Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 6, 1888, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. e TRRMS OF SULSCRIPTION. Dally (Mornjag_ Edition) ineluding Sunday BER, One Yenr . 1o rur% Mot ths Foe Three Montha. . ) ¢ Omaha Sunday Bk, maiied to an; b s, One Year.. fovse OmAnA Orvice, Noi D91 NAM STRI ROOMS 14 AND 15 TR1I Youk Orpic ¢ N0, ASHINGTON OFFicE, No. RTEENTH STREET, CORRESPONDRNCE. All communications relating to news and edi. torial matter should be Addressed to the EbIToit ¥ THE DEE. 4 DUSINRSS LETTERS. A1l buciness lotters and remittances ghould be addressed to THR BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMANA. Drafts, checks and postofiice orders to e ade payable to the order of the company. The Bee ¥ Pablishing Company. Proprictors ROSEWAT ER, Editor. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circalation. Etate of Nebraska, tounty of Douriass, 8.8 eo. If. Tzschuck, secretary of The Beo Pub- Ushing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circlatioh of ily Bee for the week h 3, 1688, follows: b, i ieaday, Feb. 28, p.lm«.fi(ny,w Thursday, Mch. 1 Friday, Mch. 2... Average. .. 824 [ p 16, GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Bworn to and sul s ibseribed in my_presence 8rd day of March, A. D., 1888, yN.I" FRIL, Btate of Nebraska, Notary Public. County of Dougl: fos Geo. 1. Tzschuck, peing et duly sworn, de- Jotcs and says that he ds secrotary of The Tieo iblishing mm,mn“ that the actual & 0 datiy circulation of the Daily e for the month h, 1887, 14,400 coples; for April, Tadta Coptest . tor Ma T, 4,257 coples; for June, 187, uf.flfi cont coples} for _Auj Sember, 1887, 8%, 14,383; for N 1 X for 'December, 187, 16,04 goples: _for January. 18k, coples; for February, 1668, 15,%2 copies. GEO. B, TZSCHUCK. Sworn and subscribed to in’ my presence this 4 day of February, A, D, 188, N. P. FEIL, Notary Pubiic. _— 1T looks as if the list of possible presi- dential candidates was complete. No addition to it has been made in at lenst o week. — TirE mossback of thirty years ago has just crawled out of his hole, but like the ground-hog he will be back into it, scared by his own shadot. e——— IT {3 in accord with the eternal fit- ness of things for the poor old news- paper wreck on lower Douglas street to champion the hare-brained schemes of the Jefferson square mossbacks. Emses—— THE committee of congress to inves- tigate the trusts will enter upon its task next Thursday. Itis to be hoped the result will be less unsatisfactory than ‘was reached by the committee of the New York legislature. E— THE shadow of the coming presiden- tial election gives the hue to the counsel of all politicians at this time. What is most expedient for the party rather than ‘what is best for the whole people, is the paramount question. Erme—— ‘THE discussion of the new tariff billin the press is more favorable to the meas- ure than was to have been expected. Even the more candid among the or- gans of protection concede that in some respects it is fairer than they looked for. Butnoone appears to be at all sang uine of its success. er—— THERE {8 very little probability that Mr. Springer’s omnibus bill for convert- ing four territories into states will get through the senate, whatever may be its fate in the house. The injustice it proposes to do to the people of Dakota is 80 appurent,and the partisan reason therefor 80 obvious, that we have no doubt there are democratic senators who will not support it. The advocates of a division of Dakota express confidence that it will be defeated in the house. ————— Tt is by no means certain that Messrs. Gould and Sage can yet cougratulate themseives that they are beyond the reach of justice. The ruling that led the recent grand’ jury todrop the charge against them is very generally con- demned 88 a perversion of the machin- ery of criminal justice, and it is very likely the district attorney will feel compelled to bring the matter before the incoming grand jury,in which case a * different result is more than probable. —— Now that we have a minister to Mex- fco it i in order for the turbulent ‘Texans and the mischievous Mexicans to renew hostilities on the border. Hardly had Minister Bragg presented his credentials before the announcement came of an ‘‘affair” at Eagle Pass in which one Mexican soldier was killed and another mortally wounded, while “members of a sherift’s posse received severe flesh wounds. The matter has been reported to Washington, and Gen- eral Bragg will have an immediate chance to show his ability asa diplo- matist, E———— THE American minister to England did not give the customary banquet in honor of Washington’s birthday. In fact he entively ignored the holiday by accepting an invitation to one of Lord Salisbury’s receptions. Minister Phelps has long been known as a rabid anglo- maniac, and has shown his contempt for American principles and customs in other ways than by slighting George ‘Washington’s birthday. An ideal American representative to the court of St. James should certainly be a scholar and a gentleman, but he should also refleet the highest type of Ameri- can civilization. But this quality Min- ister Phelps sadly lucks, emsrem————— A YEAR ago the Boston Herald an- nounced in its columus that it proposed, as an incentive to its employes, to dis- tribute at the end of the year a certain percentage of its profits among them in proportion to their salarics. At the time the employes took but little