Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 30, 1887, Page 4

@ SBunday, August 21 Redacing Rallroad Rates. There is a growing conviction that railroad passenger fares very generally are too high, and the corporations may expoct to hear an increasing popular de- mand for a reduction from this time on. Senator Van Wyck has long maintained THE DAILY BEE: PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TRRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION : fly (Morniag Edition) lucluding Sunday ke, One Yoear. .. e 'or Bix Months 10 00 2% o om.";::,‘. #00 | that the railroads in Nebraska could . One ¥ 20 [ afford to carry passengers for two cents ATIA OPFICE, NO. 914 AND. FARNAM STRE a mile, and a great many people in the W YORK OPFICE, ROOM €5, TRIBUNE BUILDIN Winksa: | state acquiesce in this opinion. The late Iowa republican convention declared its belief that the first-class roads of that state can aflord to reduce passenger fares to two cents a mile, giving evidence of a widespread concurrence in this view in Towa which is certainly more likely to crease than diminish, There have been rceent indications of & growth of public sentiment in this direction in Illi- nois and other states. The people of California are subjected to aseverer exaction in the matter of pas- senger fares than perhaps those of any other state, but they have a promise of relief. The maximum of passenger rates 18 now five and six cents a mile, and it is understood that the Southern Pacific has given favorable consideration to the sug- gestion of the railroad commissioner and will at an early day reduce the maximum fares to three and five cents a mile, with a possibility of establishing in some in- stances a rate below three cents. Per- haps this is all +the concession that can reasonably be expected at present 1n Califormia, and if it shall be demon- strated that a three cent rate can bo made proiitable there 1t will not be difficult to show that two cents a mile will pay in Nebraska and Iowa. The argument for reduced fares does ABRINGTON OFFICE, NO. 013 FOURTRENTI CORRESPONDRNCR! AN cemmunioations relating to nows and edi- $orial matter should be adiressed to the Evi- ¥OR OF THE BR and romittances shouid be to_Tni 8 PUBLISHING COMPANY, AWA. Drafts, checks and co_orders %0 be made payable o the order of the eompuny, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. R. ROSEWATER, Eprror. THE DAILY BER Sworn Statement of Ulroulation. [Btate of Nebrask County of Douclas, {58 Geo. B. Tzschu secretal sPublishing company, does solemnly swear at the actual cireuiation of the Daily Bee the week ending August?20, 1857, wasas lows: iturday. August 20. f The Bee onday. August 22 ead raq riday, August 26.. Gro, 8. T: Sworn to wd subscribed in my this 27th day o August, A, . 1857, , P. FrIT, Notary Publie. presence ISEAL.) Btate of Nebraska, | Douglas County. | Geo. B, Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, not contemplate a loss of revenue %se;;oule’u;ndfilyslhn he'ls muflry ot "l‘mi to the railroads. On the con‘i abiening company, that tlie actual | ¢rary it is believed it woul g::g:&ng X;;“Lll?‘?mf:&w‘g%ul::? {8; ncrease the income of the roads from Beptember, 188, 13,030 copies; for October, 1668, 12,08 coples; for Novernber, 1480, 19,548 coplea; 'for December, 18, 18,237 coples; 'for Jlnllllz 1887, 16,2 ooxl[es; for February, 1887, 14,198 eoples; for March. 1887, 14, coples; ‘for April, 187, 14,516 coples: for May, , 14,227 copies; for June 1887, 14,147 ooples; for yuly, 1887, 14,093 copies, Gro. B, Tz8cRUCK. Subscribed and sworn to before me thls 11th day ot Augfis A. D., 1897, ISEAL.| + P. FriL. Notary Publie. this traffic by the encouragement it would give to travel. It j self-evident that if a reduction of 33 per centin rates produced an increase of 50 per cent in the number of veople carried the railroads would «ain by the operation. Perhaps the average increase; taking the whole year through, would not be so large as this, but it is not questionable that it would be sufficient to prevent any cutting down of the revenue obtained from present rates. The railroads would therefore hazard nothing in making a fair conces- sion to the public by reducing passenger rates, with the chances that the change would result to their gain. ‘That two cents a mile is a paying rate when travel is active the railroads confess by making an even lower rate for excursion parties and for special events that attract large numbers of peovle. Whether the railroads shall willingly come to it or not, it is undoubtedlv only a question of time when a maximum rate of two cents a mile will be general in all the well-set- tled portions of the country, and it may be that the time is not so far off as the corporations are perhaps disposed to be- lieve. NEBRASKA will have o very fair corn ©ro), this year, but that is no reason why our farmers should be compelled to pay twice as much to baul it to the eastern market as will be paid by the farmers of Kansas, L o] THE passenger rates in the Sacramento walley have been reduced after a long fight with the company. Inch by inch the people of this country are driving the railroad monopolies from their strongholds of extortion. Let the good work go on until the workers and pro- ducers of the land are relieved of the in- oubus that has weighed so heavily on them. AND now the books of the Rochester & Pittsburg railroad, in New York, have Misappeared. They were wanted to throw light on the management of the road, which has passed into the hands of a re- peiver. This method of defeating the ends of