Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 19, 1887, Page 4

" whole a4 DAILY BEE. W BUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERWS fl'm""’"n‘: Ih.ny (oeniag Bdition) inciuding Sunday " ™ ARA OPFI 3 BW YORK OFFICE. ROONM ABHINGTON OFFICE, N0. b1 ¥ CORRESPONDENCE: All eommunioations relating to news andedi- torial matter should be widressed to the Eoi TOR OF THE BRE. BUSINEAS LETTRRS! All bueiness letters and remittances hould bo addressod 10 THE BEe PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAHA. Drafts, checks and postofice orders 0 be tnade payable v the order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPAYY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, EniToR. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. tate of Nebraska, " . County of Douzlas. ™ Geo. B. 'Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing mlu!lnn_v. does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of the Daily Bee for the week ending July 15, 1587, was as Tollows: Baturday.July 9.... Sunday, July 10... Monday. July 11 Tuesdav, Jjuly 12 Wednesday, J"‘{ 1 Thursaay. July v Friday, July 15.... Average.....o..o. Gro, 1. TZSCHUCK, Sworn to and subscribed in my presence this 16th day of July, A. D, 1857. N, . FeIr, [SEAL.] Notary Publie. Btate of Nebraska, | Douglas County. { Geo. B. Tzschuck, belng first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual average daily circulation of the Dally Bee for the month of July, 18, 12,314 copies; for August, 156, 12,404 copies: for Septem- ber, 18%, 13,030 copies; for October, 1850, 12950 coples; for Novemnber, 1880 S copies; for Decembel B January 1857, 16,4 47 coples; for f s: for Febrnary, 1887, 14,195 coples; for March. 1857, 14,400 coples; for April, 1887, 14,316 copies: for May, 1887, 14,227 coples; for June 1857, 14,147 copies. Gro. B. TZ8CHUCK, Subseribed and sworn to before me this 1st day ot July A. D., 1587, TSEAL] N! P. Frir, Notary Publie. DENVER i beginning to talk about paving her streets. Omaha is the best paved city west of New York, — Rornaker and Morrissey want to have Seavey fired. Would it not be much better for the community if Roth- aker and Morrissey were fired? It isa lively race between the heat and the water as to which will claim the greatest number of victims. Meanwhile the coroner smiles with goulish glee,and the undertaker erects a new block of in the same Every time Rothaker writes an attack on Seavey, Morrissey is in- spired with the same thought, and the two opvosing party organs play their little tune in harmonious accord. Tae Chicago Sunday 7'rihunc reported more than seventy cases of sunstroke, over twenty-eight proving fatal, in tha city on Saturday t. The Tribune ought to publish just one more of 1its famous articles on *‘Chicago As a Sum- mer Resort.” 1¥ the sturdy policemen of Omaha want to wear wreaths of roses upon their heads as well as badges upon their breasts, they will not delay twenty-four hours longer the complete breaking up of the notcrious element in the vicinity of Cut. oft lake. It is a disgrace to the fair name of the city and should be closed out at once and for all time to come. Mg. McSuane’s editor has discovered that a party of highly moral and res- pectable citizens are about to invest in a kettle of tar and a barrel of feath- ers to be applied to the body of the offensive chief of po- lice. 'Ikis gentle threat the democratic member of the combine profasses to dis- countenaunce, whi'e at the same time ho uses language that would enceurage such methods. But who 18 muking the threats? Do they come from the Moyni- han detective watch? [N spite of the injunction issued by Judge Grofl, the Republican keeps on in- serting the oflicial advertisements of the board of public works. This 1s the cheek- iest bit of entecprise we have ever scen. ‘Who is to pay for thisillegal advertising? Do the 1mpudent tricksters that have sought to procure the contract for oflicial advertising by crooked wethods imagine that they will be allowed to raid the city treasury without protest? If they do, we give them notice now that we shall in- voke the power of the courts to enjoin the treasurer from paying their illegal claims, Now that they are murdering mis- sionaries up in Alaska, let us hope that three of America’s noble sons, Senators Allison and Vest and Congressman Tom Reed, of Maine, who are in that section, may be spared. That either of these three distinguished gentlemen might be mistaken for missionaries is not improb. able, though a look under the seat of Senator Vest's bugey and in the pistol pockets of Tom Reed may disclose a kind of fluid absorbed only by statesmen. Senator Allison, unlike his companions in this respect, may be made a sacrifice, Now comes a man who on his dying bed in Holyoke, Mass., is alleged to have confessed to having seen Miss Jennie Cra- mer, the girl whose body was found in the river at New Haven, Conn., in 1878, com- mit suicide. The mysterious death of Miss Cramer, the beautiful daughter of a shocmaker, was at the time one of the most sensational cases of the kind that ever figured in the American press. Suspicion pointed strongly to Walter Mallery and his brother, the sons of a rich dry goods merchant, though they were acquitted after a trial lasting some wecks. Albert Fitzroy, who makes the confession, stated that he saw the girl throw herselt in the water., It does that o not seem probable man with a heart no larger than a point of a pin could have held this secret for this length of time, when a word from him would have been at least some relief to the dis tracted parents of the dead girl and be- sides would have averted suspigion from the Mallery boys. The most churituble thing to be said of Fitzroy is that he wus