Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 23, 1887, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. The Rights of the Farmer. Addressing the farmers at tho inter- state convention recenly held at Atlanta, nama oanal is still regarded by capable scientific men. but even if that be accom- plished, the enterprise is likely never to e Senator Colquitt said: *‘Could you be [ be & profitable one. It will be TERVS OF SURSORTPTION ¢ allowed to sell where you could get the | burdened with an enormous debt, best price and buy where you could buy | the interost of which will eall cheapest, your incomes, lot them be | for all the possible earnings and B Oaahe Tane great or small, would bo enhanced per- | which will compel the exaction of ex- [ haps thirty-threo and one-third per cent.'’ | tremely heavy tolls. This, with the un- ATA OPFICE, No. 114 AND G18 FARNAM STREET. 2’he proposition applies as well to the | fayorable climatic conditions, which do P omk OrFic, Kook ¢ Tutatk Briioiya: | farmers of the west as to those of the | not existon the Nicaragua route, will south. The policy which operates to the tend to keep down the business of the _ ORRESPONDENCE: detriment of the producers from the soil | Panama canal, and with the former as a W torial :‘a“&?fi'fl.'flm"fl.“lzflm"‘“"‘:'&“dflk in one scction, s in a dogree, if not | rival the latter would perhaps never pay, i TOR OF THE DBRR equally, to the disadvantage of produc- | and certainly not for generations. The . BUSTNESS LETTRRSt ers in all seotions. The farmers of the | fact that the Nicaragua project is purely o e Courany, | Whole country are compelled to eell in | an American enterprise. to be built by Quans._ Drafta, checks and postofics orders the cheapest market and buy in the dear- | the capital and under the management 0 be made payable 10 the order of the €ompany, | ogt, The prics of their products is es- | of Americans particularly commends it tablished in a foreign market, subject to | to the favorable regard of the people of o THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. the free competition of the stmilar this country, and now' that the pra- % E. ROSEWATER, Eprror. products of other countries, but when | jectors arc pushing tho matter in earnest they come to buy the implements neces- gary to sow and harvest their crops, or any necessity not of their own produc- tion, they find that it has been protected against competition and thoy must pay a bounty on it. Their wheat and corn must take the chances of supply and de- mand with the wheat and corn of other countries, but the manufacturers of plows and harrows, mowers and peapers, and all the other implements of the farm, and have given an ampla pledge of thelr faith in its success, it will be no surprise it it shall speedily take practical form and become a consummated fact within the time prescribed for its construction. —— Plan For Electoral Reform. Mr. Allen Thorndike Rice, editor of the North American Review, has drawn up a plan for the prevention of bribery at elections. His method contemplates THE DAILY BEE Sworn Statement of Clrculation. ¥ Btate of Nobnxh{ s County of Dougias. |* Geo. ‘Tzschuck, necuur{ of The Bes finblluhln: company, does solemnly swear at the actual circuiation of the Dally Bee 5‘;{1 the week ending August 19, 1857, wasas ows: s Baturday, August 13. Bunday, August 14. Mondayv.August 1 Tuesday, August 16, Wednesday, August 17. are subject to no such conditions, but | open nominations to oftice which will do ;nurmnx. Augnst 18, are in a position to make every year's | away with primaries. This is no doubt a riday, August 19 production yield a profit. So it is with | move in the right dircction, but Mr. Average.. everything else the Americun farmer has | Rice’s system, in detail, Is cumbersome to buy. Senator Dawes, of Massa- chusetts, in a gpeech some time ago which and would be found to be imvracticable. "0, 1. Tzscw g worn to and subscribed mu’.'a‘-/): presence Tho plan is substantially as follows: B this 22d day of August, A. D. 1 N, P. Fr, has been extensively commented upon, | T he registration oflicers are to receive Stato fig"e{fi;nn Notary Pubiie. deplored the inadequacy of prntoctiqn in | and print five days before the registra- iy | o8 . worsted goods, Thoduty on goods either | tion the names of all the eligible persons Geo. B, chuck, belng first duly sworn, | partially made of worsted or wholly made | who may be recofimended by a certain deposes and says that he'is secretary of The Boo Publishing company, that tie nctual | Of that material is 83,18 per cont and number of voters as fitted for the oftices farmer shall have to pay an increased price on the garments he must buy for himself and family? It i8 said that a powerful effort is heing made through Indian merchants in Eng- land to secure reductions in railway freights in India in order to compete more effectually with American wheat. This is but one of numerous facts which show that tio other grain-producing countries of the world are making every avermm daily eirculation of the Dally Bee for | 63.15 per cent, and this ind\lm.ry employs | to be filled at the ensuing he month of August, 1t 12,464 coples: for | a majority of women and children in | election. When a citizan regis- ?&“"1'5.