Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 4, 1887, Page 4

s THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. . TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Datly Ofornjng Baition including Sunday, M mfil Months OMAHA OFFIC New YORk ING, W ABHINGTON TEENTH STIEET. CORRESPONDENCE. 4 11 communications relatin, news anc edhtorial matter should be agdres‘cd to the EiTOR OF THE BRE. BUSINESR LETTRRS All business letters and romit addressed to Tuk BEE PUBLIKHING COMPANY, OMAIA. Drafts, checks and postoflice orders to e made payable 1o the order of the company. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietors, (. ROSEWATER, EpiToR. ROOM 65, TRIBUNE D- Orrice, No. 613 Four should be THE DAIL Sworn Statement of Circulation. Etate of Nebraska, e Sounty of Douglas. Gror ], Hztehck, secretary of The ee Puls Ashin, the company, does mm”nl'v swear that g‘l'lhfl of the Dully Bee for the 1857, was as follows: actual elreul ending Oct, Baturday, ( Sunday, Oc¢ Monday, Oct. Tuesday, Oct. Wednesday, Oct, 2. Thursday, Oct. 27, Friday, Oct. 25 15t day of October, A. 1. 187, (SEAL) 2 of Nebraska, A ity of Douglas, . % iR snchugk, being first duly sworn, de- and says that ho s secretary of The Bee al averago the month Notary Publie Etate P ruary, IR, 1 14,516 copies; fo ine, 1887, 14,147 cople for August, 1 1430 coples O, B, TZS Sworn to and subseribed in 1o 6th day (If’(h tober, A. D, 1887, (SEAL. . P.FEIL, Notary Public. IRASKA CITY'S celebration was a grand success and demonstrates that she is wide awake and proposos to keep up the boom which has recently been inaugurated. — cruren HowE most emphatically de- nies that he has ever favored Chicago _as the place for holding the republican national convention; but is for Omaha first, lust and all the time. WHEN candidates for judicial honors tramp around from ward to ward with gangs of hoodlums and applaud the vilo, filthy and coarse havangues of Paul Vanderbum, they show themselves too debused for any position. They would disgrace the position of pound- Imprisonment Safor Than Hanging. Those who believe that the seven an- archists ought to be hanged assert that both justice and public policy require it. They insist that notonly should the Haymarket murders be avenged, but that it is absolutely necessary an exam- ple ghould be made, and although the admitted principal in that crime es- caped and will perhaps never be discov- ered, they maintain that the men who were his associates in promulgating their peculiar views, and who were charged with conspiring to use violence in resisting the authorities, the calam- ity bei ng the result of that conspiracy, should pay the penalty with their lives. There will always be a difference of opinion regarding the justice of the trial of these men as murderers, as well as respecting the merit of the evidence upon which they were con- victed and the impartiality of the jury that condemned them. They have never denied their opinions, or that they associated together for the pur- pose of urging these opinions upon pub- lic attention at every opportunity and at every hazard to themselves. They had undoubtedly frequently discussed the question of resistance to the authori- ties aud the methods to be adopted, which very likely included bomb- throwing. Some of them had bombs in their possession, and one of them made these deadly missiles. DBut when all this is admitted, the fact remains that the condemned men were not proven to have had any kno-.ledge of an intention on the part oi any one of their number to throw a bomb on the night of the Haymarket meeting, the man who did this having acted from his own volition, without any consultation with hisassociates at that meeting. The conviction of these men was upon the sole ground that they were parties to an alleged conspiracy which contemplated such a murder as happened. That un- der such circumstances they could be justly put on trial for their lives makes a question upon which there will always be a difference of opinion among law- respecting and unprejudiced men. But there are circumstances under which the demands of justice may be quired to yield somewhat to the necessities of public policy. This was shown in the course pursued by the government during and after the rebel- lion in numerous cases toward men who ag traitors and conspirators justly deserved capital punishment, but were permitted to escape the deserved penalty because it was be- licved public policy would thereby be best subserved. It was held then that to punish these men as they deserved, and as the government would have been keeper. ACCORDING to some of the local pa- pers the board of education proposes to erect a now school building on the high school grounds. If this is truc. the proclamation asking for bonds is mis- leading. The improssion we get from it is that the board proposes to enlavge the high school building. LAsi Monday the New York Erening Post was issue its new form, which will ordinarily be an eight-page quarto. Thus another blanket-sheet has been called in. The Commercial Advertiser still holds out and will now be the prin- cipal representation of the old-time, un- wieldy nowspaper in New York city. Tue sale of the New York Graphic has at last been consummated but the resuit is entirely different from what had been predicted. Instead of being trans- formed into