Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 31, 1887, Page 4

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B, Tzechuck, secretary of The Bee Pub- Lslibngz compuny, does soleminly swear that the actunl cireatation of the ""”f Iee for the week ending Oct, 21, 1857, was as tollows: Baturday, Oct. 1 Funday, Oct. 16, Monday, Oc Tuesday, Oc Wednesda hursdiy, ( Friday, Oct. Average... i Z5CTMUCK Sworn to and subscribed in my presence this 22nd day of October, A, D. 1887, B3 Tzschuck, heing first duly sworn, and snys thit Lie is secretary of Publishing company, that the actual av Qaily circulation of the Daily Bee f of Octoher, 18 4 coples T, 0 for ]II" }- 1 4 g, 186, i Ples: for Fo g 157, 1 ) 1 bies: " for June, 18 c e 11,00 copies: tor Anpist, I JCK. Rworn to and subseribed in my p) B October, A, D, 1887, N, 1L ) 5 —_— Tur latest news from the Crow war is that the troops are about to get ready to make some captures A coAL famine in Philadelphia, at the threshold of the anth te region, this early in tho season, is a fact to excite the liveliest concern of remoter localities, TALKING about aristocrats, and bringing out Gene Manderson to rouse the workingmen to support the straight, unseratched, re- publican judicial ticket, is the essence of sarcasm. silk-stockings and The sum of 1,005,379 was expended on the Indian schools of the country during the pust year according to the aunual reportof Superintendent Riley. This is the correct method of solving the Indian problem. Mgi. BLAINE says there has been a great deal of unnecessary talk about his meetings with the Prince of Wales. But one of them was formal and the oth- ers were of no consequence. If Mr, Blaine will say no more about it the matter will be forgiven and forgotten. THE activity of bus the fact that many of the leading rail- roads are complaining that cars cannot be obtained to meet anything like the requirements of pressing trafic. Trade in all lines is excellent, legitimate and hoealthy, with most satisfactory indica- tions that it will continue so. ness is shown in BRADSTREET’S railroad reports for the nine months of 1887 shows that 116 railroads have earned nearly $30,000,000 move than was earned by them during the corresponding period last year. This indicates thut the poor oppressed railronds have not suffered by the tyr- ranical inter-state commerce law. ‘WHEN a man is a candidate for a high oftice he is willing to endorse any ticket that has the seal of a party convention. A yellow dog on a straight ticket is just as good for that class of statesmen as a roputable citizen. The appeals of ce tuin eminent senatorial candidates for a partisan _judiciary which is notoriously composed of two parts,ignoramusand im- poster, and one part dead beat and shyster, will hardly weigh much with yopublicans who carry self-respect and conscience to the ballot box. THE last general assembly of Towa passed a law by which the number of members of the grand jury was de- creased. A large number of criminal cases in which indictments were found by the newly constituted juries have ‘been appealed on the ground that the law is unconstitutional. The supreme court of Jown has just puta quietus to these appeals by affirming its constitu- tionality and an important change in Jowa's judicial machinery has thus been established. FRED GRANT told & neat story about his father the other day. e said: “About threo years ago, over in West- chester county, my father went out driving, and sat with his back to the horses. Coming to a pretty scene, somebody in the carriage asked him how he liked it. Hesaid: ‘Iam tak- ing a democratic view of it.’ They asked him why. ‘Because,” he re- plicd, ‘Idon’t see anything ’till it is past.’” If Fred has progressed so far as to beable to tell stories he has acquired nearly all that goes to make up the modern statesma THE meeting of th Cheese and Fgg associati at Manchester, Ia. during the first three days of November, It is expected the gathering will be the most notable of its kind ever held in this country. Rep- yesentatives from all the principal cit- fos will be present in large numbers. About twenty-five are expected to go from this city. Oune of the main objects of the convention will be to devise methods for the protection and develap- ment of the difforent industries repre- sented. It would ho well if the produc- ing classes of the country would meet more frequently in such conferences, A wery large proportion of ‘the wealth of the cauntry is created hy them, and in- terchunge of “ideas from ull parts of the country cannot fail 40 have beneficial yesulta. ] 7} ational Butter, on will be held | his The First District. The contest in the First judicial dis- trict narrows down to s choice between Humphrey and Stull, republicans, and Broudy and Thomas, democrats. As be- tween democrats and republicans the BrEe always gives preference to republi- cans, providing that they