Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 7, 1887, Page 4

e St THE OMAHA DAILY BEE Kopibo b s BN e s o i THURSDAY, JULY 7. 1887. ————————————— e e e e mmmm—, THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION ¢ Dafly Morniag Edition) including Sunday Bre, One Year $10 0 For 8ix Months 500 r Three Months .. . EW @ Omaba Swndny Bix, mailed to any ress, One Yoar. . 200 NO. 914 AND 918 FARNAM STREET. v, HOOM 5, TRIAUNE RUILDING. B, NO. 613 FOUKTRENTH STRES OORRESPONDENCE! All communioations relating to news andedi- torial mattor should bo addressed 1o tho Koi- TOR OF THE BrR. BUSINESS LETTERST All bueiness ltters nnd remittances should bo addrensed to THe Ber PUBLISHING COMPANT, OMAnA. Drafts, checl d postofce orders 0 be made psyable to the order of the compuny, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, EpiTon. THE DAILY BEE, Sworn Statement of Ulrculation. Btate of Nebraski Oounty of Dousias. ;“ Geo. B. ‘I'zschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing mm'mny. does solemnly swear ;hnt'l;‘le actual circulation of the Daily Bee lor e week ending July 1, 1857, was as Sunday, June 26 Monday, June 27 . Tuesday, june 28 Wednesday, Juna ;nursdny. June 30 riday, July L. Average.....o.uene . Gro. 1. Tzs0 UCK, Sworn to and subscribed ininy presence this 2d day of July, A, D, 1887, N, P. Fer, Notary Publie. [SEA L. Btate of Nebraska, | oo Douglas County. | Geo. B. Tzschuck, belng first duly sworn, deposes and says that_he is secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that thie actual average dally circulation of the Daily Bee for the month™ of July, 158, 19,314 copies; for August, 18%, 12,463 copics: for Septem: ber, 18%, 15,080 ¢ or October, 155 12,080 copies; for November, 1886, 13,34 copies; for December, 1856, 13,237 copies; for January 1857, 16,266 cnx‘les; for_February, 857, 14,105 coples; for March. 14, coples: ‘for April, 1557, 14,316 copies; for May, 1857, 14,227 coples; for June 1587, 14,147 coples. Gro. B. Tzscnuck. Subseribed and sworn to before me this 1st day of July A. D., 1557, [SEAL.| Fern, Notary Publie. CINCINNATI is fast becoming one of the great citics of the central states. It has just built a fashionable crematory and two of its bankors are on the road to the penitentiary. The Ohio idea still lives. SINCE prohibition has taken possession of Atchison, and the people are leaving the city in train loads, the few remaining will at the next legislature petition that the name be changed to St. Johnsville, IN the state of Pennsylvanin there are pending ten breach of promise suits, the defendants in each case being a minis! of the gospel. This would indicate that the idea of protection has got sucha hold there that the next step is to put a duty on the clergy Tue encmies of the late Judge Tolliver, the eminent desperado of Kentucky, are industriously circulating the report that the judge, when in the full possession of his mental faculties, had killed three niggers. No real Kentucky gentleman was ever known to kill a nigger except when in liquor. At last accounts President Cleveland it is eaid is considering seriously the question of calling a special session of congress. He is said to harbor the belief that by doing something to reduce taxa- tion it may pave the way 1o his re-nomi- nation. Of course there is nothing sel- fish in Mr. Cleveland's motives. Is there any wonder that Jacob Sharp’s health is growing rupidly worse? With a ten years' sentence to the penitentiary staring a man in the face is it not calecu- lated to produce anything other thana lightness of heart and buoyancy of spir- its? Though the greav purchaser of men's votes fed from a bottle of con- densed milk fora number of years, his present sickness is not milk sickness. Iv is authoritatively stated at Washing- ton that Colonel William Ransom Morri- son, the Waterloo statesman, 18 fast tiring of his position as a member of the inter- state commission, and longs for s old seat in congress again. He has stated that he will next year be a candidate and feels sanguine he can secure an election. Col- onel Morrison, however, is not so tired ©f his present position that he contem- plates resigning previous to' his nomina- tion, and possibly not until after the election, That he is not tired of drawing a salary of §7,000 a year and trayeling ex- penses, THE able editor of the San Diego (Cal.) Sun, which shines for a tew, stops the press long enough to shout: “What this state wants at Washington is howler—a man who will ask tor everything m sight aund get what he asks for.” What is the matter with Leland Stanford? Does he not get about everything in sight whether he asks for it or not? The Pacific rai road investigation shows that he ha been very busy for a great many years in getting a great deal of money out of the United States treasury which he was not entitled to. But Stanford does not turn anything over to the state. HEr Majesty Queen Kapiolana should lose no time in returning to her wild and reckless husband, King Kalakaua. The chances aro that unless she returns at an early date she will live to see her red throne which she has held down for a number of years carted off to the business house of an enterprising pawn broker to satisfy the demands of a hungry horde of ber husband’s creditors. The gay and degenerate king has grown even more reckless than the average Chicago wheat gambler, and at last aceounts the young Sandwich Island Napoleon of Finance was upon the verge of throwing himself into the sea. — THE circus managers of the country will take notice that Omaha 18 disposed to be moro liberal with them in the future. The cost of a license having been reduced from $500 to $300, 1t is con- fidently expected that this liberal con- cession will be duly appreciated by the proprietors of ‘grand aggregations,” and that