Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 18, 1887, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHFD E’ml' MORNING. TERMS OF SUBRCRIPTION. Daily (Morning Bdition) inclnding Sunday 11w, One Year. 410 00 For Rix Months. ;;:r Three Month 6 Omaha Rinda) dress, One Year OmAnA Orrice, No. 914 AND Al New YORK OFrF1CE, ROOM 65, T) 180, WASHINGTON OFriCE, No. TEENTH STREET, CORMESPONDENCE, All_communications relating to news and editorial matter should be addressed to the EDITOR OF THE BEE. BUSINESS LETTERS: Al br=iucss letters and remittances should be addre = DE} PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMANA. Drafts, checks 2nd postoffice orders to e mado payable to the order of the compauy. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprieors, | E. ROSEWATER, EpiToR, bl3 Foune Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, }‘. 3 County of Douglas. cretary of The Tiee Pub- solemnly swear that the the Daily for the week was as folloy Tuesday, ( Wednesday, Oct (hursday, Oc AVOTge...iiis iro. CK, Bworn to and subscribed in’ my presence this 8th day of October, A. D, 157, N.P.FEIL, (BRAL) Notary Public Btate of Nelraska, County of Douglas, Geo. I3, Tzschuck, be poson and siys thit he la secrotary publishing company, that the act dail of K46, 1 coples; Tuary, 187, 14, for Apr 227 coples 1657, 14,0 cople for Septembe cireulation of the Daily Bee for th 1886, 1298 coples; for Nov 1 December, 1886, 6,208 coples: for Febe ., 1R, 14.400 Sworn to and subseribed in’ my pres Oth day of October, A. D. 187~ N. P. N A L) Notary Public. BALLOU and Estelie tied up in their scramble for judicial honors, and they will both be buried in the same ditch. foR once free whisky and temperance Yocked arms, when Estelle and Ballou made their combine. Extremesdo meet somotimes. JUDGE GROFF has been snubbed, in- sulted and stamped upon by the rowdy republican convention. That is a high compliment to his integrity and official capacity. WHEN a drunken bummer like Pat Hawes and an iron-jawed blatherskite like Vandervoort are allowed to dictate judicial nominations in this district it is high timo that self-respecting vopub- licans put their veto into the ballot- box with a big thud. CADET was very active against Judges Groff and Wakeley. ‘A rogue ne'er felt the halter draw, with good opinion of the law,” and a professional jobber is sure to resent any effort on the part of honest officials to keep his pilfering maw out of the public crib. _— LAND COMMISSIONER SPARKS, in his annual report, makes out a long list of corruptions in the surveys and transfers of public lands. It is about time that something decided were done to bring the thievish monopolies that have been stealing public lands on such a colossal seale, to justice, — THERE is such a thing as slopping over with party loyalty and beer, just when you want to keep your brain cool. Thi was forcibly illustrated at the judicial convention when it refused to observe the common courtesics between gontlemen and declined to receive a delegation from the district bar., FroyM present indications Colonel Fred Grant seem likely to be elected secretary of state of New York. He said a short time ago that it elected he hoped to show that he had inherited some of his father’s ability to faithfully perform the duties devolving upon him. The New York IHerald has come out in Ris support. MR. GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS says in a tone of injured innocence in Har- per's Weekly, that the democratic party “has given fair warning that it does not fnvite votes as a party of reform.” Bless his trusting mugwump heart, we could have told him as much many years ago. Bometimes it does not pay to be too un- Sophisticated. THE folly of fools has been repeated in spite of the Church Howe lesson of twelve months ago. Asking decentand intelligent republicans of this district to make judges out of ward bums and jack-plane lawyers is putting party loyalty to a greater strain than it could possibly bear. Fortunately this is an off year, and a sharp rebuke will be ad- ministered without remorse. ANOTHER instance of the injustice of justice has come to light. A man in Jonia, Mich., was, in 1880, sentenced to twelve years in the penitentiary for shooting u man during a dark night. He was convicted on circumstantial evidence and always protested his inno- cence. The real culprit has beén found in Iowa. The innocent victim to the law was no doubt a poor man. p——— AN effort is being made in Washing- ton to secure the next national republi- can convention for that city. The capi- tal is certainly not a suitable locality for holding such convention, situated as it is near the edge of the nation. The large majority of delegates would be needlessly compelied to travel thousands of miles, Fairness in this respect would require the selection of a meeting place as near the geographical center of the country as possible. No city in the country fulfills this condition better than Omaha, and here tho convention should be held, Besides, the proposi- tion to hold it at Washington scems to smack of jobbery. It is proposed to alter one of the large market places intoa public hall. This