stock in the announcement, believing it to be asort of an advertising scheme of the per. The managers of the Herald ave, however, kept their promise, and a day or two ago some 815,000 were dis vided, each ewploye receiving . an amount equal to 4 per eent. of his wages, . It is not stated by the Boston Jerald whether it will continue it plan during the presont year. But tht fact will bé remembered as oné of the wuique . examples in the history of profit-shar- ing. g . A TandcGrabbers' Still Hunt, A concerted movement by the land rings, pre-emption clmm brokers and town lot syndicates is in progress to pro- cure the removil of every special agent of the general land office who has stood in the way of marauders upon the na- tional domain. While General Sparks remained at the head of the national land office the efforts of these land sharks, eitter at home or at the na- tional! capital, received no encourage- ment. The late commissioner was a firm and relentless foe of land grabbers and claim frauds in every ghape, manner or forn. No matter what pressure was brought, or from what quarter the pressure came, no land agent who had proved himsclf trustworthy was ever allowed to be dis- turbed. Ever since Sparks was forced out of the land office the cormorantsand claim speculators have been active with schemes and plots to dieplace the spe- cial agents who had made themselves offensive to them by reason of their fidelity to duty. In no section of the country have the land robbers shown greater eagerness to resume operations without hindrance than right here in Nebraska. In these efforts they have been seconded by congressional in- fluence which was notoriously impli- cated in land-grabbing schemes in the western section of the state. It remains to bo seen, howevér, whether the na- tional land office will play into the hands of these land rings, syndicates and bogus pre-emptors, by removing the officers whose experience enables them to cope with the conspirators. Acting Commissioner Stockslager knows as well as we do that the dismissal of competent and tried special agents at this juncture is not in the line of an efficient administration of the land office, and we trust he hasthe backbone to resist all pressure for changes under whatever pretext it may come. eu— An Unwarranted Invasion. A very earnest popular orotest is being made against the course of the Burlington railroad officials in import- ing into Nebraska armed men, who, with out any authority from state, county or municipal governments, are acting as detectives and exercising-a measure of police surveillance in behalf and under the direction of the corporation. This proceeding is felt to be a grave outrage upon the rights of the state, an insult to its authority, a disparagement of its power to maintain and execute thelaws, and in itself an act of lawlessness hos- tile to peace and good order. That this invasion of armed men, whether they be called Pinkerton detectives or something else, performing police service under the sole direction and suthority of the Burlington railroad officials, is clearly without warrant of law, it is presumed no intelligent and candid man will question. That it con- travenes the exclusive right of the peo- ple of this state, through the constituted authorities, to appoint and commission such persons as may be necessary to preserve the peace, protect property, and in all respects maintain and en- force the laws of the state, we believe to be an indisputable proposition. That its tendency is subversive of law, in arousing the natural hostility of citi- zens to the presence and surveillanee of imported mercenaries acting under an authority not recognized by the state, must be apparent to everybody. The proceeding on the partof the Burlington company is wholly unjustifi- able. Not only is it without warrant of law, but there is nothing in the circum- stances to give it excuse. The property of the company has not been endan- gered. The employes of the company have not been threatened. There has been no attempt at violence on the part of the striking engineers and firemen and no intimation of a purpose to commit violence. On the contrary the company has been most fully assured by those who have the authority to speak for the strikers that the laws would be most carefully respected, and the char- acter of the men engaged in the strike was a sufficient guarantee that this would be done. But even were this assurance wanting the company would have no right to usurp police powers in the state by quartering in cities and towns armed men from another state to harrass and overawe our citizens. The duty of the company, and its only lawful recourse, was to appeal to the authorities for pro- tection, just as any business firm or private eitizen would do if apprehensive of danger to property or person. There is no extraordinary power of self pro- tection conferred on any corporation, railroad or otherwise, doing business in Nebraska, that can be exercised independently of those whom the people have empowered to execute the law, and any attempt by any corporation to exercise police power regardless of the authorities com- mits a usurpation subversive of law and hostile to the rights of the state and its citizens. This practice of the corporations of hiring armed detectives and distribut- ing them through the states at their pleasure, whenever they have any dif- ficulty with employes, has come into vogue within the past few years, and the general