Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 10, 1887, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED s__vE_w MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION ! Dflb (Morniag Edition) ineluding Bunday kr, One Year. $10 08 or Bix Months LBW ‘or Three Monthi 200 Omaha Sunday fixe, malied to any address, One Yoar. ... . 200 ARA OTFICE, No. g14 AND 916 FARNAM STREET. W YORK OPFICE, ROOM TRINR BUTLDING ASRINGTON OPFICE, NO. 515 FOURTRENTH BTRENT. (CORRRSPONDENCE: e All communiontions relating to news an torial matter should be adiressed o the Boi TOM OF TME BEr. BUSINESS LETTERSS Al burineas lett: nd remittances should be ressed_to T PUBLISHING COMPANY, ATIA. Dnfih ohecks and postofioe orders be made pay! 10 the order of the eompany, THE BEE PUBLISHING CONPANY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, EprTon. THE DAILY BER Sworn Statement of Ulrculation. Btate of Nebras| ‘Gounty of Douclas. {58 BT Ly o e M loes solem! BW at the actual elrouiation of the Dally Bes olr| the week ending August5, 1887, was as o Gro, B8. TZSCHUCK. Sworn to and subscribed in my presence <] this 6th day of August, A, D, LW;; ¥ = , P. FEIL, [SEAL.I Notary Pubile. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County. Geo. B. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, gepon(m and says that he is secretary of The i Publishing company, that the actual @verage dally cireulation of the Daily Bee for month of .ms;i 1886, 12,314 copies; for August, 189, 12, w'plu' for Septem- 7, 1886, 13,030 coples; for October, l% 2,99 copies; for November, 1 13, 1 coples; for December, wn‘ 13,237 jes; for 887, 16, wn 3 for ples; for March. 1887, ies: for April, 1887, 14,316 copies; for May, 14,227 copies; for June 14,147 Oro. B. Tzsomocx, Bubseribed and sworn to before me this 1st @ay of July A. D., 1857, IBEAL{ N. P, Frir, Notary Public. WHEN a man has become so depraved he cannot distinguish between his mother-in-law and a polecat it 1s quite time his mental condition should be made the subject of investigation. ? Youxa WoOLFALK, of Macon,'Georgia, who Iast Friday murdered an entire fam- fly, including his father, stepmother, grandmother, and brothers and sisters +~nine in all, can well be called the champion murderer of the age. TaE democrats are now consoling hemselves over the Kentucky election y calling it & healthful scare. They may confidently look forward to such healthy reactions. In 1888 they will o doubt be entirely cured THE democrats of Virginia will be in the sweat-box for the next three months. Ex-Senator Mahone has opened np his campaign. While the chances are ngainst his carrying the lcgislature, he ‘will make it exceedingly lively for his opponents. | % CINCINNATI invites the president to that city to see ‘'its matchless fire depart- B pent.”” Mr. Cleveland will of course be Interested in seeiag the ruins of the pursted fidelity bank, and the recently {obbed treasury of the Cincinnati, Ham- lton & Dayton railroad. Cincinnati Possesses raro attractions. Ir President Cleveland, before he goes off to the mountains of West Virginia, would take time to go over to the treasury department and throw Eugene Higgins put of the third story window, he would have no trouble in establishing the point Bhat ho was at least a partial friend of civil pervice refor: . ems——— A GREAT many hard things have been paid about mothers-in-law, but never be- ore were they mistaken for pole cats. r. Hiram Schoonover, of Brownville, In-law. Sceoonover should lecture. I is evident President Cleveland is x tiring in Washington during the heated term. The fuct that he is going hunting §n the wilde of West Virginia with Sen- Rtor Kenna might be taken to mean that he 18 not unmindful of the unsteady situ- ntion in West Virginia politics, where a clamor has long since been raised for more spoils. While Mrs. Cleveland is captivating the people in Massachusetts the president may swart a tresh boom nmong the West Virginia bourbons. made in the matter. { ‘Tue secretary of the treasury has fin- 158 nlly sat down on the New York board of | He informs {8 them that they have no authority to de- cide as to what immigrants can or can not land, Their duty is simply to invest- igate and report to the collector of the Those arbitrary commissionors, who have been in the habit of sending back immigrants accordiug to their own 1 sweet will and have indulged in a good deal of spite work tuward certain steam- ship companies and others, will thus find |- themuselves in an uncomfortable position pmigrant commussioners. port. na violators of the Iaw. Smes—ese—— ToERE is evidently a growing oppor- 4 fomty for a thorough investigation of the police force. The indications are that the eolored women who died yesterday morning in jail wasthe victim of brutality from members of the police, It is bad enough to be thrown in the dirty station, but when prisoners are kiocked to death by the appointed guurdians of the law, it is high time that their cases be investi- gated. The circumstances surrounding the case, show an implication on the part of | officer Crawford thut cannot be very | comforting to that individual, whether B rov bo Lrue or false. though having killed the aged mother of his wife, under the impression sho wus a pole cat has placed a new phase upon the very important subject of mothers- eE——— It is due to the public and but justice 1o the friends of tho woman found dead In she jail yesterday, and the police also, that o full investigation should be atonce That & human being could die without the knowleage of the ofticers in their very presence and then be hustled off after & short inquest £o be buried in the potter's field without communication with her relatives, as