are known to be men of integrity and competent to fill the positions to which they aspire. In other words, all things being equal, we favor republicans for office and shall always continue to do so. But as be- tween o dishonest and disreputable re- publican and ademocrat whom we know to be honest and capable, we shall always recommend the democrat, This is especially true withreference to candidates for district judges. A good republican is above all things a good citizen, and no good citizen will let his partisan ideas control his action in the,.choice of judges, into whose keep- ing are committed the dearest interests of the people—property, liberty, and lifo itself. An honest judge is the no- blest work of God. The BEE hasalready entered an ecarnest protest against Humphrey, the notorious monopoly henchman, who is wunfit for the judiciary mot only by reason of ervile relations to the railroads, but his intense projudices and ungov- ernable temper. About Stull, his asso- ciate on the republican ticket, we know little,but most damaging affidavits have Dbeen placed into our possession, which show him to be unfit for the sacred trust with which every district judge is clothed. On the other hand, we know Judge Droady as aman of sterling integrity and unchallenged ability. So far as wo have been able to learn, he has proved himself to be an excellent and impartial judge. Hon. E. W. Thomas served in the state senate in 1871, during the memorable session that tried men’s souls. As his colleague in the legisla- ture the editor of the BEE had ample opportunity to ascertain what sort of material Thomas was made of. He can cheerfully certify that Thomas was one of the most upright, fearless, broad- minded law-makers that has ever held a seat in any legislature. e is an able lawyor, and in our opinion, would make even a better judge than Broady. —_— Norris and Crawford. The judicial race in the Seventh dis- trict has narrowed down between ex- Scenator Norris and Judge Crawford. Prominent republicans of that district desire the BEE to state which of these candidates it would recommend. On the principle that all things being equal the lways prefers republicans for of- we do not hesitate to declare in favor of Norris. DBut we go farther by urging honest democrats to join in the clection of Mr. Norris. Four ro Crawford was elected by re- an votes as a man who proclaimed himself an enemy of monopoly. Before he had served half his term he broke faith with the people who elected him and joined the democratic railroad ring which has its headquarters in this city and had its headquarters at Lincoln during the legislative session. Instead of attending to his offi duties Crawford was at Lincoln nearly all winter log- rolling and lobhying. Such a man, be he democrat or republican, has no busi- ness on the bench. Mr. Norris mude an excellent record in the state senate and his competency as a lawyer cannot be called in question. By all means take Norris in preference to Crawford. Senator Allison in the East. Towa’s senior senator appears to be as well thought of by the republicans of the east as any other prominent man in the party. There is quite a boom for him in Vermont, for which it is quite possible Senator Edmunds is to some extent responsible. A leading republi- can paper of that state, which has spolen most favorably of Mr. Allison,, warns the party of the unwisdom *of the popular current of thought and ex- pression which tries to narrow the choice of the party down to one man and make the renomination of Mr. Blaine seem inevitable.” Mr. Dorman B. Eaton has written a letter giving his reasons for believing that the nomination of Mr. Allison would be a good investment for the party, and some of the active politicians have recorded their opinion that the To: nator can poll more votes than any other republican. When it was an- nounced that Senator Allison was to participate in the New York campaign the New York Zimes veferred to him as a ‘‘moderate and sincere man.” All such evidences of the senator's popularity must be very cheering to his Towa friends, although they are not free to make much use of them. Senator Allison has very judiciously decided not to encourage any boom. This is due, doubtless, not solely to his knowledge of the danger of premature booms,but more particularly to the praiseworthy view that the party should be left enti free to determine who among its repre- sentative men has the greater availability and would be the most likely to be elected. He could have had the unanimous endorsement of the republican convention of his state, but he wisely thought best not to thus commit fhe party in Iowa, and his refusal to allow it to be done has been universally approved. The decision of the next national convention must be made without regard to pledges to fa- vorite sons, and the fewer of these there are the less embarrassment and contention will there be