Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 19, 1888, Page 5

A QUARANTINE ESTABLISHED Nobragka Live 8tock Intorests to Be Protected. A BREEZY TIME IN THE BOARD. Chris Hartman Brings Charges of Ex« travagance Against the State Fair Management — The straw-Pulling Case, LINCOLN BUREAU.] q y issued the wing proclamation in accordance with the recommendations of the braska Live Stock association, published yoesterday., After quoting the resolu- tions the governor says: In aceordance with the recommendations of the Nebraska Live Stock association, ana” virtue of the authority vested in me, I M. Thayer, governor of the state of braska, ‘do hereby issuc this, my proclama- tion, cstublishing u quarantine ugainst ull of the states, districts, countics and territorics named in the foregoing resolutions, und pro- hibiting the importation into this state of all cattle Trom all or either of the above named Dlaces This prociamation shall take offcct and be fi and after the 1st day of Kb and the qu antine so established red will be enforcad by the live stock agents and the state veterinarian, On the taking effect of this proclumation all previous quarantine proclamations of this state will stand revoked. In testimony whereof 1 have horounto set my hand and caused to be afixed the great seal of the state of Nebraska, Done at Lincoln this 15th day of January, A D, 1888, By the governod Jons M. Tuaven. G. L. Laws Hf Stute, CIARG AVAGANC The moraing session of the state board of agriculture was devoted to the discussion of the report of the com- mitteo to which was referved the veport of the secretary. This committee consisted of Messrs, Slaughter, North and Holt, and their report brought out a great de: i cussion on some of the recommendations. The recommenda- tion that some plan should be adopted by the committes by which certain and reliable statistics could be obtained for the different counties was, in the re- port of the committee, referred to a committee to report a plan of work. A number of the recommendations of the secretary wore of o lesislative character and the discussion doveloped into the noedsof legislative action and the neces- sary laws to be passed at the next gen- eral session. The question was dis- {x».ml of by instructing the forthcoming rd of managers to draft a suitablo bill to be presented for approval at tho next annual meoting of the society and then to be introduced in the legislature for adoption. The unanimous opinion was if the state board presented to the legislature just what they desired, it would be granted them. The committee appointed at the even- ing session to take the long list of names nominated for membership and select fourteen as tho members met at the ‘Windsor hotel in the morning. This committee consisted of Austin Humph- rey, of Luncastor: Fred Gorder, of Cass; W.M. May, of Dodge; Henry Krye, of York, and E, N. Grennell, of Washing- ton. After the conclusion of the long debate on the secretary’s report, the hour had arrived for election of officers, but it was necessary to first fill vacancies on the board. The committee reported tho numes of the following, who were ununimously elected to membershi Kent, Minden, Kearney county; ed Blowett, Fremont, Dodge y; J. D. Macfarland, Lincoln, Lan- easter county; Bd. McIntyre, Seward, Seward county; J owell, Fair- Nebraska City, Otoe count, S. H. Web- ster, Ord, Valley county; A. J. Leach, Oakdale, Antelope county; William Robertson, Madison, Madison county; A. Peaskio, St. Paul, Howard count; W. R. Bowen, Omaha, Dougias count R.R. Greer, Kearney, Buffalo county} R B. Windham, Plattsmouth, Cuss I sident Barker then announced the el¢ _ion of officers as the special order. 8. 1. Barker, of Silver elk, and 1 A Barnes. of Grand Island, we placed in nomination for president. At this stage in the proceedings Chris Hartman, of Omaha, took the floor. He said that the past administration had been an extravagant one, that while the fair had been the greatest kind of a success nothing had been saved finan- cially. Heo r ed his long career on the board and said that he had always aimed at cconomy, that Mr. McTntyre, the preseunt chairman of the board of managers, had always stood between the treasury and _extravagant expon tures and Me. Hurtman thought that Mr. Barker, as president, had been ox- travagant, and cited the fact that, as he claimed, the board had expended over 85.000 cn the grounds. This the