Omaba will speedily become one of their favorito stopping places. As an institution for which the young yearn, of which older people never grow weary, and at which red lemonade attains its highest development, the circus “should be engouraged. The Late Judge Poland. ‘The death of Judge Luke P.Poland of Vermont has removed one of the piotu- resque figures in national politics. Judge Poland was not a great man in the sense the phrase is often applied to men of genius. He became a public figure at the national capital from his peculiar style of dress and eccentric manners, He wore a swallow-tail coat with brasé® buttons and a deecp blue waist coat, which naturally attracted attention from the visitors in the gaileries. Like Ben Butler he was extremely sensitive of newspaper criticism. True to the traditions and prejudices of his state, Judge Poland made himself conspicuous in the extreme in & move- ment calculated to gag the press of the country and restrict it from the freedom of criticism as to men and measures. If Judge Poland could have had his way the press of this country would have been controlled and edited by the authoritics of the government. With all his ex- centricities and narrow mindedness he was an honest and generally a well meaning man. In the Credit Mobilier mvestigations he was very prominent and did perhaps more than any other member of congress to make life a bur- den to a number of very pious christian statesmen. In 1865 Judge Poland was appomnted to fill the vacancy in the United states senate, caused by the death of Senator Collamer, whose term swould have expired in 1867. His senatorial career was not marked with brihancy, though he doubtless would have made a reputation had his term there been of longer duration. At the expiration of his senatorial term he was elected to the Forty-first congress and served for three consecutive terms. He was again elected to congress in 1882, serving through the Forty-eighth congress, this completing his public career. Judge Poland was chairman of the in- vestigation committee sent out by the house of representatives in 1874 to Arkan- sas at the time of the existence of the dual government under Brooks, and Baxter during the period of reconstruc- tion. The Poland report, which was an exhaustive and caustic review of the Ar- kansas troubles, was a very able docu- ment, and gave Judge Poland a wider reputation than any previous act of his public career. A Modest Demand. As we supposed would be the case, the branch of the American shipping ana industrial league which last week held its convention in Chieago, echoed the bounty or subsidy appenl which was voiced a few weeks earlier by the Pacific coast branch of the league. It passed a resolution demanding of congress that every vessel built and owned in the United States shall receive a bounty of 30 cents per ton for every 1,000 miles sailed for the next ten years. There can be no question that a policy of this kind would have a most invigorating effect upon the shipping interest of the coun- try. It might reasonably be expected that as soon as congress passed an act granting this modest demand shipbuild- ing would experience a marvelous vitality, and a year or two would find American built and owned ships sail- ing the seas in all directions, eager to cover as many thousand miles as possible. They would be enabled to offer formidable competition to the ships of other countriesin cutting freight rates, since the bounty would of itself constitute a pretty fair freight rate on most kinds of goods and commodities. Bur who can compute what such a scheme would cost the public treasury? The European countries that give sub dies grant, as we understand it, stated amounts to designated lines for a specific service. They know from year to year what this expenditure 18 to be, and can make accurate provision for it. But this would not be practicable under the pol- icy proposed by the shipping league. 1t is certain that every year would find the sum to be expended in this way steadily growing, and at the end of the ten years we should have created another vast money power which would assail con- gress for the continuance of government help, with a strong probabilijy of being successful, 1t will not require any olaborate argument to convince the American people that a shipping interest built up by a wnolicy of tius kind might be a much more costly investment than they ean wisely or safely enter into. But this subsidy question seems not un- likely to become of serious public intel est and consideration, A San Francisco paper ys it is certain to do soon that coast. he Canadian Pacific line of steamers, which is now, or soon will be, in the enjoyment of an enormous subsidy from the two governments of Great Britain and Canada, has already begun to compete with the Pacific Mail line and has compelled the latter to reduce its rates. It has the further advantage that it may earry coolies ¢cn payment of §30 head money, while the American line can only carry them on re- turn certificates. It is the understood intention of the Pacific Mail to ask con- gress for a subsidy equivalent to the one which its competitor enjoys. The Pacific coust representatives will undoubtedly be found earnestly supnorting s appeal, and thus the whole subj; subsidies will be presented to the attention of the country in perhaps a more urgent way than has thus far been done. Pres- ented in this practical form, the result will go far to dehnitely determine the future pohicy of the government, for a great many years at least, regardiug this question, ‘The Correct Nolution. Major Stanton, chairman of the com- mission appointed by the president last December to investigate the operation of the severalty law among the lndians of the northwest, is quoted as saying that the law 18 bound to be the