in reaching a decision. A strong point urged in favor of Mr, Allison is that he has not.antagonized uny element of the party. This may suggest the absence of some of those positive and aggressive qualities which are decmed 10 be necessary in a leader, but it cannot be charged that - Senator Allison has stultified his® opivions on public questions, orretreated from any position he has taken. in orderto retain the good ill of He has simply not opinion between o his party: a ent” warfare, ht to elevite him- by . ‘depreciating others. Nobody @doubts the fixédneéss of -his opinions, or that he would adbere to them in any element nees of OCTOBER 31, 1887 ence that might be brought to bear up- on him, His sincerity being acknowl- edged, his moderation should be re- garded a virtue. The people do not want a pyrotechnic campaign next ycar, but one that shall appeal to their sturdy common sense and sober reason. If the friends of Senator Allison can convince the republican convention that he is the best man to meet this requirement, his chances might be much better than they now appear to be. Utah and Admission. The opposition to the admission of Utah to statehood is being kept up with great vigor, and the expression of senti- ment all over the country warrants the conviction that the present effort for statchood will fail. A majority of the commission oppose it, and the governor in his report is very decidedly on the same side. He disclaims having any faith whatever in the declarations and pledges of the constitutional convention, composed wholly of Mormons. He says rather than forego the privileges they claim the Mormons will, if required of them, sacrifice their personal comfort, their property, suffer infinite imprison- ment, and surrender life itself. He ex- presses the opinion that a well- grounded fear of the admission of Utah as a state would stay the incoming tide of prosperity and lose the already enhanced and increas- ing values of real estate. Thereismore to the same effect, all of which will get to the attention of congress and be con- sidered on its merits. In relation to this matter the Zvibune sees more calamitous consequences to result from the admission of Utah than are pointed out by the governor, the editor evidently having the more vivid and far-reaching imagination. The T'ribune says that in the movement for statehood there lies ‘‘a mighty menaco to the future peace of the republic.” The present population of Utah is stated by the governor to be 196,000. Of these quite two-thirds are Mormons, and of the Mormons perhaps two- thirds are women and children. At an outside estimate the whole number of Mormon men, old and young, now in Utah does not exceed forty-five thou- sand. Is it not justa little absurd to attempt to impress a nation of 60,000,000 people with a fear of this handful, re- latively less than a corporal’s guard, who have already upon them the check and rein of ironclad laws? We respectfully submit that this question should be determined not under the influence of popular fear or popular prejudice, but solely on the ground of what is seen to be just, constitutional, and in the inter- est of the general welfare. The peace of the nation has nothing to fear from the Mormons except so far as it may be disturbed by wordy contention on the floors of congress. Nor is it by any means certain that making Utah a stato would, as claimed by the governor, seriously interfore with its prosperity. The negative arguments on this ques- tion must be very clear, very logical and very convincing, otherwise a great many unprejudiced people may not be caught by it. Yet there is no probability that Utah will be admitted to statehood by the next congr: THE organ of the roustabouts makes the reassuring statement that by reason of its city printing contract many thous- ands of dollars will be saved to the tax- payers, The organ, however, says nothing about its fraudulent contract which Judges Groff and Wakeley had to enjoin. That contract procured by bare-faced jugglery with three bids, gave the Taylor and Rounds firm sixty cents for ten lines aggregating seventy words, whereas the price which they were finally glad to accept is thirty cents for 100 words. In a paper that has only a handful of subscribers in Omaha, thirty cents per 100 words is dear enough. Itsreduction for the benefit of the taxpayers was not voluntary, by any means. GEORGE, FRANCIS TRAIN may have been somewhat extravagant in his ten million dollar bond and subsidy project for making Omaha a city of half a mil- lion people within twenty years, but he made some excellent suggestions which should be adopted. There is no doubt that Omaha wants a grand market house, where producer and consumer can meet to trade. We want a system of parks and boulevards around the city, and mills and factories to work up the raw products which are at our doors in such abundance. Last, but not least, we