Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 17, 1888, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCPTPTION, hnflyr\!nmlnu Faition, in-lucing ¥, One Year . . onih. 3 lny Drx, mn!l aq lnun) ad- CORRESFONDE NCE, ANl communications relating to news and editorial matter. should be & dresscd to tho EDIToR 0F THE BE BUSINESS LETTERS, All business lottors and remittances should bo nddressed to THE BEE PUBLISHE G COMP LY, OxiA Drafts, checks and postofh 1018 10 be made payable to the order of the company. ‘The Bee Putlishing Company, Propristors, E. ROSEWATER. EDITOR, THE DALLY BE Bae Pub- ear that the « lehing com o the week netual circu ending Jan, Faturds -\lunduy, i, an, 10/ GO, Eworn to and subseribed in my 14th day of January, A. D., 154, Notary Dublic. Rtate of Nebraska, 3 8 County of Douglhss, %8 Geo, B, Tzschuck, being first duly &worn, de- l)lm«nnl\ says that he 1 secretary of ‘The' Tieo u ling comp llll\{ daily circulation of ty 16,29 co) : for March, 7 copless ugeust, 1847, 14, 49 coples:’ for October, I8€7, 15,2 cople B. TZSCHT fworn and subscribed to in zy 2d duy of Junuary, A. D. 148, N, b, p A iteber, 1867, 14 23 Tue anti-monopoly mes of tho governor of Towa has caused more stir in the Hawkoye state than did the mes- sage of Grover Cleveland. —_— THE prospects for opening the Sioux reservation are said to be encouraging. If it is opened let us hope this will bo a step toward making good citizens of tho Indians without killing them. age It is to be hoped that tho two factor- ies destroyed by fire on Sunday morning in this city will be speedily rebuilt. Omaha cannot afford to lose a single one of her established indu CONGRE! NTHER, of Wis- consin, proposes to make himself a modern “Jack tho ginnt-killer” by nt- tacking the trusts of the country in a legal wa, 1f he is as successful he will immortalize himself. Tie railroad organists over in Towa are very much incensed at Governor Larrabee because ho has changedon the question of regulating railroads, and they want to know the reason why. Well, wise men change, fools never. FLORIDA papers are boasting of the “‘eternal spring” which breathes over that elongated state while blizzards are raging in the north, They say nothing of the eternal fevers that lurk in the swamps or the eternal spring sickness that afflicts their population, however. THE present year thus far has been as prolific of railroad accidents as was the corresponding period of last your, and nearly or quite as disastrous to human life. The car stove is in _le general use than a year ago, but it” has already had its victims and the winter is but half passed. will draw no more of the people’s money from the national treasury. Ho stepped down and out yesterday, and is now a private citizen. It is to be hoped that he will now be al- Jowed to sink into well-earned obscur- ity. The country has heard enough of him. THE San Francisco board of educa- tion recently transferred a lady princi- pal of one of the grammer schools to another and less desirable school and lowered her salary. This was done while she was absent. When she re- turned she refused to accept her new chargoand was subsequently dismissed by the board. She brought action to compel them to reinstate her and was pustained by the court. This isan in- structive precedent. One of our country exchanges ex- presses great regret that Attorney General Leeso has resigned from the state board of transportation. The at- torney general has done no such thing. He could not retire from the board if he would. The law makes the attorney general amember df the board, and he will remain o member so long as he continues to be the attorney He has simply resigned the p ') of the board, because he did not want to act in that capacity. THE middlemen, in those branches of trade where combination is easily prac- ticable, may wholly defeat the advant- age which consumers should gain from a regulation of transportation rates in their iunterest. The truth of this is illustrated by the coal dealers of Lincoln, and very likely other examples could be found. Generally compe- tition is a sufficient means of regulating the middleman,but in the present situa- “tion of the conl market, thanks to the anthracite pool, he is enabled to have things pretty much his own way. The people are certain to have their inning sooner or later THE farmers of Nebraska are warned Ly the state horticultural society to be on their guard against the tree peddler from abroad, who may be expected to make his appearance at an carly day. He is a shrewd, persevering and plaus ibie individual, always fully equipped with the means to allure the confid- ing farmer, and should be entertained with great caution and sparingly heeded. Wide-awake people will rarely be taken in, as there is very little difii- culty in determining who are trust- worthy and who are not. The horticul- tural society makes suggestions regard- ing improvements in fruit growing and the continued planting of fruit. trees which should command the attention of inrmers, ! national convention THE OMAHA DAILY BEJ} TUESDAY, JANUARY 17 1888. Conspiring Against Cleveland, The Washington' correspondents of il castern