@30&3'\}3?0:«0“‘;%” for October, | order to secure cheap labor. Does 1t | ters he will be reauested to designate mrfes- for Deceniber, 1886, 13,2 need more protection, in order that the | such of these persons as he may Januaty, s, 10200 co fes wish to be put in nomination, and any person thus designated by one-tenth of the voters registered at the' last clection shall be placed on the list of candidates, and the expenses of election are to be borne by the county. The registration officers wiil prepare the ballots contain- ing the names of the candidates, there being as many different ballots as there are offices, and the names of all oandi- dates for the same office to be upon one 857, 14,108 copies: for March, 1887, 14,400 coples; for April, 147, 14,310 coples: for May, Y1887, 14,227 coples: for June 1887, 14,147 ‘eoples; for July, 1857, 14,008 copies. Gro. B, T2scnmuck. Bubsoribed and sworn to before me this aith dayof August, A, D, 1897 ISEAL.| N. P. Friv, Notary Publie. ‘'TwAs the cat!” "I'was Seavey. That's the usual eutcone of every sensa- tional report about police blunders which finds its way into the council combine possible effort to divide the trade | ballot, each ballot to be attached toa organs, now enjoyed by the American | stub or counterfeit, which must corre- ——— farmer, not, however, as an | spond with a book of ballots of the same 1 A BURNT-CORK minstrel man suicided | intolligont und fair-minded po- | form to be given to the inspectors on the | .o: K(m::;z:;wrda! through the agency | jitical economist has recently - said, | morning of election. At the election the The propriety of his greatly to their profit. Thegrain grower choice of route 18 as unquestioned as ¢ g 5 5 i of the United States may sce his markets voter takes his ballots and marks off from each the candidates for whom he does that the executioner should chop off his | narrawing and fool the growing pressuro | not wish to vote, compartments in own head, the soldier put a gun shot | ot a competition from India, Russia, Tur- | the polling place being provided g through his heart aud the lawyer talk | key, Egypt and South Amorica, but ho | for this purpose. Before the ballot himself to death. has no alternative but to grin and bear it. | is delivered to the elector his — Tne entries in the speed trials, which naturally form the central feature of the coming fair and exhibition were closed yesterday, Just as a spur to closcr seru- tiny, the board of control is warned against ringers and outlaws who occa- slonally campaign the western turf. Memories of Lothaire still survive and a | Jocky trick of any kind can mar the best dovised event. v In his patient and trustful way he will continue on sowing and reaping as the seasons come and go, hoping for a better state of things. Meanwhile, the protect- ed manufacturer will sell him all that he can afford to buy and take their gencrous profits without a qualm, willing to in- crease them by adding to the duties, as Senator Dawes would do in the case of worsted goods. The fault, however, is largely with the farmers themsel They have it in their power to apply the remedy, but they have submitted 80 long to the cortrol of theories which, however justifiable in theé past, are no longer applicable, that they seem unable now to free themselves of the control. They cannot misapprehend the true character of the situation or the meaning of the facts of every-day experience, and that they do not ravolt against a system which they must know to be an oppres- sion can only be explained on the score of that strong conservatism whica is characteristic of the farming element, and is repelled by anything which seems to be reactionary. But whatever the influence that holds them to the sup- port of a policy which continually robs them, and is every year increasing their disadvantages, it cannot be much longer maintained, The oppression is becoming so heavy, the yoke so galling, that before long there will be heard a de- mand for relief which will startle the tariff monopolists from their dream of security and force them from a sheer number, name, and description must be called, a mark must be put on the regis- tration list to show he has received the bullot, and it must be stamped by the chairman of the board of inspectors; and after the canvass of the votes the stubs of the ballot-books, together with all de- faced or mutilated ballots, all unused ballots, and the stamp, must be filled in the same manner and at the same time as the poll list or registry list is required to be filed. Mr. Rice says: *‘This plan would give any stated number of citizens the legal power to secure the nomination of an honest and competent caudidate in their district or ward withoutencountering the noisy perils of the primaries.” ——— TRERE appears to be aconflict between the wine-growers of California and Ohio, and if we may judge from the remarks of a San Francisco contemporary it is not likely to be easily settled. From this one-sided statement it secems that Cali- fornia growers insist on making only pure wines, while those of Ohio are not averse 1o making a spurious article and really do so. The evident opinion of our contemporary is that in any event good wine cannot be mude from the Ohio and it does not hesitate to say that the wine industry there is not a genuine industry. Therefore, it makes no reser- vation n mviting and welcoming the conflict which is expected to manifest 1t- self in full vigor when Congressman ey MauricE RoSENFELDT, the Chicago stock and grain broker who was caught 1 the June wheat crash on the Chicago board, just now fcels the rebuke of his Iate distinguished father. A codicil in - the old