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

THE DAILY BEE| PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERVE OF SURSCRIPTION ¢ Dafly Morniag Edition) including Sunday ne s 00 b 00 260 noy . 200 DMARA OFPIer, No, 014 AND 015 FARNAM STREPY. KFW YORR OPFICE. HOOM #6, TRINUNE B VASHING 10N OPPICK, NO. 513 FOURTRENTH CORMESPONDENCE? All communientions relating to news and edk torial mattor should be addressed to the Ebi- TOK OF THE DR NUSINERS LPTTRRS: All businees Jotters and ramittances should ba addressed to THE BRR PUBLISHING COMPAKY, OuAHA. Drafts, chocks and postofice orders o be made payable o the order of the eompany, THE BEE PUBLISHING CONPARY, PROPRIETORS, E. R THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Oirculation. Btate of Nebraski }’ . County of Douglas. §* Geo. 3. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual eircuiation of the Daily Bee for the week ending June 17, 1557, was a8 follow: Batur Bunday, Monday, J {onday, Juno 14.. cdnesday, June Thursday, June 16 Friday,June 17 Averave. . L. 14161 b, 18, TzscluuoK. Subseribed and sworn to before me this R0th day of June, 1587, N. P. FrIt, [SEAL.] Notary Pubile. Geo. B. Tzschuck, belng first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that thie actual average daily circulation of the Dally Bee for the month of for June 185, 12.208 covies: for July, 188, 12,814 ' copies; for August, 189, 12,464 coples; for Sepf ber, 18%, 13,080 coples: for October, 12,09 copies: for November, 1586, coples; for December, 1886, 13,237 copies; for anuary 1857, 16,206 copies: for February, 1857, 14,108 coples: for March. 1887, 14,400 coplos; for Avril, 1557, 14,316 copies; for May, 1557, 14,397 coples. Gro, B. TZacHUCK. Subseribed and sworn to before me this th l-:‘;nl Juue A, 1., 1857, ISEAL.| N.P. Frir, Notary Publie. Two New Je;uy drmoi-; h:v; l;n:;;;n- dicted for wmanslaughter. This is the proper way to weed out quacks. & New York Herald nominates for prosident the Rev. Dr. Burchard. The Herald's crop of chestnuts for this year Is large. Jonn H. BUTLER has at 1ast caught on to an office. He falled to connect 88 chief of police, but he is once more on deck ns sergeant-at-arms of the council. This is an office nobody will contest with him. ‘Tnr Omaha & Yankton railroad com- pany has filed articles of incorporation, pnd1tis probable that Omaha will be ponnocted with Dakota's capital *‘before pnow flies,"” unless the projectors are merely trying to raise the wind. —— It is predicted that the Indians in the northwest are likely to give the natives trouble this summer. If thirty Apaches pngage the whole United States army bhow many Blackfeet or Crow Indians would it take to subdue a dozen cow- boys? — ASYNDICATE of Chicago capitalists is buying up the bibles and prayer books of this country. Whoen this sacred literature Js cornered by a soulless corporation the boast of America that salvation is free in his country will be a delusion and a snare, ‘Waex a Kansas City policeman 1s shot, the mayor offers a reward of $300 for the murderer. When a citizen is shot and obbed in that city no reward 18 oftered. 'he pollceman is at the mercy of the highwayman, while a citizen has no busi- Jpess to be on the street The Atlanta Constitution denies the re- })ort that there is to be a negro exodus rom the south. Even if there was, the election returns would be just the same, nud consequently the southern papers peed not worry if the colored man Bhooses to find & more desirable home. —— Jury First is Temperance day at the Chautauqua assembly at Crete. The Erelidenl of the Nebraska W.C.T. U. as asked that all who can attend should be present. (George W. Bain will deliver the annual address on that day. Itis to be regretted that Temperance day and the clam bake did not come together, emm—— THr railways of the northwest show a pubstantial increase in earmings during the past three months compared with the same period in '86. This is all becanse of the workings of the iater-state law. which, as predicted by eminent rallway managers, was bound to bring disaster sud ruin upon the entire railroad system. — THE yellow fever at Key West is more yirulent than at any time this year, and the citizens of the Gulf states are hocom- pong alarmed. The saninitury measvres in New Orleans, Memphis, Vickburg and other cities scourged by this fatal disease in '76, are much better than be- fore, and there is little cause for serious alarm. SINCE the last train robbery in Texas timid eastorn papers are advising railvoad companies to arm and drill their men, so that in case of emorgency they could protect vassengers from the highway- men. For our part we cannot conceive the difference whothor the passengers are held up by masked road agents or agents gogularly employed by the company. A LiNcOLN paper claims that Lin coln gnyn half as much state tax as Omaha, ut she doesn't howl about it. In the first place Lincoln doesn't pay half as much tax as Omaha, and in the second place those who have been at Lincoln during sessions of the legislature and heard Lincoln howl for &ppropriations for state institutions will know the Lin- ooln paper is mistaken, The bonrd of public works are to be commended for promptly dismissing in- spector Delaney, who had accepted loans ud other favors from sewer contractors. 'hen an inspector borrows monay or ao- oopts gifts from s contractor, he natural- Iy becomes very indifferent about halding tho contractor to the strict performance of his contrsot ebligations. 