pither a scoundrel or lar, “that his es The Lesson of the B. & M. Disaster. Official investigation of the cireuam- stances attending the fatal and destruct- ive collision at Havelock relieves Engin- eer Bowser of the charge of having been asleep, and it1s simple justice to him ulpation should be as widely published as was the charge. The re- sponsibility justly rests on the company, which had devolved the important duty of signaling trains upon an inexper- ienced operator, who in turn delegated it in this instance to “‘a young man in the office,”” It was the operator's first night on duty, and his familiarity with the business consisted of an experience of three weeks somewhere in Dakota. His only recommendation for this ser- vice appears to have been that he was cheap. In this case the economy of the B, & M. managers cost the loss of one life and the destruction of property estimated at two hundred thousand dollars, an expensive experience which these shrewd financiers will think about for some time to come. So far as the public 18 concerned, this disaster is suggestive of more than mere pecuniary 10ss. The patrons of the Bur- lington road naturally ask themselves why that wealthy corporation should per- sist in o niggardly policy by which their lives and property are recklessly endan- gered. The Burlington road has amplo means at its command to pay good wages for competent employes in every department. It is utterly in- excusable in the managers 10 place mere stripplings in positions of responsibility that require the judg- ment and experience of men. It is bad enough for telegraph companies to em- ploy “plug” operators. The blunders of cheap operators on commereial lines are, however, very seldom responsible for accidental loss of life and destruction of property. The railroad operator, and especially train despatcher, holds the lives of hundreds of people in his hands, and therefore this class of employes should be thoroughly competent, care- fully selected, well paid and not over- worked. The time must coma at no dis- tant day when national and state logisla- tures will prohibit the employment of boys a8 railway operators and station agents. The shortsighted raillway managers never will profit by costly experience. The Ohlo Dilemma, Both of the political parties in Ohlo are in a dilemma. The democrats, who will hold their convention in Cleveland this waock, arc sorely perplexed to find an avail- able candidate for governor. Had Mr. Thurman yieclded to the pressure to be- come again the leader of the party it would have greatly simplified the demo- cratic sltuation, but the old Roman ab- solutely refuses to do this, for the pro- fessed reason that the condition of his health will not permit him to engage actively in politics. Even if this excuse did not exist, Mr. Thurman might find suflicient reason for rejecting uny de- mands the party might make on him in the shabby way he has been treated since he retired from the senate. It is hardly possible that the re- collection of this has failed to have some influence in impelling him to decline a gubernatorial nomination. He would find it difticult to afliliate with the men who are now foremost in the democratic pohitics of Ohio, and he must necessarily teel uncertain of the support of many of these unless he should stultify his con- science by making bargains with them ribution of spoilsin the event of tion. Never has a really worthy and distinguished party leader anywhere been more shamefully treated than has Judge Thurman by the democracy of Ohio, and it is not difficult to understand that now, after the corrupt and lawless element of the party has placed it in an almost hopeless mnority, he should reject the dispairing ap- peal to lend his honored name and his great ability to give this element another chance to plunder and despoil. Sincerely devoted to the democratic party as Mr. Thurman unquestionably is, and desiring 1ts success under right con- ditions as cagerly as any member of 1t can, he is too honorable and self-re- specting to assist in promoting the am- bition of a faction, now dominant 1n the party in his state, whose conduect and policy have done so much in the last few years to bring reprobation upon the name of democracy. Under different circumstances and conditions, which re- flected no dishonor on the party, 1t can- not be doubted that if the democracy of Ohio ealled upon Judge Thurman to again become its standard bearer he would be found ready and will- ing to assume the task, and it need not be said that his doing so would be greatly to the party's ad- vautage, But as the situation stands neither the task nor the associations would be congenial to him. He could hardly hope to give the party success and his own now untarnished fame would inevitably be soiled by defeai. There- fore he wisely keeps out of the conthet, preserving intact his honor and his repu- tation, and leaving the reckless and cor- rupt element to flounder as best it may out of the desperate situation it has brought about. The republican dilemma grows out of the question whether the state conven- jion, which will be held in Toledo next week, shull express its preference for Senator Sherman as a presidential can- didate or remit that matter to the convention of next year. As wo indicated several days ago thisssuc is evidently causing a good deal of feeling in the party, and there is danger that whichever course shall tinally be decided upon more or less dis- affection wigl result, Except for this the republican party of Ohio would be entirely harmonious. There 1s no onpo- sition to the renomination of Governor Foraker,who has made a most creditable record, and the party is conlident of its ability to re-elect him. There could not be the least doubt of this if the disturb. ing question noted were not in the way, but obyiously there is some danger in that. It has thus far seryed to show to very earnest Blaine following in Ohio, which iusists upon having its preference known. At present the under- standing appears to be that pursuant to the desire of Mr, Sherman a resolution endorsing him will be pre- sented to the convention, He quite nat- urally wishes to know whether or not the republicans of his stute approve of his candidacy, so that he m mine his course. The supporters c: Shor man insist that an exprossion: can prop erly be asked now, while the Blaine men the country that there1s a strong and 4, OMAHA DAILY BE TUESDAY, JULY 10. 