eity of Lincoln should have expended. This brought Mr. Macfarland to his = feet, who declared that Lincoln had done much more than its pledges called for. He defended Mr. Bar- ker and the board and showed the enormous inerease in the expenses of the fairs and the character of the ex- hibits made. He believed that the or- zation should not be used solely as making oue, but that it should ho people all they paid for. . McIntyre, of Seward, chairman of board of managers, said he was v appalled at the oxpenses of the past year, but while he continued to strive for economy unavoidable expenses would come. Ho instanced the fact that on the opening days of the fair exhib- itors from Illinois and Iowa poured in with fine stock, and the managers did not even have a hitching post to supply them with. They had either to turn thoe stock away or build stulls, and they expended §2,000 for stalls. tary Furnas defended the admin- tion and emphasized the fact that a t show cost money. He believed with Mr. MeFarland, that the object of the society was not to amass funds in the treasury, but to give the best show possible consistent with the )'1-vui‘pl.~. Te said the Nebraska state fair excelled anything in the west, and cited in com- pavison the hLorse entries at the raska state fair and the inois state y The entries of Perchcrons were 141 for French , Chicago 5 for Chi- Nebraska and 41 _for Chicago. draft entries for Nebraska 26; shives, 75 for Nebraska, cago; Clydesdale, 90 -for N for Chicago. Mr. Hartman denied any inten making any personal attacks in bis re- rks, but still insisted that reform was necessary. Mr. Barker spoke in his own be and compared his individual exp with Mr, Hartman’s, and cited the w done and the absolute necessity penditures, He stood his board of managers in every particular. Tho r sult of the ballot for president resulted: 8. M. Barker 4, Eli A, I s 12, | Mclntyre 1. The remaining of wore quickly elected as follows: Grinnell, Fort Calhoun, first vie ident: J. B. McDowell, Fairhury, se vice president; Lewis A, Keut, Min reasurer; Robert W Fup half [ Browas The afternoon session was devoted to the resding of the papers prepared by Prof. Bessey, Prof. Hicks and W. E. Taylor, of Peru. A CONT, T CASE, The supreme court was engaged yos- terday afternoon in hearing the argu- ment in the mandamus case brought by ididate Davy, of Dakota county, inst Candidate Wilkinson, of the same county. The former is & demo- crat, the lutter a republican d the rhml the treasurer’s office. Wilkinson s the present treasurer and at the elec- tion the retprns showed a tie. Wilkin- son elaims fraud in that Omaha Indians voted the democratic ticket without re- gard to age or citizenship. Wilkins rofusos to turn over tho ofice on Davy's claim that it was settled by casting 'ots on the tie in which he claims he was successful, THE TROTTING @8R closed its session yes lecting the following officers for the yenr: President, M. L. Hayward, Ne- braska City; vice presidents, W. H. Ashley, B ice; D, S, Mount, Omaha; J. Do MeFarland, Lincoln; secretary, D. T. Hill, 8§ treasurer, D. 1. Johnson, Minatare; board of censor, J. D. McFarland, D. T. Mount, D. T. Hill; committee on combination sale, C. E. Mayne, W. H. Ashley, D. 8. Hill. utive committee prepared a list of for the summer meeting covering Neb a bred stock of different age, which will be printed and supplied by the secretary. INSURANCE RETURNS, The following additional returns have been received at the auditor’s office of business transacted by different firms in the state the past yea: Rockford. of Rockford, TIL.—Prémiums, 12 incurred, $ 3,60 Secur Premiums, $#4,028, $1,299.60; losses of New losses incurred, s paid, $1,916.39, Philadelphia — Premiums, losses incurred, 523 Mer $1,818.564; losses paid, ewar! miums, $6,071.68; incurred, $3,709.