journals profess to have overed a gtrong conspi to defeat + renomination of Cleveland., They represent that o combination embracing ominent demo in & number of ites has been formed, the sole of which is to antagonize the president, work up opposition to him within the party, and the war info the Among those said d with this sceret move- or Gorman of Maryland, wn of Georgin, Scnator Vineo of North Carolina, Senator *herson and Congressman MeAdoo of New Jersey, Samuel Randall and others. It is intimated hy so spensible an authority as the 'w York Zimes that Governor Hill is unot unaware of or unfuvorable to thue conspin e grounds of opposition are that Mr. Cleveland has been un- faithful to the pledges made hefore his election with respect to apnointments, that he had arrogantly assumed to act for himself without const ng the opin- ions and regordicss of the wishes of the men who me largely contributed to his election, that he has interfored in state politics for the purposo of over- throwing democ ic leaders, and fi- nally that his civil servico reform and it polic re mimical to the wel- fare of the democrati There are som- facts that give credi- bility to this alleged movement 3 tor Gorman 1ce his men i Thomas have dropped out of fede sitions, has visited the white houss once, and then only to decla pleasure and announce, so it determination not to support Mr. land for renomination. The speech of Senator Brown the other day in the senate, in favor of repealing all internal taxes and leaving the tari i a deliberate attack on the puh y coun- seled by the president. The introduc- tion in the house by Bourke Coc the Tammany orator, o the civil service law, was a palpable blow at the administration, and of course has the cudorsement of tho political organization of which the author of tho bill is the especial pot and representa- tive. Mr. Raudall is reported to still keep clear of the white house and the departments, as he hus done for more than a yeur pust, and he is known to be making a vigorous effort to secure for his friends the control of the demo- cratic state committee of Pennsylvania, with the obvious purpose of himself con- trolling the delegation from that state in the democratic natios convention. Putting all these things together it is not difficult to give a measure of cre- dence to the report of a movement to defeat Mr. Cleveland for renomination Would su a movement. be likely to accomplish anything? Has not the democrati party gone so far in committing itself to the renomi- nation of Mr. Cleveland that it cannot now abandon its allegiance to him with- out inviting certain defeat? We do not believe that it is now possible to pre- vent nis renomination. Our opinion is that the office-liolding element and the conservative members of the party will stand together, and that they will be strong enough to carry the conven- tion for Cleveland. The opposition may be able to command some votes for another man, but the renomination of the president on the first ballot; if not by acclamation, may as well be accepted as a foregone conclusion. But what of the election? Then will be the opportunity of the democratic op- ponents of the president, if they have the courage to take advantage of it. There is no doubt thut if they should prefer defeat of the party to the vindication that Cleveland would re- ceive from success, with the strong probability that his last four years would be distinguished by a more offensive ar- rogance and assumption, a more utter disregard of pledges, than arve the grounds of present opposition, they could effect the result of their choice, The disaffection of a few thousand dem- ocratic voters in New York, most easy of accomplishment, would do it. But would the alleged conspirators have the courage to do this? Very likely they would not. 1 purpose to be identifl The Future of Wyoming. In his last report the governor of Wy- oming presents many facts showing the material progress of that territory dur- ing the past year and the conditions that give promise of a future of rapid growth and almost boundless prospe Embracing an area as large as the New England states and Indiana combimed, this territory has a wealth of undevel- oped resources believed to be unsur- passed in any equal aren on the globe. The opening up of these nutural riches has been steadily advancing during the last few years, every step demonstrating the vastness of the resources that await the application of eapital and labor and the facilities to make them readily available in the world’s markets, The want of the latter has been the obstacle toa more liberal employment of the former, but this difficulty has been largely removed and will at an carly day disappear altogether. From now on Wyoming, offeving the strongest in- ducements to enterprise, isas well as- sured as any portion of the west of a rapid growth in population, industrial development and material prosperity. The advance of the railroads into Wyoming has already been a gr stimulus to the progress of territory, and this effect unquestionably be still more apparent during the present and succeeding years. The extension of the Burlington and Northwestern systems