Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 8, 1887, Page 4

| THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY. JULY 8. 1897, Indict Hantington, The most refreshing news which has emanated from Washington since it was announced that congress had adjourned, is that which is now flashed over the wires, that the grand jury of the District of Columbia is preparing to take steps which will lead to the indictment of that monumental purchaser of men's votes and prostitution of their honor, one C. P, THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMA OF SUBSCRIPTION ¢ Dafly Morniag Edition) including Sunday Bk, One Year....... £l For 8(x Monthd. . For Throa Months The Omahn Swnda #ddress, One Yl OFpICE, No. 014 AND 018 FARNAM STREEY. AA ?w Youk OFftcr, Roou &, Trinvxe Bronoixs. | Huntington, ASUINGTON OFFICE, NO. 513 FOUKTEENTH STREET, The time has come in this country, as demonstrated in the cuse of Jake Sharp, when men like Huntington must come face to face with the grated windows of a penitentiary. Mr. Huntington, it is said, will be indicted on the charge of bribing senators and representatives in cougress, A preedent for this action is found 1n the charge of Judge Barrett, of New York, in the Sharp case. On this occasion Judge Barrett stated that it was the first time in the history of the country that a bribe giver had ever been indicted, and laying down law that in order to convict 1t was only necessary to prove that the bribe offered could be traced to the accused, no matter through how many hands it passed in- termediateiy. According to this there is no reason why C. P. Huntington, now temporarily living in luxurious ease and comfort in Europe, should not be in- dicted, and brought to the bar of justice with all possible speed. In his testimony before the Pacific Railroad investigating committee in New York last April he boldly stated to the members of the com- mission that he had paid out six million dollars to various senators and repres- ORRESPONDENCE: All communications relating to nesws and edi- torial matter should be addrossed 10 the Evi- TOR OF THE Brr BUSINESS LETTERS ! All buusiness |ctters and remittances should bo addressod to Tk BEx PUBLISHING COMPA OMAHA. Drafts, checks and postofice ord %0 b tuado payable to the orderof the company, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. E. ROSEWATER, Eprron. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Ulrculation. Btate of Nahl‘l!kni } a8 County of Doutlas. ¢ Geo. B. T'zschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of the Daily Bee for the week ending July 1, 1557, was as follows: Saturday.June 25 Bunday, June 2., onday, June 27 Ciesday, june 28 Wednesday, June 20 Thursday, June 30 ... Friday, July L... Average.......... Gro, 18, T80 Sworn to and subseribed in my presence this 2d day of July, A, D, 1857, N, P, FEIn, + it [SEA L. Notary Public. entatives, in order, as he smd, to ‘‘ex- len’n“m Nl-hrfl:,‘;;‘ lg plain’ matters connected with the Pacitio ouglas iy railrond. Mr. Huntington kept for years his paid lobbyist at Washington, who boasted of his power to ‘‘influence” legislation. This man with a thief-like tread, and a clammy hand, whose name was Sherill, was a notorious character in Washington. Where corruption was the thickest Shernll occupied a front seat, He gave neither checks, notes or promises; he paid spot cash. He was employed by Huntington for a purpose, and he performed his work well. Much of the Huntington fortune is built upon the graves of young men whom he and his agents had corrupted. It is said also that Attorney General Garland now has the matter under con- sideration. The indictment of Mr. Hunt- ington will be under the act of congress approved February 26, 1853, But will the atorney general do lus duty in this case? Is that member of the cabinet sufficiently divorced from the meshes of the great railroad power which hang over the national capital? 1s there any reason why Huntington, who has bribed United States senators and representatives, should go unpun- ished, while Jake Sharp, whose crime was that of purchasing simply New York City’s aldermen, who are always for sale, should pay the penalty of the law? Let the grand jury of the District of Columbia Geo. B. Tzschuck, belng first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of ‘The Bee Publishing company, that thie actual average daily cireulation of the Daily Bee for the month of July, 188, 12314 copies; for August, 15, 12,454 copies: for Septem: ber, 18%, 13,030 coples; for October, 185, 12,080 coples: for November, 1550, 13348 coples; for December, 185, 13,237 copies; for January 1857, 16,208 copies: for February, 1857, 14,108 coples; for March, 1557, 14400 coples: for April, 1887, 14,316 copies: for May, 1887, 14,227 coples: for June 1857, 14,147 coples, GEo. B. T28CHUCK, Subseribed and sworn to before me this 1st day ot July A. D., 1587, [SEAL.| N. P. Frm, Notary Publice. 