- 781 losses paid, $3.505.11. riford, of Hartford—Premiums, .50: losses incurred, $15,665.60; losses paid, $11,- 5 Aetna, of Hartford—Premi 3.75; los §4,556.24; losses incurred, $8,491.19: lossos paid, $3,305.04, “Brow i 's Bronchial Troches’ are ex- relief of tHoarseness or Sore 1roat vy are oxceedingly effective,— Christain World, London, Eng. S ity Monopoly Arrogance. Grand Istand Independent. The Union Pacific railroad company has assumed a position of unbearable arrogance, by suing out injunctions from the United Stages circuit court against the order of the board of trans- portation to open its embankment be- low the town of Waterloo, and against all meddling with the rates charged by the Union Pacific for transportation of freights or passengers. The Union Pacific rests its claimon the pretence, that is not subject to the legislature of the state, but only to congress, because congress granted its charter. In disputing the validity of the state laws the Union Pacific sets in fact up the cluim, that is superior to all state power, that is o state within the state, superior to our state. If the granting of its charter by congress exempted the rouds from obedicnce to the laws of our legislature, it exempted the same also from sabjection to our courts and our executive, The Union Pacific then could be sued before our courts, and need not follow the orders of our state government. Quarantine measures adopted would have no force for the Union Pacifie, and no investigations into the railroad af- fairs could be had by any of our officers. 1t isaquite new and preposterous claim, set up by this impudent corporation, and one to which the whole former con- duct of the same gives the lie. For over twenty years this corporation has ackuowledged the right of our legisla- tive bodies to make laws for them as well as for all other citizens. If it had not, it would not have been compelled by fair and unfair means to prevent *hos- tile legislation.” Whatever this may mean, the fear of such legislation, ac- knowledged that they knew they were subject to such legislation. All the ex- pensive oil room arrangements, and the high salavies of their high-toned v f ould have been superfluor - had been exempt from our law Neither have they ever disputed tho sdiction of our courts or our state icers. They, on the cont acknowledged eve old railroad commission ried around in great state thro country the dummies, who wer: with being dined and wined, and show- ing their authority by inspecting rail- roud pumps and privies. They were very wil edge the authority of aGere and similar men, because thoy themselves were again the masters of the Geres. But in doing that, they have acknowledged tho principle, that they are the subjects of the state, and that they cannot claim the right of being exempt from the jur- isdiction of the state, like the ambassa- dors and representatives of a foreign nation Their demand for exemption is made ng to acknowl- only, because they see that not every man’ in this eountry is willing to be th sluve, and that there is not as much fua in handling the present board of transportation as there was in mak- ing fools of the former railroad commis- sioners. But it isa demand s0_contrary to all our institutions and so disastrous in its consequences that no sensible man will admit it. About the legal side of this question we shall give our views another time, - Old pill boxesare spread over the land by the thousands after having been emptied by saffering humanity. What a muss of sickening, disgusting medi- cine the poor stomach has to contend with, Too much strong medicine, Prickly Ash Bitters is rapid and King the place of all this class ¥s, and in curing all the ills aris- ing from a disordered condition of the liver, kidnevs' stomach and bowels. —~— The performances of *‘Parsifal” at Jaireuth have beretofore been marred by the bad intonation of the chime of :lls used, Accor nitely arean d be done Capellmeister , the yrated ian conductor, went to England anew sctat the Coventry s, when completed, Technical college at where Levi and oth- tested them. They then to Beireuth, where th :d, Mime. Wagner be their swe * Parsifal were taken have just be ing enthy inst tness T black bears were seen re- 3 eymouth Brook, three miles from Olean, N. Dogs were sent after them, but the brutes killed one dog and broke the back of ancther, then Wok 1o the woods. MODERN MONOPOLY MONES. Union Pacifle Wreckers Masquerad- ing in the Garb of Honesty. A CHANGE IN NAME ONLY. False Claime of an “Honest and Intel- ligent" Managemoent—Hiding Tts Sins Under the Cloak of Adams, Philadelphia Record: The principal claim advanced in favor of the exten- sion of the time for the payment of the debt of $52,000,000 due by the Union Pa- cific Railway company to the United States government is the assertion that the property is now under honest and intelligent management. Prior to 1884 Siduey Dillon acted as president of the company. He piled up a floating debt $13,000,000, and when he had dragged the company to the