a republican - paper under the new proprietorship, it will still con- tinue tosupport both the present national and state administrations, NEW York Crry’s health officers are becoming alarmed over the invasion of cholera and are considering the ndvisa- bility of appenling to the national gov- ernment for help to prevent the further introduction of the scourge. There would be no need of this appeal if the local officials had exercised: proper vig- ilance over the disease-laden ships which have already arrived. MR.EDWARD L. MERRITT has as- sumed control of the Omaha Herald in all its departments. Mr. Merritt comes to Omaha equipped with a twenty years’ avperience as manager and editor of wading western lies, and with sucha veteran journulist at its helm our enter- prising coutemporary cannot fuil to show marked improvement in every depart- ment, and become a paying property for its propritor: AN oil ner of Marietta, Ohio, who is fighting the Standard Oil monopoly and the ruilroads for diseriminating againgt him in carrying his product, has shown in court that the latter ave secret] oring the former. This par- wular vefiner may not stand much of a chance to carry his point against the leagued public vobbers,but he is doing a good work in showing up their nefuri- ous method DURING the nine months of the pre ent yoar ending October 1, 411,000 im- migrants landed in this country. For the same period last year the arrivals were not quite 800,000, This increase #s the sign of an industrinl revival among us. The manager at Castlo Gur- den maintains that the increuse or de- crease of immigration in latter years is always a trustworthy barometer of the material condition of the country. The working element in Europe is quick to respond when labor is in demand, buy remains at home when the supply is greater thun the demand SINCE the first announcement of the concessions made by tho Chinese gov- ernment for an American-Chinese bank, telephones, telegraphs and railroads, dispatches have been printed almost daily stuting that the undertaking had been abandoned, Most of the unfavor- able commonts upon the scheme have been inspired by European jealousy The latest report s that the Chinese governiient is energetically pushing the enterprise. Itis difficult to tell what the present status of the undertaking is, but it i quite certain that neither Van- derbilt nor Gould have their fingers in the pie. justitied by the practice of nations in doing, would make martyrs of them, in- tensify the hatrod toward the govern- ment of those who sympathized with them, invoke the spirit of revenge, and rotard the work of national readjust- ment. The argument was cffective and the result hus shown that it was wise. Avre there not circumstances in connec- tion with the case of the condemned anarchists which make it expedient to inquire whother public policy would not be best subserved by commuting their sentence to imprisonment for life instend of inflicting the death penalty? We believe not less than one- third of the American people, and per- ps one-half of them, will regard the execution of these men as an act of in- justice. Can it be wise to disregard this sentiment? Four-fifths of the work- ingmen of the Uunited States do not think these men were guilty of murder. Shall this opinion be ignored? - Who can foretell what may be the conse- quences of ignoring it a year, or five, or ten years hence? Can we feol assured that the great army of labor will not be more decply impressed by the silent in- fluence of these men apotheosized as martyrs to its cause than it could possi- bly be if the law’s decree halted at im- prisoument? These men will die, if they must, bravely. They will go to the gullows with no manif®station of fear and no word of recantation. What- ever else they may lack, they do not want the feeling thagthere will be glory for their names und for their posterity, with those whose honor they desire, in courageously dying for their doctrines. And it is quite possible that this feel- ing is not so mistaken or so extravagant us some may be disposed to regard it. But within the walls of a prison their influence would speedily ccase. It would in fact be inoperative at once be- yond the small circle of those who hold siwilar doctrines, for of all others who think these men should not die there is probably not one who would not approve of their imprisonment. As con- viets doing honest service to the state they would i a brief time be forgotten by the great wajority of the people, and not unlikely by some of those who have becn asso- ciated with them. They would be as entirvely incapable of further mischief as though they were dead. For these reasons we have no doubt it will be safer, in the interest of publie policy, to im- than 1o hang the condemued an- — Simply Disgraceful, John M. Thurston is & man of more than ordinary talent, but ke has for years prostituted his natural gifts to the busest of ends. Last winter he organized alobby of dead-beats, loafers, jury-fixers, and legislat corruptionists to decoy the representatives of the people into the coils of mouopoly. He dobauched the legislature with liquor, free passes and money, und tampered with the most sacred vights of the. people, Now he is on the stump debasing himself and disgraceing his pr this county for judicial candidates whom he well knows to be unfit