1¥ Texas should adopt the proposed prohibition amendment which is soon to be voted upon, the election returns from that state will not be so lop-sided in the future. e Ir Messrs, Fairchild, Tuttle, Halstead, Foraker and others will turn their oyes toward Gettysburg they will see no signs of the rebels crossing the Potomac with muskets. PeriArs President Cleveland could go as far as East St. Lowms. That is Colonel Morrison's district and he sho'ild be able to protect him. But Colonel Morrison 18 opposed to protection, v is reported that William Henry Hurlbert, formerly the essay editor of | do its duty and the most daring the New York World, 12 to become a | and dangerous cmss.o( bl:lbD givers British subject. Do we understand from | who ever flourished in this conutry will get their just deserts, When this is done the atmosphere about Washington will in a measure be purified, and the most corrupt syndicate of public plun- derers will turn their backs upon the past and their faces toward the state’s prison. this that he has joined Buffalo Bill's show? Evrror HENry W. Grapy, of the At- lanatConstitution is starting his boom for the vice-presidency. He is second on & committee to receive bids for the eree- tion of a fashionable club house inthe Georgia capital ‘Windom'’s War on the Saloons. The Hon. William Windom, who has been enjoying a period of comparative obscurity, emerged on the fourth instant, and is just now receiving some news- paper attention, He was one of the speakers at the celebration at Woodstock, Conn., where annually occurs, under the auspices of Mr. Henry C. Bowen, a special commemoration of independence day. These recurring occasions are regarded with considerable imterest, not only be- cause of their patriotic character, but for the reason that they afford an oppor- tunity for the discussion of matters of public interest not strictly in line with the spirit of the day by gentle- men of more or less prominence us ex- ponents of such special matters. Mr, Windom is well known to be a leader of the movement in opposition to the saloon in politics, and as with all men who have a hobby, he regards this as the most urgent and important question with which the country has at present to deal, Quite naturally, then, this was his themo at the Woodstock celebration. Mr. Windom presented a somewhat stirring view of the gravity of the ques tion which to his mind should command the attention of the American people more broadly and deeply than any other, and made a rather appalling statistical exhibit of the extent, power and dam- aging influence of the liquor interest. It is to be hoped he was very careful to verify his tigures, otherwise they may be turned against him to his discomfiture. 1t is quite certain .that as to a part of them at least they suggest exaggeration, This might 1eadily be excused as to esti- mates, but it is unjustifiable where nearly precise data is attainable. Moreover, it is unnecessary, since the actual figures would make a statement quite bad Ir the Omaha Building exchange de- sires to be of practical use in promoting the growth of the city, its energies should be directed toward promoting the erection of several thousand cheap dwelling houses. Now comes a writer in a New York paper which shows it 18 not a ruan in the moon but a woman. This revelation 1s a trifle tough on the ancient maidens who spent the best part of their young lives in flirting with what they supposed was a member of the sterner sex. Tue mililary spirit scems to be de. veloping in Nebraska, and it is perhaps a good thing to encourage. At all events we have the authority of George Wash- gton in favor of a well-trained militia, and doubtloss there are just as good rea- sons for such a force now as there were in hus time. Ir President Cleveland is afraid to go to St. Louis let him come to Omaha, He will be cordially greeted as the president of the United States. A visit to Omaha will do him more good than a renomina- tion. Besides his wife has a largo inter- est in Omaha real estate which she de- rived from the Folsume legacy. Tue anthracite pool is getting ready to renew its annual pillage of tne peo- ple, which will be measured according to the dividend demands of the combina- tion. It was expected that the June rates would continue through the sum- mer, but it is understood that they will be advanced on the 15th of this month, and very likely thereafter monthly until the winter prices are pushed up to the | spough to be eflective with all highest figures they will bear. Retail | who ™ would be likely to be buyers will take warning and get in their | jyngenced by hem. In an- winter supply before the turned by the pool. last screw 15 | other respect the Minnesota statesman seems to have permitted his imagination a liberal latitude, and that was in assum ing the overwhelming intluence of the saloon in politics, It may be granted that it exerts more power than is for the common good, but on the whole it comes fur short of being the political force that Mr. Windom aflirms it to be, and we have no doubt 1ts influence is lessening ecvery year. Numerous examples might be cited to show where the saloons have wholly failed as a political power, con- spicuous among which were the last mu- nicipal election in Chicago and the later county election. In both these cases the saloons were indeed a power in conven- tions, but they were literally routed by the people. Outside of a few cities, and certainly througout the rural districts ¢ Co's. Mercantile Agency done Omah a great injustice in its semi- annual review of the building progress and real estato markets of leading Ameri- can cities. The statement that Omaha's real estate and building boom are on a stand-still is untrue. From twenty-five to forty real estate transfers have been recorded daily during the past month, and bmlding was never more brisk. The meanest thing about this Dunn & Co, re- port is that Omaha was singled out from among all other cities as having reached a stage of stagnation, and this falsehooa was circulated through the Associated Press all over the country. Tae California fruit union appears to have demonstrated that fruit can be suc- | generally, the saloon is practi- eessfully shipped from that state to the | cally powerless as a poliitical east. 1'wo consignments sent to New | factor, and this is largely York realized satisfactory prices, and it is expected that when the business be- comes systematized the eastern cities