'he board cannot be too watchful and strict about the conduot of inspectors of public works, Honest and comnatant inspectors ave the priucipal sategnard againat dishoneat pontraetors. " tion my. ment were exhaustive in tions, court, up to this time, position to carry its searching inquiry into Union Pacitic headquarters. tor which made a pretense of investigating into railway discriminations 1n this city last summer was content to allow Traffie Manager Kimball, the most unserupu- lous compiler of fictitious railroad sta- tistics, answer its inquiries with a care- fully prepared and ingeniously worded type-written statement which was em- bodied in 1ts report as Mr. Kimball's testimony, which was flatly contradicted by the company way bills proof obtainable through patrons who had eitner been favored or discriminated against, was accepted by Mr. Cullom as gospel truth. pears to be made up of different mate: The manner in which its members are conducting their inquiry affords gratify- g proof that for once there is to be no sham which the managers of the Union Pacific have cover who have systematically plundered the stock-holders, robbed and impoverished patrons and localities, enriched their si- lent partners and dominated over the people by high-handed favoritism and corrupt political utterly failed with this commission. The two days’ session in Omaha shows that it menns business and its members can- not be trifled with. experiment as a discovery, an example having been set in Russia, on the railroads in the re- gion between the Black and Caspian seus, as long ago as 1884. Later oil re- siduum was used in locomotives on the ‘Transcaucasian and Transcaspian rail- on the Cairo, Moscow and Teheran, Mew and Batoum, oil has been almost wholly used compared with coal, T A e o THE OMAHA DAILY BEE The Pacific RaHway lnvestigation. The commission oroated by an act of congress with a view of obtaining full information about the financial condition of the bond subsidized Pacitio railroads, and their methods of doing business, is now in s this comm doubts were to add anything of v volume of information that had already been collected from time to time by con- gressional committees, the national rail- road bureau and the federal courts. in this eity. When appointed grave ained as to its ability al moment to the While the Credit-Mobiler nvestiga- and later inquiries into the ries of Pacific railroad manag certain diree- no commission, eommittee or has shown a dis- Sena- Cullom's interstate co mmittee, This so-called testimony and indisputable The Pacific railway commission ap- rial. investigation. The tactics by and rogucs smother the been the able tracks to of machinations, have The disclosures which have already been made, afford the most conclusive proof that the managers have utterly ig- nored bids rebates and discriminations for or against shippers. road has been operated for the benefit of inside rings and syndicates in which the officers and directors have held large blocks of stock. And yet these facts have only been drawn out by compulsion, while the most stupendous frauds upon the company and government are still to the state law, which for- It shows that the be revealed. ——————— Oil Replacing Coal. The recent snccessful experiment of the Pennsylvania railroad in running a train from Altoona to Pittsburg with petroleum as fuel instead of coal, has attracted at- tention as probably foreshadowing a most important departure in the matter of supplying power to locomotives in this country. tender, and only about twelve barrels were used in traveling the 116 miles. There was not the slightest difficulty ex- perienced from the substitution of oil for conl. this experiment will lead to a gradually extended use of o1l for this purpose, the wonder being that it has not before been thus employed, at least in the state of which petroleum is so large a product. The oil was oarried in the It is very likely that the success of It seems that cannot this be successful regarded ways, as well as in the turnaces of steam- boats on the Caspian sea and on the Volga river. On the railways of Sweden, roads between Alexandria and in place of coal for a year or two past. It has been successfully employed with Zreat ecohomical ndvantageson the ferry steamers of the Central Pacific railroad at San Francisco, and the record every- where is that it effocts a great saving as In view of the suc- «cess that has attended its use asa fuel for motor engines, its economy, and other advantages, it 1s a lttle singular that its application to this purpose had not become more goneral 1n this country, and that in this particular we should be o far behind Europe. Now, however, that the Pennsylvania road has taken the Initiative, with entirely satisfactory re- sults,it may be expected that it will speedily find numerous imitators. With natural gas supplanting coal as a factory fuel, and petroleum replacing it in running locomotives and steamships, the coal industry would seem to be threatened with sorious deterioration. But every step in the progress of discov- ery and achievement calls for something more to meot the endless necessities of man, the active competitions of the age, and the economies toward which all the efforts of sciencs are directed. It must not be assumed, therefore, that the demand for ocoal will cease because it may ultimately be no longer required for purposes it now sup- plies. It has been demonstrated that the manufacture of cheap fuel gus from coal is feasible, and itis only a question of time when all over the country, outside of natural gas territory, this cheap gas will be produced for manufacturing and domestic purposes,—for both fuel and light. The economy of its use will make 1t available to hundreds of