Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 20, 1887, Page 4

address, One Yfl' ARA OvFIOR, NO. vv S ome rsion. Roo /ASRINGTON OPFICE, NO. 513 CORRRSPONDENCER! 1l communiontions relating to news and edi- n’m mllI(:r should be mr'-‘.d 10 the Eor TOR OF THE B s, matied to any "ixm'.fm"i‘ln'.{‘.‘.fi URTRENTA STREET. SINESS LETTRASS All buriness lotters and remittances should be addressed 10 THR BE® PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMANA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders 10 be made psyable 1o the order of the ompany, THE BEE PUBLISHIVG COMPARY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, Eptror. THE DAILY BEE Sworn Statement of Cleculation. State of Nebras| County of Dn::iu. i"" 3 ‘I'zschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing mm'umv. does solemnly swear 1 the actual circuiation of the Daily Bee wl'hn week enalng Sept.10, 1857, was as 14,550 londay. Sept, 12 Tuesdav. Sept. 13. pt. 15 %0, 5. TZ8CHUCK. and subseribed in m! ;_llasenca of September, A, D. 1887, P, Flll1 Notary Public. Sworn to this 19th day Bigto bf Hobinok ate of ebraska, Douglas County. }- Geo. B. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, and says that he is secretary of The Pnbllshlnlg company, that the actual average daily circulation of the Dally Bee for the month of September, 1856, 13,030 coples: for October, 1836, 13,089 coples; for Novem ber, 1 13,348 coples; for Decem 18,297 coples: Jnmnl? coples; for February, 1887, 14,108 coples March. 1887, 14,400 eoples; for April, 14,816 coples; for May, 1857, 14,227 coples; for June 1887, 14,147 coples; for July, copies? for August, 1887, 14,151 eoples. Geo, B TzscHUCKR. subseribed in my presence Sept. A, D., 1887, N. P. FEiL. Notary Publie. e gy ot hi of [SEALL.| KEARNEY has suddenly had greatness thrust upon her. The discovery of the remains of a mastodon is announced from that place. This booming Nebraska oity is bound to let all the world know her numerous advantages. SE———— A TERRIBLE bit of news comes from Philadelphia. Mrs. Cleveland is accused of having refused to shake hands with Governor Foraker. Perhaps she felt a little squeamish about grasping a hand reeking with ruddy gore from the en- sanguined undergarment. EE——— Miss NINA VAN ZaNpt already con- siders herself a widow. She dresses in mourning and has donned all the habila- ments of woe of one bereaved of her hus- band. August Spies is not dead yet, but 8he acts her part as though he were. She is a very good actress. — o GENERAL BUTLER can be very close- mouthed if he desires. Even the Chicago Teporters were unable to secure an ex- pression of opinion from him on the anarchists’ case and gave up the at- tempt as a bad job. Benjamin may be a plow-hard in politics, but he isn't in business. HENRY GEeORGE has a scheme for establishing a number of daily news- papers in the largest cities in the country in the interest of the workingmen. There i no erying nced for more. newspapers for the working people, but if the surplus in Mr. Georgo’s trensury 18 becoming too large this will be a speedy method of re- ducing it. NEW York CrTy's Methodist ministers have endorsed Dr. McGlynn in bis fight against the Catholic powers that be, but failed to give their sanction to his land theories. The preachers are always glad to welcome one'who has deserted a rival denomination even when the cause of his alienation 1s contrary to their own belief. THE most interesting canvass in the . country just now is the duel between the machine democrats of Baltimore and the reform league. The latter are working with the republicans and trying to purge the registration lists of improperly regis- tered persons. There is vigorous calling of names, suits for damages and other in- teresting political adjuncts. ESe——— Tie railroads of Kansas have made a tarifl discriminating in favor of the peo- ple of the state by engaging to transport grain and other food products from places where there isan abundance to localities where there is a scarcity at re- duced rates. This 18 unusual pro- ceeding on the part of railroads. It would be a fine thing for the rouds through Nebrasks and fowa to imitate this generosity. THE cause of Mr. Porter's retirement from the office of assistant secretary of state is not a matter of grave national Importance. If he and his superior of- ficer could not get along amieably to- gether, he did well to step out, or1f he has a senatorial ambition to promote that is not at all to his discredit. But it is a matter of some importance whether Mr. Bayard 1s to be permitted to select the new assistant. Under ordinary cir- cumstances such consideration might be accorded the secretary as a courtesy due him, but the unfortunate character of the great majority of the selections made by Mr. Bayard for public positions sug- gests that in the present case the presi- dent may very properly relieve him of another opportunity to blunder. THE most absurd report yet set afloat 18 the statement that Randall will give his support to Thoebe in his contest for Carlisle's seat. Apart from the fact that the contestant appears to have no case, it must be apparent on the most casual reflection that Mr. Randall would have nothing to gain and a great deal to lose by such an exhibition of hostility to Car- lisle. Its motive would be obvious, and mstead of obtaining democratio assist- ance, he would be very likely to lose a large part, of the support he now has. The Pennsylvanian has quite enough on hand to occupy all his time and atten- tion, without cooking up a new conspir- acy withevery assurance of defeat. If, ‘with all the odds that are against him, he can hold his following together, he will have fairly earned the distinotion which Sam Cox gives . him of being a “potentiality.” | Ry i desire of the