Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 2, 1888, Page 4

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" THE DAILY BE Bworn Statement of Circulation, Etate of Nehraska, County of Donglass, Geo, 1.7 ,lnhmr actual eirculation of th ending March ¥, iturday, Mar unday March of The Bes Pub- mily swear that the aily Tee for the week M ednesday, Mas Thursday, Marc Friday, Marc] Average. 3% GEO. B, TZSCHUCK. Eworn to and subscribed in my_prosence this 15t day of March, A. D,, 188, N P. FEIL. Btate of Nebraskn, County of Danglass, L) Geo. B, Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, de- F‘wflnnd says that he {8 secretary of The Beo iblishing rom])ln{. that the actual average irculation of the Daily Bee for the month 7, 14400 coples; for April, 887, 14316 coples; for May, 87, 1297 coples: for June, 187, 14,147 copic July, IFST, 14,083 coples; for Aug b1 coples; for September, 1887, 14,3 coples: for October, 1887, 14,833; for November, 1887, 16,220 coples; for December, 1887, 15,041 fes; for January, 1888, 16,208 copies; for Fobruary, 1888, 15,902 coples. GEO. B. TZ8CHUCK. Sworn and subscribed to in my presence this 84 day of March, A. D. 188, N.P.FE Notary Publie. of Notary Public. ST. Louls complains that the mule market is very dull. Never mind, it will pick up when the democratic con- vention meets. BOULANGER is looming up as the old man of the sea in French polit When he gets fairly astride of France it will take a supreme effort to shake him off. LOCAL polities in the cities of the state are assuming a crimson hue. Lin- coln, Nebraska City, Fremont, Platts- mouth and other towns have already rubbed on the war paint. THERE is some sati on in learn- ing that our neighbor across the Rio Grande excels the United States in one respect. Mexico catehes her defaulting officials before they are able to make good their escape. Tug saloonkeepers, who persi st in re fusing to live up to the requirements of the high license law as interpreted by Fy the supreme court, are doing more to lorce prohibition Jupon this state than all the prohibition cranks. ITis said that President Cleveland thinks Indiana a pretty bad state so far a8 civil service reform is concerned. But for all his belief, he lacks the back- ‘bone to opposo the machine in the in- terest of reform and good government. J. STERLING MORTON, the sage of Arbor Lodge, is mentioned by the New York Teleyram as a possible candidate for vice president on the Cleveland ticket. By the way, J. Sterling Morton was the only delegate from Nebras that voted against Cleveland in the last national democratic convention. LABOR troubles at the heginning of the building season are deplorable both in the interest of the workingmen and the city at large. There is already de- pression enough to frighten investors, nnd the conflict between the building trades and building contractors tends to geriously cripple the city’s growth. T assessor will presently be around with his little bldnk, and the man who has expended $10,000 for furnishing his house will make a return of $150, while the poor man who has ouly $250 worth of household goods will have his bedsteads and stoves and sccond-hand chairs listed for all they are worth. Wuar do the county commis- sioners propose to do about the poor- farm lots that have been sold to parties last summer upon which only one pay- ment has been made. The parties who have purchased these lots are for the most part responsible and should be re- quired to make the deferred payments, THe cowboy band of Dodge City played a number of classical selections from some of the best composers for the -edification of the Denver citizens at the grand jubilee. As the Denver people never heard such grand playing since they heard Pratt’s orchestra at the Omaha musical jubilee some years ago, they naturally went wild with enthusi- asm, TaE number of disastrous bank fail- ures within the past few months through- out different sections of the country is sufficient evidence that the present bank supervision is in a demoralized and un- trustworthy condition, The trouble is with the bureau of the comptroller of the currency, As now managed that branch of the treatury department is worthless and dangerous to the business community, The country demands an eficient, vigilantman at the head of the bureau, who will select bank examiners to do their duty without fear or fuvor, Tne pnshli service does not seem to be in that healthful condition which a strict regard for prompt and reliable delivery demands, An investigation is now in progress at the Chicago po: office, and if the complaints of inefl ciency are sustained Postmaster Judd is likely to lose his official head. As the Chicago postoffice is the great distrib- uting center for the mails of the west and northwest, the investigation is of more than local interest. The Wash- ington commission of inquiry will, no doubt, find abuses that need correcting, even if Postmaster Judd is not to blame for poor service. - Its report. is sure to bring about some veformsfor the prowpt trausmission of walls, - 1n the Line of