communities to which gas for any purpose is now un- known, and thus a& new necessity will have been created that will make an added demand upon the means necessary tosupply it. In the discovery of new forces and aids to material progress none of the bounties of nature will be aban- doned or renderod loss valuable, but rather utilized to better and wider ad- vantage. Sswrey—— Boys| and Tobacco. ‘The Illinois legialature passed a law making it illegal to sell to ohildren uuder sixleen years of age, cigars, cigarettes or tobacco in any of its forms. Comment upon this law is found in many papers, all unanimous in its endorsement. The same law, only more sevora lu its re- striotions and penalties, exists iu Ne- brasks. Praotically it is a dead letter. Not one in five hundred dealors regard it. ‘The smallest boy in moit any town, it he possesses o sufficlent amount of the circulating medium, can purchase clgars, cigarettes or tobacco. The child who eannot see over the counter is accommo- dated by attractive signs in the windows, of villainous pictures—obscene and vul- gar. The child's money is regardod as good as any, 1 conscience or legal or moral right cuts no figure. It may be that the 1llinois law will be enforced, and offenders fined as prescribed, yet itisa safe prediction that in any to- baceo store in Chicago to-day, and a year from to-day, will be found es- pecially poisoned and “doctored” and prepared packages of the vile and inju rious cigarette for ‘‘children’s use.” And there will be boys and girls to gmoke them and men ready and eager to sell. The habit of smoking is injurious to children, no matter how fine the tobacco out of which they are manutactured. But the deadly drugs and cigar stump picked by scavengers from the filth and dirt of-the streets and manufactured into the cigarette result seriously to young smokers. The miserable mixture dwarfs the mind, impedes growth and development of the body, weakens the lungs and in other ways results badly to the youth of the country using it. The abominable practice is growmg, and growing rapidly. Thelaw can hardly meet the requirements. Every parent imagines *'his boy is best,” and would deny and insist that he did not smoke, though a hundred heighbors would bear witness that he did. Unfortunately there is no one clse to complain, and the sale and consumption of the filthy and deadly articles goes on and on. Even 1if the boy could not secure them, there are always men low enough and little enough to sce that he is supplied, if he has the money. England as an Example. Just now, when England’s queen is re- eeiving the compliments and gifts of the nations,. and Brittania's glory is being proclaimed in prose and song, it may be well to remember that there is a dark side to the picture, and that behind the splendors of royalty and the glitter of an arrogant aristocracy stalks a vast army of the most wretched people to be found in any enlightened and prosperous nation of the earth. This reflection is sug- gested by the remarks of Canon Wilber- force at Chickering hall, New York, a fow days ago. in which he said the pros- perity of England 18 at the cost of the degradation of the masses. The central idea of tho canon’s address was thut the English people, more than those of any othercountry, are the slaves of drink, and that the aristocracy—men 1n parha- ment and in the government—were thriv- ing upon this slavery. The evidence of statistics shows that the charge against the English people is warranted, and the distinguished preacher is suflicient authority for the rest. But 1t is not this solely that accounts for the extent of popular degradation in England. The system upon which its ruling class is founded and perpetuated is in no small measure responsible, while the bold immoralities of that class are a demoralizing example to the masses. As this system becomes weaker—and it has grown so rapidly within a few years,— and the government gets nearer to the governed, there is a steady elevation of the people in character and aspira- tions. All the pomp and circum- stancos of this jubilee week, with its royal pageants aud entertain- ments, is really a stimulus to that popu- lar displeasnre and discontent which are the incentives to dissipation. The help- less thousands who swarm London might very oasily see in it a mockery of their misery and a tax on their poverty. The masses of the English people, while it may be true that they enjoy a suf- ficient degree of personul liberty, can find no encouragement in their govern- mental system, managed as it is in large part by an instructed aristocracy that makes concessions ouly as it cannot help making them. But the situation is not hopeless. ‘I'here has been progress, and there will be more. The people will yet have undivided rule in England, and then there will be better chance for the moral regeneration of the masses which reformers like Wilberforce are seeking. Chicago's Pipe Line. Chicago has for some time been strug. gling hard to keep up appearances of progress, We noted some time ago the acknowledgment of one of its most trust- worthy newspapers that ‘‘for rent'’ signs were to be seen on every hand, with the further confession that capital seeking investment in real estate was giving the lake city the go-by and being placed fur- ther west. We haye also noted that in order to give Chicago a chance to make a showing in the next census of a large mncrease of population the legislature had passed an act under which the ab- sorption of outlying towns will be rend- ered comparatively easy. Efforts are now making to induce these towns to come in, Thore s still another