through the Black Hills and into the Laramie plains penetrated a region among the richest portions of the te tory. The Burlington reaches Chey- enne, and the rthwestern has been extended through the heart of Wyoming to Fort Fetterman. This year the latter system will be further extended, by con- nection with the Central Pacifie, into Utah, which has also become the ob- jective line of the Burlington. Thus there will be three competing trunk lines opening upa vast region herctofore the will innccessible to civihzation and indus- trial development. The Union Pacific, n order to hold its own agiinst its pow- erful rivals, is building branch lines and feeders into the vegion already pen- etrated by the Northwestern. With such enlarged railway facillties Wyom- ming will witness a new era. Coal mining will no longer be the only busi- inviting enterprise and the chief source of her industrial prosperitys Capital will develop her great quarries of marble and granite, her vast deposits of soda, and last, though not least, her great busins of petroleum, which promise to excel the oil ficlds of Ohio ana Pennsylvania in the quantity and quality of their product, both for illuminating and lubricating purposes. For more than twenty-five years it has been well known that an enormous de- posit of petroieum existed in the region west of Fort Fetterman and in the neighborhood of the South Pass. Many oil springs had been discovered by ovor- land travelers in that section, and spec- imens of the ol as it bubbled up from the su o, we brought to Omaha Tong before the Union Pacific was com- pleted. But the oil fields remained undeveloped for want of cheap facili- ties to transport the oil tomarket. The Union Pacifie is too remote,and hauling the oil by wagon was outof the question. The first pr effort to develop the oil ins of Wyoming has heen made within the past two years by thre or four Omaha capitalists, who have quired lacge tracls of oil-producing lands and have sunk several wells suc- cossfully. Since the Northwestern road has entered Lavamie plains a number of parate companies have been organized Chicago, Omaha and elsowhere, and in progress for explora- ve dovelopment during present year, Those who are engaged in this enterprise feel confident of the most satisf: results, Geologists who have v that scction agree that tho Wyoming oil basins will probably afford a greater supply than the fields of Pennsylvania and Ohio. The known extent of the oil region in the territory, and the thic ness and area of the oil-producing sun faces, exceeds all other fields in this country combined. The chemical tests have been most satisfactory, showing especially that in lubrieating qualities the Wyoming oil is not surpassed by that found elsowhere in this or any other country. With such boundless inducements to investment and enterprise, and the facilities provided to male promptly available the developed ve- sources, Wyoming cannot fail to specd- orous advance in popu- lation and material prosperit; nes Hascall's Leadership. No man in Nebraska is better equip- ped for all-round legislative work than Isaac S. Hascall. A lawyer by profes- sion, thoroughly versed in constitutional law, he has by years of experience in state and municipal legislatures ac- quired a mastery of the requisites for practical lawmaking. As a parliamen- tarian he has fow equals and no supe- riors. Had his abilities been honestly exerted in tha int ment no position within the gift of the people would have been boyond his reach, But Hascall isby natural in- stinct inclined to dishonest and dis- honorable methods. He is asebold as he is unserupulous. Ho is built that way. His career forcibly demonstrates that such a man in public life is dangerous. ‘Whenever he is allowed to become a leader the men who train with him be- come utterly reckless and finally go down in disgrace. Whether among the Jayhawkers of Kansas, the cowboys of ‘Wyoming or in the Omaha city council, Hascall’s natural bent has been that of an outlaw. He knows what is law as well as any man in Nebraska, but he would rather evade or violate law than obey it. When he was in the coun- cil ‘eight years ago he became the leader of the infamous gang of boodlers who soughtto saddle upon this com- munity a most gigantic wat swindle, that would have robbed the tax P of Omaha of fully half a million dollars. Remonstrances against this audacious piece of rascality were impu- dently and defiantly thrown under the table. Petitions were not allowed to bo 1 in the council and finally leading taxpayers were compelled to appeal to the courts for protection against Hascallit By the end of that term Haseall and his pals were buried, by an indignant and outraged commu- nity, under a mountain of votes. Then Hascall took a rest for a few years. When he came up for mayor-in 1888 he was beaten by over 1,900 majority. A year later he was elected ward council- man under promise of reform. But he wasn't in the council six weeks before his natural-born cussedness obtained the mastery. Again the leading tax-payers nad to band together and appeal to the courts to enjoin another swindle—the sandstone job. When the courts had disposed of