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

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Btate of Nebraska, *R s, County of Douvlas. oo . 3e0. 1. ‘I'zschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circuiation of the Daily Bee for the week ending June 17, 1557, was as follows: Saturdav.June 11 Sunday, June 1 Monday, June 1 Tuesday, june 14 Wednesday, June 15 Thursday, June 16 Friday,June 17. Average.. 14.101 0. 1. T78c11U0K. Subseribed and sworn to before me this 20th day of June, 1587, N, P. Frir, SEAL.] Notary Publie, Geo. B. Tzschuck, being first dily sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that tlie actual Average daily circulation of the Daily Bee ln‘ K the ‘month™ of for June, 18, 0 coples: tor July, 1885, 1 copies for Angust, 159, 12,484 copies: for Sept ber, 18, 13,030 copies; for October, 12,080 copies; for November, 1586, coples; for December, January 1887, 1 1857, 14,108 copies; f¢ % copies; for April, 1557, 14,316 copies; for May, 1857, 14,227 coples. Gro. B. Tzscnuck, Subsoribed and sworn to before mo this 4th day of Jure A. 1), 15 ISEAL - 1L, Notary Publie. e question now 1s will the council pass the illegal police ordinance over the mayor’s veto? P —— MAXWELL, nlms’ lmmg murderer of Brooks, 18 to be hanged. He might as well pack his trunk again. UNDER the new law passed by the Missouri legislature, Kansas city has no bucket-shops. There is yet a chance for the reckless speculator to invest in town lots. GOVERNOR HILL says his favorite way of spending a summer’s evening lean back in a chair on the piazza reflect.”” Grover Cleveland has doubt- less found the same employment the last few days. I has been made a part of the Iilinois railway commission’s duty to examine bridges. The bridges will perhaps be examined like complaints are heard by the Nebraska commission. That 1s to ride through the country at thirty miles ver hour, look out the car window oc- casionally and report that ‘‘all seem satistied,” AN JTowa man has recently shipped 800,000 young pine trees from Black River Falls, Wis., to Iowa, to be trans- planted. Itis said that he has made a shipment nearly every year for the lasc | mo An Active Competitor, The movements of the Canadian Pacific railroad, which for some time have been marked by great vigor and enterprise, are a source of much interest and concern ican railroads with which the n corporation will competition. Indeed they have an even xtentended interest than this as Francisco econtemporary forcibly points out. Referring to the recont ar rival of the steamship Abyssinniaat Van- couver, that paper remarks that the event means that the Canadian earnest, and that if San Francisco wants 1o protect its Asiatic trade 1t must begin to bestir iteelf. It will not do, it says, to despise this new northern competitor. Port Moody has a good harbor, and it is 430 miles nearer Yokohama than San Francisco. It has two governments behind it. Political as well as commercial considerations are involved 1n its struggle for trade, If it can make itself the Pacific ing place for the trade of A with Great Britain, says our contemporary, a point will be scored in favor of the maintenance of the colo- nial connection, and simultancously a blow will be struck at the supremacy of San Francisco. One of the apprehended dangers from the threatened divdrsion of trade is its possible bearing on the reopening of the A considerable opposition has been developed in the Canadian par- liament to the exclusion act, and it is a not improbable supposition that this hos- tility may have been started now with a view to future action for the repcal of the act should the interests of the Cana- dian Pacific steamship company require it. With permussion given to this com- pany to bring over Chinamen, it would undoubtedly soon have full contrcl of that trade, to the material loss of the American lIimes from San Francisco. Fucthermore, if Chinamen are brought to Canada, where there is no demand for them, they will certainly find their way into the United States, unless still more stringent laws are made for their exclusion, and thus there would be another influx of these people to this country while the charge for bringing hem here would all go into foreign pockets. Such a prospect is certainly not to be viewed with entire compla- cency, and our San Francisco contem- porary does well to sound the alarm. But it would have done still better if it had suggested some adequate means of meeting the threatened exigency. The obvious fact is that 1f we are less liberal and less enterprising than our com- petitor we shall be beaten in the contest, and it remains to be seen what the representatives of Californiain congress and its capitalists interested 1n the steamship lines are willing to do to meet the impending difficulty. Canada will probubly have no sentiment in the matter. Whatever is done will un- doubtedly be in strictly practical lines. It will be necessary, therefore, to mcet them in a practical way. Being first in we ought to have the advantage of the Fifty years ago to-day Victoria was proclaimed queen of England under the title of Alexandrina Victoria L., the first name, conferred upon her by her Russian godfather, having been subsequently dropped, she preferring simply *‘Victor1a.” The jubilee to celebrate the semi-centennial of this event, for which preparations have been in progress for months past, was formally inaugurated thirty years, and clnims that his experi- ence is thut these trees are the most thrifty and hardy, and make the best wind breaks of any tree that has yet been tried on the Towa prairies. The Wiscon- n pine tree might also prove thrifty in this state. FoLLowING the masons of St. Louis the Dakota Grand Lodge of Masons re- cently passed the following resolution: **That no person who is engaged 1 the business of keeping a saloon or engaged in the business of retailing intoxicati liquors to be used as a beverage i in any subordinate lodge in this ion, nor shall any brother Mason s engaged in such business be ree ceived in any lodge by afliliation. Other lodges' of the great order will pass sinular reSolutions. 