experience has been such as to strongly eondemn it. Many of the men who engage in this scrvice are worthless fellows who are either unfit for anything else or too indolent to work, and who have little care for the law and none what- ever for the vrights of the people among whom they may be sent. Feeling no personal responsibility, and instructed to have no thought for any but those they are hired to serve, they have generally done more to subvert than to maintain law. The history of their employment records numerous in- stances in which people have been ruths. lessly shot down, and many examples of reckless lawlessness. Several states have been led by these experiences to pass laws prohibiting the employment within those states of these armed mer+ cenaries, and it is evident that such leg- islation must din time becomo ' general, The indignation' .of ecit~ izens of Nebraska at the. pres- ence among them of the Burlington company’s imported detectives is nat- ural and justifiable, and should at least assure the company that it can only lose in popular regard by continuing its ob- jectionable and unwarranted course. E—— Recklessness in Bullding. i The Kansas City investigation: into the Midland hotel catastrophe is. bring- ing to light some startling facis. At the inquest of one of the victims who met his death by the falling of the roof, the architect, Mr. Burnham, stated that the accident was caused by the giving way of the iron plates which supported the trusses under the ceiling of the din- ing room. The fault was due to the gross careclessness of contractors, es- pecially the men who contracted to do the iron work on the building. The plates were all too small. Where the architect's drawings and specifications called for plates two and one-quarter inches thick, the plates furnished by the foundries were only one and one- half inches thick. Where the specifi- cations called for plates three and seven-tenths feet square, the plates were less than onc-half that size. The weight of the truss was therefore thrown over a smaller aren of the wall, and the strain being so great caused the weight of the truss to rest on the edge of the plates instead of the center. This caused the bricks to give, and in the opinion of the architect brought about the disaster. The wall, instead of being a twenty-inch wall, was only sixteen inches thick. What further light may be thrown on the matter, as the 1nvesti- gation goes on, remains to be seen. The testimony is sufficient, however, to show that the contractorsand buildersignored the plans of the architect. It is but reasonable to infer from the evidence that other parts of the building are faulty in construction. And furthermore it is reasonable to infer that other large buildings of Kansns City have been erected in the past few years which have not been put up according to the architect’s plans. But Kansas City is not the only sufferer in this respect. In many other western cities, property owners have been victimized by the connivance of archi- tects with dishonest contractors in the erection of buildings. There seems but little doubt that in the construction of the Midland hotel the contractors and building superintendent have had an understanding to stight the work and to share the profits of the egg-shell build- ing. Don’t You Know. An old Jefferson square mossback who had not enterprise enough to build a fence 1n front of the house he lived in for nearly a quarter of a century; and for more than twenty years refused to pay his taxes, has the impudence to de- nounce the editor of the BEE as a liar because this'paper has pointed to the fact that the Missouri river runs within five blocks of Jefferson square. ‘Don’t you know,” says old mossback, ‘‘that in Omaha, as laid out on the map of Anno Domini Jones, the streets running north and south are numbered, bogin- ning with the river,and don't you know that Jefferson square is bounded by Fif- teenth and Sixteenth streets. and, there- fore, you editorial blockhead,the square is fifteen blocks from the river on the east line, and sixteen blocks on the west line.” This is indeed & stunner. But old Mossback does not appear to know that the topography of Omaha has under- gone some change since 1854. For more than tweuty years, First, Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth streets north of Farnam street have been in the main channél of the Missouri river, which at this date covers more than eight blocks of the original Anno Domini plat east of Jefferson square. We aa- mit it was not thus in the ante-diluvian days of the Mossback. But while the channel of the Missouri has changed since the good old times the soil in the blocks surrounding Jefferson square has not changed perceptibly, The bank of quicksand which Henry Livesey struck when he was laying the founda- tion of the Cass street school still re- mains where it was fifty years ago. The wells in the blocks east and north of the square still show water within twelve to fifteen feet from the street levels, and the oldest grave digger in Omaha will not be able to disprove that fact by any ‘‘Experience,” past, present or future. When it is proposed in all seriousness to erect public buildings with their thousands of toms of dead weight on grounds that would require costly piling for secure foundations, the mossbacks and early scttlers must give way to stubborn realities. ee——— Divided Against Itself. Some of our local contemporaries pre- dict great things