are the facts in the casc, Is too grave a mat- ter to pass unnoticed, without an effort to find upon whom the responsibility lies. Financial Undercurrents, Some of the conditions that coniribute to the prevailing financial distrust are very likely not to be noted by the casual observer: They do not stand out promi- nently on the surface of affairs, but are rather the undercurrents which are likely to be recognized and properly estimated only by those who are most actively en- gaged in financial operations, and whose business it is to note and duly consider every aspect aud condition of the situa- tion, The salient fact that there is a considerable surplus in the national treasury, nnd that this is certain to be largely increased before any legis- lation by congress for reducing the revenues can _bocome opera- tive, is about the only®one which is gen- crally referred to as explaining the ap- prehension said to exist in financial cir- cles. It is doubtless the chief cause, but it must be borne in mind that the surplus has been much larger than it is now, and that while the country 1s again con- fronted, as it has before boen, by the prospect of another vast accumulation in the treasury, the ciroulation in the past year has increased nearly $70,000,- 000. With this present excess of cur- rency in the hands of the people over the amount at this date a year ago, it seems clear that if there were no other cause of financial distrust than the accumulation of & treasury surplus this should not be sufficient to create serious alarm, It is an evil that must be reme- died, but if it were not supplemented by other unfavorable conditions need not be regarded as of imminent danger. Everybody understands that there has been a great expansion in all depart- ments of business and industry during the past year, and that while the larger part of this has been legitimate, a con- siderable portion has been speculative. Leaving out of cousideration the purely gambling operations, as the ; Chicago wheat deal, which resulted in the dis- astrous failure of the Fidelity bank of Cincinnati, the great ocoffee specula- tion, and the just ended San Francisco wheat deal, all of which had & measure of unfavorable influence in financial cir- cles, there has been a vast amount of ex- penditure regarding the immedi- ate results of which there is uncertainty, and numerous oper- ations of a character to create distrust. During the past twelve months many millions of dollars have been taken from the money centers of the east for rail- roads in the west and south and has re- mained there. A part of it at least will in time be returned in the course of busi- ness, but just how soon or to what amount cannot be determined with any degree of certamnty. Other large sums have gone into real estate invest- ments, not all of which are giving re- turns and a part of which may never do 80. Then the mamfestations of great properties, as in the case of the Baltimore & Ohio and the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railroads, and the ap- parent depression of large indus- tries indicated in the creation of ‘‘trusts’ designed to limit produc- tion and advance prices, have contribu- ted to weaken confidence and to render capital extremely cantious. It is noted that ever since June there ha3s been a steady general decrease in the amount of deposits in the New York banks. The conservative banks changed their time loans into call loans, and have not been willing to take any chances. There has been a lack of conufidence, due largely to the undercurrents we have noted; rather than, as is commonly supposed, wholly to the existence of a treasury surplusand the certainty of its being considerably enlarged. These undercurrents will probably continue to operate to some extent, but a better feeling has obtained since the circular was issued announcing the policy to be adopted by the treasury to help the money market. There is a difference of opinion among financiers as to the probable results of the secre- tary's proposals, though quite generally it is thought he will have no difficulty in getting at a fair premium the amount of honds he requires for the sinking fund, but whatever the outcome shall be the fact that the treasury is dis- vosed to use every legal means it has to secure the money market against serious disturbance has had & reassuring effect. ing is confidence. accomplish, it will be found that the The Jobbers and Judge Wakeley. a rebuke. ‘Wakeley. protect him sufliciently, committee of the most prominent delegation. the provisions neutralize t public works, changed the by the mayor, in the railroad property. bad drafted the charter. i i —— There is no actual stringency in money for legitimato purposes. What is lack- When this shall be restored, to which the action of the treas- ury has contributed and whieh wise revenue logislation by congress can fully country has an ample supply of money Some people never know when they are well off. The attempt of the Repub- flican to call in question the righteous de- cision of Judge Wakeley in the second Injunction suit brought tostop the law- less rapacity of its proprietors in con- spiracy with the council bosses, calls for We do not propose to defend Judge Hia reputation and standing We are justi- tied, however, in roeviewing the infamous and outrageous conduct of a brace of adventures, who came to Omaha only a few omonths ago with the deliberate design to pillage and plunder the public through the influence of & newspaper which they bought witk monoy filched from the gov- ernment. They had scarcely been in this city ninety days when they entered into a conepiracy with a gang of boodle contractors and oil-room bribe-givers to m utilate