property has always been a white elephant on the owners' bands, and they have for years tried to dispose of it. The convention boom is no doubt a scheme iuvented for this © purpose. RIS The Judicial Conventions, The conventions to nominate four judges for this, the Third, district have been held and we regret that the out- come is not very creditable to the re- publican convention. In contrast with the commendable sacrifice of partisan bias by the democrats, who nominated the two republican judges appointed by Governor Thayer, and associated them on their ticket with Eleazer Wakeley, the recognized peer of any man on the district bench, and Mr. Stowe, an ex- perienced and respected attorney, the republican convention spurned all over- tures from the bar and insulted the in- telligence of the rank and file of the republican party by nominations which are sure to be repudiated at the polls. The nemination of Judge Hopewell was only conceded after adesperatostruggle against the combinatici between ward bummers and political hacks who made great parade of their party loyalty which is usually in the market about clection time at figures to suit the purchaser. ‘While Judges Wakeley, Groff and Hopewell kept entirely aloof from pri- maries and county conventions, the bra~ zen-cheeked trinity of political traders whom the convention placed on the ticket had labored for weeks to capture delegates and procure proxics that gave them control of a majority. This barter and bargain was disclosed by the first ballot when Otis H. Ballou and Lee Estelle were nominated by ex- actly the same number of votes. Hav- ing rejected Groff and omitted Wakeley, they tacked on young Hancock of Sarpy, who is one of the lightest weights of the profession in the district. The work of degrading the bench to a mere political trading-post having been completed, the republicans of the district will be given the choico of being branded as bolters and lashed by partisan pharisces, or swallowing the dose and helping to foist upon the people incompotent, disreputable and untrustworthy candidates to malad- ministor justice. The temper of the republicans of this district has always resented every attempt to debase the judiciary to the pot- house level. The republicans of this city and distriet realize that in the choice of judges their duty to socioty and the state is above bigoted partisan- ship. They want good government above all things. If the party respects that sentiment, they remain loyal to its candidates. If party conventions do- fiantly do violence to individual con- science and thrust upon the party for judicial places men who are morally and professionally unfit to administer justice, they repudiate the nominations and assort their loyalty to principle at the expense of mere party success. This we have no doubt will be the urse in the present campaign. The democrats, having conceded Judges Groff and Hopewell, who are good enough republicans for any loyal partisan, the substitution of their judicial ticket for that of the roustabout and bummer convention will be very general throughout the district. Trade and Money. The bank clearings of the country for show a slight increase over the previous week, and very genorally a considerable gain over the correspond- ing week of last year. The returns of the Omaha banks were more than ono million dollars in excess of the previ- ous week, and the increase over the cor- responding weck of last year was nearly forty per cont. These figures give evi- dence of a general movementof business which may be regarded as satisfactory .and of a local movement that is highly gratifying. As compared with last year St. Paul shows a very small increase, Minneapolis is a good deal behind Omaha in the percentage of increase, while the returns of Kansas City show a small decrense. People who give at- tention to these figures and understand their significance will not fail to be im- pressed with the very favorablelight in which they represent the financial op- erations of Omaha. Reports regarding the general trade movement show that while not ospecially active for this season it is on the whole of fair volume and is moving in a healthy course, All the markets appear to be unusually free from speculative influ- uence, the absence of which has per- mitted prices of some commodities to decline, The aggregate of exports for September was somewhat larger than for the same month of 1886, chiefly by reason of a considerably enlarged for- eign demand for cotton. The outward movement of the country’s products at present is quite sufficient to maintain the balance of trade in cur favor. The most notable weakness is in the market for steel rails, and with a decreasing demand it i3 said gome manufacturers are contemplating a stoppage of pro- duction, The continued dullness of the stock market, with a tendency to lower prices inevitable to that condi- tion, islan interesting phase of the situation. In view of the fact that the treasury has added nearly forty million dollars to the circulation since the 1st of Sep- tember, the failure of prices toadvance, especially the prices of stocks, has somewhat puzzled those who had ex- pected a different