Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 5, 1887, Page 4

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Sept. 27 P! « Sept. 20, Friday, Sept. 30, 3 CK. Sworn to and subscribed in my presence this 1st day of October, A. D. 1887 L P, [SEA L. Notary Btate of Nebraska, ‘ Douglas County. (% Geo. B. Tzschuck, belng first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual average daily circulation of the Daily Bee for themonth of September, 1846, 18,080 coples; for October, 1836, 12,989 copjes; for Novem- ber, 1886, 13,348 coples; for December, 1886, 13,237 copies: for January 1887, 10,2 coples; for February, 1887, 14,198 coples; for March. 1887, 14,400° coples; for April, 1887, 14,316 copies; for May, 1 14,227 coples: for June 1887, 14,147 coples; for July, 1887, 14,- 003 copies; for August, , 14,151 copies. Gro, B TzscHUCK. Bworn_and rubeeribed in my presence this 5th day ot Sept. A. D,, 1887, [SEAL.| N. P. FEiL. Notary Public. Rl Public. THE meeting of the Knights of Labor is now 1 tull blast in Minneapolis. The indications point to a re-election of Mr. Powderly as master workmar. For sublime cheek commend us to our Cadet. A political tramp swinging the party lash and threatening men who dare to oppose incompetent candidates for the judiciary is a specimen of petri- tied gall which ought to be preserved in amuseum for the study of future genera- tions, GoverNor TuHAYER was accorded a very pleasant reception by his fellow cit- izens at Lincoln on his return from Phil- adelphia, Such spontapeous exhibition of regard shows in what high esteem the governor is deservedly held by the people. It is an ovation which can not help but be very pleasing to a public officer. Wiuex GouLp said a short time ago that he did not want and would prob« ably not purchase the Baltimore & Ohio telegraph system, the BeEe asserted that he must already have obtained con- trol over it. This seems now to be act- ually the case. A New York dispatch says the Western Union has just swal- lowed that telegraph system. It was probubly one of the “‘cheap things in the market.” ON the first of October the prico of coal, eggs and milk was raised in many parts of tiie country. The advance was brought about by monopolistic combina- tions, The money thus taken from the consumers goes into the pockets of men who have been robbing the people for years. The hardships of the poor are consequently made more severe. Can not this wickedness be remedied ? SuaAr has been very cheap for several years past but the prospect is that it will still be lower. Commissioner Colman, of the agricultural bureau, says letters are pouring in from all parts of the coun- try asking for full information in regard to the manufacture of sugar, cost of machinery, ete. The indications are that there will be a boom in the manufacture of sugar in the near future and 1t may not be long before this nation will be be- yond the necessity of importing that staple. THE right and duty of honest partisans to refuse support to unfit candidates has been affirmed by the highest tribunal known in politics—the national conven- tion. In 1880 James A. Garteld was nominated president of the United States after making a powerful and masterly appeal for the freedom of poltical con- sclence. His memorable speech against binding every delegate to the convention: to the support of its nominees, ‘‘whoeyver they might be,”’ knocked off the shackles of partisan slavery from the limbs of republicauns, and the decree of emancipation issued by that conventign never will be re- voked. The puny political hack who is now shouting treason through the col- umns of the jobbers' organ, against men who have the courage to voice the honest sentiment of the party against an im- proper nomination is utterly impoteat in his efforts to frighten republicans of Omaha. They know their duty as citizens, and will exercise it, no matter what threats may be made. Tue sudden death of John B, Finch, who at one time was quite prominent in Nebraska as an agitator of prohibition, and later on became the lieutenant of ex- Governor St. John in the national cam- paign of 1884, is announced by telegraph, Mr. Finch was comparatively a young man, of robust physique, and presumably strictly temperate, and his death there- fore will create surprise among those who knew him. While he never exerted any appreciable influence in Nebraska poli- tics it must be conceded that Mr. Finch was an important factor in the defeat ot James G. Blane. It is an open secret that the negotiations between St. John and the democrats were carried on through him, and it is generally believed among well informed parties that Finch was a democratic decoy and was well vaid for his services. His death at this time may disconcert some of the plans of the prohibition leaders for the campaign of 1888, Mr. Finch was a democrat with prohibition veneering,and the democratic leaders will miss him a great deal more than even his bosom friend, St. Jobn. i The Investigation Clused. The Pacific railroads commission is understood to have closed its investiga. tion, and 15 now engaged in preparing the report which is to be submitted to the president and by him sent to con- gress. The report 13 expected to be vol- uminous, and its preparation will probably consume several weeks. Thero 19 a disposition, in guarters not un- friendly to the corporations, to depre- ciate the labors of the commission. Tns takes the form of saying that the result of their inquiries has developed nothing new, and that no facts have been reached which have any merit so far as the punishment of bribery is concerned, or which will expedite a settlement of the relations between the government and these ronds. Itis the conclusion of such commentators that the work of the commission will amount to very little, cither by way of enlightening or helping the government. 