Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 25, 1887, Page 4

. 4 - THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY. JULY 25 THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERME OF SUBSORIPTION Dafly Moeniag Edition) including Sunday Brp, Ono Year........... For 8ix Months . For Throe Montha ... . The Omaha Swndny BEE, mailed (o any ress, One Ycar. 810 00 500 ATIA OPPICR, NO. 910 AND 018 FARNAM STREFY KW YORK OFFICK. RouM (5, ANHINGTON OFFICE, NO. 61 FOURTEENTH S TREET. CORRESPONDENCE! All communieations relating to news andedi- torinl matter should be addressed 10 the Bl TON OF THE BEF. NUSINERS LETTERS? All business lotters and remittances should ba addressed to TRE BEe PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAMA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders 10 be made payable to the orderof the company, THE BEE PUBLISHING CONPANY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, Enrron THE DAILY BEE. Bworn Statement of Circualation. BState of Nebrask i" % County of Douzlas. n Geo. B. ‘Tzschuck, secretary of The Beo Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of the Daily Bee {‘:lrl the week ending July 22, 1857, was as Average....... 3RO, 15, Sworn to and subscribed in my presence this 23d day of July, A, D. 1837, N, P. Frir, [SEAL. Notary Pubilc. State of Nebraska, | Douglas County. | 5 Geo. B. Tzschuck, belng first duly sworn, deposes and says that_he is secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual averago daily circulation of the Daily Bee for the month of guly, 1886, 12,314 copies; for August, 188, 12464 coples; for Septem- r, 1886, 18,030 copies: for October, 18%, 12,80 coples for November, 158, ' 13,348 coples; for December, 186, 13,357 copies: for Januaty s, 1020 coples: for February, 1887, 14,108 coples: for March. 1857, 14,400 goples: for Avril, 1867, 14510 copies for May, 1887, 14,227 coples; for June 1887, 14,147 copies. Gro. B. Tz8cHUCK. Subseribed and sworn to before me this 1st dl.%ol July A, D., 1887, (SEAL. | P. FEiL, Notary Public. Tue rumor that Council Blafls is to ! change 1ts name to Manawa is stoutly denied by the enterprising citizens of | our sister city. —_— Now that Robert Garrett has gone to Europe it is to be hoped that the Balti- more & Ohio deal will be off, or that | some other person be allowed to handle the cards. WmLE the prohibition movement is growing stronger every day thereis no mdication that the saloonkeepers are letting up on the quantity of croten they are putting in the whisky, — EvERY member of the city council is individually responsible for !bis actions, and cannot excuse himsglf for sup- porting illegal measures or jobs because some other councilman advised, or asked him to do so, THE citizens of Nebraska City are fully up to the standard in the hanging business when they once get their hands in. Two hangings in two days without corroding the limit, is at least keeping up the reputation of the place. TaE Rev. Dr. Savidge would be doing the proper thing if he would use his tal- onts and energies on fallen wmen; particularly those who have fallen into the habit of loafing while their abused and neglected wives support them. —_— AN enthusiastic admirer of Carl Schurz feelingly refers to the ex-Missouri states- man as in poor bealth and compelled to work very hurd for a living. 1f this keeps up it will not be surprising to hear of Mr. Schurz engage in chopping cord wood for six bits a day and boarding himselt. Tne late Sylvanus Cobb, Jr., was in bis way and day a most successful story writer. Few Americans romancists have been more widely read. His most notable vroduction was *‘The Gunmaker of Moscow,” which was translated into several languages, was dramatized, and ‘was deservedly popular both as story and and play. SHERIFF McCULLAM, of Otoe county, on Thursday remarked that in order to take Shellenberger from the jail the mob would have to walk over his (McCullam’s) dead body. In the very excellent report of the lynching of Shellenberger printed in the Ber this morning, we fail to tind where the sheriff’s body, either dead or alive, was walked over. ‘Tus boodlers of Chicago are fully con- vinced that that city is no longer a good summer resort, Hospital Warden Me- Garigle, true to the instincts of the boodler race, has skipped to Canada. If others of the profession follow suit, the Chicago directory will be lessened and reduced to above the size of a spelling book. Tnr Anerican fishing vessels on the Dominion coast have been pursuing a wvery careful course this season and it is noted that the situation is in very favor- able contrast to that prevailing at this date a year ago, They have kept away from Canadian ports and out of tho for- bidden waters, and but two instances of any trouble have occurred, neither of which was at all serious. When both parties to an issue are willing to be de- cent and fair, the probabilities of a just adjustment are greatly increased. Mr POWDERLY having been widely quoted as saying that he would exclude all foreiguers except such as ecame to this country provided with sufficient means to sustain themselves for a year, he has written to the editor of a Scrunton paper denying that he ever made any such declaration. What Mr. Powderly thinks, according to his last letter, is that the emigrant should not come hero until he 15 sure of employment without robbing another of it. We