Promotion. Definite announcement is made that General Alfred Terry has asked to be summoned before n retiring hoard on account of ill health. The BEr alone, out of all the papers in the country, gave the news three months ago. The statement was widely disputed, and ex- eited much controversy at the time, but it was considered of so much im- portance by the friends of General Miles that a petition was at once placed in circulation asking that he should re- ceive the nomination for the pros- pective vacancy. This hasty and most unusual procceding has disgusted the officials at the war department. The cabal which since Gen- eral Miles' performances in Ari- zona, where he succeeded insecuring Geronimo’s surrender by chicanery which General Crook had refused to use as cont to his custom and contrary to honest methods in dealing with In- dians, have been using every effort to decry his worth and depreciate his efforts. They have not succeeded. Vaulting ambition has overleaped itself in Gen- eral Miles' case. There is good ground for the assurance that the next major general of the army will be a soldier who since his graduation from the mili- tary academy has seen more actual ser- vice with Indians, more arduous work in the ficld, more battles with savages, and has shouldered, quietly and without ostentation, more responsibility on the frontier than any other brigadier on the army register. His other name is General George Crook. A quiet, reserved, manly man and a soldierly soldier, he has been con- tent to let his work speak for itself with- out the factitious methods of modern ad- vertising, President Cleveland is not likely to make the mistake of over- slaughing the senior brigadier of the army to endorse mon of half his worth and less than half his record. The Senate and the Chief Justiceship. The report, emanating doubtless from some demoeratic correspondent in ‘Washington, that the republicans of the senate will refuse to confirm any ap- pointment to the vacant chief justice- ship until after the next presidential clection, is entitled to no credence so far as it implies an understanding among republican senators to make the confirmation of such appointment con- tingent upon the result of the next national election. Nothing could be more unlikely than that republican senators would commit the grave blun- der of permitting mere partisan con- siderations to influence their action in this matter. They would certainly understand that such a course would react against their own party, and it is necessary to assume that these senators have not ordinary political sagacity to suppose that they could agree upon any such policy. Tho right of the president to appoint a chief justice from his own party is fully con- ceded, and nobody expects that he will do otherwise, If the man selected shall have the character, qualifications and record that would warrant the senate in confirming him there is no danger that republican senators will refuse their consent simply because of his political faith. But the majority of the senate will not be deterred, by charges of political prejudico or partisan interest, from re- fusing to confirm for this great judicial office a man who shall be shown to have a record and character that vender him unworthy of this pre- eminent trust, or whom they may fairly believe to be wanting in the high qualifications it demands. If the pr dent, actuated by merely political con- siderations, shall appoint to the chief justiceship a man who is objectionable on the grounds that Justice Lamar was, or who for other suflicient reasons is un- worthy of confidence, it will become the duty of republican senators to refuse to confirm such a nomination, and the country will expect and demand of them iithful regard for this dut There sin the gift of the president which it may be pardonable to permit him to fill without question, throwing the responsibility of bad appoint- ments upon the administration, but th principle must not be permitted to operate in the appointment of the hi officer in the nation. In such a case the most searching serutiny of the ree- ord, character and qualifications of the candidate 1s not only justifiable, but ab- solutely demanded by every consider: tion touching the inte and welfare of the government and the people. If Mr. Cleveland selects for ehief justice a man who can bear this serutiny without damage, and such men there unques- tionably are among the great lawyers of the country who are democrats, there need be no apprehension that the re- publican senate will withhold consent to his appointment, Not Entirely Satisfactory. It will doubtless be a great disappoint- ment to the administration to find that the Chinese treaty which it has been laboring upon for & year or more past, and from which it is understood to have expected valuable political results to itself on the Pacilic const, is not re- ceived in that section as an entirvely sat- isfactory solution of the troublesome problem with which it deals. The sand- lot orator of California, Denis Kearney, was reported to have told the president, immediately after