1IN his speech in defense of the Chicago boodlers, who were found gulty, Satur- day, Luther Laflin Mills said of one's character: “*Character is the great fact of human life orthe mdividual lives of human men. It is not the creature of a moment; it is not the product of any occasion or event. Itisa fabric built up by a lifetime of toil and conduct. 1t1s not shaped by others; not even parcnts in one's childhood ean mold 1t to perfec- tion. It is the ripe product of time. It is made by years. The good opinions of mankind come only as they are carned by industry and honest life.” GaATy, in the Cincinnati Enquirer says, in reviewing the different U, S, senators: “Van Wyck is an eccentric man, who goes off at a tangent. He has inde- pendence of character which is apt to be exercised when his personal feelings are rasped, making animositics with dili- gence. His anmmosities beat him for re-election.” It the combined strength of all railroad corpora- tions, the allied forces of all the jobbers—comprising the elements op- posed to honesty and fearlessness—to- gether with the heartless betrayal of men elected and instructed as Van Wyck men, be “animosities,” then Gath is cor- rect. Otherwise he is wrong. Tre weather conditions generally of the past week were favorable to the ma- turing crops, as well as to the work of gathering the harvest in those sections where it has ripened, An improvement over the previous week is almost umver- sally reported, the prineipal exception being Kausas, where the damage from unfavorable weather and the ravages of insects hus been so serious that a short crop 1s ievitable, In Nebraska there was an abundant rainfall, and the indications are that the yield will be at least 90 per cent, and may be higher than that, The outlook for Iowa is favorable, though the » counties from which reports have been received do not place the average above 84 percent. There are some contingen- cies yel to be apprehended, and it is quite possible that the bountiful results prom- ised by prosent indications may not be fully realized, but thereis extremely little probability that the crop will not be ample, assuring all that this country will noed and a cousiderable quantity to sparo, yesterday. But the crowning and cli- macteric act in this notable national comedy, to which all Europe has con- tributed royal countenance and sub- stantial evidences of sympathy, will be performed to-day. Unquestionably the occasion will be one of the most memor- able in the history or experience of Englang, Three other English sovereigns reignea fifty years—Henry 111, Edward IIL. and George IIL.—but these events were hounored by no such consideration as will bestowed upon the semi-centennial of the reign of Victoria. Probably never before, at any one time, has there been on English soil so numerous a body of the representatives of royalty as are at present in London to-day. All the great monarchial powers have their royal dele- gates, as have also those of less rank among the nations, while almos fevery ruler, great and little, has sent a gift as assurance of symathy with the occasion. There will be such pageantry, pomp and circumstance in London to-day as the great metropolis has never before seen excelled, if equalled, The loyal masses will testify their deyotion with all the hearty zeal and enthusiasm of which Englishmen are capuble, and when to mght Victoria, queen and empress, re- tires from the scene of royal pageantry and public hilarity she will doubtless have cause to feel that the loyal enthusi- asm which greeted her fifty years ago has descended to the present time, and that she possesses at sixty-eight us much of the respect and affection of her people as was showered on her at eighteen. But there will be manifestations of discontent and displeasure, which the pomp and glamour of her majesty’s environment will not permit her to see. he Victoriun era, as it will be known in English history, has certainly been a remarkable ope. It has been prolific of achievements in the march of the world’s progress unequalled in any other similar period in the Listory of mankind. In the empire over which she rules it has nessed many political chunges, many domestic conflicts,many events that men- aced the security and strength of the em- pire, but, through all, the nation has passed to greater power and udvautages, and is stronger and safer to-day than ever before. During this eventful reign, Victoria has seen seventeen ministries rise and fall,with such statesmen at their head as Robert Pecl, Russell, Derby, Pal- mcrston, Disraeh and Gladstone—men prominent among the Kreatest political leaders kngland ever pro- duced. There have boen serious international complications and several foreign wars, but they have almost with- out excoptiou resalted withont disadvau- tage, if not to the positive benelit, of the Vritish empire. In the amelioration of the condition of the people, which was deplorably led bad at the time Vietoria uscended the throne, in the growth of educational agencies, aud in the increase of all the instrumentalitics which con- tribute to the weifare and cure of the people, England during this era has ad-. vanced greatly. ‘l'o fully appreciate how greut this progress has bevn, can be done only by comparing