Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 27, 1887, Page 4

Non-Partisan Judges. A large gathering of representative citizens, presided over by Judge Lake, has unanimously pronounced in favor of the non-partisan judiciary ticket for THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TRRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. foruing Baition) including Sunday 1o B) 10 00 | this district. The vote of confidence Em:qill‘m g% given to Judges Wakely, Groff and 'm&‘.’}':f, " 2 | Hopewell and Hon. George ‘W. Doane, o‘l"‘l':l‘?ggarr:a-, m..'.'.'.l{‘&&'.‘::.’.'."’{.‘.‘fg a8 men eminently qualified for the INO, WARHINGTON O¥rice, No. 013 Four TRENTH bench, expressed the general sentiment of the intelligent and law-abiding CORRESPONDENCE. 1l communications relating to news and citizens of the entire district. itorial_matter should be addressed to the | Individually or as & whole no ticket DITOR OF THE BEE. ever nominated in this state was com- posed of men as capable and worthy to fill positions within the gift of the peo- ple. The BEE congratulates the citizens of this district not only upon the excellent choice made, but the fact that men who rank among the ablest jurists in Ne- braska have consented to serve on the l!at:i‘:: Nox}hm:xnl.u. " district bench at a salary which is Goo . Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Pub- | ridiculously below the earning capacity lshing company, does solemuly swear that the | o oy fret-oluss lawyer. actual circulution of the Daily Beo for the week O ey TYaa i fo oW Having been placed in nomination without seeking the office, it is not ex- pected that these candidates will lower the dignity of their calling by entering into & personal scramble for popular support at the polls. It remains now for the people of the district to register their sentiment through the ballot-box in favor ofa pure non-partisan judiciar BUSINESS LETTERS: All business letters and remittances should be addressed to THR BER PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMANA. Drafts, chec! nd postoftice orders to ‘Do made payable to ti rder of the company. Tie Bes Publshing Company, Propictors. IE. ROSEWATER, Epiton. THE DAILY BEE. Bworn Statement of Circulation. 0. B, Tz Sworntoand subteribed ity my pres ay of October, A. D. B Ay N. P. FEIL, (SEAL) Notary Public Btate of Nebraska, 50 County of Douglus. f% P 13, Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, de- 8 and says that he i3 secretary of The Bee ding company, that the actual average circulation of the Daily Bee for the month of October, 188, 19 copies; for November, ‘coples; for December, 188, 1323 s for January, 187, 16,266 coples: for Feb- March, 187, 14,400 The Law and the Trusts. It would seem that the ingenuity of monopoly has evolved, in the form of the “trust,” a creation wholly outside of and unknown to the law, and the ques- tion how the latest development of cor- ‘porate combination shall be successfully combatted is a serious and interesting one. Wenoted some time ago the opin- ion of a noted New York lawyer that corporations which become identified with trusts thereby practically surren- der their corporate franchises and could by process of law be compelled to close up their business. There can be no question that a corporation which en- ters a trust violates the conditions of its existence which impose legal obliga- for May, coplest i, 14,0 9 coples. . 1. 123CHUCK, Swom to and subscribed A" my presciice tits 6th day of October, A. D. 1857 N, P. FEIL, (BEAL, Notary Pubile. I is not often that a landslide brings afortune with it, but such an occur- rence has just taken place in the Black Hills. A slide there last Monday brought down $100,000 worth of valuable ore. JEFFERSON DAVIS is now swinging around the southern circle accompanied by the “Daughter of the Confederacy.” | tions upon its officers and stock- Just what his object is doos not appear, [holders —in — delegating to others unknown to its charter the au- Perhaps he only wishes to have a little fun in his old age and his ‘‘swing” has probably about the same significance as’ that of a boy riding a hobby-horse in a merry-go-round. thority to conduct and control<the busi- ness for which it was created. But hay- ing done this what redress would there be for the public in proceeding against a corporation and withdrawing its fran- chise? What is requiredis that monop- oly in the form of the trust shall be pre- vented, and it is not appavent that this can be accomplished by action to wipe out corporations already practically dis- solved and gone out of independent ex- THE Northern Pacific road last Mon- day applied for an injunction perma- nently restraining the interior depart- ment from opening indemnity lands to occupancy under the homestead and pro-emption acts. It is the company’s T istence by absorption in a trust cue now to pose as the injured party. [ 1Stenee by Rl : But the whole question will thus bo This matter is discussed by awriter in brought into the federal courts where it the Harvard Law Review, who N,]m"s belongs, and theoretically, at any rate, [ that trusts present no definite point of be settled according to the merits of attack, and that affirmative action by thia case. the legislative power will be necessary to their destruction. The fault of those who discuss the question is that they do not suggest the kind of legislation required to remedy the evil, CALIFORNIA has hitherto been ro- garded as the most boastful sister of our B i akof rin {;,“‘?:;fi,g':;“‘;!:tm",.i,,g“;;,; e :fig’ which indicates that there aro diflicul- rapidly eclipsing the former in calling | ties in the way that may be found not attention to her attractions. Dakota | ensily surmountable. A case is now bousts of the torrid heats of her sum- | Pending in Louisiana against the Cotton mersand