1t is perhaps true that the commission did not obtain all the information that was hoped for and desired, but the 1n- vestigation has certainly not been wholly fruitiess. It has at least established more surely than ever before the character and corrupt practices of the men who have managed the afturs of the Central Pacific railroad, and put the government in pos- session of better evidence than it before obtained respecting the methods em- ployed by these men to inlluence legisla- tior in their interest. What amount of merit this evidence may have to warrant proceedings aganst the corruptionists it will be the province of congress to determine when it 13 pre- sented, but it is a good deal to assume in advance of its submission that it will be regarded as valueless. To the ordi- nary judgment 1t would seem that the guarded admissions made by Hunting- ton regarding the use of money and the concealments of others which virtnally amounted to confessions, were suflicient to justify proceedings against these par- ties under conditions in which they would be compelled to make a full dis- closure of their knowledge or suffer the consequences of a refusal to doso; where they would be forced to tell the truth about their transactions or put themselves in* peril for perjury. The commission was compelled to take what it could get; the power to compel answers to in- quiries was denied it. In the courts the bribing officials of the Ceatral Pacific would have no such protection, and with the facts elicited by the commission to guide a judicial investigation it is not 1mprobable that a case could be made against these men which would subject every one of them to a heavy tine and imprisonment under the law punishing the bribery of members of congress. Such a result would be welcomed by the people a8 a just and merited retribu- tion, and public sentiment will de- mand that these unscrupulous cor- ruptors of legislation and plunderers of the people shall be followed by every means known to the law until the last ef- fort to bring them to restitution and punishment shall have been exhausted. So far as helping to a settlement of the relations between the government and the roads is concerned, the investi- gation may not have accomphshed much. It was not expected to by those who had an intelligent knowledge ot the situa- tion. Yet it should not fail to enlighten congress on the necessity of proceeding with respect to these roads on’ straight business lines, and remove a great many of the false and pernicious thieves which have been at the boltom of much- of the legislation regarding these roads, The commission has performed its arduous task with conspicuous ability and fidelity, and we do not betieve it will be found to have been a fruitless labor. Beware of Political Pick-Pockets. Republiean candidates and republican committees should be on sheir guard against blackmailers and political pick- pockets. About a year ago a brace of professional public plunderers came to this city and bought out a job printing office with a newspaper attachment. One of these adventurers haa gone through bankruptey three or four times in Cihi- cago, and was in the hands of a receiver when he was appointed as manager of the government printing office. Another1s a political leech who had made aliving out of politics as a publisher of a cheap John country weekly, maintained by political pap and contributions from political candidates. By ingenious methods, which plain-spoken people call down- right swindling, these political barnacles managed within three years to filch thousands of dollars out of the national treasury, It has . been publicly stated, and npever has been dis- proved, that ' hfteen cent ink was charged up at from one to four dollars per pound to the government. Kirst- class printing presses and printing ma- chinery were condemned as worthless, sold for old iron and new machinery sub- stituted on which high commissions are usually paid by the manufacturers. To the 1ll-gotten gans thus ‘amassed these men are now trying to add the plunder which comes within their reach through traflic in imaginary political influence and exorbitant charges for party print- ing. The first sample of their piracy was shown in the bills to the republican county committee last year, Tickets which could be printea for 60 cents per thousand, in large quantities, were charged up at #4.80 per thousand, and every other item in proportion. Last winter, during the session of the legisla- ture, and in the ecity campaign which followed it, a raid was made on candi- dates and corporation managers toinvest in inflated HRepublican stock. About £20,000 was