the facts as thoy exist to.day with those of haif a century ago. 1t is perhapa ncedless to say that with challenge | the creation, eontrol and results of these evonts Victoria had personally, or in her sovereign capacity, not very much more to do than some of the vnknown officials in the departments of the | government, who follow the orders of theministers. England has had sev- | enteen administrations during her reign, | and the ministries that represented these | were indeed of her creation; but having been created, the queen was thereafter little better than a figure-head in the government, There aro certain matters which require the sssent of the sover- eign, but it is the ministry that shapes the national policy and directs the ad- ministration of aflairs, as the represent- atives of the majority party in the par- lianment. There was a time when the will and influence of the sovereign was feltin all the affuirs of government, but Victoria was not _giftod with a talent for aflairs of state, and it is doubtless better for herself and the nation that she has none of the characteristies in this regard of Elizabeth, of Anne, or of Mary of Orange. If history cannot accord her fame for the possession of great administrative ability, it can at least credit her with the wisdom of not having greatly concerned herself with aflairs about which she knew little and was perhaps incapable of fully com- vrehending. The aceession of Vietoria was the opportunity of constitutional government, and it is hardly possible that the English nation will ever again tolerate a personal government. A right understanding of this would serve to lessen the hostile feeling of a very considerable number of peoplo re- garding the jubilee, which is really more n honor of the woman than the quecn. There are ardent loyalists in England still who venerate sovercignty, but great body of the people have little res- peet for it. Victoria the woman, how- ever, is not unworthy of popu- lar honor, for while she has some inherited faults that have militated against her usefulness and her popularity, she also has merits and virtues that commend her to regard. These impartial history will surely ro- cord to her credit, whatever contempor- ary judgment may be. But there are many thousands of people 1 Great Britain who will have no sympathy with this oceasign, and who will find~ good reason m the® political or social condi- tion to heap imprecations upon all who are identified with 1t. Who shall say that they have not justification for this? So far asthe American people are concerned, the jubilee cun have ouly the passing in- terest for them of any unusual and not- able social event of European happen- ings. Land Marks Disappearing. According to the Denver papers, the great cattle ranges of Colorado have al- most disappeared, and cattle growing on the range in Colorado will by another season be a thing of the past. The annual round-up of the year will probabiy be the last occurrence of the kind in that state. As to its effect on cattle growing, a paper there says that it does not mean that Colorado will produce any less cattle than before, but more. They will be grown and brought to a higher grade on smaller ranches or stock tarms, where their ranges will be limited, where they will be herded or fenced in, and where they will be fed in the corral n the winter, instead of being allowed to freeze and starve on the storm-swept plains. To those who are familiar with the cattle industry of Colorado, this informa- tion regarding the disappearance of cattle ranges will be & surprise. During the last ten years many men have engaged in raising cattle on the ranges, and thousands of dollars have been invested in ranches for no other purpose. Yet it all will tend to assist Colorado in her scttlement and development. The cowboy and the ranchman will give way and surrender the large tracts of land for the farmer who will till the soil and be- come citizens of one of the rapidly grow- ing states of the west. The hand of set- tlement is laying its magie fingers upon what was a few years ago a wildernes the waste is transformed into a landscape of bearing orchards and fruitful fields. Weed Out Worthless Teachers, The bourd of education isabout to elect teachers for the coming year. Itisto be hoped the board will inaugurate a new departure by selecting only the most com- petent und efiicient teachers, and requir- ing every teacher promoted from a lower to a higher grade to stand an examina- tion for that grade and procure a certifi- cate of competency. The board should also insist that the su- perintendent shall make a written recom- mendation'for every teacher re-cmployed for the coming year. The superintendent should certainly have personal knowlege of the qualifications and relative capacity of every teacher now embloyed and he should know which of them have proven themselves worthy of promotion or re- tention. The responsibility for efficient work must be placed upon the shoulders of the suverintendent, and his recom- mendations should be respected. On the other hand the superintendent should not allow himself to be swerved from the discharge of his duty by fear or favor. Incompetent teachers and useless barnacles should be weeded out and com- petent teachers disqualitied by bad tem- per or physical disability should not be retained. It is not merely a reckless waste of money to employ such teachers, butit 1s # crime against the rising generation of men and women whose educational training is entrusted to teachers in our public schools. heaper Complaiut is made that the restrictions wh.ch the council has incorporated into the franchise recently granted to the Kunsas & Nebraska gas company