Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 21, 1887, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF BUBSCRIPTION. D‘fly Morning Edition) including Bunday iER, One Year.. Months. . ‘or Three Months, Omaha Bunday Bee, malled to any dress, One Year. OwAnA Orrice, NEW YOourk OFricr, ROOM 65, TRIBUNE BuiLD- ING, WASHINGTON Orrice, No. b613 Fouk TEENTH STREET. CORRESPONDENCE. " All_communications relating to news and ftorial matter should be addressed to the ITOR OF THE BER. BUBINESS LETTERS: All business letters and remittances should be addressed to T BER PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAMA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders to De maude payablé to the order of the company. The Beg Publishing Company, Proprictors, |E. ROSEWATER, Eprror. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, 8 County of Douglas, 2 00, I}, Tzachuck, secretary of The Bee Pub- company, does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of the Daily Bee for the week nding Oct, 14, 1657, was as follows iaturday, Oc o unday, Oot. on Friday, Oct. 14. Averag iR, 2 K. Bworn to and subscribed in my presence this 18th day of October, A. D, 1587, N, P. FEIL, (SEAL.) Notary Public Btate of Nebraska, 2"' P Douglas, P’ i uuck, being frst duly swvom, de- anid says that he {3 secrotary of The Bee shing company, that the actual average Iy circulation of the Daily Bee for the month ber, 184, 12,060 copies; for November, 13,8 ‘copies; for December, 1588, 15,257 for January, 1887, 16,260 coples; for Feb- 14,108 copies; " for March, 187, 14,400 7. 14,316_coples: for Muy, for June, 1857, 14,147 copies} coples; for gmist, 1867, 161 cop eptember, 1887, T340 coples. GEO. B. TZ28CHUCK, fiworn to and subscribed in my prosence uils oth day of October, A. . 1857, | N . FEIT, (BEAL. Notary Pubil. e os; for ST1. PAUL, which is somewhere up in the Arctic region, is already bustling about preparing for an ice palace and carnival of frozen fun. WiiLE the move for a citizens’ en- dorsement of the non-partisan judicial ticket was not inspired by us, we do not seo any reason why it should be re- called. KANSAS papers have stopped puffing the booms of that state and are now busy bragging about its sugar prospects. It's an Arctic day when a Kansas paper does not find something to boast about. THE shrinkage in the value of stocks at the New York exchange, as a result of Mr. Depew’s gossip with a reporter, is estimated at $250,000,000. His was undoubtedly the costliest gossip on THE death of Hon. W. A. Stowe last evening causes prfound sadness in the community. Mr. Stowe had just been nominated on the non-partisan ticket for district judge, and his election was almost a foregone conclusion. — EUvGENE H1GGINS wants to be door- keeper of the house of representatives. The only connection of Mr. Higgins with an official door that the public would like to see, would be to have it opened for him so that he could be as- sisted to pass through itand out into private life. IT does not become professional job- bers and adventurers to lecture Judge Groff as to his political duties. Judge Groff has not only been a life-long re- publican, but he has a record as a pa- triotic citizen, who gallantly served his country in defense of the union and the flag. —— Now we are left without a registra- tion law. If the republicans of this city and county suffer by this defect they can place the responsibility on the scoundrels who meddled with the char- ter last winter, and had it mutilated by Renegade Russell and the boodlers of the judiciary committee. ANDREW CARNEGIE has returned from Europe, and with him have come a committee of the British parliament who have prepared an address to Mr. Cleveland. Mr. Carnegie is to help them present it. Why the M. P’s should want to address the president of the United States is not apparent. ———— THE recent adverse decisions in the Northern Pacific indemnity cases are Proving troublesome to the big, monop- flistic farms in northern Dakota. Bquatters have taken advantage of the @Qoubt as to whether they were legally acquired and sprinkled their claim shanties all over them. Ex-Senator ‘Windom has a 10,000-acre farm in that region and suffers with the rest of the big ranch barons. THE Herald tries to apologize for Timme's overdraft on the county treas- ury by presenting figures toshow that Corliss and O’Keefe had drawn as much from the treasury as he did. So much the worse for Timme. He has not only drawn double pay and mileage for himself, but voted it to others. In other words he cheerfully endorsed a grab all round so long as he feathered his own nest. Corliss and O'Keefe are not can- didates before the people, while Timme is asking for re-election. He can’t shield himself from responsibility for pillaging the taxpuyers by hiding be- hind others. —— S IF it be true, as reported from Wash- ington, that Pension Commissioner Black is seeking to force union veter- nns out of his bureau in order to retali- ate on the Grand Army, he is doing an exceedingly unworthy and foolish thing. The statement is that he has recently reduced the salaries of several, the ob- ject being to compel them to resign without throwing upon the administra- tion the blame of having discharged them. It is hardly conceivable that General Black would be guilty of a scheme of this sort, and it is only fair before passing judgment upon the ac- tion to await an explanation that will undoubtedly be speedily forthcoming. It