will reguiarly receive consignwents of Cali- fornia fruits. A San Francisco paper re- marks that ‘‘California can supply tho east with all the fruit it needs during the month or six weeks prior to the begin- ning of the eastern fruit harvest. It would have done so long ago but for the recurning impossibility of establishing a good understanding between fruit grow- ‘ers and earriers, That understanding bas now been reached, and it only re- mains to carry out the plan." true, also, of those localities where the retail liquor traffic is wisely regulated by high license 1aws rigidly enforced. While, therefore, the evils of the liquor traflic are confessedly so great and glar- ing us to demand every wise and practi- cable means for their removal, it cannot be well to mislead public opinion by fulse or exaggerated facts and statements of conditious largely imagined. Of the 12,000,000 voters in the United States probably not 5 per cent are ever directly influenced by the saloon in their politi- cal action. This leaves a very large ma- Jority against imminent danger from the saloon in politics. We do not question fhe sincerity of the motive of Mr. Win- dam and those who are nssociated with him in the movement to drive the saloon out of politics, but we very greatly doubt the wisdom of their endeavor to (oad this question upon the republican party. We donot believe with Mr. Windom, that the matter has the remotest connee- tion with the party. On the contrary wo think we see pretty clearly that 1f the party is ever induced to shoulder this question, it may be the means of bring- ing its mission to an abrupt termination. The Utah Convantion. The Utah constitutional convention, in session at Salt Lake City, shows a dispo- sition to deal in the sternest manner with bigamy and polygamy. On last Tuesday an article was submitted, the adoption of which is almost assured, declaring each of these to be a misdemeanor and pro- viding that any person convicted thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $1,000 and by imprisonment for a term not less than six months nor more than three years, in the discretion of the court. It is also provided that the section shall be operative without the aid of legisla- tion, and that offenses prohibited by it shall not be barred by any statute of lim- itation within three years atter the com- mission of the otfense, while the exten- sion of pardon can only be made by the approval of the president of the United States. Before any amendment, revision, or change of this article can become operative it must have the approval and ratification of congress, which must be duly proclaimed by the president, If this clause is m: of the constitution the probability ot its being disturbed so long as there contin- ues to be any reason for restraining it is extremely small, The election in Utah takes place next month, when alegislature is to be chosen, and the indications ure that the body will be largely composed of strong opponents to Mormonism. The gontile population is better organized than it was last year, when the Mormons elected their delegate, and expect to show a considerably in- creased strength, There is a chance, however, for disappointment in the matter of obtaining control of the legis- Iature, for the Mormons will un- doubtedly make a desperate effort to hold control of that body, which they have done ever since the terri- tory was organized. The fact that they cast 89 per cent of the whole vote last year shows that it will be no easy matter to overcome them. Yet the promise of doing so is regarded as favor- able. Interest in the progress of events in Utah is said to have venctrated admin- istration circles in Washington, and the fact that Solicitor General Jenks is re- ported to be in the territory watching the action of the state constitutional con- vention gives eredibility to the statement. The idea assumed to be behind this in- terest is that of admitting Utah to the sisterhood of states as an offset to Da- kota, which the democrats see cannot much longer be excluded from state- hood. It is surmised that the mi Mr. Jenks has reference to asce! the feeling of the Mormons regarding the political parties of the country, and as he represonts a democratic administration it is not uniikely he will receive the sort of encouragement he hopes for. How much Mormon promises are worth, how- ever, 1n & political way, is a matter yet to be demonstrated. The Washington correspondent of the St. Lowis Republican, who would like to convey the idea to his readers that he sleeps 1n the white house, telegraphs his paper that in the event of the appoint- ment of Secretary Lamar toa place upon the supreme bench, General Patrick A. Collins, of Massachusetts, will be made secretary ot the interior. General Collins is an honest and deserv- ing gentleman, but what has he ever done that he should be made a member of acabinet to a man whom he damned from one end of Pennsylvania to the other? 