want more live men, and a dozen first class funerals. BECAUSE the gamblers, the keepers of Third ward dives and the bummer element generally are rallying to the support of Lee Estelle, the Republican takes it for granted that the prohibi- tionists will support Wakeley, Doano and Groff. The BEE is not in position to speak for the prohibitionists, but we will cheerfully give them credit for good citizenship and excellent judg- ment in the line of distinction they are said to have drawn between the candi- dates. WHEN ex-Mayor Boyd read the dis- patch announcing the death of Frank Welna, register at the Niobra and office, he exclaimed, **Well, well; Frank Welna is dead. Out of all the govern- ment appointments made in Nebraska by Cleveland, he isthe only man op- posed by Dr. Miller and myself.” Ac- cording to Boyd’s version, any man who is offensive to himself and Dr. Miller is bound to incur the wrath of the Al- mighty. A RESIDENT of Lancaster, Pennsyl- vania, who has been confined in jail 208 days during the past year to ensure his presence at a trial, put in a bill of one dollar u day for his time. The court not only disallowed his bill but charged him two dollars a week for his board. Why the witness was not compelled to work out his board bill with a ball and chain and afterwards sent 1o the peniz tentiary for life is not explained. ———— STATE AND TERKITORY. Nebraska Jottings. A blaze.in o barn st North Bend cre- mated twenty-eight horses belonging. to J. R. Mallon, - " capacity as- against any factional influ- “Figures won't lie,” shouts a contem= porary. They stand up to sothe pretty tall yarns, though. D. T. Hayden, the democratic hom- inee, has withdrawn from the judicial race in the second district. Some unknown scoundrel poisoned a span of mutes belonging to Frank Krio- fels in Nebraska City last week. Platte county, after a two-year strufi- gle, has forked over $10,000 “to aid Co umbus in bridging the river there- abouts. The press of the state is unanimously of the opinion that Omaha is the proper place for the national republican con- vention. Willie Sichler, a Platte Center youth, played with a baby pistol, and now cai ies his fist in a sling. The bullet shat- d the bones of his hand. The absence of a newspaper ‘“‘trust” is explained by the McCook Tribune on the hypothesis that western newspapers are already largely run on trust. Schuyler demands more whistle and less speed from Union Pacific trains running through the town. The whir and fire of fifty mile cow trains jar on the nerves of the natives. Patrick Egan is stumping TLancaster county for the republican ticket. He has already acquired the title of “Ton.” and will doubtless graduate as a **Col.” before the campaign closes. Old residents are somewhat alarmed at the widespread increase and thick- ness of the autumn haze. They forget that the election cigar clings to the atmosphere with a deadly grip. Charles I. Morris, an Omaha printer, and August Ghem, of Chadron, broke up the Wilde family in Norfolk last week by marrying the girls. The cere- mony was a double-jointed affair. Gus Berdineah, a Syracuse jockey, tried to drive four minute plugsata 2:10 gait. The strain was too much for his head and he has been sent to the quarter stretch in the state asylum. The Missouri Pacific is building a black trail all along the line. Close on the heels of the destruction of the Omaha fair grounds locomotive sparks fired and destroyed 180 tons of hay near Talmage. The B. & M. moguls are firfug the prairies in Dundy county and wiping out the hay and grain stacks and pas- tures of the farmer: In the last two weeks 85,000 worth of property has beon destroyed. “The bunko man,” says the Butler County Press, “has more of the milk of human kindness than a coal conspirator. No bunko man ever confessed to robbing seamstresses and widows, car drivers nd street sweepers,” Charles E. Butcher, a Chicago drum- mer, took his last order to a drug store in Fremont, sampled twenty-two grains of morphine, nm} checked his grip for the other shore. Domestic javs are ac- cused of expediting his demise. Frahk Welna, register at the Nio- brara land office, had scarcely mastered the routine of his business when death called him hurriedly, His manage- ment of the interests of the government homesteaders during his brief oflicial carcer was highly commended by the pross of the district. The surveyors of the Tllinois Central are browsing n Oakland in Burt county and distributing promises of spring booms and winter building. No mention has yot been made of bonds and bonuses, and the residents are aston- ished at the omission. Mrs. Mart Holcombe, a resident of Brady Island, armed wi considerable grit, tac snakes recently and silenced forty bell ringers without a single or double scream. Her husband is a prohibition- ist and vouches for the story. Charles Terrill, of Neligh, was held up by the railroads recently and re- lieved