may be said, however, that the ad- ministration could only lose by any such nean and unmanly expedient, The Registration Law Knocked Out. The supreme court has declared the new eloction law for metropolitan cities and cities of the first class void so far as it relates to the registration of voters. The court holds that the provisions which prohibit judges of election from receiving the votesof citizens who fail to register are unconstitutional. In other words, the court holds, that the legislature cannot by law deprive aciti- zen of the franchise. This does not necessarily imply that a registration law is unconstitutional, provided always that a voter may swear in his vote if he can show good cause for failing to regis- ter. That was substantially the law heretofore, but the legislature repealed this law and substituted iron-clad regis- tration regulations that absolutely pro- hibit any judge of election from rec ing the ballot of a citizen who has not registered. It is this proviso that ren- ders the entire new registration law un- constitutional, and therefore void. The decision is in accord with » decision rendered by our supreme court years ago when the same question arose as to disfranchising unregistered voters. The court then held, as it does now, that the right of suffrage is guaranteed to every citizen by the constitution and cannot be abridged or taken away by law. . This decision does not take us by sur- prise. It was anticipated by the BEE when the test case was brought before the court. While we urged our citi- zens to register, we at the same time ex- pressed a doubt whether the exclusion of unregistered voters by the election judges would hold water if brought to a test in the courts. The Knights of Labor. The eleventh general assembly of the Knights of Labor completed its labors after a session of sixteen days. The re- gult is the defeat of those who, for selfish or other motive, went to Minne- apolis with mischievous intent, and the disappointment of those who had hoped that the dissension and disaffection in the order would lead to its disruption. The knights are to be congratulated upon this outcome and upon tho favor- able promise that the effect of a return of harmony and of the new legislation designed to advance the legitimate work and aims of the order will be to increase its strength and usefulness. It became apparent early in the ses- sions that the element disposed to be troublesome was in the minority, and that if judiciously managed it could be controlled. This element did not fail to make its purpose mani- fest at the first opportunity that was presented, and it adhered to it pertina- ciously. But it was confronted at every point by adroit and skilfully worked tactics which, while avoiding any ag- gravation of the disaffected faction, and it fact affording it all the opportu- nity it required, were invariably suc- cossful in defeating it. There was no attempt to ride roughshod over the minority or to put any check on its ex- pressions of dissatisfaction and hostil- ity. It was allowed free way for the fullest presentation of its cause and it took the largest advantage of the per- mission. Having been thus fairly treated and failed to justify their oppo- sition to the administration in the opinion of a large majority of the assembly, the men who composed the hostile faction should see the wis- dom and the duty of now giving the ad- ministration a cordialand vigorous sup- port. Workingmen should be the last to set an example of refusal to obey the will of the majority. The attitude in which the order is placed by the action of the assembly with respect to certain vital matters af- focting its relations to the public will relieve it of some sources of objection in the past, and ought to strengthen its claims to popular confidence. It has in an amply explicit way disclaimed any afliliation or sympathy with those ele- ments in society, under whatever name described, which seek to accomplish their professed objects by means and methods which contravene the laws, and has proclaimed itself an organiza- tion J aiming solely to conserve the interests and welfare of labor under and in obedience to the laws, It has taken a conserva- tive position regarding strikes, and if its counsel is respected these conflicts will be less frequent hereafter and will be resorted to only when all other methods of settling controversies shall have failed. It has more plainly than ever before proclaimed that the order is not political, and will not be made the instrument of any party. With re- gard to these matters, as well as in giv- ing expression to the reasonable de- mands of labor, the action of the assem- bly has placed the order in a position to more fully command the respect and confidence of the laboring masses and of the whole people. It has thus been put in a way to regain the ground lost during the past year, and the confi- dence expressed by Mr. Powderly in the growth of the order will very likely be realized. e—— Ballou and His Endorsers. Mr. Ballou is trying to bolster him- self in the eyes of the community by making public a batch of letters which he procured last winterin his own behalf for appointment by Governor Thayer. He also prints the petition to which he had secured the signatures of promi- nent politicians and business men. Such letters and petitions are very easy to procure. They usually signify nothing more than that the signers were impor- tuned by some bore to