justice is becoming very popular, and it scems about time for the courts to make an example of those who practice It Looking for an Excuse. A story is sent out from Washington that the republican clerks in the depart- ments have been detected 1n a wide- spread conspiracy to damage the ad- ministration. A majority of the clerical force in the departments is republican, and most of these men are represented to be as earnest in their political faith now as they have ever been. From mo- tives of self-interost they have kept their real sentiments in restraint, but now that another presidential election is ap- proaching they are manifesting less care in concealing their colors, and are con- spiring to do all the damaging work they can against the administration. The plausible explanation of this oconduct is that they have conceived the idea that the republican party will return to power in 1889, and if thoy are turned out now because of what they have done for their party theirreward will certamnly come when the party is again in control of the govern ment. ‘Chis incredible story suggests that the department officials are again seeking ex- cuses to justify them in making room for democrats, and it will be surprising if this motive does not speedily develop. So far as the clerks 1n the departments are concerned, 1t i8 not easy to see what they can do to injure the ad- ministration that is not already matter of public knowledge and notoriety. If the business of the departments is being carried on with the care, attention and integrity claimed by the administration there can be nothing to apprehend from any disclosures the clerks might make. They would hardly venture to misrepres- ent or pervert the facts, sincz an exposure of such falsification would be easy and the consequences would - be the discom- fiture of the guilty and the confusion of all who should be misled by their misrep- resentations. It is by no means plain how these men are in a position to do any other injury to the administration than in keeping alive their faith in republican principles and their loyalty to the repub- lican party- f But it is easy to understand that this would be quite sufficient|to condemn them in the estimation of the democratic of- ficials, who would be very likely to regard as conspirators such as are not willing to become traitors Lo their convictions. It is essential to the declining oause ot the administration that some furthor assur- auce shall be given of 1ts solicitude for the welfare of demoorats, and any excuse will do, that shall serve to get rid of republican office holders. The alleged conspiracy of the clerks in the departments 18 a little the boldest and the least probable excuse that has yet been invented, but it may prove to bethe most effective STTE——— COUNCILMAN MANVILLE'S son, who Araws $1,500 a year for dong City Clerk Bouthard’s work, has gone to Colorado on a vacation and probably also a round- trip pass. Meantime his salary goes right on, and Mr.Southard is tomporarily doing some of .the office work. The question is, Why should the city pay for Bupernumeraries to accommodate mem- bers of the council? No wonder thero is :(lhla to be aa overlap in the general lund. Tue United States treasury will not redeem trade dollars with standard dol- lars after September 3. The number presented has reached about $7,500,000. Thus the experiment to supersede the Mexican dollar in China, with an Ameri- can dollar closes more or less. with the aspect of failure. Several millions are supposed to remain in China and more would probably have stayed there, but for the oversight of making the American coin legal tender to the amount of five dollars only. Tue president has appointed ex-Judge Aloxander McCue, ot Brooklyn, to suc- ceed Prof. Baird as commissioner of fish- eries of the United States. This appoint- ment is a ridiculous one. The office re- quires & person who has a general knowl- edge of the habits of fish, as well as a practical acquaintance with our fisheries. McCue's experience as s fisherman has been confined chiefly to occasional excur- sions after blueflsh near his home, Mr. McCue 18 & good man in his way, but he is without a single qualification for the tion. He isa lawyer and not a scien- Itis probable that his appointment ‘was the payment of a politieal debt. e——— Tue fiest gun of the Irish oxecutive anti-league campaign has been fired by the tory government of England. Wil liam O'Brien has been summoned to ap- pear before a magistrate for having uttered inflammatory speeches about two weeks ago. In selecting the patriotic editor for the first victim the government probably hopes to intimidate the coun- try. But the tories are quite mistaken in the mau. He is the last one to be intimi- dated, and the government will make little capital out of this move. There is »long interval between the summons and the court day, and the turn of the political crank may take the case out of eourt, but if it should come to a trial it will no doubt be a test case. E—— ‘TRE cattle men of the country seem to bave experienced a recovery of confi- dence, and are anticipating a period of Renerous profits. All accounts agree in sayiug that the supply of cattle has been ‘very materially diminished, and although Ahe prioe is still low it would seem to be inevitable that an advance must take place within a short time, and that beef may go to higher figures next year than it has brought in a number of years. The eonsumers of the country have had lit- tle if any benefit from the low prices at which cattle have ranged for the past yoar or