correct fsolu- tion of the Indwn question. His obser- vations were contined principally to Ore- gon, Washington territory, Idaho and Montana, and he found that the tribes which have heen at peace and desire to continuc 1n that condition, take kindly to the law, opposition coming chiefly from the warlike tribes, though be believes these will eventually accept it. The ex- perience of Major Stanton is not con- firmed by the action of those tribes which met in council a few weeks ago in the Indian territory and petitioned against putting the law into effect. The delib- crations and final expression of that council showed that there is a very pro- uounced opposition to the severalty plan among peaceable tribes, but there can be no question that selfish influences within those trives, operated upon by equally seltish influences from without, had much to do with moulding the senti- ment of the council, It is notimprobable that a few of the tribes to which the law will apply would make some sacrifice in conforming to it, but in this a8 in all other matters upon which eivilization and progress depend the greatest good to the greatest number is the result to be sought. And we do not think any disinterested or unpreju- diced person, at all familiar with the In- dian question, ean doubt that the great majority of the Indian population would be vastly benefitted by the opportunities and privileges which the severalty law would bring them. The Indian needs to be taught self-reliance and this the law would accomplish with those who are cap- able of acquiring this most important quality. They would speedily come to understand that in order to obtain a live- lihood and enjoy the advantages of civil- ization industry and theft are essential, and thus it has been pretty conclusively demonstrated most of them will not learn under present conditions. They would have incentives todevelop and im- vrove, whereas now they have none. The Indian has his full share of human nature, and so long as he is maintained in idleness, with no responsibility and no care for the future, he will in the great majority of cases prefer that condition to one which imposes labor, obligations and cares. But these last are indispen- sible to his discipline and development, just as much as they are to every other branch of the human family, and no wiser or better service could be verformed in behaif of the In- dians than to bring them to this condition, assuring them of such advantages and rewards as will be an inducement and encouragement to them to fuitbfully persevere in the scheme of themselves working out their own des- tiny. The assumption that the severalty law is 1n any respect an unjust measure will not stand. It proposes to give to every Indian who desires it an ample farm, and when all are supplied to disnose of what remains to white settlers, the pro- ceeds to go to the benefit of the Indians. Millions of acres now unused would thus become available for settlement and cultivation, adding largely to the annual products and wealth of the coun- try. Those who comply with the law will be made citizens and their lands can- not be alienated within twenty-tive years. In every way the measure aims to bene- fit and protect those Indians who avail themselves of 1t and con- form its conditions, and it is not easy to see how it can be perverted from this purpose. It is altogether the most judicious and beneficeny law that has been enacted by congress to the Indians, and if properly e into effect will undoubtedly prov Major Stanton has said, the correct solu- tion of the Indian que: to Th The attempt to starve the fire depart- ment and police force, in revenge for its quarrel with the fire and police commis- s1on, will not redound to the eredit of the city council. Qur firemen and police- men should not be made to sutler on ne- count of personal hostility to Chief of Police Seavey or the dispute of authority between the council and police commis- sion, nor should the peace and safety of the community be purposely endal by the policy to starve the fire depart- ment and police. Men who are unpuid are not likely to render eflicient service. The capricious course of the council may be applauded by rowdy editors and ward bummers, but law abiding respectable citizens cannot approve of it The forbearance which has been shown up to this time by the community, is on the verge of giving way. Like the straw thut broke the camel’s back, this starvation of the firemen and police force,will percipitate a popular current of opposition which the council will be un- able to stand, It seems to us that a see- ond sober thought would convince mem- bers of the council that they cannot afford to pursue a course wnich is de- structive of good government, and not in accord with the sentiment of their con- stituents. arving the fire department and po- lice by diverting appropriations, bodes no good to the community and reducing the levy for the support of the police force to two mills, when it is known that double that amount will be necessary for the maintanence of a respectable police force, will only tend to exasperate the public ngainst the council. THERE 18 more testimony from Mane in proof of the proposition that prohibi- tion does not prohibit. There is proba- bly no better or more trustworthy authority on a matter of this kind than that radical orgar of prohibition, Z%e¢ Voice, which has recently published some damaging statements from people of all classes regarding the state of affairs in angor. These show that the law is not enforced in that town, that it never has been thoroughly enforced there, and that the public opinion is not such as to secure its enforcement, The simple truthis that while the prombitory law of Maine is very thoroughly enforced in the rural distriets, it is found impracticable to do 80 in