subseribed. Awong the vice- tims to this game were A, L, Strang,John T. Clarke, Otis H. Ballon, and several others. Some of these lambs were fleecod because they expected to receive appoint- ments from Governor Thayer through the alleged influence of the political cons- tractors, Others allowed themselves to be bled because they were candidates, and did not dare to resist the pressure brought upon them by impostors and mountebanks Still others contributed liberally because they had corrupt jobs to pull through, and needed the aid of the infamous gang who had made them- selves solid with the city council. And now that we are on the eve of anothers campaign the political pick- pockets have resumed business at the old stand, No sooner had the republican county ticket been nominated than the leeches set themselves at work on the candidates and the central committee. Every candidate is expected to hold up his hands, and the old process of charg- ing three prices for tickets, posters, and other printing will be carried out with slight variations, The Bir warns the candidates and com- mittee against pickpockets and black« mailers. Political trataps who have the cheek of jovernment mule may force themselves upon primary tickets and beg themselves into conventions, but they have no influence, can deliver no votes at the election, and thelr paid puffs are an absolute damage to a candiaate in this intelligent community. — The True Ground of Confidence, Mr. Woolworth said in his address at the dedication of the new chamber of commerce that his ground of confidence . THE OMAHA DAILY in the future of Omaha was in its men, by which of course he meant thase who ure engnged in conducting its financial, industrial and mercantile affairs. He pointed out that it is not new buildings, nor the prices paid for real estate, nor the money accumulated in bank vaults, nor yet the influx of population, that are the true basis of faith in the future of this city, but the publio spirit, the indomita- ble energy and the intelligent enterprise of the men who direct and control the means and instrumentalities of vrosper- ity and progress. Omaha will advance in the degree that these qualities are ex- hibited by her capitalists and men of business. ‘The natural resources of a eity, its for~ tunate pos:tion geographically, and all the conditions and influences which con- tribute to give it metropolitan import- unce, are to be made largely useful and valuable only by the application of un- tiring energy and a judicious and vigor- ous enterprise. In the inost favored lo- calities, among which (Omaha certainly belongs. development cannot be left to the chance that the world must discover their claims to consideration and take ad- vantage of them. In the sharp struggle for a commanding and secure position that is constantly going on, the commun- ity that simply announces itself ready for business aud then sits down to wait for business to come to it, is very certain to get only a small part of what it expects, and to ultimately find itself far behind in the race. The admonition to be “‘up and doing'’ 1s as sound for a community as for an indi- vidual. The demand of the times is for unceasing enterprise and unflagging ef- tort, and nothing Jess will win, That is the experience of every successful com- munity and there is no reason to expect that Omaha will attain the position possi- ble to her without applying the same policy and principles that have been found necessary to successful achieve- ment elsewhere. The men whose shrewd forecast, pub- lic spirit, energy and enterprise have built up Omaha to the proud distinction she now occupies can not be too greatly honored. Their monuments of reward are reared in enduring forms on every hund, and some of them are still here in the enjoyment of the bountiful fruits of their labor, living examples of what well-directed effort will accomplish, L'he duty of continuing what they so well begun and vigorously maintained is now largely devolved upon others, and it is to these mainly that the appeal must be made to exercise the spirit and the policy which are to keep Omaha well to the front in the march of progress. They need to adequately comprehend the possibilities of the city, which ure fairly suggesied by the advance of the past ten years, and when they have done this they should not require any other incentive toeffort. But it must never be tnought that eflort is not necessary, and that in any event the position and natural advantages of Omaha assure Qer progress and prosper- ity. We shall only achieve all that by reason of our advantages should be ours by the constant energy, courage and en- terprise, which are now, more than ever before, essential to success. Ir is reported from San Francisco that the last steamer from China brought over forty-four women, all but four of whom were without necessary papers. The four were old, whilethe forty were at- tractive young damsels evidently im- ported on speculation. It was assumed that by the usual habeas corpus routine these women would be landed, d the report adds: “As thoy cost about $200 in China and are readily sold here for $1,500 to $2,000, the profit on tis impor= tation will reach $50,000.” 