Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 15, 1887, Page 4

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D, 1887, zschiick, Iw!n:: first duly worn, de- i ys that be {8 secretary of The Bee Putiishing e mpuny, that the nctil average dafly cireulution the Imn, ee for e Smontn of December. a1 for Junuary, 1K¥7, 16,260 r«ph- Tuery, 1887, 14, {108 coplens’ for Marc coples: for Ay 6 copies i, 14277 cople 1887, 14,147 u_‘mq, for July, 1867, 14,001 ‘for Augist, 187, 14, ‘llltnp[l-u for Sept: m her, 1887, 14,549 cople: Qutoter, e, 1450; for ‘November, &7, copies, ul GEO. B TZSCHUCK, Bworn to and subscribed in_my presence this 30 Qay of December, A. D, 1 (SEAL) THE old chestny ignation of United States Marshal Bier- bower is again on its legs. HIGGINS confesses that he is going. His political hide is pretty thick but the shafts of public disfavor to which he has been subjected scem to have found a vulnerable spot at last. Tne drought in some parts of the country, it is said, will exterminate the chinch bug. If true, this will be some- thing of a compensating element to the farmers living in the ‘“*dry belt.” A NEW county has been formed in Nebraska. It is to be known as Perkins If named after Perkins, the railway manager, there is something appropriate in it. If he does not own it now, he will sooner or later—if crops are good. Tne wooden arch on nam and Sixteenth was ordered to be taken down by the council vver a week ago. Tt is false economy to leave it until it blows down. While all lovers of art admit that it is a thing of beauty, it cannot remain a joy forever. Now look for an exodus into Canada. of New York politicians. The legisla- ture of that state is to appoint a com- mittee to inquire how much mongy was paid by candidates for judicial position a8 *‘assessments” to political parties, to whom the money was paid and who paid it. New York city is no longer the par- adise for boodlers that it once was, THe Chicago & Alton railroad made a commendable break in determining to lower the rates on lumber as well as other freight to the Missouri river. The first annonncementof thisintention cre- ated much commotion among competing lines who wished to continue the old monopolistic charges. The programme now is to put all Missouri points on the same footing. —_— THe high license law works well in Pennsylvania as elsewhere. In Phila- delphia its effects arc almost prohibit- ory. Liquor dealers are experiencing no end of trouble in finding bondsmen and the falling off in the number of saloons is unprecedented. The uni- vorsal verdict 1s that high license is the best method of dealing with intemper- " unce yet devised. EX-COMMISSIONER SPARKS in his let- ter to the president claimed that Lamar’s decision overruling his own in the Omaha railroad grant would, if adhered to, give the railrond companies millions of acres which might otherwise goto thé public. This assertion was well founded, says the Chicago T'ribune. In the Omaha case seventy-three thous- and acresare involved, but in Kansas over cight hundred thousand acres, which have been regavded as public land, may go toa railroad cornoration in virtue of the overruling decision, SucH an inquiry into the present con- dition of the civil service as Senator Hale proposes in his resolution, offered in the senate last Monday, would un- doubtedly preduce some highly inter- esting disclosures. The senator desives information as to whetherappointments have been based on merit and qualifica- tions, or distributed as partisan favors, and as to the participation of govern- ment officials in political conventions and elections, With respect to the last matter a committee would find an array of facts which could not fail to convince the country that the officeholders under the present administration have been almost as generally active and zealous as in the days when no re- straint was put upon ‘“cffensive partisanship,” and that there have been a host of sinners in this respect quite us bad as Higgins, though want- ing his courage to boldly proclaim them- selves. As to the first matter it might be a little more difficult to show that appointments have been made solely ns partisan favors, but no reasonable man can doubt that such is the case. A thorough investigation, such as the national civil service league has not been able to make, would undoubtedly demonstrate that civil service reform in practice under the present adminis- tration has been a ridiculous travesty on the theory. Postal Telegraphy. Both Senators Edmunds and Cullom have postal telegraph bills before the sens That of the former is the same that he introduced at the last session, with the general provisions of which the country is familiar. The bill of Senator Cullom, introduced Tuesday. is a more comprehensive measure. It provides for the construction of telegraph line as nearly straight as practicable, be- tween all the principal cities, and the opening of postal telegraph offices at such cities and at all intermediate points where there are first, second and third class post offices. The construc- tion shall be in charge of the engineer corps of the army, and all materials are to be of the best character. Thé secre- tary of war is