the cities and larger towns, always has been, and doubtless always will be. It is unfortunate that this fact and its plain lesson should be lost on those for whose instruction alone it is noted. The country is now getting more money out of the nationel treasvry than 1t is paying ir. Thus far in the current fiscal year the disbursements have ex- ceeded the receipts to the amount of $9,- 000,000, and this situation is expected to continue until the last of August, at which time the treasury officials think the surplus will be down to $836,000,000. After that time the accumulation will be renewed, and it is likely the surplus will have reached $60.000,000 by the time con- gress asscinbles, How impressive this fact will be on congress, with no more bonds subject to present redemption, re- mains to be seen. Meanwhile there is nothing in the immediate outlook thkat should cause any distrust in financial cir- cles. It seems certain that the country will have all the wmouey required for legitimate business. —e Tav. new manager of the Union Pacifie 18 inaugurating the policy of retrench- ment that was expected as one of the conditions of his selection, ke will need o do a good deal of lopping off in order to practically suve to the corporation his town generous salary of $50,000 a year, but he could easily do it if he would apply the pruding knife freely to the top branches. Cutting away the under- brush will not fully accomplish the ob- ject. But Mr. Pgtter promises to cut wide and deep, and his ability to do this constitutes no inconsiderable part of s reputation as a raflroad manager, S — GEORGE FRrANCIS TRAIN lays much stress on the fact that the Omaha papors are all as silent asa grave yard about the cloud which the psycho visionary im- agines to be hanging over a Jarge scction of this city by reason of the interest which he claims to still retain in the title to the tract formerly known as Train town. This cloud is* invisible to the naked eye at this point and that chiefly accounts for the silence of the Omaha papers. Omaha owesa debt of gratitude to George Francis Train for his efforts to boom this city in the early days, but debts of gratitude are not negotiablo as collateral on Wall street or at any other mercantile exchange. —_— Tue sp ecch delivered by ex-Senator Van Wyck on the Fourth of July, at Wakefield, and printed in another col- umn, shows that Mr. Van Wyck yet re- mains the foe of corporations—has sensi- ble ideas and possesses the courage to mamtain them. It can no longer be claimed that hi3 utterances are the va- porings of a demagogue, Tried and not found wanting in s high position of trust and honor, for six years he battled for the people—fearlessly and courageous- 1y waging his war upon the monied kings and monopoly power. As strong in de- feat as in success, he continuses his good work in favor of the toiling masses. —_— e A raTroN of the BEE wants to know what its editor had in d when he de- clared before the Pucific ralroad com- mission that from the Omaha standpoint it might be of advantage to let inflation and extravagance continue 1n Union Pa- cific management indefinitely, We will cheerfully explan, The editor had in mind an item of $283 for a burial casket which appears on the Union Pacitic ledger as paid to an Omaha undertaking firm, whose senior partneris also coroner of Douglas county. That wasa rather gorgeous casket @pr some poor fellow who had been mangled by the cars. IxasMucH as the power of the courts has been invoked to set aside the adver- tising contract which Cadet Taylor pulled through the council by Sharp practice, the Bee will not pursue the controversy beyond repeating that the job was conceived 1n iniquity and brought forth by fraud Tue board of public works deserves credit for refusing to approve claims for street sweeping tramped up by the con- tractors without proof that the work had been done. The street-sweeping extras allowed by the last board were an impo- sition. Mg. BLACKBURN gets off with a very mild reprimand. But the public will still continue to believe that somehow he had his fingers in the uncxplained half of that $1,000 pi STATE AND Nebraska Jottings. A $10,000 hotel 1s going up at Rundolph, Cedar county. Kearney has contracted for a 2,000 foot prospect hole, hoping to strike natural The Hastings base ball club has pur- chased the Leavenworth nine and fran- chise, and expeet to play ball in the near future. Grand 1sland has an oft-color case on hand. A laundry girl gave birth to a babe whose father is a mulatto porter in alivery stable. Neitber had the nee sary legal permit, and the authorities propose to enforce a wedding. A circus lemonade peddler suddenly came to grief and death near Beatrice last Sunday. The coroner’s jury were unable to determine whether he drank lemonade of his own vintage or dosed himself with aconite. A Fremont doctor m:lwturml a burglar in his house, compelled bim te uniond the boodie 1 his pocket, and punished thy intruder by filling him with spring ricken pie. llopes are entertained of his recovery. Andrew Frost and his nephew Heary Frost were crossing a bridge spanning the Elkhorn north of Hooper, when the structure fell under them, precipitating them 1nto the curre it twenty fect below., Neither was badly injured, The bner News says: **L'he bridge is a new one, having been completed but a few months, and is another evidence ot the many ley impositions impc upon the yers of Dodge county by the hoard ated sharks that infest her eapital,” Saturday’s storm m Grand Island was a furious one. Lightning struck the residence of W. H. Quillan and per- formed some queer capers. Mrs, Quillan and her two children, being frightened by the fury of the storm, sat down on the floor in the middle of the room. The bolt struck the house and made the cireuit of the walls, seattered