1887 with equal earnestness take the position that it is unnecessary and can as well wait fof the next state convention. Gov- ernor Foraker agrees with the latter, al- though proclaimed as a supporter of Sherman. Thus if a resolution is intro- duced and adopted, as it probably would be, the republican vote would doubtless suffer to some extent from the disaffection of Blaine men; if defeated it might suffer even more largely from the aliena- tion of Sherman supporters. To aban- don the matter would be to leave in uncertainty the views of a majority of Ohio republicans regarding the candi- dacy of Mr. Sherman, with the fact es- tablished that Lir. Blaine has a large and devoted following in that state, Such a situation would very certainly operate to the disadvantage of Senator Sherman, and the harm done could hardly be reme- died by the next year's state convention, howover strong and enthusiastic its en- dorsement might be. Obviously the only mun who can relieve the rapublicans of Ohio of this dilemma is Mr. Sherman, and it scems clear that he should do it at whatever personal sacrifice. 1t is a case where the welfare of the party must have precedence of individual interest. A word from Mr. Sherman will calm the troubled waters. restore harmony, and assure republican success. e cannot afford to permit any- thing to be done that will perpetrate dis- sension in his party that is surer to weaken if it shall not defeatit. There cannot be a doubt that he would gain friecnds everywhere by advising his friends in the state conyention, in the In- terest of peace and harmony, not to vresent the proposed resolution. He would thus remove the only hope upon which the democrats are now building and make the way clear to an ovewhelm- ing republican victory in Obio next No- vember, e —— Teluing Testimony. The testimony that has recently been supplied by the principal cities of Maine, so clear and authoritative in its charac- ter as to admit of no denial, showing that the prohibition law is being sys- tematically disregarded and that intem- perance openly practiced is rapidly in- creasing, is supnlementea by equally good evidence that prohibition in Rhode Island, the last state to adopt it, is even less successful than in Maine. The Provideuco Journal, an entirely trust- worthy paper, has been making an in- vestigation with the result of finding that the good effects produced by pro- ibition immediatoly after its adoption are fast disabpearing, and that the con- dition of things is really worse now than it was under a high license law. That paper says “'it cannot be denied that prohi- bition in Rhode Island, after a year's ex- perience, has been found to be so com- plete a failure that it is no extravagance to pronounce it a miscrable farce.”” In Providence there are now more places where Liquoe is sold, under some arrange- ment, than there were licensed saloons under the old law, and the same is true of most other towns. In the entire state itis the opinion of the Jowrnal that “there are at least as many fiquor deal- ers doing business to-day as there were under the license system.” In New Hampshire, which has o stringent pro- hibitory statute, matters are no better so far as the larger towns are concerned, and an excise bill has been introduced in the legislature as a means of at once re- ducing the number of saloons and offord- ing a revenue to the state. Only those who will not seo can be blind to the meaning of these indisputa ble facts, What is the testimony on the other side? Minnesota has but recently put into effect a high license law, and the latest figures show a reduction in the number of drinking places from 2,206 to 1, although the new license fee has not yet gone into force in all localities, The verdict of one of the most prominent journals of that state is that ‘*Minnesota has abundant reason for congratulation in the method of regulation which she had adopted.” Similar evidence is fur- nished by other states in which a license or tax system prevals showing its good eftects in reducing the number of drink- ing places and keeping those that con- tinue 1n better regulation. Such testi- mony must carry conviction to all who arein a condition to be convinced. There are two elements with whom such contrasts between the working of prohibition and high license cannot bo expeeted to have any intluence, the un- reasoning and those who are in the con- trol of the rum power. But they cannot fail intime to make such an impression upon the much larger classof reasoning and independent people that ultimately high license will prevail wherever this class 1 in the majority. A Jewel of Consistency. A professional liar ought to have a zood memory. An editor who wants to exert any nfluence must be consistent, The Republican eulls for the removal of Seavey beeause of his alleged expulsion Masonic ord which is said to oceurred in California live or six ro. The caunse for this action is aseribed to Seaye domestic miscon- duct and the vilest epithets are applied to him, Now we have no knowledge of the truth or