authorized to make all necessary condemnations of lands and buildings, and to take and use all neces- sary machinery and devices, at a com- pensation to be determined by the court of claims in case of dispute. Rates for messages are specified, the office of director-general of telegraphs is created, and it is provided that employes shall be selected under the civil service law. The extension of the system will be sub- jeet to future appropriations by con- gress, the sum of four million dollars being appropriated by this bill to con- struct the lines it provides for. There are several respects in which this measure will need to be modified, but a discussion of them is mnot urgent at present. It may be remarked, how- ever, that the rates for messages re- quired by the bill are not such as would be likely to assure the suc- cess of government competition with existing lines, if that is intended. For example, it is provided that for news- paper dispatehes the night rate shall be 85 cents and the day rate 75 cents for each 100 words, which tothe newspape of the largér cities would not be so much of a concession as to induce them to give their business to the government, unless for patriotic reasons, and doubtless in most cases these would be outweighed by practical considerations, such as prompt and thorough sevvice, of which they would be as well if not better as- sured in dealing with private corpora- tions. The rates for commercial and private dispatches are more favorable, “but hardly so much so as to draw very largely from the patronage of the cor- porations if these should lower their rates in the territory trav- ersed by the government lines, us undoubtedly they would do unless the government could assure a better ser- vice. This feature, however, will not be difficult to regulate, and any vate that might be adopted would be simply tentative, until it was ascertained what charges were sufficient to render the system self-sustaining, which is all the government would aim to do. There has cevtainly never been greater probubility than now of congress authe & the construction of a postal telegraph system, but the policy will not fail of very considerable and vigorous opposition. One form of this, and per- haps the most formidable, is hostility to increasing the power of the g government and enlarging interference with business fairs held to legitimately be- long solely tothe people. *This hostility has been conspicuously developed in the discussion that has already been given to this subject, and it will undoubtedly appear ‘more prominently when the question shall come before congress for action. Meanwhile there will be ample time for the education of public opinion on the subject, and those who advocate the proposed policy as a necessary pra- tection of the public against telegraph monopoly, toward which the business is believed to be certainly tending, will not fail to improve the opportunity and may be expected to increase the advant- age they clearly possess. — General Van Wyck's Views. Ex-Senator Van Wyek, who was un- questionably defeated in his candidacy for re-clection to the senate by the in- fluence of corporate power, was recently interviewed in Washington by the New York Times. It is gratifying to know that the ex-senator is as vigorous as ever in denouncing the corporations of the country. In the course of the i view Mr. Van Wyek stated that while a decided majority of the western people favored a tariff reduction, he very much doubted if much would be accomplished in that line which would prove a bene- fit to the people; He does not thinkthe next presidential contest will be fought on ‘the single issue of tariff reduction. “There are other issues,” Mr., Van id, ‘‘equally important to the people, such as postal telegraphy and railroad transportation. The people huve been suffering more from the extortions of telegraph and railroad monopolics than from a high tariff. I regret that the president did not include these in his list of reforms, particularly when he was elected on the ground that republi can administrations had beon the d fenders of corporations and were re- sponsible for the waste and maladminis- tration of the publie lands. He should not have abandoned those issues until a complete vietory had been obtained. The probability is we have reached the end of land reform for the present. There cannot be dust enough raised on any tariff struggle, however flerce, to smother and keep outof view these other issues, particularly in the west. I know it is said that different inlluences surround this administration, but this is so,only in nume. You have noticed a change of attorneys and lobbyists, Democratic politicians high in the councils of their party are retained by corporations as readily as were republi- cans, and unfortunately their inflwence is being felt.” ‘When questioned concerning his views on the inter-state commerce law, Mr. Van Wyck declared boldly that there had been no relief given by the comission. He further claimed that the railroads had the law administered in their interests, and their revenues have increased. The ex-senator as- serted that the fourth section of the inter-state commerce law had been lost by