the Umaha charter, framed by a eiti. zens and supported by our legislative Iu this effort they were partly success- ul. Through the boodlers of the ju- diciary committee of the house, they had which would enable Onmisha to acquire porks and lay out beulevards struck out; they helped to fiiciency of the board of police commission from an sppoiative office expectancy that rnor would fill the positions at their dictation, and deprived oyr cit:zens of the benefit of cquitable taxation of ‘This high-handed deviltry was carried on under pretense of a personal war upon ‘the editor of the Bre, who was one of the committee that Incidentslly, the boodlers snd cormor- ants made radioal changes in the oftjcial printing cluuse, which reguired the coun- il s considering bids for advertising to' AR P FIRI be fully redeemed. Such result must come {if the people can be brought to think seriously and intelli- gently upon the living questions that concern them equally with the people of the entire country, but to which in the past the masses havd really givon very little attontion. Perhaps in no other state would there be found less general onlightenment respgeting questions of national concern than among the people of Kentucky, sny yot no people are more entirely sclf-gatistied. It would seemi to be evident, however, that there isa strong leaven |at work operating graduslly but surely in producing the needed change, which when fully sc- complished will bring great benefits to tho state in all directions, Counting on Kentucky to be- come republican in the present generation may furnish pleasant pastime to some politicians, but it will not proye profitable. The best that oan be hoped is that the lesson of the late election will lead to the retircment of the bourbon ele- ment and bring to the front a more pro- gressive class of demoorats, having an interest in the quostions and issues of to-day and a sympathy with whatever contributes to advancement along all the lines of progress. In timo, after all the nfluence of bourbonism is driven out, Kentucky may become republican, and it would not be wise to forego any effort to bring her to that political condition, but the work is sure to be slow in pro- ducing the desired result, and meantime there are several other southorn states that may precede Kentucky in giving their support to republican principles and policy. TaE formal election of a leader of the Mormon church will take place next spring. In the meantime another prophet, Milford Woodruff, has assumed the role. He is notlikely to hold the posi- tion of president long, however. He is an old man, over eighty, and represents the conservative element of the church. The younger generation 18 not untouched by the inflnence of the times, and conse- quently there is not that harmony in the orgunization which formerly character- ized 1t and was an element of strength. There are now two prominent candidates for the presidency of the Mormon church —Goorge Q. Cannon and Joseph F. Smith. Each has a strong personal fol- lowing, and the contest is likely to be a lively one. take into account the rclative circulation of each daily. Every business man who knows the difterence in the value of ad- vertising mediums must concede that such a provision wasequitable and in the interest of the taxpayers. But the job- bers had their own way, and substituted a clause which obligates the council to let the advertising to the lowest respon- sible bidder, That the Republican could well afford to bid way below any other daily in Omaha is self-evident, in view of its very limited circulation, but that was not tho design of Cadet Taylor and his rascally copar- ceners, They were determinod to get the ad- wvertising at all hazards, without compe- tition, at rates way above those charged to their ordinary patrons. The scheming and plotting was set in motion immedi- ately after the charter was signed by the governor. Councilman Kiersted was importuned to pledge himself to vote the city printing to the Republican before he was even elected. Mr. Kierstead re- minded the conspirators that the charter required the advertising to be let by contract to the lowest bidder. He was told that it made “no difference what the charter said or who the lowest bid- der would be. We print the republicpn paper and if the republicans elect & ma- jority of the council, the adverlising be- longs to us.” This was the beginning of the plot, which compelled an appeal to the courts, From first to last it has been character- ized by methods which only boodlers and jobbers resort to. By pandering to the council bosses, associating in their or- gies of dissipation and cabals against the police commission, the government printing jobbers made themselves sohid with Hascall, Manville, Ford, Bechel & Co. The city clerk was used as a cat's paw and the city attorney as a tool. The next step was the blind advertise- ment for “oats, hay, coal, printing and corn, for the fiscal year ending July 1st, 1888." This was a game of ‘‘heads, I win; tails, you lose.” If the Republican proved to be the lowest bidder, 1t was to be awarded the contract; but if any competitor was lower, all bids were to be thrown out because the (iscal year begins and ends with Jan- uary 1,under the new charter. To make assurrance doubly sure, Cadet ‘Taylor filed three bids for a paper that only prints one edition daily. When this trickster found he had no competition, he withdrew two of the bids and left the bid which was rushed through by Man- ville, Ford & Co., after one-third of the councilmen hud left the chamber. This palpable fraud was enjomed by Judge Groff after a full hearing with Thurston and Webster pleading in favor of the job. It became the