for Omaha from the newly organized Union club. The BEE is not so hopeful. It does not expect to gather figs from thistles. The primary object of the promotors of the club is to cripple the Omaha club by withdrawing support which is essential to its vitality. If the ‘“‘Union” succeeds in breaking up the Omaha club it will create enemies and personal resentments that will take years of time to heal, The secondary aim of the “Union” is said tobe concerted aétion among Omaha business men in fostering enterprises that promise to promote the general welfare of this city, and originating schemes of public imprevement which would help to build up Omaha. This'is very laudable, and would com- mend itself at first blush. Butcan the Union club hope to achieve such su- premacy in giving direction to publie enterprises without clashing with the board of trade? Fer our part, we do not believe it can. The functions of the board of trade as now organized are virtually limited to the very objects which the Union olub proposes to mo- nopolize. If the board of trade is ex- pected to coufine itself to commercial exchanges and traffic arrangements, it may as well aisband, It will take years of time before a produce exchange can be practically maintained in this city. So we shall have discord and damaging rivalry between the club and the board of trade. And when it comes to ques- tions of public policy in which Omaha is to join hands with other citles, which of these rivals will ‘be potential? Surely not the -club. A petition or re- monstrance from a chamber.of com- merce carries some.weight with it, but what attention would be paid to the ro- solves ahd petitionk of a private club? Will a house divided against itself achieve its object? COLONEL LOWS was ‘“‘endersed” by President Cleveland as the best man in New York for district attorney. Maurice B. Flynn and Rolin M. Squire, freed from a charge of conspiracy by n faulty indictment drawn up by the dis- trict attorney, alsg ‘“‘endorse’” Colonel Fellows as the best man in New York. BTATE AND RRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Beatrice republicans have clubbed. 8. E. Solomon has sold the Culbert- son Sun to R. W. Montgomery. Platte Center wants a flour mill and a brick yard. Good water power can be had for both. M. E. Stevens, of Boone, was killed by a team of runaway colts, neay Albion, Saturday night. Holdrege has sent complimentary resolutions to Holdrege. Now make way for the shops. - The Beaver City Times summarizes the strike situation hy saying that ‘“‘we may reasonably expect a train at any time. The voters of Hastings are asked to sanction the ‘expenditure of $15,000 in extending the water mains of the city. The election will be held next month. The Grand Island Times sces no ne- cessity for Pinkerton’s armed gunfi in Nebraska, ‘“‘Governor Thayer’s militia can kill all that the civil officers cannot handle.” A genius in Hastings has invented a corset that plays n wedding march when squeezed. Another genius in Nebraska City hus perfected an improvement that registers hugs. What the country needs is a bullet proof corset for wine room receptions, Lincoln has organized a society for the propagation of Volapuk. To sue- wessfully cultivate this valuable adjunct to the products of the state, the soil should be plowed deep in the fall and harrowed in the spring,and the rootlets planted in buckskin sacks to protect them from the omnivorous book worm. A Beatrice man made use of his leap rerogatives the other night by ng up i his wife’s clothes and parading the streets making mashes. Later in the evening he returned home to change his attire and found that his wife was out in town in his business suit trying to work up some new real estate deals. Towa ftems. The blossoming plum trees in Beatrice have been nipped in the bud. . The company at Webster City boring for gas lost their drill at a depth of 23 feet. Marshalltown’s hlgh school has aclass of uniformed girls who swing Indian clubs, % Sioux City is moving to catch the main line, or a branch of the Duluth & Omaha road, to beibuilt this year. The religiously ' ‘dinclined people of West Bend contémplate building a Catholic and Presbyterian church, A number of Humboldt citizens have organized a company with $2,000,000 capital to-develop aimine in Colorado. A Boone woman is said to have just completed a crazy quit with 24,784 ieces in it. Her husband keeps his rgleohes together” with a horseshoe nail. At a dance given by a party of colored people at Dubuque Wednesday night a white girl was present who had n raised by negroes, and who, for her per- sonal charms, attracted more attention than the dasky maidens. Everythin went as merry as a marriage bell unlfi the white girl began to teceive the at- tentions of a certain dusky damsel’s solid fellow, when the colored girl pounced upon her and gave her a ogging. The matter was aired in the police court next day. Dakota. Deadwood has anchored the govern- ment land office. Peter Hoy, in Hyde county, broke prairie February 23, which is rushing the season. The flouring mill at LaMoure is being equipped with flour packers and will #oon be running night and day. Gentlemen from New York and Wis- consin, together with some Dakota cap- italists, will meet at Redfield March to take steps toward incorporating the Duluth, Redfield & Southwestern rail- way. Hermosa is said to be all agog over the recent discovery of tin and silver a few miles west of that place. The silver belt