ray of hope for Chicago. She may get a supply of natural gas. It will not bea very large supply, but as an addition to the other agencies for helping to restore animation to the over- grown city it I8 not to be despised. The gas well developed some time ago at Fairmount, Ind., and which s one of the largest of the great wells in the country, will be the source of supply, the capital for the enterprise being fur- nished by a company ot Buffalo capit ists. It will not be a very great acqui tion, this gas from a single well pived many miles, nor will it be a very relia- ble one, but Chicago has reached the point when anything, however small, that may contribute to & boom, is wel- come. We congratulate that city on the promise. Omaha is moving right along without the need of any such auxiliary aids to her progress, with a great destiny assured, and can well afford to encourage the hopes and aspirations of its less favored sister city. emes——— Decidedly Narrow Guaged. The managers of the Omaha fair are altogether too narrow guaged in their ideas of what sbould and can be done to make the proposed exposition something more than a mere district exhibit with a borse racing apvendage. Omaha is fa- vorably located for an inter-state expo- sition, The state fair at Lincoin will hereafter, as heretofore, fill the demana for a grand display of pumpkins, eabbages, wind mulla, tat pigs, orazy quilts and poultry. An inter-stute exposition, embracing the sgricultursl, mineral and industrial products of Nebraska, Wyoming, south- ero Dakota, - northera Missouri, | : THURSDAY. JUNF 23, 1887 western Towa and northern Kaneas, wonld afford a broad field far enterprise and attract thousands of peoble, not only from the. region ‘whosp pro- duets would ba on exhibition, but from every seclion of the country. If it 18 not too late in the scason, the managers of the Omaha fair should en- large their programme and improvise an exposition worthy of the name. Drawing a few thousand sporting people to Umaha to witness the horse races may fill their ideal of an exposition, but it does not meet the wants of the enterprising citi- zens who have contributed to the Omaha fair and exposition funds — Snubbing the Chief, Viewed from a business dpoint the appointment of a sergeant-at-arms by the council is unobjectionable. There is no necessity for detailing the chief of police and an ofticer from their regular dutics to wait upon the council. Every member of the small force at the dis- posal of the chief of police should be on his proper beat and the chief himself should be in condition at all times to respond to ealls or act promptly in emer- gencies which are liable to arise any night. We take it, however, that the new de- parture was not designed as an economic move, but intended us & snub to the chief of police. This is play and will serve no good purpose. The chief is accountable only to the police commission. He has no duty to perform in the council cham- ber unless called on to make an arrest, and 1n that case he can order any police oflicer to act. If the council really be- lieves that Seavey is not chief of police, but merely personating that officer with- out legal authority, they should have taken another method of testing his title than by a childish attempt to snub him. Tur somewhat fulsome, yet in the whole, cleverly constructed letter of Pres- ident Cleveland to Queen Victoria, is very likely not to be entirely pleasing to a considerable element upon which the democratic party in New York very largely depend. There will undoubtedly be objection to the wish that the queen's reign may be prolonged, so far us the president assumes te refleet the general voice of his countrymen, and there will be somo reasons for such objection. Americans who feel any concern in the matter, and perhaps very few do, would not give their voice in support of the reign of any monarch, even as a matter of courtesv. An American who honors the institutions of his own country can- not consistently wish the continuance of a political system that has nothing in common with those institutions, It was proper enough to congratulate the queen and to wish her mare years of life and all the happiuess she can derive from them, but it was overstraining courtesy for the vresident of the American repubhic to wish a prolongation of her reign as the general voice of this. republican nation, THE extent to which such speculation as the Chicago wheat deal effects the en- tire business system of the country may be understood from the favorable condi- tions which have sueceeded the collapse of that corner. The deal, in conjunction with the cotton speculatlon, had so checked the exports of those commodi- ties that the balance of trade in favor of this country was greatly reduced, and but for the easy money market in London and the demand for American securities we should in a little while have been compelled to ship gold. Immediately after the collapse of the deal the situation in this respect begun to improve, and now there is a steady and generous ex- port movement of grain, with the pros- pect that gold will come to us, which is much the more desirable course to have it take when it is paid for our products, If these vast gambling operations affected nobody but the bulls and bears who en- gage in them tho people might have little concern about them, earing nothing as to which party win or fortune came, but their deranging and eamaging elfects are far-reaching and often very danger- ous. A NEw law of New Governor Hill on Monday, lawful for any steam railroad to here- after heat its passenger cars, on other than mixed trains, by