manifest duty of the council after this injunctien to re-adver- tise according to law and invite compe- tition which was sure to result in much lower rates. But rascality and rapacity were irrepressible. The resolution to invite new proposals was pigeon- haled, and still remains in the pockets of the printing committee of which Manville and Ford are the major- ity. To ‘‘whip the devil around the stump,"a resolution was passed directing city officials to insert all official advertis- ing in the Republican until further or- ders at the rates charged by the Beg, under its contract for this year. The charter requires this resolution, which is in the nature of a contractto be sub- mitted to the mayor for approval, but the jobbers and conspiring city officials,fear- ing & veto, ignored the mayor and put it into eftect in defiance of law and con- tempt of the courts. Their pretext was that City Attorney Webster pronounced the order, nullifying Judge Groff’s in- junction, as legal and proper. Mr. ‘Webster appeared before Judge Wake- ley in defense of this brazen job, but after a very patient hearing and ‘TnE sixth annual session of the Amer- ican Forrestry congress will be held this year at Springtield, Ill., beginning Nep- tember 14. The efforts of this congress have not accomplished all that they have aimed to do, but a “great deal has been done through their influcnce to awaken public interest in the question of forest preservation and to ipduce the planting of tressin localities where they have proved to be of inesumable benefit. Among the states thut have profited by tree planting Nebraska can bear unqual- ified testimony to the wisdom of the practice. The subject to which congress addresses itself is one of great import- anoce, and becomes more 80 every year. —— THERE is 8 commendable disposition to boom the Philadelphia celebration of the one-hundredth anniversary of the adoption of the federal constitution, which will occur in September. The latest advices state that the arrange- ments are progressing most satisfactor- ily, with every promise that the celebra- tion in all its features will be of unsur- passed interest and grandeur. The ocea- sion 18 certainly worthy of such a com- memoration, but as it cannot bq honored by the whole country at Philadelphia, some form of celebration should be ob- served everywhere. It will be an oppor- tumity for imparting general informa- tion regarding the constitution that might be very useful to this generation. THE board ot education is only wast- mature consideration the jobbers [ .~ h and tricksters were enjomed by | IDE time and breath in calling upon the Judge Wakeley and admonished council to annul the contract by which the school board procured a perpetual lease of a portion of the city’ hall build- ing. The money paid in by the school board has been expended upon the foun- dation and basement of the city hall, It is there now for good and cannot be taken out. The charter prohibits the council from diverting any money from any fund set apart for a special purpose. The money in the city hall fund cannot be used for a library building or any other structure. The project 18 the wild- est of wild-cat schemes. to cense their underhanded work. From a business standpoint the order of the council to advertise in the Republican at the same rates which the Bee has ob- ligated itself to accept under its contract shows connivance with jobbery on its face. Why should the city pay the Re- publican the same rates it has paid the Bee when any home or foreign adver- tiser can buy advertising space in the the Republican at his own price. Only last week Cadet Taylor made n contract with an Omaha advertiser for two col- umns of display to appear four days each week, including Sunday, and in each weekly edition for two months, also 450 lines of local notices, to be inserted during fair week, payable on November 1, for the sum of $100. This contract, duplhicated in the Bk, would cost $1,928.75. When it is borne in mind that the city paid $4323 for a col- umn and a half in the Republican for ona month, the arrant knavery of the outfit that is finding fault with Judge Wakeley’s injunction must be manifest to the most reckless councilman. While the BEE has given the city the benefit of rates fully 50 per cent below those charged 1ts com- mercial patrons, the Republican has ex- acted from five to twenty times as much from the city as itis willing to accept from anybody else. And why should the city want to advertise in a paper that has scarcely 1,000 circulation mm Omaha so long as it can advertise for the same price 1 a paper that circulates nearly 7,000 dailies in our city limits. I seems to us that it would be of some advantage to the editor of the Herald if he would occasionally ascertain the views of the proprietor of that paper on matters of public concern. The editor of that sheet is booming the Jefferson square library scheme. Congressman McShane is emphatically opposed to it. In common with ninety-nine out of a hundred of our citizens, Mr. McShane believes that Jefferson square should be reserved for park purposes. He also re- gards the scheme to build a library build- ing as premature. Mgz. COPELAND is nothing if not vis- fonary. His scheme to join the public library building project with a board of education structure 18 ptterly impractic- able. | KINGS AND 9VEENB. Labourchere says thht $rince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg, is a poor, Jnsigniticant, weak creature, about as fit to gévern a country asa sickly black beetle, = King Theebaw,of Byr , who was cap- tured by the English i#remnlm & nominal emm————— A Change For the Better, Kentucky is still in the democratic col- umn, but bourbon