this matter, llxlm all moder- ated for a while, but he was simply pl ing 'possum. As usual his leadership politically buried nearly every council- man who had been ociated with him. Both of the previous coun- cils, in which Hascall was leader, plunged Omaha headlong into heavy overlaps and piled up @ mountuin of cluims against the city. Last spring Hascall bobbed up se- renely once more. Many prominent proporty owners vouched for his reform and begged that he be allowed to put his shoulders to the wheel again The prevailing desive for vigorcus work in behalf of public improvements overshadowed for the time Hascall’s malodorous record, and he was elected Dy a larger majority than any man on the ticket. That swelled and turned his head completely. He imagined him- self mayor, governor and lord high exs ecutioner. His modest suit of gray was discarded and he doumned broadcloth and a stove-pipe to support the honors which the people had showered upon him. But the promised reform of the head of the ticket did not materialize. It was in his case as it was with his satanic majes When the Devil was sick The Devil a monk would be. When the Devil got well, Devil a monk was he. Hascall had no sooner taken his seat in the present council than he resumed his old pranks, He at ence showed the cloven hioof and raised & revolt against the chief of police, the police commis- sion, and the governor. He concocted a version of the law which he koew to beubaseless. By rousing the jealousy of councilmen who imagined that they had a vight to dictate rules to the commis- sion, ho persuaded & majority to join him in & law-defying combination. Some of these men had been loud in their assertions that they knew Hascall too well and were too intelligent to be made his dupes or to be led by the nose by o man of his reputation. But they were drawn info the dragnet and kept there for six mouths, By that time mest of them were thoroughly demoralized and too helpless to stand on their own legs, Hascall's pernicious leadership has ruined them. Until that leadership is repudiated by a majority of the council, the charter will pomain & dead letter, and the power of the courts will have to bo invoked to protect citizens and taxpayers against vicious legislation, corrupt combinations and jobbery. N the present council entered upon its work it proclaimed its intention not to narrow another street in Omaha, This policy has, however, been aban- doned long ago, and the utter insinc ity of the council bellwether in that re- spect, as in other matters, has been demonstrated. The policy of selling foot and strip of ground on which ty can realize a dollar was innug- urated when Hascall was in the coun- cil years ago. Then as now his schemes caused an overlap i the treasury and it was deemed necessary to part with what- ever city property was available to keep the tax-eaters in fodder. We notice, for instance, that fifteen-foot strips of street south of the Union Pacific and B. & M. tracks ave officially advertised for sulo by the eity clerk. AN esteemed Lincoln contemporary devoted four columns of valuable space on Monday morning to ‘“The Bold Thieves of India,” but we do not recol- lect of its ever having four lines of space to spare for tackling the bold thieves in Nebraska. INDUSTRY. A cotton mill is to be built at Roanoke, Va. Mobile hasa line of steamers to Liver- pool. All parts of Mobile are lighted by clectric light. Boot and shoe shops will soon start in Texas. A $100,000 cotton factory is to be crected at Fordyce. A $100,000 cotton factory 18 to built at New- man, Ga. At Salisbury, N. C., a new cotton mill has juststarted, The Italian silk crop is 9 per cent below the average, i In Rhode Island the textile mills are nearly all sold ahead. The copper exporters in New York have found it necessary to unload. Alabama has 150 saw mills and has 15,000, 000,000 feet of standing pinc. One Indiana car bitilder turned out 466 cars in December for one company. A metallurgical éngineer has succeeded in making pig-iron with natural gas. It is probable that Chicago. will appropri- ato $155,000 for cleotric lightning. Work is being slowly resumed in the ho- siery mills throughout the country. .A £100,000 hosiery establishment will start in the spring at Frankin Falls, N. H. The sum of 150,000 is to be expended for a sewerage system in Fort Smith, Ark. The jewelry manufacturers of Rhode Island report a decided improvement, A new railroad 200 miles long is to be built through the richest scction of Florida. At Hugerstown, Md., the capacity of the sill mill has been increased four times. The actual yield of raw silk this year will be 15 per cent less than that of last year. A St. Louis car’ company is putting in an clectric plant in order to work mght aud day. Boot and shoe jobbers and retailers in all sections of the country are having a first- class trade, The New York Central railroad company has ordered 900 gondola cars from a Penn sylvania concern, iron freights per ton from Birming- ham, Ala., range from £3.10 to Louisville to .25 to Pittsbura, Florida will furnish 1,000,000 boxes of oranges this year. Three acres in full bear- ing yield 1,000 boxes. A Mudison (Me.) textile mill last year turned out 1,000,000 yards of ladies' dress oods with 230 hands. The Pennsylvania railroad company has placed orders at Altoona for 109 locomotives and 8,500 freight cavs, A Cincinnati wirenail company has just completed a factory that will turn out 150,000 kegs of nails per year. The southwestern railway systems are in the market for lurge supplies of rolling stock and railway material, Tn Brooklyn 1,000 glass workers, in Cin- cinnati 120 carriage painters und in Pittsburg 300 toolmakers are idle. in Newark 100,000 An electric lighting company has unfilled orders on its book for lamps and 120 machines. The Indiana natural gas wells produce 10,000,000 cubic feet per day. The largest wells give out 4,000,000 feet ———— Ilustrated Libels, Drake's Magazine, A man wouldn't object to having his por- trait printed in the dmly newspapers, 1f they didn't put his name under it. The name at- tached is what makes it libellous. il LS o Right Man in the Right Place. St. Joseph Gazelte, 1t is evident that “Big Frank,” the brutal judge of the “kangaroo court” in the Omaha jail, is the right man in the right place until he shall be hung or sent to the penitentiary. He ought to be quité a good lawyer consid ing how many criminal cases he has been de- fendant in. Caste. Helen T. O'Neil. Alittle chick once took a notion to roam, ‘And bidding adieu to his mother and home, He traveled an hour—to him 'twas a day— And came to a farmyard some distance away. While wandering 'round it, searching for Ho ‘hoatt an old mother hen calling her Aud sty know, by the wild, frightencd Of wining, & henhawk was hovering nigh. He flew to the mother hen erying, poor thing, “Dear Biddy, please let me get under your ) “Oh‘,vl:t‘)gl" replied Biddy, ‘‘though muchI re- gret, ‘You'll have to excuse me; you're notin my ot STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Tocal shipments from Plattsmouth last year amounted to 932 carlonds; re- ceipts 1,161 carloads, A syndicate of hog buyersisoperating in Custer and adjoining countios, buy- ing hogs at Omala prices and dispensing with middlemen, Enos Moeks, a Frontier county bache- lov, wearicd of his lonely lot, sent w bullet through his head last week and Jjoined the angels. Two more have been added to the lavge list of postmistresses in the stato Mrs. Fannie Dustin, at Dustin, Holt and Mrs. Eliza S. Frank at r, Seward coun The lndies always display their = best qualities among the ma Dennis Mahoney, a farmer in Otoe county, is reported to have fallen heir to a fortune of $58,000 in Ireland. The report is a campaign lie. Under the beneficient rule of Balfour it is impos- sible for an Irishman to fall heir w a greater estato than a prison cell fringed with a plank bed and diluted vorridge. It was in the parlor of the nobby lit- tle cottage owned and oceupied by a newly married couple. Do you smoke, Mr. Jefirey?” said the lady toa callor, and without waiting for an_answer she brought out an clegant plush-covered box filled with superb. tufl'w “Take two or three of them, please,” she rat- tled on, unmindful of g'tlhm'uu.r frowns. A Christmas present, U'll wager.” ex- claimed Mr. J. **Yes; they ave delight- ful. My husband told me to treat friends liberally with them, as they are too good to keep.” towa Items. The packing bouse at Atlantic is building a new ice house and will put up 12,000 tons of ice. The Crawford County Farmers' alli- ance will hold its annual mecting at Denison on the 16th inst. A full new roller mill is one of the many improvements which Corning peo plo are expecting the coming season. Odcbolt is going to spend $250 in im- proving her base ball park, and expects to have afi s club this summer, The Cass County Agricultural socicty has passed a resolution declaring o dis- continuance of holding rs, and ap- pointed a committee to sell the property and close up the business. . Andrews, the Des Moines man- ager of thoe Western Newspaper Union, has sold out his interest to the three re maining owners of the concern for $110,000'in cash. Ten years ago he was a reporter on the Des Moines Leador at a salury of $15 a week. Dakota. A vein of good coal has been discov- ered in Wolls county. The semi-monthly clean-up from the mines in the Deadwood district amount to about $125,000. Prohibition virtually rules in Miller since the law went into effect on Janu- Crape was heavily festooned r the door of one saloou in respect to the death of alcohol, and upon another, the leading saloon in the place, was the legend, “This Property for Sale.” During the past year thirty-two ap- ations for patents on mining claims vere made in the United States land office in Deadwood, against twenty-four for the year 1886, Korty-one minecral entries were made and the same number of receipts issued during this year, be- ing seventeen more than in the pre- ceding year. Forlecon Schneller, a farmer living four miles southwest of Iroquois, sui- cided recently. He got out Gl pro- ‘cured the shotgun, laid down again,put- le close to histhead, and pulled the trigger. One of his daugh- ely married against his will and he gives this as his reason for the deed. He leaves a wife and eleven children. S