think Mr, Powderly will find that his last proposi- tion is even less creditable to his good sense than the one which ne denies hav- ing made. An emigrant cannot be sure of employment here except upon a eontract, snd 10 make & contract to perform labor bere would exciude him. Mr. Powderly rrectly says thut “‘statesmanship of the ighoest order will be required to handle this vroblom.” It remains to be seen whether he will be one to contribute snything practical to its wise solution, Slavery in Perinsylvania, ‘ The disclosures made by a New York World cerrespondent rogarding the cbn- dition of the miming population of Penn- sylvania must silence the boasting of those who contrast the independent and well paid labor of the United States with the hard lot of Jabor in England, for ex- ample. We do not recall anything c! by Mr. Porter, as the result of his iu tigations among the mining distric! England, which shewed that the opera- tives 1n the mines of that country aro subjected to greater hardships, priva- tions and injustice than are those e ployed in the mines of Pennsylvania, and it was no part of the mission of Mr. Porter to make matters that came under s observation appear less re- pulsive than they really were. The 1investigations of the cor- respondent in Pennsylyania, and he seems to have prosecuted them with thor- oughness and with an honest desire to get at the exactfacts, show that the white miners in that state are to-day being sub- jected to conditions of living infinitely worse than were those to which the slaves of the south were subjected to, and under which most of them have been placed in a position that renders escape by any effort of their own impossible. Miserably sheltered in hovels that could be rebuilt every year for the rent ex- acted, compelled to purchase everything they use at company stores and pay cnormous prolits therefor, subjected to rules and regulations which are not only destructive of their independence, but a means of petty robbery by those charged with their enforce- ment, plundered of their small carnings by every mean and unjust device that a grasping ingenuity can invent, denied all opportunities of education and clevation, these unfortunate miners are the most varitable serfs now to be found in any civilized country. If these disclosures do not bring about some legislation by the state for tho re- liet of these people Pennsylvania will be dishonored before the world. Thoroughly as her legislators are believed to bo under the control of the cerporations, it cannot be that they will close their ears to the appeal that comes up from tae mining regions of the state for some measure that will ameliorate the hard and degrading lot of the thousands of men, women and children who are now the helpless creatures of a grasping and heartless tyranny. Some- thing can certainly be done to give these people a measure of what belongs to them as human beings Iving in a free and enhightened nation, and to restrict the power of the soulless despotism that now holds in bondage both their bodies and their souls. The great wrong cries trumpet-tongued for redress, and the party that controls the affairs of Penn- sylvama will be false to its history and to its professions if it shall fail to heed the cry. The Texas Cattle Trail. A dispatch from Denver a few days ago gave a circumstantial account of the action of a number of Texas caitle men in turning k 50,000 head of cattle that were in the trail from Texasto Wyoming. It was said that the herds were started under the mistaken supposition that the haad winter in Wyoming, Montana and Dakota had made cattle scarce there, and when it was learned that such was not the case the decision was reached to turn back all the cattlo still on the trail. This action the dispatch said, would practi- cally do away with the cattle trail which has been in use for many years, while disastrious consequences to the Texas cattle interest from this sestion were pre- dicted. Later advices throw some discredit upon this information. One of the most extensive cattle raisers in Texas charac- terized both the statement of facts and the deductions as absurd. While it is probably a fact that there is no demand for a great many cattle that have been driven up from Texas, and some of these might be driven back as far as the In- dian terrijory, there was not the slightest probability that they would be returned to Texas. Another Texas cattleman took a similar view, saying that cven if there is no sale for the trail cattle they can be red in western Kansas, A, Colorado and the Indian terri- tory. He saw nothing in the situation to alarm 'Lexas cattlemen. A San Antonio dispatch says stockmen there give no credence to the Denver statement, which was erroneous in the first place in report- ing the number of cattle on the trail much larger than it really is. 1t is significantly stated, however, that Texas breeders very generally recognize that the old days of the trail are over, and that the only salvation of south- western ranchmen lies in home slaugh- tering-houses and refrigerators, which they are preparing to build. A move- ment of this defensive character has been talked about for some time past, and if 1t is really ripening into a practical under- taking the result will be awaited with a great deal of interest by the cattle inter- est of the whole country. It would in- augurate a new competitive