in ey spect for judicial position. Never was % more shameless exhibition of “dzen effrontery than Thurston’s flings at the candidates endorsed by the bar, and never did a man of Thurston’s pr tensions to decency moke more reckle ussertions ns o the integrity and abil ity of aspirants who arve tramping around town with hooglums und vaga- bonds to drum up votes, We take: it that the Republican reports -Thurston correctly. We quote from its report: ‘The present outfit of district judges is the best job lot of judicial bric-a-brac ever got to- o THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY gether in one district. The tendency of m] pany tain sectional leaders to deprecate the abiliyy or eligibility of young men was severely orit- fcized. An honest, able young man will always receive the warm support of the epeaker over any groy haired pettifogger. Judicial bric-a-brac,made upot Wake- loy, Neville, Groff, and Hopewell may not fill Thurston’s ideal of the judiclary. Thurston wants somebody on the bench who will help himto rob and swindle creditors,as was done in the assignment case of Brass Band Loyal L. 8mith. “Gray-haired pettifogger” of course, refers both to Wakeley and Doane. Of course a man has no right to grow old, nor to gather experience with age. Thurston would prefer a police court lawyer or bankrupt lumber merchant and real estate balloonist to able, honest and experienced lawyers. Again Thurs- ton is quoted: A glowing tribute was paid the republican candidates—Leo Estelle, able and of unim- peachable integrity, before whom those very lawyers who got together against the repub- lican party will have to practice if they se- cure any practice. As alawyer, & man and a republican, Mr. Ballou is such aone as no one can scratch, He has equal if not supe- rior merit to his venerable antagonists. Against him the breath of dishonor has never been turned. “Unimpeachable integrity,” indeed! Does a man of unimpeachable integrity dead-béht the furniture dealers? Does he compel his endorsers to pay his judgment debts incurred by reckless living? Does a man of unimpeachable integrity hire himself out to gamblersas a lobbyist at the logislature? And what does Lee Estello’s wonderful practice consist of? Chiefly police court cases. Where has he ever earned a reputa- tion as a great lawye Among Vandervoort’s mail sacks! Ias Mr. Thurston such a low estimate of the requirements of a great lawyer, as to think that he can pick up his law knowledgo in two years’ criminal prac- tice. Ballou, the peer, as a lawyerof Wake- ley and Doane! “Never touched by the breath of dishonor!” Does Thurston take tho people of this district for idiots? Where has Ballou ever shown his ability as a lawyer, even in a petty justice court? And how about Ballou’s intimacy with that notorious swindler, Charley Banks? No breath of dishonor, indeed! How about that settlement of Ballou’s bankruptey in the United States courts? Isitnot adigrace tothe pro- fession that Mr. Thurston should stoop 80 low as to stultify his own manhood by attempting to hoodwink the newcomers in this district who are not acquainted with the character and record of the roustabout candidates whom he wants to elevate to the bench. ‘Who Are Those Endorsers? The trades-unions have publican judicial ticket. The workingmen areright. Estelle is a poor man, as honest as heistrue? No laboring man will ever have his right denied him with Lee Estelle on the bench.—Republican. This isa bold,barefaced falsehood,and an insult to the intelligence of Omaha mechanics. The trades-unions never go into politics, They have made no ticket and endorsed no candidate for any political office. Some roustabouts, who never labor except with their jaws, may have endorsed Lee Estelle and the bummer ticket. They would endorse a yellow dog for a drink of whisky. The poor man’s plea would doubtless enlist the sympathies of workingmen, provided always the candidate, who pleads poverty is an honest man. But Lee Estelle is no such man. An honest poor man will make some effort to pay his debts, or at least. treat his creditors with common courtesy and decency. But Estelle has imposed upon his cred- ulous friends and made them pay his dcbts because they had fool- ishly become responsible for them, and theso endorsers are not rich men but men who by hard work have saved up what they own. This is no cam- paign’ bosh, but hard facts. Do the workingmen of Omaha trust a man on the bench who recklessly makes debts, induces friends to stand good for him, and then makes them pay the judg- ments? g Poverty is no crime and no honest poor man should be debarred from any position he is competent to fill, but a good lawyer, if he is sober and frugal, ought to be able to earn enough to keep himself out of debt, and if he does get into debt he ought to show some dispo- sition to meet his obligations, instead of using his law knowledge to defeat creditors and compel them to gointo court to get their just dues. An honest judge is the noblest work of God. — An Imperious Monopoly. The Alaska Commercial company is one of the most grasping and imperious monopolies on this continent. It not only demands about everything that is desirable in the territory where it oper- ates, but it attempts a domination which does not stop short of the national seat of government. In his annual report the governor of