will prevent caprtalists from investing in that euterprise and leave the city at the mercy of the gas monopoly. That depends on the council and also on public opinion. The new gas company may not avail itself of the restricted franchise which the council has granted, but that does not necessarily deprive this city of the benotits of cheaper gas. Ifthe present gas rates are exorbitant the council has a right to reduce them. The charter expressly gives the mayor and council power to regulate gas rates and it 15 manifestly the duty of the coun- cil to exercise this power from time to { time. The cost of manufacturing gas depends lurzely on the quantity con- sumed. If the consumption at Omaha warrants a material reduction in gas rates the couucil shonld ordain it. The old gas company can certainly afford to supply gas as cheaply as any competing company which, at best would divide patronage and profits with it and by re- ducing consumption would impair the ability of the old' company to make re- ductions whicl it could otherwise afford to make. the owpers of property asked to Sherman avenue paved with cedar blocks, they had no idea that they were converting their beautiful street into a race track, and rendering it a dangerous thoroughfare for their wives and chil- dren. Every evening the streetis filled with single and double teams driving at the top of their horses speed, often regu- lar races, and atall times made danger- ous for family teams and pedestrians, Mayor Broach should station a force of policeman on this street north of Izard, with mstructions to arrest all who are driving faster than six miles wper hour, Safety to those who are necessarily forced to use tho strret, and honest deal- ing with property owners, who paid their part of the cost of paving, demand such protection from fast men and sporting women who have no regard for the rights of decent people. We hope the police will be instructed to put a stop to this abuse. THERE is no apparent falling off in the trade movement of the country as indi- cated by the weekly bank clearances. These are remarkably well mantained for this season of the year, and what is particularly noticeable in the record is the fact that with the exception of a single eity the as an increase last week as compared with the corres pond- ing week of last year. 1t is also to be noted that in the percentage of inrease Omaha is largrly in advance of any other city. The present condition of the money market is favorable, and the im- mediate outlook presents no cause for apprehension. What the situation may be later on, when the crop movement is in full course, cannot be certainly de- termined at this distanc THERE is a deep ted feeling in this community that the warfure waged rinst Chief Seavey was not a mere per- sonal vendetta, The general and well founded opinion is that the opposition has been inspired by the outlaw elements which have been vlotting and scheming for months to control our police under the new dispensati THAT close corporation known as the board of commissioners of Douglas county has not published a report of its proceedings for eighteen months or two years. During that period the commus- sioners have disbursed between four and five hundred thousand dollars without letting the taxpayers know where a single dollar went to. ———— Tue agony is over. The oil inspector has been appointed, and the applicants with their numerously signed petitions are left without a commission. Hon. Snuth T. Caldwell, of Nuckolls county, was the choice of Governor Thayer. The governor says he was his personal choice, had not solicitedit, and no one had] rec- ommended hin Tre New Yorkboodlers are in the pen- itentiary, The Chicago boodlers have been convicted and will soon be dressing stone at Joliet. Omaha boodlers are still at large but the chances are that some of them will wear a zebra suit within the next six months, Itis i the air. The boodler must go. BoobLERS, drunken bummers and 1azy roustabouts must not be made in- spectors of public works. STATE A RITORY, Nebraska Jottings. Chadron wants a $30,000 court house. The Wayne creamery packs 500 pounds of hutter per day. Fremont claims a population of 8,000 and a flattering foreground. The school board of Papillion has raised the wages of teachers $10 a month. Cocktail blushes are increasing with the capacity of the distillery in Nebraska City. Pierce county is discussing wa; means to raise house. The contract for the Methodist univer- sity at Lincoln has been let. The price is £069,000. Broken Bow proposes.to p: vision schemers by investing county court house. Charlie Swedcnburg, a useless young seamp, is recuperating i the Norfolk jail from the eficets of stealing $52 from his mother. Plattsmcuth has tackled the paving question in a business way. A proposi- tion to issue $10,000 in bonds will be voted on July 25, The Pacific hose team of Grand lIsland, champious of the state, propose to go to the Kearney tournament and make a long haul on the prize purses. A band of ex-hair litters will exhibit themsu!ves to pilgrim settlers and sam- ple Hay Springs lire water on the Fourth. An extra supply of snake-bite will be im- ported tor the occasion Mrs. Shellenberger, the fiendish woman who helped to murder her own chld m Otoe county, wisely chose Lincoln for her tussle with the blind goddess, The bout resulted victory. The next round will result the death of the J. g. The Lincoln mauiden is a born consumptive. lowa ltems, Fort Dodge is negotiating for a watch factory employing 300 hands. J. V. March, of Webster City, dropped full hand in a cera sheller, The roller mill at Alton, rebuilt at a 30,000, 15 again grinding. young man nathed Charles