result. The imme- diate effect of a declaration of the treasury policy was to improve confi- dence and infuse a little fresh life into stock operations, but it did not last. In seeking explanations the one upon which there appears to be the most general agreement is that given ina recent interview by Rufus Hatch, of New York: “Too much railroad; too many bonds; too many stocks.” The estimated cost of railroads built this year is 240,000,000, The mileage equals twelve straight lines from New York to the Mississippi river, and nearly all of this has been built west of that river. On a good deal of it running expenses will not be earned for several years to come. There has been a vast increase of rail- road indebtedness, and the results of extensions do not in all cases make a favorable showing in gross earnings, and the immediate outlook does not ap- pear flattering. A combination- of eir- [ cutnstances, coupled with some sad ex- g s - periences of the past as the consequence of excessive railroand construction, con= duces to extraordinary caution on the part of investors, both at home and abroad. There is o general want of confidence in this class of investment, a widespread feeling of dis- trust. When such a corpora= tion ns the Baltimore & Ohio is forced to puss a dividend, what may not be expected of weaker companies that have expanded far beyond safe limits? Those who carefully study the situation find no encouragement to put money into railroad stocks at present, and yctsome of them seem to be ex- tremely cheap, and would be if they could certainly escape the effect of disaster which is believed to be impend- ing over others, But o interwoven are the railroad system and intevests of the country that oue cannot be seriously damaged financially without doing more or less damsge to all. None of the fears nosw expressed may be realized, and it is very much to be hoped that they will not. At all events there is very little reason to apprehend, as some appear to do, that the country is in danger of experiencing a repetition of the financial and business depression of 1873, which followed a notable era of railroad construction and gencral gpec- ulation. Only to a very limited extent is the situation at this time similar to that which prevailed fifteen years ago. Not only is the country very much stronger financially now than then, but it is taking tho precautions necessary to avert disaster. All interests save those that live upon speculation are disposed to pursue a careful and conservative policy and to keep in the path of as- sured safoty. While this disposition continues the danger of serious financial trouble will be kept in abeyance, for the expected panic rarely or never comes. Honest George. George Timme has been a member of the board of county commissioners since January, 1885, During his term of thir- ty-three months ending with the 1st of October he has drawn out of the county treasury $4,062.10 The pay of a county i r as fixed by law is $3.00 for s actual service and five cents per mile for the distance traveled from his place of residence to the county s Now the distance from Mr. Timme's home to the court house is about ten miles and a half,which would entitle him toone dollar and five cents for each time he is required to attend a meeting of the commissioners. During the first year Mr. Timmo attended one hundred and six meetings of the commissioners, which entitled him to three hundred and eighteen dollars and mileage, amounting to one hundred and eleven dollars and thirty cents, making a total of four hundred and twenty-nine dollars and thirty cents, but Mr. Timme drew pay for three hundred and thirteen days, amounting to nine hundred and thirty- nine dollars, and three hundred and eighty-five dollars and seventy cents mileage, making in all one thousand three hundred and twenty-four dollars and seventy cents, instead of four hun- dred and twenty-nine dollars and thirty cents. Assuming that Mr. Timme ren- dered fifty days’ extra service, inde- pendent of the commissioners’ meetings during that year and traveled forty miles on each of the fifty days he would be entitled to $250 in addition to the $429.30, or a total of $6%9.30, while in fact he drew nearly double that amount out of the county treasury. The second year Mr. Timme's pay ran up to $1,542.80. During the year 1886 Mr. Timme attended 108 meetings of the commissioners, or two meetings more than he did in 1885, yet he draws $218.10 more for the year 1886 than he did for 1885, when he had already pock- eted twice as much pay as he wasen- titled to. During the first nine months of the present year Timme has actually drawn eleven hundred ninety-four dollars and sixty-four cents. During these nine months he has attended only seventy-eight meetings, which entitled him to a per diem and mileage amount- ing to three hundred fifteen dollars and cighty cents. In other words, Honest George has taken out of the treasury during the last nine months eight hundred seventy-eight dollars and cighty cents for extras beyond the regular pay for attending the commis- sioners’ meetings. To make up this sum he has put in vouchers for every week day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, and Fourth of July, besides an extravagant amount of imaginary mileage. And this man has the impu- dence to come before the people of Douglas county and ask for a re- election. Name Them. By the way, how long is it since the gentle- man who is about to erect a $300,- 000 building adjoining the city hall was engaged in a deliberate at- tempt to assassinate the character of reputa- ble Omaha business men, followed by a base attempt to injure the credit and business standing of these same gentlemen? It wasa dirty picce of business, in keeping with a pirate’s methods, Will this same gentleman explain why he opposes some gentlemen for oftice to-day who were guilty of the henious offense of compelling him to pay his honest debts but thre years ago!