e vee s SORE 'I‘H R():\’l‘ REMEDIES. Practical Treatment for this Season's Prevailing Ailment. Boston Herald: We will outline the treatment which can safely be applied in the early stage of any severe form of sore throat or tonsilitis. The first thing to do is to take a mustard foot bath, as hot as can be borne, and then get into bed. By that time the patientis gen- erally feverish,and a sweat is advisable. Very few sowadays care to use the old- fashioned method of sweating “hu h our forefathers found so effectual; must, therefore. find some means nmn- pleasing. Let them go to the necarest apothecary and have him put up the fol- lowing mixture: Sweet spirits of nitre, one ounce; spirit of mindereus, three O Raaht 01 bhis tawa ono tablespoonful in half a tumbler of water every three hours until the fever subsides. The dose we have advised is for an adult only; the disease in children we are not discussing. Extra blankets should be added to the usual bed- clothing. In many es under this treatment patients sweat profusely; others, however, do not do so as freely, and yet the fover seems to subside nearly us rapidly. It would scarcely he wise to continue’ tho medicine advised more than twenty-four hours, at least not in such large” doses; that length of time is gene erally complish its purpose. We naturally ex- pect patients in such attacks to b restless and wakeful, therefore some quicting medicine will ve needed. 1If it is, a five-gr powder may be given at bedtime, repeated, if necessary, in four or five hours. On the following morning it will be advisable, unless diarrhwea ex- ists, to give a sedlitz powder or a more active cathartie, This, then is the internal treatment to be applied for the purpose of arr ing it when a severe attack of sore throat, accompanied by fever, is threat- ened. There are local measures which can be used, and which will assist and contribute some to the comfort of the t. Water dressings to the neck old-fashioned and as efficacious Some may never have used them; therefore a word in descp- tion: Take a towel and dip it in cold water, wring it gently, fold it into a band dbout four inches wide and_apply it comfortably tight about Over that place a_dry to Turkish towel, and then ove puss and pin a small towel ov pie flun- nel properly folded, Leave this oh all night. In the morning when you tako it off,apply in its place a silk handke chief or n'st ip of flannel. ow for a gargle, as every considers that indispensable. is the best. The chlora popular remed and is really botter i has e 3 few hours after the attack. pletes the treatment which mend patients to try who upon dosing themselves. Lot them use it for twenty-four hours after the at- tack commences if they will. It can do no harm in any case, and in very many a marked improvement will be the sult. If follicular tonsilitis is the (m'm which is threatened, the sore throat will be measurably relieved, although, orobably, it will not entively disappear or three or four days. The backach the pains in the limbs and constitutional symptoms will also sub- side. If the disease persists, its courso. will pat 1ot com- This ) recom- bave been much wilder, and have been | Cumimings came i0”seo. M shortened by this treatment, As tor abscoss of the tonsil, the longer a soro throat runs the greater the danger of an abscess forming. Therefore, the means devised will be likely to antici- pate that distressing complication. H. on the second day after the attack, it i clearly evident that the patient isim- proving, it is hardly likely that he will think it nece to call a physician, If, however, he is not much better after applying the treatment recommended for twenty-four hours, then ho certainly ought to have medical adyice, So much space has been devoted to symptoms and management that the preventive must be dismissed with afew words, If people will be careful and not take cold they will seldom be troubled with sore throats, ——— Henry George and His Policy. The Standard, Many of our friends (especially those in the west), who have most strenuously urged that we should asw party enter the presidentinl campaign ave, I am in- clined to think, under the impression that we could entor that campnign with- out developing any serious differonces among us on the tariff question, and saying to protectionists and revenue r formers ‘‘a plague on both your houses, leave them to fight out their own bat- tles, while wo continue to advocate the singlo tax. Both assumptions are, to my mind, clearly erroncous, Thero is, 1 think, no question that the great body of our fricnds are llmluu-vh"ninu freo- traders. We are indeed thoe freotrad the successors, o ecentury after, of that school of great Frenchmen who began the free trade movement in modern times, and like us advocated the single tax, and from whom Adam Swmith and the Manchester school took only so much of the free-trade doctrine as w; palatrble to British capitalists, and thus degradep the glorious name free- trader by attaching it to half- hearted revenue reformers, But, never- theless, although our doctrines as to the relations between id and labor lead to full freo trade, and cut the ground from under