certify to the character and standing of a professional office-seeker. In the case of Buallou the letters and petitions were procured be- fore there was any law oreating addi- tional judges for this district. ‘Many of the signers personally requested Gov- ernor Thayer to disregard their en- dorsements, and expressed a hope that he would not make such a weak appoint- ment. We venture to assert nine out of ten of the men who endorsed Ballou to the Governor regard him as unfit and unworthy. They would just as readily have signed a petition to have him appointed United States supreme judge. But when asked to vote for him they will do nothing of the kind. The pub- lication of this grand endorsement ought to teach a wholesome lesson. Mea __THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1887 _who are utterly unfit for public trust are recklessly endorsed by the best cftizens, | who would blush to publicly acknowl- edge that they were insincere, and “had nodesire to have their own recommen- dations rospected. By parading these lettors and petitions in the papers Ballou can gain nothing in the public estimation. From a moral standpoint their publication isa breach of confi- dence, because many of the signers were led to believe that nobody except Gov- ernor Thayer would ever see the docu- ments. S——— Duluth and Omaha. 5 Preliminary steps have been taken for the construction of an air line rail- road from Duluth to Omaha. The com- pany that proposes to carry out this pro- ject has a railway already in operation between St. Paul and Duluth, and its extension from St. Paul to Omaha is a purely business enterprise. The dis- tance between Omaha and Duluth is about the same as between Omaha and Chicago. Tho surveyed route between St. Paul and Omaha will not exceed 375 miles. The region traversed by the line will afford sufficient local traffic to make the road a paying investment from the start. To Omaha the Du- luth line will prove of incalculable ad- vantage. Duluth is the principal grain oxport center on the great lakes. Its mammoth elevators last year handled more grain than those of Chicago. A direct outlet by way of Duluth will not only afford Omaha superior facilities for grain shipment, but gives her a compe- titor with Chicago railroad lines which will compel fair rates, and break up the Towa combine which has for years had an iron grip upon Nebraska in the in- terest of Chicago. For the city of Duluth and the twin cities of Minnesota it will also be a great commercial factor. Duluth will thustap the graneries of central Iowa Nebraska direct, and Minnesota cities will secure competitive lumber rates. THE Manitoba railroad, in making a reduction of freight rates to Montana, appears to have seriously disturbed the situation for the roads with which it competes, among them the Union Pa- cific. If the reduction is adhered to all will be compelled to surrender a con- siderable revenue, and the Union Pa- cific, which reaches Helena by a cir- cuitous route via Cheyenne, is a little the worst off of any of theroads. ‘‘This road,” says the St. Paul Pioncer Press, ‘‘can only meet the Manitoba rate by sacrificing one-third of its revenue from all points in Montana, and perhapseven from those in Idaho and Utah, since under the interstate law it can- not charge more from these points than from Helena. This branch line traffic has been the most profitable the Union Pacific has enjoyed and has gone far to enable it to keep out of bankruptey. It has lived for years on revenues wrung out of the mining districts through the exorbitant charges of its branch lines. It is difficult to imagine the effect upon its finances of the invasion of its rich and exclusive field by an enterprising rival. The remoter influences of the projected cut upon the more southern competitors of the Union Pacific are too complex and pypzzling to follow, and are apart from the purposes of the present discussion.” The Manitoba is a wealthy, independent and economically managed corporation, and it is believed can well afford to do the traffic at the rate it has an- nounced, while the other roa.ids, or at all events the Union Pacific, cannot. It will go hard with the revenues of these corporations, but will be very much to the advantage of the people of Montana. \ CEEE————— THE dedication of a statue to General Meade in Fairmount park, Philadel- phia, on last Tuesday, was an event of interest to all who desire the perpetu- ation of a just and honorable fame. Geoneral Meade was one of the ablest soldiers of the war, but very few people ever think of him among the great commanders whose services were of in- estimable value to the union cause. Yet he won Gettysburg, conceded to have been one of the very greatest and most important victories of the war, and which entitled him to a glory second to no other commander, except perhaps Grant. It was one of the bitter experi- ences of his life that a studied effort was .made to deny him the merited honor of this victory and to depreciate his course after it had been achieved, giving to others the larger share of the credit for winning the battle. The in* justice of all this has been clearly shown, biit it weighed heavily upon the life of Genoral Meade and clouded its close. History will doubtless accord him the place he should justly occupy among the great commanders of the union armies, and the statue will attest to future generations that his worth and his achiovements were not without appreciation