the irresistible blizzards of | Seed Ol trust the result of which will her winters, and now sho is already | be interesting. It isan application for forcing the season by laying claim to | &0 injunction to prevent that monopoly the coldest October snap in the country | from transacting business in the state, or in the memory of the oldest inhabi- | O the ground that being neither a part- tant. nership nor a corporation it has no — legal status. If the decision is against THE inter-state commerce commission | the trust a valuable precedent will must bea credulous body. They have | be supplied which may be followed in just issued a circular to the gencral | other states. managers of railways asking them to But this way of combatting the mo- specify all instances where they charge | nopoly is slow, tedious, and must less for longer than shorter hauls and | always be uncertain, Itbeing conceded for what reasons. If the railroad com- | that the trust is unknown to the panies can be induced to lodge com- | law, it is clear that in order todeal with plaints against themselves in this way | it properly it must be given legal cogni- they must recently have assumed an | tion. What is required is general and honesty of character that will be an un- | uniform legislation among the states expected surprise to the public. which will absolutely prohibit the s formation of such combinations and Now that Civil Service Commissioner | make their existence impossible. Noth- Edgerton has joined issue with Oberly | ing short of this will be entirely effec- to the rights of office-holders | tive for their prevention, or for the pate in political work, he is | destruction of those now in operation, besieged with questions as to how far | which would doubtless speedily go to such action can go without clashing | the wall under such adverse legislation. with the statutes or public opinion. He weplies ‘‘that government employes #ave a right to connect themselves with political organizations, and the latter @an assess members for political pur- poses,” without danger. And so the eivil service farce goes on With Power to Act. The present council has resumed the dangerous practice which prevailed some years ago by which power to act was conferred upon sub-committees or city officials. To delogate the power which the charter confers exclusively upon the mayor and council is on its face illegal, and the exercise of such power is always liable to abuses which SAN FRANCISCO papers state there is roason to heliove a great land fraud is in preparation in the northern part of the state, the object being to gobblo up | 108 to jobbery. A week ago all the best timber lands not already | the council by resolution desig- appropriated. Of course a ‘“‘company” nated two cqunc\l committees has been formed, and the usual tactics [ 224 ~ several =~ city —officers as a special committee with power to act on the proposed reconstruction of the east wall of the city hall foundation. Had this committee exercised the pretended power it would have done so in violation of the charter, which expressly provides in section one hundred and twenty- seven that every resolution involving an expenditnre of money shall first be submitted to the mayor for approval the same as any ordinance, and if vetoed by the mayor, it shall be void unless it is passed over the veto by two- thirds of the council. At its last meet- ing the council received a bid for re- constructing the east wall of the city hall foundation from Regan brothers, contractors for the basement, and the bid was referred to the board of public works with power to act. Now the board can exercise no such power legally under the charter, because it involves an expenditure of money, and therefore must be treated as a contract, which re- quires joint action by the mayor and council. This leads to the question why the council so persistently continues to ig- to steal within the limits of the law, as far as possible, have been employed. Organized and legalized robbery has become g0 prevalent that it is about time corporate grand larceny were pun- ished like individual thievery. THE extent of land involved in the controversy between the Western Land company and the settlers in O’Brien county, Iowa, is upwards of 40,000 acres. About 250 squatters are interested and fifteen have already been evicted. The land was bought by English capitalists from the Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad, and they claim that favorable terms have been offered to all settlers who wish to purcbase the claims they occupy. They have shown little desire to be- come stibjects of British landlords, how- over, hence the evictions. A RECENT rumor—and it may be per- tinent to remark that it requives neither money nor brains so start a rumor— informs us that a consolidaiion of all the labor and prohibition parties In the country has been propoged for the next presidential campaign. Letus imagine, [ nore the very important provision for a moment, Powderly, Henry Geovge, | of the charter that makes the McGlynn, St. Jobn, Belva Lockwood, [ mayor —and council jointly re- General Fisk et al, all boiling together in the same political pot, and then turn our thoughts at once upon something that will require less mental strain. That compound would be more cxplosive than dynamite. sponsible for expenditures and contracts. Not only does the council often vote to commtttees the power to act when an indebtodness is incurred, bd®it is cus- tomary to create liabilities under exist- ing contracts which should in all cascs THE OMAHA oyes that don't dare to look straigh lest they should reveal the “‘managing” soul behind “them, is causing prayers to be [T AN IR N R ke DAILY Ry R BEE: THURSDAY, i el OCTOBE 1 have the joint approval of the mayor and council. Almost at every meeting resolutions are