Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 9, 1888, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, phriv~ ; TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Tafly Morning_Edition) including Sunda; "u’u.{nv?: YFKI‘ . A . " . y“fl o For Rix Months 50 garsisy B0 T Omaba Sunday Bix, mailed to any ad- dress, One Year' .. .. Wvisain IO OMAHA OFFICE, NOS.SLAND 016 FAl . NEW YORK OFFICE, ROOMS 14 A BriLnisg. WAsRINGTON O] FounTeenti Broeer, CORRESPONDENCE. ications relating to news should be addressed to the Epiton SINESS LETTERS. All business letters and remittances should be addressed to THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OmAlA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders to be made payable to the order of the company. | The Beg Publishing Company. Proprictors L. ROSEWA TER, Editor. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. of Nr;xll;;uk?, o y of uglas: R ittt Bee Pub- ‘company, does solemnly swear that the al cirensation of the Daily Tee for the woek ending Feb, 3, &, was as follow: Saturday, Jan. 28 o Sunday, Ja Monday, Ju Tuesday, Ja Wednesd All comm torlal matt, OF THE B Average......... R RO Sworn to and subscribed in_my 4th day of February, A, D., 158, T NP, ¥l otary Public. State of Nebraska, %' 8. ® 1‘ollnlY of Donglass, RiY Geo. I, Taschuck, being first duly sworn, de- oses and says that he 18 secretary of The Bee bublishing company, that the “actual average dally circulation of the Daily Bee for the month of January, 187, 16,209 co) mh for February, 187, 14,178 coples; for March, 1¥ |, 400 o(vfiel: for April, 1887, 14,816 coples: for May, 1886, 14,227 coples: mr Jlnin\ I"-l"-"Alt.ll'lL sn pie 12 i 7, 14,88 coples: for Augusf , 14,151 coples; k‘l’llh(!l'. 1887, 14,349 coples; for October, 18T, 1 ]'zaNlo\“)fln )('l"f 1887, 15,226 coples; for December, ', 15,041 coples. GEO. B. TZ8CHUCK. Bworn and subscribed to fn my presence Uits 2dduy of January, A, D. 188, N. P. FEIL, Notary Public, COUNCILMAN HASCALL who is under- taking the job of purchasing additional ground and erecting a half million dol- lar city hall, will find that he has an elephant on his hands. —_— DENIS KEARNEY is loafing about Washington harranguing everybody on the evils of Chinese cheap labor. He hates work almost as flercely as he hates the celestials and is in every way quali- fied for his wordy mission. e ORMSBY B, THOMAS, & congressman from Wisconsin, has suddenly acquired a national reputation by giving a Pacific railroad lobbyist a severe tongue-lash- ing. Anything so unusual should he duly recognized by the people. ——— AFTER all it seems that the city coun- ¢il is not quite so unanimous in favor of Hascall's half-a'million city hall job. Some of the councilmen, who for some unaccountable reason at first sup- ported the scheme, are beginning to see that it is either a castle in the air ora gigantic swindle. Ep————— THE Chicago gas trust is to be taken into court and required to show cause why it8 franehises should not be for- feited on the ground that they are used adversely to public policy. If trusts are vulnerable in that direction it looks as though it might be possible to give them a death blow. CERESS—— THE colored people of Texas are said 1o be much interested in the proposed exodus of their race to South America. Mr. N. W. Curry, a prorainent colored politician of Galveston, however, does not favor the movement. He does not think anything could be gained by such @ migration, but believes that his people can do better in this country than any- where else. THE republicans of Florida are first to prepare for the coming campaign. The state central committee has been called to meet at Jucksonville on the ‘220 of this month for the purpose of calling a state convention to elect dele- gates to the national convention which meets at Chicago. The republican re- vival in Florida is said to ba so decided that the democrats fear they will losc the state. The democratic majority during the last presidential election was small, and it is not at all improba- ble the state may go republican this time. —— MANY of the public buildings in this country are a disgrace to their archi- tects. Two notable examples are the Chicago court house and the New York state house at Albany. The latter is a costly pile of rickety magnificence. Nearly twenty million dollars have already been expended in the structure, but it is now found that the ceiling in the assembly chamber is liable to fall at any moment and crush the legislators below. They will probably be com- pelled to seck a safer place for meeting. One of the needs of the time is more honesty in the erection of public build- ings. EE————— THE pension attorneys at Washington have drawn over two hundred thousand dollars in fees for obtaining increases of pensions. This sum is taken out of the pockets of the veterans who are com- pelled to employ legal aid in obtaining ingrensed pensions, Obviously this is a species of robbery which ought to be stopped, and possibly it may be. A bill has heen agreed upon by the house pen- sion committee which will be recom- mended for passage, prohibiting attor- neys’ fees in all cases of increase. This is o gtep in the right direction but it is questionable whether it is sufficient to wholly protect the disabled soldiers against the shoal of pension sharks at the capital, 5 — Tne BEE’S herolne fund is now nearly $7,000, and we are gratified to be able to #ny that there appears to be no ubate- ment of the public interest in the worlk. There should not be. There is less than $1,300 in the fund for Miss