in the generation of to- day. —— THE most radical advocate of prohi- bition will hardly decline to accept the testimony of Governor Bodwell, of Maine, that it is a sheer impossibility to enforce the prohibitory law in that state. The governor is well known to be in full sympathy with prohibition, and his character for sterling integrity will'not be questioned. He says he has made every effort in his power for the enforcement of the law, but except in the country districts ho has failed. Nor does he appear to think that the law can ever be enforced in the towns. In all the larger places of Maine liquor can he had with little difficulty and in abund- ance. This has always been so and is pretty sure always to be so, and rela- tively to population there is as much drunkenness in Maine as there is in Illinois. The experience of Governor Bodwell does not stand alone. Prohibi- tion is not being enforced in any state, 80 fur a8 the towns are concerned, and never can be. It is most strange that a fact sowell attested should have so little weight with a large elass of people in other respects not unreasonable. ——— TuE conflict ot opinion between Messrs. Oberly and Edgerton, of the civil service commission, regarding the construction to be given the civil ser- vice law in relation to state associations of clerks in the departments for political purposes, will probably ndét be settled without the interpogition of the presi- dent. *~ The position of Oberly is that the associations are in hostility to the law, and he has given an elaborato opinion in justification of this view. Two or three of the associations have refused to regard this opinion, claiming that the law in nowise interferes with such organizations, and in this they have the support of Mr. Edgerton. The Oberly view is unquestionably in line with that of the president regarding the limit of an official’s political rights, and if the matter goes to Mr. Cleveland he must to bo consistent decide with the chairman of the commission. But tho associations will make an earnest fight to maintain their organizations, and it is not improbable that a way will be found to enable them to doso. The issue is one which Mr. Oberly would have shown more political prudence in avoiding. Like all converts, however, he having been one of the strongest of spoils partisans, Oberly is now disposed to go to the farthest point of the opposite extreme. Tre Duke of Marlborough is coming to Omaha. He will visit us next weck, not for social conquest, but to investi- gate our cable roads with the idea of introducing the system into London. The duke can teach us nothing new, although he may learn something to his advantage. The one English noble- man whom Omaha needs to elevate her present condition is the Marquis of Queensbury. TURKEY is trying prohibition, that is, to a certain extent. The Constanti- nople police are closing saloons run by Europeans because they are demoraliz- ing to the natives, but the followers of the Prophet are not disturbed. Moslem whisky is evidently of an inferior qual- ity. PROVIDENCE would scem to be on the side of the coal barons. A San Fran- cisco iron foundry which dispensed with coal has been blown up by petroleum, which it substituted for the higher priced fuel. . e——— THE FIELD OF INDUSTRY.. An English mechanic with an ‘“Hon.” be- fore his name has made an engine that makes 10,000 revolutions per minute, and which can be increased to 30,000. Print cloth manufacturers are anticipating an advance in consequence of the heavy rush of orders. The demand is sufticient to take all the orders turned out. A Providence, R. I, firm has lately shipped a 55,000-pound casting to Philadelphia for the bed of a hydraulic press to be usedin making rolls from fibre and pulp. Professor Elisha Gray was a carpenter be- fore the war, and wor) in Brownsville, Pa. He has just made' a machine that re- produces & message just as written. All western machine shops scem to be crowded, but labor organizations there are warning eastern mechanics not to imagine they can jump into situations casily. The extraordinary consumption of goods is having the effect of etarting & good many mills on full time, alse of stimulating en- largements and additional machinery. The demand for almgest all kinds of knit goods and hosiery is such that manufactur- ers are crowded, and in consequence prices are somewhat firmer among jobbers. At the Toledo natural gas eelcbration lights as big as hay stacks were kept burn- ing at the street corners under a 200-pound pressure per square inch from the wells. The Minneapolis flour-makers havo shipped forty-one barrels of flour this year for thirty-seven barrels last year. The mills are turning out 160,000 barrels per week. The increase in the British consumption of iron and steel for the first half of this year over the first half of last hear was 532,508 tons. The increase all around was 17! per cent. A larger percentage of European labor will remain on this side of the Atlantic this win- ter than usual to build bridges, open mines, ercct shops and manufactories, and do all manner of ordinary labor. Strange as it may seez, after all our ex- traordinary expansions in iron and stecl making, consumers are obliged to import large quantities of sheet, sectional iron and hoops. Low prices have something to do withit. River and lake craft are multiplying in the ‘west, and about §20,000,000 is soon to be in- vested in plants and equipments to turn out boats. A $5,000,000 plant is to be built at Alton, Ill, to construct ocean and river steamships, A Philadelphia textile firm that came into possession of the textile machinery of ten different mills selected the most serviceable in all of it and located it under one roof at Atlanta, Ga., where yarn from No. 10 to No. 20 is turned out. In the machine shops and car and locomo- tive works, as well as in the shipyards and tool works, employment will be more abund- ant than it was last winter, and a great deal of new machinery is being put up for & busy wiater’s work. —— Unsound. New York World. A man who defends a 46 per cent tariff when 88 per cent would be ample for both protection and revenuc is neither a sound economist nor a good democrat. e A Generous Citizen. Pittsburg Times. At one of the way stations out of Chicago the president, in response to & crowd, came to the tail of the car just as it was moving away, and was about to say something when a two-mile lung citizen called out: “Never mind, Grover; we'll find it in the cyclo- padia.” e A Much Talked Of Candidate. Peoria Tronseript. There is no question that just at present Hon. Robert T. Lincoln,is more talked of for presidential candidato, for 1888 than any other republican in the Jand. It would be nothing strange if the party should come to the state that has never furnished a repub- licun candidate that was defeated. Anticipation. C. M. Hommond. Qur lives are mostly passed in dim tomor- rows ‘Whose only light shines on them from to- ays, Reflected by ourselves, and much or little, According as our brightness throws the rays. If we remain to-day within the shadow, The morrow looms up darkly in our 'sight, But if the sunligh e out full upon us, The coming day 1s all but the bright. STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska gottings. The circulation of Hastings is now controlled by four powerful systems of railroad. Tracklaying on the Kansas City & Omaha road between Minden and A{mn ¥ N S 2‘3 progressing at the rate of two milesa ay. i 3 The eecond trial at the ballot in Columbus resulted in favor of the prop- osition to invest 830,000 in bridges over the Loup and Platte rivers. The right of American freemen to swear on election day has been aflirmed by the state supreme couat. The strain on the cap R box is temporarily ro- lioved. Frontier county {is preparing for another county seat fight. The ques- tion of removal of the county seat to Curtis will be voted on at the general election, November 8. The sewor pipe works of Beatrice have proved a profitable business ven- ture. The capacity of the works will be doubled to meet the demand and em- ployment given to 150 persons. Otis Coburn, a Red Willow man, turned his artillery on a dog. The gun exploded, mutilating his hands and fill- ing his eyes with powder. The dog was spared for some other butcher. A Sunday school convention and dis- trict stewards’ meeting of the Indianola district, West Nebraska conference, will be held in the M. E. church, Hold- redge, Neb., October 24, 25 and _One of the Rollings twin girls at In- dianola got loose from her mate last Sunday and slid down the bannister headforemost. She was picked up un- conscious and it is feared has &wun fatally injured. Judge W. H. Hamilton, of Fremont, has been relieved of a needle that per- petrated scores of painful stitches in his back since he was a toddling tootsy. The point is made that the judge tried and failed to crawl through the needle’s eye, so the needle crawled through him. J. Sterling Morton is so far removed from the turmoil of politics that not even a whisper of encouragement shocks the secluded shades of Arbor Lodge. Democratic candidates will doubtless rejoice that he has stocked his fishpond with channel catfish from the famed Nishnabotna, A supply of pike, croppies and black bass will also be put in, and the rejected aspirants for spoils will find bait and lines on the outer door. 26. Wyoming. The tin stamp mill at the Keystone mine on Douglas creck will be started next week. A monster marble quarry, three miles long, is the latest find near Cheyenne. The (1\mlity is said to equal the Rutland marble. The Burlington extension to Chey- enne is being laid at the rate of three miles a day. The tracklayers are only about forty-seven miles from Cheyenne and will be within thirty-five miles of this city by Saturday night of the pres- ent week. Mr. J. M. Lynch, a sheep raiser whose ch is near Sherman, the highest on the Union Pacific railway, and ity renowned for the frequent oc- currence of remarkable phenomena of nature. reports a most startling and al- most incredible event which transpired near his place last week, and which caused the death of his five-year-old daughter, Margaret. She was picked by a storm cloud and dashed to death among the rocks. Cheyenne has assurance that an extra [s)nss(‘nacr train will soon be put on the nion Pacific. “The crying need of the additional facilities which such a move would afford is quite apparent to every- body. Nobody ever expects to see either the east or westbound trainsarrive here on time nowadays. lay is due to Sometimes the de- causes over which the Union Pacilic officials have no control, but not always. Freight traffic inter- feres with the passenger traffic which is said to be larger toward the west than at any period since 1883. No one will c\'urdisa)uta that the Union Pacific is very unfortunately situated in its_rela- tions with congress, but there areduties