adopted to locate new fire hydrants, and additional gas lampe. These resolutions are clearly subject to the mayor’s approval before they can be considered as legal. Every additional fire hydrant creates a liability for 860 a year to the water- works company, and every additional lamp-post creates a liability of ¥2a year to the gas company. It is mani- festly the duty of the council to have all such resolutions and orders submitted to the mayor for his approval before action is taken. The power to act by committees was abolished three or four years ago and should never have been revived. The only safety for the tax-payers isthe striet en- forcement of the safe guards which the charter provides against reckless waste of the public funds and jobbing schemes which are engineered through with a rush, Still Harping on Subsidies. There was a meeting in Boston a few days ago of prominent gentlemen who are especially interested in improving the shipping interests of the country. The subject is one that ought to inter- est everybody, the producers of the west as much as the merchants and manufac- turers of the east. Itis easily demon- strable that were this country possessed of the ocean shipping which it should have as a great commercial nation every farmer who has a bushel of grain to sell for export would be benefited directly, besides the general advantages to be gained in keeping among our people the large amount of money annually paid to foreign ship owners for freight charges. There are the amplest and weightiest arguments in favor of restoring Ameri- can shipping on the ocean, all of which have relation to the interests and wel- fare of the whole people. The disad- vantage to a great and growing com- mercial country in being dependent upon other nations for the transporta- tion of its products to the markets of the world is s0 obvious that nobody can fail to see it. 'We do not know that anybody pretends to deny it. The difficulty has been and still is to devise a safe, wiseand practicable policy for bringing about the restoration of the shipping interest. There is an associa- tion called the American shipping and industrial league formed for the pur- pose of formulating a policy and keeping this question be- fore the public. Its branches have held meetings this year, and it was a part of this organization that as- sembled in Boston the other day. But unfortunately for the cause itadvocates, the league seems to have settled down to u single central idea, and that is that the country can secure an ocean ma~ rine capable of competition with that of other nations only by the aid of the national treasury. The policy urged by the shipping and industrial leaguo isa system of subsidies, and it has very lit- tle else to propose. Nothing, in fact, that is not contingent or dependent upon subsidies. This policy hasnever been favorably re- garded by the people and isnever likely to be. It has less chance of receiving popular approval now than it had ten or twenty years ago. Public donations for building up special interests are going out of rather than coming into favor. The people are asking that they shall be relieved of taxation and all un- necessary forms of government expendi- ture that render taxation necessary, and are not in a mood to add to the de- mands upon them, particularly in a di- rection the limitations of which it would be impossible to define. The subsidy policy having been inaugu- rated, where would it stop? The people being saddled with this additional bur- don, what possible dimensions might it not reach before it stopped growing? Are there not protected interests enough that practically receive subsi- dies from the people? The country ought to have an ocean marine sufficient to move its commerce, and in time it will have. *But not by means of unlimited government subsi- dies growing from year to year, and almost certain to become a perpetual burden upon the people. Hon. George W. Doane. The selection of Hon. George W. Doane to fill the place made vacant on the non-partisan judiciary ticket by the death of Mr. Stow is by all odds the best that could have been made. Among the 800 lawyers of the district no man ranks higher than George W. Doane, and noman enjoys the popular confidence and esteem in a more eminent degree. During a residence of more than twenty years in Omaha Mr. Doane has always been a leader at the bar, and a model citizen in every respect. He has rep- resented Douglascounty in both houses of the legislature three or four different terms and made a record of which any man could be proud. It 1s a great sacri- fice for Mr. Doune togive up his lucra- tive practice, and it is only because he has ample means that he can afford to gratify the highest ambition of the profession which has its culmination on the bench. MoORE credibility could be given to the reports regarding a hostile feeling between the friends of Sherman and Foraker in Ohio if they came through other channels than democratic papers and the organs of the distinguished citizen abroad who is assumed to be the most formidable opponent of Mr. Sher- man asa possible presidential candi- date. There are certain plausible as- sumptions in these reports, but an in- telligent view of the situation must make plain to any one that neither Sherman nor Foraker would make the futal mistake of permitting serious dis- affection in the party -at this time. It is impossible to see how under any circumstances either could be the gainer by it Lpt it is entirely apparent that both Must lose. They are menof too much political judgment and foresight to com- mit any such blunder as to now intro- duce or allow to be introduced in the campaign any enuse of dissention or dis- turbance. There is every reason to be- lieve that the harmony established at Toledo will continue unbroken through the campaign, whatever