protectionist fallacies as the mere revenue reformers never can cut it, there are many among us who have not yet fully seen the connection. These men are well represented by our recent e ato for comptroller, Vietor A. Wilder of Brooklyn. They are with us on the direct line of abolishing state and m\mu'l}ml taxos upon labor and the products of labor and concentrating them upon land values. That is to say they are with us in state polities, but would not be with us in national politics, when the tarifl i ssumed promi- nence. Their p n is, that they are willing to accept free trade aftor we get all taxes save those imposed by tho tarift abolished; but until that time they are protectionists. This 1s, in national pol- 1tics, and at the present time, an irrec- oncilable difference. Such men as Mr. Wilder and myself, while we could act well enough together in a municipal or state campaign, could not possibly ngree upon a common platform in u uational campaign when the tariff question is an Is not the best thing we can do to agree, with mutual” respect for each other, to disagree in national m ters, and o unite upon purely state i sues? ———— What Shall We Do With Our Boys? St. Joe Herald, Young James C. Talmage, the twenty- year-old son of the late general man- ager of the Wabash, shot and killed Operator Kebb, at Brunswick, this tate, last Monday evening. The cir- cumstances of the case are reported as follows: Talmage has been employed on the division between Brunswick and Stanberry. Several days ago Kebb called Talmage to take his train, but Talmage failed to report and the train was delayed, The superintendent of the division called for a report of the cause of the delay and the operator re- ported the facts. Monday evening when preparing to start with his train, Tal- mage and Kebb quarreled over the re- port. The dispute ended with blows and a free fight. Talmage struck Kebb with his lantern and was promptly knocked down. Kebb followed him to the ground and was beating him, when Talmage pulled his revolver and fi y the bullet penctrating Kebb’s body and causing death in a few mi § peculiarly unfor- tunate o the dead man has o large family dependent upon him, while Talmage hisan aged mother and several sisters all of them heing de- voted to him. It is rather a strange fact that a man of Talmage’s prospects should have been engaged first as brakeman and then as freight conductor upon a roud of which his father, a man of great wealth, was general manager, But the late Manager Talmage had peculiar ideas about_boys, quite different from those usually held by wealthy parents He gave his sons educations and then put them to work like less favored boys, and they were expected to begin at”the bottom ana work their way to the top provided they all. During the southwestern stri et A this hoy became involved m a eutting serape in a saloon in Texas, which created not a little comment at the time, and now the younger son will be tried for murder, though judging from the circumstances, he will probably be ac- quitted, We cannot but feel that a father who has ample means judges badly when he sends his son, not yeta man in either age or experience, 1o the rh life of a common train, man. While it is well that boys should learn the practical side of life as well as of business, it seems to us that it is better that they learn it in a less dangerous school than that of rail- road labor. Whether acquitted or con- vieted, young Tulmage’s carcer has suf- fered a” painful shock, apd one from which it will take considerable time to recover, and we are not prepared Lo at- tribute the fault entirely to the boy him- self. A CONFIDENCE GAME. How John Cummins Worked a laho Mining Sche . San Francisco Chronicle: From vari- ous sources the Chronicle has obtained information of a confidence game played by one John Cummins. who. by means of his misrepresentations, has managed to rob a lady in this city and a family and a fricnd of that family residing ut Los Angeles. In August, 1887, Cummins was intro- duced to the notice of a Mrs, Kimball, ding on Bush street, by agentl nd of hers, Cumimins was suay exceedingly attentive and symp: toward ladies, About the time Kimbull was introduced to Cumminsshe was involved i mn| tailed u large expendi Cummins, who wis hu.m nt visitor at her house, sympathized with her, say ever mind, madam; I'm sorry you much money, but' 'l put you' on ood thing in a short tine Matters progressed s fa its were conserned, until ¢ daily vis- flernoon nnd dftor o tow rems object of m- vi : “Now, K Al the time has come come \\hz-n T par thke somo mt oy for you. If you will Tet me have $500 [ will give you o deed for one-fourth interest in the Hemestead and Forest Queen mines, situated in - the Helona mining district of Alturascounty, 1daho,* He went on to paint in glowi the prospects of the min he had been offered & syndicate, until Mrs, him the $500, But he roquestod take any letters that him addressed to he Cummins endeavored (o win the hand of the Californin strect youny lady, and tried to induce her mothior to part with some money to further his Idaho mine sceheme, but he failed, as the funds rt her dis- colors and told how 000 