Royce, and at loast five times—if possible ten times— this amount should be subscribed fer this bruve and faithful girl. She is for- over helpless, having lost both feet, and her left arm being crippled and de- formed, Then the fund for the little orphan, Lena Woebbecke, who bas lost one of her feet, should be swelled to a handsome amount. By all means let the good work go on until these deserving objects of popular benevolence are placed above want. . An Expert Juggler in Figures. Mr. Austin Corbin, president of the Reading railroad, is posing too much at present as the high and mighty ruler of the labor universe. His arrogant management of the strike on the Read- ling rond at .its beginning has been principally responsible for 1ts long con- tinuance. Like many other men of his clags who have rapidly risen to promi- nence, Mr. Corbin is doubly impressed with a sense of his own importance. He fills a number of columns a week in in- terviews with reporters, statements to the public and apologies for the action of his company, in allof which the pub- lic are informed that the question of in- croase of wages to the miners is abso- lutely impracticable under the present financial condition of the Reading com- Corbin is an expert at juggling | figures. His statement that the Read- ing coal and iron company has lost twelve million dollare in twelve years has been very fully exposed. The coal and iron company which Mr. Corbin Taprasants as insuch distressed financial condition turnsoui ic be simply an inside ring of the Reading railroad combpany, which, during the same twelve yoars, has paid to the Reading railroad com- pany the princely sum of $72,000,000 for carrying its coal to tide-water. As the stockholders of the Reading coal com- pany and the Reading railroad com- pany are practically the s®me, profits taken from the one and given to the other are simply money taken from one pocket of the same individual and placed in another. By increasing the rate charged to the Reading coal com- pany the Reading railroand company could have just as well made the deficit $24,000,000 in twelve years and have added that amount to the profits of the Reading railroad company without ef- fecting very materially either of these corporations. The earnings of the one are virtually the earnings of the other, and as between themselves profits or dividends do not count. But, notwithstanding the pitiful finan- cial stress under which the Reading conl] company has labored for the twolve years to which Mr. Corbin refers, the statistics of the coal and iron exchange show that during the last year alone the Reading conl company, which prefers to let its miners starve rather than grant them a paltry advance of eight cents a ton on coal mined, paid last year to its stockholders the neat sum of $1,500,000, while the Reading railroad company’s last statement showed for that gigantic and waterlogged corporation the enor- mous profits over operating expenses of $11,000,000. The old cry that the road is making no money because it is not paying dividends to its stockholders1s of course raised by Mr, Corbin in this connection, but this with those who know the ingenious devices of stock- watering, excessive bond issues and overcapitalization under the direction of the tricksters and schemers who have bankrupted such roads, will have little weight. All the ingenious juggling of figures and high and mighty toned statements with which Austin Corbin is deluging the country will fail to convince the people of the justice of the present out- rageous oppression of ‘the miner slaves of Penusylvania at the hands of the soulless and extortionate coal carrying corporations. 2 E——— Cleveland's Tactics. Every day makes it more clear that President Cleveland has abandoned in practice his theory that a public office isa public trust, and is leaving no stone unturned to reform the civil service in the interests of his own renomination and a successful campaign in1888. The recent appointments in the District of Columbia, which were such a genuine surprise to the residents of Washing- ton, area case in point. The district attorney was selected from West Vir- gima, a doubtful state at the best. In the appointment of Mr. Hoge the presi- dent increased his popularity among the West Virginia politicians, insured an able political worker in a doubtful stato and paid off his debt to Mr. Rid- dleberger for his vote upon the confir- mation of Justice Lamar. In the nomi- nation ot Mr. Ross as postmaster, Illi- nois was selected as the favored state. The president has been vlacing a great many offices in Illinois lately with a view of securing, beyond question, the Illinois delegation at the next national convention. The same policy has been noted in all the appointments made by the president during the last six months The work of filling the offices held by republican incum- bents has been going bravely on in the departments, The change of Vilas to the interior department and the placing of the postoffice department in the hands of one of the shrewdest of Michi- gan politicians is frankly admitted by partisans of the administration to have had for its sole object the removal of Wisconsin and Michigan from the list of doubtful states in the coming cam- paign. Mr. Dickinson has gone vigor- ously to work and the official guillotine has been greased until its action now is rapid enough to suit the most violent political partisan. There is but one story which contes from every state where Mr. Cleveland’s friends are -hard at work paving the way for the approaching campaign. Pennsylvania