which it owes to the public which should not be overlooked. Utah and Idaho. The Ophir Hill property in Coeur d’Alene has been bonded for $100,000. Doal has been discovered in the Coeur d’Alene district. It is said to be of ex- cellent quahty. The banks of Salt Lake City report the roceipt for the week ending Otober 12, inclusive, of $111,156.05 in bullion and $55.597.69 in ore, a total of 8166,753.64. Colonel Carter, of Philadelphia, has urchased the Golden Circle mines in daho for $30,000. The purchase in- cludes eleven distinct mines, all more or less developed, a ten-stamp mill, a aluable water power, chlorination works, and all the buildings formerly used as accommodations for the men and processes used in the past for the ex- tracting of the gold. During the fiscal year of 1887 there were 880 arrests in Utah under the Ed- munds law, against 144 for 1886. The Kcnimntim-{ expenses for 1886 were 30,664.08; for 1837 they wore 831,704.06. The average number of persons con- fined, per month, in 1886, were 137 1-6, as against 188% per month for 1887, making the expense to the government per diem for keeping the prisoners 62 and 47 cents respectively per capita. The number of prisoners confined in 1886 was 1646, while for 1887 it was 2261. The lowest average for the two years was 109 in September, 1885; the highest, 219 for June, 1887, The Pacific Coast. Butte county has seventy-three school districts and 103 teachers. The Piutes about Reno are becoming abdicted to the opium habit. There are 3,380 children in the pub- lic schools of Portland, Oregon. The Washington Garden ostrich farm at Los Angeles has now nine young os- triches that are native American, born in Los Angeles. The San Francisco health officer’s annual report shows that there were during the year past 5,350 deaths in that city, against 5,822 in the predeeding year, The Sacramento Bee, published under the eaves of big railroad shops, declares that ‘*‘in future years, when the history of California shall be calmly and impartially written, there shall be inseribed among the benefactors of the state the names of Leland Stanford, C. P. Huntington, Charles Crocker, E. B. Crocker and Mark Hopkins, A married lady residing in Virginia City, who has goon troubled for many months with a peculiar sensation im the region of the stomach, was given an emetic, and to her astonishment threw up a fish about four and a half inches in length. The fish had evidum.l¥ been dead but a few hours. The lady felt in- stant relief after ridding herself of the troublesome tenant. ——— Rabbi Benson's Lecture. This evening Dr. Benson lectures on the subject, “The Lady of So- ciety.,” The lecture is based upon the Sunday BEE'S editorial referring to the recent fiasco of the Saint Paul ladies in snubbing Mra. Senator Davis at the Cleveland reception. The attention of the public is called to the fact that seats in the Jewish syn- agogue are free to strangers. Divine services commence at 7 o'clock, TP CALIFORNIA'S PIONEER DAYS. Result of & Bold Stage Robbery on the Old Mariposa Road. THE DEATH ©F TWO BANDITS. Their Bodies Crushed to an Unrecog- nizable Mass of Blood and Broken Bones—A Just Punishment. There were five men of us in one of the old Mariposa stage coaches before the days of the railroad, and it wasb o’clock in the afternoon of an August day. We were on our way to Stockton, and of the passengers one was a licuten- ant in the regular army, another a tour- ist in search of health, a third a ranch- man, and the other two were prospec- tors and miners. None of us had met each other previous to the start. Those were perilous times, and the first half hour was spent in sizing each other up. Idon't know to what conclusion the others came, but I looked over the four men and said to myself: “The lieutenant ought to fight in case we are attacked, but he seems too ner- vous to be gamey. The tourist igill and has no sand, but the ranchman and prospector can be depended on.” At that time the coach which was not stopped twice out of five trips was con- sidered very lucky. In some few in- stances the robbers were driven off, but in most cases the pussengers submitted to being ‘““held up'’ and were glad to get off with nothing worse. I had with me over $1,000 in bank bills and gold, and I was determined not to part with that money without a fight. The ranchman had $4,000 and the miner about $3,000, as was afterwards learned, and both had determined to fight. We had just forded the Merced river and had come to a lonely stretch of road, when the ranchman pulled his revolver and ex- amined the caps. It was not yet restored to the holster when we heard a shout, the report of a pistol and the stage come to a full stop. 1 reached for my pistol, as did the miner, knowing that robbers were at hand, but before mine was out the licutenant flung his arms around me and cried out: “For God’s sake make no move or we shall all be murdered! Let them take all we havel” At the same time the tourist flung himself upon the miner, and neither of us had a weapon out when a robber showed himself at either door. The ranchman was ready, however, and he killed the man on his side. He would have also killed the other, but his re- volver failed on the second shot, and the robber pushed his revolver in and fired with the muzzle pressed against the poor fellow’s heart. = A third robber then came up, and we were covered from either door and called upon to sur- render. The jig was up,and we climbed out, delivering