man’s will, inserted during the brief interval between the breaking of the corner and his death, devises to the wife of Maurice tho share of the handsome legacy naturally falling to that son, o———— Tne indignation evoked from the friends of hberty under all skies save British, by the proscrintion of the National league of Ireland, swells to the expression of some stirring sentiments from the distinguished Irish citizens cf Lincoln, The resolutions passed in the meeting of the branch of the Land league n that city, as given in this morning's BEE, appeal for endorsement 10 tho spirit of our own free inatitutions. Tur brutal and deliberate murder ot the Newer brothers near Friend, yester- ¥ day, puts another chapter to the serial of H ! sense of their own safety to make a fair | Romies, of Ohio, who revresents the i :’:":::‘h‘;f";kpfi{fi;fi:fifi‘:';’fi"l::“mfi concession for lessoning the burden of | chief wine-growing section, shall } would scem that neither tho life cll, the | t0Xation they have imposed on agricul- | introduce his pure-wino bill in the execution by law and the swift retribu- | v next congress, Jet us make the 1ssue,’’ says the San Francisco journal, “‘and fight it out. Let us show the east where we stand and where Ohio stands. Let us force the Ohioans into the ground they secem to want. It will do California no harm to be advertised as straining every nerve to supply the east with pure wine, while persons in Qhio are exerting themselves to maintain the manufacture of a mixture of grape juice and corn spirits to be sold as wine.” This is a matter which may have an interest only for wine-drinkers, but we desire to say that until Onio is heard from the verdict must be tavorable to California. A wine that can evoke such rhetoric as the above and much more like- it has very decided merit, whether it be purer than some other wine, and particularly the Ohio vintage, or not. The Nicaragua Routo. The fact that the company which pro- poses the construction of the Nicaragua canal has deposited the pledge of good faith, $100,000, demanded by the Nicar- aguan government, must be regarded as an expression of confidence in‘thaten- terprise and an assurance of business in- tontion that give the project a claim to regard a8 something very likely to be realized. The scheme has been in con- templation a number of years, and the question of its feasibility has received the most careful consideration from sci- entific men, chiefly officers of the United States navy. Very little doubt is now entertained that the canal can be suc- cessfully constructed at a cost not to ex- ceed $75,000,000 and in & period of from five to six years. The project is purely a private onterprise, and does not seek & subsidy from thisor any other govern- ment. The company, which is entirely American, last May obtained from the the government of Nicaragua liberal con- cessions, which are to continue for two hundred years. This corporation will look to private capital wholly for carry- ing out the enterprise, believing that 1t is not only entirely practicable, but would certainly become immensely pro- fitable. The commercial advantages ex- pected from the completion of this work, if they should be realized, are of the most important character. One of these, 1t is thought, would be the establishment of a great lumber trade between Alaska and the Atlantic. 1t would doubtlese effect a great increase of the guano and nitrate trade with the west coast of South America. Germany would use the canal for her trade with the South sea. Spain for commerce with the Philipine 1slands, France with Ton- quin and Otahite, Holland with Java, and Russia with Eastern Siberia. Much of the English trade with Chins, Japan, Australia and New Zealand would use this line of travel. Most of the trade which goes in sailing ships between Europe and the east would use the new route, It would, in short, in the opinion of the projectors, open up a greatavenue for commerce for which there is a great and urgent demand, and from which the United States would secure almost im- measurable benefits. The ultimate completion of the Pa- have steadily met each outrage, offer but littie dismay to the robber, rapist and as- sassin. A SCOTCHMAN recently arrived in New York under contract to work for a Ken- tucky farmer, The collector sent him back, as his landing would be in violation of the foreign contract labor law, and the United States circunit court sustained him in this decision. Poor peovle are sent back bocause they may become public pharges, and when they have arranged for work they have disqualifiea them- selves for landing. It will soan be easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a neadle than for a poor man to enter the territory of the United States. i ’ tive judgments of 'Squire Lynch, which ¥ g e AN clevator fell in New York last week, killing one person, fatally injuring another and more or less seriously maim- ing eleven other victims. This disaster | was brought about by an attempt to save the difference in expense between a cast- iron and wrought-iron cog wheel. Such parsimony is criminal, and the proprie- tors should be prosecuted. The elevator is coming more and more into general use and it should be constructed in such A manner that a person may not feel as though he were taking his lfe in his hands every time he avails himself of one. So many improvements have been made in elevators recently that if they are made of the best material and