the way, and been defied by the rail- rouds and the commission, and no at- tempt made to enforce it. **Great parties, the courts, and now, apparently, the commission, have been made allies to T O SN M,¢¢w THE 'OMA DAILY BEE: VTHURSDAY DECEMBER 15, 1857 | the corporations. The railroads have boldly insisted that the commission ghould help them destroy the natural highways of river, lake and ocean, by allowing them to drive out competing lines of steamers and sail vessels, and to tax by extortionate charges places outside of competing points; and all this while, under the eyesof the commis- sion, these people are bargaining illeg- ally with the Pacific Mail Steamship compuny Mr. Van Wyck claimed that the inter- state law had established two important principles, those against rebates and diserimination, but that that was the extent of its work. Heis quoted us saying: Beyond that it would be interesting to com- pare increased charges against reduced rates. Let me give you a sample. Previous to the passage of the law the rate from Chicago to Council Bluffs and Omaha was fourteen cents per hundred for coal and lumber, and to some points nearer Chicago the rate was eightecn cents per hundred. The roads obeyed sec- tion 4 of the law by keeping the short haul at eighteen cents and increasing the long haul to twenty cents, After great labor and much fecling, a concession, forsooth, was made by the railroads, and it was cverywhere her- alded that the long haul rate had been re- duced two cents, still keeping it four cents more than before the law went into effect. S0 you can casily judge how much rates have been reduced. South Omaha’s Promotion. By proclamation of Governor Thayer South Omuha has been declared a city of the second class, subject to the legal requirements and obligations governing such cities, The population necessary to attain this position must be over five thousand, and the possession of this number of inhabitants was certified to the governor by the mayor of South Omauba on Tuesday. As a matter of fact the population of the city is con- siderably in excess of 5,000, and is in- crensing o rapidly that it would not be surprising if by the close of another year it shall have reached 10,000. It has required but a little more than three years for South Omaha to aftain its present proportions, starting with few conditidns promising even moderate advancement. Now it possesses substantial and permanent conditions which assure a steady and vigorous growth of business and popu- lation, and it is by no means improba- ble that both will double within the next twelvemonth. The great pack- ing industry, ranking third in extent in the country, is not at all likely to halt it its present proportions, although more than a million hogs will be the gratifying record of the* current year. ‘There is every reason to believe that this will be largely exceeded next year, and that then the limit will not be reached. 'The continued progress of South Omaha is as well assured as that of any city in the state. In assuming the position of a city of the second class South Omaha will take upon itself enlarged municipal powers and functions, which will enable it to do agreat deal to render the city more at- tractive and to improve its condition as a place of residence. This privilege its enterprising people fully appreciate and are anxious to take advantage of. Already measures are in contemplation which, when carried into effect, will be greatly to the benefit of the city. We congratulate the people of South Omaha upon the promotion of their city, and confidently predict for it a morve rapid rate of progress than it has yet expe- rienced. Dr. Munford's Misfortune. The editor-in-chief of the Kansas City Times, Dv. Munford, was assaulted by fd Corrigan, a horseman and general sport of Kansas City, a few days since. A month or so ago Corrigan brutally attacked the sporting editor of the Times, and the injuries received almost resulted in the death of the Zimes’ em- ploye. Dr. Munford denounced the affair as infamous and cowardly, and used other adjectives ap- parently appropriate to the bject under discussion, This was Corrigan’s justification for assaulting Munford. The Times had also promised that eriminal proceedings should be in- stituted against Corrigan upon the re- porter’s recovery, and now after Mun- ford is himself again it is bavely possi- ble that the law will be called to prose- cute the ruffian. Dr. Munford has been assaulted be- fore for daring to express an opinion on other matters. In the last instance his paper treated the matter in a common- place itself in saying: The editor of the Times was yesterday as- saulted in a brutal, cowardly and unfair man- Ed Corrigan, the bully who exercised strength on a Timnes reporter with rushing consequences six weeks ago. 1 is evidontly procceding on the that with his brute strength he can ride rough shod over the reason, justice and decency of a civilized commu y. Law abiding communities certainly demand that bullies and bruisers who by violence and unlawful means attempt to interfere with a free press shall be promptly and fearlessly prosccuted us the law provides. Temperance Fanatics. A crowd of temperance fanatics