any stove or fur- nace kept inside the cars or suspended therefrom, except it may be lawful in case of aceident or other emergency temporarily to use any such stove or fur- nace with necessary fuel. Stoves, except as above noted, can be used only in cars standing still or in dining room cars for cooking purposes, the latter to be ap- proved by the railroad commissioners. The 1aw does not apply to roads less than fifty miles in length. This is the begin- niug of legislation of this character which will ultimately become general. Wit a fine flow of natural gasin Iowa, elghty miles from Omaha, it wonld seem certain that it can be found in Nebraska, The town which makes the experiment will lose nothing. In Ohio the cost of sinking a well from 1600 to 1800 feet, is from $2,300 to $2, It would be well to remember, also, that at Findly, Ohio, where the largest and best wells have been discovered, within twenty miles no gas was found, while 20 miles further on, or 40 miles from Findly, large supplies were found and now fur- nish families with foel and light at a very small sum. From the reports of all geologists natural gas underlies portions of Nebraska—why notsearch for it? e————— Bon INGERSOLL always has a novel way of looking at things, He has recently said this country was oapable of sustain- ng 600,000,000 people. * He declares for- eign intmigrants of 1987 have the same privilege to come to this country as the mmmigrants of 1620, , He further says many of them are better than some of the crowd who landed od Plymouth Rock. This last statement will be meat for the assembly of Puritanic Sons of America now in session at Chicago. ‘THE iron clad prohibition law posseses but Little terror for the average saloon keeper and druggist down in Kansas. The Leavenworth Z79imes, the foremost champion of prohibition and woman suftrage, gravely, yet honestly, exclsims: “Beer, beer, whisky, whisky, every- where! Everywhere! Rum shops above ground, underground;.in fact they are scattered everywhere throughout the eity of Leavenworth," S— WHILE the Ber has sustained the police and fire commission In the full and un- restriocted exercise of the powers which the law confers upon it, ‘wo do not ap- prove the conduet of its official business within closed doors. The sessions of the commission, like those of the city council, board of administration, board of public works, and all other public bodies, should be public. Members of the commission may confer with each other confidentially when the commission is not in session, but the business of the commission should be transacted with open door: l | YESTERDAY'S pageant at Westminster Abbey recalls Gray's lines: Close by the regal chair Fell thirst and famine scowl— Within a radius of less than a mile of the grave of Charles Dickens in Poets’ corner, of the man who, more than any statesman during the queen's fifty years of rule, toiled earncstly and fearlessly for the betterment of London's voor, & population five times that of Omaha, were either eating the bread of charity or doing as best they might without it. Skades of Oliver Twist, Nancy and Little Nell, did ye see the gay show? ——— AmEerica feels no longer that patriotic pride in Buftalo Bill, entertained only a s ago. It was expected that the idol, worshipped by princeses, s and British blne-blooded no- bility generally, would head the royal procession during the jubilee. Cable ad- vices intimate, however, that Bili was missing, and the Wilda West was only represented by boys earrying banners aloft bearing the legend, “‘See Red Shirt Secretary Lamaris a connoisseur as well as a breeder of Jersey cattle. A floating paragraph says that Henry George smokes 20-cent cigars. Roscoe Conkling’s personal expense ac- count shows that he paid $205 tor car-fare during the past year. Cyrus W. Field bezan life at 82 a week, and is now worth $2,000,000. He doesn’t drink, and never struck for eight hourson a Saturday payday. Emperor Willlam has caught a fresh cold. ‘T'he announcement of this fact in Berlin yes- terday renewed the alarm on the bourse and restricted dealings. What other American besides Buffalo Bill has taken the Princess of Wales out riding? Alas! none. Bill's show ought to bring cents at the door atter this, John Ruskin has improved in health to such an extent that he proposes to travel. Of course he will walk. He objects to rail- roads and everything on wheels. Bret Harte was a book agent in 1849 and 1850, He was a good one when he would work, which was seldom. The agency period ot his lite was before he wrote **The Heathen Chinee.” Denis Ryan, of St. Paul,is worth $7,000,000. ‘The fortune came to him suddenly and what i8 regarded as reinarkable,is the fact that he has not discarded a single one of his old friends. Sudden acquisition of wealth usu- ally soon parts with its friends in poverty. General Boulanger is described by a recent Interviewer as ‘“‘a short man rather stoutly built, with brown hair, brown beard, rather a red face; above all things quiet looking al- most to commonplaceness. e wore the or- dinary French civilian’s dress of black frock- coat and trousers, with only the single red spot in his buttonhole.” Oscar Wilde, the big sunflower of modern culture, has emerged from obscurity again. This time he comes before the public in the capacity of a novelist. Instead of a work of the mild and aesthetic mnature he brings forth a novel of the blood and thunder order, the title of the same being ‘‘Lord Ar- thur Savill's Crime; a Tale of Chiromancy.” Osear may now be In his proper elements. He has never been there before. ————— ‘While There's Life There’'s Hope. New