force, the probable influence and effects of which cannot be estimated with any degree of certainty. Butit does not appear, at a superficial glance, that any of the ad- vantages would be largely with the cattlemen of the southwest in such an enterprise. Very much would depend, of course, upon improvementsin breeding, care, feeding and so on, which are doubtless to be attained, but for a considerable time, if not permanently, the advantages of competition would be with the eattlemen of the northwest, at loast so far as the home cerned. If it is no longer ¢ profitable for Texas catticwen to drive their cattle to Wyoming there 18 plenty of room to winter them in Nebrask Western Kunsas, Colorado and tbe In- dian territory, ana those wintered in the first two state will be accessible to large and growing markets. It is just possible that investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in slaughtering houses and re- frigerators might in time become profit able to the Southwestern cattlemen, but the immediate promise of such an enterprise is certainly not flattering, and we have no doubt that those who keep out of it will have reason to congratt themselves upon their superior judge ment. Uy Coorse. Wonder what sort of a was between the Herald which promn linquish all * v the eity printing? Miller and M s cditor was at Lin- coln duriog toe whole legislative session making frantic eoits to revise the city ‘“‘combine” 1t Republican and the wd the latter to re- printing clause of the charter which re- quired the council to take into consider- ation the city circulation of each bidder. Chang of the Herald and Eng of the Re- publican pooled 1ssues in the charter fight, and made city printing a specialty. They howled about the pretended job which the Douglas delegation was trying to perpetrate in the interests of the Brr. But when the job is put up to make the Republican the ofli- cial paper without competition at moro than one hundred per cent above the price at which anybody else can adver- tise in that sheet, the Herald is as mum 08 an oyster. There is no Shane's paper coorse. ‘‘combine” between Me- and the Republican, uv Tur emigration commissioners of New York seeru to be badly 1n need of reform. They appear to have become completely impregnated with the anti-immigration theory, and evinee a tendency to do things both illegal and inhuman. Of the latter class was the case of a young woman who recently arrived with her child from Co- penhagen. She had been sent for by the father of the child, who proposed making the woman his wife, and who 1s living in Dulath, She had a ticket to go to that city and money. Yet it was proposed to send her back on the ground that she was a pauper, that the child was born out of wedlock, and that the father 1s under no legal obligations to take care of either the mother or the infant. The case was taken to the state court and dis- missed for want of jurisdiction. It wall doubtless be taken to the United States court, in which a decision has already been rendered that the commissioners can exclude no one but convicts, 1diots, lunatics, or persons likely to become a public charge, If the court should adhere to this recent deci- sion, as it undoubtedly would the woman would be atlowed to go on to her desti- nation, The zeal of the emigration com- missioners has taken the wrong direction and evidently neceds to be restrained. Perhaps the wiser plan, howe: would be to replace them by men who are capa- ble of better apprehending their duty under the law and who will not so en- tirely take counsel of their prejudices. Tue intimation that the Beg's de- nunciation of certain councilmen is purely selfish and inspired by resentment over the city advertising controversy is wholly untrue. If the Bee had simply been scheming for its own interest there would have been no fraudulent contract with the Republican. The fact is, that the BEE has from the outset taken a posi- tion squarly against the arbitrary and illegal course of the council with regard to the police commission. We have con- demned without rescrve the policy of cbstruction inaugurated by the council sses, and we have done this knowing t we would incur their displeasure. altry vrofit of the oty printing 18 not in controversy. The Bee receives double the rate from private patrons which the city has paid for its advertising. But we insist that in letting the printing contract, as in all contracts, the council shall con- form to the provisions of the charter. We nave denounced Bechel and Manville, especially because the former used his position as president of the council to improperly influence the city clerk to hold back the advertising of ordinances passed in the middle of June for nearly five weeks, and entered into a conspiracy to promote the fruud which Taylor and Rothaker have been engineering through the council. We have denounced Man- ville b se he has shown himself to be an unmitigated fraud in connection with this job. — THE apparently unrelenting attitude hitherto maintained by the British gov- ernment towards its Irish subjects, has suddenly relaxed. The ministry is wav- ering, has already made concessions, and the advocates of home rule are jubilant. Gladstone is n the ascendant once more, Parnell and Dillon are satistied and their ing of triumph is so exuberent that y are proposing and drinking toasts to tne health of the queen. Coercion has