control in that state has suffered & material loss in popular support. The indications are that the of- ficial count will show the democratic ma- jority to be abouttwenty thousand, which is a falling off of fully fifty per cent from the normul wajority. In the last two presidential elections Hancock and Cleve- land received respectively 81,000 and 84,889 majority, but in the last two guber- uatorial elections vrecoeding the one just held the democratic ties excoeded 40,000, It in the late election, the majority is shown by the oflicial figurcs to be only 13,000 It may fairly be regarded as a loss of 50 per cent, certainly a very significant falling off. 1t is a change for the better which can be welcomed by every friend of political progress. No stato has been more heavily handicapped by a stubborn and unpro- gressive bourboniam than Kentucky, and if the resuit of the late election really shows that there is a revolt against this domination, it furnishes ground of hope that the stuto may at no distant dey prisover in India, ugh he has ample means and liberty. Queen Victorla wore glasses in public for the tirst time last weak. The lenses were no larger than & quarter- plece,and set in a plain bit of tortoise Prince Ferdinand o d:bur'. the coming Prince of Bulgaria, bears a very remarkable likeness to the earlier portraits of Louis XIV. If he is not very careful his monarchial euovu may strongly resemble that of Louls XI1V. Springfleld Unlon: Burmese ladles were puzzled when ssked to contribute to the jubllee offeriug to Queen Victoria, “Why should she want money?’ they asked. ‘‘Can itbe that she has no tobacco?™ Burmese Isdies smoke cheroots, and were pained to think that their august sovere!gn had to loaf around without smoking. A son was lately born to Prince Walde- mar of Denmark and the Princess Marie of Orleans, daughter of the Dug de Chartres. Prince W-‘How 13 a Protestant and the princess a Catholle, the consentof the Cathollc ehureh to the union was only given on condition that the children issuing from it should be educated in the Catholic church. Mr. F, H. Balfour gives this sketoh of Tz’ uhisl, the dowager Empress of Chins: “‘So S 1T TR thoroughly 1s she |the e pas-n nt| sald wmm‘wo‘l‘ma nltnlnu my'nrlyr::ud to E:‘v‘:“&.n-mum i ::ltlmnn . n: n lessons in box! of bloomer costume. Her appearance at the age of fifty In short skirts, hitting out at her venerable ptor, and, we presume, occa- sionally recelving punishment herself. must, mn¥ least of It, eause some scandal to the strait-laced censors who recentiy remon- strated with her on the undue smartness of her head-dress.” Denmark 18 a little kingdom, but for vari- ous reasons Kln‘z Christian IX is one of the most notable of the queen’s illustrious guests. His majesty Is not onl& the father of the rincess of Wales and the czarinaof Russia, ut alsoof the king of Greece and the un- fortunate Duchess of Cumberland. He has been king of Denmark for thirty-five years, and though it cannot be said that his temper is perfect the Danes know his heart is In the right place and put up with his rough meth- ods, partly because they are satisfied he means well and partly because they are afraid of him. At any rate King Christian is an autoerat and mark i8 admirably governed. —— 1t Is Everywhere So. Buffalo Courier. Chicago’s extravagence on boodlers has caused the pay of schoolteachers to be cus down. Boodlers come high, but Chicago must have them. — That Was All Chicago Inter Ocean. “Dan, where has Higeins been?” “Working up Baltimore p rimaries.” “Ohl fis thatall? Some one said he had monkeying again with my old clvil service polley.” The Walter's Fault Probably. New York World, N. Goldsmith, of Maplewood, Sullivan county, New York, has found a petrified potato in his garden. It is seldom that such & thing is fouud outside of a restaurant. it Democratic Harmony, Atlanta Conatitution, It Mr. Speaker Carlisle proposes to substi- tute the Ohio democratic.platform for the na- tional democratic platform, heis welcome. But he will have to step outside the demo- eratic party to do so —— Boston’s New Game. Chicago Tribune. An Intellectual young lady in Beston has invented an outdoor game in which poetical declamation, croqnet,and modulated football are combined in about equal proportions. Lawn ‘Lennyson would be & good name for it. ——— The Omaha Hog Market. Schuyler Quill. Mr. Joseph Bliss informs us that the Oma- ha hog market has been lately within ten cents per hundred as much as the same at Chicago. He further says that if it were not for the’ Omaha market the price of hogs would be trom fifty to seventy-five cents per hundred lower here. That's good. If the Omaha demand will do so inuch toward ad- vaueling tho price of pork the hog raising business will be more prolitable here in the future. ———— Prinne, Marquis and Commoner. New York Mercury. An American lady in Europe seems to be unhappy if she cannot have half a dozen titles trotting after her. Fortunately the supply isequal to the demand,and a little money goes a great ways in this direction. Sometimes, however, the custom has its drawbacks. Mrs. Frank Leslio, of New York, was riding in London recently in com- pany with a Russian prince and a lady, when suddenly an indignant marquis of her ac- quaintance rnshed up and cowhided the prince, who took hischastisement like a little lamb. The next day both titled personazes disappeared in opposite directions, and then rumor came upon the scone and asserted that the marquis wasthe son of a London hatter and the prince a Parisian jockey. ‘Titles are so cheap in Europe as to be con- temptible, yet counterfeits flourisl owing to American admiration of them. The moral i3 obvious. st gt To Stanley. In