people of that division and admission. The South Da- kota oon'rndon in July declared ‘‘that we real many times made in constitational con- whach is expected to fiaally detormine t! territory The Campaign in Dakota. - Dakota has entered upon & uampaign he for rm the declarations already tions, legislative nssemblies and memorials to congress, that we arg un- alterably opposed to admission whole,” and farther declared that di- vision was sought *for the reason, among others, that good government, economi- cally and well administered, will be more readily secured thereby for both sectio ns than by admission as a whole; that there- by we shall have our proper and rightfal representation in congress, preserve that just balance of power to which a great population should be entitled, and secure the highest permanent good for both North and South Dakota.” The campaign that has just begun will be conducted upon the line indicated by these declara- tions, and every effort will be made to get out a full vote in November, so that the result shall be conclusive as to the will of the people. The injustice of the wholly partisan considerations which have induced a dis- regard of the appeals of Dakota for ad- mission to statehood cannot be fairly questiored. It is without parallel in the country's history, and strikingly shows the extremity to which a party may go in order to deprive the opposition of a pos- sible advantage., In this case the cit- izens of Dakota have been denied citizenship in the face of overwhelming facts entitling them to it, the pretext being that the people were divided upon the question whether the territory should be admitted as a whole or a division made, The record shows that a majority have always supported the latter provo- sition. The refusal ta give Dakota state- hood has been an injury as well as an in- justice to the people of the territory. Besides denying them political rights which they should now be enjoying, it has been unfavorable to the material prog- ress of the territory. ln respect to the public school system and judicial ad- ministration thg inability of the people to legislate for themselves has been a very serious disadvantage. It is said that nowhere else in the United States is the machinery of the courts as wholly inadequate for the transaction of public business as in Dakota, and as a consequence the courts are hopelessly in ArroArs. At the November election the people of the entire territory are to express their preference, and the result ought to be final. The offices of the territory are in the hands of democrats, and these have been working zealously to strengthen the sentiment 1n favor of admission as a whole. 1f the people shall again declare for division and admission, as it is not doubted they will, there will be no fur- ther excuse for the refusal of congress to accede to their demand, and the country will insist that it shall be regarled. As to Proxies. The insolent gang of imposters and professional jobbers who control the Republican are trying to make capital for themselves among reputable repubii- cans, by a hypoeritical crusade =against proxies and the proxy system. For weeks these patriots for revenue only have kept up a fusilade against the edi- tor of this paper as the chumpion of the proxy system 1n local and state politics. They even have the impudence to claim that they are trying to purify politics and destroy a corrupt and vicious agency in the conduct of republican conven- tions. One would naturally suppose that these unprincipled mountebanks, actu- ated by the purest of motives,are entitled to a patent-right on proxy fighting. ‘Who introduced the proxy system in Ne- braska and who has resisted every effort of honest republicans for its abolition? As far back as fifteen yoars ago the editor of the BEE, as a member of the republ- can state central committee, fought proxy representation and had a clause inscrted in the convention call recommending that no proxies be recognized by the state convention. In season and out of season thé BEE has denounced the practice of misrepresenting the party by proxy. The last time the editor of the BEE was mem- ber of the Douglas county republican committee he agitated and carrried through a system of registration that was to do away wilh repeating and to reserve to republicans only the privilege of taking part in republican primaries. That effort was opposed by the: railroad republicans, of whioh the Omaha Republican has always been the mouthpiece. The republican registration places and polls were mobbed by rowdies and political roustabouts. Ballot-boxes were destroyed and judges of election driven by violence from the polls, 'The same faction, with the resources of the railroads to back them, have for years dominated the party only by the cor- ruption of delegates and the purchase of proxies. Hundreds of republicans re- member the political reign of rascality of 1876, when the Umon Pacific shop men, democrats, republicans and green- backers, were driven like cattle to the republican primaries and made to vote the railroad ticket, It has been the com- mon practice of railroad managers and political railroad bosses to manipulate conventions by proxies that were pro- cured from employes by absolute coer- cion. Railroad employes clected as dele- gates at republican primaries were awakened at midnight and requested to give up their proxies to railroad cappers and sent out of town on some pretended errand. This shameless misrule was not only practiced in Omaha but in every railroad town of the state. Republicans who stood up against this corporate tyranny and infamous abuse of party machinery were forced to fight the devil with fire,but the advantage was always with the railroads. They had places to give,unlimited purse-power and last but