J. Valin, vede, was drowned in the Little Sioux, r Cherokee, Thursday evening. ‘Ihe remains were recovered Friday morning The coal prospactors at Anit: county, have drilled through an stratum of slate and other material 47 feet, and are now going through rock with iron pyrites, but have seen no sign of coal. ] Burlington business men are forming a stock company with $15,000 capital, shares of §10 each, to bore for gas and water. Work will begin when $12,000 is subscribed and $6,000 paid in. While the ofticers were in the basement of Lang's Muscatine brewery in search of beer, the lights were suddenly extin- finished and the hose turned upon the ewildered “‘munions of the law.” The drinks in the establishment were more mixed than was anticipated. Dakota, Buffalo Gap ean now be painted red at a trifling cost. A mine of red paint has been discovered near the city. The Harncy Peak company has pur- chased the . Excelsior group of tin mines for $14,000. The thermometer iedicated 100 in the at Pierre Wednesday, and the ys and 0,000 to build w court Iyze_di- 20,000 in u TUESDAY, JUNE 21, ‘1887, ground 18 :inning 80 dry that fears are entertained for the wheut erop. It is announced that an experimental bore made in the earth within four miles of Pierre struck a deposit of natural gas, and that a large flow has been secured. Last Wednesday atwenty-pound pulley fell from a derrick in Yankton and struck John Severson, the artesian well contractor, on the head The skull was crushed, yet the doctors say the patient will recover. - AN EDITOR'S ADVENTURE. Thrilling Recital of a DakotaJournal- ist—A Rival's Version, We areglad to state that we have again heard from our old friend the cditor of ‘The Harney Hooter. Itissad to notice that he is again in trouble. In the last issue of The Hooter he says he editor ot this paper is again tho victim of a vile conspiracy; this time on the part of & bloated and arrogant cor- poration. “Thursday night we were returning home from meeting some friends at the Two Orphans saloon and had crossed the railroad track just before the 3 o'clock a. m freight train came along. We had proceeded about a block befors the en- gine reached the crossing. When it camo to that, instead of going on to the depot, as, is, of course, the usual custom, it suddenly jumped the track and ca ter us with a terrible shriek of its whistle and an unearthly clanging of the bell. “We mmmediately struck up Pacific avenue, not, of course wishing to come into o hand-to-hand conflict with a loco- motive, unly glaneing over our shoulder long enougi to observe that the head- light magnitied to four times its usual brilliancy and that it was tlashing and going out with terrible rapidity, while the engine was bounding up and down along the rough street and muking vigorous at us. We suppose the record made going up that street has er been beat west of the Missouri river. We tore along without stopping to breathe, butthe engine steadily gained ned on us and s and snorted h hudeous intensity, and it scemed ns t must overtuke u :ry moment and crasi us under its iron wheel: “The headlight, from some unacount- able reason, would flash with dazzling brilliancy and then go out and leave everything in utter darkness. The sick- ening shricking of the whistle, the snort of the escaping steam, and the crash and roar of the long train of freight cars as they were dragged along the street made the very blood run cold in our vei “Suddenly, during one of the tef flasnes, we saw the fireman crawl back and_uncouple the cars. The engine leaped forward with new life, and we instantly sow we could never reach home, so dodged into an alley and crawled under Nick Boswell's “livery barn. We could planly hear the loco- motive prowling around till nearly sun- rise, Lissing and’ roaring and trying to devise some means for gotting at us. But we had outwitted it. Friends rescued us later in the day. *‘We denounce the action of the rail- road company in thus allowing its prop- es to_hunt harmless and ns, as if they were wild in the strongest terms, and will see thatitis called to account. In this connection we also wish to brand t cowardly statements made in yesterday Howler as vile and unprincipled lies. The account of the affair published in that contemptible opposition sheet is so ridiculous and obviously false in every particular t we printit below entire, ders may see the utter ab- surdity of what the poor, driveling ga- loot suys. Here it 1s: citizens of Harney were awak- ened at an early hour this morning by the demoniacal cries of an individual who proved to be none other than the cditor of our esteemed contemtorary, The Howler. It seems that he had been in attendance at the opening of the I'wo Orphans saloon,and the usual free drinks hud been too much for him. Just after he crossed the railroad truck u fire-fly flew out from some bushes and came to- ward him, and he mistaking it for the headlight of a locomotive, rushed up the street splitting the air of night with dis- gusting howls for mercy. He finally crawled under a livery %mrn_ and was pulled out about noon by the legs. How much longer are our peovple going to sllow this low-lived, drunken body- snatcher to exist?” = ible AN IRISH FISHING STORY. What the Baroness Burdett-Coutts _Has Accomplisned. New York Tribune: The Baroness Burdett-Coutts has added another item te the long catalogue of her good deeds. She has placed a large sum of money within the reach of the fisherman of Douegal, on the northeast coast of Ire- Iand. It is in the hands of Jocal trustees, headed by a Roman Catholic priest, who will distribute 1t to the fisherman in such sums as they may need to procure boats and nets and other requirements. No usury