Alaska vigorously ar- raigns the company, which it appears has been carrying on its policy with a high hand., He st~ 'u» that it does not confine its operat uns to the seal islands, but holds most of the Aleutian chain and the greater part of the main land as its undisputed principality. With the true spirit of all monopolies it op- presses the unsupervised natives and keeps the seal hunters in its service in practical slavery by paying them so little that they are always in debt to the company. It puts its brand on all coin passing through its hands, and will accept from the ngtives only such as is thus marked. Gover: ment officers who would not obey its behests it has boycotted and driven away. It discourages the development of the territory and has no regard for law, “This company is the successor of the Russian-American fur company which at the time of the purchase of Alaska by the United States held franchises from the Russian government. The present company was incorporated in 1870 and obtained a lease for twenty years of the most valuable seal territory. 1t began carly to extend its domination, one of the first demands upon the ‘government being that it should require its revenue cutters 1o seize sealers anywhere in Behring sow, This demand was at first refused, 'but the com- ultimately prevalled, and the policy the government was in- duced to establish in its behal! has led on to a controversy regarding our rights in Alaskan waters which is not without embarrassing features. Under the encouraging protection it received at ‘Washington the monopoly has for years managed matters in Alaska at its own will, with exceedingly profitable results. So far as we are aware it has kept faith with the government, but it has been an oppression to the nativesof the terri- tory, unless most grievously misrepre- sonted, and an obstruction to everything in the direction of development and im- provement that seemed to menace its privileges and power. It has, in a word, been a representative monopoly of the most exacting and grinding char- acter. This subject is pretty sure to be well ventilated at the coming ses- sion of congress, and very likely with the result that the contract of the government with the Alaska Commer- cial company will not be renewed. The company will undoubtedly strongly urgo that if its franchises are discontinued the effect will be disastrous to the scal fisheries, It would unquestionably be very desirable to preserve these, but certainly not at the cost of sacrificing every other interest in the territory and upon the condition of maintaining an oppressive and imperious monopoly. If such a business relation has proved profitable to the government it is doubt- ful if it has been creditable, and at all events the existing circumstances are such that a renewal of the present ar- rangement will probably not be practi- cable. ‘Wio is paying that dirty blackguard, Vandervoort, forslandering Judge Lake and heaping abuse on decent people, whose shoes he is not fit to black? Is it Ballou, or is he still supplied with ofl- room funds by the railroads? PROMINENT PERSONS. Sir Charles and Lady Dilke are having a jolly time in Constantinople. ‘While in Boston, Charles Dickens will be the guest of Mrs. James J. Field, Buffalo Bill's share of the profits of the American exposition in London was $350,- 000. Mrs. Langtry’s husband has been ap- pointed to a position in the English life-boat servico, David Hostetter, the bitters manufacturer, is about seventy yearsof age and worth £6,000,000. “Pen” Browning, only son of Robert Browning, willshortly visit this country with his bride, who is an American, Nelson Morris, the Hebrew pork king of Chicago, began life ag an errand boy, and is now worth several million dollars. M. Grevy, president of the French repub- lic, enjoys smoking a pipe, and does so when- ever he can without offending decorum. Mr. Pendleton, the American minister at Berlin, and Mr. Anderson, the American minister at Copenhagen, are visiting London. George M. Robeson, ex-secretary of the navy, is still as portly as when he sailod about in Uncle Sam’s uncertain war vessels, Ex-Congressman Washburn, of Minneapo- lis, has grown immensely wealthy as & lum- ber dealer, and has aspirations to succeed Senator Dwiget M. Sabin. Mrs. Buckingham, sister of Bishop Potter, of New York, hiis purchased 900 acres of land in California, and will establish thereon a colony of New York people. John R. McLean, the wealthy proprietor of the Ctncinnati Enquirer, spends very little of his time in Cincinnati. He hovers between New York and Washington. Congressman George West, of Ballston, said the secret of success in any business is strict attention to work and promptitude in allthings, Te began life in a paper mill,and is now worth his millions. James C. Flood, the bonanza king is re- ported to be at death’s door. He has not re- covered, and probably never will recover, from the shock incident to the great wheat corner and the Nevada bank troubles. Governor Beaver, of Pennsylvania, and several members of his administration aco about to purchase a large tract of bitummous coal land in Clearfield county, Pa. It ro- called that Governor Beaver vetoed the 10 per cent store-order tax bill, Another town has been named after Post- maste neral Vilas. As far as the present administration is concerned, the name