not least, passes and rebates. The railroad henchmen would have been politicallly buried long ago beyond all reeurrection had 1t not been for the pr;xy mm:. i he_eroof of the pudding isin the eating. The arrant hypocrisy of this anti-proxy howl comes from the political pirates who are trying to steal the thirty- two delegates to which this county is en- titled in the state convention' without saying, * By your leave.” It. comes with good grace from the boodler's organ, whose exemplary e publicans are made up of oil-room bum- mers, dead-beats andballot-box-smashers tolhow! about proxy frauds—and that.too, 1n the face-of the fact that fifteen of these reformers were snaked into the county committee last Saturday on proxies. tem, the Bee does not now noed to define its porition. The proxy system cannot Having always opposed the proxy sys- be abolished tov #oon, although under the new prinary election law, which the BEE has for years been advooating, the worst evils of the proxy system will bo at & minimum, — Forestry H and Abroad. The forestry congress held at Spring- field, IlL, last week was rather slimly attended, a fact showing that there is still wanting a general interest in the important subject of forest preservation and culture. It was shown that import- ant progress had been made in forestry during the year, especially in the south, but there is still national and state legis- lation required for the protection of the forests and the encouragement of tree cultare. Thesuggestions of the Nebraska delegates that forestry be taught in the public schools, pamphlets published treating the subject popularly, and suit. able lectures on forestry before the teach- ors’ fustitutes be encouraged, were favor- ably received. A bill was adopted that will be presented to congress which de- fines public forest lands, provides for the withdrawal of such lands from entry or sale under the existing laws preliminary to their classification, and creates a com- mssioner of forests in the department of the interior with four assistant commis- sioners. The duty of these will be to classify and designate, with the approval of the secretary of the interior, the permanent forest reserves, which shall be proclaimed by the president. ‘I'he bill provides for a national forestry sys- tem which would undoubtedly be found very serviceable 1n preserving the forests on the public lands. Bhe importance of forestry manage- ment in the estimation of European nations, with which the subject is an old one, and which are also wiser than we are in economic administration, is conclusively shown in a volume of consuiar reports just pub- lished by the state department. These reporte cover the particulars of govern- ment control and management of forests in, Austria-Hungary, Germany, France, Italy and Switzerland, and are replete with instructive facts for studeuts of the subject in this country. The forests of Bohemia alone, of the empire of Austria- Hungary, clear an annual profit for the government of nearly $4,000,000, while the Prussian state forests yield a profit of $6,000,000. The French net annual in- come 18 over $3,000,0000, while that of the Swiss confederation is nearly $7,000,000. Italy also receives a considerable revenue from this source. The pres- ervation and culture of forests in Australia is receiving careful atten- tion, with beneficial results, The con- suls say, however, that the returns in money are regarded as the least import- ant evidence of the true value of forests. Their influence upon climate and rain- fall, and the consequent benefit to agri- cultural land and to the public health, are considerations of far greater import- ance. How valuable forests are in this respect has been so conclusively shown 1n this country as to silence all contro- versy. Nebraska is one of the states that can bear the sitrongest testimony to the benelits of tree culture. — Again in Distress, Last spring when the Taylor-Rounds concern was hard pressed for means, a confidential appeal was made for relief to prominent republicans, corpora- tion managers, promotors of street railways and political candidates to come to the rescue by in- vesting ina few blocks of Republican stock. The fools are not all dead yet and the slick Cadet managed to rope in a few suckers and dupes for about $20,000. That helped to keep the rotten old craft afloat for a few months. The unmistak- able signal of distress is once more heard in the land, It msnifests itself this time by a desperate effort to force a split in the republican ranks on the eve of the county campaign. The concern appears to be again totter- ing on its unsteady legs and it is imperatively necessary that some- thing should be done to close its gaping muw either by direct contribution or more subscriptions for mortgaged wind and water. Itis a favorite old habit of the late government printer to go into bank- ruptey periodically and appeal to sympa- thetic friends to pull him out of the hole into which he gets by extravagant living and imbecile management. This time the keynote of distress is to be ‘‘Rose- water.”” That has helped former mis- managers from going to the wall and possibly may serve the same purpose again, ‘THE people of Idaho are looking for- ward to statehood. The population of the territory in 1880 was 32,610, and it doubtless has not yet a suflicient ;number of people to secure admission, but it is reasonably expected that it will have in a few years. Meantime consideration will be given to the matter of changing the geographical delineations of the ter- ritory so as to secure the symumetry best adapted to compactness. Several plans have already been considered by which to obviate the panhandle. One is that this be appropriated by Washington territory, but the Idaho people do not look favor- ably