willbe demanded, but the money will he repaid to the trustees in easy in- stallments, and by them returned to the Beroness Burdett-Coutts when its mus- sion of aid is ended. Thusitis notan alms, given as to paupers, but that most usi of all benetactions, a help to self- belpfulness. It will enuble many men now itute to engage ina profitable business and through them largely con- tribute to the establishment of industrial prosperity throughout a large portion of the island. As the chicf agent of the Buroness Bur- dett-Coutts in this work 1 a Roman Cath olic priest, it is iuteresting to recall that the pioneer of modern Irish fishermen was a clergyman of the Established (Pro- testant) church. Nearly a generation has now passed since Rev, Mr. Sing, of County Wicklow, at his own expense, labor, and peril, introduced trawl-fishing at the Isles of Arran in Galway bay, Up to that time the ers of the lus?x coast had been profi fished by aln everyone buj th h themselves. fishermen of England, Scotland, and Wales had amussed fortunes there, and even some France and the low countries were g ay for the privilege ot cast- ing nets in those teeming seas. But the Irish, unable to procure seagoing boats and nets, could only fish along shore and from their wretched skifls, with hook and line. Mr. Sing determined to bring about a chang bought a large yacht, the Goorgiana, equipped her with nets and other appliances for trawl-tishing, manned her with a stout crew, and began ions at the Isles of Arran. The h fishermen, with their trumpery hooks and lines, did not take kindiy to this innovation. They even made an attack n force, intending to kill the eaptain and w and destroy the yacht. In this they were happily de- feated by I\ just in the nick of time sprang up and e th yond their reach. Mr. Sing persevered, He caught fish in abuudance, shipped it by rail to Dublin, and thence to Liver- pool, where he found a ready market and thus ‘established a handsomeély paying in- dustry. To follow this example has of counrse been impossible to the average Irish fish- erman, simply through lack of means to procure the needed outfit. Now and then t has bean proposed that the British gov- ernment should advance the funds in the form of loans. But English apathy to- ward Irish interests, and_ the rival inter- ests of English fishermen ve served to defeat such projects. Private benefac- tions have done something. however. A fow years ago the Baroness Burdett- Coutts aided the fishormen of the Cork coust in a way ke that deseribed above The result has been the building of a val- uable Irish fishing flect at Baltimore, and not a single default in repaying the loans. There is every reason therefore to hope that her sinnlar venture in behalf of the Donegal tisherman will be crowned with similar success. | made by said set to the iiling, zett! RELIEF FOR THE SETTLERS, The Law Appropriating $260.000 for the Reimbursement of Kueval Settlers, THE FORMS AND INSTRUCTIONS How Those Who Failed to Secure Title to “Kneval Land™ in the Public Domain May be Reimbursed, WastiNGToN, June 14.—To the Editor of the Bek: On the 8d of March, 1857, congress passed, and the president proved, an act for the relief of lers and purchasers of lands on the publie do- main, 10 the states of Nebraska and Kan- ap- sas, This uct was sed for the relief of those who had settled upon or pur. chased what are known as the Kuneval lands. For the purpose of refunding to them the expenses incident to the failure of their titles derived from the govern- ment, the bill appropriates the sum of 1,000, After the passage of the bill, and before my departure from Washing ton for my home, 1 frequently called ac the interior department and urged that the blank forms and instructions needed for the relief provided in the bill should be speedily prepared. ‘There has been much delay in the ter, but I am pleased to say that,in calling upon the interior department this morning, I re- ceived the circular of instructions, It is of such great importance to & large num- ber of the citizens of Nebraska, that [ ask you to publish it, in connection with this letter. 1f the eclaimants under the il will follow the instructions provided carefully, tuereisno reason why they should not be given speedy relief, and the reimbursement of the moneys poid vy them. All applications should be ad- dressed and mailed to Hon, L. Q. C. La- mar, secretary of the in terior, Washing ton, D. C. I am assured by the secretary that the work of reimbursement pro- vided for in the bill shall be expedited as rapidly as the force of clerks in the gon- erul lund oflice will pernmt. Truly yours, Craxres F. Ma RSON., LAR. . April 30, 1 —_ NTERIOR,( LAND OFFICE ) B - —Gentlemen: Your attention is called to the following provision of the act of congress approved March 3d, 1887, en- titled “An act for the relief of settle and purchasers of lands on the public domain in the states of Nebraska and Kansas:”’ Be it enacted by the house of ropresenta- tives of the United States of America in con :ress assembled, ‘Lhat for the purpose of relmbursing persons and the grantees, heirs, and devisees of persons, who, under the homestead. pre-emption, or other laws, set- led upon or purchased lands within the grants made by an act entitled “*An act for a crant of lands to the state of Kansa n the construction of the Northern railroad and telegraph,” approved July 1856, and to whom patents have been i therefor, butagninst which persons or their rantees, heirs, or devisees, decrees have en or may have hercafter be rendered by the United States circuit court on account o the priority of said grant made in the act abo ve entitled, the sum of $250,000, or so much thereof as