verge of default he made way for Charles Francis Adams. who still holds that office. The majority of the Pacific railway commission, while condemuing in strong terms the conduct of those who controlled and directed the construction and development of the other roads aided by congress, have made an exception in favor of the lu'vi--nt administration of the Union ed that this administration has devoted itself honestly and intelligently to the herculean task of rescuing the Union Pacific railway from the insolvency which seriously threatened it at the inception of its work; that it has devoted itself by rigid economy, by intelligent management and by the appl capacity of the system to its 1mpro and bettorment, to placing that compy sound and enduring financial foundat Notwithstanding this flattering in- dorsement, the vicious practic of this railroad company in its relations to shippers, to communitics, to other rail- roads and to the government, have boen more pronounced under its present ad- ministration than under preceding nd- ministrations. The active and real managers of the company, with the ex- ception of Jay Gould and Russell Sage, are the same to-day as they were in the haleyon days of big dividends and cor- rupt purchases—Iilisha Atkins, F. Gor- don Dexter, Frederick L. Ames, E. H, Buker and Sidney Dillon are to-day the master minds of the company. * UN DER A NEW ALIAS. The election of Mr. Charles Francis Adams to the presidency of the company did not change the leopard's spots. The management is practically the same as it had been, but it now travels under a new alins, Iven the majority report questions the honesty of the five divec- tors reforred to. Messrs. Anderson and Littler, on page 62, say in rring to the agreement made in Jay Gould's par- lor at’ midnight on January 14, 1580 he parties to the above agrcement (Russell Sage, Jay Gould, Freder L. Ames, E. H. Baker, F. G. Doxter, Sid- ney Dillon and E. Atkins) were trustees of the Union Pacific. They had no right, without violating the principle which should control ~the actions of honest men, to make this bargain in the dark, without corporate action, and to vote thomselves lurgo personal advant- ages.” The only noticeable change in the management consists in this, that the former administrations made no protensions of boing other than what they wore, while the present adminis- tration hides its sins under the livery of holiness. VIOLATING DIRECT PROHIBITION, ‘When the president of the Union Pa- cific railway company was confronted with the question whother he had as- sented to the guaranteo of the interest of the Oregon Short Line bonds and of the St. Joseph & Grand Island railroad bonds, with full knowledge of the direct prohibition of congress and of the crim- inal penalties that were involved in those transactions, he repliea that the counsel of the company was the keeper of his conscience. MARKING UP THE COST OF A ROAD. ‘When his attention was called to mis- representations that appeared in the ac- counts of adjunct companies, as pub- lished in the annual report of the Union Padific railway company, by which the cost of the Oregon Short Line was stated at $26,000,000, whereas its real cost was $15.000,000, he pleaded ignor- ance of bookkeeping. When his attention was directed to improper expenditures that had oc- curred in connection with legislation in Kansus and Nebraska, he set up che plea that he was unablo to supervise matters in the legal department of his company. RAILROAD METHODS T0OO STRONG for the sident. When his at- tention called to the abuses of the vrebate system, which cropped out in the examination of the allowance to the Omaha and Grant Smelting works (see pp. 1997, 1998, of testimony), amounting to $570,000 in five years, he declared that the railroad methods were 100 strong for him, ‘When Senator Hill, of Colorado, and other shippers complained to him' that they were denied the same rights that the Omaha and nt Smelting Works obtained, he avoided discussion of the subject by referring the complainants to the general traffic manager of the road. PREACHING AND PRACTICE, When his pet_theory, “publicity,” came in conflict with thé temporary ad- vantages of the company the president quietly smothered his own professions and allowed others to carry on, in secret tices which he was pubs condemning. When questioned concerning the pa- per cost as distinguished from the actual cost of the Union