two. The packing rings at Chi- oago and Kansas City have reaped all the advantage. When the advance comes, however, it is not at all likely that the consuruers will be kept in ignorance of It. The indications are that it will not be a great while before the butcher will E ’llunnt: a cent or two more & vound for 8 beet, Disproportionate County Division. The commissioners have finally made their division of Douglas county into five districts. The country precincts are fenced out and accorded two commis- sioners, while the city proper is divided into three districts. This is a lop-sided and nequitable division. Within the next twelve months there will be moro than 100,000 population within the city limits, while the population of the coun- ty vrecinots will scarcely number 15,000 at the very outside. While the three commussioners accorded to the oity will each ropresent about 83,000 people, the other two commussioners will represent only 7,500 each. In other words, the dis- proportion against the city is more than four to one. If the commissioners repre- sent property instead of voters, the dis- erimination against the city tax-payer is much greater. Tho assessed valuation of property in the city of Omaha is more than six times as great as the assessment of Douglas county property outside of L e L G p oo THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: I'UESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1887. Omaha. Each commissioner 1n the oty represents about $6,000,000 on the present tax-list, while the commissioners appor- tioned to the country precinots will rep- resent less than $1,600,000. And the dis- parity ugainst the eity will become greater every year with the erection of numerous and costly buildings and in- crease of public improvements, Had the system which now prevails in merging the city and county into dis- tricts that represent as nearly as possible equal population and property been adopted, the spirit as well as the lotter of the law would have been complied with. ‘There was no danger that in such a divis- fon the rightful claims of country pre- cincts to representation, would have been ignored. Omaha always has liberally ac- corded representation in the board to the country precincts,and very often they have had more than their share. For years the country had two out of the three members. Such concessions would doubtless have again been made if the country precincts presented men known to be qualitied to transact the responsible work intrusted to the board. A WARRANT for Chief Colorow's arrost on the charge of murder has been sworn out by F, P. Swiudle, a citizen of Meeker. Is this the gentleman who was a defend- ant before Judge Dundy in the trial of the Valentine land frauds last year? Be that as it may, the action is of further in- terest, as it illustrates the uncompromis- ing attitude of the people of Colorado and their determination to keep up the fight for the capital there is in it. The nonsense will be pushed until the Indians break out in fact, and Denver dispatches will read: Four citizens were shot and scalped at the corner of Sixteenth and Larimer strects to-day,” “The victori- ous redskins held & war-dance and jubi- lee pow-wow at West Turner hall to- night,” *Denver’s scant remaining popu- lation is blockaded in the Valhalla, where hank heaven, there are abund- ant supplies imported from Nelson county, Ky. The beleaguering Indians are holding drunken revels in the strects, while some are giving an impromptu performance of ‘The Prairie Waif’ at the Tabor Grand.'” A city, which leans as heavily on'the tribute of tourist visitors, as does Denver, shauld use its mfluence to check all foolish sources of terror in its neighborhood C —_— Mosr of the newspapers are giving a @ood deal more attention to the projected ‘‘American party,'’ whi¢h it is proposed to organize in Philadelphia the coming month, than that bair-brained movement merits. 1t will be surprising if the con- vention that has been called shall prove numerically respectable, but if it should turn out that there are men enough in the country in sympathy with the scheme, who are willing to spend time and money in attending & convention, to give such an assemblage any claim to attention, there need not be the slightest apprehension that a party founded on the principles sct forth by the projectors of this scheme can gain any foothold or extensive following. The great majority of the American people have no sympathy with efforts to revive the old Know-nothing spirit, which 1t 18 the aim of this latest movement to do, though the real purpose 1s sought to be concealed under misleading professions. There is no demand and no room for the vrojected party, and the effort to give it vitality, if it have any effect at all, can only be mischievous. — ‘THE investigation of the Ward's island asylum for the insane 1n New York, dis- closes the fact that there has been a “frightful lack of means, appliances and accommodations’ in connection with the institution. The paticnts and their keep- ers seem to have been huddled together in & manner calculated to increase the migery of those already affected and to make those insane who were not already so. This is exactly the opposite of what the treatment and surroum!in;:s of the in- sane should be, and it would no doubt have been much better for the sufferers never to have become 1mates of the in- stitution at all. If there is any hope for the 1nsane, it lies in the direction of intel- ligent, sympathetic attendance and healthful and pleasing surroundings. These factors have been too