may happen afterwards, and theve ig still no reason to doubt, as there would be if these re- ports were true, that the republicans will be successfl §n Ohio by a large majority. ’l‘lm‘qnp:flgn grows in warmth and vigor a#ithe end approaches, and the Buckeye ‘state has had no livelier political contest in many years. THE effort of the council to secure better streeb car accommodations and facilities is commendable. It is a mis- taken iden, howevet, that the street cars in Omaha do not run {ast enough. They frequently run, so fast that they cannot be stopped or caught by the fastest man or woman either. The trouble is not with the speed of the cars but with the number of their trips. There should be more frequent trips on some of the lines, and it would not be asking too much on behalf of the public to insist on larger cars with conductors where the travel is heavy. As to the heating of street cars there aro two sides. The passenger who sits against a red hot car stove with the car door opening and closing about every minute will broil on one side and freeze on the other. The chances of catching cold are ten to ono greater in a heated car than in one without stove heat. If steam or hot water heating could be introduced there might be more comfort and less ex- posure. THE republicans of Chicago who are favorable to Mr. Robert T. Lincoln as a presidential candidate have begun an earnest movement in his behalf, and the organization of Lincoln ward clubsin that city is a promised event of the near future. Elsewhere the eldest son of the first republican president continues to be casually referred to in favorable terms, and on the whole it scems likely that the Lincoln boom is to have its turn. The first step in the Chicago movement, however, has developed the fact that the preference of republicans is by no means all one way, and that the supporters of Mr. Lincoln will be con- fronted by a counter movement in the interest of other candidates that will not be easily overcome. IT is in accord with the eternal fitness of things for the Republican to throw cold water on the efforts of the police to suppress gambling dens. Its pet candi- date for district judge, the Honorable Lee Estolle, was hired by the gamblers last winter to smother the anti-gambling bill. The sporting fraternity are solid for Estelle and the Republican naturally reciprocates by belittling and misrepre- senting the police in their efforts to en- force the law. OUR amiable contemporary the Her- ald, has discovered a mare’s nest in the shape of an alleged ' conspiracy on the part of Sheriff Coburn to manipulate the board of education in the interest of his own re-election. Mr. Coburn isonly one of fifteen members, and it is simply ab- surd to charge him with carrying seven members in his pocket. It takes at least eight votes in the board to carry any proposition. GEORGE TIMME'S frantic appeal te the Germans to keep him and the other notorious Timme at the public crib is very amusing. The only tangible rea- son given by his champion in the Ger- man paper is that Timme is a bulwark against Irish domination in the court house. MR. ScoTT struck the nail on the head when hecharged at the mass-meet~ ing that Judge Groff would have been endorsed by the roustabout convention if he had uot granted that temporary injunction against Cudet Taylor’s print- ing steal. THE most effective service our Doug- las street contemporary can render to the republican county ticket is to stop its vindictive flings at Judge Groff and its idiotic ridicule of George W. Doane. THERE will be an overlap in the gen- eral fund at the end of the year; but that does not prevent the council from paying for supernumerary deputies in the offices of the clerk and treasurer. GEORGE TIMME'S extraordinary feats in mileage ought to entitle him to the champion pedestrian belt, which Wes- ton carried for so many years. THE ring around the moon does not attract half the attention that the rings around the court houses do all over the state. KINGS AND QUEENS. Prince Henry, of Battenburg, is to become an aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria. He will probably be a good deal of a gascon-aido. Princess Louise of Wales inherits the deli- cate health of her uncle, the late duke of Al- bany. Her years are regarded as ‘‘num- bered.” Princess Beatrice is said to be writing some clever verso. Two of her little gems have recently found their way into a collection of English poems. The public museum at Nantes, France, has just acquired the casket in which was placed tho heart of Anne of Brittany, Qucen of France and Navarre, Itis solid gold. Emperor William was recently congratu- lated upon his good health, when he said: Yes, I feel very well, but I must be so, for there is one wish which ¥ hope to live to see fulfilled— to hear once more the voice of my son Fritz firm and sonorous as it was of old.” Queen Victoria has been engaged of late at Balmoral in revising the proofs of a ‘“‘popu- lar” biography of the prince consort, which has been written by the Rev. William Tul- loch, son of the late Principal Tulloch. This work will contain several anecdotes contrib- uted by her majesty. On the occurrence of the Schuaebelo affair the emperor of (:urmnm having had the papers relating to the cusé brought to him, wrote on the back, “givé the French their rights, their whole rights, aud nothing but their rights, and do not put'me at my age in a positiol to have to make excuses.” King Humbert of Italy, is reported to have said in u recent conversation that the best monarchy is the one in which the king is felt everywhere without being observed. ~ “*And the best republic?” he was asked. ‘It is that one,” was the reply, “‘where, as in America, the genius of the people has 'so deeply pene- trated every fiber of social fabric that no place remains