Pacific, he responded by asking (see testimony, p. 892); *'Is there a road 1n the United States that has any different re ” MISSTATING INGS. Upon supersedi Sidney Dillon he nrdvr\'il that from the gross earnings of the company the sum of $227,000 should be deducted to cover estimate of losses on the Colorado coal sales and Salt Lake City sales, so that, when the accounts with the government were ad- justed, the gross earnings of the com- pany, through that single action, ap- peared to be 7,000 less than they had been in reality, and the government, as a matter of course, lost its installment of 25 per cent upon that sum, THE OREGON SHORT LINE. In building an extension of the Ore- gon Short line Mr. Adams_entered into a contract with one J. M. Eddy, by which Eddy was paid $1,500 for the use of his name as a dummy, In consider tion of that sum, and for the furthe consideration that the Union Pacific railway company would advance the funds for the performance of the con- tract, Eddy agreed to transfer to Charles Francis Adams, ns trustee, the stock and bonds, amounting to $10,000 pc mile, which were to be issued on ac- count of that work, The actual cost of that cxtension was than $16,000 per mile, but by this ju in which Mr. Adams was a central ‘figure, the property was eapitalized at $40,000 per mile—§20,000 in bonds and $20,000 in stock—and the Union Pacific compux wus obliged to pay interest on $20,000 per mile in bonds, though the actual. cost of cnfl ruction did not exceed 816,000 por mile. CRUSIING OUT THE MINERS, To the commission Mr. Adams repro- sented (soe p. 83 of testimony) that he was in favor of the company adhering stricting to its business as a common carrier yot he was the author of the scheme by which all of the conl sales in Colorado. south of Greeley,on the Union Pacific system, was handed over to tho Marshall Consulidated Coal Mining com- pany upon condition that the Union Pa- cific would have the option, in a given period, of buying a proportion of the stock of the company. By his ac- tion of making that = contract the president of the Union Pacific railway company gave such great advantages to the Marshall com- pany as to deprive five or six other coal companies in northern Colorado of any opportunity of reaching the market. The contract was in restraint of trade, a violation of the company’s public obli- gation and a inal conspiracy, for which all the parties emgaged ‘in it should be indicted. One of the worse features of that transaction was the se- crecy which attended its execution and consummation. The competing coal miners realized that the Marshall com- pany was obtaining advantages, while thoir uppeals for equal ratos were re- peatedly met by denials from the offices of the Union Pacific company; and M Adams admitted to the commission t he had made no effort to inform other operators of the terms of that contract, though pleading in extenuation of his action that he would have mado the same contract with other shippers on the same terms. A TELEGRAPH MONOPOLY. Another evidence of the “honosty and intelligence” which are dwelt upon by Messrs, Anderson and Littler may bo found in the records attached as ex- hibits to the report of the house com- mittee on postoflices and post roads, No. 8501, second session Forty-ninth con- gress, wherein is disclosed the cor spondence besween D. H. Bates, repro- renting tho Baltimore & Ohio Tele- graph company, and Charles Francis Adams, representing the Union A cific Railway company. For six months the officers of the Baltimore & Ohio T egraph company were put off upon fri olous &)rciu.\'h by Mr. Adams.while they wore demanding that the Union Pacif Railway company comply with the obl gations imposed upon it by congress and “convey mossages for all persons alike.” At tho expiration of that period, finding that Mr. Adams manifested no intention of doing his duty under the contract of incorporation, an appeal was mado to departmont officials at Wash- ington; fln([‘. when the hearing occurred, General Wagnor Swayno presonted h self beford the commissionor of rail- roads, not for the Western Union merely, but “for the contract between the Western Union company and the Union Pacific railway company,” this appearance being in pursuance of an agreement entered.into by the Western Union telograph company and the Union Pacific railway company as part of an arrangement by which the West- ern Union telegraph company ob- tained