spimters and plaster on the family group, dishes in the side- d were shattered, and pictures in the ining room riddled. The bolt struck hin four feet of the mother aud ehil- v eseaped unjured, The celebration at Blair was a grand success, ‘The two very large Pmrlfl within the city limits were completely thronged trom 9 o'clock in the morning at night. It was estimated there 00 strangers or non-residents of present. All enjoyed themselves t—no complaints, no_fights, and very little drunkenness. The ouly disappointment of the day was the fail- Indians o pear. They posi- Lt f agreed to come, and sent & token or pledge in th ¢"of an unfinished pipe to that effect, and their failure to appear was quite a disappointment. A beautiful flag wes presented to each of the Cumming City and Richland pre- cinets for la slegations. Those who came from fowa aid had never seen Blair were delighted with its many tiful parks and shade trees, and the gen- eral tidy and handsome appearance of the place, covering as it does nearly two ses tions of land, bounded by shade tre and parks, with its many beantitul resi dences. Blair 1s indeed & healthy place, and 18 enjoying at this time a good, healthy growth, A prominent Bellevue college student, afflicted with dudish airs and anglo- cockney drawl, struck the army barber at the rifle range recently ana called out, ‘'Ah, say-ah, cawn’t you give me a rub? I cawn't geow to Omchow with this nawsty beard, don't ye kneow.” Theac- commodating barber wheeled 1nto line atonce, perched the dude on a rickety stool, and craned his neck on the stock of arifle. A section of an army blanket was rammed inside his collar, and a lather of soap and tohacco juice spread on thick, An ancient corn razor with teeth like a hayrake was brought out and honed on a convenient tree stump. Brist _less useful than they should have b ling with suppressed delight the barber xrirped victim by the throat and nostrils and with one mighty swipe 4 smooth tore spot on his right cheek. Yells of pain and anguish instantly rose above the bus- tle of the eamp and firew in strength a: the l;ub progressed, The barber hung on a8 if promotion depended upon his suc- cess. He tightened his $np on the jaw and collared his victim's feet between his knees. In this position he sawed with increased vigor, plowing huge furrows in the skin and tearing up tho slender, nownf' fibres by the roots. The job was completed to the satisfaction of the bar- ber in eighteen minutes and the dude permitted to depart 1n an atmosphere of pl“inl.’v“lll profanity, He forgot to settle the b lowa Ltems, There are 27,142 head of cattle in Scott county. All stato institutions will hereafter be required to make imonthly reports to the governor, \J A wire nail factory, with a capacity of 25,000 kegs per annum, is in expectancy at' Dubuque. The Yonng Men's Business association has been formed in Keokuk, the object of which is the advancement and pro- motion of the commercial and manu- facturing interests of Keokuk. The mascotte of the Des Moines base ball club gives half his salary to the heathen. He is a favorite of the secre- tary and every time the club scores a game he hits the till for $5 and sends it to the missionaries. The Des Moines Leader has heen trans- ferred to a new stock company, repre- senting about $15,000, of which Messrs. Oleson, Zeigler and Watts, of that city, P allingall, of Ottumwa, and Hon Moses Bloom, of fowa City, are the prin- cipal stockholders. Wyoming. A cheese and butter factory is to be started at or near Butfalo, The assessed valuation of Cheyenne property is about 4,000,000, The Cheyenne & Northern railroad will strike Douglas before winter. The Cheyenne land oftice turned into the national treasury $69,000 1n the last three months, Crops in the vicmity of Douglas are looking well. 'he experiment of farm- ing without irrigation has proved a great success thus far. Work at the Union Pacific shops in Cheyenne has increased 80 per cent within the past month. About 120 men are employed in and about the shops. A school house is being erected on the site of old Kort C. F. Smith, on the Big Horn, for the Crow Indians. Under the direction of Agent Williamson 160 dwell- ings for the Indians are to be built this season. Some of the ranchmen north of Chey- enne will very soon commence cutting their hay which will not be very hoavy on the uplands and plateaus. In the val- leys and along the creeks it will be heavy, however, and of an excellent quality. Articles of incorporation of the Eust- ern Wyoming railroad company have been filed in Laramie county, with the avowed purpose of building from an east- ern connection westward through Carbon and Sweetwater. The Boomerang says it is the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, and 18 going to Salt Lake. A remarkable pheromena was ble at Iron Mountain on Tugsday mght, last- ing several hours cid flashes of lightning played continually about the mountain, in fact eleetricity cavorted around in'a go-as-you-p hion ¢ culated to make ecach particular b r stand on end. There 1s no doubt that the magnetic iron ore is tne cause_of these electrical displays in that vicinity. The Rebate Wrong. Denver Republican. One very important fact to bearin mind in all discussions of the rebate wrong 15 that rebates are only made pos- sibic by extortionate railway rates. Neither the Union Pacific nor any other railway company would pay re- bates to favored shippers, if it ¢id not charge tne general run of its patrons more 1 it should. In ev ery case of rebates that has come within our knowledge the charged the recipient of the rebate was fully as high as the open rate for all customers should have been. he wrong was not in allowing re- bate to a tew, but in not making the cretly cut rate an open one free to all comers, It is undoubtedly a