the prineipal features of the treaty were made publie, that it would not be acceptable to California, and it appears that he understood the sentiment there better than he was given credit for. The organs of demo- cratic opinion ave disposed to regard the arrangement as perhaps the best that can be effected at present, but even these give it a half-hearted sup- port, suggesting that they are actuated chiefly by the desive not to damage party interests by withholding all com- mendation, Thus the San Francisco Ecaminer, while finding merits in the treaty that mark a distinet advance, and hoping for its ratification, discovers disappoint- ing features and suggests that the sen- ate should tey and secure someé amend- ments.. It is unfavorably impressod with the secoud séction, which author- izes the veturn of any Chiunese laborer THE OMAHA DATLY B now in the United States provided. he leaven lawful wife, child or parent, or property tothe value 6f one thousand dollars, or debts to the same amount due him. The Eeaminer does not agree with Sectetary Bayard that such cases will be practically few in number, and says: “With our ex- perience of the Chinese character we beliove that they will cover almost the whole departing Mongolian population.” Tt thinks this provision of the treaty would be practically a re-enactment of the present certificate rule, with re- strictions, however, that would reduce the chances for fraud that exist under the prevailing certificate system. The third articlo of the treaty authorizes the admission of Chinese officials, teachers, students, merchants and travelers, as well as of laborers in tran- sit, and in the opinion of the Kraminer contains possibilities of danger. The San Francisco Chronicle finds nothing meritorious in the treaty, and says the senate should reject it as worthless and inconclusive, *It effects nothing use- ful,” says that paper, “and on the contrary legalizes in effect precisely what the republican party has tried to prevent, namely, the coming of new Chinamen and the return of those now here. If Cleveland had never done anything else to show his inaptness for the office he holds, his negotiation of this treaty would be enough to demon- strate it.”” The Call is less radical in its disapproval, but has no faith that the treaty would accomplish what the people of the coast desire or the secre- tary of state professes to expect. “In our opinion,” it says, “*Mr. Bayard is woefully mistaken as to the effect of the new treaty should it be ratified.” It is thus made evident that the hope of the country that this question would be taken out of politics is to be disap- pointed, and it is also plain thatno polit- ical advantage will result to the ad- ministration from the negotiation of this treaty. With the republicans of the Pacific const strongly opposed to it and the organs of democratic opinion there finding features to disapprove, and as ing for its ratification obviously from party considerations, it is not dificult to foresee what the senate will do with it. In the failure of this deliberately-ar- ranged bid for Pacific coast support the administration will lose one trick in the political game upon which it has un- doubtedly been building high hopes. The West and Northwest, The west and northwest offer the best attractions for home-seekers. Montana is being developed rapidly, and thousands of people are taking advant- age of the opportunities presented. New railroads are being built in the territory. rich finds in minerals and ores of all kinds are reported, fine agri- cultural lands are being taken posses- sion of by the settlers, oil fields are numerous, and the prediction issafe that this season’s settlement will exceed that of any previous year. Dakota, in all” probability, will have the advantage of offering to those seek- ing homes a large part of the Sioux reservation—one of the richest agricul- tural sections in the northwest—while her other many advantages must of necessity attract attention. Wyoming, s0 long regarded as only a grazing country, proves to be one of the richest of the territories. Minerals of all kinds and varieties are found and seem to be inexhaustible. Petroleum in quantities s great as found in any of the oil flelds; building stone of every kind and de- ription, from the cheapest grade to rich and beautiful granite; soil that will produce in abundance almost every agricultural product—all with a climate not excelled in the west or northwest. ‘With these advantages Wyoming must be rapidly settled. Colorado is attracting attention again because of new and rich discov- eries in the precious metals. New towns are springing up, and the popu- tion of that state must naturally in- crease. I'rom all this settlement Ne- braska will receive great henefits. While the increase in population in our own state will be surpassingly large, the settlement of the territories beyond can result only to our advantage, alien land-hold- orous manifestation in legislature. In the lower house a bill has passed prohibiting aliens from acquiring or retaining title to real estate in Towa, and