exclusive control of the telegraph service on the Union Pacific lines. Had Mr. Adams done his whole duty, it is probuble that the Western Union Telegraph company would not have been, able, as it was, to embarrass its rival, to eventuallo de- stroy its competition, and to place the entire country at the merey of a telo- graph monopoly. Was this ““honest and intelligent” management? DIVIDENDS DECLARED. The Central Branch of the Union Pa- cific company is controlled by the Union Pacitic_railway company, through the ownership of about per cent of the stock that was unloaded on the consoli- dated company by Mr. Gould in 1880. As a part of the bargain made at that time, Mr. Gould insisted that the Cen- tral Branch should be leased to the Missouri Pacific company, which he then controlled. Mr. Adams entered into new agreements with Mr. Gould respecting the lease of the Central Branch, and the condition his company imposed upon Mr. Gould was that in consideration of the valuable traffic de- livered to the Missouri Pacific company by the Central Branch company, Mr. Gould would not encroach upon the ter- ritory appropriated or claimed by the Union Pacifio company in Kansas and Nebraska. In 1885and 1886 the Central Branch, by the vote_of the pr, ministration of the Union Pacifi wa vmupung’. declared di amounting to $159,000, and 85 per cent of that sum went into the coffers of the Union Pacific company, though no pro- vision had been made " for the payment either of the first mortgage bonds of that company or the government claims, or for the overdue coupons of the fi mortgage bonds, amounting to $630,000, which ave held in abeyance by trustees, and which may at any time. upon the default of the Central’ Branch, be used to foreclose on that property, thereb wiping out all of the government's claim~ for principal and ae- cumulated interest. Is this ‘‘honest and intelligent” management? RELEASING THE CREDIT MOBILIER. On March 31, 1886, additional releases and transfers were made by the Union Pacific company in connection with its relation to the Credit Mobilier transac- tions, thus raising addition bars against possible action by that company or by the government in its behalf to recover the moneys of which it was plundered. is that “*honest and intelligent” man- agement? Is that fair to the govern- ment? CHEATING THE GOVERNMENT. In its dealings with the government, the Union Pacific company has been ins dulging in all sorts of pretexts to dimin- ish the amount of its annual payments. It has contested the claim of the gov- ernment to a percentage of the earnings of the Omaha bridge and of the Pullman e which are run on_ the Union Pacific lines. It has made an improper distribution of earnings on the aided and unaided portions of the Pacific line. It has made its gross e ings appear less than they really It has paid out large sums to the t Mail Steamship company to destroy the competition of the water routes. paid subsidies to the Northern [ : and to the Oregon Railws vigation company to p those rancisco and riain traflicin companies away from San to give it a monopoly of Montana and Idaho. It expended large sums to influence lefislation in Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado. It has paid excessive amounts to carry bond elections in its favor in varicus counties and to defeat bond elections in favor of other companiesin the western country. Are these evidences of “*honest and in- telligent” management? SELLING UN TED LAND, The Union Pacific company has sold off about five million acres of land for which no applications for patents have been made to the general land offico, It has prevented the collection of taxes on lands nominally owned by it, but really owned by AN aRaes purchased the properti It gave its guaranty of in- terest payment to bonds of the St Jo- seph & Grand Island Railvoad company, amounting to nearly 7,000,000, in order that it might enhance the value of bouds held by itto the amount of less than $4,000,000. So that for every dol- lar of temporary advantage it obtained for itself it kneurred u liability ¢f more than $1.60 It that “‘honest and intell gent” management? BUYING A WORTITLRSS ROAD. The Leavenworth, Topska & Southe wostern railvond (46,30 miles), in the of Mr. Adams, wns a *‘bankrupt responsible road that was lying around loose.” So he arranged with the Atchison, Topeka & Sunta o railrond that the two should buy 1t to keep any other