is thought to be scoure through Mr. Randall’s defeat. The missionary work which is being done by the president’s friends in every repre- sentative district in New York state is expected to soon show results in the de- feat of Governor Hill's aspira- tions, while in Indiana, Connee- ticut and New Jersey no stone in the way of patronage is being left unturned to secure the desired end. The president’s most intimate friends are among the shrewdest politicians and political. workers, and those who have the most influence in securing ap- pointments are the meu who can prom- ise in every case votes in return. With the professed high priest of civil ser- vice reform doing his best to make the civil service a political machine, with the civil service commission assisting under gum-elastio rules, which tind no dificulty in rejécting all republican ap- plicants, with every custom house and e H A large postoftice in the country a buroau for political work under the direction of democrdtic neglers, Mr. Cloveland's famous doctrine of a public office for a puvlic trust has become a general laughing stock. Civil service reform, in the eyes of the president, as in those of every practical politician, means a re- form which eradicates as quickly ns pos- sible political opponents from public office and fills them with triends of the administration. - — Vilas Versus Black. | There is an interesting struggle in progress at Washington between Secre- tary Vilas and Pension Commissioner Black which has for its’ object the coming democratic nomination for the presidency. Both of these gentlemen are from western states, General Vilas hailing from Wisconsin and General Black re- cording himself from Illinois. Mr. Vilas' ambition has been no secret to his friends for some time, and his trans- fer to the interior department was made, it is believed, as much for the purpose of forwarding his prospects in this di- reciion as for giving Michigan, repre- scnted by Don Dickinson, a position in the cabinet which could be used to lift that state out of the list of doubtful electoral votes. General Black threw the whole wealth of his imagination and strength of his soul into his last pension report with a view to counteracting, if possible, the generally accepted position that he was opposed to a liberal con- struction of the pension laws. With the object in view of securing the old soldier vote he has recently been quite numerously interviewed in several of the leading papers with regard to pen- sion legislation. General Vilas, on the other hand, during his incumbency of the postoffice department adopted a course which as a practical politician he believes will be more fruitful in results. This was to geplace as rapidly as possi- ble all republican incumbents of office with democratic postmasters, postal clerks and officials, each and all of whom would feel more or less a strong obligation to the postmaster general for their salaries. Now that Mr. Vilas has been placed at the head of the interior department, General Black has awakened to a disa- greeable realization of the fact that the man whom he considered as his princi- pal competitor for the vice pres- idential nomination has been put in & position over his head, in which he can direct more or less the operations of his department. In consequence there is considerable friction between these two competitors, with the end not yet in view. But, after all, it is merely possible that the work of each of these aspiring politicians may not end as either anti- cipates. There are a number of other candidates for the democratic nomina- tion for the second place on the ticket who will be found very active and very pushing when the convention meets. Both Mr. Vilas and General Black hyve made enemies in the distribution of patronage who will be on hand with their tomahawks and scalping knives whetted very sharp, and with no other object in view but the raising of a few political scalps. Mr. Vilas isa shrewd lawyer and a fair politician. General Black is an old soldier, who draws a pension of one hundred dollars a month with untiring regularity for dis- ability contracted in the service and manages at the same time to draw his handsome salary as com- missioner of pensions. When the time comes both gentlemen are likely to find out that a public office has itsthorns as well as its roses, and the distribu- tion of party patronage is not an un- mixed advantage. Meantime republi- cans generally will watch with amuse- ment and satistaction the struggles of these two gentlemen for position before the national democratic convention. Legislation Against Trusts Necessary. The lesson of the right of regulation by legislation, which the people were compelled to teach the railroad monop- olies in response to aggression and ex- tortion, should be promptly repeated to those monopolistic conspiracies termed “trusts.” The inter-state commerce act having demonstrated that congress can prohibit railroad pools, another law whose scope should extend to prevent and prohibit monopolies in monopolies, as these so-called “‘trusts” are in fact, should be passed. The spirit of " the “trust” is un-American and in practice imposes upon the consumer of almost every product—for there are “‘trusts” now for almost everything. A New York contemporary just at hand contains a list of about a dozen new “trusts,” which emphasizes the growing danger of the evil and the ne- cessity of checking it by law. Among those it names are, the steel rail trust, controlling the price and quan- tity of all steel rails made in this coun- try; the