York Graphic. Mrs, Cleveland Is & charming lady, but she does not amount to much as a leader of fashion. We don’t know of a solitary testi- monial that she has signed. —_—— Burgoo and Bourbom, Cincinnati Enquirer. Kentucky opened her democratic campaign in Lexington in grand style. The 15,000 weople at the barbecue consumed 5,000 gal- lons of burgoo. Burgoo must not be under- stood as in any degree related to bourbon. Itis a barbecue soup; such as Kentucky alone can manufacture; but it is not materi- ally injured by a little bourbon before or after. sl STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Plum Creeksters pay taxes on property worth $09,000. The town of Mead received its first call from burglars last week, and lost $20 in cash and two gold watches. Ceresco complains of a multitude of howling curs and crowing roosters. Can- didates for county offices are coming out early. A reunion of members of the Ancient Order of United Workmen in Thayer county will be held at Belvidere on the Fourth of July. The eyrie of the Dakota City Eagle was badly shattered by lightning last week. It was the only method left of forcing a flash of light into that murky roost. Rival street rallway companies are %truggling for streots in Hastings and lnyin‘i track at night. ‘I'his shows that the third city has ocaptured a few metro- politan airs. Swan Lindquest, a Saunders county bachelor, living near Mead, suicided last week. He was an eccentric character, shunned his neighbors and lived exclu- sively in admiration of self. A pair of South Loup mmf armed with razors, fought a duel at g range. One of the combatants made a slash at his enemy and cut the jugular of a horse, The duelists skipped the country to avoid # lynching. An insane man was found wandering on the prairies near Central City re- cently. The unfortunate protested that he was a real estate agent laying out an addition to Linceln. The residents pitied him and shipped him to the capital city. Deputy ('mm({ Clerk T. D. Curtis, of Dakota county, has disappeared, leavin, a short account and a wife and child. The fact that he got away with only a fow hundred dollars stamps him asa short sighted crook and & disgrace to the boodle profesh. The recent sensation about the robbing of Union Pacific trains by employes was enlarged from the theft of two bottles of rape jelly by tramps from cars near gidnl‘y. The author, however, succeeded in exhibiting the mammoth proportions of his lie abilities. The investigation into the books of Leprohon, the Nebraska City speculator, has developed a fuddled condition of records, failed to record judgments against property, mortgages of small amounts on land, and marked taxes paid when they were delinquent. These ir- regularities go back a year or more. The question of issuing bonds to the amount of 30,000 to start the pavin, era in Nebraska City wiil be submitte: to the voters on the 11th of July. The con- tost is expected to be a lively one, as the m.,m-cf-w © xuqlln%lhmr tongues o talk it to death, Lt is she battle of pro- gross and push against taxshirkers and dry rot, and it is confidently believed that the young and progressive cloment will win, A straight-laired youth, avparontly sane, parades through Jefferson square daily wearing a copper colored headgear with a lightning rod spire. His statu- esque poses, the eloquent movements of his arms, and the lingering, lonesome, though mute, nlmrnls heavonward, have convinced residents that he is def. political lightning. A few more defies and the patrol wagon will strike him, Towa ltems. The Sania Fo surveyors have completed running a line to Muscatine. Three lowa boys were among the sixty: four graduates from West Point. The Burlington ccmeteries have about 13,000 occupants, nearly us great a popu- Iation as the city itself. Florence Dunbar, a Sioux City domes- tic, toyed with the gasoiine can, and her spirit fled heavenward like a meteor. An immense metcor, thought to be ten feet 1n_diameter, is said to have fallen near Pilot Mound, Cerro Gordo county, Thursday evening. The democratic section of the Fergu- son G. A. R. post at Kuoxville, being outvoted at a recent meeting, came to- gether the next day and endorsed Cleve- land for renomination. Keokuk boomers are trying to induce the Sauta Fe road to buikl u branch line to that city from New Boston, but the company is on its dignity and wants the earth before it will make any promises. The assessment of D. M. Grimes, of Burlington, was raised from nothing to 10,000 by the board of equalization, and the suddenly enriched man has tiled with the clerk of the court a notice of appeal. ‘While out Im;:fy riding & Fort Dodge young man fell asleep. His snoring Soared the horses and they ran away. throwing the sleepy occupant out and bruising him somewhut, but doing no further injury. This is said to be a true story. A little girl in South Ottumwa set a glass conl oil can on a hot stove and the can exploded, setting fire to her hair and clothing, and badly cutung her neck and face with fragments of the glass. By rromm measures the mother succeeded n saving the child's life. Robert Waxind, a prominent farmer of Buchanan county, was gored to death by a bull on Friday morning. He entered the field where the animal was, when, without warning, the beast made a rush for him and drove oue horn through his body, disemboweling him and causing in- stant death. The Des Moines Leader says the out- put of coal 1n Polk county is decreasing yenrly, mainly because there s no market or 1t. The Irrgest quantity ever taken from the mines in the county during one year was 619,021 tons, in 1884, Since 1884 the