'This is not a new fact; it has occurred many times before, but what can the American peo- ple think of such a trafiie carried on in their own country, and unquestionably in violation of the law restricting Chi- nese immigration? It has been publicly declared by the collectorat San Francisco that the federal judicial author- 1ties persistently nulhify the law by allow- ing Chinese to come in on habeas corpus proceedings and make generous fees thereby. Bad as this is in the case of the admission of men, when it serves to aid the introduction of women to be traf- ficked 1n like mules, and doubtless in the great majority of cases to be given over to lives of the most degraded immorality, 1t becomes a wrong of the most culpable character, calling for prompt and de- cisive remedy. Such an incident is dis- graceful to the nation, and its repetition should be 1mpossible. ‘THE Heruld serves notice on Mr. Bar- rett, the republican candidate for cor: oner, that he is to be laid out by an enterpi ng undertaking firm which always supplies candidates for both par. ties. As a matter of propriety the nom- ination of coroner should have gone to a physician, but if an undertaker 1s bound to have it, there1s no reason why the oflice should become & monopoly. Mr. Barrett 1s certainly as comvetent for the vlace as the man whom the Herald has engaged to lay ham out. Mr, Barrett's coflins for suicides will fit just as well as those of the other shop. THE convention of the national reform party was not a success, one-half of the delegates being detained at home by sickness. The one man who did answer the call is supposed to be the individual who caused the terrible sphitin the Amer- ican party by his desertion recently. — ArTER years of argument in the press, discussion on the platforns, heated debates in church gatherings and memorials by religious bodies, a practical step has been taken by leading members of the protest- ant denominations of the country towards securing the co-operation of all christial for the evangehzation of the world. A call has been issued for a meeting to dis- £ ouss all the questions involved, and there s reason 1o believe that, if a thorough ohristian spirit dominates the proposed Rgathering, the greatest religious question of the age may be-quickly and satisfac- torily settled. — Tar weather clerk s evidently in league with the coal robbers. Tho latter put up prices on Monday, and now the former announces a cold wave, Here's # chance for a congressional investi- gation, Ir the Chicage papers are correct the freight rates between the Missouri river and that city are to be radioally and per: manently lowered before long. This will be welcome news to western pro- ducers. CLEYELAND refused to kiss an old lady in St. Louis, and it is quite probable that he will not have a ohance to kiss a young one while his wife 1s around. — PROMINENT PERMONS, Mrs. C. Vanderbilt pays her doctor $10,000 a year. Florence Marryatt is dangerously ill in London, Mark Twaln will be fifty-two years of aze in November. The will of the late William A. Wheeler, ex-vice president of the United States, is to be contested. Robert Louls Stevenson says he is a Cleve- land man, Perhaps he is working the presi- dent into a story. Ex-Senator Ferry, of Michighan, who felled In 1852 for $1,500,000, has since paid off $1,900,000 of his debts, Senator Ransom 1s known among his as- sociates as the Adams of the senate. He is finely preserved and acareful dresser. A project 13 on foot In Washington to raise $100,000 for ex-Governor Shepherd who started the improvements in that city. Henry George is soon to publish a weekly edition of his paper at Rochester. With his characteristic modesty he will call it The Earth, Joaquin Miller’s investments In California really are netting him a handsome fortune. He also holds a majority of the stock in the Overland Monthiy of San Fraucisco. John Edmund Kettle, of Salt Lake City, being absent without leave from his family, is advertisea in Utah papers over the joint signatures of ten abandoned and deserted Mrs. Kettles. Pretty anti-poverty girls boomed the united labor party’s fair in New York on Tuesday night. It was the eve of Dr. Mec- Glynn’s fiftieth birthday anniversary, and he was the lion of the hour. Alfred A. Cohen, the lawyer who has so skillfully defended the millionaire magnates in the Pacific railway investigation, 18 about sixty years of old, ah Englishman by birth, and was an intimate friend of late Lord Beaconsfield. ' Colonel Blanton .Duncan, who recently predicted the end ot! the world in 1913, now declares that “Mr. Cleveland will not permit his name to be uséd for president again.” ‘There is probably as much truth in one pre- diction as in the other. Lieutenant K. L. Zalinskl, of the Fifth artillery, whose dynamite gun is now an ob- ject of such general interest, is an old army officer, but looks much younger than he really is. He is ot medium height and well built. He has red cheeks and a full black beard. Major General Baird, United States Army, who has been attending the mobilization maneavers on behalt of tha war department at Washington, has received the cross and chevalier of the Legion of Honor, which has been conferred on him by the French goy- ernment. F. Marlon Crawtord, the novelist and poet of Philadelphia’s recent