—Republican. This is an outrageous libel, coined by Cadet Taylor, who stoops much lower than Rothacker ever did in the in- famous work of personal villification. We dare him to name any business man in or out of Omaha whose credit the BEE or its editor has eversought to injure by any underhanded means. We dare him to name the man who is now or ever has been a candidate for office, who three years ago compelled the editor of the BEE to pay his debts. 1f he does not make good his charge by naming these men, we shall brand him as a cowardly slanderer, beneath the contempt of ull decent men " THERE can be no question that the republicans of Virginia are heavily handicapped in having Mahone as their leader. Valuable as he undoubtedly is asan organizer, an adroit and zcalous worker, and a hard and intrepid fighte he isnot the sort of man to inspire either respect or confidence. He does not as a leader give character to the party or.assure the fulfillment of any pledge,and he is at the further -disad- 1 T other or befter in view than the gratification df his personal ambi- tion to be returnod the senate. He would certainly Be an improvement there upon Riddleberger, but a party is most unfortunate that is placed in the position of & mere instrument to further one man's personal aims, and this is the attitude in which the republican party of Virginia is now presented. Under a thoroughly patri- otic, unselfish and trustworthy leader, there would be excellent reason for ex- pecting the success of the party in No- vember, which might put Virginia safely in line for the republican can- didate in 1888, but the accomplishment of this with Mahone in leadership can- not reasonably be looked for. The revolt from Mahone of Congressman Brady, who is one of the most active republican politicians of the state, is a serious matter for the party in the pres- ent campaign, but it shows that the usurping bossism of Mahone and the wholiy selfish turn he has given to the contest had become intolerablo toa large and very likely the better class of republicans, who will refrain from voting, or the better to insure the defeat of Mahone will vote with the democrats. It will be a fortunate day for the republicans of Virginia when this self-secking politician shall be per- manently retired. vantago of belng‘ nown to have no Borim Governor Leslie of Montana and Governor Stevenson of Idaho refer to the alien land law in its application to mining properties as working an in- jury to the interests of those territories. The former says that in keeping foreign capital from investment in and the de- velopment of the mines of Montana the law has already been a great weight and hindrance to the people, and un- doubtedly the ill effects will be still more strongly felt in the future, if the law is not changed. It issaid that Idaho has suffered more from the law than any other territory, though all have found itaseriousdrawback to their prog- ress and prosperity. It was entirely obvious when the law was passed that this would be the effect of the clause relating to the invest- ment of aliens in mining proper- nd having at the time noted this tion tothe act we are not atall ed at the statements of the gov- ernors of these territories. The pol of prohibiting the ubsorption of large arveas of land by aliens is wise, neces- sary, and wust be adhered to, but min- ing propertics can judiciously bo ex- cepted from the operation of the law without injury to this policy, orin the t degree affecting it. Such proper- never embrace any considerable v of land, and such as they do is able for any other use. I'ur- thermove, foreign: capital is indispen sable to the steady and assured develop- ment of the mining interests of the territories. Congress cannot ignore the complaints that will be addressed to it of the injury nlready suffered from the operation of this law, so far as re- lates to the mining interests, and it will hardly fail to be convinced that a mis- take has been made which calls for prompt correction. THERE seems likely to be a serious hitch at the outset of the negotiations which Mr. Bayard is soon to enter upon regarding the dispute over the Canadian fisheries. The advices from Canada in- dicate that the temper there is not altogether such as promises a calm and thoroughly judicial discussion of the controversy, but rather denotes a dis- position to insist udvance on certain concessions. Among these