upon a dimunmtion of territory. Their plan is to widen the terri- tory by taking in a considerable sec- tion of western Montana. Another plan is that of Senator Steward of Ne- vada, which looks to the annexation of Idaho to that state. This scheme will probably get no support anywhere out- siae of the deteriorating commonwealth. The plan of the Idaho people of taking in a section of western Montana appears to be regarded as the best from a geo- graphical point of view. It would im- provo the shape while increasing the size and population of Idaho, thus materially brightening the prospects of statehood. Montana, however, may not take kindly to this project. With the progress they are now making maintained, 1t is a ques- tion of only a few years when all the ter- ritories will have become states, EE———— Crty ATTORNEY WEBSTER has agamn shown his 1talian hand. The council di- rected him to' draw up a contract for the city advertising for the veriod ending on the first Tuesday in January, 1888, In- stead of wording the contract in the usual form as he had worded the con- inserted s clause that the Republicun shail absolutely cpntinue as the official paper until Q}T tract drawn by himself in - July, Webster: contract shall have been made. knows that Bechel to it that no néw “contract shall be let as long as they remuafn in the council. This is only & small, ymatter comparatively, but if the city attorney will play into the hands of one jobYer in drawing up con- tracts what will he do when contracts in- volving thousands upon thousands of dol- lars go through, Ljs hands. — Prarses for-the constitution of the United States are even sung by the tory press of Englamd. Says the London Times, in an editorial on the Philadel- phia celebration : *‘The parade of vete- rans of the Grand Army of the Republic before a democratic president and his cabinet is the crowning proof amid a crowd of evidences of the success of the authors of the union in devising & vigor- ous and abiding contract.” The English veople are growing more and more democratic every year, and even the con- servative press of the country have come to recognize the fact and cater to the vopular idea, — THE doomed anarchists have suddenly become very discreet in their utterances and deprecate the blood-and-thunder de- nunciations which their socialistic friends are hurling at the courts which con- demned them. As Mr. Spies might ex- pressit: ‘‘Gentlemen, what we wish 18 to override the law and save our necks. The best way to do it 18 to play the hppo- crite, and if our lives are spared we will turn in and make it hot for the would-be judicial murderers. It may harrow your feelings to hold your tongues, but have some pity on us martyrs Lo the cause.” — Horkins, the assistant cashier of the wrecked Fidelity bank of Cincinnati, at- tempts to vindicate himsclf and asso- ciates by pleading ignorance of the crookedness which Harper was engaged in. Criminal carelessness would be a better name for his neglect, even if he did not have a hand in the rascality. STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. The electric light system in Crete is nearing completion. Sixteen teachers do the necessary shingling in the schools of Blair. F. M. Robinson, of Franklin, was kicked to death by a vicious horse last week. Many bridges were ruined or seriously damaged throughout Nance county by the recent flood. ix-Senator Van Wyck is booked for a speech at the Nange county fair at Ful- lerton, next Thursday. In the opinion of the Bancroft Journal, “‘the Omaha fair and reunion together constituted the grandest affair of the kind ever held obraska.” The town of Mead, in Saunders ccunty, vigorously objects to_ be mistaken for Lincoln by tourists. Evidently the em- erald richness of the town mislead the emigrant. Fred Hagg +*is ‘one of the hard-headed residents of Nebraska City. A flying ten pound hammer tapped his crown and glanced off, leaving only a small lump to mark the point of contact. Whitcomb, the Beemer humorist,, who shoved a confederate bill on a green saloonkeeper, has been bound over to the district court for trial, His experience has not been n hilarious success. The Fremont Herald utterly ignores the breadth and depth of the Platte bot- toms when it says Dodge county did not have ‘'sand” encugh to compete for the county premium at the state fair. Harry Quan, the shining light of the City hotel in Fremont for months past, has disappeared, together with a purse of $82 deposited by a guest. 'Lhe deposit of 8o large a sum so bewildered Harry that he skipped by the lightof a waning moon. Antelope county will, on October 18, vote on the question of bonds to the amount of $12,000 to build a court house at Neligh, and Neligh precinct will vote October 11 on the question of bonding the precinct to the amount of $3,000 on the court house. Rushville is again discussing the cost and qualities of water under steam pressure. Prominent citizens agree that the fluid would be beneficial to the town if indulged in moderately, and the pros- pects are favorable for an early practical application of their theories. The female flirts of Fairbury are get- ting so bold and numerous that they plague the staid and pious people 1n church. The Repubhican declares that handkerchief flirtations in front of the congregation ‘‘are unseemly, uncalled for and distasteful.” The funny business should be contined to the choir under se- vere penaltios. “‘Citizens of Norfolk'’ says the News, *‘have many reasons for self-congratula- tion over the progress made by our city this season. ever before during a similar period has there been s0 much done in the way of building. Substantial business blocks, four of which ut least are metropolitan in their proportions, &race our lpldmgebusinon streets, and a gratifying