thnilling interest are dissectod and the meat of the moss-cov- ered spread out with gorgeous periods before applauding parents and friends. It is the rosy morn of thewr hfe, the bo- quet period, a brief flower-laden calm preceding the stormy struggle for lace, profit or power. To them ihe attle for bread, the strife of wage workers and moneyed men are as chat’ on the billows on a simoon—they are in- visible to the gaze of inexperience. It is best so. Let them enjoy the full nieasure of youthful school time happi- ness. Trial” and toil will come later on. lowa ltems. 5 Chariton people are moving for fac- ories, The union labor party has been organ- ized in Marshall county. Another bridge is likely to be built across tho river at Dubuque. A large force of buflzurs are rounding up the charitable in Humboldt, Brewer county old settlers will kold their annual picnio on the 16th. Five thousand strangers were in lIowa City during the A. O, H. reunion last weck. Two heavy weight slugzers disfigured themselves in the interest of science and in a saloon In Hawarden recently. 'he courts scized t| K o8, R. A. Tupper, a professed Sunday schoo] leaderin Fairfield, was taken in by New York money. The biblical ohump squealed in court and gave himself away. oux City is making every preparation to give the liremen of tha state a cordial welcome at the annual tournament com- mencing on Wednesday. The cash prizes to be contested for amount to $3,005. The fats and the leans of Des Moines played at ball last Wednesday, the for- mer perspiring at a score of 13 to 7. There was a noticeable absence of “kick- ing"' as the umpire wore a coat of mail, a revolver, two knives and a Winchester repeater. A sad snicide of a promising young editor is reported at Storm Lake. Re- cently the multifarious duties of the pro- fession involved him in a published scan- dal and brought upon his worried head the wrath of the female population. Death was his only haven of rest and_ho accepted his fate without a murmur. The immediate cause of his taking off was a report of a concert and an exhibit of short horn cattle, which appeared in_the ]mpn-r as follows: ““I'he concert given ast “i‘f,'" by sixteen of Storm Lake's most beautiful and interesting young Iadies was highly appreciated. " They were elegantly dressed and sang in a most charming manper, winning the plaudits of the entire audicnce, who pro- nounce them the finest breed of short- horns in the country. A fow of them are of arich brown color, but the majority are spotted brown and white. Several of the heifers were fine-bodied, tight-limbed anmals, and promise to prove good property,’” Dakota. Two hundred Vermonters are arrang- ing to settle in Hettinger county, Gopher tails command face value, three cents each, in Barnes county, The Episcopalians of Huron will erect a £10,000 church of granite this season, gothic style. Governor Chureh is trying to inject a littlo reform into the ‘management of territorial institutions. A tin company, backed by $10,000,000 of English mor has been formed to develop the tin mines in the hills, The new fan well at Yankton struck water- ing rock at a depth of 475 feet. About sixty feet min to be drilled before the level of heavy tlow is struck, The contractors say they are after the Iaigest flowing well in the world. v s TRICKS OF THE FAKIR. Averice is What He Banks Upon. “The foundation on _which every sharper works 18 averice,” said the faki after lighting a fresh cigar, “‘and he 18 as apt to catch the citizen of a big town as the farmer living by himself. I was at- tached to a circus for several scasons and my statistics proved that the biggest share of my money came from towns- people. I'hada wheel of fortune, two or three patent medicines, a prize draw- ing, cte., and N more money at once out of a yer or merchant than out of a countryman, It is curious how all sorts of people will invest their money ona wheel of fortune. There ney s one made which didn’t give the operator 75 per cent advantage to begm with, and by trickery this advantage is increased 15 or 20 per cent. You must know that the operator has things so fixed that he can stop the wheel at will. In a town in Rhode Island s member of the common council, who was accounted one of the sharpest men in the locality, left $200 with me before he quit my wheel, If there is any ratfling or dice shaking, it is all fixed, of course, Inthe prize draw- ings you may tind gold and silver watches and sums of money aisplayed,but these cannot by any possibility be drawn. "I know ecveral men who have grown rich and retired from the business on the sale of liver invigorators and consump- tive cures. Both remedies are made of the - same materials—to-wit, water, whisky, and one or two eoxtracts, In Dayton, O., a fakir connected with our show sold 130 bottles of liver invigerator and 208 bottles of consumption cure 1n four hours, and not over oue~warmr of the lot was sold to farmers. hen