a memorial 10 congress adopted in favor of & consti- tutional amendment prohibiting alien land-holding in any of the states. The gencral policy of excluding aliens, whether as individuals, companies or syndicates, from absorbing vast areas of land has alveady been approved by na- tional and state laws, and is everywhere accepted as wise and necessary. Under existing national law the public dowain can acquired and held only by citizens of the United States, while in those states that have legislated on the subject, or in most of them, the amount of land that can be owned by aliens is limited, The Iowa measure, like the law of Nebraska, does not permit an alien to acquire and re- tain title to any real estate, This is an extreme policy of questionable wisdom, which in operation might be found to work to the disadvantage of a state whose people find it necessary to borrow money on mortgage gecurity and desire to get it at the cheapest rate to be had. If Towa passes a law prohibiting aliens from acquiring title to real estate there will of course be no foreign money loaned in that state on mortgage scour- ity,and American money tenders having to themselves will be likely to take all the advantage which the mbsence of this foreign competition might afford them. Itisa question of very serious importance to the people of lowa, and particularly to the farmers, wherher it will be wise to cut themselves off from the privilege of borrowing foreigu money, with the probable result of hav- ing to pay a higher rate for what they get from the American money lender. ers has had a vi the Towa be STA Rentable houses are scarce in Teoum- seh. Work has commenced on the .insane hosp at Hastings. y Falls Citw’s bum brigade: are sobered with hard work apd their appetites en< larged by ntrcetfl‘nflnilu{. Fairmount has clesed a bargain for a 815,000 ont meal mill, Keoarney is promised a daily paper with $10,000 to BAcK it. Seribner has brganized a state bank with a capital of 8#,000. The contract forcehe horse collar fact ory in Blair has been let. Prohibition tickets are loaded with cold comfort for the old parties in the present municipal eontests. The Columbus Democrat declares that R I U are significant letters— “‘Railroad lawyers united stand.” McCook has closed a bargain for a grist mill with a capacity of soventy-five barrels a day. The plant will cost §20,- 000 The Bloomington Guard nominates Thomas H. Benton for state auditor. The early bird will have his plumes plucked before the season ripens. Hastings is discussing a shortage of 82,500 in the district court clerk’s office, Tt is said to be a mistake in accounts, due to sickness and a dyspeptic system. 0. M. Wood, a youth of twenty and a penurious bore of moderate calibre, has shaken Bertrand, and his creditors mourn in various amounts and several languages, The Wahoo Wasp is firmly convinced that the editor of the prohibition organ in Lincoln is “‘either a fool ora knave,” and is prepared to defend the genuine- ness of the title. The press of Fremont pay high com- pliment to the exhibit of the Omaha schools at the meeting of the teachers’ association. It was “‘the finest and most extensive ever got together on a similar occasion.” Wayne's charivari party salted by Frank Perrin. He naturally objected to disturbance in the height of the honeymoon and fired a charge of salt at the cow bell ringers. Perrin was jailed. “Everything is running smoothly on the Burlington.” Two scabs plugged their machines at Smartyille last week and sent to the shops for reconstruc- tion. The roar of wreck and ruin goes merrily on. James A. Nelson, son of the marshal of North Bend, while skating near the railroad slid under a moving train and lost n leg. The mangled member was amputated at the knee, and the boy is slowly recovering. Nebraska railroads have arranged a series of excursions of intending settlers from the east. Rates have been put at a low figure and it is expected that thousands of farmers and investors will be brought to the state. County Treasurer Wilkinson of Da- kota county, has received an urgent in- vitation to speak, at the next meeting of the state republican clubs, to the toast, ‘“Ihe Offices We Won't Resign.” He is eloquently ¢quipped for the ocen- sion. ‘W. D. Searles, a sharper who person- ated an insurance agent and harvested considerable money in Saline county, has been convicted and sent to Lincoin for two years. The sentence is sutlicient to appal the wicked and turn them from the paths of evil. One of the Kinney boys living on the family homestead near Dorchester, died last week with an old and ferocious gun wad in his abdomen. He attempted to clean the guun without taking out the charge, and death took him unawares. Score another for the unloaded gun. A train on the Burlington, between Crete and Wilbur, made a remarkable run recently. A distance of eightmiles was covered in eight hours, Many pus- sengers jumped off and walked to Crete and secured three hours’ sleep before the train finally arrived there. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Carmichael, of Nebraska City, celebrated their golden wedding last week. The fortunate couple were the recipients of a recep- tion and banquet at the Morton house, which was attended by many prominent peonle. They have been residents of the city since 1857. They were married in Mifilin county, Pa. Frank Myers, a Philadelphia horse- trader and genel deadbeat, creased a real estate boom in Blair a few weeks ago, when he appeared there and threat- ened to buy up the earth. Several farms were bought up with bogus checks on Omaha banks, and after paying his board and other bills with worthless paper, he borrowed a shotgun and disappeared be- fore the checks were presented for pay- ment. The was well Nebraska City Times rasps the Burlington m nent, on its con- temptible polic, uing civeulars de- nouncing the s Burling- ton,” says the Times, *claims to have all the men it wants. 1[ thisis true, why should it try to poison the public mind ainst the strikers?” The day of reck- oning is approaching. Its tumbling stock und an empty treasury are the faint rumblings of carly disaster. “The Scab™ is the title of a suggestive pamphlet issued by the strikers at Wy- more and illustrated by G. C. Widney, The pietures are not polished but pro- fuse and true to life. S 2> and incidents of the strike, both serious and laughable, are related in prose and po- etry,and the whole makes an interesting souvenir of the great walk-out. A few copies of it thrown among the Burling- ton managers would make them throw up their hunds and beg for quarter. H. Sleicher, an Arcadian butcher, weary of blood, bones and bologna, es- wed the role of highwayman in an original fashion last week. ~He jumped into a hardware store and - Island and asked the proprietor, GeorgeD. Hetzell, to sign a check for $500, accom- panying the modest request with the sersuasive eloquence of a revolver, M fetzell promptly complied, but beforc the ch could be turned into cash tk Arcadian was softening his hams on the planks of the jail. The fellow has carned a spare room in a lunatic asylum. The division scheme is again_ bloom- ing in Custer county, New and vigor- ous towns are springing up on all sides, and unless they clutch each other’s throat in jealous embrace, the peace of mind and dignity of Broken Bow is likely to be disturbed before fly time wancs again. A lively meeting of red- hot divisionists was held at Callaway last week, and a preliminary assault made on the hreastworks of Broken Bow. Another meeting will be held on the 13th inst., when the dividing line will be agreed upon and the campuign opened. Frank Davey is a lonesome and rud- derless marinér in the political sea of Dakota county. He was hoosted into prominence last fall by a cyclone of Vinnebago votes, for the measely price of $1 each, and managed 1o tie the vote of his republican competitor, Wilki son, for county treasurer. A legal stra pull was had to decl the tie, and both parties agreed to abide by the result. Frank pulled the victorious straw and his backers shook the firmament with shouts of wild acclaim. But the wrnado of lungs and Winnebago war-paint failed to boost him into oftice, Wlilkin- son holds the fort and the o shekels, and the supreme court r to interfere, while Davey’s empty purse painfully yearns for the perquisites. Mr. Andrew Park, of Cagroll, Iu went to Plainview last week and pr sented ‘a bhandsome and costly sewing $ MOY. AP 2, 1888 the Wheeler & Wilson company. The machine is to be operated by hand in- stoad of & treadle, and was made ex- pressly for her, Mr. Parks found the heroine of the blizzard ¢heerful and comfortable, notwithstanding her ter- rible sufferings. . Miss Royce expressed herself as overwhelmed with tho kind- ness and generosity of the people. She had received #6000 in cash from the BEE fund and #5,000 from other sources, besides hundreds of presents of value, every mail bringing something. Mr. Parks says she s bright, retined and of cheerful temperament, and does nov complain or lament the loss of her limbs, The Woeful and Weary Warriors of Warbonnet are on their knees pleading for the solace and sacrifices of maids anxious to marry. For the benefit of the feminine sufferers of the east it should be stated that Warbonnet is the suggestive appellation of a section of Sioux county, where roamed in days not remote the native hair-raisers of the plains. Only bleaching bones and ashes now mark the scones of festivity and fury of the native American party. Those monuments are rapidly disappear- ing before the yoemen of the frontier, and nothing remains to make the Eden bloom and blossom but 100 single young women to shed their fragrance over the land. In addition to securing a husky young man, each woman can ma 160 acres of land and enjoy all the blessings of unending toil that the title conveys. The advertisement further declares the yearning bachelors are “noble Amer- ican citizens, except one, and he is un- fortunate in being the sou of an English lord.” b SKINNING THE PREACHER. How it was Done in a Poker Game at Fargo—A Oold Deck Coppered. St. Paul Globe: The night was cold, but abright light gleamed from