railrond com- pany from getting hold of it. He s the road is of no importance to the Union Pacifie, but the Union Pacific has nevertheless guarantoed $690,000 of its bonds. Is that “honestand intelligent™ management? GOVERNMENT ¢ Under the the Union Pa IMS TOJUNIOR LINES, sent administration of c company no sinking fund has boen provided for thes fivs mortgage bonds of the company: and the policy of anticipating the payment of liens subordinate to the governmont, or of securing them in such manner as to make the government lien prac cally subordinate to a fifth mortgage on the property has been stoadily pursued. Under the present administration the s been olicy of pooling all traffic b }m«u d, and none of the elements of publicity, logality or responsibility for which Mr. Adams has eloquently con- tended in public were ever in- jected into the combinations us actually formed. Undor the pros- ent administration the monopoly which the Union Pacific company pos- sessed has been strengthene i tional coal lands have been acquired by fraud, and quarrymen near Fort Collins, Colorado, have been driven away from their business. Is that *‘honest and in- telligent management? Under the present administration the policy of ex- tortion, parti and plunder,” which has been p ‘d upon shippers and communities that were tributary to the Union Pacific lines, has been condoned on the ground of self-prescrvation. KRUDPT o its road in accor- with its obligations as a common r, and in accordance with the s c mpany would be unable to interest obligations, and would, be bunkrupt. In the face of this evident fact, it is incomprehensible that any membersof a government com- mission should assert that the present management of the Union Pacific is “honest and intelligent.” obligations imposed upon it by the of the United States, the Union | Railway et e One Fact Is worth a column of rhetorie, said an American statesman, It is a fact, es- tablished by the testimony of thousands of people, that Hood's Sarsaparilla does cure scrofula, salt rheum, and other dis- ensos and afféctions arising from impure state or low condition of the blood. Tt also overcomes that tired feel- ing creates a good appetito, and gives strength to every part of the systom? Try it PETERE e A Neat Thing in Robberies. New York Times: George W. Taylor, a clerk, was robbed of $779at 2.45 0’clock yesterday afternoon in the presence of all the clerks in the Kings County Bank, at 12 Court street, Brooklyn. He had gone to the bank to doposit somo 32,500, and had two packages, one consisting of bill to the amount of $1,700, while the other was a bag containing $779 in gold and silver coin. He was standing on the line before the receiving tellor's desk, when o woman who had come in after him dropped some small change on the marble floor. The pieces of silver rolled in every direction and young Taylor laid his bank book book and packages of money on the shelf while he stooped to assist _in picking up the woman’s change. While he was so ongaged she hurriedly left the banl, and when Taylor rose to his feet he found that his bag of coin was missing. Leav- ing the big package of bills on the shelf, he rushed out of the bank door after the woman, but she had disappeared. A carriage that a moment before had stood in front of the bank was being driven rapidly toward Fulton strect and the next instant disappeared around the corner. The boy returned to the bank and reported hisloss, but, although half a dozen people were within as many feet of him, no one had seen the bag of gold vanish. An investigation by Cashier Denton disclosed the fact that the woman had had a_confederate in the person of tall, dark man, with a heavy black beard, who entered the bank just after her and left it just before her exit. He was standing behind Taylor when the woman dropped her change, and walked rapidly out of the door as soon as young Taylor had stooped to the floor. This man was seen to enter the carriage waiting outside, but which did notdrive off immediately. When it drove up to the door a few minutes before the porter had seen the man with the black beard leave it and enter the bank. Another man remained in the carriage. The woman had gone in a second before. s g The Stewart Fortune, Philadelphia Times: The fortune of A. T. Stewart, gained at the expens no end of hard work and shrewd agement, seems to bless no one. the death of Mr. Stewart his widow was made