received 1ts death blow and can never again be seriously enter- tained. The modifications proposed in in the pending land bill will tend to al- leviate the distr in Ireland instead of helping the landlords. The commus- sioners appointed to act as intermediaries between landlord and tenant have re- cerved instructions to readjust their last scale of rents according to the decrease in values. The prospeets now are that Ireland will receive the coveted boon of home rule much sjoner than was expected. Travellyan has gone over to the Glad- stone camp, and Goshen, who did so much to defeat Gladstone in the last election, is wavering. England tried long to maintain 1ts seventeenth century policy in Ireland, but failed in the face of modern enlightenment. Tue escape of the condemned mur- derer, Quin Bohannan, from the Ne- braska City jail, was no doubt largely responsible for the lynching of Lee Shel- lenberger, the convicted murderer of his own duughter. The people of Otoe county have been put to enormous ex- pense in the trials of desperadoes and criminals, who have finally escaped jus- tice and given a new lease of life through technicalities of a trivial character. Lynch law is, of course, to be deplored. In this case, as in many others, the peo- ple bad become aggrevated at the law’s delays and the opportunities afforded for escape. They feared that Shellenberger might follow in the footsteps of Bo- hannan, und they accordingly took the law into their own hands. It is certain, however, that they did not hang an inno- cent man, — As a sensational news center Nebraska City probably has no rival in the west. More really startling sensations have occurred there thau in any other town in Nebraska. A few years ago, if we remember rightly, two negroes were lynebod there. Bohannon was tried and couvicted there, and while under sen- tence of death madoe his escape. David Hoflman, the train wrecker, was legally executed on Friday last, and the next night Lee Shelienberger, under sentence of death for the murder of his danghter— a horrible crime in itself—was taken from jail and lynched. Still another sensation was the big defaleation of County Treas- urer Simpsen, who i now in the peni- teatiary. Tug board of public works should in- vestigate the causes which have nearly ruined the Tenthi stroot pavement. When pavement is torn up 'by private corpora. tions, it should be replaced as perfectly as originally put down Criaxo Monrnissey is indignant beeause he is referred to as a rowdy editor in connection with Eng Rothaker. If a man does not want to pass for a rowdy he must not associate with rowdies and act the rowd, WiLL any councilman explain why the bonds of the police commission, which were filcd more than six weeks ago, have not been approved? A MILK-WAGON s abroad in the streets of Omaha bearing the legend: ‘‘Pure Milk."" A strange inscription—if true. ———— Boss1sy in the council must be smashed, and combines against good government broken up. STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Otoe county is the paradise of chokers. The hemp crop in Otoe has boen har- vested. Shellenberger to Hoffman—"Hot there, Dave?" The O'Neill Frontier has entered upon its eighth year. The Cuming county fair will be held in West Point, September 14-16, Plattsmouth is offered three miles of belt railroad for a bonus of $20,000. Michael Adelinan, of Madison stumbled off a blind horse and broke his neck. The temperature of the here and here- after is about o stand-off for Nebraska murderers, Ole Anderson, the Brown county wife murderer, will join the majority before hanksiving. A severe wind storm last week did some damage to grain tields in the north- eastern counties. The Brownville Enterprise, by F. J. ‘Teflt, is the latest effort to vitalize the ex- capital of Nemaba. A sand drift ditched a train near How- ard city last week, Only a commercial tourist was injured. A ‘‘queer” pushing crook from Chicago attempted to unlead his surplus on the rustics of Phelps county. He was jailed. Willlam Benden, an old and prominent resident of Fa(rbu:iy died suddenly Fri- day night. He ha beon ailing only five hours. Frank Rezuheck, the Plattsmouth boy whose leg and hand were recently crushed by the cars, died ~f blood poison- ing Friday. ‘T'he £lkhorn Valley extension will be completed to Seward to-day, and an old-fashioned celebration is” liable to break loose. The bridge which 18 to span the Mis- souri and give Sioux City a slice of Ne- braska trade hasalpeady been mortgaged for $1,200,000., 1" Nebraska has sent three red-handed representatives to the Chicago of eternity in seven days. The crop of murderers is growing healthfully less. The first round in the Knox county seat fight gave Niobrara a plurality, with five candidates in the field. The second round is hooked for August 13. An active member ot the anti-overty society sledged a safe in the Paul lum- ber yard in Iremont and eaualized the distribution of wealth by taking $26. emont has a directory population of a phenominal doubling of numbers since 1885. This is direetly due to the eligibility of the town as a matrimonial market. The annual camp meeting of the Grand Island district of the Methodist com- mences to-day. The faithful are promised a season of salvation and urban recrea- tion at reasonable rates. A man named Benzen assaulted Her- man Wilgohs in Wisner, and seriously battered him with an iron