lies about five miles west of Her- mosa, in the direction of Hayward, and the tin discoveries are located from eight to ten miles west of Hermosa, near Bobiers’ ranch, on Battle creek below Hayward. The reported strikes are said to be of considerable import- ance, inasmuch as the ore found in both districts present the most flattering in- dications of value. ——— Ryan Prostrated. Frank Ryan, the slayer of Mrs. Howard, ‘was found prostrated and in & very mervous condition in his cell at the central station yesterday morning. The fainting spell he had the night before and the severe medication he wms sub- jected to, has left him physically weak and mentally distraught. He was nervous, rest- less and little inclined to talk; his face is pale and dark lines encircle his eyes, and that he is suffering much mental torture is plain to be seen. Failing to engage him in conversation, the reporter left his cell just as his lawer, Mr. Bradley, was admitted. The police have take no steps in the matter and have col- lected no evidence. The story about Ryan’s beinga hard drinker and addicted to the mor- phine habit it stoutly refuted by all those who know him best. He has never been known to be intoxicated about the residence of the Scott's, and his room-mate declares that he is but a very moderate drinker. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon County Attor- ney Simeral filed 8 complaint against Ryan, charging him with murder in the first de vee, and his preliminary examination is set lor this afternoon at 2' o*clock. A Car Di Cruelty. The driver of car No. 35, Park avenue line, was arrested yesterday afternoon charged with cruelty to animals. ' At the time of his arrest ho had_an overloaded car and was mercilessly whipping his horses, which were struggling to climb the slippery hill. The complaining witness is Orville J. Nuve. A continuance was secured until Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock. ——— Coming From the Bluffs. [BA [committee appointed by the Couneil Bluffs board of trade to confer with repre- sentatives of the Omaha board of trade with aview of enlisting support and encourage- ment 1n establishing a Chautauqua assembly at the Bluffs will arrive iu the city this after- noon, and will present their arguments at the Chamber of Commerce building. i Inter-State Kailway Commission. Qommissioner Grifitta, of the freight bureau of the Omaha board of trade, has been notified that cthe inter-state railway commission Will arrive in Omaba on the 19th © inst hear argu- ments -in ' the discrimination cases against the ratiropds. On that occaston a full showing of facts in substantiation-of the case to of the freight bureau will be SOUTH OMAHA NEWS. Abrams, of Pender, brought in six cars of cattle yesterday. 0. W. Perlee, of Western, has two cars of cattie on the market. J. A, Frazier came In from Silver City to look over the market. B. & M. officials say they will run in a stock train to-day. Justice Levy continued the suit of Weid- man vs. Fitzgerald for ton days yesterday. Richard Otto August Reuther, eldest son of Judge Reuther, has come to make his home in South Omaha. The B. &M. showed signs of life yesterday, and their switch engine was doing auty for the first time since the strike. “Those who own the least spoke the most," is what one disinterested spectator said of the board of trade meeting Saturday night. Ticket Agent Woods 18 sick, and travelers over the Uilion Pacific miss his genial face at the Windsor, E. P, Weirs is officiating in the meantime. The Owl club of the commission men shows lk(lll of disbanding, and yesterday one oftice was _filled with delinquent members. They said that Roy Hough. the treasure had goue to Chicago, and the committee said that it mado no_difference, as none of them had paid their dues. They held a meeting all thesame and initiated unsuspecting strangers. Twenty-five old army men met in City Clerk Wells' office Saturday night and re- solved to form a post. Enough money was i;rndur‘od to pay for a charter, and Comrades uylis, Theo, Elliot, J. B. Erion, J. A. Me- Murphy and J. W. Cress were appointedas a committee to settle on the time and place of the regular post meetings, Ofticers will be elected next Saturday. Jack Kelley has been boarding with Mrs. Nella Kearns, but for some reason doesn't feel inclined to settle for the accommoda- tion, and Justice TLevy continued the case until the 19th in order that both parties could think it over The Exchange hotel guests yesterday were: C. Abrams, Pender; H. J. Windsor, Omaha; J. A. Frazier, Silver City, In.; O. W. Perley, Western, Neb. After a three weeks' absence Judge Rou- ther returned from his trip to the cast, and celebrated the event by fining “Farmer' Young # and costs. Young was not de- terred by the killing of Johnny McNulta, but went into Gorman's saloon Saturday night and attempted to own it. The attempt proved a failure and he sottled with the judge. The judge had a pleasant trip, and with the exception of three days’ fllness in New York enjoyed himself, For three hours Saturday night the busi- ness mon of South Omaha listened to instruc- tions as to how a board of trade should be run. Some of the speakers said that if they had noticed the $10 entrance fee, mentioned in tho petition they had signed, they would not have signed it, but that once their signa- tures were afixed they would stand by it if the 810 broke them. Others wanted to have it a “‘business men's club” with the necessary