largely ab- sent in our institutions for the insane, even down to the present. We know bet- ter now and should act accordingly. It is better to spend a little more money in the right way than to waste a little less in injurious methods. g ——— Tak Rev. Charles F. Goss, of Chicago, recéntly preached a sermon to his con- gregation in which he sgored the owners of factories who employed girls at star- vation wages. Several of his deacons took offense at his utterances, and six of them intimated that the pastor’s resigna- tion would be acceptable. Mr. Goss promptly tendered is, but when the con- gregation came to vote on the matterlast week the result was an overwhelming victory for the preacher. The deacons then presented their resignations in high dudgeon, whi re promptly accepted. They will n doubt seek a new affiliations, where they can continue the business of pinching the faces of the poor without being unpleasantly reminded of the fact. Every self-reapecting church in Chicago will refuse them admittance. EE————— Ir1s eminently in accord with the eter- nal fitness of things for the Herald to clamor for radical reform in county gov- ernment. It comes with such good grace from the democratic organ to demand publicity of the commissioners’ proceed- ings after the BEE had gone to the ex- pense and trouble of procuring and pub- hishing in full the proceedings of the last thirteen months. It is also very appro-. priate for that enterprisiug concern to attempt to steal the thunder which 18 ex- pected all along the line from this quar- ter bv very mildly suggesting that the promiscuous purchases of supplies, and the loose way of disbursing the county's funds should stop. Who is to blame for these irregularities and the mismanage- ment of the county affairs generally? Have not the commissioners general su- porvision of all county affairs under the law? — It would seem very odd if an island in the Missouri river could be converted nto a prize-fighting ground with impunity, without making the participants amen- able to criminal prosecution. The island is not neutral ground. Ifitis nearer to the Nebraska shore than the east bank of the Missouri, it is part of Ne- braska, and belongs within the jurisdic- tion of the county adjacent to the river. | If; on the other hand, the island is nearer to the fowa shore it lies within the juris- diotion of tho county in lowa adjacent to the river. ln any event prize-fighting on’ the island was just a3 much an offense against the law as if 1t had been on main- land. The participants and their asso- ciates should be arrested and remanded to the authorities who have jurisdiction, whether in Iowa or in Nebraska. ——————— Crry CLERK SOUTHARD was very active last week in rushing ordinances to the fraudulent contractor for ofiicial adver- tising. Ordinances that were approved by the mayor on the 32d of August were givento the printer within twenty-four hours, Mr. Southard was not so lively in copying ordinances which were passed three months ago. A dozen or more or- dinances approved in the middle of June, were withheld until the 20th of July in order to keep them from the Ber, which bad a contract for the year ending July 1, and 18 under that contract roquired to continue 1o publish at its contract rate until a new contract has been legally let. ——— Cuier SEAVEY is 1n no immediate dan- ger of damage suits from tho roughs, “thugs and sluggers who took part in the Sunday prize fight, the threats of the Ierald notwithstanding. The chiof of police had not only a right to arrest them on suspicion of being accomplices 1n a prearranged and deliberate criminal en- counter, but he will be justified and sus- tained by the people and the courts if he re-arrests them and holds them until they are called for by the county officers whose duty if is tc bring them to justice. CHIEF OF POLIC AVEY made a very creditable effort to bring to justice the brutal sluggers who got up the disgrace- ful prize-fight Sunday. 1t is to be re- gretted that the parties arrested by him were not held until the county officials who have jurisdiction over the island on which the slugging match took place, made the proper requisition for their persons, TnE council is 1l planting fire hy- drants all over the city at $60 a year, although we already have more than 500 to pay for, and many of them are planted where they are not needed. At the rate we are going Omaha will be taxed $75,000 a year for fire hydrants, which is equal to paying 6 per cent. on an invest- ment of §1 PROMINENT PERSONS, James Russall Lowell s writing a life of Nathanlel Hawthorne. Verdi, the composer, has built a hospital for the poor at Bussetto, his birthplace. Henry Bergh is out of health. He {s at Coney Island during the heated term. Colonel Nicolay,the biographer of Lincoln, lives in Deertield, Mass., during the sum- mer. The annual reunion of the Billings family is set for Friday, September. 