the windows of the “‘major's™ office and told that, despite the chilly atmosphere, “The Gang” was holding its regular weekly meeting. After he had securly locked his desk and chained his overcoat and cane to a leg of tho table, the major announced that it was the Old Sport's turn. “I distinetly remember a circum- stane>,"said the sport as he lit his cigar, “that happened several years ago,which, although not extraordinary, was vather amusing. Of course you have all heard of ‘Slippery Sims.” He can’t read nor write, but he can do more with a deck of cards than any man I ever knew. He plays a hold-out altogether, and I was with the crowd that brought him to Terre Haute to play against Brace Horse MecDonald and a few others. The poker room was situated directly fover a cloth- ing store. The enterprising clothier had put up a sign in tne room saying, “The first holder of straight flush is en- titled to a silk hat.” Slppery Sims saw the sign and smiled. After ten hands had been played, Sims threw down a straight flush, “Great Caesar, de man’s got a straight.” exclaimed the negro in at- tendance. ‘‘Say, mistah, what's de size ob yo head?” Sims gave the dimensions of his cran- ium and the negro started after the tile. ‘While he was going Sims produced three more straights from somewhere, The colored man returned with the hat and Sims, pulling out three more straights, making seven in all, said: “Here, go get me an overcoat.” “Bur the most remarkable thing T ever saw,” continued the sport, was at o, Dak. You ull have certainly heard of ‘Preacher Wallace.” Well, he looked exactly like a preacher. He never drinks a drop, and only occasion- ally indulges in a cigar, but he was a slick boy with the ards. George 1wonover imported him to Fargo from Sioux City to be done n{). Wallace was a consumptive looking duck, and ra The smallest hand he was ever known to show was a four full on deuces, and no one ever knew him to lose a jack-pot. Roxey Reber, of St. Paul, MeBane. a man named Murphy and CGene Suder were in the crowd, and they made it up to ring in a cold deck on the ‘preacher.’ Old Denny Hannafan, of Bismarck, was in the crowd, and one of the most anxious to gee the preacher skinned. Mike Hea- loy, the well known pugilist, fixed up the cold deck. They sat down to play, and pretty soon Denny Hannafan spiton the deck. *We can’t use those eards any more,” said the preacher. “No,” said Denny, “give us another smiled. / handed the preacher the cold 1d he ran through it quickly and separated the eards. The game began and quite a pot was on the smiled when Denny won it, played some time, vi tunes, and finally was done. All the table, and the b satisfied that they had the preacher skinned. Reber Denny drew two eards and Everybody was ex- same time rer for Finally a call was mad Roxey triumphbantly threw down a queen full, and Denny three aces and pair of sevens. Wallace quietly lnid down four deuces. There was a deep silence for a minute, and then old Den- ny remarked i ¢, Preacher, I've got $1,000 worth of property in Bismarcl. 'l sell it and give you Lialf the proceeds if you'll show we how it’s done.” HOW TO GET A CHEAP DRINK. A Shabby Stranger Scares a Brooklyn Bartender, A shabby man, with a red face, stepped into a saloon on Front street, Brooklyn, and noading familiarly to some men who were leaning against the bar, offered to stand a drink all around, The man was a stranger, but the cordi- ality of his proposal was an offset to this fact, and the crowd accey ted the pro- posed smile. When the bevirages were put on the bar and disposed of the stranger, before paying, rolled back his cont-sleeve, unbuttoned the wristhand of hisshirt and displayed his bare arm. It was covered with little blotches or pustule *Boys,” snid the hospitable stranger, “I've got the small-pox.” verybody bolted for the door, except the saloonkeeper, who sent his boy for a policeman. The blue-coat came aud or- dered the smiling stranger into the middle of the street. He stopped a brother blue-coat, who was passing, and the two officees, guarding their prisoner strictly but at long range, held him ‘between the curbs while an alarm was turned for the ambulance. Meanwhile the street filled with ted people, wondering at the strange spec- tacle thus held in the middle of the street by policemen, who were afraid to zo near him. The ambulance came at f-»v gth and relieved the policemen of their unpleasant charge. At the pest house the mansaid his name was Simms. The doctors who examined him declared that he had uo more small-pox than when he was born. So they sent him away: Simms. may come down to the discase yet from the contagion to which show aown. suachine to Miss Loic Royce, a gift frowm | he was exposed at the pest Louse, THE WOLVES OF NEVADA. How Hungry Ooyotes Round Up Their Gamoe. A VERY WEIRD REVEILLE. Canyon—A Pots — to Driving Them into Hermit's Strange Feeding ik SBkunk Ixaminer: “You never saw the artistic way the Novada wolves would round up the jack-rabbits, 1 suppose,” remarked Joseph Grand- elmver, the old-time Nevadan, yoster- y. ‘It is the cleverest bit