for a king."” The Empress Augusta 18 more than seven- ty-five years o and has not_changed the ;98 for the last twenty-five ill wears the same dark brown utly at the opera was dressed in a white brocade gown, and wore a white cap of plush on her head instead of @ bounett. Avound her neck she wore & cham of large emeralds. Prince Ferdinand's mother, a restless, in- triguing and busy old woman, with an 'im- mensé “handle” to her face, and blinking bor of the Russian imperial fam czar's children who are laid up with the ttorward of- fered up for her son's success at all the lady chapels of upper Austria, and is sending & gift to Lourdes to secure the protection of that shrine for Ferdinand. An amusing anccdote comes from Fredens- in Denmark, the &mrorur% residence 1y, 'wo of the measles, refused to tako the physio pro- scribed for them. The young people wero not to be Xorsunduqh t last the czar was sent for, and finding that kind words were of no avail, he bogan fo scold. Even that did not succeed, so, turning to the nurse, the czar said: “I can dono wore. And yet just think that millions of subjects obey me, while these striplingsoput mo at deflance.” Going 1t Blind. South Omaha Stockman, The Omaha Republican is cracking the party whip at a furious rate. It attacks any republican who shows the least sign of in- dulging In free thought or independent actign. To follow tho advice or teachings of the Republican, it would be necessary to shut one's eyes and blindly follow the leadors to victory or destruction, as tho case might be, ————— Indian Summer. M. L. These northern wilds, where once the red man ulm{od, Now know his tribe no more. Where,long ago, He tracked the startled deer through brake and glade, No human sound is heard; no camp-fires glow At night along tho shore, though still the oon, Wll: wier, wild laughter, floats upon the ay, And in the ferns the rasping crickets croon, While squirrels caper in their graceful play. No memory is left of tribe or chief; Long since they gained the happy hunting- grounds; And nlum an autumn wind has strewn with ea! And mossy twig their nameless burial mounds, Still, here and there tho fragile Indian pipe Lifts up_its waxen bowl, nor flower, nor Yot of he shad t o fitting t et of tho shadowy past a fitting type— A veritable pipe of poaco, indsed [ And somewhere, 'twixt the summer's heat and glow, And winter's cold, wild winds and drifting snow, There falls a dreamy season, like a spell Upon the weary earth. Nono can foretell Its advent or its close; but, ah| tho days Are full of mellow beauty; and the haze That pnry{leu distant hill-tops and the trees, Is't smol ;: of phantom wigwams no one sees For 'tis the Indian summer! Season rare, Whose soft and fleoting sunshine, balmy air, ‘We hold the dearer, since they may not last. Too soon, we know, the bright days will be past, And cling to them, as some fond lover clings To one he loves. Each note the wild bird sings Wo hourd; and in tho short, swoet after- noons, We find again tho charm of vanished Juncs. What richer legacy could wealth bestow Than this the red man left us, long ago! sl ey STATE AND TERRITORY. Towa Items. Two Chinamen have been naturalized in Clinton. The new Catholic church at Osage was dedicated yesterday. Farmers at Grand Junction report the corn crop as averaging forty to seventy bushels per acre. Great preparations are being made at Dubuque to celebrate the completion of the high bridge, November 20, The new towers and spires on the church of the Sacred Heart at Dubuque have been completed. The height of the lesser one is 136 feet and the larger one 2064, Oskaloosa boasts of its educational fa- cilities, having three colleges—one founded twenty-five years ago—and a fine high school. Charles Ths awoke Sunday morning in Sioux City to find a roll of $225 taken from under his pillow. The sabbath hours were employed in a vigorous search for the visitor, Black Hawk, a prince of the Winne- bago Indian senate, who lost a mongrel mule while riding in state through Sioux City during jubilee weck, has sued the city for $60 damages, ‘Wyoming. The wife of Mayor Riner, of Chey- enne, died suddenly last Sunday. Cheyenne is preparing to celebrato the advent of the Burlington road next month. The glassworks at Laramie are in operation, with a liberal bunch of orders on hand. Laramie is promised a fine depot, at a cost of $20,000. Manager Potter is distributing favors all along the line with a lavish tongue. The bridge of the Cheyenne & North- ern over the Platte, 122 miles from Cheyenne, is completed. The first train pulled over it last Saturday. The pursuit of tho escaped murderer of Deputy Sheriff Gunn continues in the northern wilds, No information has léeen received from the front for several ays. Colorado. Brick and stone masons are in de- mand in Leadville. The Midland railroad between Denver and Leadville is in operation. Denver merchants have started a rate war on the railroads and a radical reduc- tion is demanded as the price of peace. Denver papers are trying to bolster up the city by crying down Omaha’s progress. In bank clearings, real estate sales and general business Omaha main- tains a winning lead, and scatters the dust in the eyes of the emporium of consumptives. Montana. Helena built 808 new buildings this year, costing $1,230.000. The railroad between Marysville is completed. Nearly 1,500 feet of the big tunnel on the Montana Central at Wickes has been bored. The Rocky Fork & Cooke City railroad isnow being graded at the rate of a mile a day. The assessed valuation of Helena is $7,777,000 and the population is esti- mated at 12,000, e The Chess Club. The Chess club met last night at Dr. Ullrich’s office, 1408 Farnam street, at 8 o'clock, to complete the organlzation. The following are the members of {he club: George Barker, George Swartz, Dr. James