of $201.68, the freighton a car- load of goods from a point seventy-five miles east of Omaha to Neligh. = The figures represent s magnificent long haul—three times the ratc from Chicago to Neligh. This is a moderate sample of a “reasonable rate.” The lightning calculator of Hastings figures an outlay of $189,000 for building brick in that city since the 1st of April. With 200 trowel artists this material built five blocks of two and three story business houses, or 1,500 feet of wall. The total building outlay for the yearis expected to reach $1,000,000, without a flyspeck on the ciphers. The briefless barristers—Ballou, Han- cock and Estelle—patched up their fences in Blair last weck. The Repub- lican, which denounced the ticket at the outset, has made its ‘w race with Ballou and Hancock and declines to em- brace Estelle. The Pilot takes the lat- ter in tow and sets the others adrift. George Francis Train declined an in- vitation to lecture in Beatrice and gave his reagons thus: ‘I understand that Humphrey and Stull are to addressyour people in the interest of the condemned, which I think is quite sufficient. They will be executed on November 8, while my clients live until thellth.” George is a prophet from way back. The Beatrice Daily Democrat cheer- ily announces that it has closed the first yearof its career, and displays a vigor and circulation that insures it many years of usefulness and power. To Beatrice it is a beacon illuminating the path of progress; to democracy a strengthening tonic, and to rascality in every form a terror. May its tribe in- crease. Plattsmouth proudly boasts that she has not yet made the acquaintance of the “modest plumber.” ' There is no immediate or remote danger of securing an introduction. The tribe exists in fiction only. The real live, active plumber was born with soldered.cheeks and a wrenching hand, and has persist- ently applied both to the human race since the fall of Adam. Frank Reardon, assistant master mechanic at the Union Pacific shops at North Platte, has resigned, and goes to Texas, Frank is remembered asone of the puffed pets of the Omaha shops, who was promoted to the Utah & Northern, and extinguished himself by cutting the wages of engineers and firemen without consulting the management. The knights ol} the footboard fell upon him a fow years ago and hustled him to a second-rate job as a reward for his economy. Manager Holdrege, of the B. & M., figures that the rate reduction recently made, **in connection with those made since Apr " ing into consideration the a ge rebate of 1886, will suve to Nebra: points $1,309,130.90. The re- Quction recently made in lumber of 2} cents per hundred, applied to the ton- nage of 1856, will save $111,329, The re- duction in _hard coal of 3 cents per hundred will save $18,336,20, This ap- plies to B. & M. lines alone.” Attorney General Leese has squelched the political ambition of & lady n Adams county. The gallant gentleman from Seward is a great admirer of the fair sex, and would sail adown the briny bosom of Salt creek or swim the shallow depth of the Platte to boost the beautiful. into place and power. But the constitution *“frame: by Jthe fatheis,” and u painful sense of duty, crushed his finer feelings as well as the rospects of Miss Jane Pri andidate lnr court clerk. To hold office one must be an elector, and the ladies have not been bléssed with the ballot, The snddest’ words of tongué or pen [ 4 vl T P could not paint the melancholy that an- velopes a youthful clerk in a stove store not a thousand miles from Omaha. The first faint sprouts of a moustache strug- gle, not for air but for sustenance on his upper lip. The season is a busy one, and his efforts to polish his wares and coax the fluff of infancy into maturity is 80 painful that the statuary on the stoves woep and tremble from their pedestals. And the mingling of the blacking with his upper lip procaces a combination of color and perseverance that ennobles the struggle. Towa Items. Counterfeit nickels are abroad in the state. The working girls’ club room in Dav- enport is well patronized. Farmers near canning factories in Towa have realized $20 per acre this year for the sweet corn they raised. Tho loss by fire at the Garver coal mine near Des Moines is estimated at about 820,000, the insurance amounting to $9,000. Davenport is rrnmised a gas plant which will furnish fuel for factories of all kindsat a price that will drive-coal out of the market. Although Towa is a prohibition state it has 116 wholesalers, and 8,415 retail- ers who pay a special license liquor fee to the United States. The criminal record for Scott county including Davenport shows thirty-three convictions for the year ending Sept.80. Nineteen of the crooks were native Americans. In Plymouth county both the republi- can and democratic candidates for county superintendent are ladies, The present superintendent is Miss Byrne, who is a