steel bar trust, the iron beam trust, the Western Nail association trust, the wrought-iron trust, the copper trust, the lead trust— trudts in fact for all branehes of metal working—the cordage trust, controlling the manufacture*of rope and twine; the cotton duck trust, the paper trust,and minor trusts in all the branches of its manufactured articles,such asenvelopes, bags, straw board, blank books, etc.; and a number of others. Then there are the great sugar trust, the oil trust, the whisky trust and a score of other outrageous impositions upon the people, every one of which is a conspiracy to extort from the consumer greater profit for the manufacturer. Monopolistic greed is the cornerstone of the iniquitous trust. That which the people have already endured from the grasping selfishuess of monopolists bids fair to be insignificant in comparison with the possibilities of the’trust sys- tem unless congress shall speedily enact punitive and prohibitory laws, ——— It is proposed to pay the city physi- cian an annual salary. of #2,400. No- body will question that this is very gen- erous compensation, and ought to secure a high order of talent for this position. ‘We venture to say that there is not an- other city in the United States with the population of Omaha ‘that pays s0 mu- nificent a salary its city physician, Can Omaha afford to do so? Is thore nnf justification for such extravagance? Isit not unauestionable that a thor- oughly capable physieian can be em- ployed for a much less . salary than, %2400 a' year—certainly for one-halt of this amount? Reckless raids on the city treasury have become the order, and if a halt is not called Omaha will suffer in more ways than one. Such extravagances mean in- creased taxatioh,'and every practical man knows what the effect of that is upon a city's pedsperity. The pace at which we are going in spending the public money in generous salaries that cannot be earned by those who receive them is altogether too rapid for such a community as this, and it must be re- duced if we would not get into diffi- culty. The men who are responsible for it ave not considering the public but their personal interests. — IT appears to be the intention of the council to'allow the several city officials to retain in their offices all the useless supernumeraries they now have, and to wllow them the liberal pay they are now receiving. Changes up and down in salaries have been agreéd upon by the special committee on appropria- tions, but the aggregate annual drain on the city treasury will not be materially, if at all, re- duced. Thus the people are to be required to support perhaps a dozen persons, including the sons of two members of the council, in positions whert they cannot possibly earn the salaries paid them unless the officials elected to perform the work of these po- sitions wholly fail to do their duty. This abuse the people may be compelled to tolerate for a time, but there will come a reckoning with those who are responsi- ble for it that will be summary and de- cisive. THE reason given by the city hall schemers for cancelling the Myers con- tract is that no bids have been received within the limit of $190,000 for the con- struction of the building, and hence it cannot be put up for that amount. If this be true, the fault lies with the city council,and not with Myers. The coun- cil did not invite bids for the erection of the whole building, but began by letting contracts in piece-meal, and did not proceed in accordance with Myers’ plans, which had been accepted. Fur- thermore, every possible delay was in- terposed, and meantime prices of work and material advanced. Had the coun- cil asked for bids on the whole building at the start, nearly two years ago, there is every reason to believe that responsi- ble bids within® fthe limit of $190,000 would have been received. —— THE proposition that seven council- men, the chief of ‘the fire deparvment, and one member of the board of public works, make a tour of the eastern cities to examine the public buildings looks very much like a junketing tour at the expense of the 'tax-ridden people of Omaha. It is about time to call & halt in the squandering of the people’s money. oot e PROMIN PERSONS. Colonel Mosby, of guerrilla fame, is now practicing law in California. Joseph Pulitzer is resting at Pasadena.Cal., and refuses to talk politics to all interview- ers. Paul Philippoteaux, the cycloramic artist, has just celebrated his thirty-eighth birth- day. De Grimm, the New York cartoonist, who claims to be a Russian baron, 18 said to be a son of one of the czar's tailors. Speaker Carlisley who has roturned to Washington, is still very weak, and his phy- sician tells him that he must beware of pneu- monia. ‘William O'Brien, now on the continent, is greatly improved in health, and will be pres- ent in the house of commons on the reassem- bling of parliament on the 9th inst. Hon. George W. Schuyler, a descendant of General Phillip Schuyler and a well known politician, died at Ithaca, N. Y., agea sev- enty-eight, He was a trustee of Cornell uni- wversity. Roscoe Conkling was recently asked if ho believed in the existence of a heaven and this was his reply: *If there is any place where politics never was and never could be heard of it would deserve that name,” Hannibal Hamlin refused to don an overj coat even during the recent severe blizzard Maine, when the mercury sank out of sight. He so far compromised himself, however. as to put on a new pair of woolen mittens. William R. Gladstone is having his portrait painted in Florence by Mr. Thaddens, the young Irish painter, whose picture of Pope Leo has become famous. Mr. Gladstone says that he will never again sit for his portrait. Miss Kate Willard, who is visiting Mrs. Cleveland at the white house is a college friend of the president's wife. “After leav- ing Wells college Miss Willard went to Ger- many to cultivate her voice for the operatic stage. A few days ago Benjamin F. Butler ap- peared upon the floor of the lower house of congress. Very few of the members seemed to recognize him. He has grown extremely aged in appearance and hobbles about on & stout cane, President Newell, of the Pittsburg & Lake .