shall be required for said purpose, is hereby appropriated: Provided, L0 we That no part of said sum shall be Daid to any one of said parties until he shall have filed with the secretary of the interior a copy of said decree, duly certitied and al certificate of the el\flllu of said court ren ing the same to the effect that s a decree was rendered in_bona fide controversy bo- en a plaintiff showing title under the t:l.'ull made in said act and defendant hold- ng the patent or holding by deed under the patentee, and that ~ the decision was in favor of the plaintiff on the ground of the priority of the grant made by said act to the filing, settiement, or purchase by the de- fendant or his grantor: and said claimant shall also ule with the said decre cate, a bill of the costs in such cas titied by the judge and clerk of said t. ‘Thereupon it shall be the duty of the secre- tary of the interior to adjust the amount due to éach defendant on the basis of what he shall have paid, not exceeding three dollars and Lifty cents per acre for the tract, his title to which shall have failed as aforesaid, and the costs appearing by the bill thereof so cer- titied as hereinbefore provided. Heshall then make a requisition upon the treasury for the sum found to be due to sueh claimant, or | heirs and devisces or assigns, and shall pay the same to him, taking such 'release, acquit- tance or discharge as shall forever bar any further claim against the United States on ount of the failure of the title as afor said: Provided further, That when any per- son, his grantees, heirs, assigns, or devisees to the satisfaction of the secretary jor that s case is like the case of those described 1 the preceding vortions of this act, except that he has not been sued and subjected to judgment as hereinbe- fore provided, and that he has in good faith paid to the person hol, the grant hLerein shall proy of the int to the sum d ut litization, such see- ty shall pay to suchi person such sum as 1as so paid, not exceeding three dollars and Lfty cents per acre, taking bis release therefor as hereinbefore provided. Sec. 2. That the provisions of this act shall apply to the actual and bona fide settlers on the lands herein referred to, his or their heirs, assigns, or legal rerresentatives, and no one person shall be entitled to the benelits of this act for compensation for more than one hundred and sixty acres of land: I vided, That all other persons wio pure partof said land at one dollar and tw: cents per acre, and the money was act paid into the treasury, such person, his hefrs, assi ns, or legal representatives shall be entitled to repayment of the money so actually paid by them. Appro A 587, Under the provisions of this act three of persous are entitled to reim ment, vi All persons, their grantecs, heirs, and devisees, who settled upon or pur chased lands within the limits of the grant in question, and to whom patents b been issucd, but against whom decrecs have been or mas fter be rendered by the United Si reuit court on ac- count of the priority of the railroad g 2. Any person, liis grantees, heirs, as ns, or'devisees, who sinll prose to the tary of the ior, that hi se is like those of the ¢ above described, except that he has not been sued und subjected o judgement and that he has, in good faith, withot litigation, paid to the person holding the prior title by the rulroad grant the sum demanded of him 3. Only actual and bona tide settlers on the p seetic 1 §3.50 per acre; but no 11 be entitled to comy rate for more than 160 acr 4. All other persons who pur any part of said lands at §1.25 per acre, their heies, assizns, or legal representa: ntitled 1o repayment per acre, provided said mor actually paid into the treasury, In the execuation of thi. he follow- ing regulations are preseribed; T. All upplications under this set must be made in writing, snd b party applying, and must tract and Jdesignate the tainty. 2. Claimants of the class first deseribed | must file copy of the de fied by the elerk and unoer i} the court rendering the same, fect that such a decree ud. bora fide controversy betweon a plaiatilf showing title uuder the grant, and s fendant holding the nt or holding by deed under the patentee, snd (hat the decision wius in fayor of aintilt on the ground of the priority of the grant or purchase by the defendant or hit grantor. 8. Claimant must also file with said de- creo and certificate a bill of costs in such case, duly certified by the eclerk and under the'seal of the court in which the decree was rendered, 1. Claimants of the second class will be required to furmsh a certified copy of tho record of the transfer fro L eompany, or from the company's gravtee, with evi- denee that he has ingood faith paid to the person holding the prior title the sum demanded without htigation, 6. Claimants of the third class should apply for a refundment of purchase money inaccordance with regulations governing the repayment of purchase money for lands erroncously sold. 6. When the grantee, assignee, or de- visee ot the original purchaser makes application under this act he must, in ad- ditlon to the foregoing, show his right to receive the money by furnishing proper authenticated abstracts of title or the original deed or instrument of ussign- ment, or of the will, or certified copies thereof. 7. When application is made by h satisfactory proof of heirship is required. 8. When application is made by exe- s, the original or a certfficd copy of S testamentary mustaccompany the application. 9. When application is made by ad- ministrators, the original or a certifiod copy of letters of administration must be furnished. 