centennial, is a man of many accomplishments besides his liter- ary gifts. He is a good musician, being able to accompany his own songs on either piano or guitar, He is arare linguist and an ath- lete of acknowledged power. E. B. Washburn, now lying very ill, was the predecessor of Judge Kelly, of Pennsyl- vania, in the position of ‘‘father of the house.” As such he administered the oath of office to the nawly-elected speaker on four occasions, three times to Schuyler Colfax and once to James G. Blaine. —— The Cup That Cheers, Philadelphia Press. The Awerica’s cup seems to be securely anchored to American soll. For all true Yankee sportsmen this is the cup that cheers. e ] e A Hlarmonious Combination. Norristown Herald. “Overcoats wlll be shorter the coming win- ter than last” Many young men and hus- bands who spent their sunmer atthe sea- shore this season will also be *'shorter” than last. ork $ Itis as cold aday for civil service reform in New York as in Massachusetts. Itis time for the mugwumps to get them toa mug- wumpery. It is too hard and too cold outside for such shrinking people. -————— Then They Deserve the Same Fate. Boston Herald, These ‘‘trusts,” which began with the Standard Oil, and are gradually extending over the whole field of productlon, are as much opposed to the «enius of our Institu: tions as socialists or nihihsts, . Our Shrewd President, St. Paul Pioncer Press The president knew what he was talking about when he requested that no reception committees meet him en route. It is under- stood that his impromptu speeches were pre- pared betore he left Washington. e Advertise Well, Yonkers Gazette, Advertise well! 'tis the secret of glory, stick to this principle fast as a leech: ‘Think of the names that are famous in story; advertise well is the lesson they teach. How have men compassed so wide a con- nection, made the world swallow their nostrums at witt? "Pis that by constant and serlous reflection, advertise well is the principle still, Advertise well! you will never repent it; nothing more wise can a business man do. Stick to this motto and vever forget it; advertise well—it will pull you safe through Advertise well: do not think what ’twill cost you; publishers’ bills are but friends in disguise. How do you know what your caution has lost you! Would you be weaithy, you must advertise. Advertise well ! though business be vnlnr: those who spend freest must win in the end. Up and be doing! no need for complaining; act for yoursell, and be your own friend. Advertise well! all ‘lanes have a turning; nothing pays better than paper and ink, Thousauds who lhll{ this motto are spurn- ing, find that i brings them to bank- ruptey’s brink. —_— And For all the Spoilsmen. Rochester (N, ¥.) Union, The silent utterances ot the solitary sym- bol, u portrait of Andrew Jackson, displayed at the democratic state convention, was more signiticant than all else of doing or saying. ‘I'iat symbel was the sign of true democcacy. BEE: WEDNESDAY. 1t stood for all men who are democrats and against all men who are not dermocrats. —_— May be the Cause of Drouths. PRitsburg Post. Jay Gould has only been across the ocean once in his tempestaous life,. When he ‘wanted water he put It in his stocks, ——— STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska .lnnin.'-. T'ho harvest in Colfax county 1s above the average. Stanton county is discussing the bene- fits of a $5,000 jail, and wilt vote on the question, The large barn of Mike Higgins, the railroad contractor, on Rose Creek, Jefs ferson county, was burned down last weck and thirty-one head ot horses and ‘mules cremated. The loss will reach ,000. Mrs. Ada Bittenbender, the distin- guished prohibition candidato for sa- rmma judge, will probably be retired rom the ticket in_disgrace. Friends of the cause charge he with being an elo- quent advocate of the bar. The Pierce Times-Call whoops up the town and county with & glowing review of past progress and future prospects. The showing of agriculiural development and municipal growth gives ample evi- dence of the thrift and prosperity of the people. Thomas P. Morgan, a disflufuuned judge and democratic foghorn in Otoe cunnl{. has flopped and returned to his ““first love,” the republican party. This exhibition of political athletics has sent a cold shudder through the late friends of tht deceased. The Rapid City Journal invites the attention of Omaha builders to the brick manufactured in that vicinity, which is claimed to equal St. Louis or Milwaukee brick, and which may be delivered in Omaha at a cost of $1.50 per thousand less than is paid for urick from either of the two cities named. The first annual fair of Cheyenne nount{ opened in Siduney yesterday and will last three days. The region con- tributing products aud patrons to the fair is the very core of the American desort, which geographical liars planted in this section of the continent. The rich and varied display of grain, vege- tables and grasses is ample proof that the limits of agricaltural fertility are far removed from Cheyenne county. . lowa ltems. Des Moines is afflicted with a great number of peddlers. A lot worth $8,000 was donated for the Y. M. C. A. at Des Moines. The build- ing will cost $20,000. ere are now 400 more children in