candidate for re-election on the democratic ticket. The prohibition constables in Des Moines are becoming an unbearable nuisance. Puffed up with their own importance and contraband whisky they arrest peaceable citizens, and if one of their victims should resent the outrage the constable is rewarded with a liberal round of fees. Any private house suspected of containing a loaded jug or a case of beer is raided, the goods taken and stored in a warehouse owned by the constables, where they indulge their appetites for liquor till jugs run dry. They not only devour the captured liquor but also receive liberal fees for their vigilance. Great is prohibition. Dakota. Carrington shipped 161 cars of wheat during the month, Staging north from Rapid City is a thing of the past. The railroad is now in operation to Sturgis. ‘Various towns in southern Dakota are pressing their claims on Bishop Marty or sce city of the diocese. Some of the business men of Pierre are organizing against the prohibition- ists and hope to defeat the measure. There are 2,000 land patents lying in the Aberdeen land office that are not listed. More clerical help is needed. A convention of Dakota colleges will assemble at Brookings November & to organize an oratorical association for Dakota. Prairie yachts are the latest products of the territory. Henry K. Snedigar, of Iroquois, has invented a system of sails that he attaches to an ordinary buggy or road wagon. With his wind wagon Mr. Snedigar recently traveled n Iroquois to Huron, a distance of cighteen miles, in an hour and a half, the wind blowing only slightly. Mr. Snedigar says that when the wind has a velocity of twenty-five miles an hour, he can travel from twelve to fifteen miles with ease. IR A Plea For Hancock. PArILLION, Neb., Oct. 80.—To the Editor of the Bee: Will you kindly give expression, through your columns,to the views of Sarpy county relative to the candidacy of A. U. Hauncock for the district judgshipt While it is true that we do not accord to him that mild affability, refinement of manners and courteous disposition which characterizes the Bee and its able editor, yet we ask you not to believe nor permit your readers to believe tho charges you prefer against him of incom- petency and questionable conduct; and your accusations, too, fill the average mind with embarrassment, for, indoed, after success- fully denying' and refufing the terms “jack-plane lawyer” and “ward bum,” we are still but little farther on than when we commenced. We beg of you to know the truth, that A. U. Hancock is a scholar and a young man of rare legal quali- fications and attainments, with a thorough training and comprehensive knowledge that at once enables him to grasp details, discern facts und to analyze and clearly solve in- tricate problems and all true points involved in every legal controversy. His method re- moves dificulties. The assertion that there is not a finer student of the law in this judi- cial district than Hancock will withstand Ask Saunders and Sarpy counties, where he has taken front rank as a lawyer for the past seven years, and, we will add, inquire of the Omaha bar itselfi Re- view his record as county judge in this coun- ty, to which position he was glected irre- spective of party on account of his high qualifications for the office, and which oxpe- rience now fits him in an essential degree for the duties of the district judgeship. And he is no ‘‘ward bum.” How could he go from an outside county with_five delegates, without previous recommendation, into a judicial con- vention composed of fifty-two deiegates and be awarded the nomination, unless solely upon his merit! Did he not obtain his nom- ination fairly and manfully? And as to the “erime of being & young man” wo will say that in conformity with our institutions a man may become a member of the house of ropresentatives at twenty-five, of the senate at thirty, and president of the United States at thi five, while as to the age of a Ne- braska district judge, that depends largely upon one’s amount of brains | In conclusion we will say that the Bee, World and Herald, combining and attacking Mvr. Hancock in the manner they are because he is & “country lawyer,” is surely unjust and unfair. As a rule the best lawyors in a city are those who went from the country; and as to Mr. Hancock, he has nothing but words of praise both for his associates and competitors in this contest, and is regarded as a gentleman of high and honorable stand- ing wherever he is known. Very respectfully, James P, Grove. e el The Cholera Patients. New Yok, Oct. 20.—The following report has been received from Health Officer Smith: The Alesia’s passengers, both at Hoffman and Swinburne islands, are all well, Only three remain at the hospital, and these are entirely convalescent. The two patients from the Britannia, ndmitted previous to this date, are improving. One child, aged one year, dicd yesterday. A child of six years and Angela Salango, nged forty years, were removed to the hospital. — A Box of Bones. Emina, N. Y., Oct. 20.