bar. A doj started the fracas. Benzen was boun over to the district court. The campaign in Burt county is wide open, Candidates are as thick as skecters on the bottoms, and newspapers are harvesting an extensive and timely crop of five-dollar announcements. Hastings has an official dog killer, He waars a revolver, a shotgun, some clothes and a ferocious brow, and his majestic strides have not been equaled since the Wahoo rangers rushed the growler “yeahs and yeahs ago,” TTc repubiicans of the Seventh judicia. district, being largely in the majority, do not relish the species of ‘“‘reform® that places a democerat on the bench as an of- fering to non-partisanship, It 18 there- led that Judge Crawford must ‘The hairless hundreds of Hastings are -tipping s his arm with a y andle motion and brings his cady below the beltin an effort to keep up with the fashion and appear lite, longs for the return of the way tip’ and the smiling 5 terribly embarrassing for a bald-headed man to doff his tile and display a barren dome in publie. The editor of the Culbertson Sun has been tendered a poultice of the criminal libel law, and is arranging his business for a fall vacation in vanrsv]lle. The Sun spotted some transactions by Perry & Crews, real estate agents, which did not appear strictly honest, and at once pounced upon them with all the raging heat of a summer resort. The firm was thoroughly baked, but the Sun is now nursing the blisters, W. W. Philleo, a bilious resident of Ayr, gives promise of developing con- siderable ability as the Mulhattan of the Blue Valley. He tolents in this line at- tracted attention in Chicagzo, and he was at once invested with the honors of the Nebraska bureau of the Inter-Ocean His last effort was a whopping fabi tion of the condition of farmers in the southwest, He saw famines, droughts, chinch bugs, mensles, mortgages, money tenders and other human pa es stalk- ing through the land arm in arm with red-handed ruin. Prompt measures .]s!mulld be adopted to reduce his swelled iead, ] The destiny of Plattsmouth hangs by the bullot box to-day. 1t is a question of building a live city or relapsing into a village cemetery.” Two bond proposi- tions are to be voted on, the paving of Main street and the sewering of the crecks. The Journal shouts in seriptural tones, ‘‘Shake off yomr sluggishness, serape the moss from your backs if there is any there, and be true, wide-awake, vigorous, _enterprising, hopu»innnirm citizens. “Give up the day for the zuufi of your town and carry the bonds, and 1if successful you will be'proud of yourself, vroud of your neighbors and proud of your town.” Bordeanx, & lively young town in the northwest corner, threatens to pluck the wila and wicked plumes from Broken Bow's sombrero. few days ago a prominent citizer was hung in efligy for inviting a preacher to town. Near the town a man is holding down a claim with a double-barreled shotgun, while just across the line is another fellow with a load of lumber, This state of affars has existed now about two weeks. The man with the shotgun nolds the claim, but the moment he abandons it the fellow with the lumber will jump it and get his im- provements started first. The man with the shotgun has failed to get lumber. Friends supply the pair with food and the matte: L‘In resolved itself into a ques- tion of endurance, The mpu with the shotgun has the weight of the argument in his favor at present. o Towa Items, Algona is boring for natural gas. The parties shot at the circus at Clin- ton are improving. Towans will pray nest Sunday fot the success of prohibition in Texas The Methodists will hoid a camp meet- ing at Five Mile grove, near Atlantic, August 9 to 19, M. J. Fahey, of Musecatine, was drowned by whisky and water, too much of the former inducing him to jump into too much of the latter, The state veterinary surgeon reports that the disease among horses and cattle Junction is the result of im- proper feeding and has been greatly ex- aggerated., Hans Brookman, who mysteriously dis- appeared from Toledo, October 6, 1856, and for the supposed murder of whom attempts havy been made to indict sev- eral parties, has returned to Toledo, Ho had been in Kansas and Indian territory. According to reports just reccived by Governor Larrabee, there are in the state 86,373 acres of land used for poor farms, and the valve of this rroperly is esti- mated at $901,496. The total number of inmates 1n the poor-houses are 1,704, 1,061 males and 693 females, of which 157 are under 16 years of age and 482 over 60 years old. Dakota. Pennington county has a cash balance of $13,381.82. Burglars are doing a vrofitable busi- ness in Sioux Falls. Boston men of means are investing in Aberdeen real estate Wheat in Webster county will average thirty bushels to the ucre. L] Yankton rejoices that railroad connee- tion with Omaha is one af the early cer- The executive board of the Farmers’ Territorial alliance was in session at Huron last week. The jury at Webster, in the case of William M. Evans, ex-treacurer of Grant county, returned a verdict of not guilty after being out about twenty minutes. The verdict meets the approbation of the entire community. No Wonder Sue s Tired. New York World, The latest reports about the affairs of the National opera company intimate that at last the woman who had the tact, perseverence and liberality to carry the enterprise forward to an artistic