| Erie railroad, was compelled to pay his fare by the conductor on the Pennsylvania road one day last week. He had forgotten to have his 1887 pass renewed and the conductor re- fused to honor it, Jay Gould has seventeen green houses and beds of flowers of all kinds are scattered about the conservatory. He keeps his plants collections perfectly classified®and & man doesn’t need to carry a botany book along with him to tell the names of the plants he looks at. Robert Smalls, who was the last of the colored race to retiré from membership of the house of representatives, is pushing his claims for a pension on account of his famous capture of the confederatq steamboat Planter, in Charleston harbor, and its deliv- ery to union officers. Mrs. Letitia Tyler Semple, daughter of the late President Tyler, is almost totally blind, and is at present an inmate of the Louise home, Washington. D. C. Mrs. Semple is a handsome, distinguished-looking woman, in manners and speech of the old school. Her protile is an exaoct reproduction of that of her famous father, e Glimpses of Marc Antony, Rocheater Express, Marc Antony has been locked up in New York for chronio drunkenness. The last time we saw Marc he was hanging over Caesar’s bier, ————— Every Politician Has One. New York World, Senator Hawley is the inventor of a pocket compass. Tt has this peculiarity, that whichever way you turn the case thé hand points to the white house. i An Unpopular Combination. . ChicaBo Tribune, The organization of a castor-oil trust in southern Illinois will be looked upon with just susvicion. No castor-oil combination of any kind is picasing to contemplate, and the projectors may as wel! understand at once that this sort of thing won't g5 down. o ———— A New crow Needed. Boston Herald. How long is it going to take the bumptious protectionist organs to discover the fact that shouting “freo trade” whenever and wher- ever tariff-reform sentiment finds expression doesn't humbug anybody? It is about time high-tarift monopolists discovered a new bogy. May Become Uncontrolable. Philadelphia Press. The enterprising gentlemen who are push- ing the Phil Sheridan boom for president, “just for the fun of the thing," asone of their number exprossed it, should be on their guard. If that boom ever gets beyomd their control they will never be able to catch up with it. New York World. There's no sound to me so thrilling, Marrow-freezing, horror filling, When it penetrates the region of matutional repose, As the voice of our Mariar, ‘Who's gone down to start the fire, And comes back with the announcement that “‘the water pipes is froze!"” A vision of the ruin And disaster that is brewin' Flies across my morbid fancy in the twink- ling of an eye, And like the ghost of Banquo rises The plumber as he sizes Up the bill we'll have to settle in the coming by and by. And John, unreas'ning creature, ‘With scorn in every feature, Lays to me and poor Mariar what the ele- ments have done: Asks how in the name of thunder He's to stand it, 'till I wonder If Isent to Manitoba for this weather—just for fun! I'm dazed with hydrostatics, Hydraulics and pneumatics, And 1 wish improvements modern were ten thousand miles away ; I'll hunt a flowing geyser,x Take little Mary 'Lizer, And a note upon the bureau will tell John T've gone to stay. ————— STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Logan county will pull along on 34,000 this year. A farmer in Hitchcock sports a live, horned colt. Pawnee City has a board of trade. All the members are officers. For the first time in 2,000 years, or within the recollection of the oldest in- habitant, the moon will not get full this month. Herman Oltman, a ' twelve-year-old herder in Adams county, came in con- tact with a gun last Friday and perished. His body, was found Saturday. The Rushville Standard desires to em- phasize the fact that “‘ourcall for wood on subscription is no chestnut. We are really in earnest about wanting wood.” Beatrice proposes to grease the wheels and glide by rival towns the presont season. Ten individualsand firmshave contributed $500 each to a fund for ad- vertising the city in the onst. John Kehoe, of Platte Center, is the latest cindidate for the federal marshal- ship. For the benefit of the anxious it can be stated confidently that Bierhower has another year to serve, and proposes to hold the fort until a republican presi- dent is dWorn in. The lower jaw bone of the Trisoculus Bostogonicus has been dug up at Rush- ville and will be sent in sections to the Smithsonian reporters at Lincoln. The body of the beast was found near Rulo two years ag . It is believed by ex- perts that the mastodon lost its jawbone in a joint tariff and prohibition debate and dragged its painful frame to Rulo to die in horrible agony. . The statistics of pork king in the country from November 1, 1887, to Feb- ruary 1, 1888, show that Missouri river towns, except Kansas City and Nebraska City, have increased their product