amount has been grnwlng smaller until during 1838 there were but 337,964 tons, or only & little more than one-half a8 much taken out as in 1884. Dakota. Illinois Central surveyors are staking a line to Yankton. The gas well at Pierre sputtered for a few days and then went out. The dehorning of cattle seems to be on the increase. An Emmons county man reports that he recently dehorned nine calves and nineteen yearlings, with good k M. Neff, of Huron, has invented a new upper case for printers which is considered @& bonanza. He 18 suid to have refused an offer of $10,000 for his invention. A Doadwood woman ran into a hor- nets' nest a few days ago, but the en- raged insects were unable to puncture her anatomy and the whole swarm stung themselves to death in disgust. Dend- wood is somewhat noted for tough fe- males. The Groton artesian well has broken ont in a new spot, the latest bad break being about half way between the well and the original break. The orack is several feet long and the water rushes from it in A constant flow without lessen- ing the flow of the well or that of the first break, about a block distant. Oolorado. A natural gas well has been added to the coal find near Louisville.” The third rail is to be laid this year on a large portion of the Denver &, Rio Grande railroad. President Moffat has placed orders sor twenty-seven engines and 23,000 tons of steel rails. Several towns are bidding lively for the location of the Jesuit college. A bonus of thirty acres of ground have been of- fered by Denver parties, while Colorado Springs offers 120 aores and $20,000 cush. The college building will cost $300,000 and will accommodate 700 students, The Solid Muldoon says ‘‘the jubilee ode mailed to this office by Rev. Mr. Van Ness, of Denver, is declined. Buch poetry as ‘A Briton stood on Irish sod Kvicting *Terriers’ by the squad,’ will not go in & community where the leading citizens wear six-shooters.” pre o iy Carl Schurz on Crutches. New York Latter tn Kansas City Star, Carl Schurz in 8 wheeled chair is one the sights of Central park., He is atill suffering a good deal of inconvenience,to suy the least, from his brokon thigh. Kor six weeks after the fall on the pavement that resulted in fracturing the limb he was confined to his bed. That was more than three months ago. He lives at the top of one of the great Navarro flat buildings at Fifty-ninth stroct and Cen- tral park, but as he is on the south side he gets no view of the park from his windows. The clevator brings the vis- itor directly to his door, which opens from the main hall into an frregularly shaped room, orignally designed for a reception room, but transformed into a liorary, ‘The walls are almost concealed with high bookeases, all well filled, and engravings, bits of armor and curios take up the remaining space. This room is not wsed as a study, however, but simply as a place for the keeping of bhOOKS. When your eorrespondent called upon him to-day, he wus ushered into a much larger roomn off the library hall, at the further side of which Mr. Schurz sat under a window. His crutches leaned agaiust the wall at his side. He held on his knees a writing tablet upon which he was at work. “I'am getting on well," he said, “‘al- though at present I have some trouble from neuralgia in the leg. That is quite distinet from the annoyance attending the fracture. 1began to use crutches a fow days ago, but for several weeks I have been out of doors on pleasant days. using n wheel chair tor this purpose. Ylvxl. the long confinement to the house, and the necessary inactivity hae been s good deal of strain, but I think [ shall come out of it all with no serious effect. 1 have kept my mind as busy as possible during the entire period. hen I was lying on my back I had a good many books read to me, and as soon as I could sit up at all, 1 went to reading by myself. Anrrh(h sides that I have done a good deal of writing. I have kept up all my corres- pondence with scarcely any interruption, This work was done with the consent and advice of my physician. 1 cannot suy when [ shall suceeed in waiking without cru'.ch'al, but it will probably not be very ey long. i Belle of Bourbon Len-year-olk whisky . There is no exeuse for drinking a poor srticle of whisky, Insist on having Belle of Bourbon; $1.25 per guart bottle, at hotel bars, drug and grocery stores. THE NEW WYOMING OIL FIELD Organization of a Comwpany to Operate Promising Petroleum Wells. OMAHANS THEFIRST EXPLORERS Some Splendid Specimens of the Orude Frow Poison Spider Basin—The Decline In Eastern Production. A few bottles of crude or refined pe- troleum more or less donot secm of much importance; yet those received yestor- day, and now to bo seen at the oflices of Barker & Burr and Wendell Benson, at 1220 and 123 Farnam street, have a greater sigmificance than appears at firsts They are in fact the product of the new Wyoming oil field, and the re- sult of an alaysis and distillation of Wyoming crude petroleum. It may not be gencrally known, but itis neverthe- less true, that the oil refiners and dealers of the east, have for some time becn ser- iously alarmed concerning the future s upply of the erude product. Pennsyl vania und New York mstead of pouring out from 100,000 to 150,000 barrels per day, are taxing their utmost resources to sccure 65,000 barrels per day, The consumption of the article has grown, however, to over 90,000 barrels per day; so that the cause of the alarm is easily understood, In view of these facts and the additional fact thatthe stock on kand is being gradually absorbed by the ess of consumption over pro- duction, the discovery of