2, Tremont Temple, Boston. As for poor Josh, he's dead. Harriet Beecher Stowe has written a jletter to a friend denyingz that sheis in poor health. She says that she Is abloe to take a long walk every day and feels strong and hopeful. Sam Jones and Sam Small have joined forces at Round Lake, N. Y., and are making the Pine trees shake with their oratorical eccentricities. Small Is not looking well, but his volce is strong and his delivery has be- come much smoother than it was a year ago. Kate Fleld’s iirst lecture to the Alaskans ‘was delivered in a dance-house in Juneau, the largest mining town in the territory, be- fore an attentive audience. Ier only re- muneration wasa vote of thanks, a dinner at the hotel, and & subscription to the Free Press, the only paper in the territory. Cornelius Vanderbilt Is about forty years of age and worth certainly $75,000,000, per- haps $125,000.000. He is a tremendous work- er, and his friends fear he is injuring his health by his assiduous attention to the de- tails of his business. It seems strange to think of 8 man working himself sick when he already has a larger income than he can by any possibility get rid of. Human nature is a queer thing, S ———— Swift Justice, St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A specimen of the *‘swift justice’ which is too often done to negroes accused of crime in Kentucky, has just come to light. Lindsey Smith, a negro, was accused not long since of killing an unknown man near Nicholas- ville. As there was nopositive evidence that any man had been killed, the jury let the prisoner off easy—twenty-one years in the penitentiary. And now the man who Is sup- posed to have been killed turns up alive and hearty, and the court, we are informed, *‘has granted a new trial.” A new trial for killing a man who is not dead is something novel in the history of criminal jurisprudence. i A Brutal Solution. St. Paul Pioneer Preas. ‘The alleged Ute uprising in Colorada is simply an expedient of the whites to stir up a conflict, and get the Indians shot down and cleaned out of the way, This is a bru- tal way of solving the Indian problem, and the Colorado incident forcibly suggests that the sooner the government breaks up tribal relations and divides the reservations, and places the Indians under the white man’s laws, the more humanely and speedily will this unpleasant Indian question be com- posed. —_— A Milestone. As the first bl(hpnthfl "f drops that fall With a splash on the lattice pane, e us shiver and start, and as they warn us Of storm or of coming rain, So It is with tife when we are growing old, And age stenls unaware, We shiver and start, if thg truth were told, At thesight of our first gray batr. We mark not the light of our noonday ours, Like the lirst streaks the dawn doth bring; We hail not the birth our qur summer flowers As we do the first snowdrops of spring; Ou the bleak winter wind we look with arler, Thol;l:h it howls through the branches re, But we sigh when we witness the brown autumn leaf, And behold nature’s first gray hair. Gray hairs may come when the beaming eye Has none of its brightness lost, und your buoyant heart we would faln any Youth’s Rubicon has besn erossed ; Yet the ive-clad trees loak young and green, Though the sapless trynks may be there, And naught of decay on our cheeks may be seen ‘When we witness our first gray hair. Come n:‘l;ly‘ come late, like a knock at the gate, A&‘n‘i‘éfi:‘ :{L‘hfli‘mfl.:n'::du:m years that R It I|Ien{ly qwtlou—'hfiw d o, (lltlllnl'l’l&nl:lfl estone, were the truth but As seen in our first gray bair. e — STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings, Grant has voted $1,000 for the ‘purpose of building a school house. The e wail service between Howard sud Clay Center has been discontinued. The village of Rushville has voted I. Vanoe, the killing being done in self- defense. Cheyenne detectives rounded up throe men last Tuesday supposed to be exten- sive cattle thieves. One of them was an ex-policeman of Cheyenne. The Amerjcan Reduction comany, with a capital of $2,000,000, has been incorpor- ated in Cheyenne,to operate in mines and ore reduction in Guanajuato, Mex. . A syndicate of Chicago capitalists have purchused an interest in the marble de« posits seventeen miles beyond the con- templated terminus of the Cheyenne & Northern. Joseph Fowler, a Union Pacific freight conductor, was quite badly hurt at Car- bon Wednesday night. He was coupling two engines when the pilot bar of one broke and struck him on the side. The territorial tax levy this yesr is as follows: General fund, 24 mills; univer- sity income, one-fourth mill; territorial land tax, one-fourth mill; insane asylum tax, one one-hundredth mill; total tax, three and one-hundredth mills. Patterson Hoyt, an old army veteran, and a resident of Evanston since,its first settlement, died there recently from the effects of dissipation. He had lost one leg and _efforts weore being made to send him to the soldiers’ home at Leavenworth, he having signed the necessary papers the day before his doath. The Pacific Coast. William McQuillan is in custody at Carson for selling whisky to Indians, ‘The membership of the L. O. O. F. has quadrupled in Idaho the past five years. The people of Sierra City threaten to wipe out the vile dance houses which flourish there. T'he recent earthquakes in_ Sonora left deev fissures which have made travel al- most impossible. William Montgomery, in jail at Albu- querque, N. M., for burglary, wherein all he got was a counterfeit §20 Lill, escaped on the 23d. A Chinaman at Merced, tired of work- ing for a living, took a dose of crude opium Monday and passed into an eter- nalrest, Mrs. Bartlow has been arrested at Woodlaud for scalding her husband by pouring boiling water upon him. He is seriously injyred. The captain and several mombers of the Salvation army at San Bernardino were placed in jail Monday night for beating another member. A An ex})loalon of a wine cask by the 1g- nition of aleoholic vapor which was aris- g from a cask ‘of wine while in the pro- cess of heing heated, caused the loss of 1,000 gallons ofgwinein De Turk’s winery at Santa Rosa. A L THE DARK-RED INDIAN. Graphic and sReassuring Obsorva- tions on the *‘Ute Outbreak.” Bill Nye in New