10. All parties who are entitled to re- ment under the aforesaid act, will be required to execute a relinquishment, which must accompany the application in the following or equivalent form: Know all men by these presents, that I, ——, of ——, for and in consideration of the sum of ——, to me paid by the United States, have released and forever discharged the United States from all claim of any kind, nature, and character whatsoever, by virtuo of the 'act of congress approved March 8, 1857 and that 1 am the identical med n tlie deeree, in the case of who made said entry No. ofice, state of Two witnesses rs, CoUNTY OF On this. day of ———18y. before the subseriber, a——in and for said ¢ y,por- sonally caine——to me well known to be the person who subseribed the foregolng releas and who upon being duly sworn by me a cording to law on oath declared and a knowledged that———had freely and volun- tarily executed the foregoing relea the reason stated; residing at at——, eaeh of whom being by sworn according to law deposed and sald, each for himself and not for the other, that they well knew tho person making the said reléase to be the individual deseribed In the deeree, or who made said entry and who ex- ecuted the said release. Subscribed, sworn to and acknowledged before me this——, 18—, Nore—This must'be acknowleged before & clerk of a court or_other officer authorized to take acknowledy deeds In the county where ands are situated, whose ofticial character and signature must be cer- tified to by the clerk of a court of record. Respectfully, W A. J. Srarks, Commissioner. A,lmmvud May 81, 1887, 1. L. MuLprow, Acting Secretary. prcklizos iRy ) The Stonc of Destiny. St. Louis Republican: Among the ap- paratus used in the jubileo services at Westminster abbey was, of course, the coronation throne, whose seat is made ot the Scone stone, otherwise known as the Stone of Destiny and the Lia Fail. The throne itself made of rotten, worm- eaten wood, patohed together here and there, rickety, dozy and unitable. A relic of the days of the Edwards, it seems a figure of the monarchy, for certainly it will hardly survive many more corona- tions. The Scone stone has been let in‘o the seat. It is =a rough, solid rectangle of granite,Jooking as common- place as so much paving-stone out of the street, and yet this bit of rock has clustered about it more of tradition, of prophccy and of poetry.than any other articlein the regalia of England, or of any other modern kingdom. It was originally a Celtic fetish, one might say. From the Lia Fail the name Innis Fai was derived. The legend says that the sons of Gollambh, the great leader of the race, whose name, ““T'he Soldier,” was latinized into Miledh and Milesius, brought the stone with them from Es- bain, and that it was part of the dowry of their mother Scota, the daughter of Pharaoh. Upon it, in those dim times of wnich we have only hints 1n the an nals, the king of Ircland were en- i n Druids, soreerers from crs and Christian bishops joined ing it and rmplws)iug ubout it. Its literatare would fill a’large volume. 1t was the Caaba of the Ceit. Wherever one was kept there would the sov- ercignty of Scottish men remain, there would the kingship of right belong. ‘Che te when the stone was transferred to nd, then but an Irish colony in in, is unknown, but the story runs it was hidden during the servile re- bellion of Kinkat, and found and stolen away into Albin, 'a similar lnokm;i. but naturally a very inferior stone being substituied in its pl ¥ the thief, Colny MacDelvin, Poctic justice overtook Mac- Delvin, who shortly afterwards died of & dful Druidie di brought on by anath of the Irish Drulds when they discovered the theft and the altera- tion.” The magical properties of the Lia Fail at once organized a Kingdom 1n Albin, which endured, fostered and favor- ed by 'the Stone of Destiny, until Edward Longshanks carried the relic oft to West- minster in the thirteenth century. Then the Scottish Kingdom gave way to an- archy just as the Irish Liad done, and the Lia Faal has ever since been bullding uj Britannia’s ompire on sea and lund, It would be a waste of time and space to print excerpts from the old vroph which the Scone stone but the follov i has vindicated, ng, which is said to be a lation of apoem written by St. Finnan of Kilmeddan, 1s intcresting, a8 it deals with the future: 1ds of the fair foreigners, ed Saxons from over thie sea, one of coronations and powes I'he blue linger, ; Wi le the Gacel shall be a stranger fn hisown . Siy tines the years of the battles of Con, 1i of murders and the wailing of wido ull of desolation iu the land and col Learthstones, \’\'Il); Ih(-‘ ln»lut ot the foreigner on the ne k of the Gael, But from the six hundred tako the hostages of Niul, And the stone shall be shattered and the speil broken, “The curse from the land shall be lifted and taken, el will come into Lis Lieritage, rious prophecy has appearcd in rish papers recently and is read Six times the years of Con's battles iess the nin thos: Six ti ! would be 600, { Nivl, wonld ieave 591 y took ths stene from Scone abbey in A, D. 1206, and, adding the years of the proph- the stone should be broken and the o lifted in this year of grace, 1957 It s curious what an effect th propecies have upon the [rish antry, among whom Columbkille Ultan and the other Christian secrs are studied as closcly as the Hebrews studied the vrophets. Several risings have oc- ourred in Ireland to fit the prophecies, eses where the prediction caused its own fultilment. It would be a remurkable fuct if St. Finnan's forgotten verse should inspire soma believer to take the task into his own hands, and, with o sledge- hawmer and a conviction of patriotie duty, shutter the stone that has caused 80 much misery