properly manned there need be little risk of life in using them. — SE——— TrE inspection of oil has disclosed the fact that no petroleum oil was being of- fered in the markets of Nebraska for illuminating purvoses below the re- quired tests, All such oil inspected dur- ing July was passed, The gasoline in- spected was condemned for lighting. There is good reason to believe that the enactment of the law was 1mmediately effective, in advance of the appointment of inspectors, 1n substituting a good and safe oil for the inferior article, a great deal of which unquestionably was sold before the law was passed. If careful and honest inspection is maintained the people of Nebraska who use oil for illuminating purposes may rest assured of hereafter getting a reliable article. ——— THE city treasury is running low. The council should lop off all supernumer- wries if it desires to retain funds enough for legitimate municipal expenses, There 18 no reason why the city should pay $480 per month for three deputy city treasurers when the charter pro- vides only for one deputy., There is no excuse for squandering money on ex- pensive deputy city clerks, or any other deputies or clerks where the principals are paid to do the work and can do it if disposed to devote their time to their official duties. The city of Omaha is not running a pension bureau, nar an invalid retroat. s S——— ‘THE president of Venezuela, Guzman Blanco, now stopping in New York, says Great Britain has become very aggres- sive in acquiring territory in his republic and south of the Orinoco. He is sur- prised thatthe press of this country has not made note of this aggressiveness. ‘Venazuela has suspended relations with England 1n consequence and has ap- poaled to the United States 1o act as ar- biteator for the South American country. The English government has denied the right of arbitration, and therepublic pro- poscs to appeal to arms. A few thou- sand soldiers ltave been raised to drive the usurpers from the territory. This country ought to take a stand in favor of the sister republic, for the matter is of oconsiderable import to the United States both directly and indirectly. — As is usual in such cases, important books of account used by the latest Napoleon of figance, are musing: The THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY: withholding of such books when de- manded by the proper authorities is con- tempt of court, and Henry S, Ives muy euddenly find himself in jail alter all. Important books were reported missing in the recent Union Pacifie investigation also, but Stanford, Huntington, Crocker & Co. did not secrh to be taken to task in regard to the matter as they should have been, In these attempts to bring thieves on a large scale to justice, more thoroughness is neccessary, It looks more as though the proceedings against them is marely.a snare to pacify tho pub- lic which is boginning to clamor for more equality in the administration of justice, without any real desire to bring about decided results. —— THE G. A. R, (ilee Club is rehearsing for a worthy rendition of “Marching Through Georgia’ on the oceasion of the grand reunion shortly to be hetd here. A happy inspiration prompts this step, for of all the war sougs of the nation none 8o vividly carries the martial spirit in melody and words. It is a singular cir- cumstance that beyond a few catch- words of the refrain the words of this ringing battle hymn, ‘‘one of the surely permanent musical legacies of the war,” are almost if not entirely unknown to the people. An air so closely linked with the proudest achievements of our arms should be wedded to words of equally thrilling measure aud put into the brain and heart of every patriot son and daughter who can lift a voice in loyal song. A cLAv is now pending before the council for the sweeping of Dodge street m July. The board of public works has rejected this claim beeause the work was never done, and could not have been done on account of the obstruction by the cable road of that street. But the coun- cil comnnttee has over-ruled the board and reported in favor of allowing this bid. _The question is,” what use 18 there for e board of public works, and why should the city pay for sweeping streets that have never been swopt any more than they should pay for paving streets that have not been paved THE county commissioners will be obliged to make the division of the coun- ty to five commissioner distriots within aweek. This apportionment is of the utmost importance to the interests of the county, and upon it hinges very largely the character and make-up of the county government. Miss PorpLETON’s realistic sketch of Jeflerson square as a park presents good argument for thé improvement of that square by the council, but no logical reasons are presented in support of the proposition that,a public library there would make the square a more agreeable and sightly resort. A Grear deal of plotting and under- hand scheming is already going on in political circles for the nominations to the district bench. Any man who will d 1 to the level of the pot-house politician in his anxiety to become a judge, is utterly unfit for the place. Jouxy M. Tr oN will doubtless ba gratified to learn that the Pacific railroad commission has about concluded its in- vestigation, and has no disposition to re- turn to Omaha to intervi him about oil rooms and legislative boodle. —_— e DunriNG the months of May, June and July the city strcet commissioner gang