if nota financial triumph has become wearied of the burden and secks a release from the entire responsibility. When others have subseribed Mrs, Thurber has vaid up. When others promised Mrs. Thurber performed. When applause was loud Mrs. Thurber was in seclusion, When trouble was rife Mrs. Thurber was to the foe. It is high time that those who huye reaped her triumphs and evaded her cares should now be com- pelled to share her embarrassments. We are aware that the affuirs of the company are in need_of readjustment. We should like to see Mrs. Thurber press for a scttlement at once, and receive her deserts for the past before she incursany further responsibility or worry for the futare. In the course of some remarks yester- day we had occasion to flagellate the American people for base ngratitude to those who assume the risks and suffer the annoyance of leadership in public affairs, whether it be to save, govern or please the people. We regard the indiftorent attitude of our countrymen and women toward their own national opera as an- r evidence of their increasing indif- feronce to anything and everything which does not direetly bring them gol or promise of reward. Harnessing Niagara River. New York World, A number of the business men of Buf- falo have enlisted a scheme to utilize the water power of the Niagara river at or near that city, They propose to offer a prize of $100,000 for the best plan for ap- propriating as much of that power as may be necded for mechanieal purposes. Inventors or engineers in all parts of the world will be free to compete. A con- siderable amount of money, it issaid, has already been subscribed. The project is an enterprising one, and it is to be hoped that it will be successful. The same idea is practically carried out at the httle city of Schafthausen, two miles above the Falls of the Rhine. At the lower end of the city the current, or as much of it as is wanted, is turned on a small army of turbine wheels, and the power is distributed by a large system of towers and belted along the hine of the water front, whence it is taken oft later- ally to the numerous factories using it. A modification of this system would be needed at Buffalo. no doubt, owing to the greater diniculties of the larger river, If the diflicultics are overcome the en- gineers will probably want to wrestie with the problem of utilizing the Falls themselves. They will find an wsthetic :l\].! well as physical obstacle to oyercome ere. e The Worst Kind of Gamblers. Cleveland Leader. The lesson of the late coffee corner has scarcely been read before a new attempt is made by another gang of speculators to artificially raise the price of this article and compel the public to pay a largely increased cost for one of the daily neccssaries of life. So far the effort has met with success, and the price of coffce has largely increased. Of course there is no law against any man or syndicate buying up all the coffee or flour or grain they are able to pay for. Whatever evil the community suflers be- cause of the ability of a single man or company to buy and keep out of the market one or more of the necessaries of life, it must submit to as inevitable. But the practice of buying wheat, corn pork, coffce, and other articles upon margins, by speculators who thus tic up and con- trol the food upon which society exists, should be made unlawful, as it 18 against public policy, and the offender should be severely punished, Syndicates formed for purely specula- tivé purposes are Conspirators against the public al. They are among the worst enemies of the bread the world. The speculator is the shark of society. He preys upon mankind, produces nothing, and should be treated us the worst kind of a gambler, who );_luys with stacked cards and loaded dice. winners of — Stopped a Runaway. A horse to which was attached a phaeton ran away on Eleventh streot. The horse started from in front of the Windsor hotel. A lady whose name was not learned was in the vehicle. At the corner of Howard and Eleventh streets Colonel Forbes rushed and caught the frantic animal by the bride. It was a courageous act and warmly applaused by the bystanders. T Are you weak and weary, overworked and tired? Hood's Sarsaparilla is just the medicine to purify your blood and give you strength The improvements on the Seward street M. E. church will cost about §5,000. ‘The building is to be made just double its vresent eapacity, and it will be some eight weeks before the work will be finished, — - The huge, drastic, griping, sickening riu-n fast being superceded oy Dr. Pierce’s “Purgative Peliots." TALES OF TRAVEL, An Omablan Writes of His Trip in the West. SanraeNT, Colo,, July 21,—[Correspond- ence of the Bee.]