number of elegant and cosy dwellings have been added to the re dence quarters. Inaddition to this a $50, 000 system of water works has be: augurated, and the city “has voted to expend $15,000 in securing fire apparatus and in building sewerage,’’ Iowa ltems, ‘The Masons of Stuart propose to build a temple. One thousand children are enrolled in the Atlantic schools. O'Brien county's new court house at Sheldon is open for business, Atlantic’s packing house will begin operations next moyth with a force of 200 men, During the last tan years twenty-one divorces have been granted in Boone count King, the thieving treasurer of Taylor county, hds'been convicted. His stealings amounted to $40,000. An expensive picture of the famous generals of the civil war has been pre- sented to the Dubuque high school. ‘The state university City Thursday, i‘le collegiate departmant is exactly 200. ‘The supervisors 0f the county haye de- cided to submit the question of building a $125,000 court hohse at Clinton to the voters this fall. Rev, Father Frdderick, nged sixty-one| years, died at the German Catholic par- sonage au Carroll, Thursday. He had been the pastor two years., A new club room for working girls has been opened in Davenport. orking women will stick to the rolling pin acd broomstick, with occasional poker exercise. E.V. Andrews, of Decorah, has received notice that the pension department has awarded him back pay amounting to $10,009.33, and a pension hereafter at the rate of §76 per month. The Sioux City Journal warns. the town to “‘Be not puffed up,” and in the same breath. porpetrates this peanut: “Sioux City is and must remain in per- petuity the cattle market and the meat center of the great northw DAt Denison the other a parrot created quite & sensation’ at a wedding. A minister was m sereaming ‘' a couple at the hotel, and just at point where the meek| ‘ promised to ‘‘love, honor and obey,”” the parrot brought down the house and interrupted the ceremony by "' at the top of his voice The bird was removed from the room and the wedding ceremony gone over with again from the beginning. Dakota. The schools of Fargo will cost $12,000 this year, ‘The public schools of Sioux Falls have 686 pupils. Watertown is promised the shope of the Duluth road. Martin county will harvest 60,000 bush- els of corn this year. Seventy-six Congre, have been built in 1881, The fall term of the Dakota supreme court will be held at Deadwood, com- mencing Tuesday, October 4, Rapid City is elated with the advertise- iven the city and the Black Hills play of mineral d rioul- tural products ut the Omaha and Lincoln Lr‘niltrl The collection now goes to Kansas y. The Congregational churches, 105 1n number, assembled at Sioux Falls; memo- rialized the president, urgently protesting against the recent order from the assist- ant commissioner of Indian affairs, for- bidding the use of the Indian language in the school on the Indian reservation. Instead of hastening the time when the Indian shall speak none but the English language, they argue that it retards it. tional churches the territory since —————— Marvels of the New Northwest. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. When the New Englander sets foot in the newer states of the northwest he tinds a condition of things for which nothing has prepared him—nether what he has read in books, magazines or news- papers, nor what he may have seen in former journeys. Nebraska, Minnesota, Dakota—not yet a state, but perhaps soon to be—changed so fast from year to year and almost from month to month, that the returning visitor can scarcely recognize that he is in the same spot where he stood one, two or five years agn. Even the face of nature herself changes. The Missouri seems to be a smaller river than when the great steam- boats that have now deserted it used to navigate its muddv and meanderin, wators; and there are no waste lands now where the “‘great American desert'’ was wont to epread over the old maps. Thus an Omaha journalist, reciting the history of an island city of his enormous state says: “Thirteen years ago the spot where Kearney stands “today was hidden in the ‘great American desert,’ the buffalo and the antelope roamed over its wastes, and amid alkali, rock and sage- brush the Indian still sneaked, hunting for his white brother, Now 1t 18 a city of nearly 6,000 inhabitants, with schools and churches, electric lights, gasand water, with a mayor and city council— in a word, with every adjunctof a thriv ing city, including ghe wmeek and lowly Chinaman, and exc| udin% the Salyation " Kearney 15 in_Buffalo county, which was orgunized asa county 70, when it had 193 inhabitants. Now the county has more than 20,000 people, and the city will soon rise to that magnitude. 1t is 200 miles west of the Missouri river, on the Platte, and is one of the feeders of Omaha, which now claims nearly 100,00 people—or more than any Massachusetts city except Bos- ton. Yet Omaha had less than 500 peo- ple thirty y 2o, and even in 1880 had but 80,000, Like St, Paul, it now doubles 1ts population every four years, and no perceptible limit to its growth can be s een. The state of Nebraska, according to its governor, a Massachusetts man be- fore the war, now has more than 10,000,- 000 people scattered over its 00 square miles, and_chiefly along its fast extending railroads. Its corn crop 1s so large this year—having mostly escaped tue drouth which visited Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan —that it is ex- pected to supply 25,000,000 ushels to the neighboring state of Kansas, where the crop in some sections 18 short. Its cattle are so fast increasing that the high price of beef has come down, and nothing but the railroad rates can keep up the exorbi- tant exstern price. Its railroad crop of this year will