has drawn out of the treasury $8,314.88. The question is, what has the city toshow in the way of improvements for this enormous sum? PROM NT PERSONS Suwanley has more lives and deaths than a cat. Mr. Parnell has lapsed from heaith again and is ailling, Fifty inembers of the Marsh famiiy met in Hartford, Conn., the other day. Rev. J. P. Newman, “Grant’s parson,” is the guest of Senator Stanford, in San Fran- cisco, Wall street has not yet decided what the effect of the birth ot Gould’s grandson will have upon the market. The widow of Lou's Spohr, the composer, is still living in Cassel. She recontly cele- Drated her eightieth birthday. General Ferron, Boulanger’s successor as French mnister of war, is a tall, fine-looking man, with gray hair and mustache. General of the Army Sheridan has gone to Newport to join his family, and will not re- turn to Washington before September. Red Shirt Is diszusted with the British parliament. After his visit to the bald- headed house of commons he remarked that there was not a “'scalp” to be seen from the gallery, And now It is said that Senator Riddle- berger wants to fight a duel with Judge New- man, Riddleberger seems to be a good deal more fitted by nature for breaking laws than for making them. Ex-Governor Hoadley, of Ohlo, s going o build a $40,000 residence in New York., He has recovered quickly from his alleged bank- ruptey throuzh the operations of Archbishop Purcell’s assignee. General Rosser, having demolished the general of our armies, now moves upon the national treasury, and proposes to bankrupt the general government by using its assests in vayment of the debt of Virginia. Pobedounczew 15 | the uncompromising name of the man who will probably suceeed the late Editor Katkosr as the leader of the Russian Panslavists. A son of the actress Rachel, M. Felix, lleu- tenant in the French army, died recently in the interfor of Africa. He distinguished himself by his bravery in the war of 1570, A monument of beautiful design will soon be placed over the grave of Chester A. Arthur. Besides thig be will have a monu- ment in New York city, erected by volun- tary subsrelptions to {he amount of $30,000 Colonel Thomas E. Rose, commander at Fort Courtro, Tex., i# at Cape May. Colonel Rose Is the man who briginated the famous escape from Libby ‘prison whereby forty-nine unlon soldlers rezained their freedom on the night of February 9, 1864, Roscoe Conkling is making a reputation as s swimmer. He is very fond of the sportand his speclalty is floating. He can float for hours at a time, The lung development he has obtained as an orator stands him In good stead when he enters the water. Colorow, the Ute chief, who s making the disturbance in Colorado, i3 an enormous eld savage weighinz 300 pounds, He is what is kuown i the base ball slang as “a kicker.” He has never been satisfied with the govern- ment, and has been more or less rebellious all his Life, Mrs. Oleveland has grown very: brown at Marion. Her complexion is one which i Im- proved by a coat of tan, and she now looks. like & Spanish beauty. The name ‘“‘Donna Frances” whigh was given hor by her friends at Wells college has followed her to her pres- ent ablding place, ana even the country folks about Marion call her by that romantie sveculator with the information GUST 23, 1887, title, I — Our Long Armed Politicians, Philadelphia Times. We havn't any emperors in this country to embrace when they meet, but we have plenty of politiclans who will embrace anything from a department clerkship to a cabinet office. P S — Lamar as an Anti-Poverty Soclety. Chicago News. The rate at which Secretary Lamar 18 ro- storing railway lands %o the public domain gives rise to the suspicion that he has organ- ized himself Into a very effective anti-poverty- soclety, ———e A Lesson From Russia. Medical News, A station 18 to be established in St. Peters- burg for the examination of food materials offered for sale In the city. the charge of scientists appolnted by the government, 1t will _be under U a— A Mititary Question. Chicago Herald, Isn't it a little severe on the secretary of war for the treasury department to declde that the horses which draw him do not comne under the head of ““army transportation?” It the secretary Is uot the army, who is? i This Has a Familiar Sound. Stockton Mail, When an eastern man arrives at Los Angeles and deposits his wealth in one of the loecal banks, the bank president claps on his plug hat and frantically hunts upa real es new sucker in town. Got $25,000 Go for him!” e Did Not Scem to Feel at Home. Houschold Journal, John Stevens, a friend of ours, attended a spititual seance last week, and was in con- versation with the spirit ot a young laay. After some talk he asked her whero she was. She said, “in heaven.” He asked her how she liked it. She sad: “Pretty well; but it isn’t New York. R Waiting, Sam T. Clover. Serene I hold my hand and wait, " Nor care for biuff, nor full, nor pat, Lrave no more 'gainst luck nor fate, For, lo! the stakes will settle that. Istay my haste, I feizn my aelay— 1 inward quake yet sShow no sign; A diamond sequence smiles my way, And tells me that the pot is mine. Since yesternizht till early day. ‘This little game I've bucked in vain— And watched the dollars go astray With sinking heart and aching brain, What matter 1f the cash has flown? L wait with f‘n_v the coming bet; My hand shall reap what has been sown, And make me even with them vet. 80 let them draw: I little care For