York World: The regular form of annual hydrophobia known as the Ute outbreak has followed the sea serpent, the paragraph about the watermelon, and other current items, As a matter of fact the Utes have done more to make newspaper life desirable than “Constant Reader,” ‘*Veteras," and 83,500 bonds to sccure protection from re. Work has been commenced on the new iron bridge across the Republican at Ked Cloud. Clay county’s cold water politicians will hold their convention at Clay Center September 10. Hitehcock county's first twins were born at Stratton last week, T. E. Morten being the happv father. Harvard’s hose company has been for- given by the railroad company and has again been given permission to use water from the railroad tank. Ad Thomas tried phard to drive his horse over a Rock Island switch engine at Fairbury the other day, but gave it u; as a bad job after his buggy was damof3 ished. Arrangements have been completed for the immediate erection of a flouring mill in Gordon, which will have a capacity of grinding out eighty barrels of flour every twenty-four hours. Mrs. Overholt, aged seventy years, a resident of Worth county, lowa, while on a visit to her son at Stratton, was sud- denly taken sick and died. Her remains were taken to her Iowa home. The Ogallala Cattle company has rounded up its cattle in Dawes county and will transfer them to a ranch near Fort Fetterman, which will be the com- pany's headquarters in the future. Special Agent Bowman, ot the interior department, has been looking into the matter of illegal timber cutting in Dawes county during the bast week, and has soized some three hundred saw logs on the Little Cottsnwood. G. G. Armitage, of the firm of Armitage & Tageart, wholesale and retail grocers of Hastings, nas suddenly disappeared and the sherift has seized ~the stock of fnm‘s. It is thought that Mr. Taggart has been badly duped by a dishonest partner. Perry Dayis, a private in the Eighth in- fantry, stationed at Fort Robinson, has deserted the service of Uncle Sam, be- sides carrying oft a suitof clothes belong- g to a comrade, and a couple of horses owned by a Crawford man. No trace of the fugitive. Premium lists of the fairs of Furnas, Holt and Nemaha counties are the latest reccived by the Bee, Furnas county's fair will be held at Beaver City, Septem- ber 6, 7 and 8; Holt county’s at O'Neill, October 8, 4, 5, 6 and 7, and Nemaha's at Auburn, October 4, 5, 6 and 7. Two young men named Gilliland and Copeland, living near Beaver City, had a lively little dispute the other day, result- ing in the former pulling a gun and pep- pering the latter with cold lead. Only a shight wound was inflicted; however, iut Gilliland has been arrested. Dawes county settlers are all wrought up over the frequency of horse stealing in that country. Every dayor two re- ports reach the officials of raids by the ubiquitous knightof the halter. Farmers have their shot-guns loaded, have let loose their bulldogs, and a hanging bee or shooting match is expected in the near future. The Catholics of St. Ann parish, in Webster county, indulged in a httle' re- ligious riot last” week, which resulted 1n the priest having about a dozen of his T " q parishioners arrested for assault. The ull::yp; g" o;‘: ‘:z g:‘l%g:::;‘ ll}(;’“w:?ill: difliculty all grew out of the location of | i) when you feel like it, as long be- the church. “The case against the rioters \ forchand as you wish, and the Ute will not ask you to retract. Old man Corolrow is like the regular army. He is brave, but he hasn't got help enough. He is a man of great nerve and enjoys carnage, provided it is fur- nished by some one else. He is said by those who have met him to be a *‘low- sot’’ man, with a powder-burned face and a desire to outlive as many white men as possible. But the Utes are not strong enough to do any special damage, and 1t is very likely they have no special notion of it. has been adjourned to uwait the arrival of the bishop of the diocese, who will en- deavor to scttle the dispute. £ lowa, A union labor club was organized at Dubuque Friday night, Whittier college is to have a new presi- xllc:t, Rev. J. 1. Bassett, of Greencastle, nd. A five-year-old Auburn kid named Jesse Ripley caught a fish last week weighing tive pounds—a pound toa year. An insane inmate of the poor-house at | They are a measly set, and still they are Leon came to town with a load of wood, | not Yikel to break out. hitched the team and ran away. He has It has been customary to have an In- oot been heard of since. James Glass was killed at Montezuma Thursday by the runiing away of a team. He was a soldier and the G. ‘A, R. post took charge of the funeral. James Bowman, a railroad man of Burlington, tired of life, committed sui- cide by the revolver road the other day. He has once before attempted his life by the morphine mode, but 1tfailed to work, A fire broke out in W. H. Hursh’s flour mill at Winterset Friday, and destroyed the entire structure with all its contents. Loss, $13,000; insurance, $5,000. The fire is supposed to have originated from a hot box. The Odd Fellows of lowa are making extensive preparations to attend the meeting of the Sovereign grand lodge at Denver, Sn-?wmber 14. The grand lodge of Iowa will meet at Omaha on the 13th, and proceed to Denver. There was great rejoicing in the house- dian scare in the Rocky mountains every year until it is almost indispensable. For several years, also, the circus was kept out of Wyoming territory by a high license which amounted to prohibiticn, and if the people of Wyoming hodn't had an Indian scare that they