attachments, but the majarity evidently wanted to see it what it was intended to be, a genuine board of trade. Before they did o, however, the committee appointed to nominate officials for the first term reported—that is, two of them did. One of them nominated himself as treasurer, and both of them nominated a gentleman who has not yet joined the association as president. It was too much, and the members present adjourned for a week to think it over, but they first christened the enterprise as the “South Omaha Board of Trade.” They meet again next Saturday. ————— MORTUARY. CHARLES MORRIS, This young mun, for about throe years a salesman on the road for M. E. Smith & Co., of this city, und one of the best known of the commercial men resid- ing here, died of inflammatory rheu- matism at the residence of 12, A. Holton amember of the above firm, Thirty-first street and Poppleton avenue. He had been 1ll but about ten days. His relatives reside in Ohio and have been notided of the young man's death. The date of the funeral will not be announced until they are heard from. MRS, HUGUS, The funeral of the late Mrs. Hugus took place yesterday afternoon from the family residence, 222 North Nincteenth street, and was largely attended, cspecially by the older settlers of the cilfi. The services were conducted y Dean Gardner of Trinity cathedral, and the re- mains were laid besides those of her late hus- band Peter Hugus who was buried a few Yyears ago in Prospect Hill cemetery. The Coming Convention. Delegates to the state convention of repub- lican clubs, to be held in Omaha on March 15, will be given reduced rates on all railroads. Delegates should buy full fare ticket to Omaha and take agent's receipt. The secre- tary of the convention will give certificates to all accredited delegates, which will enable the holder to buy a return. ticket at ono-fifth the regular fare upon presentation to the ticket agents at Omaha. Clubs intending to send delegates to the convention should at once, if they have not already done so, notify the undersigned and give the names of the delegates chosen. Hon. James P. Foster, president of the republican league of the United States, Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, Hon. Richard Vates, Hon, W. P. Hepburn and Hon. J. P. Doliver will be ent and oddress the convention. CanvLes A, CoLLARD, Secretary. Room 17, Iron Banl. State exchanges please copy. s Wi ms Held For Trial, Ed Williams, who received a charge of bird shot from Frank Van Hummel's shot gun Sunday morning while burglarizing Dr. Van Hummel's house, was brought before Judge Berka yesterday afternoon. He pleaded guilty of the charge against him, \Vllhhlg to get through with his case as soon as possible, and the Judge put him under $1,200 bonds to appear before the district court. His room mate, John Robinson, was held as a witness, and being unable to furnish bonds for $200, he too went to jail with Williams, it e Licensed to Wed. The following marriage licenses weore is- sued yesterday by Judge Shields; Name and Residence, ’ Daniel Rouse, Omaha. . Annie Franklin, Omaha. Arthur E, Shockley, Omaha. 1 Tesie Dudley, Omaha “arl Richard Larson, Omaha, . { Clara Bergreen, Omahah. .. ......... Age. .22 piics il Freight Bureau Meeting. ‘The freight bureau committee of the board of trado met yesterday afternoon and con- sidered several matters regarding the rela- tions of business enterprises with the rail- roads. Some debate was entered into re- lating to the action of the board of directors on the inter-state commerce bill last Monday night, and it is understood the matter will be reopened at an ear], i At Sheriff Coburn's Report. Yesterday Sheriff Coburn submitted a tabulated statement to the county com- missioners of the number of prisoners re- ceived at the county jail and cared_for siace January 1, 183 to December 31, 18§7. e A BURNING MOUNTAIN. The Great Wyoming Coal Bank Which Has Been Burning for Ages. A Wyoming Mulhatton writes to tho the St. Louis Globe-Democrat from Oil City, Wyoming: This burning mountain is really a coal ‘bank in which for years and years a fire has been smoldering, giving out, as did the Schechinac to the Israelites of old during their wanderings in the wilder- ness in search of the promised land, a “pillar of fire by night and a cloud of smoke by day.” As it is far remote from any settlement. and situate in the heart of what is known as the ‘‘bad lands,” it is but little known to any but cowboys, whose duty leads them more frequently through the wild paths of the unfrequented country than the more beaten ones of civilization, To one visiting this burning mountain for the first time, the country presents a most dreary aspect. For a mile or more around the several openings.the ground is parched and baked and barve. Great beds of ' coal ‘crop out around this spot, aod during the 'ficrce windstorms that fraquently rage in this altitude, the fire, whera 1t s hear the surface, is fanned into & terrific- blaze, which at times leapa high ‘in the air, and the stght at night when viewed frora a dis- tance, while wierd. is a most beautiful and fascinating one. For fully halt a mile along the edge of the coal reef the little tongues of fire shoot up from crevices and run along the earth, twisting and turning in al sort of weird nm‘i fantasticai shapes, which can only be pared to so many little devils at play: jumping and run- ning and seampering hither and thither, until a strong gust of wind raiser