giddy flush or tempting_ straight; And though I cannot show a pair, Allbluffs will I accommodate. With each new bet my epirit soars— “The ending plainiy 1 forsea; Not tlush, nor full, nor even “fours"” Can take the pot away from me. Dame Fortuue long has proved unkind, But now at lust she deigns to swile, And in my bosom sits enshrined, For, 1ol gather in the pile. * STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottir i latest Nebraska town to scovery of coal. Clay Center can say other over the tele- Endicot! announce ard and to cach phone. Grand Island citizens go thirsty on Sunday now, the saloons having been closed on that day. Beatrice was very quiet last wee there not being a single case to be di posed of in police court. Mvrs. Roberts, of Norden, fell down a flight of steps the other day and came very near climbing the golden stairs. Mrs. derick Ranzo, of Fairfield, has left her liege lord, but carries a bullet in one of her legs as a last token of regard from her late consort. Hadar, Pierce county, has lost its post- ofiice. The postmaster removed from town the other dzy and nobody else wants the job. e wife of Poter Howard, living near Doniphan, has beon sent to the insane asylum. Her mal was caused by being frightened a severe storm. Some twenty citizens of Endicott have signed articles of incorporation of the Endicott Milling association, and a flour- ing mull will be built at that place in the near future 1an skeleton was discovered six ground by workmen in a stone near Culbertson, The spinal quarry 1 n ] column was curiously incased in rock and thoroughly petvified. Sid Fiyte, a Hitcheock county horse thiet,escaped from jail at Culbertson with the aid of a friend and is now roaming at large, with no "particular effort being made to recapture him. The Cheyenne county commissioners have been asked to submit a proposition to the people at the coming election to vote $45,000 in bonds for the purpose of building three bridges across the North Platte river. Hitchcock county is so lenient with horse thieves that the Stratton Gazette advises young men out of employment to enter the business, giving as substantial reasons that ‘‘the profits are large, the work light, and the risk nothing—after the officials get after you.” A young man named Boggs, while driving a team near Beatrice Saturday, was struck by lightning and rendered in- sensible. The electricity tickled the horses also and they ran away, but the young man recovered in time to stop them before any damage was done. Huward's hose company has been or- dered not to use any more water from the railroad tank. The boys got a little funny the other duy and turned the hose on 4 passing passenger tramn to cool off the dusty travelers. This action caused a coolness on the part of the railroad company and the above order was the result. The Sidney Telegraph reports the town full of cowboys last week and says: “Thursday morning one of them made an old-fashioned display of getting full and running through the strectson horse- back firing his revolver., That's so old a chestnut ~ we supposed the boys had learned better and turned sueh work oyer to the ‘shavetails,” " lowa, fowa has 8,000 miles of railroad that cost over §250,000,000. The next annual session of the grand loage of Good Templars will be held at Hampton. Allamakee county is considerably ex- cited over the discovery of iron and the preliminaries for the development of the mines. At the competitive ezamination 1 Con- gressman Holmes' district Ray Burgess, of Boone, carried off the honors and re- ceived the appointment. Geo. Trout, the murderer of Ed. Hatch, has fallen away fifteen pounds since con. fined in the Anamosa penitentiary. He does no work, his health being very poor, and it is thought that he will not hive a great while, E. D. Fenn, the demo cratic postmaster at Nevada, who is also a merchant, has failed. It 1s said to be & very bad failure, the liabilities being $3,000 and tha nssets very small. Giving too much attention to polities is said to be the cause. Morrison, & prisoner at Cherokee, ail Wednesday night by knocking or down with a chair, horse from & farmer with which to get out of that region. The farmer, however, nd with the sherift cap- ured the culprit. Elza Toby Dodge, of Mineral Point, an old colored woman who came to lowa county with Governor Dodge, the first territorial goveraor of Wisconsin, died in the Iowa county poorhouse hear Dodge- yillo, aged seventy-eight years. She wis born a slave, and took with her to the cars made by lashes in the bar- barous days of slavery in the south. CITY RAILWAYS. New Moves Being Made by the Rival Yesterday tho Motor line company put A& gang of men at work cutting the pavement of Fourteenth strget at the in« tersection of Davenport, for the purpose of laying their rails for a continu- Iaid to the intersection a fow weeks ago. Besides, a corps of engineers was on t ground and ran a line along Fourteenth The objective point of the company is the new bridge across the Missouri, which they will probably reach by means of D Work will soon be begun on the court house at Aberdeen. Yankton is arranging for a lecture course for next winter. Governor Mellette thinks division will carry even in north Dakota, The cornor stone of the territorial nor- mal school at Spearfish, was laid last at present problematical, becanse no iron has yet been delivered, and when it is, it will” have to be of the style specified n the ordinance which is