1s it to be supposed that the blue-blooded mugwump, Seeretary of War Endicott, also from Massachu- setts, would sit at t same state table with the plebian lrish lad Collins? Is this the method to be pursued by the president to throw Endicott overboard, or does he deem it necessary in order to secure the vote of Massachusetts to take a mugwump and a demo- crat from the same state into his cabinet. The name of General Colling before Mr. Cleveland’s inauguration was the first on the list for the war portfolio, and the same had been tendered him when the mugwumps sent in the name of Endicott, whom no one outside of Massa- chusetts had ever heard of. Itis possible in Mr. Cleveland's efforts to secure a renomination he sees the necessity of cul- tivating the friendship of General Col- lins. Endicott has no political following in Massachusetts, while Collins practi- cally holds the democratic vote in his vest pocket. It 1s not probable, how- ever, that General Qollins would necept a place in Mr. Cleveland’s cabinet if it were tendered him. He is a power in New England polities and is the only democratic representative in congress in all that section, and can if he desires control the New England vote in the next convention. The president realiz his mistake in not taking Collins into b cabinct at the beginning of his adminis- tration, but he can hardly retrive his mistake now. Only Four millions of stock were set apart by the promoters of the Kansas Pacific road to be placed where they would do the most good with congressmen, lobby- ists and editors when the Pacific railroad charter was pending in the national leg- islature. A memorandum of this grand gift distribution was produced before the Pacitic railroad investigating committee at Leavenworth by one of the contiden- tinl nssociates of the Kansas Pacitic Credit Mobilier rng. The four mill- jons of stock thus set apart and awarded as palpable bribes found their way into the capacious pockets of Jay Gould in due time and are now part of the consolidated Union and Kunsas Pacific stocks which con- gress is asked to recognize as valid and justly entitled to remain as the basis on which the Union Pacific system is ex- pected to pay dividends. When the bankrupt Kansas Pacific was merged into the Union Pacific system the four millions of gift enterprise stock and - all the other millions of fictitious ecapital under the name of Kansas Pacific stock were worth not more than five cents on the dollar in Wall street. But now Ma. Adams, on behalf of the poor widows, insists that the governmont shall legalize all the fraudulent debts of the Consolidated road, so that the managers of the Union acific may be in pesition to resume pay- ing dividends to tho stockholders. Only four millions of these stocks wereissued down in Kansas tor expediting the grant of the charter, but who knows now many millions of stock were dis- tributed among congreasional boodlers and lobbyists by the confederated Pacific railroad syndicate when they had their land subsidies doubled and made the government loan a second mortgage? —_— Reducing Circus License. The council has reduced the circus li- cense from $500 to §300. We doubt the wisdom of this change. It is notorious that every circus takes from $5,000 to $10,000 out of Omaha and some have car- ried away as high as $15,000. This drain upon our cirzulating medium seriously affects the grocer, butcher and retail dealer because the money which the cir- cus showmen carry away comes chiefly from working men and working women, I'he modern circus leaves very little money in any place where it exhibits. It travels in cars from place to place and carries with it all the provisions and supplies needed for the animals and peo- ple that make up the caravan. The only money it is compelled to pay out is for advertising and railroad transportation. The Ber would cheerfully forgo the cir- cus patronage if by a prolubitory license the snide circuses were all kept out and the mammoth shows were limited in number, 1t was mainly by our agitation that the circus license was raised two or three years ago and we are still of the opinion that high license for circuses i the proper policy. A DENVER paper notes that the stock- men are a good deal discouraged at the versistent decline in the price of cattle, but it does not think the prevailing con- digion of things can lead to permanent disaster, The boom of a few years ago largely incroased production when con- sumption was declining, owing to hard times, and necessarily the business suf fered. It seems it has not yet fully re- covered from the ill effects of the depress- ing conditions, but our Denver contempo- rary holds out the assurance to the stock- men that there is better promise in the not remote future. Production is now now decreasing while consumption is growing, and this evening-up process is expected to place the stockman in a sat- isfactory position within a year or two. By cutting down the product and the organization of a few ‘‘trusts,” the cattle men ought to be able to find a sufe way out of their present’ difficult haps ultimately make the businoss profit- able. ‘WEe dislike to annoy the enairman of the board of public works but feel com- pelled to again call his attention to the wretched condition of the sidewalks on our principal streets. Why should any property owner who draws from £2,000 to $5,000 a year rent from . twenty-two foot business building on Farnam street, be allowed to leave the sidewalk in front of his premises in a dangerously dilapidated coudition, Thereare s dozen buildings within three blocks of the Pax- ton house without even a plank walk to cover the roadway, resetved for pedes- trians. This disgarceful condition of our streets has been tolerated long enough. It seems to us high time that the board of public works should exert its Bpower and authority to aktate the nuisance. ACCORDING to the Herald thero is no disposition on the part of the council to starve the police force in order to cocrce the police commission into submission to the dictation of the council. Weare glad to hear it, but the action of the council in leaving the police without pay for the last month's service looks very much as 1f the starvation policy had been inaugurated. A 2-mill tax on £2),000,000 of proverty would only yield §10,000, which is barely sufficient for maiutaining the present force. If, however, the 2-mill levy for the police torce is to