you appeal to a man’s avarice you hit fiim hard; when you get him to thinking his liver is out of order, or that he is con- sumptive, you can tako his lst cent. You have seen the glass bulbs filled with red- dish fluid which fakirs claim to test the blood with? Any one of average sensc must know they are frauds, but I have seen the best “physicians in a town pay their 10 cents with the rest. About the only thing connected with the outside of a circus which is_not a fraud on the pub- licis the electric h:murr. That's ail right, and the owner wil §IVG you all your money calls for, and sometimes more. ‘‘Now, take the three-card monte busi- ness or thimble rigging. Those two games have been worked for the lust fifty years all over the United Stal and the public has been warned agai them tens of t'\ousund'}’of mes. They are still the most profifable games td be worked. Even old gamblers are enticed to bet. Several years ago, whilo I was tuking a vacation at a health resort in Wisconsin, o couple of the fraternity called for my assistance to help ‘work’ a farmer. The intended victim was a sharp, keen man, about thirty years old, He had been ov- erywhere and was up to all dodges. He' had been tried with the gold brick and treasure dodges but had rofused to bite. We held & eouncil and decided upon a lan, He had three or four fine horses or sale, and the trio of us drove out to his place to muke & purchase. We were 1lhnois stoek raisers and horsemen, and 1t was apparent that he mzed us up for sharp fellows, One of my companions whom I will call Jim, did " most of the talking, and he alone desired to do the buying, Jaek and myself sat down on an old hay ragk in the barnyard, and searcoly noticed the horses as they were paraded up and down infront of us. At the proper time Jack took out ms curds and began to show me how it wus dono. 1 bet him that [ could pick out the card, and we began to talk in loud tones and attract attention. The farmer finally came over, He knew all about the game and smiled in pity at the idea of being caught, but in less than ten minutes, and that without any ur, iu’; from any of us, he had bet and won‘x}lt 5 ‘That was the entering wedge. He was allowed to win §30 and then eleaned out §40. His s of avarice was now thor- oughly aroused, and I am telling you the solemn truth when I say that he put up the horses and walked into the house and brought out a bag containing $060 in gold, He sat down with greedy eyes and palo lips, and won and lost until we had Iun last dollar. There was no explosion when he had parted with his lust gold piece, On the contrary he volunteered the statement that all had been fair and | aboveboard. An afterclap always accom- panies such events, however, and we got out of the state just as he hud sccured warrants for our arrest. “The safest gnme worked in the country to-day is the counterfeit money dodge, and & 80'"“{ mber of fakirs are rellin up fortunes by it. Isupply mysclf with a lot of new greenbacks—ones, twos,and fives—and then appear in some small town as an agent, or detective, or a stranger seeking recreation. It requires only o few days to size up the people. In every town of 8,000 inhabitants there are half a dozen men who are ready to deal in the quecrif it can be doue safely. The money I have with me is, you under- stand, perfectly ‘iuml ‘When I have se- selected my man [ exhibit the, money as counterfeit, [am quietly supplylng the ‘stufl’ to a few good fellows at so much on the dollar. Before he buys 1 give him a bill to take to the postoflice or bank. | It passes without question, and he is elated. I am ready to keave a dollar bill with him as » sample, but if he gives an sharps who peddled bogus | order to be filled two weeks later he must pay me a cerlain sum in advanco, fay $40 on the hundred. Ta prove to him that I have his interests and safety at heart, I produce a paper in which he makes me his financial agentto | receive and receipt for all moneys. Then | 1 give him my note of hand, due some , weeks ahead for whatever money he pays me, and he rests assured that the law cannot tronble him. His order is never filled, of course. Suppose he kicks, He has given me power of attorney. [ have not had a dollar of the queer in” my pos« session, The document is an effectual bar to his recoveriag or prosecuting. have seen two or threo tests of it, and the fakir came out with flying color® in each instance, In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, however, the vietim loses what. ever he has advanced without a thought of raising a row. He has been canght in bad company. He intended to swindle his neighbors, He is amenable to the law. He is glad enough to let the matter drop and say no more about it, and the fakir goes from pasture to pasture and rolls up a fat bank account. When you read in gome newspapers ot the sharpness and cuteness of the Amerioan people, just re- member what I have told you. No peo- e