of Vilas has been conferred on the largest num- ber of towns, while the name Cleveland stands at the head of tne list as regards babies, R Sy It Affects Even the Cattle. California Alta. The cattle in Ohio are dying of blackleg. They must have caught it from the politics of that state. e 0OA Flag With eral Translations. Boston Post, There is always trouble whenever red flag is run up. pox or anarchy. —_— The Encyclopedia is Tabooed. Rochester (N, Y.) Democrat, Tt is a matter of congratulation that the president’s Thanksgiving proclamation con- tained no quotations from the American Ency- clopedia. the It means auction, small- —— A Prevalent Impression. Norrvistown Herald, It is stated that electricity will put a piano out of tune. Some of the pianos in town, judging from their tone, have been struck by lightning. Everything the Same. Brooktyn. Eagle, v, Johnnie, suppose your father has an income of §5,000 a year from his busine: He spends $2,000 for your mamma's clothes, $50° for his own clothing, and $1,000 in miscellaneous expenses, How much will he have at the end of the year? Johunie (after mature deliberation)—$11,000, Teacher—$11,000! You don't seem Yo know your arithmosic. Johnnie—Well, I know pop. He's a Naldermaa, he is. Ll DL Gentleness to the Erring. Lillic L. Hopkinson, Think gently of the erring; Yo know not of the power ‘With which the dark temptation came 1In some unguarded hour. Ye may not know how carnestly They struggled, or how well, Untill the hour of weakness came, And sadly thus they fell. Teacher—Nos Think gently of the erring; Oh, do not thou forget, 1 r darkly stained by sin, He is thy brother yet, Heir of the sclf-same heritage, Child of the self-same God, He has but stumbled in the path “Thou hast in Weakness trod, Lo J.J. Cummings, formerly connected with the stationery department of the Republican, has returned to- the city after some months’ absence, NOVEMBER 4, 1887, STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Pawnee City’s new foundry is already crowded with orders. The new Trinity Lutheran church at Norfolk will be dedicated next Sunday. The coal mining industry in Omaha has developed several able-bodied bores. 1t is estimated that 5,000 head of cat- tle from Iowa will winter in Wayne county this year. Hastings has a choice of thirty-two trainsa day. The metropolis struggles along With one train, An amazing feature of the present campaign in interior counties is the number of editors who have felons under their thumbs. The Weeping Water Republican is convinced that the B. & M. will build from Ashland through that town to Ne- braska City, and thus parallel the short line of the Missouri Pacific. ‘I'he Hastings Gazette-Journal sports a corn-cob pipe upon which a potato has been gmhu(l. Y!: is considered the rarest jewel in the shop, as the heat of the pipe reduces the tuber to a pasting consistency. The slack-burning locomotives sent out from Omaha to the mountain divi- sions of the Union Pacific do not inject much enthusiasm into the railroad boys. While 672 was in Cheyenne the other day, the only feature that attracted ad- miration was the struggle of the engi- neer, Fatty Harris, to squeeze his ex- tension front into the cab. “An unfortunate mistake occurred in last week’sedition,” plaintively mutters a Custer county paper. “We referred 1o Mr. Takem, candidate for sheriff on the republican ticket as a ‘rough hewn diamond.” It should have been ‘ruf- fianly demon.” We trust our readers will forgive the mistake and extend their liveliest sympathies to the widow of the deceased compositor.” Towa 1tems. Fort Madison revels in a fresh brass band, a native product. Burglars burgled the jail at Emmets- burg recently, Even the police are not sufe. The Ottumwa police made forty-six arrests during October—twenty-six for drunkenness. The Atlantic cannery with a record of 1,200,000 caus of corn, coldly invites rivals to “‘cob and see me.” Dubuquers propose to have a high old time on the 23d, at the opening of the high bridge. The elevating stuff is there. Sioux City enthusiastically points toa directory population of 30,000 and invites Des Moines to give up the frout pew in the procession. A farmers’ excursion from Osceola to Des Moines Monday took the state house hg’ storm. There wasa whole car load of the happy people from Clark county; aged ndfathers and grandmothers with whitened locks and tottering steps, settlers from way back, loaded with stories of the joys and woes of the pio- neers of 1830 and 1840; brawny youths and maidens rosy as the morn who, in spite of their youth and strength, were still unable to keep up with the aged, but lingered along in duets and quar- tets, and last, but not least in number, were the little boys and girls. Dakota. The value of the school property of the territory is about $3,000,000. The grading on the Duluth, Water- town & Pacific railroad from Watertown to Huron is nearly completed. ‘W. H. Phelps, of Sioux Falls, brother of Minister Phelps of England, though seventy-eight years old, has just opened a new tailor-shop at Sioux Falls. The Methodists have stone on the ground for the foundation of their new church at Claremount, which will be pushed as rapidly as possible. The Methodist conference which has just adjourned at Aberdeen decided to take full charge of the university at Mitchell and make it the educational