be more than one hundred miles got in, although the caution of eastorn capital has acted like a drouth on this harvest of locomotion. It markets, through 1ts chief city, Omaha, more grain than it raises, for Dakota and Kan- sas are 1n some degree tributary to this railroad center. It 1s this year the third city in the United States in the business of pork-packing, and its cattle-packing has almost doubled since 1835, &cxt to Kansas City and Chicago it will soon be the great beef-shipping market of the world, Its manufactures, though few, are important, 1t seems to have all the requisites for a great American city, except water-power—and it is possible the Missouri could be utilized in that di- rection. — A Genuine Awmerican, Atlanta Constitution. When, some time ago, Buffalo 8ill wrote to a friend n New Orleans de- scribing the honors that were paid him by the princes and the noble lords and gentlemen of England, he said he en- joyed the courtesies and the hospitalities which they extended, but he announced that these things had ot changed him, “lam the same old bull-whacker,” he wrote. This was a rather loose way of saying that he was the same American citizen his friend had known in the old days. The successful career of Mr. Cody in London—for he has been successful both as a showman and as a social lion—1s a matter for congratulation, and we com- mend his example to the thousand of toadies and tuft-hunters that annually to Great Britain from these shores. neral Joseph R. Hawley, who has turned from London, pays an en- astic tribute to the modest manli- which characterizes Buffalo Bill in his intercourse with so-called nobility. Mr. Murat Halstead declares to the New York reporters that Mr, Cody has been “quite a_handsome_and distinguished figure in London society.” He has been sought ufter because heis manly enough, albeit his bearing is modest and gentle, to carry himself as the equal of the titled men and women who solicit his society. He is neither a toady nor a tuft hunter, but a genuine American who is inter- ested In Jmoplu not because they have money and titles, but because they are human beings. We trust other Americans who visit England will follow Mr. ody's example, Whoenever they do, the English will get new ideas of the inhabitants of the re- publie. e ——— Why Wheat is Cheap, Minneapolis Tribune, Those who do not understand why wheat is so cheap at the present time will probably find a solution for tie problem in the following facts relative to the pro- duction of wheat in foreign countries. It is true that the Awerican wheat crop is smaller by probably nearly 80,000,009 bushels this year than it was last, and if this had not been true here as well as 1n India, prices would now in all probility be lower than they have been known for. years. But . the crops iuotier foreign wheat producing countries bus been large and that has pradventod the higher prices whioh would undoubtedly have rmnhd a8 the result of the shortage in he orops of India aud America. For example the Austrian crop 18 re- pol 88 17 per cent above the average and tho Hungarian 96 per cent. Bavaria has shown a yield 20 per cont la: Tr than the average; Great Britain and lreland, 20 per cent; Servia, 40 per cent; Little Wallachia, 25 per cent; Central kuuh, 18 per cent: Cherson, 20 per cent; other Russian districts, 100 per cent; Switzor- land, 110 rnl cent; France 105 per cent; Holland 103 per cent; Denmark and Sweden 100 per cent, and Italy 90 per cent. 1t will thus be seen that the increase in the yields of the foreign wheat producing countries just about counteracts the effect g{ l'l:,e shortage in India and the United ates, These figures and estimates are those of the international corn market of Vienna, and may be considered per(uotl{ reliable and as nearly accurate as suc estimates can be made. Omal City. Wood River Gazette, Omaha is & great city, so great that thousands and thousands of peovle who, until last week, had not visited her for years, were almost lost in amazement as they witnessed thie great transformation that has been wrought since their last visit. We use the word transformation because there has been an entjre change in the city since most of us first stepped upon Nebraska soil. She is no longer a place of ordinary importance, but a city of 100,000 dpnopls that is increasing in wealth and population at & rate that has no parallel in the history of the great west, and the prediction that twenty ears hence she will rank among the argest of America’s large cities, is fisnrd on every hand. The people of the whole state witness her marvellous growth with pride born of the assurance that in a fow short years Nebraska will contain one of the largest and best cities on the western continent, e S JEFF DAVIS' ELOPEMENT. The Story of the Man Who Helped Him Steal Miss Taylor. A Prairie du Chiene old resident re- cently related to a Chicago Tribune cor- respondent some details of the elopement of Jeft Davis with Colonel Taylor's daughter, lon}; ago, when Taylor was in command_ of Fort Crawford. As he aided Jeffin the capture ana elusion of the wrath of Taylor, his story has some interest. He says: *‘You see it happened this way: My name is ueorg'u(}rofin and I am eighty ears old, if 1 live until next Noyember. {L was about 1834, or near thattime, when I, with a number of others, went up the Mississippi river on a steamer to visit the Falls of St Anthony. Wae left the steamer where 8t. Paul now is and went qger to the falls, remaining so long that'When we returned the boat was gone. Nothing remained tor usto do but to buy a large canoe from the Indians, which we did, and floated down the river to Fort Craw- ford. At thattime there was a slough separating the few houses that consti- tuted the village from the trading vost and the fort on the bank of the river. 