are now engaged in denouncing as mur- derers Governor Larrabee, of Iowa, and the jury who acquitted Arvensdorf. In this country, when the right to trial by a jury of our peers is vouchsafed every man, this sort of prohibition twaddle can have but little weight. On the ¢ hand it will only seriously weaken ause for which these self-avowed vungelists are devoting their work. The last crank who possessed the audac- ity to implicate Governor Larrabee, also incorporates the republican party in his indictment. It was John L. Thomas, of Baltimore, who in a speech in New York on Sunday said: Governor Larrabee, of Towa, and the re- publican jury who acquitted Arensdorf should be impeached. They are guilty of the murder of Mr. Haddock, and as guilty crim- inals they ought to saffer the penalty. * Whether Avensdorf was guilty or i nocent of the crime for which he was indicted is a matter wholly of specula- tion. The jury said he was innocent. Public opinion, generally correct in its conclusions, said he was guilty. The evidence against him was strong, and cireumstances certainly implied convic- tion. Yet he was acquitted. For frantic fools to lay the murder of & good citizen at who on their od tial verdict, an and implicate 1] he door of the jurymen, rendered an impar- then go still farther governor and repub- lican party, is#othing but the vapor- ingsand balderdukh of o maudlin fanatie, who would burfithe world to execule some wild idea of which he was pos- sessed, —_———— Cancet the Contract. The paved stroets of Omaha are muddy and filthy. Som¢ report says the people may as well tak& 3t good naturcdly, be- cause th is né‘ money to clean the streets. It would require o scientist's skill to show any particular difference in the streets to-day compared with their condition two months ago. The simple fact that the money is exhausted is noticed only by Fanning & Co., who have obtained some $1,600 a month from the taxpayers of Omaha under false pretenses. To our best knowledge: and belief the streets of Omaha have never been decently cleancd by the present contractors, and we are morally certain they never will be. In any other city such a contract would be cancelled the first week. But in Omaha the authorities have allowed the treasury to be raided month after month, until the fund is exhausted and the streets are in no better condition to-day than if Fanning & Co. had not attempted to sweep them with their rake and harrow combination. The tax-payers of Omaha should file a pro- test agaiust the continuance of this out- rage. We understand that there will be money in the treasury for street sweeping purposes by January 1, and unless the contract is cancelled the same doleful farce will be repeated for another year. —_— Tur difficulties that confront Mr. Car- lisle in the matter of constructing the standing committees of the new house are numerous and embarrassing. It ap- pears that if he shall decide to follow the custom that has been long honored by observance he will give three- fourths of the committee chairmanships to southern representatives, owing to the fact that members from the south re-elected held this proportion of sec- ond places on the committees of the last house. 1t scems that Mr. Carlisle does not view this situation with favor and is contemplating the abandonment of the old plan, a course that would certainly make him some enemies, however manifestly fair and necessary to promote legislation. 1t appears that the qyestion of what disposition to make of Mr. Mills, who has & claim under precedenton the chairmanship of §§e ways and means committee, is 13 still harrassing the mind of the speallér, while the difficulty of dealing with M. Randall is perhaps the most exasperffing of all. This last cause of embarrafgment must be met at once. The committee on rules, the first to be appointed, by usage includes the speaker and the chairmen of the 'S and means and appropriations commit- tees. If Mills and’Bandall are appointed on this committee it will be equivalent to giving them the chairmanships of the.4wo principal committees of the house, while to leave them off of the committee on rules: would be vir- tually to notify them that they were not to be at the head of the committees they expect to preside over. It will thus be scen that the task Speaker Carlisle has on hand is a perplexing and delicate one, which calls for both courage and tact, but rather more of the former. . ITis apparrent to every citizen of Omaha that a hotel to cost not less than $1,000,000 should be built in this city. Such a building is already demanded. From the fact that two yearstime would be necessary to complete1t, there should be no delay in organizing the company. Scores of Omaha’s wealthiest ¢ have expressed themselves ready ibo large sums for such an ente while many others are willing to make liberal donations. It would be an easy matter to secure the necessary m 5 Let some capitalists organize stock company, and within two months the shares will all be taken. The organi- zation should be perfected, plans re- ceived and contracts awarded by early spring. It is not necessury for philan- thropists to figure in this enterprise, as the investment would pay a good rate of