it is an- nounced that the Canadians will agree to no arrangement unless their fish are allowed to come into the United States all considerations as y, in the interest of people of admitting Canadian fish free, the commis- siomers on the part of this country would very promptly subject themselves to popular condemnation were they to make a concession of this orany other point at the dictation of Canada and as a condition precedent to her acceptance of any arrangement upon which the joint commission might agree. If thisis the spirit in ‘which Canada proposes {0 enter upon the con- sideration of this controversy the sooner Mr. Bayard drops the matter the better he will please the Ameri people. her own Tne late holocaust at Kouts station has revived the assaults on the car stove, which stubbornly holds its place in spite of all denunciation and all the horrible consequences that have pro- ceeded from its use. Although the ag- itation for getting rid of this instru- ment of torture and the most terrible deaths in a railroad wreck was started early in the year, very little has been accomplished for its removal. Two or three railroads are expected to wholly or partially abandon the stove this win- ter, but on nearly all the roads of the country this terror 'of the traveler will continue to be found in full blast, ready to cremate caged and helpless humanity whenever an opportunity offe There has been ample time for every road in the country to have been provided with other means of heating, but in the ab- sence of legislation compelling them to do this very few haye paid any atten- tion to it. It is to be feared that the terrible stove will remain until legisla- tion absolutely prohibiting its use be- comes general throughout the country. CASHIER BARRON was murdered in his bank nine years ago at Dexter, Mass,, and his slayer was arrested last week, At first much sympathy was ex- pressed for his widow, but expert de- tectives, who were unable to obtain any clue to the murderer, advanced the theory that the dead cashier had com- mitted suicide, and his character was blackened by the surviving bunk offi- cials and other townsmen. The widow was ostracised from the select society of the village, and many indiguities heaped upon her. But now the real cul- prit, it is believed, has been run down by a New York rveporter and arrested. 1f those good pharisees who have been engaged in persecuting the widow of the man who was killed at his post of duty have any conscience left, now is the time for its activity if ever. And the detectives? Well,they areas desti= tute of conscience as of ability. t———— THE behavior of the officials of the Chicago & Atlantic railroad, in connec- tion with the calamity at Kouts station, has been of a nature to indicate quite plainly that they were conscious of faults and omissions which if confessed would render them proper subjects for the attention of a grand jury. New facts are daily coming to knowledge which show that the discipline of the road was terribly defective, while the continued efforts of the officials to sup- press everything and to shut the mouths of those who may have gome knowledge to disclose warrants a sugpicion that a great deal remains to be told which might be exceedingly damaging in its character. Surely men who by an open and straightforward course could vindi- cato themselves would not have re- course to the conduct alleged against these officials. Justice to the victims of this calamity demands that the affair r::coivu the most thorough investiga- tion. THe Standard Oil company has for a month or more been at work upon a scheme to restrict the production of oil, and it is claimed that the monopoly is likely to be successful. Four-fifths of the producers have pledged themselves to stop all drilling operations for a year. The object is to reduce the stock of oil on hand so that highor prices may be realized. The Standard Oil cormor- ants are evidently dissatisfied with possessing the earth only, They want the universe. Soon the most terrific battles on record must take place. It will be between Gould and Rockafeller. There is not room enough on the globe for both. One of them will have to be pushed off. ‘WoNG CHIN Foo, who recently told this country why he was a heathen, had to pay a duty of 850 on himself to get into Canada last week. Mr, Foo is a small man physically and his heathen flesh thus cost him about 50 cents per pound. He isina towering rage, and will lay his case before the authorities hington. He has been a nat- American citizen since 1874, six months in Montreal, not nec- y as a boodler, and has crossed over into Canada many times before unmolested. Even the Canadians themselves denounce the pig-headed- ness of the collector who would listen to no arguments. Mr. Foo will now, no doubt, have additional reasons for remainin heathen. Bisipes Dakota, the next congress will doubtless be called upon to consider the claims of both Montana and Wash- ington territories for admission to the sisterhood of states. The former now has a population sufficient to entitle it to admission,and in all other respects it is well equipped to become a state. Washington may still be somewhat