Carter, Dr. C. W, Ulirfch, D. M. St W. ardner, M. B, Po J. . herstéin, Ed. Danicls, E. B. ger, E. A. Odson, A. P. Johnson, E. B. Hall, W. H. Evans, H.'W. Creighton, J. W. Byler, Dr. Boerstler, George A. Cranc 5 Seligman, A. Sorenson, I. S Graham, Julius Meyes a Miller, Paul Lictz, Dr. J. M. Swetnam. Ofticers were elected as follows: George Barker, president; Julius Meyer, vice presi- dent; W. A. Gardner, secretary, Dr. Ull- rich, treasurer. A committee consisting of Messrs, George Barker, Julius Meyer, J, W. Bybler, Paul Leitz, and George Swarts, was appointed draft_suitable by-luws and secure appartments, furniture and appurte- nances for the use of the club. The com- mittee was also empowered to receive addi- tional names until the membership of ity was attained at the same fee as charter members until the next meeting. The club then adjourned until next Wednesday night. Helena and “0N TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN.” Qoorge Francis Train, Who Stands There, Now in Omaha. HIS MULTITUDINOUS VIEWS. Canght By a Bee Reporter as the “Man of Destiny"” Revels in the Torridity of a Turke ish Bath. Train Arrives, Yesterday evening news was received in this city that George Francis Train, one of Omaha's earliest fricnds, wouid arrive on tho 6:56 p. m. train from Kansas City. Fif- teen minutes before the time marked for the arrival of the train, Mr. George P. Bemis, of this city, and the Bes representative met at the B. & M. depot by appointment. A fow minutes later Eddie Parker, one of the A. D, T, messenger boys, whom Mr. Bemis had en- gaged, by Mr. Train's telegraphic instrue- tions as interpreter, made his appearance. The train wis twenty minutes behind timo and when at length it arrived Mr. Bemis, tho Ber man and the “interpreter” sought for Mr. Train in the sleeper, but failed to find him. Nobody on the train knew that he had been aboard. The party then drove rapidly to the Paxton, expecting to find a telogram to the effect that Mr., Train had been delayed at St. Joo, when tho great traveler was scon disembarking from an omnibus. The reporter was introduced to him by Mr. Bemis, and extended his hand. But the hands of the two great men did not meet in friendly clasp. Mr. Train raised his hat, bowed and smuled and exchanged courtesies, while Mr. Bemis remarked that Mr. Train neither shook hands with nor did he touch any person. The latter experienced no embarrassment in opening the conversation and immediately rattled in aracy, cheerfil manner. He cxpressed a desire to be escorted immediately to Dr. ‘Worley's Turkish baths on Dodge street and the party immediately started in that direc- tion. As the corner of Farnam and Four- toenth streets was reached,the motley crowd known as the Salvation army passed, making the noise generally produced by its combina- tion of tambourine, bass and snare drums and cornet. A still more motley crowd fringed the walk and gutter as the heavenly cohort shufied by. It attracted Mr. Train’s atten- tion. Ho was told the noise makors belonged to the Salvation army and then he smile “See thore,” he exclaimed. “I nev did such ' a_ thing as Yet they said I was crazy and threw me into jail. I never caused such a disturbance. Say, don't you think this is something he (Mr. Bemis) has gotten up for my benefit i Mr. Train here stood where the rays of the outside electric light of the Paxton rested upon his face and brought his form and at- tire into strongrelief. is face was bronzed, almost swart; his imperial of other days had disappeared in & not very luxurant and griz- zled beard which struggled up liis cheeks. A stiff, dark brown hat covered his head. Be- neath this o pair of grey oyes glistened with remarkable brilliancy, locks of almost fleecy ‘whitencss hung about his ears. He wore a turn-down collar, with a black, sclf-adjusta- ble, bow tie, a suit of custom-made clothes, which would retail probably at $15 and over, hung loosely a cont of cheap material, the most noticeable feature of which were a beaver collar and a set of cuffs. The party proceeded north on Fourteenth, stopping for a moment to watch the maneu- vres of the Salvationists at the corner of Douglas street, and then gotting directly to the }ivuths, where it was welcomed by the {:roprlumr. Dr. Worley. Several outsiders, y this time, had learned of Mr. Train's arrival and were permitted to see him. Rooms were assigned to the gentleman and the BEe man, as also the representative of another paper, and the three disroboed and entered the bath-room of the institution. Here Mr. Train abandoned even the slight covering provided by the proprietor, remark- ing that it was his desire to euable the re- porters to get at naked facts. Tn the parlance of the sporting world, Mr. Train stripped well. There was scarcely a pound of superfluous flesh upon his frame. e was shapely in every limb, with a well- developed chest and a pair of arms which he evidently knew how to use in rendering emphatic the thoughts to which he gave ex- ression. He had not been in the apartment ong, before @& gentleman, Who preceded him and who, from a seat which had been warmed t0 & temperature of about one hundred and fifty degrees, gazed at bim with the vacant look of a party who had not been given a problem to_solve and was unequal to the solution, Later, tho vaguencss of expres- sion disappeared and the stolid bather fol- lowed. every sentence of the rapid talker and greoted with hearty laughter every apposite comparison and ludicrous idea which was injected into the monologue. In that ronsting room, with beads of moist- ure standing upon the frame of every occu- yant, the party remained an hour, and istened to Mr. Train who talked enough to fillabook ns large as Blaine’s “Twenty Years of Congress.” “‘Omaha is great and flourishing,” I under- stand,” he said. “They tell me you have a population of between 80,000 and 100,000, I knew you would. I foretold it fifteen years 'hey laughed at me. _Some said I was others that was eccen- No wonder they called me crazy. That's the return every man gets who lives in advance of his age.” Why, I remember a little, one-story, shingled and wooden sbanty. That was Kountze's bank. You couldn’t ass between the stove and the wall withoat {;urning yourself. There Kountze sat and cashed five dollar checks, I saw him when 1 got back. I took one of his checks. Made it for $50,000. Then I changed it for $5,000,000. 