interest. A city of 100,000 people needs more hotel room than wo new have. AND now different cities are strug- gling in a wild desire tosecure the national democratic convention. Indi- anapolis is pushing her claims, while San Francisco will be heard from at an early day. S————— STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Reports from Logan county indicate a complete failure of the corn crop. A number of farmers in the vicinity of Columbus have formed a shipping as- sociation. Hastings is steadily gaining ground as ‘an intellectual center. A football club is the latest meéntal stimulant. The city council'6f Beatrice propose to enlarge the :whterworks and lay 21,260 feet of pipe utthe estimated cost of 819,800, The social season at Bancroft is wide open. The town :marshal attends all dances to keep the hilarious erows be- low the fighting point. The Nebraska City Times avers that the town is dm‘uluplng abrood of whole- sale liars. This accounts for the amount of natural ma shipped from the city lately. The ¢ and thematerial for the Nor- folk street railway have arrived and work was begun this week on laying the track. The electric light plant for the new asylum buildidg has also arrived. The Ku\rnn(y county Democrat has slipped a set of dgluo rollers under the state capitol and will haul it out to Min- den in a few weeks. The great danger is that the tow caulked concern will collapse the first pull, “The BEE'S foreign news,” says the Fremont Tribune, *is guowlng 10 be a very important huture of that paper's excellent telegraphic service. The Sun- day cablegrams leave little European news that Americans are interested in.” The banks of Fremont are the pride of the town. When all other interests fall short their record place her third city in the state in financial resources. The latest published statement of the three banks show & total business of 81,255,667, They hold on deposit 8643,- 831 and a surplus of profits amounting to $27,0¢ The l-‘lumnn( Tribune renews its allegiance to the political fate and for- tunes of Jumes G, Blaine and insists that people of Nebraska have an un- dying devotion for the gentleman from Maine. The assertion llml‘ Nebra: has honored herself by sending Baine delegations to the national conventions for the past twelve years” is sudly at variance with the record. Custer county comes to the front with another victim of the shotgun. James W. Rankin, a furmer, started out with asleigh and team on a hunt December Two days lator his body was found a short distance from home, frozen solid, with a double charge of buckshot through the back. The gun slipped back from the sleigh and in pulling it back to its place. muzzle foremost, it was discharged, The strangest feature of the accident s that the team stopped where Rankin was killed, and his hold of the lines tightened with death. The young man’s father was kiiled by light- ning not far from the spot where this ac- cident occured less than nine months ago. The young man leaves no family. The Plattsmouth Journal is out gunn- ing for the ‘bum policemen of Omaha, but will keep at a safo distance from their clubs. **An event occurred there Saturday evening,” says the Journal, “that will go far towa proving the Omaba police force is a disgrace to the city, ead that any war waged against it can but be a righteous cause. 1t wasan outrage pure and simple committed upon a respectable and peaceable zen of Plattsmouth by an Omaha *‘cop” who must have either been drunk or a mutton-head, for which the ¢ Omaha ought to be held responsible.” Ed Jockim, a B. & M. shopman, came to Omuha to make some purchases, and visiting the Rueland boys at nth and Dodge streets, was over- hauled by a policoman and requested to throw up his hands. The cops searched him, called for the ‘“‘hoodlum rusher” and took him to juil. Juckman de- clares he was not permitted to com- municate with acquaintances in the city and was not released until Monday morning. Jackman declares that the policemen were drunk. The case de- mands investigation and if the chargoes made are found true the policemen should be })rumplh fired. The force can find plenty of work running down the crooks of the town. without garroting penceable people. lowa Items. Des Moines has captured the Tibbles sewing machine factory. Cedar Rapids people expect to_enter- tain 700 teachers durlng the holiday meeting of the state association. A meeting of business men in Sioux City recently issued a_proclamation in favor of law. This will prove a novel reform if carried into practice. State Supevintendent Akers has is- sued a circular to the county superin- tendents of the schools urging them to De present at the annual convention of superintendents to be held at Cedur Rapids, December 22 and 30. Dakota. Charles Mix county affords ptenty of game for deer hunters. The first day of the lot sale at White- wood bloll"ht in $25.000. A petrified snake about three inches in diameter was found while blasting stone at Deadwood. The Duluth, Denver & Huron rail- rond compuny have graded the road within thirty-two miles of Watertown. The ercction of several new brick blocks at Hermosa to take the place of those destroyed by fire is alveady con- templated. John