short in population, though it cannotbe much, and is certain to have the required num- ber of people before the next congress shall have ceased to exist. Both of these great t tories are making splen- did progress, and along with Dakota and Utah should occupy a place in the P ¢ of stutes before the country cele- brates in 1892 the four hundredth anni- versary of the discovery of America by Columbus. Nopopy who has any interest on up- per Farnam street is very mucl alarmed over the clatter of certain jobbers and professional blackmailers who are clamoring for the relocation of the city hall building. If these masked road agents imagine they can make inter- ested property owners hold up their hands while they are going through their pockets they are very much mis- taken. On its face the pretense that the ¥ must move away from upper Farnam to eseape the boodlers is very gauzy. It is a cry of wolf from a pack of coyote: TurE price of coal is raised in many parts of the country this week. In Chi- cago the people are discussing the ques- tion whether gas could not be used as o fuel. It has been demonstrated that gas can be manufactured in that ity for about fifty cents per 1,000 feet, and would consequently be a cheaper fuel than coal at its present prices. No doubt gas could be manufactured for a similar purpose in Omaha also, which would be cheaper than using coul. If the extortions of the coal robbers should lead to the invention of a cheaper fuel than is now in use, we would have a very pleasing instance of monopolistic greed working its own defeat. THE handful of readers of a so-called newspaper in these parts were treated on Sunday morning to a tirade against per- sonal journalism, while one half of the editorial space of that sheet was devoted to personal villification and malignant abuse. Thisisin perfect accord with the ostrich policy of the impostors and hypocrites who ave trying to raise the old hulk from the reefs on which it is stranded. Mr. HANCOCK has nqthing to lose and everything to gain by his candidacy for judge. He can afford to be defeated, as he surely will be, for the sake of the advertising, But the 300 lawyers in the district who are head and shoulders above him in point of ability must feel highly flattered when their own choice is repudiated. How insignificant the magician who swallows swords and other iron imple- ments must feel when he sees Knight of “Black Friday” storing a whole rail- road ov telegraph system in his maw without wineing. A CORO: jury in the Kouts dis- aster has mildly censured the railroad company, us usual, and laid the chief blame on overworked and underpaid employes Tnere wis a combine at the republi- can roustabout convention. There will alsobe a combine at the election when the roustabouts will be snowed under. eE——— It will take Honest George Timme a great deal of time and paper to explain bow he came to draw pay for pretended commissioner sorvices during every day in the year, and why he has pillaged the county treasury for thousands of miles of mileage which he never traveled. KINGS AND QUEENS. The Prince of Wales is said to be an expert performer on the banjo. Prince Ferdinand seems to have the bulge on the so-called great powers. The emperor of Russia plays the cornet. Can this be the real secret of nihilistic ac- tivity? Prince Napoleon is a very active man and is at his desk every morning at 7 o'clock ready for work. Christing, queen regent of Spain, wears deep mourning still, but her dresses are elo- gantly and stylishly mado. Paris physicians say that Dom DPedro's brain is affected and that ho will never boe ablo to resume his duties as emperor of Brazil. Tho king of Holland, who only the other day was reported as ill beyond all hopes of recovery, has apparently no intention of dying just yet. The king of Corca, furnished his winter palace with §18,000 worth of American chairs, beds and tables, Ho also bought an Ameri- can steamer for $28,000, Prince Albort Victor, of Wales, was se- verely stung by wasps the other day at Bal- moral. His royal highness sat inadvertently on a nest and being attired in a kilt he soon discovered that Scotch waspies and bore knees are sworn focs, Princess Irene, of Hesse, who is about to marry her first cousin, Prince Henry of Prussia, is prettior than most of Queen Vic- toria’s granddaughters. She has a spirited face, beautiful Lair and a vory graceful fig- ure. The young couple will receive from the provincial Diet of Schleswig a magnificient wedding gift—soven painted windows for their palace at Kiel. The czar has found in the Princess Walde- mar a companion who is at once jeune femme et charmani garcon. He is always in atten- danco on her. As she was accustomed at Chantilly to go afield and aforest in all weathers, she docs not let the rainy climate of Denmark interfere with pedestrian excur- sions which have been planned. The Prin- cess Marie and the czar walk when the other ladies of the court have to ride in covered carriages, Heo wants plenty of exercise, and her example prompts him to take it. pInd e A Conundrum. Lowell Citizen. The good men are continually going wrong. ‘When, oh when, will the bad men commence 10 go right? P No Surprisc in California. San Francisco Post. Justice Ficld expressed surprisc when he learned that Judge Hoffman had written an adverse opinion in the railway commission case. No one was surprised at the opiuion that Justice Field wrote 't E. R. Sill. This T beheld, or dreamed it in a dream; There spread s cloud of dust along a plain; And underneath the cloud, or in it, raged A furious battle, and men 'yelled, and swords Shml',kml upon swords and shields. A prince's anner ‘Wavered, then staggered backward, hemmed by foes. A craven hung along the battle's edge, And thought, “Had I @ sword of keener steel— That blue blade that tho king's son bears— but this Blunt thing!