be made twice a year it will be ample, PHEN R. DoRsEY threatens to come : front again as a manipulator of na- tional politics. It is aunounced that he will be the friend of Sherman and the enemy of Blaine. Ih support of Dorsey would put an end to the Sherman boom. If Mr. Dorsey possesses the intelligence he is credited with haying, he will make a careful sury of the past before he steps into the dim and misty future. As 10 popularity ‘of the ball tossers with the fair sex the contest 1s now re- duced between Umpire Mark Twain and Colonel Mike Kelley. In the estimation of the Boston girl Colonel Kelley is sev- oral bases in the lead. He isa $10,000 catch-er. IT1sto be hoped that the contractors for the Eleventh stecet viaduet will be required to carry out their obligations to the letier. The structure is defective in many particulars, TWENTY-FIVE years ago Cincinnati was the porkopolis. en years hence Omaba will will be the largpst meat and pork ket in America. —_— Wrri Armour at the head of our meat packing industry, the Omahog has reason to feel very proud, — nderson's Clerk. Freemonf Tritune, ‘We do not blame W. L. Michael for taking the position as clerk of the senate comumittee on printing. He has always taken every- thing he could get his hands on. But we do propose to hold Senator Manderson re- sponsible for the appointment of so notori- ous a rogue and scountrel Ll The nvestigation, Sehuyler Quill, The Investigation of the Union Pacific railroad at Omaha bas brought to light many cut-throat games practiced by the manage- ment of that road. Special rates have always been given to big monopolies that had ship- PIng to do over the route to the detriment of the small shippers. The result is a confirma- tion of the BEr's charges these long years. B Omaha's Apathy. West Point Republican. ‘The apparent apathy of Omaha on the sub- ject of the Milwaukee bridge is a matter of surprise. Wien the matter ot a site was de- cided by the secretary of war, the papers of that city simply sunounced the fact asa matter of news. Now this is a matter of vital interest to Omaba, end no one knows 1t better than tho citizens of that place. To be Indifferent to anything pertaining to their Interests, is not in keeping with the character of the average Omaha citizen. Now it would seem from this that their apathy is assumed, and if this is true they rogard the bridge matter as not in bad shape for them. of course It is all speculation, but it really looks a8 if there was some inside workings in the matter favorable to Omaha and that at least some of her citizens are cognizant of the fact. BT.\TET TERIMTORY, Nebraska Jottings. The bad men of Broken Bow are boxed as rapidly as the sherifl’ can secure the timber. The two sons of Joseph Cox, living near Red Cloud, were Kilied by light- ning, Tuesday. The country 18 safe. A militia com- pany of thirty-six men and thirteen of- ficers has been sworn in at Schuyler. The surveyors of the Santa Fe road are camped near Bloomington, = having maupped out a route for n considerable distance north of that point. A fool cyclone at Valparaiso tackled & team of mules calmly browsing in a stable, The animals kicked a hole in the funnel and escaped without a seratch, The building was wrecked in the en- counter, A hammer and a spike cut an impres- sive figure in a free fight in York., The spike cut a bloody furrow in the head of one man, and the hammer battered the breast of another. Both men are nurs- ing their pains in jail, M. N. Esky, Bartley's popular drug- gist, was nubbed by a revenue ofticer for compounding prescriptions of spirits frumenti cocktailorum without a license, All the town, except those who imbibed, are astonished at the charge. The Plattsmouth Journal has it that the prevailing opinion among business men in Neb: a City is that the Mis- souri Pacitic railroad will soon run into Omal by way of Plattsmouth, And furthermore, 1t appears to be the prov: ing desire 1n the matter down that w: A lively storm shock up material things in Superior, T Tindle, a farmer, was pastec ot flying timber and both 1 A number of roofs took F and brick and mortar moved about promiscuously. The Union hotel sam- ple room was dried up and demolished L a stiff breeze. A fragment of Bill Nye's forty liars has settled down to business in Butler county, The Rising City Independent reports the proceedings thus: “During that heavy rain we hada few weoks ago,” said a farmer living southwest of town, “L put a barrel out by the barn and it was filled with rain water in just ten minutes by the watch.” *That's noth- ing,” remarked Gilhs Doty who was stumlinF near chewing a strew. “I put a barrel out in my yard during the same shower, that had both heads our, and blamed 1f the rain didn’t go through the bunghoie so fast that it couldn’t run out at the ends and overflowed at the bung.” lowa Items. ¢ people of Shenandonh have organ- d an tion to prospect for nat- al g The Cedar Rapids postofiice in the first six months of this year paid the govern- ment a net sum of 11,68 Walking beer joints are multiplying in the state, and ar ticularly active and numerous in the vicinity of cump meet- ings, Thomas Dodge, aged s four, a vet- eran engincer on the Issippl river, fell from a barge at Dubuque and wad drowned. A Des Moines brewer given a permit to manufacture and sell beer for medicinal and sacramental pur- poses. He thus clutches the arid world by the throat and will pile up a fortune has been Briggs, of Macedonia, who was in- k at the Fourth of July cele- at Carson, was 1msulted and iven from the stand by a mob of sutler soldicrs, members of the G. A. R., who did not want “no d—d copperhead demo- crat to speak from that platform. Dakota. The Norwegian Lutherans will build a church at Carthage, Miner county. The: and enca ment of old soldiers at Luke Madison on the 12th, 15th and 14th nsts, J. D. Hale, of Rapid City, has finished shearing his flock of 4,000 sheep, and esti- s his clip at 17,000 pounds, The deficit of I'reasurer Willi Jerauld county, is not as large reported, the amount as now named being from $4,000 to $5,000. The Northern Paci has proposed to otherwise to Iroad company ontribuie in money and d the people of Fargo in vaving Broadway and nt streets, The total assessed valuation of Sioux Falls this year will be nearly 1,000,000, against §3,150,000 The real e {uation totals § 000, and the personalty about §1,000,000. There was a remark in Ramd City last F hightning played gr I paral- yzed a good many people. 