our pistols butt foremost as we left the stage. There were four of us and only two robbers, but when a man has the drop on you and means business it’s no use to kick. We were laced in a row, and while one of the ellows kept us covered the other went through each man in turn. The lieu- tenant shelled out a watch and $40. the tourist a watch and 8409, and they got from the other two of us the sums I have previously named. I had my bank bills in my bootlogs, but as we were forced to strip to our shirts, they found every last dollar. While we were dress- ing, the body of the ranchman was pulled from the coach and stripped and robbed. I have no doubt that the robbers meant to shoot every one of us after se- curing the plunder, in order to avenge the death of their comrade; but the un- usually large booty put them in good spirits, and they underwent a change of heart. The one whosearched us stepped over the dead body & dozen times with- out seeming to care whether it was a log ora man.” When finally through with us he bent overthe bodyand began robbing it, saying to his companions: ¢Bill won’t have any more use for money, and we might as well take his dollars along. Poor Billl We shan’t never play poker together again.” When they were ready to go they cut the harness so that the stage would be detained a couple of hours, broke u{) or carried off every firearm and drank to our health from a flask the tourist had with him. They made off for the foot- hills to the east, having so little care for us that neither of them once looked back. I wasmadand no mistake, and the miner gave utterance to his feel- ings in curses which almost cracked the stones around us. We been robbed of our every dollar, and, with our money, of every prospect. The tourist could get more at Stockton, and the lieutenant was out only a few dollars anyway. I was not yet dressed when he befim to put on airs over us, claiming that if we had not been so hasty he would have managed the affair to the defeat of the robbers. This added to my anger, and I sailed in and pounded him until he yelled for meroy. It was just sunset when the stage was ready to go on, but there were two of us who did not propose to go that way. ‘We were unarmed, but determined,and while the stage lumbered off down the rough road we found a club apiece and sot out on the trailof the robbers. Luckily for us the miner had been long in the country and seen a good deal of the hunter’s life. We therefore hadno difficulty in following the trail until darkness came on. e fellows made directly for the foothills, and we had no doubt that they had some sort of a cave or stronghold out there. They took matters so coolly that they could not have begn a great ahead of us when darkness fell, I was then for rest- ing until daylight, but the miner urged that we should push on. Krom the to- pography of the country he felt certain that a ravine or rift would be found not far away. We were then between the foothills and the true mountain, ina narrow valley, and a full moon had come up. Without this light we could not have mado our way, as the ground was much broken and bowlders lay thickly scattered about. We went ahead very cautiously up this valley for about a mile, and of a sudden a rift opened to the left, and the glare of a camp fire groeted our eyes. It was not over 200 feot away, and after a min- ute we made out the forms of the two men, us they seemed to be preparing supper. We had found them, but what of ‘L‘! ‘They had all the arms and we were defenseless. We crept back a few yards to hold a consultation, and the miner carefully studied the lay of the land. He was of the opinion that it was a short, dry rift, with a cave at the far end. Three sides were enclosed by walls of earth and rock, and our only way was to attack the men from above. How high we would have to climb, or what difficulties, we could not say. We were not three minutes deciding to make the attempt, and we pregnrml for it by leaving coats, vests, hats and boots behind. We began the ascent about 100 feet from the mouth of the rift and I do not believe two panthers could have done better. The side of the ‘mountain was thickly covered with codars, vines ‘and rocks and progross was made almost entirely by oroeping, . Once we drew ourselves upa cllx full twenty feet high by a grapevine hang- ing down, and nfil\ln wo mado use of & troe to seek a higher elovation, We had been Ko‘“fi up for half an hour bo- fore wo bore off to the right in the di- roction of the rift. 'We then had to move far more cautiously and I pre- sume it was a full hour from the time we left the valley to the time we lay on our stomachs 100 feet above the camp fire and looked over. The men were diroctly beneath us, seated close to- gother, and were smoking as they counted the money. Woe had but one way to attack. Luck- ily for us it was o straight descent. I could have dropped a coin fair upon tho hat of tho man beneath me. We were out upon a rocky shelf, but there were looso stones of all sizes all aboutus. I selected one woighing about twenty- five pounds, the miner §ov. one equally as large, and we carefully crept back to the edge with them., o fall of the emallest pebble would startlo the men below and we used as much caution as if our lives would pay the forfeit. After o bit we were ready. The men had not moved. For about a minute I lost my nerve. It seemed a horrible thing to do. Had I been alone I believe I should have relented. The