Afric’s wilds how sad thy lot, Where suns wax hot and hotter; Where even the very Hottentot One sees grows hot and totter! Better the sword thy lite cut short Or cannon shot ent shorter; Better to fall by one report Than by each tell teporter! e STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings, Chadron is Yrem\ring plans for a $20,- 000 school building, Lincoln’s cannery is turning out 8,000 corn loaded tins a day. Ponca's new hotel will open up with a free feed on the 1st of September. The Indianola district camp meeting is in progress in g grove near Bartley. The Red Willow County Institute at Bartley closed last Saturday and ad- journed for a year. The Ogalalla Cattle company recently delivered 6,000 head of cattle to the Rose- bud agency to be masticated by the In- dians. The old settlers of Dakota county will enjoy theirsixth annual reunion at Hile- man's grove, near Dakota City, on Satur- day, the 18th, The coming of the Elkhorn Valley road to Seward has knocked the props from the high tariff of the old roads, and ship- vers rejoice thereat. Two juries in Schuyler sat and swel- tered for hours oh the burglary cases and failed to agree. The jimmies will be tried again to-day. Ponca has added a single men's club to her dazzling layout of numerals. ft is handy to have in the house 1n case the broomstick kicks up a disturbance. ‘The republican central committee of Madison county has called the county convention to meet at Battle Creek on the 20th, to select delegates to the state and judicial conventions. One hundred and twenty of Holt county's teachers are discussin, the “Switchness of the Hence” in O'Neill and are progressing favorably with the problem. A Nevraska City enthusiast gives it out cold that the completion of the Burling- ton bridge at that point will place Ne- braska City on the main line. This wiil prove mighty interesting news to Platts- mouth, The beliet that Brownville was dead or sleeping turas out to be a violent mis- take. A peaceable citizen laid awake for skunks Saturday night, and shot his mother-in-law. Such enterprise should be promptly put down, even in cemetery towns, The Lincoln Democrat extracts some comfort from the effort of the Fowlers to prevent the Omaha stock yards company ghlng Armour a bonus, As the big utcher has already plased the roll in a safe corner of his jeans, his temper is not ruffled by the coolness of Lincoln or the long range crack of his rival. The Fremont Tribune has information Thurston has been invited about beets and pumpkins at the Dixon oountg fair. In accepting the in- vitation he thought he would stand better with the farmers to briefly state that he *'is under en, ment 1o appear before the Pacitic railway commission in New York next month,” but thinks he can attend to both, Jowa ltems. The state board of equalization raised the assessod valuation of Sioux county 5 per cent. The total valuation of Guthrie county 18 $4,857,709, an increase of 5 per cent over last year. ‘The Dubuque city council will invite President Cleveland to witness the dedi cation of its high bridge. A reunion of Smiths will be held at Webster City September 17. Webster City is a good place, but hasn't Poca- {mnms greater claims on the Smith fum- ly? The equalized value of Adalr county proporty 1s land, $3,833,407; personal property, $828,548; " railrond property, 12,680; totwl, $3,874,643, Percentage of inorense, 10; tree exemptions, $08,833, Belle Fountain, on the Des Momes river, which, when the peovle of lowa territory were voting for a capital, was only one vote behind Iowa City and flourished & good many years ago as a town of 2,000, now has only about a dozon families within its limits, 1Its buildings have been moved to Tracey, a new town on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. At Pocohontas llihtnlnE struck the house of C. H. Hutchins, killing a son and rendering the father and three other children insensible, and sotting the car- pet 1n the room on fire. The mother was not injured and managed to drag the other live members out doors and then oxtinguished the flames. Mr. Hutchin and two of the children are badly para- 1yzed, but will recover. Prophet Foster, of Burlington, be- lieves that the period from August 21 to 27 covers a numboer of minor storin dis- turbances. He thinks September, like Jul{, will bo very stormy and the heaviest of the storms will ocour within three or four days before or after the 16th, ‘These heavy storms are expected to affect lowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illi- nois. The dates, within twenty-four hours of which the storms of September are expected to cross the Mississippi are the 8d, 4th, 8th, 13th, 18th, 10th and 25th. The storms of the 13th and 19th are ex- pected to be unusually severe, and to be accompanied by vnr? warm weather, those of the 4th and 8th to be followed by cool waves, Dakota. The total valuation of Yankton county 18 $3,144,983, an increase of $809,833 over last year. The harvest in Brown county is thor- oughly under way, and the wheat crop was never better, The territory is arrnnfinz to equip the militia with the regulation 45-calibre Springfield rifle in use by the govern- ment, The old arms now in use will be turned over to the adjutant of the ter- ritory. The total valuation of Minnehaha county is $7,600,000. That of the city of Sioux Falls is $3,712,000. Fully $100,000 in the city does not show up in the list, being manufactories exempt under speo- ial laws, A military post near Bismarck had a sonsation. “A beautiful nun sent out to toach the Indians has fallen in love with a handsome young lieutenant, The nun has been sent east to be disciplined within convent walis, the officer bem% a married man