the falsity of the reported expul sion of Seavey from masonry, nor do we propose to defend or condone his past conduct. But 1t does strike us as very sigular that a paper should cat its own words and resort to a course opposite to that to which 1t was committed less than six weeks ago., On the 6th day of June the Republican took position on the Seavey scandal in the following editorial: ‘I'he Mr. Seavey from Santa Barbara, who has been acting as chief of police without authority, has been Interviewad on the sub- jeet ot his elopement. ‘This paper is tree to confess that it is not Interested in the details of Mr. Seavey's past misdeeds, It cares very litele whetner he eloped with the wives of a dozen men. ‘I'ne main fact is that he is act- ing without authority in an office given him by an appointing power without a legal basis. On the same day the Republican con- tained the following editorial; We still insist that Mr. Seavey's private af- falrs have nothing to do with the chief ot policeship. The wain fact is that he does not hold the office, has never been properly named, is not qualified and is still a private citizen. * * * When Oummings turned over the oftice it was tantamount to a resig- nation. Seavey ceuld not act legally and Captain Cormack, as next in office, 1s In tem- poiary eharge and can hold the position until wehief Is appointed, In the face of these utterances the Lepublican makes Seavey's past. record bellev police, let him tost the in the courts, fully accommodate him to another free ride in the police patrol wagon, and take the pretext for a malignant editoral in which the council are him'" for mmmoral conduct in California. In the same editorial Cummings is de- clared to be the legal chief of police. adyised to “fire Now if the assailant of Seavey really that he is not the lawful chief of law on this point Mr. Seavey will cheer- his chances on being sustained. The Bee and the Masons, The Ber's denunciation of the Masons who originated the charzes against Seavey as *‘a gang which is notoriously In bad oder and disrepute,” may prove a boomerang. The Masons are not in the habit of being in- sulted by & countryless creature lie liosen- wasser, and they have a good meniory for unclassed cattle.—Republican. The Masonic fraternity has as yet never put its reputation in the keeping of elung-shot rowdies and bummers who are carried to their homes in police patrol wagons. Thr Masons have no oc- casion to consider themselyes 1n- sulted by the Ber's refer- ence to the Moynihan gang of thugs. If they do, the editor of the Brr, who is a Mason and has been in good stand- ing for more than twenty years, issub- ject to the discivline of the order. The Masonic fraternity is not in the habit of admitting unclassed eattle into 1ts order, and any Mason 1n good standing is not without a country, In this community at least and with the Masons of Omahn the slanderous assaults of ventursome scorpions who have stung themselves to aeath whereyer they have been, fall flat and harmles Time to Oal ftis about time that the and reputable citizens should discounte- nance the infamons couse pursued by the Herald and Repullican with regard to our police. Their editors have demoral- ized the council by mischievous and vi- cious advice and constant plotting and counterplotting to undermine the police commission, They are disorganizing the police by encouraging 1n- subordination and lawlessness, They have done this city incalculable damage by misrepresenting Omaha as a place where life and property are made insecure by hordes of highwaymen, pick- pockets and crooks, when in fact Omaha is as orderly a place as any city of equal population. ‘They have given active sup- port to an attempt on the part of the council to overthrow the police commis- sion and arrogate to itself a dangerous dictatorship over its members. If these papars had not given countenance to the Monyihan conspiracy, the council would long since have dropped the controversy over the police chief and approved the regulations which the commission had adopted. It is notorious that the editors of the Herald and Republican are | disappointed candi- dates for the pohice commissionership, and their course is chiefly inspired by malice and vindictiveness, coupled with a desire to dominate over the police force through Moynihan. The provrictors of the Herald and Kepub- lican cannot evade responsibility for the combine which their editors have tormed, and the policy to which their papers are committed by them, Ir President Cleveland had been over at Council Blufls last night and witnessed the enthnsiastic reception given General Tuttle, he would no doubt have seen the extent of his unpopularity growing out of the attempt to return the rebel relies. PROMINENT PERSONS, Rose Coghlan is spending the summer feed- ing her ducks and chickens on her ideal farm at Yonkers, Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson, the novel will leave England in September for a v to the United States, He has many admirers in this country. Mme. Modjeska’s great desire is to make enough money to enable her to lead a life ot elegant leisure on her California ranch. She is weary of changing cars and hosts. Governor Taylor, of Tennessee, talked sweetly to a graduating class of Mississippi girls the other day, and when he had wound up they presented him with a fiddle—fiddle- sticks thrown in. Mrs. Frances Hodeson Burnett is now on her third visit to England, which she left when fourteen years of age. She receives much distinguished attention from noble and literary lions and lionesses. General Franz Sicel, the hero of the men who ‘*‘fought mit Sigel,” is now in the west visiting some of the old battle grounds. The object of his visit is to obtain sone