miner soemed to read my thoughts, and he put his mouth to my ear and wispered: “Remember how they shot the ranch- man, and remember that they took our every shilling!” ‘We poised the stones on the ledge of the cliff, and at a whisper: “Now” from him we drn{\pml them. I heard them strike and drew back. Ho peered ovor, and after a moment recovered his bal- ance and said: “‘Now we can go down! These chaps will never rob another coachl” It took us longer to go down than to come up, but we made the descent in safety, and walked around to and up the rift. The fire had nearly died out. We* replenished it, and then saw that both men were dead. It wasa horrible sight and one T do not care to describe. Our rocks had fallen squarely down upon upon their heads, and you can imngllno the result. There was a dry, airy cave but a few fect away, and the gang had made the place arendozvous for a long time, Woe recovered every dollar our conch had been robbed of, and more than as much again which had been taken from others. The cave had abig supply of firearms, blankets and pro- visions, and in a mail hn.fi hungin.{ on the wull were ten gold and silver watches, five or six valuable pins and firearms worth at least 8600. Wo not only secured the wealth, but we made an even divide gnd kept every dollar of it. An attempt was made in Stockton to compel us to ‘‘divy” with several people who had been robbed, but it was a failure. As tho tourist was out of ready cash we gave him 8200, but we would not even sell the lieutenant back his watch at any price. It was told all over the slope that our haul amounted to $25,000. If it did we earned ever dollar of it, besides wiping out a ba ng and leaving the stage line clear or the noxt six months. SR Patent Couplings for KFreight Oars. Chicago News. In the disaster which happened Sun= day afternoon in tho celebrated horse- shoo bend on the Pennsylvanin railway there is afforded the strongestargu- ment possible for the adoption of patent couplings for freight cars. Bad as the accident was, it was impossible to con- template without a shudder what might have happened if that same wild train of thirteen heavily ladon cars had come dashing down the mountain side as a passenger train was making the ascent on the adjoining track. BSuch a possi* billity is by no means so remote that the traveling public will view it with com- placency. The possibility of a freight train coupled with the old-style link and pin breaking into one, two or three parts is a possibility that frequently happens on roads with heavy grades and sharp curves. The public only does not hear of them often because they are not usu- ally attended with loss of life or great destruction of m'nwrty. They Daily News insists that there is no excuse for their happening at all. Railway companies cling to the link coupling for freight trains because it is cheap and because it enables one puny engine to start a long train of cars by a sories of jerks upon the slack permitied by the link and pin. It may be that this system of jerking a train from its inertia is the frequent causeof the subsequent breaking of the coup- ling when a train is strained on & grade or curve. With inadequate breaking and anti- quated coupling on freight trains, trave eling on passenger trains is not as safe as it migfit be, as a majority of the ca- lamities to the latter are occasioned by some fault of the former. The patent system of coupling should be applied to all trains and some means of brakin, should supercede the ineffectual hande brake. —— The Truth About Shorthand. Chicago Herald. Of late the shorthand writers have been engaging public attention. ‘There has been an international convention at London,and that body has recommended study of phonography in public schools. This is, as is believed here, a pernicious idea,and oould gain popularity only through a thorough misapprehension of shorthand and its uses. The skillful writer of phonography has little to say in favor of his art. He practices it and draws fabulous pay. In the sums which he earns may be found an exact expression of the difficulty of his task. If a man’sspeech ora society's hot debate could be written down as it were uttered shorthand would not be so well paid. But shorthand has so far been a feat of memory. “Pr” has so far stood for practice, perfect, principle, and the good writer puts all three marks in the same place. True shorthand is not anl{ shorthand, but it is an abbreviation of shorthand, and a guess as to what to write by abbrovias tion. The writer must have brains to put down pen & trait or !)cnolmw. The poor shorthand writer, therefore, is the one who does not know all terminolo- ies, all glossaries, all dictionaries, all irectories. The shorthand writer has grown so scholarly that he despises the slavery of Indmngk the ute terances of figureheads who know so much less than their stenographer. Be- cause he does despise it he charges wrineumel $150 a day, and gets his rice. K The idea of teaching such an art— not an art, but a mmonic and muscus lar feat—to little children may soun well to those who know nothing abou shorthand and little children; therefor, these few remarks in uppum.(on to suc an attempt. There are enough cranky educators already loose in the public schools. 1If you suffer pricking puins on moving the eyes, or cannot bear bright light, and find Yuur sight weuk and failing, ou should promptly use Dr, J. H, Mc~ Lean’s Strengthening Eye Salve. 25 cents a box.