—A box of bones, h proved upon examination to be the skeleton of a woman, was found on a Lehigh Valley wild train this morning. Conductor Raymond says he stopped his train_just out- side of the city limits of Elmira and vhat the box was not on board then. When next he went over his train at Waverly, he found it and he concluded from this that the glms'.if' freight must have been put on board at El- mira. The General opinion here is that the skeleton came from some. doctor's .office or medical institution, 0 Freight Rates Reduced. Prrrssuro, Oct. 20.—At & moeting of the Central Traffic association to-day, rates to points on the Rock Island road between Min- cral, T1L, and Burlington, Ia., and on the St. Paul road hetween Stillman_Valley, TIL, and Davepport, were reduced 21 cents on the first thre classes and. 1 cont on the other threo, A special rate-of 24 cents was made on irou and steel in car loads. KEEP THE: JUDICIARY PURE. A Few More Words About Nom’n— ha's Nominee For Judge. . HIS JURY-FIXING RECORD. A Bad Citizen, An Unsafe Lawyer, An Unpopular Candidate, and a Thoroughly Disrcputable Man—Afdavits. AUBURN, Neb., Oct. 27.—To the edi- tor of the Ber: I came to Auburn with the designed intention of writing a let- ter in which John 8. Stull, candidate for judge in the First judicial district, would figure. I found, however, that it would be of littlo use, as it is safe to say that he will not receive a majority in any one of the five counties comprising the district. From o railrond man I ascertained that Stull’'s Missouri Pacific pass is ser- ies C. No. 636, His B. & M. pass, I have been unable to get the number. That Stull is a bad citizen, an unsafe lawyer, and a thoroughly dishonest man, I have no doubt. The affidavits charging him with so many attempts to corrupt a jury, brand him as a knave in the sight of all honest men. The affidavits on file in Nemaha county are from the best of her citizens, and there is no dodging their shocking accusations. So unpopular {s Stull in hisown county that last fall as a candidate for county, attorney, he was clected by only forty majority—almost four hundred less than Governor Thayer received. Stull made open boasts that he pur- chased votes, paying as high as five dol- lars apiece for them! Yot with all that he was elected by only forty majority! Asalawyer itis certified to by the clerk of the supreme court of the state that Stull was never admitted to practice in their court. As a lawyer he is below the average in point and abili.y, but as a trickster and crook I doubtif his equal will be found in this state. In the Hall murder case it is a matter of common notoriety in this town, that Stull, with his partners in the crime, wrecked the heart-broken and _dis- tracted mother of the unfortunate Hall. A prominent man in London precinct told me that Stull was without doubta partner in the bond cases against that same Brownville precinct, and that as an interested party and a county at- torney, he had advised the commission- ers to levy large sums of interest not altogether necossary. In London precinet I predict that Stull will not receive ten votes. The people of the First dis not afford to endorse him. In order to give one instance of Stull’s villainy,I take from the Nemaha Times, o republican papor, the following ac- count of Stull’s attempt to corrupt a jury—enough to bar him_forever from any position of lonor and trust. the aflidavits referred to in the article, and t! is no questioning the matter: JLL AS A FINE WORKER, The celebrated case of Trute against Frost and others, well known to every- one in Nemaha and Johnson countics, passed into history, and now John S. Stull must answer to the people of the Tirst judicial distriet for his conduct in that case. This suit was for $10,000 dam- ages, under the Slocum law, against cer- tain saloon men in Tecumseh, and was tried four times—twice in Johnson and twice in Nemaha—the plaintiff winning tho case in every trial. The verdict was three times sot asido for improper conduct of certain jurors sitting the caso. When the case was sent to Ne- maha county on a chan,: of venue John S. Stull was retained for the de- fense and was active in sclecting the jurors to try tho case at both trials had in this county, but was not allowed to take any part in the trial or manage- ment of the case at either trial. The defendants understood where Stull’s ability was and they kopt him employed where he could do the most good for them, and the results proved how wisely they acted. His efforts to get some one on the jury who would stand by the de- fendants in their hour of distress were s0 boldly and openly carried on that nearly everyone around the court house know it, and the scandal has ever sinco been a matier of common notoriety in nearly every part