fact thut without rebates the great enterprises wh trived to get them could not have ren- dered the public gervice in the west, which they have rendered, but it ally true that the railway managers had no right either ral or moral to make fish of one and fiesh of another in this matter. A double wrong was inflicted by the rebate volicy. It gave secret and “great advantages to a few and it made leading business men who were bencfited by 1t, en in ‘monlding public opinion to compel the transportation companies to deal fairly all their patrons. Under the inter- the way is t public blessing, the \te Sys- abolished but the great evil of e; rates which made the rebate s tem possible is still ruinous in the wi ly in Colorado. man to show us why it should cos m two ‘o three tim as much to move a ear load or train load of freight or passengs between Denver and Omaha as between Omaha and Chi- @o. kxcessive charges are mam- hed in the wes imply be- e the railway doing business west of th er have agreed and combined to pursue a | up policy in tins region and in purs: of that corrupt conspiracy have issued ls brivery to defeat honest legis- lation designed to protect the pvblic in- terests, The Union Pacitic managers been exposed by the commission fereated by but the ma rs of the Burlington just as bad as the Union Pacific men, press of the west should unite in ting public opmion to demand a ige of policy on the part of the rail- rouds, and now that the bribery of the puss system has been forhidden by the w, there is hope that this Of course, newspapers which depend for a livinz on the job oflice patronage of the railroads will not dare to call their souls theiv own 1n this matter, but the good work ean be done without thei fand in spite of thei corrupt opposition, e CREMATION IN CINCINNATI, First lncineration of an Adunlt—An In- teresting Experin Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette: The st incineration of the body of an adult his city took place at the Cincinnati atory yesterday afternoon. The subject was Dominick Steinbrauer, who die i at the hosvital on Tuesday of severe injuries reccived at Gerke's being burned while painting the 1ns of & large vat, No one was in the im diate vicinity when t aceident curred, but the coroner's inquest deyel- oped the fact that the fire which resulted in bis death was oceasioned by having a burning lamp near a bucket “of varmsh which he had been using. The crema- tion took place ut the request of his widow, who has decided to return to Switzerland, where she and her husband were born, and she decided to take th ashes with her. The oceasion was regarded as an im- portant one, especially by the boord of directors, of tbe crematory, as it would give an indication of the capacities of the furnace, The crematory is at present far from being complete in details, and the directors regarded this cremations more as an experimental operation than as a public test—as it is their intention to present a full exhibition of the mode to be employed in consuming bodies when the crematory is finished.” As it now is, the surroundirgs are crude, and the un- finished condition of things is not attrac- tive, but tho directors say all this will be remedied in time, and the crematory will be the popular mode of disposing of the bodies of the dead. The fires were lighted in the furnace about 10 o’clock yesterday morning, and the heat registered 2000° Fahrenheit when the body arrived, which was about 8 o'clock, 1t was brought out in a hearse and in- closed in a rllm pine coflin, painted black, and without auy ornaments. The funeral attendants were the widow of the deceased and a few friends, who came in carriages. Quite & number had col- lected, includirg the board of directors and invited spectators, including two or three physicians, A special request had been made by the widow that the crema- tion should be conducted with the ut- most privacy, and in deference to the re- quest only a few were allowed in the fur- naco room. ‘Che body was taken from the hearse and borne down the impro- vised platform which led to the furnace room, followed by the friends of the dead mun and those who had received permis- sion to enter. The body had been pre- pared for burial in the ordinary manner, and was neatly dressed. 'The only wreparation beyond thi: wrapping it in a lurge sheet which had ~ been thoroughly saturated with alum water, It was placed upon the *,crib," a sort of bier made of iron lattice work, and then the door of the furnace, which was red from the heat within, was thrown open and the crib bearing the dead body was pushed into the scething, quivering, white-hued fire, and the furnace door was instantly closed. Thero was no other ceremony. The widow stood with her little group of friends_around her, and bore the ordeal with little outward sign of emotion. Mr. Ben Pittman addressed the small concourse in_a few pertinent words, regarding this desirable mode of disposing of the bodies of the dead, which, he said, would soon become an honored custom among an intelligent people, In about a half hour after the body had been placed in the retort, the friends of the dead man withdrew, and the visit- ors present were permitted to look through the mica-covered peep-hole in the end of the furnace. The form of the body was distinetly defined under the alum-saturated cloth, amid the flames that were fiercely lapping up whatever of human organism that remained. Mr. Pittman explained that the form of the bodr would thus be preserved until the last particle had been con- sumed. The body cremated weighed 180 pounds, and as a test case, has proved satisfactory to the directors of the crema- tory. About two hours were consumed in the incineration, and at the request of the widow the ashes will be delivered to her this morning. e e To Breed Arabian