center of Dakota. The report of Immigration Commis- sioner McClure gives the following statistics of territorial products: Of wheat there was seeded 8,818,754 acres, which yielded 62,553,499 bushels; corn, 608,807 acres, 24,511,726 bushels;* oats, 1,172,289 acres, 43,267,478 bushels; rye, ,586 bushels; barley, 6,400,568 bushels; buck- 79,230 bushels; flax, 412,741 ac 3,910,944 bushels. A table of comparative analyses published shows that Dakota wheat leads the country in points of dryncss and richness in albuminoids, the great desiderata for flour making now. In 1880, the value of all farm products in the territory amounted to $5,648,814, and at the same time the value of live stock in the terri- tory was $6,4¢ In 1885, five ycars later, the value of farm products had in- creased upward of seven-fold, and amounted to $36,808,181, while the value of stock had kept pace, and reached the total of $40,628,897, Wyoming. The chemical works at Laramie are running day and night. Work has begun on the Burlington round house in Cheyenne. Tracklayers on the Burlington exten- sion are expected in Cheyenne next week! A rmy of workmen are putting the finishing touches on the interior of the capitol building in Cheyenne. The completion of the building will be sig- nalized by a grand “house warming.” Cattle shipments from the te will be unusually large this year. were 2,479 curs shipped over the Union Pacific up to November 1. It is esti- mated that by the end of the month the total will reach 8,500 cars or 62,000 head. FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT, ,155 ac wheat, 5,7 11 Broady's Election Generally Con- ceded. Te Nov. 2.—To the Editor of tk The fight in the narrowed Stull and First judicial district has down to a contest between Humphrey. It is conceded on all hands that Broady will be elected. Stull is aft Humph- rey, and Humphrey i ter Stull, That Stull should be beaten all admit —but the question is: Would it be bet- ter to clect Humphrey and defeat Stull —or elect Stull and Broady and defeat Humphrey? There are scores of honest men who think that Humphrey should be de- feated at all hazzards, But the plain matter of fact proposi- tion Is it policy to ®lect two notor- jous incompetents us judges in the First district, such as Stull and $lum- phrey undoubtedly are: Stull is not the ‘man. Humphrey is cortainly not a fit person to clothe with authority toadminister justico in any B. F. Perkins, a lawyer of rich and recognized gifts of u «f and a citizen of undoubted integrity, informs me that Humphrey told him that if he was elected, if Perkins would vote for him he would decide cuses in his (Perkins’) favor! What kind of a man would this make for judge? Trying n case—rendering a verdiet, before the testimony was in, even before the case was entered upon tho docket? Do the people want to baror away theirrightsin thismanner? Mr. Perkins not only told me this, but he also related the same story to Hon. J, A. Dillon, Mr, Chamberlain, and oth- ers in Tecumseh. The time is now at hand when voters must cease to cherish their blind love for party. They must offer a rebuke to conventjons controlled by tricksters, es- [mciullg when the judiciary is to be peddled out to party spoilsmen, Broady and Thomas would mako hetter judges, and if the people do their duty, they will vote for them to a man, 1t required no great strain of con- science to vote against Colby in '83. The same proposition is again before tho people. “Shall we keep the judiciary pure?” by electing clean, capable men, or shall we disgrace that oflice by giv- ing to blatherskites and dishonest men the judicinl power? Tho question is plain. Let the voters answer it. AL FAIRBROTHER. g HANCOCK OF SARPY. A Few Questions for the Honorable ‘Would-Be Judge. SPRINGFIELD, Neb., Nov. 8.—To the Editor of the Brr:—Will you ask Mr. A. U. Hancock the following pertinent questions: Mr. A. U. Hancock, did you or did you not send an execution out to Springfield and collect all the costs in the Blackwell & Wagner liquor suits of the bondmen? Did you or did you not tell 1. J. Smith that all the cost was not paid in when he presented an order for fees of J, W. Marshall and A. Morrison? Did you or did you not tell Sam Statzer that thore was $4 coming to him in the above suits and did you not toll Sam Statzor in the presence of Myers and Spetman after the costs wero paid that thero were no fees paid in for him, but you would pay him $2 out of your own pocket? Did you or did you not tell Andy McClain ‘that there was but 85 coming as fees in the above suits to him and pay him 5 and did you not afterward send Andy McClain $2.50 by C. Oxley saying that you paid it out of your own pocket, and” when urged did you not pay him another dollar to square his claim? Did you not assess the bondsmen to costs i were not earned, several of the witnesses not being in court or even in Papillion the days that the suits were called, and did not the sheriff tell you that he gave a receipt in full for costs? Now if Mr, Hancock is honest why did he not pay the witnesses their fees in full when called on? _And if he is capable for the office why did he illegally assess and collect costs that were not earned? W. C. RoGERS. e JUDGES AND CLERKS. New Elcction Ofiicers Appointed By the County Commissioners. The county commissioners yesterday ap pointed the following named