definite information about the topography of the country, He Is to write the story of his campaign, to be published in German, ——— The Race 1s Well-Nigh Extinct. Macon Telegrapl Some people claim that the president onght to 20 to St. Louis, and that Andy Jackson would go under similar circumstances. Well, well, there are no more Andy Jacksons, and never will be. We are not cutting that kind of presidential timber. —-— Wili Tackle Ariatotle. Chicago Tribume. The Concord School of Philosophy is now about to seize hold of Aristotle in its large and reckless way and will scatter his dis- jointed fragments all over the United States and a part of Long Island. Xt to Shak- speare the Hon, Mr. Aristotle will be the worst used-up man of the summer. Quoth the dude, with a Stare, “When the prinee gets his tips from the wiid Wooly Wes If Butfalo Bil Sets the styles at his will, Shall llll'blilh’hlulla be altered at Red Shirt's cliest “Have we suffered in vain All this cerebral strain In amnk' the prince a8 he held usin tow, Vho, with favbr and praise, Now aflects the Wild ways Of Buffalo Bill and his outlandish show? “‘Must the fashion compel . A'thoroughbred swell Who longs for tiie light of {mperial smiles, Now to hastily spurn What he labored to learn, And come down to houtely Awmerican styles “Oh! give us a prince ot Whom you eannot convinee That excn{{}mw dwells in the wild, bloody s To teach us with care iach new Dritish stare: For everything English 18 surely the best,” - Discrimination with a Vengeance, Chicago Tribune One of the witnesses in the Pacific rail- way investigating committee, now push ing its labors in Denver, Colo,, testitied that he had an interest in a Denver news- paper which paid $20 8 ton freight on papar shipped from Chieago. At the same time a journal in San Francisco used the same description of paper paid only $20 a ton freight from Chicago. He was asked whether thut discrimination had existed since the passage of tho inter: state commerce law, and repied that it did, as the fourth clause of the law had been suspended by the commissioners, No more striking evidence of the fu- tility of the inter-state commerce act could be adduced than these aquestions and answers, lHere is a case of discrim- ination so appallingly palpable that if it cannot be remedied by the law the latter 1s proved to be utterly werthless for the end sought. Yet it is in these cases which exhibit the most '(lnrinz evils of tem unregulated by the government that the commissioners incontinently suspend the provisions of the act. On the other nd, in cases i which no supervisory governmental system is required the law is allowed to stand. Under such workings of ¢he new system as the above the new law operates a good deal like the Frenchman's demand for his deposit in a discredited bank: “If you have my money I no want it; 1if you no have my money I want it.” —— STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Grand Island’s cannery will be ready for the corn crop. Hastings wilt pat $15,000 in extensions of her water mai The Missouri P: promises to build & depot in Nebraska City. Wayne lias put $35,000 into improve- ments in the past six months. A prohibition paper and waterworks are twin additions to Ord’s progress, Covington's fifty-two voters unani- mously cast their ballots for a strect car franchise, Chieyenne real estate men are planning an excursion from Omaha and other Nebraska cities to Wyoming's capital on August 15, Abraham Thiessen, the Jetferson county Mennonite, who went to Russia to leok after some claims of his country, and spent six months in jail there, has returned home. Iis mission was barren of results. ‘The Boone County Argus has it that “Armour & Co., the great Chicago ckers, have completed the purchase of property in Omaha to be occupied by their immense packing houses which will be moved from Chicago before the next packing season opens. They will do the bulk of their business there, and will employ 1,000 men. It will be a great thing for Omaha and Nebraska.” The Rapid City Republican of Friday says: “Mr. Franklin, the owner of the Washington claim in the Etta district, came In yesterday and brought Mr. Bently, of the committee for preparin mineral exhibit, one hundred and fifty pounds of tin specimens for the Omaha and Lincoln fairs. Mr. Bently will start to-day, m company with Mr. Franklin, for Hill City, Harney Peak, and Warren's Gulceh, for the purpose of collecting tin specimens, intending to make a collect- ion which shall be worthy of the Hills, One piece weighing 250 pounds has been promised nan will be included in the collection,” The death of Frank Coy, the Davenport druggist, was a terrible shock to the community. While going down stairs into the store, Friday night, with a lighted lamyp in his hand, he shipped and fell to the tloor. The lamp was broken in the fall and the blazing oil emveloped his clothingin an instant, and spread over the stairs, He fought the fire bravely for some time and succeeded 1n saving the building at the cost of his life. His body terribly burned. The remains were taken to Hastings for burial. The deceased leaves a wife and four children. Ivis told of President Potter, of the Union Pacitic, that he entered the power house at the Council Blufls transfer a few days ago in search of cconomy, The engineer and an assistant were busily engaged on the latest illustrated papers, but stopped for a moment to cast a eyni- cal glance at the unknown intruder. “What are your duties here, my men” whispered ~ Mr. Potter, in a mellow, quivering voice. ‘Why—why wo blow the whstle three times a day,” cheerily responded the engin “Wo can dis- pense with the whistles and your ser- vices,” said Mr. Potter, The order was promptly obeyed and the whistle