Guisbauer and Paul Kaiser, farmers living fifteen miles from Yanlkton, quarrelled over some cattle and pulled their guns. Kaiser got in the first shot, but missed the mark, and before he could draw the second time Guisbauer shot him dead. Two farmers named Grubb and Rier- don, hving about thirty miles from Rapid City, quarrcled over the posses- sion of a house Monday and resorted to arms. Grubb was shot through the heart, while Reirdon received a bullet l,hroug.h the bowels which will prove fatal. At Wyoming. There are 354,166 miles of railroad in Laramie county. Rock Springs people are making a determined effort to get the Sweetwater county seat away from Green River. The advance in the price of copper is such that it will now puy to open and work the mines at Hartville. The mines, which, when first opened, had no closer railway connection than the Union Pacific at Cheyenne, may now be reached by a six mile trip Trom the Cheyenne & Northern. Sunday morning when the Overland Flyer was a few hundred yards east of Granite Canyon, a cowboy riding a mag- nificent horse dashed between the rails a few feet ahead of the rapidly moving train, and, forcing his mount to the top of its speed reached the station a fow feet in advance of the locomotive. The second heat Monday mor was not as successful. Horse and der were thrown into the ditch, The horse was killed, but the jockey escaped with a few bruises. The report of the grand jury at Chey- enne last week created a ‘sensation of no small magnitude. Sheriff Sharp- less and his deputies were vigorously scored for negloct of duty in pevinitting the escape of McCoy, Jones and others from jail, last October, and also *‘one B, A. Hart, a man who holds the office of justice of the peace at Fort Laramie, this county, for neglect in his official duty in refusing to issue a warrant for the arrest of the persons charged with the murder of one Richard Rice on the 11th day of March last; also for neglect of ofticial duty in refusing to issue a warfant for the arrest of William Moore, who so shamefully, bratally and inhun\xmly did assault and nearly kill one Lotta Smith on or about the 1st day of the present month,” Bt Johnson Out On Bail, D. C. Johnson, who has gained considera- Dle notoriety by his alleged bogus arrest und robbery of Parker, tho highwayman, last August, has finally secured bondmen and again snuffs the air of freedom after nearl, two months’ incarceration. His bail is fixee 000, Bagnall and Lewis, the pseudo- hals, who Johnson claims, pretended that thev were deputized by the government to arrest Parker, and who robbed and ro- leased that highwa n_ during Johnson's temporary absence, are still at large. Bag- nell is believed to be in gland, Johuson re- turns to his home at Whitman the last of the week, where he will await the next session of the United States court here, Licensed to Wed, The following marriuge leénses were ranted by Judge McCulloch yesterday : ame and residenc A Louis C. Houser, Valisca, Ta Sadie Johnson, Valisca, la. { Charles Wiebeek, Omaha 1 Frida Schrader, Saunders County § Bertel Hansen, Omaha. i Louise Kaldal, Omaba The County Commissioners Probleg: At a meeting of. the county commissioners yesterday the following resolution was adopted. Resolved, That the county treasurer cancel tax on_lot 21, section 25. township 15, range 18 for the year 1556, the sume being asscsscd as an addition known s Dupont place. THE REVEREND SWINDLER. More - Facts About Mr. Browns, Otherwise Sorvis, the Forgor. HOW PINKERTON RAN H!M DOWN. He Proves to Be the Same Crook Who Beat the First National Bank of Chicago Out of $0,500. Servis the Swindler. The Bee of yesterday contained the news of the arrestof the “Rev, D, B. Browns,” otherwise Edwin C. Servis, for his swindling operations in Central City, this state, where he defrauded the First National bank out of $1,500 by means of a forged chock. The “reverend gentleman,’ it will be remem- bered, claimed to be an evangelist from Le- banon, Tenn., and he occupied the Presbyter- ian pulpit on Sunday and delivered one of the most eloquent discourses ever heard there. Then he secured an introduction to N. R. Persinger, a member of the church and also president of the First National bank, the res- ident pastor having been duped into believ- ing “Browns' " story by means of a forged letter from a brother minister. As soofl as “Brown" had received his introduction to the banker, he immediately laid his schemes to make a “winning.” He first, on Monday, with the banker a 0! draft for &,000 the First National bank of Lebanon, Tenn., and drew $1,500 in ¢ stating that he was going to bring his family to Central City. For a short time Mr. Browns was conspicuous for his absence, but 1t was not until some time had clapsed that the bank people became suspicious of the wily minis- ter and a hurried investigation followed, de- veloping the fact that at Lebanon, Tenn., no such person as Rev. D. B, Browns was known. Then came Mr. Persinger’s hurried visit to Omaha, his search for the missing man, and how Browns had eluded his pursuer, all of which was chronicled in the Bie at the time. Of the subsequent events leading to the capture and a sketch of Brown's carcer, the