Horses inJAmeri: New Orleans Times-Democ: Robert Hicks Mendlay, of Suflolk, Eng- land, who represents a syndicate of tead- ing Enghish capitalists, is on his way to Texas and southern Cahfornia to inspect jands there offered for sale, In respons to questions propounded by the repor Mr. Mendlay sud: *‘My present mission is to secure,if possible,grazing lands that will be of the same temperature and cter as those of northern Arabia. ‘nglish gentlemen desire to try the experiment on a large scale of rear- ing the pure Arabian horse on American soil, Itis said there are portions of Lower California, Arizona and T where the same characteristics of and climat obtained in Arabia may be Z found. With thoroughbred stallions d dams, it i3 believed a race of horses can be developed that, under the judicious system of training now in vogue, would excel the original Arabians in power, endurance and speed. It stands to reason that starting with the sume pure blood, and gi d- ditional nutrition mn_ the way of varied grasses and vegetable food, with a more salubrious climate and a purer atmos- phere, the breed cannot but prove better than its original. “Iam not deprecating our American stock, but itis the tirm belief of some of the most experienced turfmen of Eng- land that the world has never yet seen all the possibilities that lie inthe heels of a true Arabian, Although there is some difliculty in securing the best Arabian blood now, yet money will place the finest of Arabin’s herds at the disposition of those who can atford the price. lm- provements in portation 1n late years bave been so great that there 1s no trouble in having them brought over to Amnecrica safely.” L hes Y OVER THE DEVIL'S TRACK. A Terrible Ride on a Broneho Near Gold Mountain, *I have made a mile a minute on hol back, in the saddle.” As a grizzled stranger with a quartzite pin made this ark, a silence fell upon the little group ot turfmen who sat in the corridor of the Windsor hotel at Den- ver, the other evening. ‘I'ne man who had just told of driving an wnrecorded mile'in 2:11_arose deliberately, brushed the ashes off his cigar, buttened his over- coat and walked away, *‘1'm a liar my- self,’” somebody began, *H U said the st cold, anger, “this isn’t a li and I'll buc A “Have you the papers for i *No, nor the judge's aflidayits. In fact, nobody saw it except myself, but if you will permit me to tell you the cir- cumstances, 1'll leave it to yourself ther it isn't a fact,” nze awa ‘TI'he group drew closer. Even the man wio had walked oif suspended his con- versation with the hotel clerk and listened on the quiet. stranger re- moved a section from his mouth and began ““Ihis happened five I was living in Leadvitle had mining inter that took quentiy into the outlying distri radius of perhaps & dozen miles. trips I nearly always made on horseoack on a tough little broncho, hard-mouthed, trained o mountain rouds, and capable of keeping up a jog trot at u pineh for twenty hours at & stretch. On the ocea- s1on in question I started very early one clear, cold morning for a claim 1 owned on the other side of the divide, on the slope of what is called Gold mountain— you can find it by looking on any map. To reach it I nad to first cross Tennessec park and then wind over a very crooked, tortuous trail that gradually ascended to a puss somewhere above Timber Pine It was not more than two miies as the crow tlies, hut nine by the road, owing to The grizzle of tobacco ars ago last fall, At the time, but me fre- for Thes the frequent zigzagging or tacking made necessary by the steepness of the range. “1 ook thing: , and it was about I had a couple of men at work there, ate dinner at their cabin, and then went over to look at the shaft. One bas no idea how rapidly time passes under-ground, where every- thing is dark, and when I came up I was surprised to find that it was nearly 4 o'clock, and the shadows of the pitmons 100 yards off bad ¢ «d up tothe wind lass. 1 was wnnoyed, too, for there wus a suggestion of snow in the air, and the ride neross Tennessee park in a storm is —well, the less said about it the betier. 5o I lost no time in getting into the sad dle, and pushed rapidly shead towurd the 1 to g quite & distance betare I reached at, and. all the time the sky grew gruyee und graver, und prescutly o few h Les begau Lo fall, B urged my broncho, and finally began the descent, “The road beyond the pass led down a long, straight incline for about a quarter of a mile. ‘This took it to the fringes of timber pine, and then it made a detour of nearly two miles to get around a spur of the range. At that point 1 paused. The idea occurred to me that 1 could make a short cut by going directly over the spur and striking the trail on the other side, The range was not particu- larly sm-‘v at this place, but rather a suc- cession of rough eminences, and the un- dertaking did not seem to bo accompa- nied by danger. A sudden, raw wind decided me. "I turned the broncho off the road and started. “T'he plan appeared the more feasible a8 | advanced. What looked like steep ascents at a distance proved to be gentle ones, and I was soon pretty near across. ‘The spur was well wooded with old pine trees, some of which had rooted as they lay, and on the far side the decavity ex- tended down at an cven slope clear to the valley, where big rocks and boulders looked like gmmu of blasting pow- der, .and the road like a tiny streak. I remember yet how, between the tree tops I caught a glimpse of the park, with the Arkansas river wind- ing through it, and the whole thing look- ing like some map in my geography, That was the last thing that impressed itself on my mind before my horse stag- gered, stumbled, plunged a little, and then came down with u crash, first on his fore legs and then flat on his belly, his head down Lill. I