and ;lmwur house are now silent and tenant- ess. lowa lrems, Creston has granted a franchise for a et railway, The Story county soldiers’ reunion will be held at 'Nevada August 4 and 6. Edward Russell, for thirty-nine vears a resident of Scott county, and nineteen years editor of the Davenport Gazette, has removed to Minneapolis. There are 202 inmates of the Soldiers' Orphans’ home at Davenport—160 males and 122 temal All but thirty-six of this number were born in Iowa. Rev. C. Cook, of Jessup, aged sixty- st seven, a preacher and drummer, was married in Sioux City, Friday, to Mrs. Curtis, & widow of forty-eight, after a courtship of one hour. The lowa hospital for the msane at In- dependence, at the date of the last monthly report, contained 791 inmates— 444 males and 347 females. Of this num- ber 109 are natives of Towa, 311 of other states and 341 of foreign count Ben Kersey post G. A. R., at Union, expect to entertain the soldiers of Hardin county with a grand encampment on the 17th and 18th of August. General Tattle and the Hon. W. P, Hepbura have signi- fied their intention to be present, and Governor Larrabee and General Given have been invited, *‘A veteran observer of the weather,” says the Burlington Hawkeye, “who h: madea study of climates, lately ventured the explanation that the increasing dry- ness of Jowa summers was due to the in- creasing amount of draining that was being done. His theory in brief was that the hundreds of miles of tiling that ars bad that have been laid in the past few y drained the sloughs and ponds formerly supplied almost constant ¢ ration and consequent showers,” Dakota. Raptd y's assessed valuation amounts to 50, The 1 ussessed valuation of real and operty of Lawrence county is 4,162,850, The assessed valuation of Hutchinson L900,000—a little over 500,000 hagiier than last year. The treasurer's quarterly t Hutehimson 5 to her credit, ri river is cutting into the Dakota bank at a point about a nile east of Yankton at an alarming r: A dividend of 10 cents a share has been declared on Deadwood Terra, or $20,000 This is the first dividend that has 1 on Deadwood Terra since statement county has January, The board of county commissioners in- creased the assessod valuation of Aber- deen’s ei property 150 per cent, or from $677 686,450. All other ortions of Brown county were increased rom 30 to 100 per vent. The total equal- ized valuation of the county is #7,162, e QUINN BOHANNON, Oneof His Desperate Adventures at Lincoln. Nebraska, A brief paragraph in a late paper stat- ing the mysterious wpe of Quinn Bohannon from the Nebraska City jail, recalls to a writer in_ the Providence Journal some incidents in this noted des perado’s Life, and one episode i partie ular which, 1 1578 or 1574, eaused (lo put it ephoniously) considerable discorn- fort to a great part of the male popula- l tion of Lincoln; Neb, Bohanuon and M aters (at that tme l fellow-prisoners in the Lincoln state prison) had been noted for a long period, as prairie annals reckon time, for their erimes, foar ness, and general ‘‘cuss edness.’ For what particular offonse they were then confined is out of my memory; but Bohannon, then abont twenty-two or twenty-three years of ago had the repu- tation of shooting two or three men; while McWaters possessed a much darier name, perhaps because he was an older man, and in addition did not carry with him that appearance of genial good-fellowship for which so much 1s forgiven the western devil-may-carét hat he was not entirely destitute of humor, let the following anecdote show At one point in his carcer he quarrellod with an intimatoe triend, and the charao- ter of the two men made it easily be- lieved that their threats of shooting on sight would be carried into effect, How- ever, they mot face to face in the door of a suloon, and the friend, who soemed to have some manliness, held out his hand and said: *'Jim, we had some trouble the other night about nothing, but we have known ench other for some years. Leu's call it square,” and McWaters answered: “That’'s all right. 1 have nothing against you, Come in and have a drink."” They shook hands, took their drink, and as he left the “friend” put out his haud and said: “Well Jim it isall right is it?" And McW a answered: “Itis all right. lam a good friend of yours."” He watched him out the door, quietly followed him, and deliberrtely shot him in _the back, Killing nim instantly. When asked afterward why he did this to a professed friend, he replied that “‘the blue army overcoat he wore was such a —-= good shot he couldn’t nelp it,"” This remark contains the touch of hu- mor (¥) I alluded to. k'“ i3 diflicult to define a man of this in ‘The ordinary yardstick of morality is useless. The action was certainly cow- ardly, but McWaters had proved himself on many an occasien an absolutely fear- less man,and no man who denounced the action would have cared to enforce his opinion on the subject by argument with McWaters himself. The noted character of these two men (MeWaters and Bohannon) and others confined with them made the knowledge of their escape a startling piece of news to the people of Lincoln, situated about a mule and a half from the prison. The intelligence was brougnt by a mounted turnkey, who excitedly stated that the prisoners had possession” of the jail and armory, The news spread tast, and in five minutes armed men were on their way to the prison. Men were scour- g the city for weapons, and in an hour Lincoln was almost emptied of its male population. One pale face, I remembor well. It was the jailer's, whose wife and children were shut in with the desperate gang. McWaters and Bohannon were the leaders in tho revolt, but the releasing of other prisoners and the breaking into the armory had so delayed them that when they were ready to force an exit there was o circle of men around the building through which they could not break. On the other hand, they held a supplied fortress which only a siege could reduce. Troops were telegraphed for from Fort Omaha, and all night we lay outside the prison.’ Rifles were dischiargea from time to time, and I heard of a prisoner's arm being broken, but no other damuge. There was little sleep, and all nigit long the face of th ler, pale and drawn with anxiety, flitted among us. In the morning the troops arrived and very soon u white flag (or something re- ibling it) waved from a window, and om another smaller window fluttered a ndkerchiet. hank God! 1t 1s wy wife,” said the Jjailer, and against remonstrances walked squarcly toward the prison. Before long he returned and reported that his wife and children were un- harmed and that the prisoners had agreed to surrender and immediately return to their cells, on condition that 1o punish- ment should be meted out to them. is was promised, their arms were stacked and they were again shut up. Perhaps it was to be expected from hu. man nature, but the ringleaders were punished. A week after McWaters was shot dead in the prison, and a short par- agraph in the papers stated that he was attempting to lead a second mutiny. Perhaps he was, although the' state- ment was generally disbelieved, but he died unregretted, and I think without human sympathy. Bohannon has shot, robbed, been cap- tured, and escaped, I know not how of- and now he has mysterionsly dis- appeared from Nebraska City jail, leaving his cell-door loeked behind.” He is more popular than McWaters, and not so grim avillian, having more friends through geniality and good humor when not crossed, but his carcer will be erime until the end and his peculiar class 18 fading from the west. May their disappearance be rapid. S AN ABANDONED BRIDE, Sensational Scene at a Wedding Fes- tival in North St. Louis, St. Louis Globe-Democrat: M a very popular young Iady in North St. Louis society, and living on Warren a sad experience. Not y was she soroly disappointed by the ion of a faithless lover at the very last moment, that disappointment being witnessed by the clergyman who was to ited in making her a bride and by scores of guests, but now she has been compelled to appeal to the courts for re- dress for other w! at the hands of the deserter. Last Wednesday night she was to have been wedded at her parents’ cnce to a Mr. Brown. Long before this day preparations had been mad the happy event. Hundreds of invit had been sent out by the young lady and her parents. Brown, who 1s a machiist by trade, working somewhere on Di son street, With his intendec weeks before the marriage Miller, carpets, furniture and all other house- hold effects to fit up a comtortuble home. Last Wednesday evening came. The Miller residence” was crowded with guests, cach biinging gifts and congratu Iutions. But when the hands of the clock were nearing the hour of 8 the guests beg: asking for the groum, Brown. Bride, bridemaid sand groomsman also srew uneasy and looked anxiously for rown. Every footstep heard from the outside was thought to be Brown's, and heads were thrast out of the windows and cyes strained for the first glimpse of Brown. ‘T'he hour of 1 was hed, and no Brown came. His boarding louse was then visited, but he wus not to be found. The guests by this time were slowly ting one by one, each speak- ing a kind word tothe grief stricken Miss Miller. Her parents stood st her side, but nothing could soothe her grief, To the Miller family Brown’s conduct was ountable, as be had already pur- # house, On the followirg morning & sad denouncement to the affair ws furnished when the girl’s brother went to the Four Courts and got arrant ont charging Brown with seduction. I'he warrart was placed in the hands of the deputy sherifl, wio failed to lind any trace of fuitive About 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon young maun rushed into ‘he Chestnut street police station and asked Sergenat Mueller, who was in chargs, tosend wn officer with him, as a man for whom a warrant was out was at ¥ W. Rosenthal's curpet store, W he was employed \e wan proved to be Mr, Miller, but when the carpet store was reached it was found that the othet young man was Brown's brother, whe was settling for earpets that the recreant bridegroom had bought before the mar- riage that did not occur, Of course he was not molested, - BASE BALL IN INDIANAPOLIS, A Gamo Mrs, Mcbhuffy Could Not Underatand. There is one lady in Indianapolis who will probably never become an enthusi- astic admirer of our national game, says the Detroit I'ree Press. The individual to whom I refer is M MeDafly. | had the misfortune to oceupy a seat adjoining hers during the opening game between the Detroits and the home club, and the following were the remarks on the oceasion referred to: “Ldon't see why some women can't understand base ball. It there isany- thing about it that Ican't see through it will be strange,"said she to her husband, “Who are those big fellows over there?' “Why, the ‘big four,’ of course,” said he. *'0, yes, how stumd Tam, I suppose that 18 Jay Gould watching the big four 80 close, Didn't he say ‘one strike?' He is responsible for those dreadful strikes, isn't he? Do you think the men will strike to-day?” ““Great heavens, woman,are you erazy? That is the umpire. Can't you keep quiet and waten the game?” he growled. “Certainly 1 will,” she said. *“But where is the Detroit’ team? I haven't seen a team to-day any different from In- dianapolis horses. Jo they bring them right out on the grounds? I'should think they would get freightened in such a crowd as this and Kick and cut up awfully. Do