whose wife is visiting in the east. ‘There are now in the Sioux Falls peni- tentiary eighty-five prisoners; in the Bis- marck prison about fifty or sixty —in all, say 140—not a bad showing for the terri- mrfl, considering that the population of Dakota, in round numbers, is 600,000, making one criminal (caught) for more than every 4,000 inhabitants, ST Nebraska Versus Oolorado. Denver Republican. It appears that the Nebraska people are about to bring a suitin the United States court 1n this city to compel a di- vision of the water which flows through the Platte. They object to it being di- virted and carried out over the land in this state for irrigation purposes. This move is unwarranted, for the reason that the amount of water which is in any one season diverted does not equal that which finds its way beneath the surface into the river again. That which feeds the river in this way comes trom the irri- gation of former years. Ifirrigation this season were stopped, the supply of water flowing into the river next season from beneath the surface would be very small. ‘The soil takes up this year like a sponge the water which next year it discharges in the form of sprinfs. But, disregard- ing this, we should like to know what right the people of Nebraska have to the waters of the state of Colorado, By the constitution of our state all the water of the streams is the property of the public, subject to the right of appropriation by its inhabitants. The state of Nebraska has no authority within the boundaries of this state whatever, The Platte is not a navigable stream, and its: water is not subject to the control of the Federal gov- ernment. There is no inter-state com- merce business about the I’latte river and its water. The water belongs to the state of Colorado until it flows beyond the boundary of the state. When it crosses the boundary the jurisdiction of Colarado over it censes. But so long as it is conlined to the limits of this state the governor of Nebraska and the people of Nebraska have no more authority over it than have the inhabitants of Timbuc- too. o The Antiguity of Man, Boston Herald: The Christadelphians of Boston held their usual weekly re- ligious services yesterday in Chandler hall, No. 18 Esscx street. The subject of the mormnE discourse was the question: **Has man been on the carth more than 6,000 years?' The subject was illus- trated with a chart showing mathemat- ical calculations. 'This chart was drawn up oa the assumption that the existence of the human race upon the terrestrial globe has continued uninterruptedly for 50,000 years. The speaker, however, de- nied that this claim was founded on any tenable scientific hypothesis. Beginmng his calenlations with two human be- nge, and allowmnz for the number of persons being doubled every 500 years during the first ages, he showed that there would exist at the end of the first 10,000 years, 2,097,152 persons. The com- putation at the close of 50,000 would show 10 existance such myriads of human bo- ings us would be inconceivable to the human mind. To express the number would require o row of figures running into the nonillions. The population of tho earth at the present day, he said, is 1,400,000,000. He contended that the hu- man race conld not poisibly be 50,000 years old. Whenover ¢vidences of occu- | pancy of the earth prior to the Adamic period had been discovered they were the remains of a race which had tenunted this world and become extinct before the times recorded in the book of Genesis. That such a race had existed and had beon destroyed could be maintained, the speaker said, from the scriptural wnt- ings of Peter and Jude and from Paul's expistle to the Corinthinns, Speaking of the argument against the resurrection of the body which 1s made by those persons who nssert thut space could not be found on the surface of the globe to assemble the resurrected bodies at the day of judgment, the speaker hig- ured out that al! the bodies of all the hu- man beings who huve peopled tho earth since the time of Adam could be cul- lected in a space not larger thun the state of New York, and he did not think 80 large a territory would be requited. i A doiand Liquor Does Dot Warm. General Greely eays that he noticed during his aretic experience that those gentlemen with him who warmed up with & cocktail in the morning were the coldest chaps in the crowd before night - ‘The postoffice at Walnut Hill has veen discontinned, and parties residing in that d | suburb if they buve their mail addres to their residences haye the same de- | livered by letter earviers from tins city. l IN MEMORIAM, D d, on the night of the 4th of Au O™ Shdostckon of Benjamin b Rosa Nowman, nged 10 years. During this summer ana past spring the leveler of all human greatness has been busy removing to another existenes many who had, to all appearances, years of pleasure and usefulness. The feevle have been spared in many Instances where thelr dissolution hiad been expected, while the young and vig- orous have been gatherod into his garner a8 though they were ripe for Heaven. Among these I am deeply pained to record the name of Joseph Newman, whose young and manly frame seomed to mark him ag destined to reach not only the meridlan, but also the sunset of human lif. And [ittle did the writer of this imagine when biddin, him a pleasant good morning on the 3d of August that this would be his last farewell, and that a watery grave would enshroud hig young triend. Butso it was destined to be Those who knew Joseph Newman will confass that few nobler spirits were found among us, or that many could Iay ¢laim to a more genial and kind disposition than dis- tinguished him in his brief career. e was deeply loved by his