'The hotel Harney was struck, but no serious dam- A Golorado, The Colorado Central rond from Fort Collins to Cheyenne isto be reopened for busines: . Al Habegood, a Denver character nick- named he Kid,” attempted to blow up the residence of his inamorata because she refused to marry him. The young fiend lit the fuse of a_bomb, placed it under the house, and then, Nero-like, went into the parior, fingered the piano and sang “White Wings,” while the fuse burned.” ‘The explosion shattered the corner of the house and the windows, but the oceupants escaped injury, The Kid is now in jail. The divorc which result 2 0f ex-Governor Gilpin, 1 in a favorable yerdict for the the topic in Den- ver and the state. The governor's letters to his wife breathed the most intense de- votion to her and his children. In his testiniony he related how his young af- fections had veen won by Julia rratto; Low she jilted him for an army oflicer, and twenty-five years r he again sought her hand, she having become a widow. Shem d him for his money, id, and has n living oft bim ata £3,000,000 rate. On oneoceasion, on being refused money, she knocked him sense: less with a tack nmer, On another oceasion he detected a chilling sensation of danger, and turning quickly saw his wife standing over him with a table knife. The most cruel treatment he re d was the compulsory infliction of yer meetings in his own houschold, 3 Lis wife and children prayed artily for the governor’s remove Mrs. I, J. Speed, a school teacher, testi- fied that she once prevented Mrs. Gilpin from stabbing her husband with o steel vaper cutter. —— The Fourth at Btuart Stearr, Neb, July 5—[Corre spondence of the Bek.|—The Fourth will always be remembered as one of Stuart's brightest gala days. The weather was fine and early in the morning wagon loads of people began to flood the town At 10 o’clock a, m. the people formed a procession, and headed by the band, pro ceeded through the town in grand style, and after marching through the chief thoroughfares proceeded to the skating rink, oné of the most commodious halls in north Nebraska, which: in a short time was filled to overtlowing. The pro- gramme of the day was after the usual order for such occasions, the attraction of the occasion being the address by Mr. A, A. Kearney of Stanton, this state, which was decided by all as being the best speceh ever made in Stuart, His audi- ence was from first to last enraptured with burning words giving sentiment to fine thought, departing, to use his own expression, ‘'from the mosscovered and sugar-conted phrases which are always supposed to hang in the throat of a fourth- of-July speeen,” and referring in brief and pointed matter to our system of gov- ernment and the relation of the eitizon to the state. His oration was closed with a beantiful tribute to the vreservers of the union; also to the state of Nebraska and the American republie, after which three rousing cheers went up from that vast throng of people for the speaker. Hon. A. E. Rice followed with a short speech np‘\roprinle to the occasion, and was heartily received. The exercises were interspersed with very fine music by the Stuart band and the glee ciub. ‘The afternoon was spent in _horse and foot ing, trap shooting and base ball, and in the evening was exhibited n find display of fire works. Mr, Kearney was accompanied by Mrs. K., who will ro- main a few days visiting. - Long e Beauties, LoxG PixE, Neb., July 6.—[Corespond- ence of the Ber Not over two or three years ago a correspondent of one of the popular journals chanced to his tent along the bank of the Long Pine river, and he beeame so wrapped in the grandeur of the surroundings and the picturesqueness of the scenery that the spiritof all that was sublime and 1mag- inary rushed in upon him, and he uttered something like this: “Long Pine has a charming location on the banks of the Long Pine river,in the midst of beau- tiful tree-crowned blufls, wild, weird, beauty-haunted gorge: glens and caverns, clothed in the everlasting ver- dure of cedar and pine, and enlivened with scores of match- less fountains as sweet as Siloam and with volume equal to the nceds of a great city. Not having the commanding location of the ancient metropolis of the seven hills, she is at least entitled to be called the city of the seven springs. On the very borders of the town site, near the railway bridge that hangs one hun- dred feet above the dashing lhttle river flowing down its rocky bed through the wildest and most picturesque gorge this side of the Rockies, are seven fountains of splendid volume, breaking out of the almost perpendicular walls of the canon, and flowing, each in its appropriate chan- nel, down through the deep weird shadows of the overhanging evergreens to the surging waters below. Nowhere in the west 15 there a more attractive or 1nviting location for a summer resort and it is only a question of time