judges and clerks of clection: CITY OF OMATA. First ward, first precinct—Judgos: Glenn, Patrick Lally, Ed Lindle: John Hanum, P, E. Devitt. Second p —Judges: Charles Kaufman, Patrick Bail C.C. Thrane; clerks: B, H. Long, Drexel, Third preemct—Judg fleld, Henry Mathieson, W. Maroney Oscar F, Goodman, D. McCoy Robert Second ward, ' first precinet—Judees: James Donnelly, sr., Mat Brady, K. W. Bar- 108; clorks: Phomas Nolan, W. C. Kelly. Socond precinct—Judges: James B. Calla- han, John Arndt, John M. Arnout; clerks: avid Mahoney. precinct—Judges: F. W. Roach, D. C. Hurley ks Richard C Second W. H. Gunsolus, J, Der- mody, Sandy Forb Ed McGiun, Fourth Ward, J. Potter, J. H. clerks: John " Liston, rst Precinct—Judges: A. orsyth, P. 1. Allen; ks: Charles Hunsinger, Phillip Andrews. Second precinct—Judge John Moss. W. P. Welch, Charles Landrock; clerks: Charles Crary, C. C. Field. Fifth Ward, Fi Charles H. White, 't — Judges: B. Cleveland, D. T. Scott; clerks: Harry Hofftman, James Ken- nedy. Sccond precin Frauk Friday, Robert McConne Bender; clerks: James McCabe, s Sixth Ward, First Precinct—Judges: B. Bell, Frank Sisstrom, E. R. Wiggs; olerks: W. A. Grant, W. A.' Golden. Second_pre- cinct—Judges: 0. C. Ludlow, W. G. Hen- shaw, George McKenzlo; Joseph Henman, F. W. ' Sescntine, Seventh Ward, First Procinct—Judges: P. W. Birkhouser, O. P. Seward, T. Galla- : G. L. Dennis, C. A. Potter. Second Qrecinct—Judges: A. S. Ostrander, . J. Quealey, A. H. Schuman; clerks: S. B, Baker, J. T. Evans. Eighth Ward, I C. Morgan, W U clerks: t Precinet—Judges: F. W.' S. Curtis, J. C. Thomas; 3, Balcombe, W, G. Doane. dges: W. W. Keyser, W. R. roedor; clorks: W) M. J. ' Andrew Smith. Ninfh Ward, First Precinct—Judges: W. S. Marr, Robert E. Stein, John V. Patterson J. McShane, Charles Huntington! Second Precinct—Judges: S. S. Van Buren, Charles J. Ryan, Hy D. Neolin; clorks} Thomas Ledd, Charles F. Taggart. SOUTIL OMAIIA, First Ward—Judges: Frani Boyd, Lyman Carpenter, William Lamberton; clerks: E. C. Lane, J. R. Townsend. ceond ward—Jud, J. Baldwin, J. Lev, Stearns. Third ward—Judges: E. Brayton, S. B. Feuno; clerks: Thomas Ryan. Union precinct—Judges: G. Gilmore, Pete Hiler, R. M. Twaddell; clerks: William Lonergan, ¥, H, Hibbard. Jofferson precinct—Judges: H. O. Timme, P. Mungold, William Johuson. clerks: John r. udges: W. . Parker, J. Persons, A, W. S. Cool, S. idy, J. A rank Lake, Clenker, M. Cronem Florence precine M. L. Peck, G. V. Shipley: clerks: H. Tay- lor, John Hall. Chicago pricinct—Judges: H. A. Nolte, Gus Bierbach, — Whitmore; clerks: D, W. Canon, Alex McKenzie. Millard__precinet—Judges: Harry Luik, William Van , Julius Schweder; clerks: Honry K “ohn Miller. Waterloo precinet Lou_Denton, wmiel Jordan; clerks: John A. Clem- Sutphen ; Omaha preci Hamilton Martin, D. \ ents, clerks: Chauncy Howard, Charles D. Suth- phe Skhorn precinet—Judge Phillips, John Ludley; ¢ orge Sehafler. o Judges: A. Perry Harrier, T. J. Tome Mitehell, Samtiel Van Sy Douglas precinct—Judges A. Walcott, rks: James Ageo, ; clerks: John . D. Melis, Hible: ard, Pete McCaftery. MeArdie pr ulizes : Charle vy John MeArdl Allen, James Me kett; clorks Mourning For Dyer. Various Omaha business firms and indi- viduals mourn the sudden and unexpected disappearance from the city of one P. M. . a well known character. The Dayton house knows him to the tune of $200, Hill & Young §75, und scores of others in amounts anging from $1up. That he las gone for dupes question, and it is in- | yer and his wife have located in | lis. " Dyor had an intevest in a par- | ¢ expross, und his oftice wus in the cel delive exposition building st a constable levied on the ofti iture, but before he could remove it v an interfered und polic checked the operations. Trouble is mised between the two branches of the law over | the matter, Locked the Puir Up. Last eveuing, as Mrs. John Hoar, wife of one of the proprictors of the Metropolitan | hotel, was preparing to leave their privato | room on South Twelfth stregt for supper, sho discovered two suspicious looking char- acters crouched down in the hall. Retaining possession of hor composure the lady quietly tral polico_station, where th “nm names as William and Juhn&{ rlu be given a chance to explain this morn- ng. AMUSEMENTS. Ida Siddons' Barlesq: Company at the Grand 1 Night. Owing to the late arrival of the company's baggage, the curtain at the Grand opera house last night did not rise until'9 o'clock. The interim, or a large part of it, was whiled away by the diligent and entertaining efforts of tho Musical Union orchestra, p T'he featurcs of last night's porformance were the club swinxhlf of Jennio Lamont, the rope-skipping of lda Siddons and the acrobatic act of the thr . All of these were warmly appreciated. Two mem- bers of the company, Misses Adams and Lewis, do the singing. The former has a voice which ought to have employed In a noblor branch of the business, while the voice of the latter, though agreeable in some of ite notes, is distinguished more by noiso than sweetness, These women carry the troupe, The others attempt to sing but fail. In the closing pi “‘Venus and Adonis,” stupidity was the prevailing characteristic, and some of the jokes were positively dirty. With two, possibly three exceptions, beauty in the troupe is an unknown quantity. Two Small Blazes. A firo Lroke out yesterday in the shoe