a greater sheet, thnt apreads out its fiery arms liko Satan himsclf, on the approach of which consternation seoms 10 take possession of the smaller imps, and with a scamper they all disappear into space. Grotosque and ghoul-like shadows hover ahout the outer edges, while the mournful dirge of tho wind shrieking around the sides and through the crevices of Pumpkin buttes, the phantom:like outline of which can be scen at intervals, give to the shadows a sepulchral voice, which reminds one of Dante's ‘“Inferno;”” and the cowboys have a \pnwrimcly dubbed the place “Hadesitte. Many explanations are given as to the origin of the fire. Some eclaim that the place was struck by lightening, while others, among whom is my informant, Mr. Cooper, say that there is a strange story told by some of the old Indians who still hunt through this country ex- laining how the fire originated. The ndian legend is that a count- less number of snows back when Wyoming was only known and marked on the map as part of the “Great American Deseyt,” and all the country west of the Mississippi was still a virgin wilderness, a young brave of the Crow Indians called Little-Chief- with-Big-Eagle-Claws, 8o named from the circumstance that while yet but o boy he killed an enormous eagle, the claws of which he ever afterwards wore on a buckskin string around his neck, fell desperately in love with a beautiful young Indian maiden of the Arapahoo tribe who was known in society as Flower-that - Blooms - in - a+Snow-Drift, from the fact that she was born late in the spring by the banks of a pretty lit- tle stream, near which was a deep bank of snow with flowers already bloomin around the edge. The lovers met with much opposition from both tribes,which at that time were at war with ¢ach other. Yet even ad it so happens in civilized circles, where a son loves the daughter of his father’s most bitter enemy, they persevered and finall were married, and the Little-Chiel- with-Big-Eagle-Claws brought his bride bhome to rule over his wigwam. But her beauty and the attention and devotion shown her by Little Chief— nomuthlns unusual among Indians— brought down on her the jealousy and hatred of the other squaws of the Crow tribe, and to use the language of the day, she was ‘‘cut” by the bon-ton and aristoorats, and ostracized from society. So Little Chief put up his tepee some distance from the others, and they lived alone, happy and contented in each other's love. Of this union one child was born, a bright-eyed, black-haired little papoose, that was the “sunlight and starlight” of their wigwam. But when he was yet searcely one year old, the war between the Crow and Arapshoes broke out afresh, and Little Chief went forth with the other braves to do battle. They camped in a litile valley on the banks of the Belle Fourche, and leaving the old men, squaws and children to take care of the camp, the younger braves went out in search of the foe whom their scouts reported lurking in thesurround- ing hills. In the first skirmish Little Chief, who was foremost in the fight, was mortally wounded and carried off the field dead, but the Arapahoes were put to flight. When tho news reached ‘‘Flower-that Blooms-in-a-Snow-Drift” in her lone(lly wigwam that nlfiht she wae distracted. Heurtbroken and alone among a strange ople, and a people, 100, against whom her own tribe were waging a bitter war; tho husband whom she adored snd loved with all the ardor of her savage nature, dead; a widow ere yet the honey- moon had scarcely waned, her lot was indced a hard one. And to add to her wretchedness the other squaws gathered around her, and now that Little Chief was no longer there to protect her, jeered at and mocked her; laughed at her sorrow. taunting her with the cow- ardice of her brothers, and asked her why she did not go to her own tribe that were now running and fleeing like $0 many squaws before thesuperior skill and bravery of the Crows, and they ac- tually drove her from her wigwam. Clasping herlittle papoose close to het breast she started out into the darkness and the night alone with hersorrow and began her weary march across the moun- tains, and like a wounded deer, hoping only to reach the home of her people and the scenes of her happy youth,where Little Chief wooed and won her, that she might lay down by the graves of her forefathers and die. But coming to this old coal bank, under the point of which the wind had worn a cave, and being weary and foot-sore, she crawled into it and threw herself on the ground. The ery of her baby, however, roused her, and resolving for its sake to live, she went out and gathered some suge brush and builita fire in the cave to keep herself and babe warm. And it i8 sup- posed, worn out after her long and weary journey, she lay down to rest, and fell asleep, during which the coal took fire and the gas sufficated both mother and child, as they were never seen or heard of again, A few days after this some scouts saw the smoke,and thinking it came from the camp fire of their enemy, reconnoitered until they found the true cause, and that fire has been burning ever since. Such is the story of this wonderful burning mountain as told by an old In- dian to Mr. Crapon, who from long as- sociation with them can understand and talk the Arapahoe language fluently; and such is the story as he told it to me, detached portions of which I have frequently heard from the cowboys and Indians during the past three or four ears; and however much truth there