and reasonable local enterprise when this pretty village with its incomparable scenic lovliness will attract hither thous and of health and pleasurc seekers from the east. “The same soliloquy has been {_’unc through by all persons who have iad the pleasure to see this place, from the most polished and finely edy the hum dram of society. Now what has two or three years doveloped, and for th purpose of explanation Iwill just allud to the Northwestern Christain Assembly and O waquan. This association first started in March, 1887, and _articles of incorporation filed some time in April, It is located along the Long Pine river, and the above description of the canyon where the assembly grounds are is not exaggerated a partic! The direetors are making every eflort to make a snccess the first year and to that end have adver- tised the holding of exercises begioning July 21 and ending 1887, No time oc money have spared to make the first year's meetings a suceess, so they have sent cir- culars all over the country and have en- gaged a great number of speakers who re known to the best. The work will be ded into the normal, musical, and temperance departments, and christian 'he normal du]!:\rtmenl will be d by Rov. J. D. Stewart, and h{ Professor V., W. Ol b or cott, organist; and M Inez M, Arthur, i emperance, by Miss [da Evans, nd Mrs, J tewart, and the christian work, by Rev. J. G. Evan: D. D.; Rev. John Askin'and Dr. B. L. Paine. Among the other lectus Rev. George W. Martin; Jumes Li ov. J. Al Abbott; Rev. T. B, Le D. D.: Rev. J. D. Stewar Scott; Rev. H. D.; Col. J. Wesly Frady. Programmes are i a complete and well regulated organi ation and which bids fair to lay the foundation of one of the grandest associ- ations in Nebra Hundreds of te have been engaged and are being ¢ cured right along. Rates on railro: are reduced to one fare for the round trip, Grand Army day will be on Wed nesda L and a'large number of peonle ‘are expected that” day. body here is enthusiastic over the and are working like beavers to ma a success. h 1on, Rev. Willard Leroy F. Britt, and C. H. sued show S Rolia ith, Detroit Free Press: The tram side- tracked between Verbena and Montgzom- ery for another to pass and some of us got ofl and went over to where an old negro woman was fishing in a mud-hole. It was that and no more nor less. In building the railroad a lot of dirt had been removed and the recent rams filled it with brick colored water. body laughed at the ide int had Bvery of her fishing at spot, and the colonel approached and said: What are you fishing for, aunty?" “Fur fish, suh,” she revlied as she gave the pole rk r you don’'t expect to find fish in Doan’ ¢ dar shall be fish i de waters in de air, an’ d'ye 'spose lze ck on de Lawda 87 you caught any?" 2 Lavwd ' birds ne b ah.” you had a bite?" ah, but is [ gwine to lay dat up ¥ N ah: He says dar shall be fish, an sich a fule datl can't eotch 'em dat’'s my own fault. Git away white man, till see what's a win' at de hook!"" L The Latest Form of Monopoly. Rand and McNally's Bankers Mon/hly. The ingenuity of modern capitalists in devising schemes and getting up huge combinations to control and monopc different lines of business, is something extraordinary. ‘The love of money gen crally begets o love of power, and the possession of money always demands a field for ex ¢. Money is power within prescribed limits, and those who have it are usually determined to mgke them- selves felt to as great an extent, and over wide an area, s possible under ex- i circumstances, The only barrier 70 ist between the publie welfare and the exacting tyranny of money is law, and law in this country is the embodiment and expression of the popular will. Hence, ambitions money nakers ¢ been put tto invent projects by which absolutely secured cessfully evaded. Bold, .d. open-handed monopoly woulld not be politic 1n these times of awakened jus- tice, when the peovle are unusnally alert to discern the approach of ove aring highly valued rights and privileges:. To be successtul, gome plan of operations must be perfected through which capitale ists could covertly ride rough-shod over fieids of industry occupied by lesser com- petitors, without arresting public atten- tion or arousing pubi suspicion to any dangerous extent. And the result of secietand long-continued incubation has lately come to the surface of the founda- tion of “Trusts,” or trust companies of various kinds, What is a trust, or atrust company? Literally and etymologically, the word trust, a8 & noun, me mg of the mind on thein '1. i justice and friendship of son.”” Commercially and financially it signifies “a delivery of property or mer- chandise in reliance upon future pay- ment.” lmznll{nnd technically, it stands for “‘an estate held for the use of another; property reposed in one person, called a trustee, for the benefit of another.” A lit- tle reflection upon the scope and bearing of these different definitions, will furnish a clue to the character ot the organiza- tions described thereby. The president of the pioneer company of this kind, the Standard Oil trust, recently declared, when on the witness stand ‘and under outh: “Itisnot an incorvoration;it is not a co-partnership, It was created by an_instrument in - writing, It has no such existence as subject it to legal assault. It 18 as invisible as it is powerful. We have an exceutive com- mittee who are the trustees or custodiang of the stock of the various mining com: panies in the trust.” Marvelous indeed were the shrewdness and the wisdom which seized upon this term! rusts,” not being corporations or co-partner- ships, can control whatever line of busi ness they lay their invisible hands upon, but are not