store occupied by Feeney & Connelly, on Six- teeuth stroet near Webster. On the alarm being rung tho fire department wero soon on the spot but found that their sorvices Yuised o window, and asked @ pedestrian to call un ofticer. Policeman 13rady responded, wud the two intruders were taken to the cen- were not required, as tho blaze had already been extinguished. The damage done is merely nominal. About 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon the fire department was called to the corner of Eightoonth and Clark streots by a fire in a shed belonging to O. Sclden. The damago done was slight. ~Children and matehes were the cause of the blaze, Army Notea. Licutenant Woodruff, of the Seventh in- fantry, is in this city on his way back to Fort Pilot Butte. Fort Duchesne,although onc of the youngest forts in the country, has been afflicted with a couple of disastrous fires, which found the garrison il supplied with moans of fighting the flames, Yesterday a small hook and ladder truck, intended for the place, was re- ceived here' and promptly forwarded to its destination. It may bo easily handled by a small force of men and contains lndders long enough to reach the highest buildings in the grounds. Satisfiod Mr. Hammond. The three years' lease held by Mr. George Hammond. of Detroit, Mich., the son of tho late George H. Hammond, of the packing house at South Omaha, expires on the 24th of this month. Mr. Hammond has beon in tho city for several days to negotiate for the purchaso of the plant, und yesterday ap- praisers settled on its value to, it {s g under- stood, the complete satisfaction of Mr. Ham- mond, who in the evening left for Detroit. The buildings are at present owned by the stockyards company. A Home For Young Ladies, Yesterday the home for young ladics at No. 1910 Dodge street was formally opened, and a number of misses took up their abodo there. The institution promises to becomo popular ut a bound. Personal Paragraphs. J.C. Birney, of Crete, is in town. E. G. Gilbert, of York, Neb.,is at the Paxton. D. W. Jones, of Red Oak, Ta.,isin vhe city. G. W. Ballentine, of Denver, isin the cit; S, C. Wilson, of Lincoln, Neb., is at the Millard. G. B. Gardner, of Troy, N.Y.,isat the Paxton. G. J. Patek, of Kansas City, is n guost at the Paxton. H. H. Shedd and wife, of Ashland, are at the Millard. 0. J. Coleman, of Broken Bow, Neb., is in the city. Mrs. C. M. Beason, of Glander, Wyo., is at the Paxton. . G. H. French, of Boston, is visiting friends in this city. Mr. Ricard, of Paris, France, is reg- istered at the Paxton. Mrs. J. G. January, of New Orleans, La., is at the Paxton. F. W. Meyer and wife, of Los Angeles, Cal., are at the Paxton, F. N. Myers and wife, of Los Angeles, Cal., are at the Paxton. N. H. Cr of Kaneas City, isin the city on a business trip. Governor Morris, of Douglas, Wyo., is registered at the Millard. E. Day and wife, of Weeping Water, are quartered at the Paxton. Francis Woodbridge, of the United States army, is a guest at the Paxton. Dr. G. A. Bowers and wifo, of Mit- chell, D. T., are registered at’ the Pax- ton. ‘W. Chamberlain and wife, of Wood ivor, Ncb., are registered at the Mil- ancis Woodbridge, of the United States navy, with his wife, isat tho Paxton. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Schoonmaker, of Troy, N. Y., are in the city visiting friends. A. H. Marsh, of Fredonia, N.Y.,is in the city and scoms to think that Omaha real estate is a good investment. The following Chicagoans are regis- tered at the Paxton: J. R. Harvey, C. C. Hoefer, S. S. Lithgard and A. O. Davis. Among the prominent New Yorkers registerod at the Paxton are tho follow- ing: F. H. Carpenter, E. Q. Croeraling, True Parsons, Thomas E. Mitchell and I'rank Klein Frank Mc ented young d helim, brother of the tal- amatic critic of the Chi- cago Tribune, and a former attache of that paper, is in the city. He is now representing the large furniture firm of Bubman & Hansen, Chicago. Judge C. S. Cary, of Olean, N. Y., is Millard, The judge is one of the ing democratic warhorses of west- York, andis credited with having a great deal of influence with President Cleveland, Mr. Cary is look- ing the city over with a view of pur- chasing veal estate. Mrs. P. ¥ Stephen, of this city, for- known on the stage as Marion returned from a _visit to all the entertainments reeently given in that city shortly before and after the presi- dent’s visit. She also had the pleasure of meoting Mr. and Mrs, Clevelund, . — = orge N. Cross, of Norwic] has what he enlls a bearded pebble. 16 camo from Crown Ledge, near Nan- tucket, is about as large as a hen's egg, and on its smooth surface is o muss o filaments that resemblo |m|hin[3' 50 much as a hair. The stone has been out of the water for ne A8, and yet the hairs, which are over an inch long, look vigorous and lifolike. It is said that a Massachusetts collector has one of these stol hat hus beén out of the water for rs, in which time the hairs h G - A jar eantaining two hunds preserved in alcohol eaused considerable excite- ment in a St. Louis saloon recontly, The barkeeper says that about four weeks ago & young mun, well dressed, entered the saloon and asked permis sion to leave a paper puckage until noxt day. When 1o one came for it the bars ceeper undid the paper and found the pickled hands. A patrol wagon ree moved the jar o the worgue,