is n tho portion relating® to the origin of the fire, certain it is that the Indians hold the spot in great fear and avoid and shun it, thinking in their supersti- tious imagination that the ghost-like shadows which nightly hover and play about the spot are the spirits of the lost ‘Flower-that-Bloomed-in-a-Snow-Drift,’ and the children of the little papoose that perished with her. -~ A Revolutionary Treasure Found. St. Louis Globe-Democrat: Several thousand dollars in old gold coin in earthen pots were exhumed by Lorenzo Mears, on his farm in Accomae county, Va., recently., A tradition in the neighborhood suys a large amount of money was coucealed on the farm dur- ing the American revolution by the tory proprie sone to Englund du the war,died there without fixing the spot where he had buricd the money, Not many years ago gome of the descendants of the old tory proprietor came over here and spent severat hundred dollars in making ex- cavations in a fruitless search for the mione, All the ground araupd the old housc was thrown. up and deep trenches were dug around she yard, signs of which yet remain, It is'said that these lishmen brought over with them an negro who had been a servant of the rovolutionary proprietor, and who professed to know where his master had buried the money. The Englishmen fioally gave up the search and went back to England. Nothing more was heard of the treas- ure until Mears accidentally struck upon it while planting some fence posts around the yard., Moars tried to keep the matter a secret, but a little boy who lives with him went to the neighboring village of Pungoteague and let the secret out. He informed some persons there tiat his “Uncle Renzie” now had piles of money, having recently dug up an iron pot full of gold and silver which two stout men could hardly carry, Mears will not talk about his find, but to-day showed several gold coins to his neighbors. These coins aro old English money, some of them being stamped with the imago of Charles I1., others with that of George ITI. The place where the trasure was found was one of the oldest on tho cast- ern shore of Virginia. T'wo hundred and fifty years ago it was the seat of the queen of Nandua, an Indian beauty, who ruled over the savage tribes that inhabited that region. Near by is the burial ground of the Nandua Indians. The creek has cut away the earth till many of the skeletous are exposed to view, and as the bank caves in from time to time the bones fall down into the water and drift with the ebbing tide out 1nto the bay. Some of the skeletons are of wiant size, and many of them are buried in coffins that were hewn out of solid logs. These whitening skeletons, as they protrude from the side of the cliff, present & ghastly spectacle. sl vt - En, ol A paper made by Herr Ladewigg, Ger- many will resist the action of both fire and water. The manufacture is accom- plished l)f' mixing twenty-five parts of asbestos fibre with from twenty-five to y parts of aluminum sulphate, moistening the mixture with chloride of zinc and thoroughly washing it in water. It is then treated with a solution of one part of rosin sonp in eight to ten parts of a solution of pure alumiriumsul- phate, after which it is manufactured nto paper like ordinary pulp. el e by 2 Mary Anderson’s doctors says sho must not act more than once a day. A SURE CURE OR NO PAY. Our Magic Remedy WILL POSITIVELY CURE Z_ Al sypbiil ‘recent or long standis e SISO RO UL Seviet s STasiy. i Wass Shohbl danleredly el 8 ve nof J-‘mmm 08 are the sujects e sty Will Cure You d th. Soven deys in recent. loge the wort Wa Challenge the World o 0ase that we will not eure in loss than wel e Y e TR Our Magic Remedy y Tomecy 1o, tho worte, (var vl postiag]? iaans use lhl' Ku-s medical works, B aas 13 KAy M 1"'%?*,.,:“ ) the ponsle mers VEK PALLS TO CURE. lotters sacs THE COOK REMEDY CO., Omaha, Nebs Booms 19and 17 Hellman Binet. ] EVERY FAMILY SHOULD HAVE Seabury's Hydronaphthol 8oay for promiptly curing all akin an scalp dineasos such &s eczoina, rings Trorn, totter, blotehe blnck ipots, barbers el dandrut, soaly erup: ma or roughness, fa o ke T high ialr, Iy m-.-sl sweetly scented, aud iisintects al sinks, basins, {ubs, &c., through Which it passes Hydronapthol Pastilies, for puri. fylnamk rooms, clonets and mients where disease germs Irurt 8 ot dellkhra] odos, m) & oSt lelightful T, Which ia refroning to (he sick and Aer 00CUDAL. THESE GO0DS, *Sisa dirn aod asen Piantors B pa et 25 Ots, at f"é'uE'f“’l““"f, Follef aud comtort to DrOgElsts s bhnmbuso W Bone THEY DID IT. ‘What? Cured among others the following. They write: o Sy oaego. lophoros ave oured o ERee s Taded 'and ho has fmproved won. fixm ¥ Howxaxr, 16 osetts i, New Haven Ct, } Pills worked wonders in my ALbPlor et "o B L T Ath-lo-pho-ros Pills are small and Pleasant to_take, yet wonderfully effective, Invaluable for kidney and liver complaints, dyspepsis, in- digestion, constipation, headache, ele. Thoyll take away that tired fecling giving new life and streugthy #a8end 6 cents for the beautiful colored ture, ‘' Moorish Maiden.” Db" THEATHLOPHOROS CO. 112 Wall 8t. M. V. SteckPiano Remarkable for powertul sympa- Thet! . plible action and al: 730 years’ record of these instruments. WOODBRIDGE BROS, JOSEPH GILLOTTS STEEL PENS GOLD MEDAL PARIS EXPOSITION 1318, Nos. 303-404~-170-604. THE MosT PERFEOT OF PENS. @ Waxten for . the VAN LADY coisiis, ki 1t vt wre buys thew, AGENTS:: Fiiee 8 24 flc’ JGLE & C0., 48 Waat 1204 B8, ‘Hfllw’.u