can't readily describe it, but he fell in such a way that my right leg, without being crushed or even much bruised, was twisted in the stirrup strap and caught fast. “Right here let me stop to explain a circumstance that will enable you to un- derstand the situation. Down in the val- ley, at the base of Gold mountain, was a saw mill owned by George Lacy, of Lead- ville, and extending up from its yard, al- most to timber line, was what is called a log shoot. This is simply aVshaped trough, large enough to hold & good sized ping trunk, and built solidly against the face of the mountain. Of course, it has to be straight, or nearly so, to permit the iogs to slide down = without obstruction, and use soon makes the nside as smooth as glass. Such a contrivance saved a good deal of hauling, for as the trees are cut they are dragged over and dumped into the trough, and go down to the yard hike a streak of lightning. In the course of time the pressure will drive the trough in pretty nearly to the level of the earth. = This was the case with the Lacy shoot, Moreover, it had not been used for about a year, and pine needles, dead boughs,” and other rubbish had in places almost hidden it almost from sight. I was well enough acquainted with the mountains to know, the instant my broncho fell, that he had walked into an old log shoot. 1 wus not aware of it at the time, but I think now that that headlong tumble broke his back then and there, and he never knew what hurt him. It takes n _moment for the coolest head to clear itself in times of unlooked- for peril, and long befove that moment had elapsed the broncho and [ wero on our way to the valley, going faster at every breath, nothing to stop uvs, death ahead and the devil's own railroad un- derneath, I was sitting almost erect in the saddle. The her flaps had twisted around and kept my legs from rubbing against the sides of the trough, but hel held me like bands of iron., Even had they not, jumping off would have been out of the question. 1 have never been on a toboggan, but I think peonle who have will understand why I bent all my energies to holding on. T did not faint and did not get di there was a hid- cous roaring in my e a furious wind seemed all of a suilden tear up the monn- tain and suck the bieath out of my mouth, but everything \vuz déadly clear and distinet. could” see black specks grow sud- denly into big pines and then shoot past me, I could even see the snow caught in their needles as they came whizzing up. _Every instant, through some clearing, I could see the valley, in a flash, and overit all was a sickening feeling us though the mountain was fall- ing away from me, and I wus plunging out into immeasurable space. So strong was this that even now, standing on the solid granite floor, 1 can recall the qualm and nausea and all support med to ive away, the earth tip up and let mo all, fall, fall—it felt as 1f forever. A mass of rock as large as this hotel was beneath me. As 1 looked it seemed to leap into the air like a balloon. There was a black line of forest below. 1 shot through it, as through a tunnel, and out into the light again, I tiied to shut my eyes. It was impossible. 1 tried to seream. The air had turned to stone. “I have read that when men are about to die their lives reel out before them like a panoram: Mine didn't. Ail I conld think of was the erash, the bloody mauss of man and horse lying some- where in the valley, and 1 remember 1 ad, in a wn«{, crazy kind of way, in an instant, hurt me. 1 knew we m rly there. The trees and rocks were indistinguishable, when all of a sudden a black mass flew up in my face. | felt that I was being be 1l bruised, and_hurled over and over, and then everything was still, **‘When'the moon was well un 1 came to myself. lying in asnow drift, rubbing at my head and moamng. After a long time 1 crawied a hittle ways, and then felldown and cried for my very helplessness. I must have been a little Ihzkuy and heaven knows how 1 found my way to Lacy's mil, a quarter ~ of 4 mile 1 but I did somehow, and they ear- ried me in and sent tor Iu-lr. You & the old timber shoot had fallen into de cay, and some distance above the yard W a broken place that s my life. When we reached it the dead broncho jumped the trongh and the two of us went sailing and tuining and_cavorting over a field of fresh snow until we struck into a drif ) yards awny. The broncho had the worst of 1t, even the struck solid nd this arm that the doc- id be done with for ho kept on going until earth, I broke three ribs 1 so many diflerent place tor wanted to cut it ofl it. What puzzled the miil men most wus that my legs escaped, but the saddle flaps were worn to fringe, and I supj that explains it. From the point where [ started to the break was over two miles, and the old hands there saud logs used o make it less than two minutes had no stop-watch, but I'll back myself inst any log that ever made the trip.”” - Vigor and Vitality Are quickly given to every part of the body by Hood's Sarsapari 0 tived v I'he blood enriched and vitalized, and alth instead of disease to ¢ The stomach is toned and wpetite restored. The Kidneys : are roused and invig- orated. ‘T'ne brain is refreshed, the mind made clear and reaay for work, Tryit. - The Only Woman For the Oceasion, Detroit Free Press: Only u girl who has run_a type-writer at $i per week and finally marrics her employer, can enter a = store and paralyze a lady clerk receiving §6 per week, It's no use for u strengt million s wife to try it - Belle of Bourbon ten-year-old whisky. A wine-glasstul taken before meals wiil aid the weakest stomach to properly as- similate food and build up the strength, Sold everywhere §1.25 quart bottle, e —— o1kD, | KYAN=Mis, Aunie Ryan, wife of Thomas Ityan, tie ramily ve ] Oiualia, at 10 . w. July 6, Fuueral notice bercatiete