anew field isof the greatest importance. That great quantitics of oil have long been known te exist in Wyoming is true; yet the oil to which this refers is" a heavy lubricating oil, and not the oil from which kerosene or “‘coal oil,"” us it is im rru.wrl called, is derived, The petro- cum of New York and Pennsylvania is very different and very much more valua- ble” than a simple lubricating oil, because the market for the latter 18 limited, while the demand for the former 18 now far beyond the supply, ox- cept as stocks interveane, and the values are regulated accordingly, The new discovery lies in the fact that the petro. leum from the Poison Spider oil basin in Carbon county, Wyo., is & light oll, that is, an oil of from 40° to 47° gravit) Baumi and coutains & large per cent of kerosene, as is shown by the samples re. ferred to. The crude was collected at the Oil mountain spring by a Igunumunn from the Pennsylvania oil field and by him sent east for analysis, with the grati- fying result following. There are five samples, the first being a quality of gas- oline as clear as water, and of a qual- ity equally good with any of " the same specific gravity. The sample of kerosene is 175 degrees fire test, and is clear water white and odorless. The no sample is of & 300 degree fire test. This unusually high test oil is of course more for show than use, it being too expensive to be used except on railway coaches and steamships to insure nnfeti n case of collision or falling lamps. It is claimed that a lamp filled with this and burnin, would not explode or the oil ignate, al- though broken to pieces. It shows, how- ever, the possibilities of Wyoming petro- leum. Aside from these products, there isasample of tine lubricant called spindle oil and & quality of vaseline, both of which are among the big products of the refiniug vrocess, There are in all, si1x or seven of these products which itis alleged pay all the cost of refimng. It would scem that the new oil field will be first explored by Omaha capitalists, who, as usual, lead the others in enterprise and push. A company has been organized, called the Oil Mountain Mining com- pany, with $10,000,000 capital, and they will have a well under way inside of thirty days. As may be guessed from the size of the capital stock, it is the inten. tion of the company to not only produce but to refine their production. The oil is thero, 1t is of good quality, and it 18 not & violent supposition that Wyoming kero- sene will befor sale in this market within six month, Professor Aughey, terrltorinl&solo 8t of Wyoming, in his report of 1886, makes the following remarks which are of in- terest in this connection: “The gravity ot this oll s betweon thirty-one and thirty-two degrees Baumi." [This was alter exposure to the air for an unknown period which reduces the grav- ity from 25 to 50 per cent. Report. Itis of an amber or light green color. A large amount of illuminating oil can be obtained from it by distillation. It contains no parafine and its flash and fire tests are both high but have not been definitely detormined. Though possossing much kerosene 1t 13 also remarkably wol adapted for nmkl;\(Flubricullmz ol |Fjenaein It was observ that in sinking the woll already described, (s shaft near Oil mountain) the amount of il increased with every foot of descent. At the sameo rate of increase it was oalculated that at 100 feet a fifty barrel well would be produced. The oil here is most cermlnl{ in the triassic rocks. To reach the oils bearing rocks therefore, a dc‘lnh Approx- imating 1,500 foet would have to be reached. Long before that depth would be attained, the oil supply would probably be ample. At this place there are no lofty ridges to condonse water and act as & souroe of ite supply to force the oil through stratas, with the aner{y which obtains elsewh Hence little of the underground trensur have gono to waste. The stores acoumu- lated through ages are yet comparatively in v The articles of incorporation of the Northwestern Oil company have recently been placed on record at Cheyenne. Among the prime movers in that enter- prise-—which also has a capital stock of }\u_wu,mu are Messrs Hughitt, Keep, Simmens and MceCulloch of the Chicaga & Northwestern Railway company al Chicago, Fitch, Buchanan snd Morehouse of the Fremont, Eikhorn & Missourl Valley railway, and J. . Bowman of Donglas. It is the intention of these gentlemen to proceed to develope their territory us soon as the line of railwa, last named is completed to Casper, which will be in nbout sixty days. Choking Catarrh. Havo you awakenod from a disturbed sleep with all the h: Fensutions of an assassin clutching your throat and pressing the life. your tightoned chest? Have you ity that succeed nd hoad of this mind, clouding the memory aud Miling 4 with pains and striuge How difficlt it 1s to rid the nasal o roat and 1:ngs of this poisono. ostify who wre aflicted with Meuit 10 proteot the system further progress towards the ungs, kideoys, all ph will admit, St is & torrl ble disenso nnd e ouat for reliel and cure The remarkable cn ORD'S RADI od by Who grate- y end it to follow-sullerers. No siefement is made regaraing it that oannot be Bubstantiated by thy most respectavle and ro- Mable relurcnces, ch packet eoutaina one bottie of the RADI- %, one hox of CATARZNAL SOLVENT and MPROVED INWALEI, with treatise und dires- and is sold by wl'drugg|sts for $1.00. Porrea Do & CRevicar Co., BosToN, "IT PEELS GOOD. LT s Sy B s instAntly MELIENED IN ONE M1 Ly placing & CUTICURA ANTI-PA antinote Lo pain and i fiaua: Bvo for $1.00: ar drug and Cuemios! Co., Bost { “1 PO _—‘—-_'—————————»