Chicago Herald of yesterday has the follow- ing: Mr. Persinger telegraphed the circur- stances of the case to William A. Pinkerton, who, after carefully reading over the papers that had been forwarded to him, divined at once that the wolf in_sheep's_clothing was none other than Servis al Monroe, as the means employed by the forger savored very much of numerous other forgeries committed by him in the same w Mr. Pinkerton im- sent a picture of Sorvis to Central here it was identified by the bank people us that of Mr. Browns, and the case was then placed in the hands 'of the agency for investigation. The first thing that Mr. Pinkerton did was to write to Joliet concern- ing Servis, and ascertained that the forger had been released on October 10, 1887, hav- mpleted six years' sentence for a 'y _committed on the First National of this city. A search was then made in this city for the festive Brown at some of his old haunts, and after a careful and guarded investigation it was learned that he had gone to New York. The operation was then taken up at that end, which resulted in the locating of Brown at the Parker house, where he was enjoying the fruits of his In the meantime, the requisition d been prepared and forwarded to ., but owing to some technical orror in the papers a week's delay was oc- casioned, and the arrest was not_made until yesterday morning. Servis at first strenu- ously denied his identity, but the facts were 80 strongly shown to him that he at last wilted and acknowledged his true character. The arrest was made by Sergeant Thomas Adams, of Inspector Byrnes' s and one of Pinkerton's operatives, the of whom will( start with his prisoner at once for the west. The right name of the prisoner i C. Servis. He is now about six Vi old, and though well advanced in many of which he has spent behind prison bars, neither age nor confinement has cooled his ardor in the criminal line, and he is to- day as shrowd a forger as has ever been captured. He was bornand raised in New York and during his carecr has been more or less mixed up with the various gangs of forgers that have operated in the cast for the past thirty years, He served a term in Sing Sing, N. Y., for forgery, during the early part of his life. At Waupun, Wis., he did a ar's time under the name of B. H. Morgan, s sentence expiring January 17, After his release from the Waupun penitentiary he migrated cast and was next heard of at Wetherfield, Conn., where he was arrested for forgery under the name of George W. Recd, and served two years for the offense in the Conneecticut peni ary. Upon h ment he went to New Orleans, w sumed his right name, but was caught at his old tricks and locked up, and w heard of again until he received a of eight years at Appleton, Wis. rm“uy on the First National bank of that qu in ¢ on the First Na subsequent to nis attempted forge bank, of this release from the W very cloverly worke duced himsel: gentleman w rty here. He intro 'SOIL U8 i hing to buy & valuable piece of His manner impressed the sident of the banlk v claimed that he had becu in Bur number of years and that his mot was simply in_the realty line. Soon after introducing _himself he handed Mr. Nickerson n draft on the bank of Leeds, Eng- laud, for £1,800 sterling. Aftor depositing this 'he made an excuse that he was hard money, and the next nding that Mr. Nickerson had ot wirned the clorks against, udvancing anything on the draft, he drew §,500 of the named Charles Sassman, formerly a promi- nent, candy manufacturer heré, was i ‘ ed with him. Sassman laid in jail o ong time, but was at last discharged on ac- count of his former respectability and the sickness of his fam gainst Servis for the forger ced in the hands of the Pinkerton National Detective agency, who succeeded in running him down at Am)lvlnu Wis. IPor this work he got five vears at Jollet penitentiary, and was only ve- leased on Octob oughly pracfical bookkeeper, which knowl edge cvidently aided him materially v his forge transactions. In all his work he has shoyvn consuminate skill as a contidence man and swindler, and his practical knowledge of commercial affairs made him one of the most dangerous professional fory been at large for some time past ing the fawct of his.being an f getting | o six incl ona hundred and fifty pounds, medium ¢ complexion, blue eyes, gray hair, beard, quite full ce, high forehead and straight nose. During his_criminal life” he has assumed and been sentencea under the following aliascs: IR 8. Monroo, wlias Joe Calvert, alias “Button Joe,” alias D. B Browns, alias k. H. Morg “We Poi To the *‘good name Hood’s Sursa) where it is prepared, th Hood's Sarsapit sold other medicines, and it e ride' home,” won by Tn Lowell, Mass., is mor than of given introduc- This could not be icine did not possess merit. If you suffer from impure blood try Hood’s Sarsuparilla and - realize its po- culiar curati - Mrs. M. T, Hascall, of Ogden, Utal, is in the city and will pass the holiday’s with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Altstadt. s — Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria. Whon Baby was sick, we gave hier Castoria, When she was & Child, sho cried for Castoris, When she became Migs, she