of strategy I ever heard of. There are several kinds of wolves all through the state, but the coyotes are by far the plontiest. In the Humboldt, Smokey and other valleys, the coyotes form in military line, oftimes along some old road, as I have most froquently seen them, and thus systematically go on a regular San Francisco tretch out over a great area of country, the coyotes being stationed somewhere near a mile apart. Onco they get sight of a jack-rabbit his name is Dennis. He may take to the sage- brush and elude the coyotes for a time, but he is their meat. Fifty or 100 coy otes can thus in a short time rake in a terrible lot of rabbits, If the coyotes are hungry it is about the rarest sport one can witness. They go at the hunt with so much ardor, and with such per- fect system. “A coyote on his own account can usually forago successfully for feed. He is sly like a fox, and always with an eyo out for number one, he generally has his belly full, and lots of fat sticking to his ribs; but if the weuther has been bad and he gets separated from his fel- lows on a reconnoitering tour, he may have a hard time of it. “In the sagebrush a jack-rabbit can generally manage to cludea coyote. Fle can getin and out quicker, while the coyote, being bigger, is delayed hy the brush and can’t get in and out like a rabit. A WOLF COUNCIL OF WAR. “But aftera lot of hungry wolves have held a council of war and decided to go on a hunt, itis time for the rabh- bits to hunt their holes. There is al- ways music in the air about that time, and the weird howls of the wolves sound like a distant reveille. “The rabbits scom to understand the situation too, and scamper hither and thither over the plains and rolling hills. Itisnot long however, till the wolves marshal their forces. They be- in by making a_wide detour over the 11115, lessening the size of the cirele as they advance, and holding all the rab- bits they get as skill(uhy as a fisher- man handles his seine. ““The jack rabbits are all of a trem- ble when they sce how their enemies have them hedged about, and jump helplessly into the air and utter pitiful cries. “The wolves merely watch the sides warily and look on vindictively, with tongues lolling out through their white teeth, and eyes sparkling, expressive of the knowledge that they will soon have somoe some fine eating. ““As the wolves drew nearer together, the quick snap, smap of their jaws is heard, as they snip the throats of their vietims and “they fall dead from loss of blood. “When every rabbit is killed, the coyotes sit down on their haunches to a very comfortable banquet, ane never let up until they have taken aboard so much rabbit-meat that they can hardly stir. “Then they slowlfy meander off to their homes in the hills, or wherever they may be, and if theiv is a lot of rab- bit meat left, as there may be, they put in an appearance again, at stated inter- vals, until the whole is consumed. DRIVING RABBITS INTO CANYONS, “After a lotof coyotes have hada talk, so to speak, and decided to go on A hunt they will sometimes goto a rough region, where they know the rabbits abound, and lay siege for them in another way. Certain brigades will clamber up on the high rocks and hill- tops surrounding a canyon, and drive the game down into the depth below other relays of wolves hav been placed at the entranc weak places. They oftimes many into a canyon in this w thus speedily finish them “The ec and bothe that the N K fered $1a head for yone killed, The Shoshone and Piute Indians went on the warpath for them. “They set set pened sticks in the snow over a wide region, with a picec of meat, or other kind of bait on tho end, in which steyehnine had been put. “Wolves would come along and snap these up as choiee morsels, They would not go fifty yards sometimes, till tho poison would get in its work and they would drop over dead. A CHANC p 5 “The Indians following this business much, 'd th 1 n 1852 of- a legi systematically, would follow up next day, on their rounds, and skin the wolves, and besides tting o dollar from the state would get twenty-five or thirty cents for its skin, for a coyoto skin makes n pretty nice little robe. “The Piutes and 10shones more money than they ever did in their live They foated along a counle of y in this way, with plenty of monoy to huy firewater, when all of sudden the lepislature wolke up to the fac it while the wolves had deereased vapidly the jack rabbits had inereased MONDAY, AN APRIL SUKRPEISE until they were as thick as loo Thoy were literally as plenty as tho leaves on the trees, or as the blades of grass, A groat ery went up that the rabe bits were fast clearing out the ranch- men. Trees were peeled, cabbages eaten up, and various sorts of products vaged, The logislature promptly hauled off tho bounty on coyotes and placed twenty-five cent hotnty on rabbits, “The wolves have increased and braced up again, and now they are once more doing duty as rabbit extermina- tors, “The ranchmen thought, on the whole, it was better to have coyotes bbits. 