you think they will?" ‘It is possible, ’he answered resignedly, “There are some kicking teams.” “I am so glad I amup here out of danger. What did that man do then?’ sStruck a foul——"" Struck a poor innocent fow The teful thing! I didn't sce any fowl. hat kind was it? ~What are they cheer- fory” ‘hompson caught a fly.” “Now Mr. McDuily, “don't sit there and tell me you could sce anything so small as a tly at this distance. ~Besides, 1t's too early for flies, What do they waut to stop in a gawe of base ball to catch flies for, any way? Do tell me what that man is acting ~so silly aboutt” “I'rying to steal a buse.” b"'l'hc wicked thief! Where s the ase?’” *Over there,”” explained McDuffy. “That is tho first buse, that other the second, and this one, nearest, the third. “‘Are they, indeed, and that is the soprana in the middle, 1 supposet” “‘Ah, yes," groaned McDuily, you are getting it down fine.” **See, that naughty man has knocked the ball clean out of sight. Wasn't that mean! Don't you suppose they'll dis- charge him? What are they cheering for now? Making a home runt Well, I should think he would, and stay thero, too, after sach an exhibition of temper, What? Did you say they were going to whitewash them? Do they just white- wash them all over—face and all?" “Ab,"" said MeDufy, savagely, ‘‘you've ot it now. That's the way they fix them, and afterward calcimine them, and fresco them, and dodo them, and put on French roofs. How proud 1 am of you, Mrs, Dufy. All fnn need isa white- wash brush to be a_full-fledged member of the lime Kiln elub.” F‘u.'w funny you Mr. MeDufly. Jid that man y tiiey were giving the itors goose eggs? Now, what do they want with goose eggs in a game of bally IUs getting worse and worse, I don't see what people go orazy over base ball tor, any way. 1 understand the game, as far as that is concerned, but there's noth- ingInit. 1f there is anything smart in bringing out thousands of people to watch them cateh flies, and try to steal & base. and goose egygs, and mufls, and crack pitchers, and the Lord knows what else—I can’t see it. The next thing they’l} kill somebody, and I don't propose to The oxcited - yo Muiss Miller’s hrother und the man at the carpet store mone other than Brown Oflicer Michuel O'Malicy was sent with stay to see it. If you’'ll just see me to the carriage, Mr. McDufly, I'll go home. I've had all the base ball [ want.” The disgustod lady departed, to the evident satisfaction of her husband, who soon returned to enjoy the remainder of the game in peace. o ——— SMALL Or How 1 Make Acre Since we ar¢ admonished to relate oux failures as well 43 our successes, perhaps 1 should tell how I didn't make a living on forty acres. Forty acres are ample enough to lose money on if a man gets in a losing way. There also may be fluctu- ations and high or low tide in farming as well as speculating, though for a quict life and facilities for pursuing the even tenor of my way I would prefer farming. I commenced on twenty acres a8 a fruit grower; at this, witha good market, I made some money, or would have but for tving on’ Forty spending large sums on testing new var d other experiments, At this I became an enthusiast, struck out for dec and got swamped. A sigu- lar coincidence in this conncction was that these twenty acres were bought on the tenth day of the tenth month, kept ten years to a day, and sold for ten times the first cost. Then 1 invest :...,uonun forty acres, and here is where didn't make a living, as the first four years were so.wet that I sunk $3500 each year, #520 worth of nursery stock being nearly all sacrificed the firse year, Thig was not all; my wife nursed an invalid as the result of the reaction on a former robust constitution, But now the tide has turned. About this time wo had a fresh cow on rye pasture in winter, from which we gold milk to the amount of $1 per day. Put this fact and the other one together, and who could resist the nevit. able conclusion? From this went ck on fruit and ‘‘took stock™ in the “old brindle cow Whatever may be the result, our dairying is pursued with the me zeal of the former horticulturist; we are working it **for all there is in it Adopted butter making with varying re. The first year our cows gave re of ) I, or $28.25 net peolit, This scemed encouraging. 1 have nof »ks mueh sinee, but with fourteen to vighteen cows we last yeur made 1 ton ~of butier, which® at twenty cents & amounted to 400, while our calyes ¢ value at as much mer Have had sixty bead of cows and young things at once, But how do we Keep so many cattle on forty acrest Our twenty s of meadow is 5o liberally manure that it yields three tons of hay per acre when the sensons are not too dry; 1 also rent 145 acres of poor brush pasture, for which [ pay the taxes, about §i0 per year. 1 raise some sweet corn and pumpkins, feed our cows nearly the year round ol u substance we & stareh mils, raise our calves milk, work everything on rules of the strictest economy 1 do not erave the fayorite Jerse the targo farm. With cows, u woman who takes prids biiity to make prem ium gilt edgo butter, willing boys and sirls to heip, good ‘health, and . good Tittle farm, | should have a poor opinion of myself if I could not make a fair hy- ing at dairying or gardening, even the with amount of bud luck usually alotred age of mankind., One fact in ction should not be lost sight With this system of high farming and heavy manuring our land must in- erease in productiveness and adyance in value, while the effeet of the slin-shod or skimming process is the reverse Ottumwa, lowa 9. Mor Forty men left by the wes'-nound traim Inst night en ronte for Chug Water, Wyo., where thoy will be engaged Iaying tha rails on the Chevenne & “Western voad, whick was gradod last el