own immediate conneo- tions, and has left a void in their household which nothing can repair. Of our departed Jmf‘l“ 'I';'lzmé”i !tn:ih has passed and gone, A @'e brief day has a 3 Jem shall wlnl’er. stern and dread, Nor fervid heat ol summer sun Disturb thy lonely, quiet bed. Freed from all tha 11ls of life, No heavy sins to be forgiven, Rest thou from thy mortal strife, ! Frail child of earth, high heir of heaven N. 1. Benson, Rabbl. Military News, The troops from Fort Niobrara will reach here a few days in advance of the G. A. R. reunion. They will first attend the reunion of the soldiers of northwest. ern Nebraska at Norfolk, Lieutenant Hutchinson, of the Ninth cavalry, from Fort Niobrara, arrived this morning. It was this gentleman who was with Mrs. General Kautz when she was injured in the runaway of her team, Both Mrs. Kautz and the Lieutenant were thrown to the ground. the former sus- taining two fractures of one of her limbs, Lieutenant Hutchinson was bruised, though not dangerously. The general figure of merit of the shoot- ing at the Bellevue range is 73.76, while the figure of last year was but79.10. The skirmish tigure of merit is 45, while of last year it was but 87. Lieutenants Uentler and Shattuc, of Fort Douglas; Lieutenants Roach and Gruin, of Fort Russell, and Jackson and Baker, of McKinney, have arrived to as- sume duties as officers of the competition at the range. General Breck is at Clifton, N. Y. Badly Burned. Complaints have been pouring inte Gas Inspector Gilbert from the citizens of the Sherman avenue district that the gasoline lamps of that particular locality were pot lighted Baturday or Sunday evenings. The inspector explains this condition of things by the recountal of an accident to the lamp lighter Saturday night just after he had started out on hia rounds to light the lamps. In ap- plying the torch to a lum p, the oil in one of the big cans became 1gnited in some mysterious and unaccountable way, aad n endeavoring to extinguish this, the man was most severely burned from the knees down, and had to discontinue work and go home. Sunday no one could be obtained to do his work, but this eve- ning all the lamps will be promptly touched off on time. Douglas County Teachers. The Teachers institute of Douglas county, which opens August 13, promises to be an interesting affair. All persons who iIntend to teach in this county the ensuing school year, will be expected ta attend, as the law contemplates the at- tendance of all engaged in the practice of teaching in the public schools of the state. No person will be entitied to a institute certificate who has not attend at least two-thirds of the entire time of the institute. The tuition fee to help de- fray the expenses of the institutg has been vlaced at fifty cents this year, Amina- tions for certificates will be held on Sa- urday, August 20, and Friday and Satug- day, August 26 and 27, The Portery Suit. The litigation between Dayid J. Collins and the ofhcers of the Nebraska Tile & Pottery company turned up in the courts again yesterday. This time the pottery company issues an injunction against Collins to keep him from holding an election and forcing a new set of ofticers on the company. The fight is cver the stock issued to Franklin Howard, which holds the balance of power, Last week Collis had an injunction issucd against Howard to restrain him from voting on the stock he helgl. Attacks of dysvepsin, which produce insuflerable agony, relieved at once by Fred. Brown's Jammen Ginger. A Card From Myr. Ben Nowman, In behalf of my entire family I desire to thank my numerous friends who have shown me their kind sympathy and con- dolence during the time. when sorrow and grief entered my home. It is with sincere gratitude that we tender this our approciative ucknowled%mant, BN NEWMAN. OUR LITTLE GRANDCHILD. Cleansed, Purified, and Beautified by the Cuticura Remedies. It affords mo ploasure to give you this re- port of the cure of our little grandchild by JUTICURA KEMEDIES six_months ol *ft hand bogan to sweil and had overy uppearance of & large bofl. ' We poulticed it, but all to no purpose. About five months aftef it became a running sore. Boon other sores 1. He thon had two of them on uach A soro Lip, whiich was' very oftetisive. i o on the chin, beneath tho undoer His hond wae one solid scab, discharging n_grvent deal This was his condition at twenty-two months old, when | undertook the care of him, his_mother having died whon he wus a littlo more than & ear old, of consumption, (sorofula of course). To could walk a little, but couid not get up if he fell down, and could not move when in bed, having no use of his hands. I immediately commenced with the CUTICORA ~REMEDIKA, UTICULLA BOAP freoly, bottle of the (! a1 the CUTICURA an or; nd ho wus improved In e very much encouraged, and continue the use of the Remedies for u yenr and u huif. One sore after auothor healod,n bony mntter forming in each 016 of these five des) ones just betore healing, which would Gnaily grow 00ae and wore taken out: then they wouid heal rapidly. One of these ugly bone formations [ prosorved. Afte d a half hottles he was 0o 1he age of Alx yer; The scars on his b remaing his hunds are strong, though wo once foured he would never be able'to us th All that phy- m id him no kood. All who UKIDg (he CUTICURA REME: ild now consider it & won. If the above faci® are of uny use Ly to use them. E. £. DRIGGS, st., Bloomivg o, T ae condition than D derful cure. to you, you sre at lib May 0, 1895, 612 . ( Tha ekild was really in he appeared to his g with him every day, bocal dises L ICAL CO., Boston. Send for ‘'How te Cure Skin Diseases. ITCH! G 8ay, Pimoiy and Olly ikin Ve by COTIGURA SOAP, 13 ONE M Pars PLA