could turn to they would have suffered. The Indians in the Nation’s ward—kind of a doubtful ward, as it were—but he 18 a great boon to the newspaper man, who naturally gets tired of pool and picnics, at this season, and pines for almost any- thing that will give him a chance, It 'is safe to say that the Ute outbreak will turn out, upon close investigation, to be nothing more than prickly heat. It is not presuming too much to say that human life will be perfectly safe as far west as St. Louis, and even those who dwell-as far west as Omaha and . Denver will run no risk of being killed by Indians 1f they will come home by 9 o'clock p.m. Indians are not so ferocious as many hold ot Mrs. Samuel Kauftman, Fairfield, [ suppose them to be, any way. We havo Thursday, upon the receipt of a cable- | seen the Indians of Buffalo [‘;1[]. and they gram aunouncing the safe arrival of her | were very pleasant to meet. They are husband 1n England. He was one of the missing thirteen 1 the recent disaster to the steamer City of Montreal in mid- ocenn. L Belle Plaine is soon to make another effort to close the big well, At present a four-inch stream carries out the water, excepting the leak that comes evidently from the tubing put in by Mr. King. Palmer Bros., who have been engaged as wet nurses, are preparing an eight-inch pipe with an automatic flange attach- ment outside, to insert in King's tubing, and when in Klm. propose to fill with cement and thus have an eight-inch well under control. When evervthingis lovely it 18 proposed to use the water power for an electric plant. Dakota. The Custer City Chronicle completed its seventh volume last week. Custer City miners organized iast week {olli the development of the Comstock ode. The Bismarck flouring mulls have a contract Lo supply the army posts with 800,000 pounds of flour. Dakota 18 short on prairie chickens this year, the birds having moved west to grow up with the country. It is claimed that 4,000 men and teams will begin work on the Wilmar & Sioux Falls branch of the Duluth road in a few days. Yankion expects a big beef and pork acking establishment. General Beadle l:na been 1u Chicago in conference with parties in regard to it. i The allotment of lands in severalty to the Indians of the Sisseton reservation will make business again lively at the Watertown land oftic The Black Hills are securing a re puta- tion for lawlessness which causes even the local papers to admit 1t and acknow- ledge that it is sad, but true. James Caretto, a miner at Lead City, was dashed to death by falling 300 feet into an open cut. This makes the fourth accidental death at Lead in ten days. Wyoming. Typhoid fever israging at Hot Springs. Coal business is slack at Carbon now for want of cars. A Cheyenne man won $280 with a twenty cent starter playing faro bank Wednesday night. Rawlings shop men are puttiag in from twelve to fifteen hours a day trying to keep up with the work. Over forty students have already bene booked to enter the Wyoming university at the beginning of the first term. Wolves are becoming 'y _bad nortl of Hat Creek. A large yearling was re- cently dragged down aud killed by the beasts. ing it 'was within a stone's thr I J. Ryan.was'shot and killed at a | camp. Next morning it was ranch on the Rosebud on August 3 by A. | away, . not intellectual, of course, and they want to ride in a hotel elevator all the time when thev are not drunk, but they have behaved well here ana won the English heart. It is claimed that by another year the common frontier American blue eyed flea will be as common in England 8s it is now in the territories. And yet it is claimed that the Indian is cold” and backward in society and desirous of in- nuv}urnunz an outbreak. The Ute been almost always friendly to the whites, and has repeatedly assisted the white man in fighting the warlike Sioux. The price of good available lots facing south ought not to be reduced either at Kansas City or Omuha on account of a pending Ute outbreak, and the St. Paul man who refuses to bring in the washing from the olothes line after 9 o’clock be- cause he iz afraid of Indians is just rifling with the tender feelings of his his wife. -~ HENRY'S LAKE. One of the Marvellous Wonders ol the Rocky Mountaina. Virginia City (Nev.) Chronicle: Hen- ry's lake is one of the wonders ot the Rockies. Directly on the summit of the continental divide, in a depression or gap called Targee's Pass, is a body or water that was given the above name 1n honor of an old trn});rcr who made his home on its borders for several years in the enjoyment of sweet solitude, Henry’s lake is of oval shape and has an area of forty sqaure miles. It isen- tirely surrounded by what seems to be solid land, and one really concludes that it has no outlet. On the west side lies a level meadow, which floats on the water, and the hidden outlet is beyond it. Near the rim of the basin, which at no distant day must have been tho pebbly beach of the lake, 15 a shollow pool, out from which flows a_creek, the source of the north fork ot Snake river. A species of the blue joint grass of lux- uriant growth floats upon the water and sends out & mass of large hollow white roots, which forin a mat so thick and firm that a horse can walk with safety over the natural pontoon. The decayed vegetation adds to the thickness of the mat and forms a mold in which weeds willows, and small trees take rcot and grow. Back from the new border the naw land 18 firm, and supports pine and aspen trees of small growth, . An island of the sume turf formation floats about the lake. The floating body of