—" he snapt and flung it from his hand, And lowering, crept away and left the field. ’.l‘lu-ntreu‘vluu the king’s son, wounded, sore be- stead, And weaponless, and saw the broken sword, {ilt-buried in the dry and trodden sand, And |rxm‘, and snatched it, and with battle shouf Lifted afresh he hewed his enemy down, And saved a great cause that heroic day. s e STATE AND JRRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Thursday will be soldiers’ day in Grand Island. The Missouri Pacific has squeezed an- other $20,000 out of Hastings. The Elkhorn Valley road paid out fl‘_l‘.‘;’:,mm for right of way in Hastings. The Omaha & North Platte branch of the B. & M. has reached Schuyler. Broken Bow has contracted for the erection of a school house to cost $10,986. The contract for the erection of a court house, at Ainsworth, has been let for 89,750, Rapellee’s Jokinello has collapsed. It was too funny to live in north Nebraska. The old settlors of Seward are booked for a reunion at Milford to-day. There is no mistake about it; it’s a Shogo. The Benkelman News has been swamped in a sea of toil and trouble. Its circulation was impaired at birth, The latest sensation in Nebraska City is that the charming young ladies in the telephone office are partial to switches S. K. Felton, of Omaha, has secured the contract for the construction of ?V“g"“ orks in Long Pine. The price is 85,083, Prof. Couch, the old reliable Nebraska rophet, predicts that the 8th of Novem- er will be a cold Day and advises can- didates to get under covor. Mayor Sawyer, of Lincoln, and T. C, Hayden, of Nebraska City, are pulling at opposite ends of the judicial string in l{m Second distriet, They have been named by the democrats for the Novem- ber slaughter. The Sarpy County Democrat has ap- peared at the gutes of Portal, under the guidance of John Bradford. Portal is the nursling of ambitious town builders, with a future chock full of promise us the “gateway to Omaha.” The bright and pretty two-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Iler, living near Dakota City, was choked to death last week. 1s playing with a screw and dropped it into her throat. It became fast in her windpipe und strangled her in a few minutes. makes a novel contribution nsations of the day. tnir- teen-year-old has started out from Sterl- ing on a wild career of train robbing, armed with a thrilling glance and a pea shooter. To guard against surprise, travelers should carry switches. The Nebraska Pacific railroad, hav- a mortgage on Adams , has in turn mortgaged itself to in Gould, the second son of Jay. If the young Goulds develop and enlarge on the father's methods the great lakes will have to be enlarged to supply water for the family stock. Any attempt of the state board of transportation to bargain away the rights of the state as the price of rail- road concessions to Lincoln will be fol- lowed by lively music from the press of other towns. The Norfolk News warns the board that *‘no compromise will be accepted that falls short of being just to every town in the state,” Al Fairbrother, of the South Sioux City Sun, p t the following sketch of the Pawy ailroad tool, which will be readily recognized by all acquain- tances: ‘Captain Humphrey, the most notorious and unscrupulous railrond blatherskite in the state of Nebraska, is running for judge in the fir | dis- ccalled to a policeman and turned irict. Shades of John L. Sullivan an all other chumps! Humphrey is ai original poet fiend, 1o is a railroat tool. Last winter his boast was to sho books of trip passes, He attempted to bulldoze voters at the polls in Pawnee City, and because he couldn’t run things just his way, assaulted an old man and took to the woods, Coward cur and chump. The good people ol the first district will sce to it that ho is snowed under.” Towa Items. The tin peddlar is ouo of tho lost arts in the state. The Globe Plow company, -of Davens port, has collapsed. The building record in Atlantic this year will reach $150,000. Transactions in real estate in Sioux City last week amounted to $91,003, Four hundred marriage liconses have been issued at Davenport in eleven months, Dubuquo has eleven ings, 4,000 pupils and teachers. Sioux City has reached the propore tions of an unflated toad and is posing for a jump on the Black Hills. The racords of Hardin county show that during the year ending October 1, there were in the county seventy-cight deaths and 200 births, John Holland, living near Keokuk, died last week, aged 106, Tle was born in Ireland in 