dilferent from the T rail already Iaid laid b The steam motor on practicing yesterday. the company. the Benson line The Aberdeen, Bismarck & Northwoste orn has made a proposition to the citi- ¢ THE CABLE TRAMWAY. zens of Watertown to build their line in It is now understood that this company has decided to run a line down California street from Underwood avenue on the Patrick farm down Californin street to Lowe avenue. Where the outlet citywara will be from the latter point is not yet Doadwood authorities Chinatown Friday and captured fifteen psf pers and inuates of opium The Milwaukee company has new ties and steel rails seattered alon, from Vermillion to Yankton. vrove its road. Mitchell has sent a committen to inter- view the Manitoba and Iilinois Central railway companies relative to bullding their lines into that city. Railway Commissioner Griggs that before long all the be obliged to take out a lic bonds for the storing of grain. siders it protection alike to elevator men and farmers. Oliver Dalrymple, the extensive north Dakota farmer, says wheat is not thrash- ing out a8 much within three or four bushels per acre as was expected, county’s yield will be but twelve or thirteen bushels per acre, W. H. Pheips, seventy-seven years of age, & brother of Minister Phelps, who ropresents this country at the court of es, earns his daily bread at Sioux by sewingin a tailor shop thero. as once & successful writer on the New York Herald in the days of the "helps has visited every state in the union, has done busi- E. G. Lomax, passe < agent of tho L Quincey, at Chi- cngo, is expected here 1n a day or two to join the Union Pacific official forces as successor to Assistant Passenger Agent Thomas L, Kimball, of the Union Pa- has gone to St. & St. Joe route. o is going to me 't S. H. H. bromised ap- i Loui arehouses will Ouis via the ense and give Clark, with reference to a, pointiuent on the M i Contrary to arrangements and expec tation, the Buflet menced running yet. of the shops on Saturday at 6 o’clook One was taken out was current yesterday, that the Union Pacific had signed a contract with the Chieago, Mil Paul for the lease of the er’s lino to Chicago, and that the buflet cars would not boe put on until a through route could be made from the lakes to the coast. NEBRASKA OR IOWA. In Which of These States is Cat-Off island Located. Mayor Broatch yesterday, expressed some solicitude over the state of affairs recently described in an article in the BrE, as existing on the shores of Cut-Off He said that for some time back, the police had been watching in the neighborhood because a number of re- reached headquarters strango doings in that part of the city. The difficulty experienced watch over the district was because of the inadequacy of the polico force. mayor also denied that the beer hut on the island surrounded by Cut-OIT lake was in Iowa, as claimed,and said he proposed to elder Bennett. Ho is very eccentric and has not spoken to any of the Phelps family The family 18 one of the most noted in Vermont, and the Sioux Falls member is a college graduate and highly educated. for thirty years. The sisters of charity are to build a hospital at Evanston, The now flouring mill at Laramie will be completed in sixty days. A magnificent ledge of lme rock has been discovered near Cokeville. Steps are being lishing a public lib; A blind man named Stanley, ol to be the graudfather ot the African ex- plorer, is playing the piano to large houses in Laramie. The Y, M. C. A. young men of Chey- harden their muscles for the christian fight in a gymnasium to be opened September 1. Mat Murphy, of the Murphy Cattle company, met with an accident a fow days ago at the Crow agency. assisting in rounding up some cattle and the horse he was riding fell, whereby Mr. Murphy broke his leg in two places between the knee and ankle. Ministers are so scarce in Idaho that when_one happens to drop over the line from Wyoming he is immediately cor- raled for the purpose of tying nuptial knots. Sylvester Collett and Nora Tanner captured Rev. I. L. Arnold, of Evanston, the other day as he was riding across the doubled up in an open aken toward estab- ary in Sundance. er i8 sold without either Omaha or I Blufls license, the aying only the government tax. position to the opinion of the mayor, is that of the proprictor of the place, as also all the residents on the that the place was surveyed | & part of lowa, and that the shitting of the river did not of itself change the ter- ritory into Nebraska view these settlers have gone through the formality of claiming the land, and are taking steps to have an oflicial survey of the same as government land made, | years ago as With this end in property of the settlers. seems to bo too far from Council Bluffs, not worth the attention of the commis- sioners of Pottawattomio count; and as a consequence, the sal kinds of liquor, us mentioned above, is unrestrictod. PUBLIC WORKS, McArthur again Eleventh Street Viaduot. McArthur, late superintendent of the Eleventh street viaduct, making objection to the acceptance of the board of public works, has not abandoned his intention of bringing the matter again to the at- tention of the board. reporter an_envelope address to Mayor Broatch, which he said contained vlugs of iron which he had dug from old con- demned material that had been incorpo rated into the viaduct, he claims, of going to the papers, and ow to file a formal and specifio complaint of the viaduct with the