swindled oftener, and none hun. so badly for the takir and his tricks," e AN ERROR IN HIS COUNTS. The Half Million Discrepancy That Startled Captain Hobbs. Albany (Ga.) News: Captain R, Hobbs, of this city, after he mot with the misfor- tune of losing his arm on the battlefield during the late , wus appointed pur- chasing agent in this territory for the army of Virginia. Under the ‘confeder- ate law prohibiting the planting of more than three acres of cotton, large areas of corn was cultivated in the south, and hogs and cattle were raised_and slaught- ered in great numbors. No maraudin, band of Yankee suldiers penetrated this rich belt, and it was the granary and meathouse of the confederacy., For the last two years of the war's duration a constant and steady supply of provisions for tne confederate army tlowed from this land of plenty. The agents of the confede with tireless ener, the country collecting the grain that sustained the strength of the fighting force. Cay rin Hobbs, as purchasing { out monthly, vast sums of con D ate money and sent in regularly his ac- counts to be audited, On one oc he was surprised and greatly disturbed m mind at reeeiving a telegram from the auditor ng: “There is a dise your account, Com With all possible haste he made prepar- ations to answer the urgent call of hig superior, thinking the while how such an error could have crept in. He hastily examined his records, halanced his eash, and being unable to discover anything wrongwas the more greatly perplexed. Ha took his departure for headquarters with forebodings of coming evil, but sustained and comforted with the consciousness of honest dealings. Arriving at the audit- or’s oftice he hastily sought an explana- tion, and was overcome wite a sense of elief when told that the discrepency was in his favor, but that they wanted him to account for it if possible, Comparing the auditor's record with the transeript of his books, the eaptain soon discovered that he had been cred- ited by two bushels of corn for every sack received, when, 1n faet, the sacks weighed only ninety-six ponnds. That will give our readors some idea of the magnitude of the undertaking to feed the confederate army. What an immense quantity of corn it would require at an error of a peck to a sack, to make a half million of dollars, even at confederate prices, alide o General Washington's Farm. From an Almanuc of 1796 General Washington possesses 10,000 acres of land in one body, where he lives; constantly employs 240 hands; keeps 25 plows going all the year, when the weather will per- mit; sowed in 1787 600 bushels of oats, 700 acres of wheat, and prepared as much corn, barley, potatoes, beans, peas, ete.; has near 500 acres in grass, and sowed 150 with turnips. Stock, 140 horses, 113 cows, 285 working oxen, heifersand steers, and 500 sheep. The lands about his seat are all laid down 1 grass; the farms are scattered around at a distance of two, three, four or five miles, which the general visits every day unless the weather is absolutely stormy. He is constantly making various and ex- tensive experiments for the improve- ment of agriculture. He 18 stimulated with that desire which always actuates him—to do good to mankina.” In 1786 he killed 150 hogs, weighing 18,500 pounds, for his family use, exclusive of provision or his negroes, which was made into bacon. —_—— Natural Baromecters, In the village of Meyrin, in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland, some disuscd wells, it is said, have been hermetically sealed and devoted to the novel purpose of serving as barometers to the peoplo. In Jlil arrangegent an gritioe of about one fnch in q’!u neter 18 made in the cover of the well, by means of whjch tho internal air is put_in communication with the external. When the air press- ure outside diminishes on the approach of a storm the air in the well escapes and blows a whistle in connection with the orifice, and in this simple way notice of a storm's approach is duly given tothe mbabitants. But if, on the contrary, the pressure increases, a sound of a dif- ferent und well-understood character is produced by the entry of the air into the well, and the probability of fine weather is announced. THE PERFECT Self Revolving Charn Dasher Quickest Belling Article Ever lnvented, PRICE OF DASHER, $1.25 Noedsno talking 1 1 ho Prattiost. Showlug h, ‘Article on tho Market OmAuA, Neb., April 23, 1857 to certify that we, the undersigne this day witnessed a churning by *T Perfect” Self Revolving Churn Dashers,” which resulted in producing 8 pounds of first class butter from one gallon of cream in inst one minute and fifteen seconds, W. L. Wilkht, Wheeler, wa Merchanis’ National Bark; Pr. Ghn Radd. Jowolor 1 3 3 'u!‘:' and County Kights for Sale, Projits Will Surprise You, AGENTS WANTED. Call or write to us at once, Qu ck saler and large profits, Very truly, 1. W. & A, Popnam, Prop's. Room1 Crounse Block. K.1tb st.. Omahs, Now