miserable during the remainder of her life by the various efforts to get her money, including the stealing of her husband’s body. The magnificent business built up by Mr. Stewart fell into decline and was finally wound up. and Mvs. Stewart died, leaving the mil- lions to be fought over by greedy heirs. There are suits now pending, each of which seeks the invalidation of Mrs. Stewart’s will. One is that of Prescost Hall Butler, who asks the partition of the real estate owned by Mrs. Stewart. The second is the suit of M Surah M. Smith, a niece of Mrs. Stewart, who asks the removal of Judge Hilton as ecutor. The third in the list is th Miss Rosalie Butler, a sister of Prescott Hall Butler, who asks for the revocation of the will on the ground that it was ex- ecuted under undue influence and ci cumvention, vart could have foreseen the unseemly scramble of would-be heirs aud others for the millions he piled up s0 laborious he would hardly ) denied himself steep and nec to accumulate money that would do so little good to anybody. Those who die leaving little behind them in this world have at least the consolation of know- ing thatlawyers and quarreling hei will not engage in disgusting legal bat- tles over their savings, The history of the Stewart fortune might, if well con- sidered, lessen the desire for the ac- cumulation of great wealth, which often curses more than it blesses. - False Pretences. Venders who by specious representa- tions as to worthless articles for the teetn, induce the unsuspecting to u them fruitlessly or with positive inju to the ename hould be punished. Buy SOZODONT only,escape their snarcsand beautify the tee' The longest including Aivisions and b 5, is the Chi Milwaukee & St. Paul total length of lines op 11, 1886, was 5 main lir but the longest sing ated by one compi Northern Pa + miles, though its ) miles in length, line of road aper- y'is. the line of the itie from Duluth, Minn,, to Wallula Junction, W, T., a strotch of 1,667.60 miles. The smallest regulasly focorporated railroad in this country is id to be the New York Ce 1, Hud- gon River & Fort Orange railrc for the purpose of carrying freight to and from the Fort Orange Paper coms pany's works, The main track is but 8,108 feet in length, and the ling stock consists of a locomotive nnd one r:uw-m:rr coach, The rond, however, has o full set of officers and | dircctors, and issucs a yearly official r port. gross earnings of the road amount to nearly 23,000 but all of this, excopt about 8 con- sumed in paying the expenses of the ad a S While two horses were across the Muskegon river on a raft the frail steucture purted and loft the ani- mals struggling in the water. One of them casily reached the shore, but the other swam to a high bluff, where it could not make a landing. 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COLLING, Lewis S, REkD, A. E. TOUZALIN, W. V. Monsg, H. W, Yarss, Banking Office— THE IRON BANK. Cor. 12th and Farnam Sts, A General Bunking Business Transacted. THE OMAHA BEE, DELIVERED 70— ANY PART OF LINGOLN DY CARRIER FOR-—— 20 Cents a Week. Soven papers a weck. Send your order to the office, 1029 P Streat, Canital Hotel Building THE RAILWAY TIME TABLES, OM Tenve Owmaha, Arrivo Omaha, UNION PACIFIC, )t 10th and Marcy sts.| 9:00 p. m. 220 NGTON ROUTE,| th and Mason sts; Chlcago Express, Nos2 &1/ 3 Chicago Mai Chicago Locu Denver Expres: C.8t. P. M. & O, Depot 1th and Webste Bioux City & B’k Hills Ba ft Expr . *Except Sunda, MISSOURI PACIFIC, Depot 15th and Webster'st Day EXPress............... |l Night Express. 0 F.E &M VR I Depot 1ith and Webster st Haustings & BI'k Hills P Nortolk Passer suBuURB, m.| 4:16 p. m. 1 {10:45 . N TRAINS, Running between Council Blufis and Albright In addition to the stations mentfoned, trains stop at Twentieth and Twenty-fourth ' strects and at the Summit in Omaba, Westward, th | AL i bright. "AM. :00) AT [ Bouth | bright. [Omuha. ~l12:15am ClL BLUF cou VT B Y CHICAGO, ROCK 1SLAND & PACIFIC A *No. It A0 p.mD No.1.....10:0 &, m. i} 2. 2:00 p. . A *No. 13,011 ha m ¢ No.# (] A No.8.... 70 p, NGTON & QUINCY, b No.h h i 700 .. A CHICAGO & NOKTHWESTERN. Jidoa,m A Nood.o., 9058 m, 4:00 p_m A *No. T . . 420 pom. A No, CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE 040 ., 10 4:00 . m. AB CITY 87T, JOK A A 053w, . A 9:10 p. m. A SI0UX CITY & A A H A A Not "1 6:30 . m. ; 18 datly Sun: D except M AWill probabiy clian, xcept SN y 410 p. 1. Lefore Keb, by