3 As a general thing tho rabits inhabit alloys whore groesewood and sak brush predominate, wnile the coyotes aro the thickest in the sagebrush and mountain ranges. “One queer thing is that you find coyotos more numerous in non-mineral ranges. The coyotes are death on chickens, and many a ranchman has cudgeled his brain, ‘after sotting traps and sitting up night after night with his gun, 10 know how these thioves have come and gone with his fowls and with- out his knowledge. ADOPTED TITE OLD MAN. ‘‘But the queerest thing 1 ever know about jack-rabits occurrodl at a place out in Mound valley, An old ranchman there, who devoted his time to cow and horse’ raising and didn't care a cont about trying to ralse vegoetablog, used to bo followed about by droves of these vabits, Ho would gooutsome nights after his cows and a whole slough of rabits would come trooping in aftor him. “He didu't bother them and they got tame. Jack-rabbits are affectionato animals anyway, and they adopted the old man, To that I may say, gamboling on the green in front of his oabin— only there wasn't any green there—and skipping in and outat the door, and clamboring on the bed, the old man had quite enough to enfertain him. “The old man haa been asort of a hermit, living all alone, without even a dog to occupy his eabin with him. “In duo time he taught the rabbits several tricks, and it was not until sev- eral of them began rearing their broods in his house that the old man began to wonder whether he owned the houso and the rabbits lived with him, or tho rabbits owned the houso and he lived with them. . ‘“There is a very pretty mountain fox in Nevada that ranks next to the coyotos in its ability to destroy rabbits. He is of a beautiful vermillion red, or goldish yellow color, and sometimes speckled and spotted. His fur is not so valuable 9{1 the silver gray fox, yet it is next to it. A SLIGIT ODOR “Badgers and skunks are v The latter ave tho most offe; an animal 1 have ever known, and emit an odor that makes you think you have struck seventeen bad gas factories all condensed into one. Some ranchmen I know of there, rather than kill one of these skunks and stand the conse- quences, or get them agitated 1n_any way, carry milk to them and foed them. “What the end will be I don’t exactly see, and whether they are laying up wrath against the day of wrath I can't say, but, at any rate, the rancher is got= ting along with them at present. “Skunks, badgers and wolves sleep dm-liug ths day, usually, and go out at night. “It is generally in the very carly morning that the coyotes sound their reveille and go after L%m rabbits.” e Educating the Savage. Pittsburg Post: The government haa- nlrcudy a very large school establish- ment for Indians. Including agency, industrial and boarding schools, it has an_aggregate of 227, with a capacity of 13,766 pupi an enrollment of 14,333 and an average attendance of 10,520, On these 00ls the government ex- rended during the last fiscal year 1,166,025.57, besides the expenditures for _construction and repairs of buildings, the transportation of pupils and sundry miscellane- ous items. In his last’ annual report Commissioner Atkins declares that ‘‘the Indian can be educated equally with the white or the colored man,” and that the average annual cost decreases from year to year. The cost last year for cach il in a government boarding school s #1705 in a contract boarding school, $130; in o government day sehool, $53; in a contract day school It must not bo inferved that the contract schools are the cheaper. The difference is due to the fact that tho private socleties supply the deficiencies in the latter from their own fund Johana Most’'s Appearance, :w York Tribune: His tawny hair bristles, without looking fierce, over a round, small head which from his big wide ears. One higher up than the other, and out of it he appears to do s sceing. Its asso- cinte eye squints, and seems to have no other function than toadd to his general ugliness. Hiscurved nose endsin abulb, and looks decidedly he Mo has no neelk in front, but a ¥ one behind that runs up into his head, which shows i ust under his nd flahby and 3 irse red beard, He has a way of working his mouth which mal i cular features still more one-sided, this is the man who is going to overthrow czars, em- pevors and kings b at he calls “the Here. ¢ ORLIAN Thy surance company of this city cided yester- day to go in liguidation. No statement as to the condition of the concern was made public, e Pidelity Hopkins Sentenced, iNxaTl, March Benjamin B ins, late assistant cashicr of the Ridol al b, w suced to the peni or sevon years and Lwo months this morning Hope n APRIL 2. Great gpecial sale of hoys knee pants on Monday April 25 1,000 puirs at sur- prisingly low prices. New styles, well made and all sizes. 800 pairs, nice pat- tern, fair quality, partcotton, worth 50¢, at 89c. 800 pairs. better quality, 7oc grade, at Hdc. 800 pairs boys all wool breeches, regular$l grade, at Tie. 100 pairs extra quality, worth $1.25, at 07c. will be In addition a large kite given with every purchase of boys patie Mail orders filled L. O. JONES, American Clothier, 1309 Farnam St.. 1309.