1781, Ho was one of the oldest citizens in Towa. Tho uso of to- bacco for ninety-six years contributed much to his carly demiso. The school statistics of Scott county. including Davenport, shows that the attendanco at school is increasing in the city and docreasing outside. The number of persons botween the ages of ninety-five and twenty-one in the county is 15,395—7,679 males and 7,716 fomalos. The total attendance is 8,710; male teachers employed, 75; female, 188, Cost of tuition per head, $1.91. Thore are 104 school houses in the county, valued at $424,800. Dakota. Hard conl has reached the $20 notch at Rapid Cit, A five pound potatoe is one of the nug- gets exhibited in Deadwood. There are seventy-five students in at- tendance at the Methodist university at Mitchell. The Yankton papers arve quite confl- dent that that city is to get tho Duluth and Denver line. The settlers are to be evicted from the Pipestone reservation. The government thinks the Indians need it all. The Methodist colloge for Western Dakota has been Inmtmir at Hot Springs. The prize cost $10,000 in cash. The surveying corps of the Chicago & Northwestern railroad have reachod Pierr The line as surveyed comos school build- sovonty-five from Gettysburg, Potter county. - STEIN'S BAD BREAK. In Persecuting a Little Boy He Finds £ Held for Perjury. :} n instigated the arrest of Charles Hayes yesterday morning,charg- ing him with attempting to provoke a fight. Stein isa big muscular German,a fine looking fellow, who works in the Union Pacific railway shops, while Hayes is a mild-mannered, insignificant look- ing youth not more than sixteen yearsof age. Stein is big and stout enough to pick him up with one hand and shake the life out of him, Hayes testified that Stein happened along near the corner of Tenth and Davenport streots where a crowd of urchins were playing. Ho ordered them to disperse, and one little fellow, Philli{) orm, asked him where they could go to }:luy, when Stein struck” the lad a fear- ul blow in the eye, knocking him off the board walk into the gutter, dis- figuring his face frightfully. Probably appreciating his cowardly action, and to save himself, Stein started off with the remark that no boy could stone him, and he’d have them all arrested. Young Hayes and Norris’ brother fol- lowed him, intending to complain them- selves to the firstofficer they met. The had proceeded about half a block when Stein turned and, grabbing Hayes, im over to him. Besides Steinand Hayes, three little boys were before the court yesterday morning, and the testimony of the latter corroborated that of young Hayes. Assistant City Attorney Davis then asked Stein if ho had struck the boy. He said no. Davis asked him 1f he would make the statement under oath He sa1d he would and was sworn and did 80. Then Mr. Davis said he would take the boys’ story before he would fifty men like Stein, and at once ordered that all the boys who witnessed the oc- currence be subpeenaed, signifying that if their storics substantiuted that of thoso who had alrendy tostified, he would prosecute Stein for perjury to the very best of his ability. Officers were dispatched to serve the writ, and the hearing was fixed for 4 o’clock in the afternoon, when Stein was flncfi #20 and costs. He was then rearreste on the charge of perjury. SOUTH OMAHA NEWS, Alderman Strathman has removed to Omaha, and resigned his seat in the city council at the meeting last night. Richard Collins, of the B. & M. offico, has received word that his mother is dying., Mr. Collins left for his home in Petoska, Michigan yesterday. The new fertilizing process recontly putin at Fowlor’s packing houso, by its first practical trial yesterday and ed satisfactorilly. Yesterday men began work exca- vating for the foundation of the new Barry building on Railroad street. Lots 1and 2 in block 2, Hammond's place was bought yesterday hiv Theodore Oleson for $1,650. The purchasers will begin at once the erection of two store buildings and two r nees. The brick work of C. M. Hunt’s new building near the corner of Twenty- sixth and N streot is completed. The work of enlarging the stock yards has n commenced, When the addi- tion is completed the yards limit will reach to the railroad tracks. Mvr. Sloane’s resignation as postmas- ter has not as yet been accepted. Yeosterday morning two blacksmiths, Nelson and Paxton, engaged in a _fistio enc K hich pived a severe pummelling., Both gave bonds for their appearance, Saturday evening a ‘‘squatter,” resid- ing in a shanty near the railroad, ran breathlessly down Railroad street until he encountered an officer, to whom he stated that a fierce looking cowboy, with three revolvers, had possession of his home. Two officers went with him, and on reaching the house found the family badly frightened, and on entering = discovered & mis erable looking tramp curled up on the floor beside the stove, wrapt in peaceful slumber. He was ru(iuly awakened and escorted to the jail, where he was given s for the night. Heavy Trains. The travel from the west still cone tinues to be very heavy., The overland train from the west due here at 7:50 arrived in four sections. The last from Qgden was four hours late, s