themselves controllable by law, or even assailable, What Mephisto- phelean subtlety is this? The climax of of enlightenment in the ninteenth cen- tury and the hidden mystery of the dark have verily met’ and coalesced in commercial “what-s-it? a modern t company. Headless, heartless and bodiless, it reaches out its invisible, octo- pus-like antennw of power, and rakes in whatever it likes; but, should an unwill- ing victim resist, or wish to strike back lo and behold, 1t procluims itsclf a legal nonentity. Virtual and real in its acqui- sition, merciless and deadly toward oppo- sition, inaccessible for purposes of attack. It ‘appears that these anomalous “trusts’ are formed in the first place by a lot of manufacturers or dealers banding themselves mfimhur with a written in- strument that binds no one in particular, so far as outsiders are concernod, with & view to regulate and dominate the busi- ness in which each and all are mutunl!!v interested or engaged. These ground- floor men are the original self appointed trustees of the organization which they propose to create. They proceed at once to inform all other manutacturers and dealers in the same busiress that such an organization is 1n existence, and that it will be greatly to the pecuniary benefic of all outsiders to cast in their lot with the original party. If an outsider con- sents he must surrender his business plant to the control of the company, and receive therefor so many shares of stock, which entitle him to a certain percentage of profit in case the business turns out well. Some companies pay over no money to the outsider for the sur- render of his busing to their control; but the outsider is made a stockholder in the original concern, and he literally trusts the company to do the right thing by him in the fature. The enormous published capital of these *‘trusts” sim- ply represents the nominal value of the property surrendered to them. The actual money must come from the profits of the business carried on. The business istogoon as of old, but the guiding power i ine hands'of the central coun- cil entirely, and the individual owner has simply the interest of a stockhoider in the “organization as a whole. He is told that the business can be managed much more safel and profitably by this mutual metho than under the old plan has turned out to be the case thus far by actual trial. He is thus satisfied to run his business according to the plan fur- nished lim from headquarters rather than by any plan of his own. Should he refuse to join the company, another busi- ness of the same kind is opened near by, and he is steadily undersold until his bus- iness 1s ruined ‘These trnst companies are multiplying rapidly all over the land, and threaten to monopolize all kinds of business at no distant day,unless checked. The Standard Oil Trust was first in the field, and fts wonderful success prepared the way for othe Thig single initial acorn devel- oped into a sturdy ouk, and the single onk has virtually called into being A whole forest. We have already, in addition to the Standard — Oil I'rust, the Cotton Oil Trust numerous gas trusts in different citie: sleeping and parlor car trusts, a_cattle trust, & rubber trust, conl trust and a vir- al whisky trust. Following in the same what hinde; and such the formation of a vast telegraph trust, an elec- , ®grain trust, and g0 on the steady growth of this prineiple of bination, until healthful ition is entirely destroyedy ‘There is but one remedy for this growing evil, and that is a speedy and vigorous appli* cation ot the law" and popular disap- 1. Power must combat power. Con- rs and voters must take the matter in hand. Supply can donothing without the aid of command, and witholding de- mand will bring any supply hower to bay, This = enormous ungous growth willin time kil the life of the at commercial tree upon which it has fastencd itself. Hence the neces- sity of specdy agitation and action among the people. These rings, these L:mlp.sl trie light tru What hinders these pools, these moncy combines, wil and govern everything and p- soon rule everybody, unless their power is vled by legislative and congressional e actments. The state of New York has inaugurated the good work of reform by enacting a law putting all trust compan- ies under the general ncorporation aet, whether the trustees are willing or not. This makes them a legal body, wnd sub- ject Lo legal process, the same as all other corporations! Let the good work go on until_monopoly under every guise and form is throttled and brought to terms, - A Ra Opportunity, St Louis Letter: A dozen St. Louis Iadies who ride trieycles, and in some cnses own them, have a unique plan for a delightful vacation, ‘Fhey intend renting u cottage “larksville, convenient to the Missis. sippi eiver and the famous belt road, and will “play bacholor’ in that eyelists’ par- adise fr y near at hand until the re-opening of the St. Louis schools. You ¢ gather from this that the re school girls in the party. So there are, and L too. They will do their' own and housekeeping while at and the young ‘Tmhun, who wide acquaintance among St. Lonis wheelmen, extend a general invita- r male friends to spend an occa- abbath aecompanying them and county, and on_the viands prepared for them sional their tricyeles about Pike dining by dainty fingers. - Dr. J. H. MeLean’s Chills and Fever Cure is ntle in nction, and warranted a certain cure. 50 cents a bottle, R Courtship and Marriage. A NOVEL IN THREE CHAPTERS, CHAP. 1. Maid one, CHAP. 11 Muid won. Colgate's Cash A white, pure, exquisitely perfumed power, or of danger in any form to ther toilet goap. The best for chupped handa and tender skins. :; o TSR — kR ~ | [ e