<In traveling from Omaba to Denver throngh the South Platte country one cannot but be im- pressed by the wonderful development of that section wrought by the enterprise and business mothods of the B. & M. Railway company, During an entire day one rides through Nebraska with the way lined on both sides with highly im- proved farms, stretching north and south as far as the eye can reach, with prosperous towns al intervals of a dozen miles or s0. It is diflicult to realize that this grand change from a bleak and deso- late prairie has been brought about in a very few years. Had the North Platte country been similarly developed by the Union Pacific, Omaha would have a population of 200,000 and the state 1,500,- 000. Nebraska 18 fortunate in having the aid of the B. & M. in her up-bulding, but unfortunate in that her chief city 18 so little benefitted thereby. A glance at the map shows what this powerful company has done in the build- ing of branch roads, and also shows thoso roads connecting with a broad, black line which crosses the Missouri river at Plattsmouth and stretches ucross Towa and Illinois to Chicago. Will the North- western accomplish _a hke transforma- tion in the North Platte country, cross ing the river at Blair? LOVE'S YOUNG DI 3 Coming outon the Rio Grande yester- day from Denver a couple evidently newly married oceupied - seat in_ the sleeper directly in front of me. Much billing and cooing finally produced hun- rer and the husband took a package of ruit from his satcnel. Each took a large California plum and when half eaten the husband proposed an exchange. Let jt be here recorded, to the credit of the bride, that she hesitated, though for buta momént. then he tinished his plum in a dainty, delicate fashion, while he swal- lowed hers with a yum-yum and gusto interesting to observe. Then she pro- duced a small 1ace-embroidered handker- chief and wiped her mouth, when the handkerchiet was at once seized by the young man who swobbed off his bristling red moustache with it. 3 This Denver & Rio Grande road strikes one who has not becn accustomed to narrow gauge lines as being a sort of toy affair—operated for fun and not for a profit. In knocking things off the track, however, its engines scem quite as eflicient as thoso of larger growth, Just before reaching Pueblo (where we were served with a very vpoor dinner) yester- day, a young man attempted to drive a team across the track in front of us, to find the hind end of his wagon thrown into the air and himself pitched headlong. The team dashed over the prairie with the front wheels and the train was stop- ped as soon as possible and the young man taken nboard and brought totown. He was M COVERED WITIH BLOOD from two quite severe cuts in_the head xlmd complained of a'severe injury to the hip. The Atchison & Santa Fe 18 pushing a line to completion which parallels the Denver & Rio Grande for many miles, 30 that the Iatter has been compelled in self-defense to convert its line into a broad guage, which work is being car- ried on with a large force. Certainly no cne would want to ride i the little oramped cars of a narrow guage road where the same voints are reached by lines of the ordinary width, From Denver to” Pueblo the scenery along the Denver & Rio Grande rivals in dreary monotony with the Southern Pa- cific from Lathrop to Los An, Soon after leaving Pueblo the road enters the mountain pass through which the Ar- kunsas river dashes and foams over the rocks, Here the scenery is wild and picturesque beyond description. At one point, where the rocky walls rise on either side about a thousand feet, the railrond track perched on a narrow ledge along- side the boiling river, hero compressed to a width of fifty feet, the railway oflicials, hastening to pest an ignorant puulic, have erected a white sign with the word “'Gorge'’ painted thereon in broad, black letters. This would seem to be an un- called for bit of entervrise, for if a pass- enger ever travels over that part of the road and fails to recognize that particu- lar locality as a gorge, he will be too blind to read the sign. At the entrance to this wonderful eanyon on open car 18 attached to the train, in order to afford the passengers a clear view of a section of railway scenery unequalled in the country. 4 AMONG THE CLOUDS, That is, unequalicd, excepton thissame line of road, bevond Salida where the ascent of the mountain is begun, the train winding up the canyon, around rocky points up, up with a grade, at times showing a rise of 220 fect per mile, until we reach the summit where the only growth consists of a few stunted pines.. A marvel of engineering skill is this road bed. One shudders to thing of the consequences of the breaking of a coupling or any similar accident. J.T. B, —_——— An Anccdote of Bill Tweed, Phitadelphia Novth American, The trial and conviction of Jacob Sharp have revived memories of the Tweed days, and many stories of *Big Six’’ are again in circulation. It seems real tunny, but still it is a fact that the dignified and ponderous Bill Weed wss tumultuonsly fond of practical jokes. It was delightful relaxation to that very busy man when he could tind time to go to the little cluv-room of the Stable Cang over George Butt's Hotel de Horse, on the corner of Bayard and ilizabeth streets, and concoct an carry out some game to be playes upon a familiar. There he would meet congenial souls and would enfer into the spirit of the “grand guy their romps and horsepluy like a wchoolboy at large One day a noted judge entered with a long, thin package under his arm, which rapping, proved to he a half n glass ‘‘putty-blowers.” Tk re S0 suggestive of possibilities that Tweed laughc d heartily over their mere exhibition. They were passed around, and a waiter-boy was dispatched for am- munition of peas, The windows of the club-room, which was on the second floor, ere arranged with blinds that servea to mask the con®pirators. Behind these each sharpshooter ook his station, weapon in hand. The first unfortunate thut came in range was the dandy driver of a spinted horse before a red-wheeled Jight