over the corresponding period of the pre- vious season. Omaha leads with an increase from 182,000 to 260,000; Lincoln from 44,000 to 48,172; Sioux City from 78,702 to 87,850, and Nebraska City a decreaso of 20,000. All eastern cities show a decrease in product. The Beatrice Democrat thus explains the thundering resolve of the Lake Side lyceum: “‘George A, Abbott, a farmer (?) in_Richardson county, who raises more hell than corn, and realizes more from the sale of his politics than all his other crops, recently introduced a reso- lution and had it iulnpted atan alleged “farmers’ institute,” censuring Con- gressman McShane for introducing the bill to pension Mrs. Logan. Itsa cold day when Abbott loses an opportunity to‘show the full length of his ears.” The recent boom pamphlet issued b{ the Fremont board of trade has re- alized a deluge of inquiries in regard to the temperal and spiritual wants of the community. It has pricked the neglectful conscience of missionary boards, and a vigorous effort will be made to save the heathen. Here isa sample letter from Missouri: “‘Dear Sir the weather is pleasant hear all tho it has bin verry Cold temp 31 blow zero tims hard Stock low money scarse but the work of the lord is progressing fine with an abundant ingathring of Soles for Christ. so please send me your map of Nebraska, Wysming and Dacoto and illustrations & oblige me yours truly.” Dakota. Renl estate sales are picking up at Yankton. 1t is proposed to make the Methodist college building at Rapid City 50x80, three gtories. Between $5,000. and $6,000 have al- ready been raised for the Norwogian Lutheran college to be located in Sioux Falls. Mrs, Jasper Railshack, of Sturgis, after qulu‘rulint’ with her husband, went into an adjoining room and wrote a note to Juxrer about his general mean- ness, and then took up a Sharp’s rifle and shot herself through the y. She 'was dead in twenty minutes. A hulletin is hanging in the Mil- waukee depot in Yankton which says the prospects for railroad construction in Dakota by the Milwaukee company in 1888 are very poor, and that company will buy no ties, enough ties being on hand to meet the requirementsof the season. The people who are engaged in uh(mrinu ties in the forests of Da- kota will have totake a rest this year. Montana. Shipments of bullion from Butte last week amounted to 394,948, Farmers in the Prickly Pear valley have not only begun plowing, but are already sowing their crops, and reports from other counties show that a similar state of affairs obtains throughout the agricultural regions. The Montana Central tunnel through the range between Butte and Helena has been completed. The total length of the tunnel is about twelve hundred and eighty feet and it has taken nine months, an average of 142 feet a month, to'do the work. A Walkerville tough challenged the r}’urnny of a local judge, and was fined 25 for contempt. The tough jumped up, repeated the oflense, declared he would not pay the fine, “and no son of a blank blank of a judge of Walkerville can make me doit.” When the court got through with him the fine was $100 and ninety duy®in jail. A cattleman residing at Cottonwood. near Benton, writes to a friend in a that there have been no losses of stock fn that section this winter, Although the cold was severe the first two weelks of Junuary, the snow =1l was light and cattle did not suffer. Stock- men are hopeful of recovering a large per cent of the losses of the previous winter. RESOLU —eeee 10NS OF RESPE The Methodist Ministers' Tribute to Rev. G. W. Frost. At a meeting of the Methodist ministers held yesterday the following resolutions re- specting the late Rev. George W. Frost were road and unanimously adopted : Whereas, By the inscrutable will of the reat head of the church, our dear brother, tev. G. W. Frost, has been removed from !ln‘| church militant to the church triumphant § ang Whereas, His life among us has left us many preclous and fragrant imemories 80rrow, but not without hope of a glerio: reunion with him before the throne; there- fore be it Resolved, That in his departure from our midst we recognize our loss by this tribute to his excellence as a man, his ability as a preacher, his integrity m_business, his pat- riotism as a citizen and his catholicity as a christian, Resolved, also, That we deeply sympa thize with the affiicted family in their be reavement and commend them to the divine sympathy of our Lord, who wept on human woes, and to the comfort of the widow's God, and assure them of our sympathy und prayers. A lotter from Arthur Edwards, D. D, editor of the Northwestern Christion Advo: cate, Chicago, was read. He wrote: “I'um grioved to the heart to hear of the death of our precious friend, Frost. I\ years he s been in the habit of running into the office to see me when in the city, and those visits wero always a joy to me. 1 shall miss him greatly, and his” presence yonder make tho better world fuller of conscious attractions. Brother Frost had a noblo heart and loved the church to the last. My heart aches for the stricken family. Give them my love and tenderost sympathies.” e CAPTURING THE THIEVES Who Robbed the Clothing House of Kohn & Wells, Captain Green succeeded last night in turn- ing up the balance of the plunder stolen from. the clothing house of Kohn & Wells, South Eleventh street, Monday morning. Yester- day Sergeant Sigwart arrested Monroe San- born, & negro, with a sack full of the stolen clothing on his shoulder as ho was hurrying down Twelfth strect. Last night, following up a clue ' obtained from' Sanborn, Captain Green, and a couplo of officers, visited the barn of Frank Kinney, and in the loft found tho remainder of the stolen goods, consisting of fifty pairs of pants, coats, vests and woolen shirts, which they removed to the police station. Later thoy arrested Wiley Petteo, Charles Mitchell and John Finney and locked them up. Finney is tho hack driver who hauled the goods from the burglarized store to Kinney's barn. Mr. Kinney, the police say, had nothing whatever to do with the affair, T, NEW BANKING INSTITUTION. C. E. Mayne and Others Agree to Put Up the Funds. 