1 thought 1 might make some money by using the canoe as a ferry boal across the slough, and bought out the interest of my partners. 1 accordingly established my ferry and Jeff Davis wus one of my patrons. 1 did not like his pompous ways, for when he paid his pas- sage he always threw the money into my hand as though he was throwing money 10 & beggar. One day he came to me and asked me if I could safely row two pverson: ross the river, and I replied that Icould. Shortly after he came again and seemed to be somewhat ex- cited as he asked me to be on hand that evening with my canoe. He was more gracious 1n his manner, and gave me some money as a guarantee of good faith. Idid not know then that [ was to be a party to an elopement or I might have objected to doing o \vron% ot against Colonel Taylor, for whom [ had lkc highest regard. " It came about, how- ever, that 1 was at the slough after the sun went down, and waited patiently for the young officer. I had waited some hours when I heard footsteps, and turn- ing I saw Jeff Davis and Colonel Taylor’s daughter hurrying toward me., Not aq word was spoken as he lifted her ten- derly to a seat in the canoe, and 1 fol- lowed, taking up my paddle. We went down the slough to where it joined the river. The yuun(x woman began to cry softly as we sweptinto the stream and Jefl drew her head over on shoulder as he spoke to her in a soothing voice. Across the river we drifted, and the sound of my paddle could not be heard a furlong away. Not aloud word was spoken in that silent voyage and [ was at a_loss to understand the whole affair. We kept on across the mniver and every few moments I took occasion to glance around to see how my passengers were gotting along, The girl had ceased her crying and by the way she rested her head on the bosom of the young lieu- tenant 1 somehow became convinced that she was not altogether unhappy. We landed on the opposite shore below the island, and [ waited with some in- terest to see what would happen next. Presently 1 saw three men emerge from the thick underbrush some distance from the river bank and Jefl Davis put some money in my hand and told me to return. learned afterwards that one of these three men who came up on the river bank, was a priest, butI never found out who the others were and neither did I ascertain the name of the priest. Be- fore 1 had reached the place in the slough where I had moored my canos I heard the noise of the river steamer coming down from St Paul She halted below the island in the middle of the stream, for [ distinctly heard the engines reverse, and knew that Jeff Davis and his bride were about to pass down the Mississippi to the south. The next day I watched closely for a glimpse of Colonel Taylor, but the old soldier was too circumspect in his actions to betray any anxiety. I was iformed that Davis took the young woman from an upper window in " the log cabin, and with ssistance of the chaplain was enabled to get her beyond the picket lines unobserved. Thero was no doubt that the chaplain was ou the other side of the river to witness the marriage, and that he conveyed to Colonel Taylor news of the elopement. “I was away from Fort Crawford for some time after this episode, and heard no more about it. It is, however, a mat- ter of history that Colonel Taylor was never wholly reconcited to the marriage. It 1s stated that after the battle of Buena Vista, Taylor visited Jeft Davi he lay wounded in his tent, and extended his hand to him, although there was no farther reconcilintion. Davis had un- doubtedly won the baftle with the Mis- sissippi Rifles, and Taylor could not fail to recognize such gallantry. Time and again I have heard this story of mine called a falsehood, but it1s true, and 1 Ry IN A TIGER'S CLUTCH, How Captain Bradford Lost An Arm In An Indian Jungle. In 1870 I met Captain Braaford at Jey- poor, in Rajpootana,where he was u resi- dent political agent, says a writer in the Pensacola (Fla.) Advance Gazette. He was indeed a man of clear grit and a thorough gentleman; his coat slee quite empty, though with his other arm he could and did handle a small, light ghotgun and was still fond of shooung. His taste for tiger shooting was, however gone. From him I learned that he and some more of his' fellow oflicers went' out on. aQtiger huat, and n line some distarice from each awaiting the coming of a lov, line of beaters, who, with their horns, shrill vlku, drums, _yells, etc., were b\ driving the game before them, Brad. o ford's stand was next to a river; he #Y thought it advisable to get up a tree, and unfortunately selected one with a sloping trunk, he taen went out on lar? branch where he could got o fair sight and awaited events: presently a tiger came_ sneaking along every now and then looking back in the direction of the noise, from which it was fly- ing. Bradlord fired, mortally wounds ing the tiger, who looked up and caught sight of him. With a hoarse growl of rage it rushed up the sloping truuk (a tiger can't climb a straight tree) and came out along the branchto reek its vengeance. \ Bradford raised his double-barrellod rifle, took aim, and pulled the trigger, ! the tiger being quite close, but the hame ! mer in falling cnnfim o twig. The cap b did not explode; there was no time to re- 4 cock’ One thought, one hope flashed in 3 s mind. He dropped the rifle and b sprang into the river. ‘‘The tiger would nos¥follow him theret" o ! was mistaken. One moment and 1t was E after him. Automatically, without know- ing it, he put out one arm to fend off the danger; this the tiger seized and d him ashore. Bradford had fainted. He felt the one plu* when the powerful {:uu closed on his nrna crushing the h were other one like an egg shell, and for some time ¢ knew no more. When he resnlne«l consciousness