pleasure wa, His garl lived o) posite, and wae inoking out of her window witn admiring cyes upon the dushing fellow who drove up in such capital form. The young man knew that the eyes ot Delaware were upon him “The horse's nostrils,” directed Tweed And the horse roze upon his hind legs and shook his head, and darted forward in a a.togother unaccountuble to med dude, He tried to step down but the capers of the horse pre vented, and the dandy seemed a8 if felt that he was n'nllm‘f A figu He coaxed with honcyed words of endeatment, but to no purpose until A.ittlo consequential [rishman, witl s lngh coilarand a frock cost a size or two go, stepped upon the seene. ‘Then the driver bad & re and tying his 10 the Lowse an was waikiog with and out one in cach.hignd, and stood looking in eyery direction for his unscen enem, Ho wrinkled his nose and in many wa, guve evidence of thre unerring aim of one of the stable gang. Pretty soon he got anothér centre, and then he shook his head, smiled, dropped the cobble- stones and walked off with both hands covering his nose. He was no hog. He knew when he had enough. A colored gentleman, both hands in his tronsers’ poc a neglige air, and a white necktie had the goodness to take the Irishman's place. = In a socond he opened his ample mouth and exclaimed : “Umph, yah, here now, dar'’ And then he winked and next corrugated his nose. He commenced to peel off his cont, but was admonished by a pro- voking sting on his 1 that Horace Greeley, who was a wise man, was right when he said that ‘it hurts to kick against nothing.” He smiled a flag of truce and hastened away from the gpot. And so it continued for an hour, the shooters screaming with delight over the curious antics of their victims, and Tweed at last surfeited with fun, taking his departure possibly to caucus ora nominee for governor of the great em- pire state, or to approve of a schemo whereby a million would be added to his gains. R — A BATTLE IN A COURT ROOM, How Two Georg awyers Resented the Lie. Atlanta Special to the Kansas City Star: “If you see anything of stray ink bottles, glue pots, Georgia reports” and bibles, please leave them witih the clerk of tho superior court.’” * This notice is to be found posted on the front door of the county court house. This morning a fieree battle was waged in the superior court room Since yesterday morning Judge Van Epps, of the circuit court, occupyi the superior court room has been hearing a case in which there is a great deal of local interest. The prosecution is represented by Colonel George T. Fry, and the de- fense by Colonel L. W.Thomas. Colonel Fry began his argument and stated some- ing motion, his hands He looked as it he owned & houses, but he didn't. Inw mowment | had juniped three foet in the air and w oiutinto the niiddle of the street, whore l be vicked up two cobblestones, boldiug thing apout the suppression of testimony. “Say, look here, Colonel kry," ex- clamed Colonel Thomas, as he sprang to his feet, “if yous mean to accuse me of witnholding and suppressing any testi- mony you tell what is downright untrue.” The flush of rage dyed the check of Colonel Fry as he turned upon Colonel Thomas and fiercely broke forth: *'Colonel Thomas, if you mean that I have told an untruth you are a liar.”” A Georgia report camc fl?hm out of Colonel Thomas's band straight at the head of Colonel F Over camo a code from Colonel Fry. Then followed “Greenleaf on Evidence,” Georgia re- ports and bibles flew thick and fast and when the books gave out Colonel Thomas picked up a glue bottle and ‘sent a double- twisted curve, which struck a juror and ruined his coat, An ink bottle came next within reach of Colonel Thomas' hands, and this was sent after the glue pot. The bottle missed Colonel Fry, but the con- tents gave him a copious shower of copy- ing fluid. While Colonel Fry was dodging the ink and gluo bot tles he stumbled over a juror's foot, and as he fell to the floor his eye fell on u spittoon. The large, vy spittoon was quickly seized and raised high in the air, but Colonel Thomas was out of am- munition, and the spittoon was rather a dangerous weapon. A number of other lawyers interposed and Colonel Fry was disarmed. When the smoké cleared away and the battle ground could be viewed calmly and dispassionately, not an ink-bottle, nor a glue-pot, nor a book of any kind was on the tables. Colonel Fry spent something like half an hour removing the 1k stains from his hands and face, while Colonel Thomas sent a boy after an extra supply of cufts and collars. Col- y's' new straw hat was ruined stains, Both parties nl.mlngiz.-d to the court, and Judge Van Epps replied in a tired voice, the exertion of dodging having been too much for him in such warm weather: “‘Gentlemen, [ will decide about the contempt of court i this mat- ter later on. Colonel Fry will you please procced with your argument?” "';'lnu colonel began right where he left o THIS XION RESULT OF USING HACAN’S Magnolia Balm. <itful LIQUID for the FACE, K, ARMS aud HANDS, Over JERE VIV Dinfigureme not bo Detected, Take it with you to the Scaside, Mountains and all Iural Resorts ; 1t Is so cleanly, re froshing and restful after & bot delve, loug ramble or soabath. TRY THE BALM! Nebraska National Dok ...$250,000 Paid up Capital.. ) +.42,600 Surplus tes, President. 2. Touzalin, Viee-President W. H. 8. 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