0'The Omaha Banking company” is ‘the title of a corporation that filed articles of in- corporation with the county clerk yesterday. C. E. Mayne, Michael Lee, C. P. Needham, J. W. Dillrance, John Hobbs, J. W. Gro: and H. E. Palmer, M. D., are the incorpora- tors, and the amount of capital is placed at $250,000, 25 per cent of which is to_be paid in within ten days after the organization and clection of the officers. The time of com- mencement of this corporation shall be the first day of February, 1888, and the indebted- ness at no time shall exceed two-thirds of the capital stock except deposits in the bank and the other exceptions mentioned in chapter 17 of the statutes of 1887. —— Aspinwall Speaks. ‘To the Editor of the Bek: Seeing an item in last night’s Beg reflecting on me person- aily, and saying that Thad sent a valentiue to apoor widow, 1wish tostate through the Bek that the first and only knowledge 1 have of the whole affair is what] read in the Beg, and I wish to state that in allof Mrs. Elliott's misfortunes I have sympathized with her,and deny that all the board bill jumpers were members of the army. and T would be the first one to help her recover her ducs, but when it comes to Mr. Johin Stockwell saying that I am guilty of such a childish ungentle manly act us sending valentines of any kind, and trying to insult anyone, it is time to call a halt. Who this Mr. J. Stockwell may be I know not; but out of justice to my brothers and sisters in the Salvation Army I want you to say that at no time have 1 said or done auything that should tend to wound Mrs. Elliott's feelings, 1 may say that I shall see into this matter further, us holding the position that I do, it will give the impression that the Salvation Army is up- holding those that are in the wrong, when we come down on wrongdoers with a' heavy hand, and our only desire is to do men gogl and get them to lead better lives. FRANK ASPISWALL. Man, Money and Gun. ‘The whereabouts of J. W. Sweney, who left here 8o unexpectedly last Monday morn- ing, are still unknown. Roprescntatives of the Columbia buggy company are here en- deavoring to find out how much they must charge up to his peculiar ways of doing busi- ness. At this time the sum is known fo be not far from $4,500. Sweney had previously been n partnership with Henry Homan, sud before the dissolution of the copartnership dropped quite un amount, and will most likely have to 0 down into his pockets for some more. On tho ay of Sweney's disappearance he borrowed Homan's gun on the claim that he was going hunting, but neither gun nov borrower has since been seen, Two Years' Old. X ‘The second anniversary of the establishment of the local lodge of the order of Elks was celebrated at the rooms last night, where a number of the charter and other members met with social intent. Toasts and refresh- ments were indulged in under the presiding careof A. B. Davenport. The responscs were made by John Francesand W. N. Bub- cock, pust exalted relers, as did also F. It Morrisy, E. E. Whitmore, Thomas Boyd. I. W. Miner, D. W. Van Cott, Harry F. Hall W:J. Cartan, C, C. Hulett, D. W. Hayes and others, A humorous recitation was delivered in a very successful manner by s OLt. The history of the order wus afterwards de tailed in a most entertaing manuer, Licensed to Wed. The following marriage liconses were issued yesterday by Judge Shiclds: Nume and resudence. Peter Buckmen, Elihorn, Neb, { Mary Augors, Eikhorn, Neb.» Leander Fredlund, Omaha Corie Martinson, Omaha { John H. Maskett, jr., L 1 Hattio H. Jones, Omalia, Henry J. Orrell, Omaha. Helona Simpson, Omah: Judge Shiclds performed _the ceremony in the case of Mr. Orrell and Miss Simpsou. Taylor a Free Man. . Charles Taylor, the young man convicted of misappropriating county warrants last April, and who was scntenced to one year in the penitentiary, hus been released. His excellent conduet in_ the prison cut his time down fully three montha. Taylor states that he will stay o Oruha, aud by & blameless life wipe out the stuin upon his character. THE GOOD WORK GOES ON. Funds Stil Coming in For the Herolnes of the Storm. NEARLY 87,000 IN THE BEE FUND. Congressman McShane Again Re- sponds Liberally For Miss Royce— The Roll of Honor Steadily Growing—The Contributors, ©ita Shattuck's Funeral. Sewaun, Neb., Feb, wecinl Telegram to the Bex.) —The funcral of Miss Etia Shat- tuck took place y rday afternoon, and all Seward turned out to show the honor and esteem in which the dead heraine was held. Even nature relented in the presence of tho beautiful ‘dead. The cruel, biting winds of the day before were hushed into solemn awe and the sun shone forth in all its brightuess. At 2 o'clock the funeral cortege, prosided over by members of the G. A. R., moved slowly over the frozen ground from the littlo cottage to the Methodist church, which was tilled to overflowing. The casket was borne up the asle by six young men—Messrs, Ire- land, Bether, Schultz, Brandes, Botzer and Leesee-followed by the grief-stricken mother, brother and uncle and friends, and the G. A R. The casket was a beautiful one, covered with brocaded velvet of spotless white, On the plate was engraved “At Rest.” There “were many floral tributes, including a beauti- ful design, “‘Gates Ajar," from the press of Seward. The services were conducted by Rev. J. H. Presson, assisted by the clergy of Seward. The sermon was eloquent and touching, and its delivery was frequently in- terrupted by the sobs of the hoart-stricken relatives and the sympathetic audience. The scrvice lasted about an hour, after which the audience viewed the remains, which were then conveyed to the cemetery and laid at rest, Miss Royce Resting Easy. PraiNview, Neb, Feb. 8.