the mortally wounded tiger was lying with its head and one huge paw across his chest, weighing him down, his arm 1n the tlfor‘s mouth, 1ts hot breath on s face; it had crushed his arm from wris to shoulder, *Did you feel pain or fear?" 1 asked. *‘No pain, no fear; only a numbed feel- ing in the brain, sensation of hopeless: noss and that my last hour had come,thut death was near.” “What time had elapsed I did not know. Just then an oflicer and one of the native troopers came running up. The officer tried to take aim, but the tiger’s body was so_that he could not shoot it without danger to the man beneath it. The bavildar never hesitated, but rushed in and drove the tulwar through the tiger's heart,rolling it off the body of his officer. Bradford was loved by his men, who would have followed "him to the death and nisked anything for him, An oxpress messenger was dispatched to the’cantonment for the surgeon, and Bradford, put on an improvised litter. carried to meet him, which they did about half way under atree. The surgeon then and there took his arm off, which was buried. e MOURNING FOR SUNNATONNA. He Was an Otoe Uhief and Had & Host of Friends. RED Rock, Otoe Aganefll’. T., Sept. 6.—Sunnatonna 18 dead. His life passed peacefully away at noon Sunday. Sun- natonna held two important and lucra- tive posts. He was an Otoe chief and a policeman. His mercenary friends dressed him three times for the grava, thinking, no doubt, that this would hasten ’]\is demise. When the agency people learned this they had him brought in from camp, dismissed his covetous frieds, and coaxed him back to life again; but his fate seemed sealed from the first, and the white flag waves over § one more grave on the hiilside, and one less is there to receive rations. Sunnatonna was a clean, tasteful In- dian. He had a pleasant fuce and a smile for every one. The clerk had given him a pair of alligator shippers in exchange for a pair of moccasins. Sunnatonna's wife had made him a dressing gown out of curtain calico; and what with these signs of divilization, and his cleanly habits and genial disposition, Sunnatonna was beloved by more than the wife whom he left to mourn for him, and he will be missed by others than his immediate kinsfolk. Around Sunnatonna’s deathbed stood his wife and some near and distant rela- tives. When it was known that he was - dead his wife mourned quietly but sin- cerely. She took the scissors and clip- h pved lJ)iflcO of her long black hair and placed it under her husband's head. Then she gashed her face with the scis- sors. The other wemen were loud in their lamentations, especially one who seemed frantic. The reporter learned later that the one who mourns the loud- est receives o gift of something. How- ever, his wife seems sincere in her grief, She1s besides his grave early in the evening. She wanders through the agency like one bewildered. Her simple beliet points to the meeting in the In- dian’s happy hunting grounds, —_—— A New Steel Process. Experimentsare being made by prom- mment steel manufacturers in this_city, says the Pittsburg Post, which are likely to have a great influence on the cost of production of steel. The experiments re- ate to a process that has becn discovered by which the defects in steel blooms and billets can be obviated. The new invention consists of mlx|uE quantitics of alloy of iron aluminum wit the steel - when it 18 being made into in- gots, This, itis eciaimed, will prevent any defective blooms or billets. representative of one steel-works, speaking of the invention, yester- day afternoon, said: “The process H now ‘)rumiuua to be a successful one, and it will certainly have considerable influ- ence on steel gmanufacture, At present there are numerous billets and blooms that have what is called a ‘blow’ in them, ‘This makes them worthless, and results in absolute loss to the manufacturers. T'he new process is designed to prevent » these blows,' and as a result the losses of _J»~ the various companies will be reduced, The most pleasing feature of the new process 18 its cheapness. The costis ridiculously low that the saving of one bloom will almost pay its eost for one week, [ am certain that it will be adopted by all manufacturers. Of course it will eventually afloct the price of steel because the absence of losses re- sulting from spoiled blooms will lessen he cost of production, and consequently permit manufacturers to sell steel cheaper than at present He Knows Trick Now. Chiengo Tribune: “Have any of you found n bank note?” inquired a man in wild-eyed excitement as he burriedly ap- proached a knot of loungers at the union depot yesterday morning. . ave you lost one?’’ asked an elderly r of bland and sedate appearance. ves; have you founa it?" » moment. What was its de- nomination?” It waus a $50 bill—National bank note."’ ‘The stranger leisurely drew a roll of bills from his pocket, looked them uver, took one out, and passed it over to the excited individual, remarking with much urbunity as he did ; “It is well for you, my friend, that it was found by an honest man. vicked 1t up a few minutes ago, and take pleasure in giving back to you what I am satistied 18 YOUr propert; “Thank you, sir;thank you. It's my tuen now to do the fair thing. Mere's ten-dollar bill. You shan't refuse it, Take it, slr; take 1t, or I shall feel hurt.” ‘The stranger, thus urged, took the money, and the grateful individual walked oft with his $50. He was consider- ably surprised to learn, a few hours later, that the bill was not the one he had lost at all, but & counterfeit. He is now look- ing for the bland and elderly siranger, but there are reasons for doubting his success in finding him, - Bank Clearings. volume of business transacted at rday -is represens The the clearing house yos ted by the Lgures $503,