of Nemaha county. In the art of chicanery, deceit, and intrigue, Stull hus few equals in any country and his tactics in this piece of “fine” work was worthy of even his great reputation. A day or two belore the case was to be called for trial the first time Mr. Stull concluded to ap- proach the sheriff through a mutual riend and set the wheels in motion. John H. Pohlman, one of the Nemaha county commissioners, who is a very obliging man and who finds it very difficult to deny his friends any small favors he can bestow without too much trouble, called on the sheriff and said to him: “Stull wants to fix up his disputa with you and quit on friendly terms and have no more of it. You beat, him and got elected anyhow and now it$ all right and Stull would like to have you put John Renau on the Trute jury from the bystanders and if you do, anything that is reasonable and right in the matter will be done.” Failing in this scheme Stull next calls on Mr. A. L. Fry, of South Auburn, who was then employed at the court house, and requested him to see what could be done with a certain juror then sitting in the Trute case, to influence him in favor of the defendants. On April 20, 1886, Mr. Fry filed an affidavit in the district clerk’s office of this county saying generally that one of the attorneys of the defense asked him to see w should be done with one of the jurors sitting in the case and to let him know. It is a matter of common knowl- edge in Auburn, and Mr. Fry so stated it to numerous persons that the attorney reforred to was John S. Stull and that the juror Stull desired to reach Levi Hughes, of Howe, who was at that time a guest in the home of Mr. Fry. Receiving no encouragement from Mr. Fry, Stull next directs his attention to Joseph V. Graff, then an attorney liv- ing in Auburn and now practicng law at Pekin, Ill., and asks htm to see what an bo done with George W. Fablinger, hen sitting as a juror in the case. Kab- linger was & friend of Graff, and was at that time associated in business with him and occupying the same office, and on the same day Graff told Fablinger that Stull had singled him out as a juror that might be reached and cautioned him to look out. G. W. Taylor, then practicing law in Nemaha county, now in _Denver, Colo., stated publicly stated that Stull asked him to see [Fowler and find whether anything could be done ubout this Trute case before the trial com- menced. Mr, of th case, it can H. Bailey, of Brock, was one urors in “the first trial of this e April 20; 1886, he files an affidavit in the district clerk’s office in which he suys that this same John H. Poblman approached him and M: B. Raymon, another juror in this case, at the skating rink in Auburn, and during the progress of the trial and said, Are you acquainted with Grafl?—one of the defondants, and when Mr. Bailey eaid no; Pohlman said he knew him well; that he was a good man, and if this case went n‘fnhut him it would break him up, and M. B. Raymon, one of the lead= ing men of this county, will corroborate Mr. Bailey's statement., All theso manwuvers on the part of tho astute “fine worker” failed, and the jury returnod a vordict for the plaintift or 1,250, This verdict was sot aside for improper conduct of the jury, and on the second trial Stull struck his gait and gave a really fine exhibition of his peculiar powers in this line. About £ix months intorvening between the first and second trial of this case and this scandalous attempt to corrupt ‘a fury ‘had become in measure public talk around tho court house and in Auburn, and when the county commissioners come to make up the list of petit jurors for the next term of court, Sheriff Fowler and Mr. Hubbard, county clerk, were on hand to see it done; the sheriff had offered to wager the county clerk that Commis~ sioner Pohlman would name John Renau among the firet from his district for jury duty. These two well known county officials stood there and saw Pohlman offer John Renau's name as a fit man for jury duty and ho was listed and afterward drawn as one of the petit jurors, ‘When the Trute case was call for its second trial in this county this mau Renau was called in the regular order and entered the jury box with a blue ribbon tied in the buttonhole of his coat. He was regularly and closely examined by Mrs. Bittenbender for the plaintift and answered every question to her satisfaction and he was examined and acceptod as a competent juror by th fendants—blue ribbon and all. jury after a protracted struggle ro- turned a vordict of $250 for the plain« iff, and when Renau consented 1o this rdict he stated he would rather sign a $500 note. 0'The affidavits of Samuel Steirs, J, W, Argabright, W. G. Burnes and N Ada M. Bittenbender, now in the dis- triet clerk’s office, prove that John Renau showed himsell a competent juror. The aflidavits of Henry Rockaway, B, L Irwin, R, W. 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