clung to Castoria, When shobad Children, sho gave them Castoria. THE GREAT DENA Thisia Mado of a Well-Known Nowse papor Correspondent. INTERESTING INFORMATION. nted, a rond Contr to Invest Money Real Estato, 1 have constant requests to find ont who mak certain things, and reiterate my alroady oft-ro« quest that my reader friends, gentle or avail themselves of iy good offices wide heauatntatice fn bringdig ¢ with those who make wud om tho proverbial needls to_ the anchor—or, us the Wizard of Menlo par cently qu an elephant’s hide This weck a miner ) Pacitic slopo sends tn n wal for the bost ki miner's lamp, and allthat 1 can do is to request all who design, make or vend miners' lamps to send me any_information in this connection that they may hivve, Another one writes pleise put me fn communication wit irm to bufld me 20 miles of roflioad?™” Often, too, as to-diny, 1 volnnteer fnformation wm( hI'think will benefit others as it has my- Wil a reliable TWO CLEAR HEADS, “The pretty and sensiblo mistress of the White House and the fortunate partuer of he mhl to have between recently. thowsht how much “more' 13 meant by that ex- ression thuan at first ap) fa ston ,l 18 What way i was enough to set me fa golug on my Mobby, and I exprossed my about as follow: “Several years ugo, if you remember, 1 fo that T was getting dull and stupid, and_ seen 10 lose intorest even in my Sunday'chats; and consultation with u physfcian I found that [ Now this 18, when develnped, an t disvase, uncomfortable and disgusting, and doubly dangerous because 8o insiduous, and Tiaving necess from the general starting place— the mucs —into through the Iatter alimentary and - digostive ption given me. wlthouxh was of 1ittls use; and less of & 'nuls- r me, with my 5, my Hawkings and ex tlian 1 really was, pur- wiacly v b edlothg M o, mb zood.. B that good Sama . Palmer, foreman of the (: % Jakery, told e that he had entarrh ever sinea the war, and that he had been entirely cured several months ago, and has never had wny sign o its return since. "By his advice T was induced 10 visit the oftie 3 on, and 1 o y ¢ it ¢ Union Pucific hoadquarsers, bavid Bdens, who is proprietor of one of the most popular ro- sorts in South Omaha, in_addition to numerous other people of prominence, Liave been troatod successfully by these gentlemen's curative pow- ers, in ome instances, a large number of tu- mors, known to the meical fraternity us poly- jushive been removed. After consulting with he doctor or his assistant 1 made the trial with entire satisfuction My voice, my health and m; Haviig be wirys will rec oy treatment to my friends and the public, and I will always, in the future doubly approciate the meaning of tho expression, ' cle s being mot only g urative but literal. Tho vld dage, Mens sans in corpore sano™-—u sound mind in i sound hody— might better read *Mens sana i capite sano'— sound mind fn w cloar head.” Since my relief I wiil recommend $his simpla but effective remedy to my frieiids who muy Tave not only or s in the head, bug regular opprossi n, and they will ce taluly find o marvellously prompt and thorou 1§ eMfective reliet. I tolda® couple of gentian of ‘my experience, and they hesitated sbout ng'to his office, and as they had been mada @ by powders, snuffs, washes, douches and Qifferent’ kinds and were inclined to think unfavorably of my choice, but my exrnests ness ought to assure thom and | am Armly cone vineed that a test will convince my endorses ment. This treatment effectually cleanses the nasal passages of all catarrhl virus and even of the ausod by pungent snufs or pow- : smokc, fgnorantly used for tho of catarrh ich they wate rather cCoy tront and frric ngs of tho el and hearing, ev 1 previouse mpaired by dangerous liquid remedies. 16 bud taste and foul breath Il'r\l“h“‘ Tnstead of dying up the s s them and mukes them Drotects. th head from f treatment. CATARRH GAH BE CURED. The Successful Mothods as Used by Drs, McCoy & H The treatment for catarrh, lung t oubl, asthe patisn and other chronic diseases can plied succestully by one who hus ine and made o lite-long study of such Aisenses, Careless doctors, and those ot thors onghly ncquaint ibles are Hahle to fail, when a skilful g masters of onsumption and othur upto date. With them it {510 cxperiment At i3 uiting from bty A EE i now hronie diseas speenlation and 8 ruightforward tretament, r wteilectia wnd scientific atiain i thoroul medis tion I llowing statement regarding rs, Mos Gnd Henry is mide upon good authoritys “Ninee these eminent l,r.u.u. s have been i the west. they have treated and cured over six Unouse DOCTOR ). CRESAP M'COY, Late of Bellevue Mospital, No Yo, AND DOCTOR COLUMBUS HENRY, Late of the University of Penna Have Offices 310-311 RAMGE BUILDING, Corner 15(h ana Harncy Streets, Onmha, Nebraska. re all curable Medical dix ented with suce o umpt Tt vases ik L \1105 by mailor at office, 1. vipni Tto8 p, it attention, fully by Drs., Ve the mwils, and it iy whble to muke & jours [1 nl-lquflnlfl for tho 1 hospital treatmeit uf ney fo obtain success thelr homes. o letvars answered unless accompanied by 4c in stamps, Addrens Sll letters to Dre MeCoy & Honry, Reone 0 "aad S "1t g Bullatog ORAAR Nobraska.