'Ishowed him that it required just about tho same amount of ink to write one as it did the other. Whero is Kountzo to-day! I told himhe would have to have a three-story building and he did, later, didn’t het Well, of course the people laughed. ‘What about anarchy? ‘Why ararchy is all right. Anarchy is the higher law. Itis the law of laws, meaning when everything is right. Anarchists have ever been the men who have benefitted the world. No reform was ever effected in the history of nations which was not done in defiance of law. The promoters of those reforms were heroes, 1 told them so in Chi- cago. For five days I held the police of that city at deflance. They stood up in front of me 150 strong. I talked to them, as I talk to you now. They suppressed tho Psycho anarchist. I asked them if they did not know they were doing wrong. 1said Captain O'Donnell, don’t you know that I am r " He stood th with the police, but di not answer me. d I, ‘you have arrested a little boy for selling the Psycho paper. But come and arrest me for selling it.’ But he didn't. I took the papcr and Isold all tho copies in the crowd, and the police didu’t dare to arrest me. “What is your opinion of Mayor Roache who closed the halls against you !’ “Oh 1 fixed him, call him the cock- roach, I've named him and the name will stick to him as long as he lives. He couldn’t touch me. Idared him. I had at my back 80,000 people who would have interfered. They ve within my Psycho twist.” [Ilere Mr. Twain twisted his wrist, indicating by such a movement which strained the muscles of his arm lie would have brought myriads to Lis side. “Yos, were he ler, K Rosewal 8 b Y remenibor. almost_everybody who o in the carly day. Thero were Mil- e, Humilton, Caldwell, Popvleton, d others, ' I'm going to publish v of 400 pages. The greatest fchievement ever sccomplished. il show you the beginning of it. I've got it with me. had a il with Donnelly. What a ridiculous sorson he makes of himself. Shakespeare ivos. The grave is not his goal.” 111 tell you why T left New York. T had for fourteen years in Madison square. ‘moved mo from my seat. Iwas hyp- zed. 1 started to save the anarchists aud T've done it. Look at those old wrinkled grannies of the supreme court. (Hero Mr. Frain indulged in o comedy representation of the justices.] They said they would hear the anarchist appeal immediately, if necessary, Stop up all night to do it. Who ever heard that of the United States judges beforel I tell you they kuow they've got to do it. They know these men must not hang. Who ever heard of a man being hung as an accessory without @ principal being discovered{ Did they find the ma who threw thebombi No, o 0. f they should hang, thon what then?" . “Why, every city in this country will be destroyed. 1f they hang them, I'll expatria myself, | With great force.] I'll'go to ada. Yes, I, who have built railronds in every part of the world; I, who have dono more than twenty-four presidonts all the way from Washington to Cleveland, I'll expatriato myself from such a country and from such citizenship, “Omaha, when I was hore, had between 8,000 and 4,000 P(‘]‘“lllllllin. 1 predicted that inside of twenty-five years it would have 100,000, Wasn't I rightt Everybody said i was going to grow toward Floronco, 1 tol people that it would go south. They were the fools. They didn’t believe, and showed themselves fools by selling me their land, How much did I buy! Well, there wero 7,000 lots altogether. No, I am not fighting they found only tho men whom they tried to NOCORSOT £ for the rm y. It I8 mine, Why should a man fight for what is his. Relinquishment is possession. 1 have relinquished it. But if any man thinks 1 don’t own that property dowil hore, ho docsn't. know the fucth. - ¢ was soized while 1 was in the Tombs, 1 got out of thero on . physician’s cortificate insane, I ‘insane, but harmless.’ "If 1 wi could not give my property away; and if [ was insane, my property could mnot Do taken away either, That is constitutional law. Yos, there was default in payment, but that was when 1 was in the Tombs. I couldn't do anything. I had plenty of money behind me to pay it. Now, the funny part of the thing is that they want' to show 1 was sane_to show title to the property for their acquisition of it. “Ispeak twenty languages, at least can ordor what T want in them. I learned them by private study, and I surprised the nobility in Russia by talking to them in their native tongue. *I can make Omaha a city of 200,00—of & million inhabitants—if they only treat me right. The flrst thing you want is about fifty first class funerals, of fellows who came hero und squatted on _land und have been sqatting ever since. They are like the mules who drag their loads upon the ferrios. When the rails - are put up they bnck against them and there they stand. But down below is alittlo monster chucking, pufling and snorting propelling the boat, and when the other wharf is reached, the mules drag off their load and think that they have carried the boat ncross the river. You've got human mules here who think they carry v. Bt thoy don't and they nover did. 