—(Special Tele- gram to the Bee.]—Miss Royce is roesting casy this evening and the prospects of her re- covery are quite favorable. A Benefit Social. This afternoon Mrs. S. K. Felton and Mrs. Milo Van Horn will give a sociable at the residence of the former,4022 Hamilton street, the proceeds of which will be donated to the Bee herome fund. There will be a musical and literary entertainment, followed by re- freshments. The Etta Shattuck Funds. The following is the condition of tho Etta Shattuck fund: Amount received up to February 7..$3,080 13 P, T. Birchard, Norfolk 200 List of Nettie Burger an Mouroe, Doniphan Mrs. D. J. F. Reed, Ci Kathleen Erskine, J. H. Stickel and bro Pawnee City Loup City list. Employes G. H. Auditor Pass. ucots’ office U.P.R.R. Harry Gilmore, Div. 126 0. R. C. E. Connley, Unadilla, Neb. v F. H. Orcuit, Council Bluffs £ Citizens of Albion. % ¢ Arlington, Neb., list. g Giara 88 nSEafwa ~=w EIKSEB2RREES R. D. Cobb, Cedar Rapids, Neb. Citizens of ' Anselmo, Nob...... Baptist church, Ashlind. ; C. Thompson. . Employes C. & " focal Troight oftice, Missouri Valiey. .. S Total By check sent Miss Shattuck By cash on hand.... Total.... AsnrAND, Neb., Feb. 6. To the Editor of the BE Enclosed vlease find draft for $13.50, the amount of the offering on Sunday evening at St. Stephen's churoh, Ashland (Episcopal), for Miss Royce, God spoed you in your noble work. A. A. MORRISON, Rector. The Secret Orders. Omama, Feb. 6. Tothe Editor of the Ber: Enclosed please find check on Omaha Na- tional bank for $30, for which please place equally to the funds of Misses Shattuck, Royce and Freeman, as the contribution of Harry Gilmore Division 126,0rder of Railway Conductors. HARRY GILMORE, 00, Omans, Feb. 6.—To the Editor of the Ber: Omaha lodge N , K. of H., at its regular meeting this evening contributed $10 to Miss Louise Royce. Jamrs B. Brusex, F. R Generous Soldiers. To the Editor of the Bkk: In view of the fact that &t the time @ contribution of $37.50 was made by Cuptain John Simpson and his em- ployes at the Q. M. corral in this city for tho threo Nebraska heroines, Misses Shattuck, Royce and F'reoman, it was not known that Miss Royce would be permantly disabled, a further contribution of $12.50 from the same source is herewith cnclosed, which please place 1o the credit of Miss Royce. Generous Printers. The compositors of the news room of the Omaha Ropublican very generously donated & portion of their receipts on yesterday to the Loic Royce fund. Each of these gave 1,000 ems, and tho result was §3.25, which has been paid to the Bee fund. This is most gencrous on thepart of the Republican comps, and their excellent example should be fol- lowed by oth ‘The donors are: Messrs, D. J. Cannan, W. Ci Ermer G. Smith, Farreli, Bradley, Hart! Davis, Long,Mar- tin, Anderson, Hoyle, Chase, Fisher, Wil- liams, Robinson, Goorge Gehn, Dermody, Clark, Albion, Burke. * “The Reroine.” Mr. T. N. Parker, the florist, has formu- lated a plan by which quite a neat smmn will be derived for the Royce and Woebbeoke funds. Mr. Parker has constructed a beauti- ful floral ship, made of the most choice and expensive flowers. This ship is named “The Heroine” and is a perfect werk of art. Ona ¢ to be determined on later the floral de- sign will be rafiled with two other similar de- signs, the entire procecds 1o go to the Royce and Woebbecke funds. George Heyn the photographer has very generously furnished the photographs free of cost and these will be dintl‘ibuw(‘ in consplouous places through- out the city. After the rafle the designs will again be constructed out of fresh Howers and delivered to the persons cutitled to them, Pokrok Zapadu's Fund. icky, editor of the Pokrok Zap- adu, is doing going good work in behalf of sufferers by the late blizzard in raising sub- scriptions, which promise to reach a respect- able figure, for soveral noedy persons. One of these is in Fillmore county, a family of dren, with an invalid father, named Masck. The mother of the former left her home at tho commencement of the storm and walked to the school-house to safely conduct some of her children home. = Scliool, how- ever had been dismissed, and the little ones, in some manner, had left for other places of shelter. In returning home the mother was frozen to death. In Madison county a man named J. Vech was also frozen to death, leay- ing a wife and children. The Pokrok Zapadu will ack il contributions for the relicf of th 3 s Suggostion. To the Vditor of the Ber: sath of Miss Shattucl, which all must sincerely lament, may have L of preventing the completion of the attuck fund, and g also uhat sdingly and unexpectedly unfortun- ults of Miss Royce's injuries make as strong un appeal as unmerited misfortuue i curred in the disinterested and heroic dis. charge of duty can make 10 huwan sympa- thy, I am willing. with the conscat of those Mr. Moue “Ovans, Feb. 7. Fecling that the