board of public works. In view of the fact that atits last meet- ing that body unanini constructors of with all the spe country and we field of suge brush. The Pacific Coast. The Montana Press association meets in Helena this week: A colony of 500 famlics from Missour: is to be located in San Barnardino who has been Butte citizens have been entertaining with honor Mrs. Meagher, widow of Gen- eral Thomas Francis It 18 reported that a Chineso leper ex- ists in Sebastapol, and the authorities are aking steps to have him removed. ‘I'hree hundred Chinese employed in fruit-drying near San Jose, me engaged in a fight. s were freely used. There are persons in Arizona who be- e the late train robbery was planned naged by Dick Liddell, one ot the notorious Jesse Jues gang. The Chinese who were driven out of Bloomficld recently are endeavoring to make arrangements 1o return, but the citizens of that piace declare they shall that structure b Ho showed a Ben He has got tired, viaduet had complied fications, it 18 & matter of doubt as to what good McArthur’s act Lyman Crandall, known as Brother Crandall, a well-known eccentric char- acter in tho mines, died at Noeth San Juan Saturday night. The Fowler-Stock Yards Case. On the 5th of this mounth, Messrs, Fow- ler Bros., packers in South Omaha, sought an infunction in the United States court, restraining the Stock Yards com- panv from 1ssuing $100,000 stock as & He was a o Mexi- An examination of the registr tourists at the hoteis i the National Park last week shows that more people from Helena are visitors there than this place of Armour, The Stock Yards company have filed* their answer setting fourth " their mem- bership, time of incorporation, also that aintiffs were granted 1,000 shares of asit1s proposed to grant to Ar- mour; that another 1,000 shares were zranted Swift and that one of the K was present ‘Wm. Mallory, knowt as Tobacco Bill, Hill. Nevada county, Ho owned several fine hives, which were filled with howey, and a pack of prowling bears in search of something swoeet came upon Tobacco They soon cleaned out the illiam is on the big- who lives at Cherr, is on a rampage. the meeting whole business. gest bear hunt he ever undertook. His Eminence, James Gibbons, eardi- nal archhishop of Baltimore, wil uest of the Right Rev. J. bishop of Helena, for a day or two in the art of October, and will be accom- by a number of distinguished gentlemen, who will journey with the cardinal to Portinad, whither he goes to confer the Pallium the president to enter iutoa like contract with Armour, but that the contract has not yet been executed; that in making the ‘said contracts, the dircctors of the defendant's company w by their concern for the best interests of company and stockholders. federacy is denied and the act 18 clmmed to be in"accordance with the rules of reasons the defend- About two weeks ago, says the Salmon r ants ask for the dismissal of the case. City (Idaho) Recorder, the editor of the the building so long oec- cupicd by Colonel Shoup, on the corner Cliarles streets and Recorder hires Working the Wholesale Men. C. H. Barnette, alias C. H. Johnson, was arrested yesterday charged with obtaining money under false pretenses, and was bound over to the district court. had a well tion paper, with a. imitation of the oflicinl stamp of the Switchman's Brotherhood, of Main and leased the same for five years. gold dust had been weighed out in the building, and as a matter of course. been spilled. Saturday with the intent of attending the ion at Shoshone Falls, and stopping at Franklin, Oncida county, to visit_his son—na lad of about ten years. In the meantime the carpenters and he had left in charge had scraped tie floor—taken up the and collected about thr which upon being washed yielded the This was panned out near Fudge's house and was altogether in excess of anything that had been ox- A hundred or two dollars uine had predicted. vision or a law suit press conven right hand corner, and spent the ternoon Saturday calling on the wholesalo houses of the city and soliciting contri- butions in behalf of Ralph Howard, an invalid switchman, whose friends wished way for medical treatment, As a further inducement Johnson stated to the merchants that he waus assistant head switchman 1p the yards here, and that ho would see that their cars should always be run up early, and an especial lookout kept on their freight matter. The following merchants are among upes: Paxton, Gallagher & Co., #5 Sloan, Johnson & Co., Dewey & Stone, $5; Blake, Bruce & Co., 5; Parlin, Orendor(t & Martin, §2; T. W. Hurvey, $5. Yeosterday evening a demand was made by the officials of the ubon Coroner Drexel for the remains of Wallace, the mitted suicide in Hanscom park on ¥ day last, and they were accordingly turned over to the officer in question, as Wallace's relatives bad not beon heard from. > barrels of dirt, sum of $1,206.04, all that the most san We expect that a will be the result. Quite severe accident occurred Sun- day morning to Frank Edwards,the four- cyear-old son of Edward J. Edwards, boy was investi- gating # bran new pistol of the bulldo ,when the weapon was discharge and the ball enterea the calf of the right leg, traveling with a downward course and coming out 1n the right side of tne Mr. Johnson's Medical collegs was summoncd and found the ball in the T'he ball was of bre, and the distance it traveled in the boy's limb will uaturally a serious oue. man's stocking. v mstitution Ly the