Jand is circular and measures 300 feet indiometer. A willow thicket thrives in the centre, interspersed with small and dwarf pines. The little tres he breeze and are the sal tha One cven- of our e miles cat ! carry the island on its orbit WAS SHE BURIED ALIVE? An Italian Woman Hurrled to Her Grave in Chio Chicago News: Intense excitement has been caused in the Clark streot Italian quarter over the mysterious burial of Francesca Cenessa, an Itallian woman living at 69 Polk street, a few doors from ('lan. Six hours after it was supposed she had died she turned overin her coflin according to her neighbors, and then sat up after an cffort. She looked around, spparently but half-conscious, reached out to embrace her child, and then fell back in her coflin and lay unconscious, seemingly dead. However, no effort was made to restore her to lifo and not lon; afterward the undertaker cama in, nailed up the coflin, and the body was taken for burial. The woman's house is in one of the moet squalid and wretched guarters of this city. Allof its people are pauper foreigners, & large part of them being “dago” Italians. "'They are ignorant and superstitious and stand in great fear of the authoritics. The woman had been confined to her bed for over six months. Her namo was Francesca Cencssa, and during her long sickness 1t was supposed several times that she wasdead. A coffin was bought for the woman several monshs ago, when everybody belleved the woman dead, but the coffin could not be used for a long time. It lay in the room, under the bed on which the woman was lym{;. ‘Lwelve different doctors at- tendod the woman during her sickness. She used tofall asleep for scveral days, when she seemed dead, but then she would wake up and come to life again, The woman's death was described by a neighbor, and Italian named Francesco P oli, as follows: )ne d while standing at the corner of Polk and Clark streets, my attention was attracted by a large crowd having gathered around the house, I joined the crowd, and, upon inquiry, I was told that the woman, who was lying apparently dead in a coflin, had just risen to hor feet and kissed one of bher children, 1 saw how the coffin was covered and nailed, but I did not suspect the woman was still alive, A few days afterward I heard the neighbors commenting on 1t. They said the woman might have been alive, as they saw her rise from the coflin shortly before it was nailed.” milar stories were told by many other neighbors, some of whom believe that the woman was buried in such haste be- cause some of the people who felt her sickness a burden wanted to get rid of er. Dr. Re admitted having issued the death certificate without seeing the body, on application of the father of the woman. He had attended the woman several days before her death and knew that she had been suffering from periton. itis. On that account he had no hesitancy in signing a certificate of death on her father’s statement without making a per- sonal examination at the time, (oo 1 Philip James Bailoy, author of the once popular ‘‘Kestus,”” which now lives chiefly mna single quotation of half a dozen lines, is still a vigorous and active man, though he was born a year before Water- loo. * His puem has pussed through thirt; editions 1n America to eleven i]u ngland, and he would therefore much like to visit this country, but hesitates to do so at his age. ——— At the rennion of the Ezell family at the home of Braxton KEzell, of Jasper county, Georgia, there were present thir- ty-six members of the family, represent- ing four generations of childven, grand- children, and great-grandchildren. A remarkable feature in the history of this family is that only four have died, and not one who has :d the age of seven years. Braxton lzell is ninety years old. ———— A curions old anchor, very probably lost by tho early French missionarias,was found at the head of Green bay. It ap- pears to have been constructed from a young maple tree having three branches from the root. Another bar was fastened on. Thus far it was like a_round-topped stool with four legs. On the bottom of these legs were fastened, with mortize and tenon, the flukes, which were barsol oak crossing each otber. PUBLISHED TO-DAY. SCRIBNER’S MAGAZINE FOR SEPTEMBER. A Edward L. Wilson's finely illus- trated article on The Mpdern [ the Rev. W. S. Rainsford, D.D., Rector of St. George's Church, New York, con- tributes an entertaining account of Camping and Hunting In the Shoshomne, and the successful pursmit of large game, beautifully illustrated; there is the first part of a unique and charming Japanese story, entitled The Sacred Flame of Torin Ji, written by Mr. E. H. House (for many years a rosident of "Japan), and illustrated by Mr, George Foster Barnes; the Thacke- ray letters are continued, with some reminiscences by Miss Kate Perry, both illustrated. A timely and most import. ant contribution 1s An Unpublished Draft ot a National Const fon by Edward Randolph, (with fac- simule) by Moncure D. Conway, which will attract great attention among all students of the American Constitution; two highiy interesting and valuable papers are The Devclopment of the American University, by Prof. George T. Ladd, of Yale Colloge, and English in Newspapers and Nov- els, by Prof. Adams Sherman Hilt; there are poems by Mrs., James 1. Ficlds, Julia C. R. Dorr, Louise Imogen Guiney and John Boyle O'Reilly; an exciting railroad story, entitled lan droc’s Meogul, by A. C, Gordon; an out-of-does paper by Maurice Thompson, ete. SUPERB AUTUMN NUMBER ™ N. Y. 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