for it by u Kimball handed . Kimball to ight come to osal, On September 1, 1857, he took a deed of a mining claim to Mes. Kimball, duly signed and wiinessed beforo Notary ¢, D. Wheat of this city, conveying to” her one-fourth of the mines before named, bt insorted $75,000 as the amount paid to him. Upon being questioned about the dis- erepancy in the amount named, he said that he put a large sum into the deed cause when a sale was mado it wonld look better. e told M Kimball at that dato that he was going to idaho to MII the mines, and loft San I That was the last Mrs, Kimball ever w of the fellow. On Saptember 26, howover, she ve- ceived adetter with the deed recorded from John M. Canaday, recorder of Al- turas county, L ‘I, and a lotter from Cummins, dated at ogden. This lettor stated that he had *anet his man,” that he was g to Wdaho. and from there ho would wr On the next day Mrs, Kimball rec letter from Ogden, by A. J. Chamberlun, = stat had ascortainod that owner of a one- in the Homostend and or lode, for your inter the letter” continued, S1owant to buy them both.) 1t will be subsequently shown that the spurious offer was in- spived by Cummins himseli. Mrs, Kim- hall, 0 to Chamberlin, statod her m October 12, he offered hor share in the ledges, Then wrote to Cummins at len of the offer which Chamberlin 1d mude, aud on October 10 sho re ceived a reply from him dated tucblo, Col. He stated that the man would he mines, but he had vy the offor wonld not 5o stated that “the buyer had the payment read When the trade is complete I will wri nd I must be in S mber 15, Other offors hav made for the mine, but nothing is to be done until he writes,” Agnin Mrs. Kimball wrote, October 20 Cumming sent letter from Pueblo. IHis m peated the contents of the previous lot- ter about the seeurity being unsat rv. A map of the IHailey gold helt 5. Kimball with this let- Upon this map a number of min- ing claims are shown in print, but the Homestead and Forest Queen eluims aro marked in black ink. The htl"mm part of this story is now 4 WL the end of Oc- ]\Illlh.l“lt‘l't ived avisit from alady, who ummlm ed he 1t Mrs. Viola Huntd Cummins had sent her @ telling her he wi Sun Fry o, and 1o call on her. She knew that he was Inm;:nn Bush s , because he had w her friends at Los /\uuvlv tobe the case, gated by Mrs. about Cummin “He was in Los Anglesin June and made my acquai und_that of my relatives, Mr. Swain, who live on Boyle He promised to marry me, and hy his specious manners induced m him #1,000, and also 0 from the Swain family. s y was 10 bo expended on'w mine near Newhall, Los Angles county. in Augustand I came to San to, finding that he was living on . He rencwed his prom- aid he would marry me as s00n as he obtained a divorce, Murs, Kimball told Mrs. Hunter all she knew about Cummins, and that lady lady left, informing M Kimball that she was going to Ogden to look for Cummins, - The postmaste of November 6, Kimball that the letter which she sent to Chambe inhad been deli at the Central hotel, and that was all he knew about him. Miss Hunter went to Ogden and there found that Ch berlain was not worth #3, he kept alittle stationery contrived to gain the infor Chamberlain that all the lette: he had sent to Mrs. Kimball were writ- ten at the request of Cummins, who in- duced him to act in the matter under the promise of payment when he sold the mine. Miss Hunter communicated theso facts to Mrs. Kimball and in a recent letter she states that she had discovered that Cummings was suing for a divorce at Ogden, During November Cummins again sent letters to Mrs., Kimball, in one of which he stated he had been to New New Yor! The other said that he hoped to make a sale of the mine before the end of r, when he would come to San k At the time he stated that he was in New York Mrs, Hunter eaught him at salt Lake City, and there he promised to come back to California o her, and that he would pay i tis and Mrs. Kimdall their money. But he de- parted from the Mormon aind went to Ogden, followed by Viola, and is still t advices 10 Mrs. in his we evi in two differ- ip. As he is nd on under date Mrs. 1 Ogden, 1887, informed Viola from Kiguhall in own handwriti dently written by women ent styles of noted for his the surmise is that he has had lady amanue Cummin’s wife and childr L Orovil 8¢ posed to b past week le ve heen re by Mrs., Kim! ma Mrs. Cumming at that place usking for his whercas bouts, Iu order to asc mines in the Hailey le reporter e nd the 0ld resident of man. Do you know anything of the [Tome- stead and Forest Queen mimes,” was n the value of the district a Chron visited the Baldwin hotel wnd R. C. Cox, an Hailey and a mining No, sir,” was the reply, “there are no mines in the district. 1 know every inch of the grouup. The whole thing is a fraud, you may depend upon it. -— neinnati preacher has invent )u)nulnlh- matri- fek girl who vital ques- her lover of straw tho mar- tho ACi an in moni; hoa proposal from a man and ugk his ideas about accepting offer, The net result is an - carly ringe certificate and a fes for dominic - © become 50 { Dunmore is golog to try highlund “cattle -wild Bearce Kimbull, thrive on the western plains.