't want to mention names, but you know who they are. There was a rat ran in alittle hole In Vallandingham's time. My friend Sterling Morton, Poppleton, Richardson, Miller and others ure still looking for that in the Lole. But now, even that the do- cracy is in power they haven't found the it would como. Tt 18 tho ruin cre- e petty corporation for the sako cents o passenger over the I can_bust that if you treat ecently. What is your city debti me ) What's $3,000,0000 Those roads ought to bo brought here. But how can you do it so long as there is a base mixing of tho partics under @ remorsoless corporation forming an oli- Put garchy of thieves. Spend your money. up cotton mills, woolen mills and ma chops. Make public improvements, you do make thieves. 1 like a thief does good with Lis thoft. Twi clovated railroad, the Brooklyn bridge and the city hall, but 'he he stole half us much again. Bond your city. If you can't sell your bonds abroad, sell them'at home, Geb overy citizen o take onc. What w taxos amount tof o drinks aud a cigur & ay. “I work sixtcen hours a day, writing and thinking. Talk to moe about those men clamoring for cight hours a day, Isaw that parade of tho luborers on Labor day. It ought to be called tramps’ day. “I remembor Mr, Rosewator. Ho was the Dig telegraph man and the Bee. I remember Senator Suunders. Ho was my personal fricnd. He, Mr. Kountzo, Mr. Durant, and soveral others and myself broke ground for the great U. P. road. Our names wero on the picks and shovels.” ““Where ure those implements now?" “They are in Mr. Kountze's bank in New ork. “Cloveland is fraud, he's @ republican; he carrics oighty pounds of superfluous stomach which will kill Lim in a year; a fel- low half a century old marricd to a girl; ho's a drunkard, @ debauchoe, the keeper 'of & lewd house, whose child was also that of Mrria Halpin, 1 want this told and hung up in every public school 80 that the children may scc what kind of a man may become prosident of the United States, The repub- icans clected him sheriff, mayor and gover- nor. I elected him president. Iwas sitting on my bench in Union square when Stane wood came over to me and said: ‘Mr. Blaine would like to seo_you.) ‘Is that him over there at the window? I asked. ‘Yes' he said. ‘“Then tell him if he don't’ como over here to sce mo insido of thirty minutes, ho can't be president. He should come to me, not Igoto him." I waited forty minutes and he did not come, I telegraphed to O'Donovan Rossa: ‘1 am the head devil of the Fenians' —1,500 Feninn voters went over, and the man with the bay window was president. Clovo- land will not be elected. Nobody will be elocted. The whole thing is busted. 40N, the Cozzens house? Yos, 1 built it. I was llving at the Herndon. Congressman James Brooks and a dozen other congressmen Wero my guests, There came a gust of wind und out flow one of tho big panes in the win- dow near our table. There were 200 peopl in the room, Therewas no mattross near, and wo couldn't get any glass to cover the hole. It required genius to think of the ex- pedient. I took one of the Ethioj table and put his broad shoulders against the hole and said: ‘I'll give you a quarter of a dollar every minute you stand there.’ He stood until ho chattered. Nobody else would have thought of that. Nobody had an_ idea. 1f e had it would crack his head as light- ning would a pumpkin. I told them I'd teach them another lesson, and Idid. I walked across the street, found an old man named John Clark, I think, and_bought u good-sized tract. KFound a buflder named Richardson and nsked him if ho could put up u buildin; which was more than one room, an attic an a back yard, Ho said ho could—in about & yoar. I'told him I wanted it in sixty days ot it. It cost$60,000. That was in 04, rented it to Cozzens and got $10,000 & year. Rumsey afterwards took it. “Dm fifty-oight years of age, born in '29. Expect to live 200 years. The only man in tho world with red blood in his veins. Never ate @ piece of meat i my life. Live on fruit and meal. Never took & glass of liquor my life nor smoked nor chewed tobucco, Look at that hand [closing the fingers on the palin and then re-opening them and showing Low the blood-flush obliterated the white spots which momien- tarily followed the pressure.] No other man bus such blood in his veins. I'm on the top of tho mountain; I can see on all sides. I'm going to live 200 years, but that Is only a comparative term. There 18 nothing to pre- vent me from living 1,000 years—forever.” Mr, Train rattled on merrily, pleasantly, and gentlomanly, answering every question put to him, which comprehendod every mate tor in the skics above, the earth beneath and tho watcrs in the bath, The scribe accom- panicd him to the spray room, thence to the resting room, where, after striking several gladiatorial attitudes on one of the couches, Mr. Train rehabilitated hiinself and went to the Paxton, where he registered as *Geo. Francia Train, Cock Rocheville,” He was Jeft in room 1 by the Bk reporter, alone with his multituduous clippings and Paycho fantasies. Tt js not yet certain but it is Jikely that Mr, Train will lecture to-night in_Germania hall, Eighteenth und Harney streete, Ready For the Jury. Judge Novillo heard the case of Hatch, Gadd & Co. against F. B. Kennard yester, duy. It was an action based upon an agreo- ment to pay commissions for sales made. At 5 o'clock last evening the arguments wore completod and the jury was excused until 9 o'clock this morning, when Judge Nevillo will give them his instructions. it No Evidence to Convict. Judge Wakeley discharged Charles Witte ing yosterday upon the recommendation of County Attorney Simeral. Witting was charged with larceny. but the county attorney was unable to procure cnough evidence to conviet him. SIS Musicale and Oyster Supper. The ladics of the St. John parish will give & musicale and oyster supper at their new guild rooms, Twenty-sixth and Franklin streets this evening at 7:30 o'clock. All are cordially iu vited.