the public schools of Des Moines than ever at any previous time, . Iowa made 40,000,000 pounds of butter in the first six months of 1887, and 30,000,000 during the same time of 1886. Hannibal Hamlin of Maine, the assoc- iate of Lincoln on the presidental ticket of 1860, visited last week ex-Congress- man Deering at his home in Osage. He had just returned from the St. Louis en- campment. Mr, Hamlin is now seventy- eight years of age. Clinton township, near Keokuk, has a crazy woman wandering about. She was discovered secreted under a bridge by a number of small hoys, who tanta- lized the demented woman until sha ave them chase. She caugnt one of the ads who fell in a gutter and pounded him unmereifuily. The newspapers of Sioux City are suffering from_ the effects of the corn festival. The Thnes is sic d o’er with yellow jimjams, whilo the Tribune hides its feverish mug under a bonuet of corn. The veteran Journal is apparently satis- fied with an external application of a loaded cob, trimmed with stalks and tassels. ‘The natives and visitors are equally afllicted with the corn mania, and interior decorations are many and profuse. Dakota, Spearfish has organized a exchange. The school of mines in Rapid City opened with twenty students, ‘The vote for the organization of Mead county was 737 for organization and 37 against it. The Frankfort = artesian well, just opened, is claimed to have a tflow of 8,600 gallons per minute, and a pressure of 300 pounds to the square inch. Miss Hattie Brink, a young lady iiving six miles from Elk Point, committed mming suicide last week by taking strychnine. She quarreled with her father about the fit of a cloak, and in a fit of passion, o drug and died in half an hour. interior department has just affirmed the decision of the local land oflice in regard to the quarter section within the limits of Aberdeen which has becn claimed both by Lyman C. D and John R. Dayton. The dec effect i8 that it belongs to v therefore being within the corporate limits of a city it becomes the prop- erty of Aberdeen, if taken within sixty days. This tract is worth more than $50,000. Wyoming. Governor Moonlight has appointed C. G. Epperson, of Evanston, territorial mine inspector, succeeding P, J. Quealey, resigned. .The Laramie Boomerang has taken a contract to cement the surrounding country to the town. The paste will be rubbed on thick. A mine of anthracite coal has been dis- covered within four miles of the railroad. ‘The locality is a vrofound secret iw the pate of the Munchavsen of Laramie. An unknown man, about tweuty-twd® years of age, camped on the railroad track east of Aurora, and forgot to hang out siguals, He woke up 1 the spirit land. The last stone on tho tower of the mag- nificent new Union Pacific depot at Chey- enne was Inid Saturday at 11:30 o'clock, at an elevation of ninety feet from the ground, Treat Them Like the Rest, Atlanta Constitution, ‘The warden of Sing Sing prison com- plains that his institution is being over- stocked with millionaire conviets. Rich nen,as a rule, make bad convicts, the warden says. They ask for special fuvors, kick at the fare, neglect their work, and lose time on account of their numerous visitors. 1f so many of our wealthy men con- tinue to find their way behind the bars, the vrofitable utilization of their labor will soon become a serious problem. The fact is, our prison system was primarily designed for poor men. No provision was made for the milliondire element, and convicts of the Jacob Sharp class are just like so many elephants on the hands of the prison autborities. The experiment of establishing sepa- rate prisons for rich criminals has not been suggested, but we may have to come to it. In the meantime,one cannot help wondering whether our rich men are growing worse, or whether our crim- inal laws are better administered than formerly. .Justice is certainly catching biggenr fish in her net than she has been uccustomed to handle. There is no doubt about that. e A Cold Wave Gomiug. WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.--10:45 a. m.—Hoist cold wave signal, ‘I'he temperature will falt fifteen to twenty degrees by 9 a. m., October Sth. W. GREELY, Chief Signal Otticer. OOTOBER 5. 1887, (OLORADO CATILE WOMEN. Eight Hundred of Them Now Doing Busi- ness in the State, PECULIAR CHARACTERISTICS, ‘amous for Good Judgment and Cap- ital Managers—Cattle Queens Who Have Amassed Wealth by Attention to Business. Denver Republican: “I assure you," said a prominent cattleman to a Repubs lican representative the other day, “‘that of all failures made in stock-raising in this western country, not one of them has been made by women. You can say what you please about the gentler sex not being able to ‘rustle’ with the stern necessities of bread-getting, but you can trust the stock-women, sir, to look after their own interests every time,and never, to my knowledge, has one of them been left. They are worth, altogether, several millions of dollars, and they have got the clearcst heads and tho best judgment as regards managing stock that I have ever seen displayed by anybody. ““No, sir; I never heard of a stock- woman failing in business yet, and 1 don't believe you ever did. They take their risks, of course, but not unadvis- edly. They know what they are doing, and they invariably make instead of lose. 1f you don't believe this you can consult all the stock journals in the country and they will prove what I say to you is true.” “*Are vou personally acquamted with many women engaged in the business of cattle raising?’’ asked the reporter. The cattleman gave a long, whistle. “Well, I should think so," he said. “I've studied them for years. You want to _know what kind of women they are? I'll tell you what sort they are, young man; they’re ladies; that's what they are. Now, Idon't meuan by that that they would be afraid of soiling their hands 1f occasion required; no, indeed; nor of doing a charitable action which would necessitate some personal exposure on their part, for they are gencrous to a fault. What I mean to say is that they are, as a rule, refined and intelligent women, who read and think, and are ca- pable of making a good uppenranee in society. I don't know as I have ever scen one of them who is phenomeu:\ll‘y" intel- lectual outside of the judgment they ex- ercise 1n the stock business, which is phenomenal. Most of them have a genius for business and nine-tenths of them know how to appear in a drawing room. “In most instances they are rich and know well how to use their money to ad- vantage 8o as to get the most good out of life. Many of them are wives and mothers, and when they are such I assure you they are both wise and kind. You will find that they rule their households with firm hands, and that their husbands and children, to use a biblical expression, ‘rise up and eall them blessed.” “I dare say you thought that women who engaged 1n stock raising were all centaurs, ‘‘Come, how, didn't you?!” continued the cattle man. “Riding like the wind, half clad, their tresses flying behind them, and all the rest of it, for all the world like a picture from mythology. Confess, now, didn't you? “I assure you you could not have had 4 more erroneous impression. Stock- women are much like others, save that they have wider judgment on pradctical subjects. They are thoroughly business- like, because they appreciate the vast in- terests which they have at stake, and the quick conception with which all women are gifted cnables them to see clearly what the inevitable results would be of one false move. 'They know that they must act only under the most careful consideration, and that once having acted they must abide by their decision with a ealm, unswevering spirit, It is a good training school for a woman. It takes all that idiotic nonsense about nerve out of her, and gives her brain a cool, common-sense poise which many a man may envy. “I know of no position in life which I had rather my daughters would fill, It is one burdened with great responsibil: ities, of course, but what mode ot life 18 not where there is anything to be gained? I agsure you I should not consider that a clear understanding of the cattle bnsines interfered in any way with the ref ment of those whom I hold most dear, “But you have doubtless met stock- women of a dircetly opposite class, have you not*" 'Oh, yes; there are necessarily excep- tions to all rules. The uncouth woian of the ranch, who rounds up her own herds and who slceps in the saddle, is not | altogether a creature of the imagination. Uncouth and 1gnorant she may be, but she is always & good woman, and one whomn all the cow-boys respect. I know geveral instances where these women cun swing & lariat like a man and know uite as well how to manage a herd. 1 very fow of them personally super- vise their own animals, howcver, und these in most instauces are those who have not as yet accumulated much wealth, although there are some rich cattle-women 1n Colorado who ride after their own herds. This, however, is very unusual. A woman generally manages her cattle through a foreman, whom she often supplies with brain power. She does not usually live on the ranch, but rather in a handsome house in some neighboring town. But all the same, she is the bone and sinew of the business, Her clear head muanages it all, and it is through her directions that her foreman always proceeds. She often spends the summer on the ranch, where a comfortable dwelling is fitied up for her, much on the order of the English shooting box, “You want to know something about the unmarried women who are great stock raisers? Well, the main thing that can be said of them is, that men of posi- tion and prominence everywhere wantto marry them,and not purely out of money consideration, either, for some of these unmarried stock women have a fund of good sense and useful intelligence which cannot be eclip: and besides this many of them aro quite accomplished and good looking. But few of them are ‘on the marry.’ Most of them are past their first youth, and they have a shrewd way of looking at things which nugers ill for the stranger who looks with longing eyes upon their flocks and herds, “Colorado women generally have gone into the stock busine oncluded the eattle man, “through direct li of inberitance; that is, they have inherited either small herds, vast ones, or a taste and inclination for tne life. I know of numerous instances where a father has died, leaving his daughter a small_herd, and she hus gone steadily on with it, making thousands where her father be fore her made hundreds of dollars. Again there are widows who haye come into possession of vast stock interests through the death of their husbaunds, and who have managed the business left to them until its receipts run away up in the millions. low “I know resolute women, t0o, who be- | |P gan without s dollar, and who bhave gained wealth and standing in the stock business. The most novel sight 1 ever saw was a fourteen-year-old girl herding cattle up in Montana, with only her little brother to ussist her. The fatner of these two children had died, leaving them a small herd tle, and I would be willing to w last vol- ¥ lar that that little brown-skinned girl | 2aote away up there in that§ wildnerness - will at'count her dotlars by the thousants. I the 500 stock women now doing busi- ness in Colorado, all are well and favor- ably known among tho cattle and shoep men, any onc of whom wonld gladly be- friend them in case of an emergency, but whom, on the other hand, they aro Tnle capable of advising in many pracs ticable matters relating to stock-raising." Priehunietes. Jitinieg ARMY NEWS, General Dandy Ordered to Washing. ton—His Successor. Notification has come from Washing: ton that General Dandy, who for some years has been quartermaster for the de- partment of the Platte, with headquare ters in this city, had been ordered to that place. Inquiry at the devartment head- quarters developed the fact that the in- formation was correct. General Dandy hasserved the puriod usually allotted to quartermasters, and has been ordered to the ition of nepob?)ulrtcrmuur at Washington. General Dandy has been perhaps the most successful quarter- master that this department has ever known, and itis with regret that Gen- eral Breck sces him depart to other fields. His successor is Major W. B. Hughes, formerly of Philadelphia, now of Wash- ington. It is not known when the major will arrive. He is apoken of s an excel: lent gentleman and is _a son-in-lnw of Senator Tom Benton, of Missourl, Lioutenant Cochran, of the Seventh 1n. fantry, who has been connected with the range at Bellevue tor some tiwe, has re- turned to camp Pilot Butte. Word has been received at ers that Fort Duchesne perienced disastrous a clond burst. It swept through the garden utterly destroying it and tearing and badly injuring the arade ground. The experience of this ort has been somewhat remarkable, When it is not a sand storm it 1s a cloud burst or an Indian scare, and the sol- diers are constantly employed in repaire ing the destruction to their property., 1 is but a short time since another cloud d away a largoe stretch of the en the rond and Price, the neurest railrond station, and this had hardly been repaired when the late do- structive burst came. headquart: recently ex- results — from Personal Paragraphs, J. 8. Patie, of St. Joe, is at the Paxton, W. M. White, of Tekamah, is at the Arcade. Heory E. Genis, of Lincoln, is at the Paxton, P. ¥, Cunningham, of Fremont, is at “endjexs, and witl the Paxton. W. E. Bueil, of St. Paul, & registered at the Paxton, R. P. Sheldon, of Chadron, is a guest at the Millard. John B. Dufl, of Cedar Creek, is stay- g at the Paxton. George M. Coomnbs, of Gilmore, town on business. E. A. Burke, of Cedur Rapids, is & guest at the Arcade. J. R, Young, of Jackson, Mich., staying at the Arcade. Miss Dora Eastman, of Sioux City, is staying at the Arcade. Frank M. Hoar, of Kansas City, is istered at the Millard. 5 M. Sovercign and wife, of York, are registered at the Millard. Gus Moulton, advance Hanlons, 1s at the Millard. D. E. Thompson and D. O. Enghsh, of Lincoln, are at the Paxton. J. H. Ager,a well known business man of Lincoln, is staying at the Millard. Martin Chapman and daughter,of Lead City, D. T., are guests at the Millard, Frank M. Howe and H. C, Slavens, of Kansas City, ure guests at the Paxton. E. Cudahy, of Chicago, a member of the firm of Armour & Co., is L the Pax- ton. John Carey and wife, of Des Moines, in town. They are staying at the Millard. is in [t man for the Brevities. Yesterday's internal revenue collee- tions amounted to §1,896.01, The Byron Reed company filed amended articles of incorporation with the county clerk yesterday, They represent a capi tal of $200,000, and are signed by Abr: ham I. Reed, John H. Levy, Ann E. Csmpbell, Byron Reed and F. B. John- son. . James B. Bruner, grand patron of the order of the Enstern Btar, yesterday issued a dispensation for the organiza- tion of a chapter at Kearney. Milo C. Wilson, grand lecturer of the order, will o to Kearney and institute it in a few days. The bourd of public works received the street swecping bill yesterday for Iabor performed during the past five eeks. It is itemized for 468,000 square ards 1 nd for sweeping the eventh street viaduct onco. e total amount of the bill 18 §2,085. The ball to be given under the auspices of the Emmett Mouument ussociation for the benefit of the Irish National League fund will cceur in Exposition hall Thursday evening, October 27. It promises to be a very enjoyable affair, and_the tickets for it are selling very rapidly. SCRATCHED 28 YEARS. A Scaly, Itching Skin Disease with Endless Suffering, Cured by Cuticura R dles. 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